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Neehai Zapata

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02-16-2005 10:54

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CANDYMAN.

I was afraid to look in a mirror for months after that movie! Say it 5 times in the mirror, I dare ya!

I saw that movie i theatres and it scared the crap out of me. I had to drive home that night and didn't want to look in the rear view mirror for the entire ride home.

The Hitcher was a pretty scary flick when I saw it in the 80s. I haven't seen it since so I don't know how well it aged.

Of recent horror movies I thought Jeepers Creepers was pretty good. I appreciated that the kids were brother and sister instead of just two kids who like to fuck each other and do stupid shit to try and save the other. At least with a sibling it makes some of the more irrational actions seem more realistic.

Phantasm scared the shit out of me as a kid too with the creepy tall ma and those silver balls.

Misery was pretty suspenseful and creepy.

If you are a woman, I cannot imagine that Dead Ringers won't leave you a little squeamish. His special tools even creeped me out. Not to mention an incredible performance by Jeremy Irons as twin brothers.

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02-16-2005 11:15

Try the 1963 version of The Haunting.

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Arbel Vogel

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02-16-2005 11:25

Anyone seen or heard of Audition?

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02-16-2005 11:33

U mean this movie??
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295867/

Plot Summary for
Audition (1997)
A young actress is distraught when she never hears about an audition she went on. She begins stalking the film director and eventually capures him. This film is most widely known for a horrifying torture scene and other psychologically damaging scenes.

hmmm sounds like a winner to me! I will have ot check it out!

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Arbel Vogel

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02-16-2005 11:37

That's the one!

I'm scared to watch that, even though I haven't seen it....but the things that people said about it...the scenes that they described...*shivers*

I don't plan to watch it...at all

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02-16-2005 11:38

Yea here's one person's comments:

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User Comments:

Disgusting - 7 (worth the time), 14 February 2005

Author: jimboduck from Tokyo

Are you the person who would like to to have nightmares and an upset stomach for a week? Then rent AUDITION after taking your girl to dinner, if that's your thing. I have seen some pretty shocking movies in my day, but this movie tops the charts by a hypodermic long shot.

I saw the attractive lady on the cover-box of this DVD and said to myself, hey, I think I'll go Japanese for tonight. Thinking it was a movie about the entertainment industry, I comfortably settled down in my bed, got some snacks from the fridge and was to my chagrin immediately bored. For the first half-hour AUDITION is slow and colorless. It struggles to gain momentum and makes you want to flip the channel.

Ah yes, but like the snap of a mutant-chicken's neck, AUDITION turns into a psychotic gut-wrenching shock horror. There are disfigured humans, lots of hydrochloric acid, and enough samurai-sword whooshes to give your greenest high school football player a heart attack. Imagine every soft part of your body either being punctured, peeled, or infected, and that is AUDITION in a nutshell. That's really all there is to it. There's no storyline worth mentioning and no other emotion besides disgust featured in this movie.

I finished this movie wishing I could go back in time to the video store and choose something else. But AUDITION was like gastric boot camp or something, which makes for mental toughness (or psychosis), so I give this movie a 7 out of 10 for effectiveness.

JY

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Arbel Vogel

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02-16-2005 11:41

Yeah I just read that, you need to check out Amazon for thier reviews too...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000640S9/102-0273238-6400132?v=glance

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02-16-2005 12:22

Boxing Helena is really creepy. Not scary... just very disturbing.

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02-16-2005 12:32

Anything by M Night Shamalan His movies are just serious head trips I watched The Villiage last night it was awesome.

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Willow Zander

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02-16-2005 12:38

Audition is WAY creepy, I don't scare easy, I watched horror movies since I was 9, although one night after watching Nightmare on Elm St, my bro (who worked in a video store at the time) decided it would be fun to dress up his 6ft freddy cut out in a blade glove, and a hat and stand him in my bedroom doorway about 2am and throw stones at my window till i woke up and BOOM there was freddy, i was NINE ffs, or around that age, but i didn't put me off watching hte rest of the movies

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02-16-2005 12:55

From: Chip Midnight

Boxing Helena is really creepy. Not scary... just very disturbing.

