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Topic: A fear is this... |
Gentleman Assassin
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posted November 29, 1999 04:45 PM
 
Has anyone on this board actually watched a film that SCARED
them?
The closest I have ever got was that old Project witch
Blair thing, and that just made me feel uncomfortable. Sometimes I
jump if things jump out at you, but apart from that all I've ever
had is being freaked out by The Shining and the Omen, or made queasy
by films like Dead Ringers.
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grant
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posted November 29, 1999 05:14 PM
The original Phantasm scared me.
Admittedly, I was pretty young
when I first saw it, but it had that dreamlike anything can happen
at any time quality to it.
There's a certain inescapable creepiness to stop motion animation
by Jan Svankmajer (I've only seen "Alice") or the Brothers
Quay.
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70sman
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posted November 29, 1999 06:50 PM
The Shining scared me.
You know the bit where you get a close up
on Jacks evil face and he stares and stares and theres an optical
illusion and you think his face is morphing into a demon .. and then
you realize it isnt?
Um .. anyone else notice that?
No ,
really. You must have..
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Loz
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posted November 29, 1999 07:29 PM
The Shining, like 2001, bored me rigid. I understand letting the
tension build, but there's a point where you have to release it, but
not Kubrick, oh no, here's 10 MORE minutes of the kid trundling
around the hotel, here's 10 more minutes of the wife sobbing... Oh
lookee! Jackie's pulling funny faces. Kubrick, much overated (though
Dr. Strangelove WAS good).
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Johnny7
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posted November 29, 1999 09:38 PM
"American Beauty" scared the piss out of me, but probably not in the
sense you mean. It scared me because it told me "This is what your
life will be in twenty years, you sad fuck!"
Remember when Quimper confronted KM and Roger in Black Science
II? A fat and listless KM sitting in front of the television, all
individuality sucked out of him.
That's my definition of true horror. "Blair Witch" bored me to
tears.
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Andrew/Alex
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posted November 29, 1999 09:53 PM
Exactly. To me, "real world" Kay Challis crying at the Brooklyn
Bridge (?), Cliff Steele comitting "suicide", the kids at Harmony
House; those scare me more then some fuck-up with a knife. Only
marginally, though, my emotions are arbitrary and almost
nonexistand. But I digress.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted November 29, 1999 10:42 PM
Tch! No, these WORRY you. 'Scared' has more immediacy to it - and I,
for one, WAS scared by the Blair Witch Thingy. And the first half
hour of Texas Chainsaw Massacre too, come to that...
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Citizen Smith
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posted November 30, 1999 12:08 AM
I get scared by zombie films.
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panacynic
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posted November 30, 1999 12:50 AM
Pretty much any David Lynch, but mainly 'Eraserhead', though I think
it's bollocks now, that scared the crap out me for my entire teenage
years. Have to go along with 'The Shining' though, a true
cacker.
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ianjones
Myrmidon |
posted November 30, 1999 07:38 AM
Alien /s (the movies and the comics) give me nightmares, deep scary
visceral dreams.
Nore existentially 'Apocolypse Now' set deep nerves twanging the
first time I saw it, and 'i couldn't relax and I couldn't relate'
for days afterwards.
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Cochese
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posted November 30, 1999 12:18 PM
I agree with Ganesha about Texas Chainsaw massacre, there's a very
unsettling atmosphere about that movie. funny/ sick. A lot of modern
horror films are awful, though...The Scream syndrome. It was just
sooo ironic and "ooh, this happens in slasher pics" that I was just
counting down the seconds for when the next cliche should appear.
And it always did, bang on cue. It could have been good, if they had
actually tried to subvert a few of those cliches rather than just
mention them and thus DRAW EVERYONE'S FUCKING ATTENTION TO THEM!!!
And also, it does seem to be the Stupid Person's horror movie of
choice. Carrie was good... Hellraiser movies are dumb fun...
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted November 30, 1999 07:04 PM
Oh yeah, and the original of The Vanishing. A seriously unpleasant
film.
