Mechanized
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That movie was awesome, the twist caught me completely off guard. It definitely does not get enough love.
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That movie was awesome, the twist caught me completely off guard. It definitely does not get enough love.
Quick and dirty apologist's theory for the silly sound effects in The Babadook:
The other explanation, of course, is a low budget and poor judgment. But whatever.
We see that the mother watches a lot of horror movies, specifically older ones, and the Babadook is a manifestation of her inner turmoil, so that turmoil taking the form of a physical monster would draw from her own perceptions of what monsters are. I have no idea if that was the actual intent, but that's my justification at least.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
Martyrs, easy.
yeah martyrs really fucked with me for a few weeks.
I'm going to add The Girl Next Door(2007) to the list as well.
Dog Problems
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The remake of Thirteen Ghosts really disturbs me because of the ghosts. Not only the way they look but because of their back stories.
SJRB
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Exactly. Your imagination is 100 times more scary than any monster.
Carnby
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Well if you were expecting a monster movie, you'd be extremely disappointed anyways. It's more of a slightly creepy thriller that tries to tell a story beneath the actual story. I won't say it's bad or anything (outside of the 1954 Godzilla roar noise) but I definitely don't classify it as a horror movie, personally at least.
Monster movies, ghost movies, and occult movies do nothing for me. So I'm glad to hear this isn't a horror movie, but that Godzilla scream has convinced me to not watch this.
I've been craving a good horror movie lately, but I'm finding nothing but duds. Kill List ended up being an occult movie. I was about to watch Starry Eyes and saw the pentagrams on the cover (occult movie again!). And now this... Seriously, someone please recommend me a good horror movie that (as this thread title says) fuck me up.
Metalingus5150
Member
The Grudge is the only horror movie to get me.
can't im the opposite. Realistic horror movies, do nothing for me. I always know I could shoot or stab a regular person and at worst, they are just gross instead of scary for me.
My favorite exchange from that movie was
"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE NORMAL?!"
"*Random screaming*"
Japanmanx3
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Yo I saw Pet Cemetery waaaay to young. Between that and just the first 20 minutes of Final Destination scared me badly. I hate horror movies in general. Though The Strangers was pretty good.
Frustrated_Grunt
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I was in middle school when The Grudge trailers started to air, and it fucked me and everyone else at school up pretty good. Seeing the movie at that time in my life probably is the most memorable horror movie for me.
Its here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NKhJ5D8trI
I recommend watching it in the context of the movie, even though its basically a 'jump-scare'. But its a good one. I'll do my best to set it up for you though:
(spoilers just in case I manage to persuade others to check it out):
- There's already been a spate of dreadful murders, including
, so everyone is freaked the fuck out.a decapitation of a patient directly in front of where the nurse in this scene is standing
- A scene already happened which shows the viewer what the murder weapon likely was. This is important, because
.they spend time making sure you hear what it sounds like. This is the noise you think you hear at the start of the above scene
- The movie doesn't mind spending time setting up its scenes, so it takes a few minutes to pay-off. Folks may fault the film because they consider it slow. But I feel the atmosphere generated is more than worth it.
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Not having the cop present in the background for the first jump scare plays with my expectation that something is going to happen. When it doesn't, I am too busy lowering my heart-rate thinking she's safe, and swearing at the cheap-scare.
You even begin to think the nurse will be fine, as the cop is (mostly) present with the her afterwards, right to the point until he's suddenly called away. -
It's completely unexpected for a first-time viewer.The nurse enters, leaves, and locks the door of the murder-scene, not having found anything. Yet this is the same room the murderer suddenly emerges from.
James Rolfe did a great retrospective on it in the last Cinemassacre (spoilers a-plenty):
http://cinemassacre.com/2014/10/11/the-exorcist-iii-1990/
Yikes! Didn't intend to write so much! Maybe its because I met William Peter Blatty once, during an Exorcist DVD signing =)
-Pyromaniac-
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Hmmm....none of them I guess. When I was younger I recall some movies getting to me but nowadays I'm a horror movie junky and I think once you reach that point nothing really gets to you any more only because you enjoy what you're seeing too much. It's weird. I guess ones with extreme gore or have people doing unthinkable things to themselves/torture stuff. But that's not REALLY horror. Maybe it is, if so then that.
Closer Two
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Mulholland Drive. The dream behind the diner.
It's not even a horror movie and I think that's why it caught me off guard to such a degree. It's filled with so much dread and captures the feeling of a bad dream so unbelievably perfectly.
It's not even a horror movie and I think that's why it caught me off guard to such a degree. It's filled with so much dread and captures the feeling of a bad dream so unbelievably perfectly.
I've never watched that film in its entirety, but I really like that scene. The way the camera quickly zooms in is what freaks me out the most, haha.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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honestly, any exorcist/paranormal activity style moves have always freaked me out
Baldwin_the_First
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This and the Sixth Sense (I was younger with this one, tho) disturbed me to no end.