That was one freaky movie, did I miss something or does the movie deliberately not let you know whether he took her to the hospital and saved her leg or amputated her arms & legs and kept her?

I was never sure which one was nightmare and which one reality.

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Chip Midnight

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02-16-2005 13:09

It leaves you guessing Rose. The ending really sucked. It's implied that it was all just a dream, which is by far the most cliche movie ending in the history of cinema! I'd forgotten about the way it ended.

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HoseQueen McLean

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02-18-2005 15:06

Thanks everyone!!!

I made a list of the ones suggested that I haven't seen, and it's huge! Perfect weekend for scary movies too - it's all dark and rainy and cold. Mmm

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02-18-2005 15:12

From: Arbel Vogel

That's the one!

I'm scared to watch that, even though I haven't seen it....but the things that people said about it...the scenes that they described...*shivers*

I don't plan to watch it...at all

I don't really like horror movies, but after Belaya made me watch this one I keep tryin to find my own copy. If you've had scenes described, it will probably not be so bad. I was expressly instructed to watch it without any prior knowledge of it, and.. that.. yeah. Audition would have been my only contribution here if it hadn't been pointed out already.

So, I will say The Vanishing and not the remake, but the original Dutch version.

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02-18-2005 21:09

Poor Cienna let me have a crack at her Netflix queue a few months ago and Audition and the Vanishing (original) were among them. I saw a few other good mentions here and there from others in this thread, Torely, of course, not surprising me at all for knowing Suspiria.

Here's a nice black and white movie night:

Eraserhead
Begotten
Un Chien Andalou
Tetsuo: The Iron Man

I'd suggest doing Audition, The Vanishing and maybe something light like Blue Velvet to start. If you're looking for outright violence there's always the legendary Men Behind the Sun, Cannibal Holocaust, Guinea Pig series, other films Takashi Miike (Audition) has done such as Ichi the Killer and Visitor Q. Some people find more out of the surrealist/exteme western-ish works of Alejandro Jodorowski alarming and frightening, such as The Holy Mountain and El Topo, though I found them simply more interesting if anything.

The Hitcher is one of my favorite films and soundtracks and is much more pedestrian, so that also gets a vote, too. I think Eraserhead and Begotten, back to back, though, is the closest thing to watching a nightmare as humanly possible, especially with the other two as lead-ups and some heavy drinking.

HoseQueen McLean

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02-18-2005 21:37

I've seen Suspiria! Has anyone seen Castle Freak? It was the same director, I believe.

**Edit - not the same director, I just checked. But I could have sworn there was some connection between the two.

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02-18-2005 21:52

The Ring scared me until the last 10 minutes, which sort of invalidated the scary factor for me.

Blair Witch Project remains the second scariest movie I've seen - I knew it was fake but I let my disbelief dribble away. (Yes, I realize people either love or hate that movie.)

The original Exorcist was scary, though I never saw the original theater version with the subliminal images.

13 Ghosts had some scary moments, but moments only.
Poltergeist was pretty scary, but I haven't seen it since I was a kid.
Jaws is scary but too much fun to quote to really scare me anymore. (I think we need a bigger boat!)

Fahrenheit 9/11 had to be the scariest movie I've ever seen, though, even if half the stuff was exaggerated.

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Beryl Greenacre

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02-19-2005 00:04

I'll have to echo Rose here and name The Exorcist as probably my ultimate scary movie for the same reason as she listed, being raised a good Roman Catholic. Incidentally, I just saw this news item about how the Vatican is currently facing a shortage of qualified exorcists. I had no idea this was something the Church was still doing.

Others that make my "most scary" list include The Hitcher (Rutger Hauer!) and Night of the Living Dead. I also got some good scares out of The Serpent and the Rainbow, a somewhat obscure Wes Craven film from the 80's.

I think my all-time favorite scary movie is The Shining. I've always been a big Stephen King fan. I think this is by far the best movie made from one of his books (though Misery is excellent, as well). The psychological horror of the Jack Nicholson character going slowly mad in that lonely, isolated inn in the wintertime Colorado Rockies is just so beautifully and terrifyingly done. Red rum!

