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dodger_sister

Friday The 13th.

Jul 13, 2012 16:20

Since it is Friday the 13th, I thought we could talk about movies that scare me. Like really scare me. Because some movies are a little suspenseful or have some good jump-fright moments, but finding a movie that actually settles inside me for awhile is hard to do.

( 6 Movies that scared me. )

ghosts say boo, movie blahblahblahing, vampires suck, scary shit that makes me shit, brainzzzz, the x-files - trust everyone, tv show blahblahblahing, acockalypse, eeeevilll, sister oh sister, the walking dead are coming!, the stand is my apocalypse

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shirebound July 13 2012, 20:22:28 UTC

Without a doubt, the scariest movies I ever saw were Halloween, Alien, and Poltergeist. I saw them first-run in the theaters and came home from each one to check under the beds and in the closets to make sure nothing was lurking there.

*shivers*

dodger_sister July 16 2012, 18:41:58 UTC

I love Halloween! I don't know that I was ever that scared by it, but I think it is one of the great classic horror movies of all time. It hits every mark in a way that horror movies just don't anymore.

I do remember being scared by Poltergeist actually, now that you mention it. Man, that was a good movie - I am just remembering all the great scenes in that. Poltergeist is also a classic horror movie that I love.

I still have never seen any of the Aliens movies but since the prequel just came out, there has been a lot of talk in with liptonrm about marathoning the first two movies.

lizibabes July 13 2012, 20:32:22 UTC

This post remined me of something. Do you remeber when I said JDM was in a kind of horror film? It's calle the resident, they put it on this week and I meant to message you, but forgot until I saw this!!

I love most the movies you listed. I couldn't get in to blair witch, the filming style drove me crazy.

I am a classic horror girl, halloween, friday the 13th, nightmare on elm street(the first, the others are more what I call good bad horror, but I still own all seven, the remake wasn't too bad either, even though I missed Robert englund)

I don't really find horror films scary, I just love watching them and yelling at the stupid characters and guessing the killer.

I need to watch some horror films seen as it is friday the 13th :D

dodger_sister July 16 2012, 18:55:42 UTC

The Resident! It actually popped on my Tivo (because you know for damn sure that JDM is in my Tivo list) and I wondered if that was the movie you were telling me about. Then I decided not to watch it with commercials and was going to put it into my Netflix and I forgot. So I'll go do that now ( ... )

lizibabes July 16 2012, 19:15:15 UTC

I think sometimes films that could happen get me going more, so zombies not so much, but natural disaster yes, that can get me going a little. But I find myself enjoying the good and sometimes the bad ones so much that I forget my fear.

I also think horror films with serial killers can be scarier because it could happen. Although as a kid childs play did give me a thing about dolls, the film didn't scare me, but like with you and blair witch, it was after that it effected me, not during the film.

I get how you feel about the dream thing, because I get bad nightmares and I would hate to be stuck in mine. When I told a friend that Jhonny depp was in the first film they didn't believe me, so I showed them his most memorable scene and they hated me for it lol

Tell me what you think of the resident when you get around to it. I think it has some old school film aspects. I've only seen it once though, I should watch again, you always seem to take in more the second time around.

dodger_sister July 16 2012, 19:57:17 UTC

I think sometimes films that could happen get me going more, so zombies not so much, but natural disaster yes, that can get me going a little.

I think natural disaster movies get me going more too - something about them just hits a spot inside me of fear that I can't control. I don't think I have a specific thing I like more in horror - serial killers or supernatural - as long it is suspenseful and more 'thriller' than 'gore'. I think the supernatural stuff gets to me just as much as the serial killers because I totally believe in ghosts and stuff like that. Zombies are something that I love and am fascinated by because I think they represent something deeper in us. But I think the thing about "28 Days Later" that got to me so hard is that isn't zombies - they are just people infected with a biological weapon that basically mimics extreme rabies without killing the host. And that, biological type thing, that seems so realistic to me ( ... )