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JackFrost
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posted November 30, 1999 07:07 PM
Has anyone here seen 'Gummo'? It's the second film by the guy that
did 'Kids' (his name escapes me).
This movie scared me a little and also made me extremely
uncomfortable while watching it. Not something movies do to me very
often.
Gummo's really hard to describe so you'll really have to
watch it to see what I mean. But, essentially, it's about a small
hick town and it's inhabitants and all the depraved things they do.
Guys who survive by shooting cats with BB guns to sell to a local
Chinese restaraunt for meat. One guy lets others pay to fuck his
retarded sister. Even huffing of glue fumes. It's shot in the same
way as kids where it has that feel that it might be partly a
documentary, and I swear some of the people he gets for the movie
just can't be actors...
The only thing more frightening to me, is the reality which
spawned this horror...
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Cochese
Operative |
posted November 30, 1999 07:13 PM
I read about that film, apparantly he filmed it in (or near) his
home town, using friends and neighbours as actors. So who
knows?
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Jackie Susann
Operative |
posted November 30, 1999 09:14 PM
Actually, I thought Gummo was just beautiful, not scary or
disturbing at all. I definitely recommend seeing it; a hilarious,
nonlinear film poem for/about white trash youth. Its one of my
favourite films of the 90s, without a doubt.
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JackFrost
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posted November 30, 1999 10:00 PM
I'm sorry, Jackie, I guess I needed to explain that I found 'beauty'
in the film as well.
Really tho', nothing in the movie even made you cringe? Even a
little?
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Jackie Susann
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posted November 30, 1999 10:39 PM
Well, there was a shot of a nasty-looking cat corpse that was mighty
unpleasant, but overall, it was a very funny, moving film. Although
I know afterwards I got into pretty much this same discussion with
my friends, with them saying how disgusting/disturbing it had been,
and how weird the people were, etc., and me saying no, it was
beautiful. Obviously, it's a very subjective thing, and I guess has
a lot to do with the kind of area you grew up in.
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number nun
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posted December 01, 1999 04:02 AM
I thought the excorcist was scary as a kid, Gummo was just
nasty...that whole weight lifting scene! uuugh! and the candy bar in
the bath tub! I was wretching really bad during that scene...and the
guy that pimps out his window licking sister (i know that isn't PC,
ban me- please!) The best line in that movie "you got a lump on your
titty" what the hell was that all about. That guy destroying the
table was cool, someone told me that it was Mark Gonzoles, the
famous skateboarder. That black midget was cool, too
I had to
watch Beyond the Valley of the Dolls to get the bad taste out of my
mind.
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 01:45 PM
The thought that Harmony Korine is allowed to make films scares me
more than the films themselves.
Although, his next one features
him getting beaten up by total strangers. Can't say no to
that...
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Mr
Cravat
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posted December 01, 1999 02:22 PM
I remember the original Evil Dead scaring me..
but that was in
the early 80s in the video boom... when i was subjected to lots of
so-called video nasties by my sisters then boyfriend who was a good
few years older than me... and still is?!
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Invisible_al
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posted December 02, 1999 12:40 PM
One film that scared me was Dead Calm, which was odd because I'd
seen a section on it on Film whatever that told you they were using
all the classic horror film techniques.
Still scared me
though.
Oh Event Horizon as well, mainly through the damage to
eye motif. But I suspect that is classed as cheating.
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panacynic
Initiate |
posted December 03, 1999 12:15 AM
Just remembered another one, which has been heavily discussed
elsewhere in the nexus : Pi. That scene where he was tentatively
pushing his pen into the brain made me shudder, not cause it was
vaguely gory, but for the weird headrushy camera cuts every time he
poked it. I was upset that Higgins and T.C. weren't in it
though.
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 04:35 PM
Hey, does anyone know where the name of this thread comes
from?
It's a film quote.
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WiseGuy
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posted December 06, 1999 01:02 PM
You were just dying for someone else to ask that question before you
had to do it yourself, weren't you? Well, got in just before I did,
so patience, young one, patience...
Yes, please tell me, nownownow, it's ringing cyclopean bells in
my head...
