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⌈ Secret Post #2028 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry you haven't seen many good horror movies. :(

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Tell me some good ones and I'll tell you if I've seen them and what I thought. :) Or I'll go watch them - hey, if we can turn this bit here into a horror movie rec thread, that would be awesome.

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[(Anonymous)]

Have you seen Grave Encounters?

I thought it was really well done.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have not! Yay, new movie to watch. :)

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[(Anonymous)]

Wtf that's not scary at all.

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[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I thought it was. Well, extremely unsettling at the very least.

Ymmv and all.

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[oroburos69]

A Tale of Two Sisters is the scariest horror film I've ever seen.

Is OP

[(Anonymous)]

Vaguely horrifying but it wasn't frightening. :( Good, though.

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[enjoythesilence]

That movie confused me more than anything. I don't ~get the ending.

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[oroburos69]

Spoilers!: She was hallucinating her sister and the step-mother (who was her mother's nurse, and I don't believe actually married her father). So everything that either of them did, she was doing. And because what she was doing was crazy, she got put back in the hospital.

As for the back story, her mother commit suicide, and her little sister found her. The little sister pulled the wardrobe down on herself trying to get their mother down, and slowly suffocated to death. The nurse found the little sister, but decided to let her die.

Though the thing below the cupboards...yeah, there may have been some actual haunting going on, too.

It's a confusing movie, but I liked it.

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[(Anonymous)]

The scariest movies I can name off the top of my head... The Descent, High Tension, Hellraiser, The Orphanage, Event Horizon....

Is OP, again

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, Descent I will give you (that's the one where they go into the unmapped cave and all slowly go crazy, right?). That was indeed creepy as fuck.

The Orphanage I have not seen, but I am looking forward to that one too. :) Thank you~

The other three ranged (for me) from kind of eh to fun, but none of them were scary, strictly speaking. Although I really liked Event Horizon.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, The Descent is with the woman caving group that gets trapped in an unmapped cave system with the freaky monsters. One of my favorites. The sequel is not quite as creepy, but comes close, especially with the anticipation you get from the first one.

Oh, and also, I haven't been able to get through the trailer for The Strangers without being completely creeped out. Won't watch the movie. Ever.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'd argue that The Orphanage isn't especially scary... but that doesn't stop it from being a pretty great movie!

(Though I guess my sister thought it was pretty terrifying, so YMMV.)

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[(Anonymous)]

I love American Werewolf in London. Halloween (original) still scares the crap out of me. Jaws, I've seen maybe thirty times and even though the mechanical shark is awful in places, it can still make me jump. Alien, I have actual trouble watching. Poltergeist, oh my God, that damn clown freaks me out even thinking about it. But you've probably seen all of these.

Is OP, again

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I like hearing opinions of things I've seen, too. :D It's all good. (And yep, I have seen them all. Love horror movies.)

I loved American Werewolf in London, too, but again - not scary. :(

Jaws was more - how do I put this, it was nervewracking the first time around but after that it was just a great movie (multiple viewings, suspense gone).

Halloween, again, suspenseful the first time around but not objectively
frightening, same for Poltergeist.

Alien I love so very much as a movie (and Aliens, the third and fourth installments in the series not so much). They aren't frightening, per se, now that I've seen them, but they're exciting. If that makes sense.

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[fingalsanteater]

It's hard to rec "horror movies" I think you might like because it depends on what scares you. Like, for example, I can barely even watch comedy-horror films like Shaun of the Dead or Fido because just the concept of a world overrun by zombies freaks me out. Similarly, pretty much anything unhuman looking or sounding is guaranteed to scare me.

So. hm. What would be frightening about Jurassic Park? (It's frightening in the dark/all the dinosaurs are running wild/someone let T.Rex out of his pen... sorry, had to get Weird Al in there.) Large carnivorous animals that can't be reasoned with, fear of being eaten alive, loss of control and the fear of being afraid, no real ability to fight back, being trapped, close encounters with death?

