July 13, 2007

jack · Post by **jack** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:02 pm

happy friday the 13th.

qotd: favorite scary movie?

the ring was pretty creepy for me.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:44 pm

qotd: The only movies that have ever truly frightened me were Mulholland Dr. and Poltergeist. Other than that, I'm not really a horror movie fan.

WesDavis · Post by **WesDavis** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:32 am

John Carpenter's The Thing. That movie is hot shit.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:23 am

I saw the Karloff's The Mummy when I was 5 or so. It was very effective.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:38 am

I'm not usually into Masochism type horror movies...I usually like hideous creepy creature types. Jeeper Creepers kind of thing. However, the last horror movie that I watched that 'moved' me was Hostel. I thought the acting was excellent and I was afraid for the characters and felt sorry for them. (I'm talking about the movie from when the horror STARTS...not the first half that holds soft porn promise)

My favorite violent movie is Saving Private Ryan.

Today is pay day and not a day too soon. I have one dollar in cash and two dollars in the bank.

Yay Friday.

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:07 am

the original 1970's "The Omen"

The sheer "70s" quality of this just makes it so freaky for some reason. I recently saw the 2006 remake and thought it was just silly and laughable compared to the original. The scenes where the nanny hangs herself, the new nanny, the trip to the graveyard, just the whole thing, is way creepier in the original. Plus it has that biblical undertone which, for me, increases the fright.

I almost had to say this was a tossup with "Rosemary's Baby".

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:50 am

The movie that I think is the scariest is "The Shining", but my favorite scary movie is probably "Hostel".

Post by **Lunkhead** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:01 am

"The Shining" and "Poltergeist" both gave me nightmares when I was a kid. I'm a bit too impressionable for horror movies. I was dating a girl in college who didn't like them either, and we went to see "Scream" because I had somehow gotten the sadly mistaken impression that it was more of a spoof of horror movies than an actual horror movie. I don't know if it's really a scary movie or not, but that first scene with Drew Barrymore freaked me the hell out, if only because I wasn't expecting it.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:46 am

QotD: Not exactly a "horror" film, but I saw one called "Hard Candy" not long ago that is pretty scary in its own way...

Makin' it through another day, doing some final house cleanup and last loads of laundry before company arrives and we take a short trip down to Mexico to work on some computers. Back of the Suburban has been packed like only we Germans can pack, umm, things. Just waiting for info from the church pastor on the other side to figure out how we're going to get this stuff across the border. We may wind up having to take a separate car to go across on Sunday while the Suburban sits over here 'til the legalities are addressed. Is that green or what?

Had another kinda awful morning mood-wise, but getting the truck packed feels like an accomplishment, at least, and some other stuff is falling into place after a fashion... no new music in progress right now, but it was very cool to have a cover of one of my songs by sp00ns show up yesterday (see the Dux thread under Sidefights).

Charles (KA)

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:18 am

I love horror movies both good and somewhat bad too. Interesting that the ones mentioned so far are mostly less than outright gore-fests. It's nice to let your imagination do a lot of the work as it's usually a lot scarier in there. I thought I'd mention the Shining, but how about the Exorcist , especially with that chilling theme music. I remember running home from my friends house as a kid after watching Phantasm. Not as scary today, but still a weird idea for a flick. I'm sure that there must be a TV channel that shows nothing but horror, and if I were willing to pay for such a thing, I'd probably leave it on all the time.

KA: Are you sure Hard Candy is a horror movie? Sounds like it could be a more adult themed type affair.

A be-yoo-tiful day here in the Granite state. Perfect summer day that are not a guaranty around these parts. Back outside!

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:20 am

Today is the aftermath of a crazy day for me in which my neighbor had their door kicked in my cops because they left their kid in the home alone. This is the newest happening in a long streak of crazy incidents and my wife is now left on edge and wishes the neighbor would just move already.

Then I come to work and hear from my mother that my grandmother has only about 3 days left in this life. She's lives 97 years which is incredible but it's still very sad. She's down in Florida so it looks like I won't be able to be around for her last days or her funeral. That has me a bit down.

QotD:
I'm not a fan of horror flicks because they just don't scare me. But I did enjoy the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And for reasons I can explain (maybe it's because I'm a big Eliza Dushku fan), I enjoy watching Wrong Turn and all it's horror movie cliches.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:28 am

I love horror movies, but basically the only movies that are genuinely scary to me are David Lynch movies.

