Really genuinely dead dead scary films

[jodal]

The Vanishing. (original)

Yes!

 

[In Bloom]

actullay urotsukidoji is a horror film ... it's more and more dubious sequal became more porn like but the original was ment to stand alone as a horror with all the brutality in it

a review by Hentai Neko

Oh, okay then, that would explain a lot. I'm not a big fan of hentai, even as a form of entertainment, entirely too much rape and brutality, IMO.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

oh yes i'd be a little disturbed by anyone who actully masturbated through urotsukidoji

it's certianly not the same type of film as buttobi cpu even if it is classed as the same genre

 

[jodal]

The films that have disturbed me have all been mentioned:
The Vanishing (original)
Carrie (That shower scene freaks me out)
Funny Games (the 10min scene with with parents crying is fucking harrowing)
In the Mouth of Madness (Sam Neil)
Event Horizon (Sam Neil again!)

However, I watched the scariest film I have ever seen last week at a preview screening. It was called An American Haunting and it is seriously the best horror film (in the classical sense of the word) I have seen for ages. Its a pretty run-of-the-mill story but it is done in a way that just grabs you by the throat from the beginning and squeezes all the way through.

Here is link: IMDB

Oh and its got two classic horror actors in it putting in a good turn as well:
Siccy Spacek - Carrie
Donald Sutherland - Don't Look Now

 

[Orang Utan]

He he he i do that all the time too!!

kirikirikirikirikirikiri

 

[Dask]

The Vanishing. (original)

Is this the one?

Spoorloos

 

[jodal]

Is this the one?

Spoorloos

Yep thats the one. Watched it on Film Four ages ago and its fucking scary. The remake is a pile of old shite though.

 

[May Kasahara]

I like films that are creepy/suspenseful rather than gory.

In particular:

The Shining
The Others
Dark Water (Japanese)
Paperhouse
Alien

Then you might like Session 9, it's creepy as fuck (with a little splash of gore to add flavour). Don't worry that David Caruso is in it, he's not camp like he is in CSI: Miami.

 

[jodal]

Then you might like Session 9, it's creepy as fuck (with a little splash of gore to add flavour). Don't worry that David Caruso is in it, he's not camp like he is in CSI: Miami.

I thought that was pretty average. Straight-to-video craap. David Caruso is a bit of a ginga legend though imho.

 

[Dask]

Yep thats the one. Watched it on Film Four ages ago and its fucking scary. The remake is a pile of old shite though.

Cool, I've never seen it. Look forward to though.

Do those online DVD rental sites carry alot of foreign films?

 

[Orang Utan]

Cool, I've never seen it. Look forward to though.

Do those online DVD rental sites carry alot of foreign films?

You can have my VHS copy if you want it?

 

[Dask]

You can have my VHS copy if you want it?

That would be fantastic!!

 

[Orang Utan]

No problem - you out and about this weekend?

 

[May Kasahara]

I thought that was pretty average. Straight-to-video craap. David Caruso is a bit of a ginga legend though imho.

It doesn't have much of a plot, it's true, but I quite liked that about it, and I loved the atmosphere.

 

[Dask]

No problem - you out and about this weekend?

Not sure at this stage, still trying to recover from last night.

 

[Orang Utan]

I feel like crap - ended up drinking Becherovka til 3 - d'oh!

Ooh this is nice, you, me and May on the same thread.

(Sorry, as you were, everybody else)

 

[jodal]

It doesn't have much of a plot, it's true, but I quite liked that about it, and I loved the atmosphere.

Yeah I can see that. It felt like the director knew what he was doing but was working with a below par script and some pretty crappy actors (bar Caruso) and just tried to make the best of it.

 

[May Kasahara]

From what I understand, the film was built around the location - the writer and director just loved the Danvers Asylum so much, they decided to make a film around it and worked up the script from there. I dunno, usually it bugs me if things aren't wrapped up neatly by the end of a film, but I really enjoyed the fact that it seems like the plot is building towards some big end-of-movie revelation and then actually it turns out just to be a load of averages joes freaking out about their shit lives.

 

[kage]

I've heard that T.H.R.E.A.D.S is supposed to be horrific but i've never found the bloody thing.

 

[Reg Perrin]

"The Haunting" the original version is one of the spookiest films I've ever seen. As for really scary, these weren't really films, but in the 70's there were a few years were the Beeb made made for TV "Films" called "A ghost story for Christmas" I remember shitting myself at them.

 

[Groucho]

TheBlair Witch Project
Don't Look Now
Suspiria

 

[madamv]

It depends on what gets you scared. Hammer is a classic scary trend but not if you dont let yourself go and forget the seventies feel. 'The house that bled to death' gave me nightmares for ages as I was only about 9!

If you like old movies - The pit and the pendulum, (1961) got Vincent Price and its a Poe so amazing.

My mum is the queen of scary movies.. her recommendation is Psycho. Classic.

All the Hellraisers are wonderful.

but if its visual scares you need.... The Ring, Pet Cemetary, The Shining, Dead End, Ninth Gate....

Enjoy the back of your couch!!

 

[Flashman]

The one that shit me up the most as a kid was a fucking Screen Test animated short. Some old chap is in bed and hears a noise, he goes to investigate and sees the Grim Reaper slowly walking up the stairs, as the Reaper gets closer the old man backs away and away until he falls backwards out of the window and dies.

Fucking hell that had me shitting it for weeks after. Saw Halloween as a kid and that did the same.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

just saw pet sematery (i think thats how they spelt it) and yoy know summin? it sucked... i did like the humor of the rendly ghost but the rest really sucked

 

[Orang Utan]

I've heard that T.H.R.E.A.D.S is supposed to be horrific but i've never found the bloody thing.

Do you mean Threads, the nuclear apocalypse TV movies set in Sheffield?
Out on DVD on 5th September

 

[stereotypical]

Watched The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (the 1919 original) and I have to admit it did freak me out like.

Yeah I know its silent and stuff but seriously it did get me on edge.

A must for all horror fans

 

[EatMoreChips]

Watched The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (the 1919 original) and I have to admit it did freak me out like.

Yeah I know its silent and stuff but seriously it did get me on edge.

A must for all horror fans

Redmoon Theater Company did a version of that with puppets that we saw earlier this year. Absolutely the weirdest thing I've seen recently. Fantastic...


Finally got round to watching Audition, but even though it was sufficiently gross, it didn't really make much sense. So why was she such a nutter?

(I was quite drunk by the end. Maybe I missed it...)

 

[purves grundy]

(I was quite drunk by the end. Maybe I missed it...)

Nah, it's pretty overrated

 

[Jayshat]

I can't even cope with Hammer Horror and I've never recovered from going to see Carrie when it came out...all those decades later and I'm still scarred (and scared).

I saw Hammer's 'House of Blood' or 'House that bleeds' whatever it was called when I was about 11 - blood coming out of the pipes in the ceiling etc - for about 6 months after, I would stare at the ceiling expecting pipes to start spurting, shitting a brick.

I soooo should not have been watching it - lax dadding at the time - but hey, when you have an older brother that's what happens.

Do not watch alone:
Japanese Ringu or Carrie

 

[jugularvein]

i saw lost boys when i was 5

they're maggots michael!

fuck me was that mean of my bros. yeah come and watch this.... took about two years i think.

seems silly from when i last watched it