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I found Hostel gross but not actually scary.
Lol I can't take that film seriously because I watched it in my Film Studies class last year and we all just took the piss out of it. It was kinda wierd and freaky when you see all those people in animal costumes wondering around the town though.
The freakiest thing somehow is that scene where (is it Britt Ekland?) is banging on the wall trying to seduce him....dunno...just seems eery!!
Ooooo....Straw Dogs is freaky AS too.....amazing film!!! :thumb:
I seem to remember a pretty awful and extended rape scene in it which I do know has been isolated in a lot of feminist theory as being misogynistic and depicting the wife character enjoying the rape. At least I think that is this film. You've seen it, I assume? What's your view?
Now though, i found what lies beneath not scary as such, but really jumpy. (Think thats the right film... where she's paralysed in the bath?).
Hostel was pretty damn grim!!! The bit where he gets off the chair to walk out the door after having tghe back of his ankles cut proper made me cringe
It was a chain
But yes,he really wanted to watch THAT film. I wasn't allowed to watch my choice - Ice Age 2!!!!!!!!!!! Now I know why!
You know how it got that reputation? The censors cut it to shit, and the bits they left in made it look like she was enjoying it. A classic example of why censors shouldn't exist when it comes to 18-rated films. One accusation is that the film makes out that she encourages it though (she appears topless in front of them in the window, knowing they're looking on, for example), and it's obvious that there is some history between the characters.
I think I actual laughed quite hard at that death as it was sooo far fetched.
The first Saw film did creep me out a bit though (mainly the cutting the foot off scene)
Man same ere .. when i was younger ...
Don't worry you're not the only one, that scared the crap outta me! Granted I was home alone sat in the dark, that always makes a difference. I'm a wimp when it comes to horrors, especially ones about ghostly things. The bit where they go into a room at night and theres the old lady is it? Sat on the floor and she goes crazy or something, there was a doll involved i think..... I can hardly remember what happened but fuck did that scare me.
I have a thing about horror films, i seem to like to torture myself with them. I reallly want to watch them, but then i do and im terrified and most the time I have to put the light on. Then afterwards I'm even more scared. So I tell myself Im never watching one again. But then I do. Kind of like when you have a hangover and say you're never drinking again, but the next day there you are in the pub! It's a love/hate thing.
Does anyone else find ghost/supernatural films more scary than slasher style films? I think it's cuz i sort of believe in those things and if they are real they're like something you can't escape. A secure house won't keep out the ghouls..... fuck i'm scaring myself just thinking about it :shocking:
Woooooooooooooooooo
And yeah, The Others is that one where Nicole Kidman turns goes to grab her kid, and realises she's turned into an old woman.
The mother (Nicole Kidman) goes into the room where her daughter is sitting on the floor playing with a puppet doll facing away from her. She's got a white veil over her head. Then she turns round to face the mother and it's actually this old horrible looking woman. That's the only really creepy bit in that film though.
Ooops, I replied before i saw I'm With Stupid's post.
I didn't really find the movie scary but the atmosphere was horrid. I went to the last showing at the cinema on a weekend with my sister and a friend. When we got there they were shuting the doors ready to close up and looked disappointed we had come along. We bought tickets and the staff all left except one. So we went to the screen as the only customers in the entire cinema. We sat near the screen but that was too scary because when we turned around the guy had his head in the projection window staring at us! That made me so nervous so we sat at the back. When we left he had gone and it was just a security guard at the door to let us out, all the doors had been locked and the lights turned off. We had to leave in the pitch black.
Actually scary films, Im a wimp and would have to say Saw. While pan's labyrinth had me shivering. That horrid monster with the eyes in his hands uttely terrified me. There was also that guy at the start who was stapped repeatedly. I found that quite gruesome even if you didn't get to see much on screen.
It's one of the most mindblowing films I've ever seen but I really don't think I could watch it again.
I love oldboy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmJE3q7jPI
my favorite bit
The Alien movies are great for tense action and have a nice level of blood/guts thrown in for balance.
The old horror movies (The Omen, Exorcist, Poltergiest) were good at the time but I've watched them since and not as good or scary as I remember. Must be the old age.
I prefer the head fuck movies. The ones that keep you glued to the screen cause you have no real idea what's happening. Se7en was a great movie for that cause it was believable and Kevin Spacey was amazingly scary.
The Grudge and The Ring (And I'm talking about the original Japanese versions here not them crappy Hollywood remakes) touch every raw nerve in your body and have your mind wandering for a while afterwards. Highly recommended if you don't mind watching in Japanese with English subtitles. You can get the DVD's with English dubbed over the top but it loses some of it's atmosphere I think.
Stephen King's IT for me was one of the most scariest things I ever watched and the book was even scarier as it delved into the mind a little bit more. I'm gonna have to hunt out my copy and make the wife sit down and watch it one night as I don't believe she has ever had the delight.
You talking about the remake or the original Japanese version?
Each to their own I suppose. Isn't that what makes life so interesting?
Poltergiest gave me the fucking willies too. I remember in the last day of 3rd year Geography our teacher let us either watch Poltergiest or Four Weddings, and every cunt and their dog voted for Poltergiest. There's something about little kids in horror films that gives me the heeby jeebies big stylee :grump:
What freaked me out was when the little girl was missing and the parents were asking where she was and that voice when she answered was spooooooky.
IT I found horrible as well - but that's because clowns are fundamentally scary if you ask me.
Briggi, well worth checking out Straw Dogs. Definately one of Peckinpah's best. It's uncomfortable and nasty but most modern femininst film theory sees the uncut version as a particularly realisitic view of a complex rape. As mentioned the BBFC's cuts to the scene essentially throw together two sexual acts - one that had a level of consent, one that is rape. By cutting most of the transition they managed to make it look like the rape was both buggery and consented to.
Mind you thats not to say the film isn't mysognisitc - but then that's the whole point - it's a film about a mysgonist and the ruin that brings him. When drinking Peckinpah could find some truth in his films, even if he didn't realise he was doing it.
Anyway, back on topic again - I'd agree with others who mentioned Wolf Creek - I guess what I really hate is that sense of utter hopelessness that Wolf Creek and TCM both have.