pet semetary

[djerome]

pet semetary (the first one, not the sequals)

that was the scaries movie i ever saw in the theatre. id be afraid to watch it now. what was your scariest scene?

(spoilers ahead)


mine was when the sister zelda was crackling in the bed and comes out towards the camera. also when the ghost pascal(?) used to show up in different parts, before he turned out to be a good guy.

[Mirsha]

Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 10 was quite scary, I haven't seen it in so long now I really can't remember what about it scared me the most, other than being ripped to shreds by an undead dicing machine.

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the photo bits in 'ring' early on... can't remember too much cos psyche has tried to block it out

[thomas hooked]

billy mahonie in flatliners

[May Kasahara]

All of Ring. Damn you, Japanese film-makers!

[bracket]

Salems Lot - the vampire used to scare me as a youngsta. The old woman out of the shining was another.

Jacobs Ladder used to freak me out - especially the people with the super fast shaky heads.

[wheezer]

there's this one zombie movie where the chick is running from the zombies and gets into a running car, the driver is real friendly and helpful at first but then he turns into a zombie as well, the girl screams and some dude jumps out from out his grave and starts laughing. then the movie ends.

freaked me out when I was a kid.

[tsr_tomas]

scariest movie/serie... Skrotnisse!

http://www.moviemix.nu/coverpic/skrot.jpg

it´s about these puppets. there is this journalist and the eremit who wants to be alone... if you´ve watched it you´ll be scared!

[Norn Thorsen]

last time i was freaked out by a film was a weird slow-mo bit in 'mulholland drive' when the two main characters are running out of a cabin/apartment.. woah..

oh and the crawling out of the telly bit in Ring..

anybody seen that SAW film yet?

[thomas hooked]

fuck yeah- the bits in lost highway with jack vance in, or that bit in gangster no 1 with paul bettany screwing up his face in the car. facial expressions get me every time.

[Orang Utan]

The Haunting is the scariest film I've ever seen by a long way. Good to see the Japs being influenced by this kind of horror film instead of the usual Hollywood slasher type movie. Films that creep you out instead of shocking you with rivers of gore are far more effective IMO.

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Originally posted by Norn Thorsen
last time i was freaked out by a film was a weird slow-mo bit in 'mulholland drive' when the two main characters are running out of a cabin/apartment.. woah..


ugk - that bit where he goes round the corner of the cafe to the skip - you know whats coming but it's still poopoo scary.

[May Kasahara]

The Haunting is well scary, today's young whippersnappers could learn a lot from that film. Like: don't telegraph your scary moments with loads of generic 'spooky' soundtrack.

[Smartie]

Although I've seen it many times, The Thing is scary........

[wheezer]

Originally posted by Orang Utan
Films that creep you out instead of shocking you with rivers of gore are far more effective IMO.

more to the point I think these two types of films just push different sorts of buttons...

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre pushes both i reckon...

[wheezer]

yeah there's prolly plenty more where that came from too cut out, I was thinking of oeuvres like cannibal holocaust when posting that...

[iain c]

the god guy just sitting at a window ,then pulls the lever that starts all the freaky shit in Erazorhead,one of the creepiest films to date :0

[Donkey Valium]

That bit in Human Traffic when they sing the national anthem... still giving me nightmares.

[bracket]

Originally posted by Donkey Valium
That bit in Human Traffic when they sing the national anthem... still giving me nightmares.

hololhoh

[r_v]

the elevator scene in 'the eye'.

i can't watch that bit now. i have to go and hide.

