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| 11 AUG 2005 at 4:22pm |
Pastor DisasterJourneyman
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Status : Online | I'd have to say the original Night of the Living Dead and The Blair Witch Project. Brrr!
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 4:28pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | the shining (the original with jack nicolson, not the crappy tv series remake) and the original japanese ju-on (the grudge)
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 5:59pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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In it's day, The Exorcist was very scary - at least I thought so. So was JAWS.
In my case, both had about the same effect, which was being genuinely frightened. That's because I went to see The Exorcist right there in Georgetown / Washington, D.C. at the Key Theater just a few blocks from those incrediblely long, steep, narrow steps leading from M Street (right across from Key Bridge) up to Georgetown University.
Immediately after the show that night, we went to the good, old Apple Pie Bar & Grille on M Street that faces north practically looking up those same dark steps. Three of us guys then decided to climb the steps and look back down at what Father Karras must have seen as he plummeted so shockingly to his "death" at the end of the film we had just finished watching. It was extra, extra creepy and it made the memory of that movie even more indelible.
And what can I say about JAWS when it first came out? Being an avid ocean swimmer, water skier, surfer, offshore sailor and scuba diver, I have come very, very close on several occasions to being eaten by large, hungry sharks (not that large though but pretty damned big and scary). I have also seen people attacked viciously in the water (by sharks and barracuda), and felt totally helpless to do anything about it. So JAWS also made an extra strong impression on me.
Cheers, Terry
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 7:31pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Terry_Penrod (11 AUG 2005 5:59pm)
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And what can I say about JAWS when it first came out? Being an avid ocean swimmer, water skier, surfer, offshore sailor and scuba diver, I have come very, very close on several occasions to being eaten by large, hungry sharks (not that large though but pretty damned big and scary). I have also seen people attacked viciously in the water (by sharks and barracuda), and felt totally helpless to do anything about it. So JAWS also made an extra strong impression on me.
Okay Terry, this weekend, get yerself some popcorn, pull up a nice soft chair, and watch Open Water.
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 7:33pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | The movie that scared the bejeezus out of me was the original 'The Chainsaw Massacre'. Very innocently, went to it myself- I'm usually pretty tough in 'scary' movies, but that one got to me!
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 8:02pm |
KingRyanSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I've never really seen any movies that had me jumping out of my seat or my pulse racing ... but I'll tell you one thing: the TV show 'Unsolved Mysteries' - even just the theme song alone - makes me absolutely paranoid any time of day. [smiley=shudder.gif]
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 8:07pm |
chronotigger65Journeyman
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Status : Offline | For me the scariest movies I've seen were The Thing, Alien, Aliens and An American Werewolf in London or An American Werewolf in Paris.
I always get mixed up with the two werewolf movies. One is scary the other is a parody of the other movie. I just can't remember which is which.
I've seen the Alien movies many times and now they aren't scary any more but the scene in the first movie where the facehugger leaps out of the egg and grabs the guys head makes me jump no matter how many times I see it.
On another note, my Mom told me the scariest movie she seen was House On the Left. After seeing this movie, she refuses to see any scary movies in a movie theater.
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 8:15pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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John Carpenters The Thing [smiley=scared.gif] [smiley=scared.gif]
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 9:05pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By chronotigger65 (11 AUG 2005 8:07pm)
For me the scariest movies I've seen were The Thing, Alien, Aliens and An American Werewolf in London or An American Werewolf in Paris.
I always get mixed up with the two werewolf movies. One is scary the other is a parody of the other movie. I just can't remember which is which.
I've seen the Alien movies many times and now they aren't scary any more but the scene in the first movie where the facehugger leaps out of the egg and grabs the guys head makes me jump no matter how many times I see it.
An American Werewolf in London starring David Naughton was the first and by far the scariest of the two.
Cheers, Terry
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 9:08pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | "The Exorcist" took me down for the count, I was 17 when it first came out and went to see it and it scared the hell out of me, I cant watch it to this day and cant even hear her voice, Another one was "The Haunting", the old one, saw that when I was probably about 8 and remember shaking in fear when I went to bed, I've watched it since and of course it's just not that scary but to a kid..... :
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 9:46pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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The first movie I ever saw that scared me. I was eight and never went swimming in the ocean again. Even now I can't swim in water where I can't see the bottom without going into a panic.
After that, Halloween, Friday the 13th (the first one), the Fog, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original), Blair Witch Project, and Jeepers Creepers until you found out it was some alien (it was stupid after that).
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 10:50pm |
MissBSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Poltergeist, hands down. That was my first scary movie and it nearly scared my sister and I to death. I only saw it once, but I still occasionally have nightmares about it.
Originally Posted By SirDave (11 AUG 2005 7:31pm)
Okay Terry, this weekend, get yerself some popcorn, pull up a nice soft chair, and watch Open Water.
