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Archive through January 10, 2004

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Melfie1222

Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For those of us who love a good creepy movie, anyone want to post their favorite scary movies or scenes? I'll start with a few:

Silence of the Lambs - the scene where Clarice has tracked down Buffalo Bill, is in his basement looking for him, and ends up in a completely dark room with him while he puts on his night vision goggles to watch her. yikes.

The Shining - lots of scenes, but mostly any scene where Danny is tooling around the hotel in his Big Wheel and comes across all sorts of creepy stuff...

The Sixth Sense - what I thought was the first really creepy scene in this movie, when Cole gets up one night to go the bathroom, you see him from behind, in the hallway... and a person or whatever it is sort of flashes by in front of you. yikes.

Curiouscat

Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 7:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember going on one of the first movie dates with my boyfriend (many moons ago) to see Creepshow II. I lept out of my seat and nearly ripped his arm off during this one part. Anyone who has seen this show will know which part when I say, "Thanks for the ride, lady."

Jed245

Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, thanks for the ride. :o) I loved that movie Curiouscat.

The all time scariest movie I've ever seen is The Exorcist. That freaked me out!! I dare anyone to watch that movie in it's entirety alone at night. Then sit in a dark room for an hour and say they weren't a little freaked. :o)

Stir of Echos was kinda creepy too.

Phantasm part one had alot of startling moments in it. Not really scary, but, it'd make ya jump.

Jed.

Happymom

Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Ring, Panic Room, The Hitcher was somewhat creepy/scary (I think that's the name, Rutger Hauer was the star)

ITA about that scene in Silence of the Lambs

Curiouscat

Friday, November 07, 2003 - 5:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jed, I rented the new DVD version of The Exorcist a couple years ago, and it was really freaky to see the subliminal visions of the demon in some scenes. DVDs can capture so much more fine details like that. Slow-motion and freezing the image caused the hair to rise on the back of my neck.

I think I was scared more as a kid though when watching this type of movie. The Mysterious Monsters - the Bigfoot part - made me very scared to go to bed for months. There was another movie I think called Tarantulas where this whole town was taken over by these spiders that creeped me out. I have a couple broken recollections of scary movies I watched on my grandparents' couch while I pretended to sleep: one was about a voodoo doll that came to life ... then there was also one where a guy turned into a snake (Ssssss was the name?)

Carrie92

Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll never watch the Exorcist again! Blair Witch freaked me out. The most recent one that I liked was Signs.
I don't like scary movies all that much so I tend to go for the less evil, tamer ones - which is why I liked Signs.

Well, I take that back, I do like scary movies, but I like being able to sleep at night a little better! I'm one of those people that's a bit afraid of the dark, so if a movie scares me too much I have to sleep with a light on, and then it's still hard!

Mamie316

Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 8:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I like the scary movies that hint at something bad going to happen instead of showing everything. There was this scary tv movie once with Karen Black called "Trilogy of Terror" and we were pretty freaked after watching the zuni fetish doll episode. There was also a tv movie with Kim Darby about little people who came out of the fireplace and that was freaky!

Carrie92

Monday, November 10, 2003 - 9:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
When I was young I saw one at a slumber party called The Dolls, something like that - and when I go to someone's house that collects dolls, it still wierds me out! Those eyes are just creepy.

Mamie316

Monday, November 10, 2003 - 11:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One of the scariest scenes is in Poltergeist when the boy sees the clown is missing and looks under the bed.....creepy clowns!

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ooooooh Curious and Mamie, ya'll taking me back old school!!

Ssssssss starred Strother Martin, that was a spookster. And Mamie, Trilogy of Terror remains the shizznit! Especially when she became the doll at the end and was stabbing the floor with that knife, waiting for her mother. I always tell my mother about that, just to keep her in line, lol!!

And the Kim Darby movie was called Don't Be Afraid of the Dark....that's up there with Bad Ronald for the creepiest movie.

Mamie316

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OOh Babygirl, she looked frightening!We used to torture my little sister with that movie because it totally freaked her out. All we had to say was Mr.ZuniFetish and she would start crying. Once she was in the bathroom and we slid a butter knife under the door real fast like in the movie, needless to say, we were in BIG trouble for that one! But for the life of me, I can not remember the other 2 stories in Trilogy of Terror!

Jed245

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Curiouscat... Very good!! ssss was the name of that movie. A man and his girlfriend were driving through a desserted town out in the uhh dessert oddly enough. They stopped at a gas station and one of many many snakes that were there bit him on the hand.

Then his hand started turning into a snake. Then he did at the end of the movie. The king that conan was trying to kill also turned into a snake.

The exorcist was far and away the scariest movie I've ever seen. Serpent and the rainbow was kinda freaky too. That whole movie is based on an investigation done by a real reporter. And said to be for the most part true.


Speaking of clowns Mamie... IT was also kinda scary. Just the part where the little boy lost his boat and the clown was trying to get him to come down into the sewer. FREAKY

I had a clown nightmare ya know.... I don't like scary clowns. :o)

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
(Hangs head in shame, 'cause I'm so pathetic that I acutally know all about Trilogy of Terror)

The first and third were the best. Anyway, the first one had to do with a dowdy teacher who would sleep with her male students....after she got bored she would kill them, keeping a scrapbook of their death notices.