I've already mentioned the Child-Catcher out of Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang somewhere else. Roeg's Don't Look Now turned me into a
tiny Wise puddle on the ground, and still does. Blair Witch was just
creepy, which isn't the same thing.
And I agree with Ganesha about Worry Vs. Fear - horror isn't
about confronting people with the secret darkness in the world, it's
about scaring seven kinds of sparkling shite out of them, and
running away laughing to do it to somebody else.
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 01:34 PM
Yeah, I was bursting.
It comes from Schizopolis, an invisible
film if ever I saw one, written, directed by and starring Steven
Soderburgh of sex, lies, and out of sight.
NAMELESS NUMBERHEAD MAN: Also, I don't believe a word you say,
because the other day you said 'appearances' and I thought you said
'a fear is this'...
MUNSON: Wow.
N N M: 'A fear is this'.
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PornoHolocaust
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 03:11 PM
Return to Oz scared the hell out of me as a kid. Those guys on the
rollerblades still scare me.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 05:34 PM
My parents never let me forget the fact that I didnt sleep for a
week after watching PeeWee's Big Adventure.
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RAIN KING
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posted December 07, 1999 07:18 PM
let's see....the commercial for the EXORCIST:THE HERETIC(i was a wee
lad at the time), SCANNERS(i remember walking around paranoid for
days after this film came out),THE BEAST WITHIN( awful movie, but
the human-cicada-thing really fucked with my head for at least two
years),THE OMEN 2(at one point in my adolescents i was afraid of the
possibility of me being the anti-CHRIST),the first nightmare on elm
street(although, i don't know why,really.),beneath the planet of the
apes( the subterranian city with those mutants who worshipped the
atomic bomb),THE SHINING, JACOBS LADDER, NAKED LUNCH, VIDEODROME,
and more recently david lynch's LOST HIGHWAY. GUMMO was sick,
twisted, and beautiful, but it didn't scare me.
[This message has been edited by RAIN KING (edited December 07,
1999).]
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look!NickWaddam!
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 07:21 PM
My friend worked on the sound for Event Horizon.
Shame.
I think it's a bit shit.
The Shining? Yes, that film scared the shit out of me.
Don't look Now.
Why has no one mentioned this film? It's
fucking horrible.
Twin Peaks: Laura Palmer screaming at Cooper in the Black Lodge.
I've seen a room full of people curl up into the foetus position
watching that scene.
Some of Harold Pinter's plays are pretty disturbing. The menace
lurking in the threshold, or, as the man himself put it:
"The weasel under the cocktail cabinet."
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Naraoia
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 07:47 PM
Sneer if you will, but I have to admit Blair Witch Project scared
the living hell out of me. I was sitting there curled up in my seat
surrounded by frat boys and rave kids who had suddenly gone dead
silent--they thought they had come for a good time--and every time
it would start to get dark (in the film) I would go, "noooo....
noooo.... the bad stuff always happens at night..." Afterward I
slept with all the lights on. Probably my fault for going to a
midnight show. A friend of mine explained why it scared us so much:
there's this thing out there that you can't see, that rules your
entire environment, that you can't fight, and it HATES you.
Absolutely hates everything you stand for, your very existence, your
continued life. The worst part was that it just wouldn't kill
them... it would tear off the one kid's jaw and make him scream in
the night but it would not kill them and end this thing... and those
handprints on the wall... the final scene didn't bother me at first,
I was just like, they're being clever, finally, and I can handle
that. Ten minutes later, of course, I said out loud, "Oh, right, it
made him stand in the corner--" and all the fear came roaring
back.
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Qliphshifter
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 10:48 PM
Laura Palmer screaming in the Black Lodge really fucked with me too.
Probably my favorite David Lynch moment, and believe me, I have
many.
Heather's screams in The Blair Witch Project were pretty rough
too.