[Daddys Girl]

<--- another person freaked-out by Ring...

the scene in candyman where the main girl (forgot her name) is in the doctors office, and calls out "candyman" 3 times... nothing happens, and then he appears & rips the doc to shreads...

the 1st time the 'twins' appear in the shining, and whenever the little boy rides down those corridors on his bike bugs me out everytime

[r_v]

my scariest movie scene when i was wee:

the bit in terminator when reece and connor think the terminator has been taken out in the lorry crash and he reappears in robot form. that's a real "look behind you!" moment. i've always found stop-frame really sinister for some reason.

i was freaked by ringu as well. but more in a way that made me really curious about the background and mythology of the film (its really open ended, after all). i ended up doing loads of reading about the films and the original novels and the depths of movie-geekdom to which this film caused me to sink is probably scarier than the film itself.

[goone]

whose billy mahonie in flatliners?

billy mahonie the band have some rappa songs

[thomas hooked]

http://www.the11thhour.com/archives/042000/videoreviews/images/flatliners2.jpg

[Norn Thorsen]

ringu? is that the version with pingu in it? terrifying....

[Paddy]

billy mahonie was scary as fuck, and he was pretty hard too.
the elevator scene's well scary r_v!

[bencodec]

there are trailers on tv now for a new film called "the grudge" thats a remake of a japanese horror film called "Ju-On". not sure if thats "the eye" in europe, or another horror film i've not heard of before, but they have highered the original japanese writer and director to make the remake. wish they had done that with "the ring".

[Paddy]

ju-on is a completely different film to the eye, and the eye's korean anyway. i want to see a tale of two sisters, another korean number. korea's where it's at.

[Me?]

Originally posted by r_v
i was freaked by ringu as well. but more in a way that made me really curious about the background and mythology of the film (its really open ended, after all). i ended up doing loads of reading about the films and the original novels and the depths of movie-geekdom to which this film caused me to sink is probably scarier than the film itself.

Would have to agree, after seeing Ringu I have become mad about asian films, the Prequel and the 2 sequels to Ringu just dont live up to the original, (I have never seen the American version, I think it would ruin it for me if I did). The Eye and Eye 2 were good without stealing the same freaky concepts from Ringu like Ju on and others do, Uzamaki was good too, not at all scary just odd. If you like these kind of films then you must check A Tale Of 2 sisters, a fairly recent Korean film which is really quite creepy, well done and very thought provoking.

I dont really get spooked or sickened by films as much as I try to push my boundaries with gore. I would say one best films I have seen lately is a Spanish film called In A Glass Cage, its not horror but has kind of sick subject matters. The scariest thing I have ever seen was a Donald Duck cartoon (the fill in bit at the cinema) which I saw on acid many moons ago, it did my head in so much I didnt stay for the film! :)

[Me?]

Jinx Nik-Nak!

[r_v]

Originally posted by Me?

The scariest thing I have ever seen was a Donald Duck cartoon (the fill in bit at the cinema) which I saw on acid many moons ago, it did my head in so much I didnt stay for the film! :)

hmmm, wierd coincidence. i didn't mention this before 'coz it's not from a movie but i got so freaked out when i was young by this donald duck cartoon where he gets zapped by a light-bulb and gets the power of electricity and his face goes all demonic and evil with pointy teeth and stuff and he starts chanting "power. powwwer". scared the crap out of me. if it's the same one that you saw Me? then i'm giving up and going home.

[Orang Utan]

I've been wanting to catch all of Takeshi Miike's films but after seeing the first half of Agitator, I don't think I'm gonna bother.
Visitor Q and Dead Or Alive are worth a look though - absolute mayhem!

[Paddy]

i want to see this - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354668/
save the green planet. it looks great. david icke stylee!

[Me?]

Originally posted by r_v


hmmm, wierd coincidence. i didn't mention this before 'coz it's not from a movie but i got so freaked out when i was young by this donald duck cartoon where he gets zapped by a light-bulb and gets the power of electricity and his face goes all demonic and evil with pointy teeth and stuff and he starts chanting "power. powwwer". scared the crap out of me. if it's the same one that you saw Me? then i'm giving up and going home.