The second one had to do with a girl who had a split personality....prim Millicent/slutty Therese.

Of course, you know about #3, Amelia.

Damn, this was a great movie!!

Mamie316

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Speaking of scary clowns, Tim Curry as the clown in IT when he comes out of the shower drain! Yikes!

Lycanthrope

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The entire uncut movie, "Aswang". Creepy, gory, and in the words of Joe Bob Briggs, "This movie is NASTY!".

Blacksheep

Monday, January 05, 2004 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Best Horror/Slasher Film since the original TCM is House of 1000 Corpses directed by Rob Zombie. The overall visual aspect of this film is in your face once the killing begins - it doesn't give you any down time to 'feel' comfortable - it just keeps coming and coming. The intensity gives this film a 5 star rating in my opinion. If you like gor or a fan of horror, it is a must see!
Also love the use of rough & jump cuts throughout the film (esp during lunatic character introduction). The film doesn't follow the typical horror formula to a T - in this regard its use of female protagonists elevates this film from that of the typical male idenitified monster to everyone except the victims - no one is safe in this film.

Some of my other favorites:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Night of the Living Dead (original)
Psycho (original)
Exorcist (1 & 3) - fav scene in 3 - decapitation snipet in the asylum (about a 2-3 second shot)
Amityville Horror
The Shining
Halloween
Silence of the Lambs
Hellraiser
Evil Dead
Wrong Turn
Event Horizon

I'll leave it as that - I didn't start watching horror until I was about 14 and since then it has become one of my favorite genres - right along with sci-fi/fantasy and action/adventure. And yes, I'm one of the few female fans of the genre typically directed towards male audiences.

Whoami

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 4:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The first and most terrifying movie for me was Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte. I remember seeing it in the theatre. My aunt took us to see it, and we arrived late; just in time for a head to be getting chopped off and rolling towards the screen. I remember I was sure That head was rolling right down the theatre's aisle right towards us.

I was all of six years old (what my aunt was doing taking children this young to a horror movie, I'll never figure out). I still had the bad habit of sucking my thumb (I guess I was a pretty insecure child). As a security device, I had a section of sheet that was torn so there was a nice soft fringe. I wrapped the sheet around my hand in a manner that I could stroke my nose with that fringe as I sucked my thumb.

After seeing Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, I was cured of sucking my thumb because I was certain someone would come along and chop off my head or hands while I was asleep. In order to protect myself from this unseen attacker, I had to hide my hands under the covers, and pull the covers up to my neck, tucking them tightly around my neck. I therefore couldn't get said thumb to mouth because everything was tucked safely under the covers. And of course I couldn't just tuck my head under the covers, cause then I couldn't breathe!

Wow, 40 some odd years later, and that is still such a vivid memory! Even long after I was old enough to realize nobody was going to come and chop off my head and hands, I slept like that with the covers. I suppose it was a long gradual evolution to have my hands out from under the covers. But even now I feel very cozy and secure to have the blankets tucked up around my neck! I can even remember seeing a friend in the grocery store, and she was sucking her thumb. She said something about how her mom was trying to get her to stop. And I very wisely suggested she go see that movie!

Tashakinz

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 11:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with the creepy knives on pipes sound...it had me crawling into my boyfriend's lap...which was probably his intent at the time lol.

Marysafan

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn. If you have seen the movie, then you know which scene, if not, I don't want to spoil it for you. BTW, if you haven't seen it, you should!

Texannie

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG!!!! I was traumatized for years by that movie. I actually had someone grab me during that scene!!!!!!!!!

Mamie316

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Someone grabbed you during that scene, now that would traumatize you! My dh then boyfriend grabbed my arm during the final scene in Carrie when her hand comes out of the grave. I could've killed him! Of course, I did go on to marry him so I don't know what that says about me.

Tashakinz

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
lol Mamie - I wonder how many of us have bonded with our future hubbies over horror movies. = )

Ketchuplover

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
BOO :)

Naja

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One of the creepiest scenes I have ever seen in a movie was the scene in Hannibal, towards the end, at the dinner table when Hannibal was..well..preparing and serving the main course to Ray Liotta. That is the only movie scene I have ever watched that I had my hands over my mouth gagging.

Kimmo

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 11:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I totally avoid watching scary/creepy movies-- I'm a wimp! I can't bring myself to watch "Halloween"-- The music scares me. :) I watched "Carrie" when I was 16 and the hand probably is my vote for scariest thing that I have seen onscreen.

Actually, I'm pretty sure in the past 3 years I watched a movie that creeped me out so much I had to keep all the lights on for a couple days. I'll have to remember what it was-- Obviously I blocked it out from fright!

My DH "forced" me to watch "The Exorcist," I was surprised at how not creeped out I was! I watched "Blair Witch Project" a year after all the hype-- My BIL's description scared me more than watching it. That was disappointing.

Maybe the movie that has creeped me out the most from beginning to end was "Sybil." The flashback scenes are so dismal and creepy, and the part where she is forced to kiss her grandmother.... Shudder. Or am I just remembering this from the book?