There were moments in The Exorcist III that really scared the
piss outta me. I enjoyed it much more than the first one.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 07, 1999 11:13 PM
The Haunting - not the new shite (although I say that and I haven't
even seen it yet) - but the old B&W original. There's one scene
in particular, in which the two women are alone in a darkened
bedroom, apparently crashing together in the same bed. They're
holding hands because they're shit scared, and one's chatting away
to take their minds off it all, and she keeps mentioning to the
other that she's holding her hand too tightly, until she can't stand
it any more and switches the bedroom light on - and the other
woman's sitting in a chair at the other end of the bedroom. She was
never in the bed at all. Brr. Gave me the liqourice runs for weeks
(Hmm. Sir Henry at Rawlinson End. Think I'll just pop that one in
the more quotable quotes thread in the Core).
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Mystery Gypt
Initiate |
posted December 08, 1999 03:47 AM
gotta say, biggest terror i ever got from a movie was when i was
very young and i saw Watership Down in the theatre. fuck that was
terrifying -- those nazi rabbits ripping off rabbit ears and the
scene when their bulldozed; and then i was horrified of the Black
Rabbit of Death for at least a full month. could barely stand to be
in the dark.
hm. rabbits.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 09:07 AM
Oh , WHEN are they (the elite filmmakers of the world) going to get
their act togehter and make a proper Lovecraft adaption?
oh , and they (the fucking bastards who rule the world) CANCELLED
Fire Walk With Me , which should have been on TV last week because
of some lameass sporting event!!
That makes me so
angry!!
Especially after reading all the good stuff about it
here! Grr..
[This message has been edited by 70sman (edited December 08,
1999).]
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Jackie Susann
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 11:29 AM
Fire Walk With Me would probably have been unwatchable on tv with
all the rude bits cut out. Its probably unwatchable anyway if you're
not intimately familiar with the tv series.
And surely the most terrifying Twin Peaks moment is the vision
Maddy has of Bob coming across the lounge room and climbing over
that couch? I'm getting scared just typing it out, seriously.
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grant
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 03:40 PM
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES!!
Yes!
Scared the pants off me as a boy.
I like David Cronenberg immensely, but for some reason, he's not
what I'd call "scary." Same for Mr. Lynch.
But the original The Haunting will indeed give the screaming
heebie jeebies. That face in the wallpaper, which wasn't really
there.....
Brr.
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look!NickWaddam!
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 08:19 PM
I have a feeling that my younger sister's obsession with Twin Peaks,
is, in part, the product of a need to dispel a Demon.
When Rosie was little My Father and my Step Mother used to watch
Twin Peaks. They'd tape it for the kids, but veto any of the
episodes that contained Bob or other scary stuff.
One day Rosie thought it would be fun to take a look at one of
those episodes.
She turned the TV on and pressed play.
And something came lurching across a couch...
"That's Bob", my Dad said, flicking the off switch.
Rosie tells me she didn't sleep a wink that night, and that the
nightmares started shortly after....
[This message has been edited by look!NickWaddam! (edited
December 08, 1999).]
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 09:43 PM
Yes grant, yes. Beneath the Planet of the Apes is minor masterpiece,
it literally DANCES along that thin border between cool and crap. I
particlarly rate that scene where Charlton Heston fights with Pseudo
Charlton Heston. But I'm presuming it was the telepathic aliens that
did it for you eh grant.
As Nigel Tuffnel once said, "It's a thin line between clever and
stupid"
For me the scariest moment in Twin Peaks was when James serenaded
Donna and Maddy with his goddawful girly singing.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 09, 1999 11:39 AM
I'm too young to have ever seems site nor sound of Twin Peaks but
from what Ive heard , I might very well love it.
And Ive hated
EVERY serious television series ever made. (with the exception of
Neil Gaimans Neverwhere. Please dont hurt me.)
Whats so good
about twinpeaks? is it worth seeking out the videos?
Seeing the
movie on TV was going to sort that out for me , but it was cancelled
so now you lot are going to have to.
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RAIN KING
Initiate |
posted December 09, 1999 08:41 PM
Bob in Laura Palmers room....
now that definitely scared the piss
out of me.
And yes(i'll probably get hanged for this) the
Exorcist III did seem to be the scariest of the lot. that is
probably because i saw the first two out of context, so to
speak.
As for Twin Peaks the series, the first season is,hands
down, the best!
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