Ohhh, that was a good movie! I don't really find sharks very scary because I don't get in the ocean....now if that SNL land shark ever shows back up, I'm screwed...
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 10:54pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | The Fog was great in fact any of John Carpenters early films were cool.
"The Exorcist" just wasn't that scary to me.
I couldn't stop laughing the first time I saw it. maybe it was all the hype and the fact it was banned I expected something better.
Anyway fancy a laugh
The Exorcist
The Shining
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 10:55pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (11 AUG 2005 4:28pm)
the shining (the original with jack nicolson, not the crappy tv series remake) and the original japanese ju-on (the grudge)
You HAVE to see Ju-Wei!!!!!!!!! [smiley=scared.gif]
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| 11 AUG 2005 at 11:12pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | The original B&W Invasion of the Body Snatchers. [smiley=scared.gif]
Jaws I was scary too but I only saw half of Alien - too bloody terrified to open my eyes and watch. So I suppose that was the last scary movie I ever 'watched'. I can't do scary.
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| 12 AUG 2005 at 1:11am |
| Deleted User | The original "The Fly!" I was a kid when I saw this and had nightmares for weeks on end! Help Me....Help ME!!
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| 12 AUG 2005 at 2:29am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By papabrody (12 AUG 2005 1:10am)
The original "The Fly!" I was a kid when I saw this and had nightmares for weeks on end!
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Oh geesh, thanks for reminding me Papabrody.
That one creeped me out too and it actually got me in trouble as a little kid. My parents thought I was crying wolf that night after waking up screaming from nightmares one too many times. But just in case I really was that frightened, they banned me from any more horror films for a whole year - which as you know seemed an eternity back then.
Thank heavens for my monthly issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland, plenty of comic books, some early sci-fi on TV and of course Halloween, as they tided me over for the next twelve months.
Cheers, Terry
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| 12 AUG 2005 at 3:03am |
| Deleted User | Psycho. I know, I know, but it was so creepy, especially the ending with that fly and his creepy smile. Also, my mum watched it in the cinema back when it was released, she was about 12, and to this day she avoids any movie the has any small affiliation to horror).
Also - Carrie - but practically only one particular scene.
The Exorcist - Although I'm 100% secular/atheist, it creeped me out, especially that restored spider walk scene down the stairs.
It - based on Stephen King's 1000+ pages novel, was so creepy I couldn't watch it. That's why I always have this uneasy feeling whenever I re-play GK1 or GK3. Tim Curry is creepy!
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (also, but remotley based on Stephen King) - But I'm still annoyned by the fact that in this part of the world (Europe+parts of the middle east) you can't watch the full version - many key scenes are missing (like Danny at the doctor after having that creepy vision in the bathroom - I know because I read a step-by step revision of the movie, and noticed that was never there. So we bought the European dvd, but still - no doctor scene! >).
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| 12 AUG 2005 at 3:49am |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (11 AUG 2005 11:11pm)
The original B&W Invasion of the Body Snatchers. [smiley=scared.gif]
Jaws I was scary too but I only saw half of Alien - too bloody terrified to open my eyes and watch. So I suppose that was the last scary movie I ever 'watched'. I can't do scary.
Gee I forgot- I think I mentioned it in a long ago thread, but the original 'On the Beach' (based in Australia) had a pretty strong effect on me! (That movie you mentioned, Invasion of the Snody Batchers as I used to call it, was pretty good too ).
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 12 AUG 2005 at 12:05pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By papabrody (12 AUG 2005 1:10am)
The original "The Fly!" I was a kid when I saw this and had nightmares for weeks on end! Help Me....Help ME!!
[smiley=scared.gif] [smiley=scared.gif]
LOL! Oh crap, I forgot about "the Fly", that movie really grossed me out.
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| 13 AUG 2005 at 1:12am |
JohnBoyIntergalactic Janitor
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| 14 AUG 2005 at 1:23am |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Lucien21 (11 AUG 2005 10:54pm)
"The Exorcist" just wasn't that scary to me.
I couldn't stop laughing the first time I saw it. maybe it was all the hype and the fact it was banned I expected something better.
My boys feel the same way and laugh at me, but you guys are young and pretty much immune to horror moves. When "The Exorcist" came out, a movie like that had never really been done before, Im sure if I had seen it over the past 10-15 years I might feel the same,because its pretty much a "been there done that" kind of thing now, but at the time.......Yaaa! [smiley=scared.gif] [smiley=scared.gif][smiley=scared.gif]
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| 14 AUG 2005 at 3:20pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
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The Exorcist
Silence of the Lambs
Seven
Serpent and the Rainbow
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| 14 AUG 2005 at 3:59pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | The b & w movie Tarantula scared me terribly when I was 8 (impressionable age that). Since then it was Alien and Aliens, the first because I didn't know what was going to happen with the creature and the second because I did.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
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