No the one I saw was were he was making an aeroplane by the instructions he is given on the radio, anyway he takes his finished plane for a fly and then the voice comes over the radio saying 'you must not take it out in the rain' then obvoiusly a black cloud goes over poor old Donald and it starts raining, his plane starts melting and he is on the wings rolling them out with a rolling pin and really freaking out. Yes I know it sounds silly but it really did my head in, I can still see that plane melting today when I think about it!

[thomas hooked]

yes! yes! i rmember them both!

[Me?]

Originally posted by Orang Utan
I've been wanting to catch all of Takeshi Miike's films but after seeing the first half of Agitator, I don't think I'm gonna bother.
Visitor Q and Dead Or Alive are worth a look though - absolute mayhem!

I love his films, Visitor Q is my favourite so far but Audtion was good too, as was Gozu. I saw Zebraman the other night and that was brilliant, the piss take of Sadako and the well from Ringu was hilarious! I have been meaning to get round to One Missed Call but havnt had chance yet. I am not so into the Yakuza ones though, although saying that I havnt seen many of his Yakuza films.

[Paddy]

i love his yakuza efforts. i really wanna see gozu. gypsy cream got me takashi miikes filmography, called agitator, for my b'day last year, which i've almost read cover to cover. there's a lot of his work i can't wait to see but there's also a lot i don't think i'll bother with. btw he shot visitor q in 1 week! has anyone seen the happiness of the katakuris? i loved that film.

[Sheridan]

the exorcist. end of story.

[Me?]

Originally posted by nik-nak
i love his yakuza efforts. i really wanna see gozu. gypsy cream got me takashi miikes filmography, called agitator, for my b'day last year, which i've almost read cover to cover. there's a lot of his work i can't wait to see but there's also a lot i don't think i'll bother with. btw he shot visitor q in 1 week! has anyone seen the happiness of the katakuris? i loved that film.

If you want to catch Gozu then do a search on those links I sent you, its bound to be there. Happiness of the Katakuris is one I have but havnt seen yet.
Its not surprising he shot visitor Q in a week, hes done so many films I dont know where he gets the time! That Lady had a lot of lactating to do in 1 week!

[Orang Utan]

The Exorcist is weird - first time I saw it I was 17 and it was quite scary but only for the shocks rather than the atmosphere.
The second time I saw it was a hoot and I couldn't understand why I'd ever found it scary.

I think you have to have had a religious upbringing to find Exorcist rally scary.

[May Kasahara]

I dunno about that Orang - I find it very scary and my upbringing was completely non-religious (unless you count hardcore 80s feminism). The second time I saw it at the cinema, it was the director's cut with the spiderwalk restored - even though I knew it was coming, it still frightened the hell out of me in a really physical way, like a hard punch in the chest. My best friend, sitting next to me, had no idea it was coming - she jumped about a foot off her seat. Ha ha ha, that was bad of me!

[May Kasahara]

Originally posted by r_v
the bit in terminator when reece and connor think the terminator has been taken out in the lorry crash and he reappears in robot form. that's a real "look behind you!" moment. i've always found stop-frame really sinister for some reason.

Yeah, that shot when it's dragging down the hallway after them as they're trying to get the door shut is fucking horrible.

[thomas hooked]

i actually think the exorcist's a pretty intelligent, sensitive film.

[Paddy]

the exorcist 3, when the freaky old lady's crawling over the ceiling in the hospital. *shudders*

[djerome]

the truckdriver ghost scene in pee wee's big adventure scared everyone in the theatre. the way the lady's face turned all insane with claymation, it really worked.

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by djerome
the truckdriver ghost scene in pee wee's big adventure scared everyone in the theatre. the way the lady's face turned all insane with claymation, it really worked.

that scene haunted me for a while when I was a kid. I still wince when I see it as an adult.

[KaOz]

Audition.....

when she rapes the man in the end

[May Kasahara]

Thanks KaOz, you've ruined the ending for me (for when I finally get around to watching it).