Maybe, Cujo, The Thing (1982), The Mist, Tremors...

Like I said, kind of difficult to rec.

Is OP

[(Anonymous)]

Weird Al! \o/

Hey, you and I know very little about each other, so it would be near impossible for me to guess what you would like or vice versa. Very good point. I'm just curious now about what other people - you, in this instance - think is a GOOD horror movie, because even if they're not scary second (third, fifth, eighteenth) time around, I still like a lot of them (like I said upthread - Event Horizon, Alien, Aliens... wait, there's a theme there).

I'm not sure what, specifically, is terrifying about Jurassic Park. It's specific to the first movie, too; the other two were not as frightening. Tiny eyes, big teeth, super creepy, oh, it's going to eat you, and it's faster than you are, while you are in a car. I just... yeah. The whole ground-shaking thing as the T-Rex came closer was - it makes me want to hide behind something. Or under something. (Which did Gennaro no good! I might add.) Possibly also the concept of Hi, these animals are hunting you, in packs. So creepy. I am not used to being hunted. This is why I live in the Midwest. There is nothing here inclined to hunt people (other than other people, potentially, which is beside the point).

Ummmm, The Thing - oh, the one with the parasite. There was the 2011 prequel to the '82 film. Right. Definitely creepy, definitely horrifying, loved it, but the suspense doesn't hold up under repeat viewings (this is not to say it's a bad movie, or a worse movie, just that it is objectively less frightening, if that makes sense?).

Cujo I have not seen (will look for it, though, so thank you!). The rec is much appreciated. :)

The Mist - this might make me a horrible person, but I kind of laughed at the end, and the things IN the mist were more frightening when they couldn't be seen clearly.

Also Tremors. Oh, Tremors. The very embodiment of the 90s. Not frightening, but oh so very fun.

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[(Anonymous)]

Stephen King's It freaks me the fuck out. When I watched it as a kid I was terrified to go near drains afterwards. Even watching it as an adult the clown scares the crap out of me. And the Deadlights...the Deadlights!

Is OP

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, yeah, that was creepy as fuck when I first saw it. Not AS creepy later, but yeah, clowns, not fun.

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[shinysylver]

I love horror movies (both good and bad) but I know what you mean about a lot of them not being scary. I usually respond to the music and the setting by being creeped out or shocked when I am supposed to be (at least the first time) but sometimes I just get amused instead. In fact nothing is funnier than a bad horror movie.

That being said, for years I couldn't make it all the way through Pet Cemetery. Something about children and pets and people coming back from death wrong just freaked me out. As a kid I was terrified of Watcher in the Woods even though its not really meant to be that scary, but the suspense and the imagery in it really got in my head.

Usually, for me to be truly scared by a movie I need to feel an element of believability , like it could happen to me (even if it's fantastical). I also need to not be shown everything. Too many movies ruin the effect by showing me a monster when the unknown was much more terrifying. As much as I love a good slasher flick, a suspenseful film is more likely to stick with me long term.

All that aside, I love Jurassic Park and I love the way it took this magical thing and twisted it in such a scary way. Excellent film. I really want to rewatch it now.

Is OP

[(Anonymous)]

Right? Right? They show the monster and then it's less creepy. Pet Cemetery was more along the lines of horrifying than frightening, though, for me. I was not a fan of that one. :( That having been said, explorations of Coming Back Wrong (if done right, and I can't think of an example at the moment) can be really good.

Yes, go rewatch! :D Go forth!

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[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

I found The Haunting (the 1963 B&W film-- ACCEPT NO REMAKES) wonderfully creepy, though by modern standards it may seem awfully slow to some viewers.

Is OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah? I will go look for it. Slowly increasing the tension can be incredibly nervewracking when properly done. Thanks!

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm hard to scare - I have a tendency to annoy people by falling asleep during classic horror movies - but Sphere and The Watch (2008) creeped me out like anything.