Ive never actually filled my keks, but....

[Guest Wallace]

...these ARE scarry movies:

(Please - no gore schlock movies)

[Guest Wallace]

DARKLANDS

The Welsh Wicker Man.

Anyone seen?

Recommended??

[kinuta]

I've always thought The Exorcist was and still is unsurpassed in the horror genre.

Suspiria was also quite frightening on the big screen.

[Guest Wallace]

Suspira is being remade (or already is???).

By being frightening ON THE BIG SCREEN, you mean the blindman/agora(phobia) scene, right?

.......

I see your from Tokyo.

Have you perchance seen COME AND SEE?

THE UNINVITED is shoite. No proper treatment of atmoss there at all.

.........................

Seems everyone agrees that the Exorcist sort-of-spinoff, THE OMEN (UK-Hollywood) is the bee's knees.

Guess I will have to give it an honest try finally.

I vaguely remember seeing only a part of this decades ago. I couldnt watch it all - just wasnt interesting.

But now -what with all the hype maintaining that it just might be the best horror film ever- it deserves a reviewing on my part.

Edited August 2, 2010 by Wallace

[papsrus]

"The Ring"

A 10 on the scary scale. The original Japanese version is the one to see, but if you don't dig subtitles, the American version is pretty creepy, too.

The thing about "The Exorcist," and a lot of horror movies, is that after I've seen them once they become almost comical on subsequent viewings. Once I know what's coming, the films dissolve into sort of comedic self parody.

EDIT: took out the image cause it might be a bit of a spoiler. ...

Edited August 2, 2010 by papsrus

[Free For All]

"The Ring"

A 10 on the scary scale. The original Japanese version is the one to see, but if you don't dig subtitles, the American version is pretty creepy, too.

The thing about "The Exorcist," and a lot of horror movies, is that after I've seen them once they become almost comical on subsequent viewings. Once I know what's coming, the films dissolve into sort of comedic self parody.

EDIT: took out the image cause it might be a bit of a spoiler. ...

I worked as a projectionist in a movie theater in the 70s (my high school job). When The Exorcist came to the theater, it was scary the first couple times, then it actually became kind of funny after awhile. It was a shocker for that era, but the shock factor seems to have worn off with time.

[sidewinder]

The Welsh Wicker Man.

The original (Scottish) one is the best. With Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee (and Miss Eckland bashing on the wall ).

Edited August 2, 2010 by sidewinder

[Dave James]

When I was about nine years old, The Bride of Frankenstein put me on ice for about three days. Sleeping with the lights on...the whole nine yards. Of late, one movie I thought had some real moments was The Grudge.

[Quincy]

I worked as a projectionist in a movie theater in the 70s (my high school job). When The Exorcist came to the theater, it was scary the first couple times, then it actually became kind of funny after awhile. It was a shocker for that era, but the shock factor seems to have worn off with time.

I went to see Inception (ugh) yesterday and they had a preview for The Last Exorcism. I think the little girl needs a chiropractor more than a priest, as the horror of this movie seems to be that the devil causes major bone cracking to the possessed. I almost LOL'd it was so funny.

[Big Wheel]

When I was about nine years old, The Bride of Frankenstein put me on ice for about three days. Sleeping with the lights on...the whole nine yards. Of late, one movie I thought had some real moments was The Grudge.

For me it was actually Ghostbusters. I saw it for my 4th or 5th birthday and it scared the bejesus out of me. That scene where Slimer jumps out for the first time in the library traumatized me for life.

[Jazzmoose]

The first horror film I saw was the scariest. Some cheap flick called "The Crawling Hand". I'm sure it was pure crap, but at nine, it was horrifying! The only other thing I saw that scared me like that was the Night Gallery episode about the earwigs. Not the kind of thing you want to see as a kid on a hot summer night in Georgia, particularly when you look up at the ceiling and see a bunch of earwigs hanging over your head, just waiting... I slept with cotton balls in my ears for a week.

[Free For All]

The only other thing I saw that scared me like that was the Night Gallery episode about the earwigs.

Yes, that one freaked me out too. Loved Night Gallery.

[papsrus]

The only other thing I saw that scared me like that was the Night Gallery episode about the earwigs.

Yes, that one freaked me out too. Loved Night Gallery.

Hah! I remember that episode also.

There was another one where a guy had a painting of the house he lived in hanging in a hallway inside the house. I forget the storyline, but he did something bad -- maybe buried someone in the yard -- and at the end of the episode the painting kept changing every time he looked at it. It showed a dark figure (the person he buried in the yard?) getting closer and closer to the house, coming after him. Kinda gives me chills just thinking about it.