13chapters July 13 2012, 20:50:50 UTC

The Exorcist scared the shit out of me. I watched it my freshman year of college - someone rented it and a bunch of us all watched it together in the dorm lounge. For the first 45 minutes or so we were like "lol this movie is supposed to be scary?" but by the time it was over, we were all afraid to go back to our rooms and walk down hallways alone. We all just sat around in the lounge together for awhile going AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Fortunately my roommate was watching with us so we could walk back to our room together. :D

The Ring scared the shit out of me too. Later, I rented the Japanese original and was happy to have the ability to fast forward through certain scenes.

dodger_sister July 16 2012, 19:03:52 UTC

For the first 45 minutes or so we were like "lol this movie is supposed to be scary?" but by the time it was over, we were all afraid to go back to our rooms and walk down hallways alone.

Yeah, that's kind of what happened with me. At first I was actually bored during The Exorcist. But then it started to get really interesting. I just didn't realize how scared I was by it until I was all alone and had to turn of my lights.

Oh yeah, The Ring! I saw the American version. I wasn't scared after it was over, but while I was watching it...oh yeah, I was scared. Besides the creepy ass little girl - (always a sure way to get me freaked out - creepy little girls) - I was also quite freaked out by the lead's son and everything going on with him. Have you seen the American version as well as the Japanese one? I just wonder what the comparision is on how much alike they are.

matchboximpala July 13 2012, 21:34:26 UTC

Your top two are my top two! I saw The Hills Have Eyes at a drive-in with a bunch of friends while I was in high school and had a total cathartic breakdown in someone's car because I was so scared and horrified. Then we all drove to a cemetery located near a prison out in the boonies. TRAUMATIZED, I tell you, I was TRAUMATIZED.

The Exorcist is probably the scariest movie I have ever seen, though. I think it was that constant sound of bees buzzing in the background that put it over the top for me -- raised my anxiety level way higher than the movie content probably warranted.

dodger_sister July 16 2012, 19:15:47 UTC

Your top two are my top two!

Awesome!

You know, when the remake of Hills Have Eyes came out, I convinced my sister we should watch the original first. I was surprised at how bad it was - like it didn't make any sense. Here were these people living out in the middle of the desert and they were wearing bear fur. And yet I remember being so terrified of it when I was a kid (why I was allowed to watch it at age 11, idk) because even though it is full of plotholes, it is graphic as hell. (although now having seen the remake, which may be the most graphic horror movie I have ever seen, the original seems like child's play). So I'd be interested if you tried watching it as an adult, to see if it scared you as much. Although, it may help if you don't folow up your viewing by GOING TO A CEMETERY!!

constant sound of bees buzzing in the background that put it over the top for meWait, was that in the movie? Either I didn't pick up on it when I saw it or I have just forgotten now. I swear, I wasn't that scared during the movie and yet ( ... )

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dodger_sister July 16 2012, 19:25:52 UTC

Pretty much every scary movie I've ever seen sticks with me for a time, even the ones I love like The Others or The Sixth Sense--I'll have a stray thought and suddenly, shudder, did I just see Samara from The Ring in the TV screen?

That's true, that does happen to me often as well. I think there is also always one moment in every horror movie that scares me, even if the movie as a whole does not.

The Woman in Black? The one with Daniel Radcliffe? My sister saw it at the theater and said it is maybe the scariest movie she has ever seen.

There was a Doctor Who episode that scared me - (I have only seen a handful of them so far) - but a friend made me watch the one where they go back to the blitz and Jack harkness is there and the little boy keeps asking, "Are you my Mommy?" and that was kid was freaky!

I love scaring myself and yet I hate being scared. Tis a quandary.

Ikr. What is that inherent thing inside us that makes us love to scare ourselves? It has been that way forever, since our method of storytelling was purely vocal.

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dodger_sister July 16 2012, 23:41:51 UTC

One of my friends in London says she saw a stage version of it (apparently it's been around a long time--a novel published back in 1800s? I think?) that is also one of the scariest things she's ever seen.

Cool, I would love to see that. I think horror done live would be amazingly scary.

Oh yes, I love Cracked.com - I'll have to check that video out, thanks!