I never actually finished The Sixth Sense, what got me was when one of the spirits was under the desk of the little boy. That desk looked exactly like the one I had in my room when I was a kid. Fucked me up good.
Funnily enough, Supernatural the TV show, is what desensitized me to horror movies. Though I still havn't seen the bigger ones like The Conjuring, The ring, The Babadook and so on.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Sounds reasonable, just finished watching it and yeah completely plausible.
Very much her inner demon.
Gabriel_Logan
Member
The end of Don't Look Now is the most soul crushing thing I've ever witnessed on film.
Hoho for breakfast
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The Blair Witch Project. Like someone said it's the whole found footage thing and not really any actual monsters shown. When movies actually show the monsters I become less scared normally.
A couple others I liked were 1408 and Session 9. The Strangers also was pretty creepy just because it was more realistic than most.
A couple others I liked were 1408 and Session 9. The Strangers also was pretty creepy just because it was more realistic than most.
Conkersbadfurday
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I don't watch many horror movies, and when I do, I have a nasty habit of talking when the spooks come on. Which usually doens't bother those I watch them with since none of my friends/family like horror movies either.
But 1408 is a pretty good movie. That last line sells it all.
But 1408 is a pretty good movie. That last line sells it all.
That scene when
she's under the covers and he's right above her whispering Babadook
Awesome post. I'd long since written off the idea of seeing the exorcist sequels, but this post has singlehandedly intrigued me.
Jacobs ladder really fucks with me. I dear anyone to watch this deleted scene and not be freaked the fuck out.
Jacob's Ladder: Deleted Scene: http://youtu.be/EfMjoVYcg9g
Jacob's Ladder: Deleted Scene: http://youtu.be/EfMjoVYcg9g
Gormless Noodle
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I took your dare and I am not the fuck freaked out. In fact I felt little to nothing watching this scene.
Gimme those 9 minutes of my life back, ya pansy.
Dandy Crocodile
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Martyrs still gets me every time I watch it, and I still think about John Carpenter's The Thing from time to time.
Jawbreaker
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County
This is the only film to ever legitimately scare me to the point where I slept with the lights on.
This is the only film to ever legitimately scare me to the point where I slept with the lights on.
Really weird but sci fi horror does not freak me out, and I love it. They are tense, but not horrifying. On the other hand I have a hard time watching straight horror movies.
Keyser Soze
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If anyone decided to watch The Babadook due to this thread, you have 9 days left to preorder the book ...
http://thebabadook.com/
http://thebabadook.com/
I loved the animations/popouts in that book, but $80 is too much for me.
Mr. Perfect
Member
The Exorcist and/or Rosemary's Baby.
crazyturtle
Member
Stigmata traumatized me as a kid, still freaks me out today
When it came out 28 Days Later really got to me. It was around that time I'd started hanging around in London's West End and to see the places that are usually so packed you're fighting for space on the pavement to be completely empty, with eerie music and a tense atmosphere hit home. Then the infected themselves are just freaking terrifying. I love the film these days as it sparked a huge interest in Zombie fiction in me, and although I don't get scared of it anymore, I'll still give 28 Days Later a watch and still enjoy it.
The last film to leave me with a sense of sheer panic and melancholy would be Threads, though. That film is truly, utterly terrifying.
The last film to leave me with a sense of sheer panic and melancholy would be Threads, though. That film is truly, utterly terrifying.
Krappadizzle
Member
Spend the five minutes it takes to look up the deleted
Hell
I'll probably get some shit for this but the original Amityville Horror still creeps me the fuck out. Two things:
The score and Jody in the window scene. The score sets the mood because it's so haunting and it just makes me feel uneasy. Then you get to the Jody scene and boom, you're not sleeping any more that night.
The score and Jody in the window scene. The score sets the mood because it's so haunting and it just makes me feel uneasy. Then you get to the Jody scene and boom, you're not sleeping any more that night.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
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Night of the Seagulls (1975) - Theatrical Trailer: http://youtu.be/B4wbEhQ93t4
I saw this 1975 Spanish horror flick when I was like 5 years old. Terrible idea, I know. the cinemotagrphy, the effects and direction may not hold well to today's film standards, but in my opinion, thats precisley what makes it creepy, that 70's score, the camera truck ins and outs, the soft, vaselline lens filters etc. I love how the dead horsemen look, their creepy, drapped horses, sooo good!!
I saw this 1975 Spanish horror flick when I was like 5 years old. Terrible idea, I know. the cinemotagrphy, the effects and direction may not hold well to today's film standards, but in my opinion, thats precisley what makes it creepy, that 70's score, the camera truck ins and outs, the soft, vaselline lens filters etc. I love how the dead horsemen look, their creepy, drapped horses, sooo good!!
Jawbreaker
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I didn't enjoy The Babadook at all.
I understand what it was going for, but I thought the movie fell incredibly flat as both a horror film and one of a mother dealing with her inner turmoil, manifesting as this "Babadook" character.
Krappadizzle
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I agree. I thought it was mostly pretty boring myself. But I'm glad that others are as I love the reactions.
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