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:01 am

Can't Stop the Music. With the Village People. HORRIFYING.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:15 am

sorry to hear about your grandma, niv. my grandpa died recently too, and i didn't know about it until after, although we did go to the memorial service (in buffalo).

i'm not really into scary movies.
-bill

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:35 am

Scary vs horror vs thriller...what's the diff?

Now that I think about psychological thrillers, "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" had some very disturbing sections and my ex and I left telling each other "I can't believe you wanted to stay through that!" when in fact we both misunderstood the other's desire to leave within 30 minutes. I can't really remember a damn thing about it other than the set and costume design was awesome.

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:47 am

The OG Texas Chainsaw. The first time I invited a girl over to watch movies, this is what I played. I was the dorky kid that spent my allowance on Fangoria. ( I have a #1 issue, mint.)
Favorite kill scene was in one of the middle Friday the 13ths. Someone was sleeping in a sleeping bag, he picked it up like a sack of potatoes and SWUNG it into a tree with a *whump*.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:51 am

king_arthur wrote:QotD: Not exactly a "horror" film, but I saw one called "Hard Candy" not long ago that is pretty scary in its own way...

Thats supposed to be a suspense thriller...but it's kind of boring. I LOVED the premise of it though. I find young girls to be scary for some of the same reasons her character displays. The way girls will manipulate decisions based on lies they know they can get other people to believe...such as rape or molesting. Instantly the guy would be 'guilty' by a jury of peers...and any guy knows that. I also think that young girls are vandictive enough to rationalize these ideas as fitting to their situation(s). And they're just dumb, immature, and emotional enough to execute their bad ideas.

<b>This is all in general ladies, I don't think that every female child is some psycho waiting to boil over.</b> (I know I was doing dumb crap when I was a kid so...) I've seen it though. From the girls who cry 'rape' to the girls cry 'pregnant'. I was once hanging out with a girl I was dating at a house where she was babysitting. (nothing hanky panky...) The little girl seemed fine and what not until one point she demanded a particular snack or something. My date gently said no, you'd better wait for your parents before... THEN the girl said that she was going to tell her mom that she hit her. Both of us froze and the room fell silent. I broke the silence by asking right out why she would do that. She didn't answer and then she changed the subject as if it never happened. She was testing us and I'm inclined to believe that wouldn't be her last test.

See, that movie feeds all of my relevant fears of the female child.

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:46 pm

My condolences Niveous.

QOTD:
Mine have been said.
The Exorcist - Scared me for a long time. Demonic possession is a real thing. Of Course after all these years we find out it's just Tourettes.

Hostel - Had me thinking about it for days because stuff like this really could be happening in third world countries.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:59 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:My condolences Niveous.

QOTD:
Mine have been said.
The Exorcist - Scared me for a long time. Hostel - Had me thinking about it for days because stuff like this really could be happening in third world countries.

Yeah, I was thinking about adding The Excorsist just because I saw it at such a young age that it really scared the bjesus out of me as a child.

I also saw American Werewolf in London as a young boy and that scared me too...but in a weird way. It was very gory and violent for a child but yet it was humorous and that was the first time I had been exposed to anything like that. (I must have been like 8 years old) Years later I'd see Griffin Dunne in Amazon Women on the Moon & After Hours...which are both hilarious movies.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:30 pm

I'm wrapping up my stuff at work before going on vacation for a week (or possibly forever).

I don't like horror movies in general, particularly anything with gore (hurr hurr INCONVENIENT TRUTH hurr). However, the original Night of the Living Dead was a great film, possibly because it was actually rather psychological and *didn't* have any gore in it at all; the fear was all situational.

Comedy-horror I can appreciate, though. Evil Dead, Bubba Ho-Tep, etc. Though those didn't have much gore either, come to think of it. The only part of Evil Dead which I remember having a problem with was when they were stomping on the trap door while the ghoul's hand was sticking out.

Anyway, my favorite true horror film of all time is definitely the original Night of the Living Dead. Which, by the way, was accidentally released into the public domain and you can watch it for free at archive.org.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:47 pm

I forgot to mention that I love some of the old German silent horror movies like Nosferatu, The Golem, and the The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Those movies create such a strange mood, and the sets are all pretty phenomenal.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:37 pm

Oh yeah, this morning I tried watching <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/">Un chien andalou</a> but couldn't get past the eye-slicing at the beginning.