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Raine Skye

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02-19-2005 00:12

Yeah well the only movie that has really, really scared me as of late would be The Grudge. Otherwise horror movies really do not scare me at all. My RL hubby hates me! HAHAHA lmao!!

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Bel Muse

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02-19-2005 00:44

I'll chime in on the Grudge. That movie just messed me up in some deep, unexplainable way. I literally was afraid to fall asleep that night. Even seeing the name of it gives me a chill. Something about the hair....*shudder*

Oh and Dead Ringers had one of the tensest, squirm in your seat , "what the hell is wrong with these people...someone get her out of there!" scenes ever filmed. That scene haunts me.

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02-19-2005 02:02

now dated and made for TV, 'Salems Lot', with those creepy child vampires scratching at your window...

Scariest Movies?
Neehai Zapata Unofficial Parent Join date: 8 Apr 2004 Posts: 1,970	02-16-2005 10:54 From: someone CANDYMAN. I was afraid to look in a mirror for months after that movie! Say it 5 times in the mirror, I dare ya! I saw that movie i theatres and it scared the crap out of me. I had to drive home that night and didn't want to look in the rear view mirror for the entire ride home. The Hitcher was a pretty scary flick when I saw it in the 80s. I haven't seen it since so I don't know how well it aged. Of recent horror movies I thought Jeepers Creepers was pretty good. I appreciated that the kids were brother and sister instead of just two kids who like to fuck each other and do stupid shit to try and save the other. At least with a sibling it makes some of the more irrational actions seem more realistic. Phantasm scared the shit out of me as a kid too with the creepy tall ma and those silver balls. Misery was pretty suspenseful and creepy. If you are a woman, I cannot imagine that Dead Ringers won't leave you a little squeamish. His special tools even creeped me out. Not to mention an incredible performance by Jeremy Irons as twin brothers. Invasion of the Body Snatchers Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer _____________________ Unofficial moderator and proud dysfunctional parent to over 1000 bastard children.
feniks Stone At the End of the World Join date: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 787	02-16-2005 11:15 Try the 1963 version of The Haunting. fen- _____________________ the gypsy that remains..
Arbel Vogel Burstin' w/Fruit Flavor Join date: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 1,155	02-16-2005 11:25 Anyone seen or heard of Audition?
Artillo Fredericks Friendly Orange Demon Join date: 1 Jun 2004 Posts: 1,327	02-16-2005 11:33 U mean this movie?? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295867/ Plot Summary for Audition (1997) A young actress is distraught when she never hears about an audition she went on. She begins stalking the film director and eventually capures him. This film is most widely known for a horrifying torture scene and other psychologically damaging scenes. hmmm sounds like a winner to me! I will have ot check it out! _____________________ "I, for one, am thouroughly entertained by the mass freakout." - Nephilaine Protagonist --== www.artillodesign.com ==--
Arbel Vogel Burstin' w/Fruit Flavor Join date: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 1,155	02-16-2005 11:37 That's the one! I'm scared to watch that, even though I haven't seen it....but the things that people said about it...the scenes that they described...shivers I don't plan to watch it...at all
Artillo Fredericks Friendly Orange Demon Join date: 1 Jun 2004 Posts: 1,327	02-16-2005 11:38 Yea here's one person's comments: From: Some guy User Comments: Disgusting - 7 (worth the time), 14 February 2005 Author: jimboduck from Tokyo Are you the person who would like to to have nightmares and an upset stomach for a week? Then rent AUDITION after taking your girl to dinner, if that's your thing. I have seen some pretty shocking movies in my day, but this movie tops the charts by a hypodermic long shot. I saw the attractive lady on the cover-box of this DVD and said to myself, hey, I think I'll go Japanese for tonight. Thinking it was a movie about the entertainment industry, I comfortably settled down in my bed, got some snacks from the fridge and was to my chagrin immediately bored. For the first half-hour AUDITION is slow and colorless. It struggles to gain momentum and makes you want to flip the channel. Ah yes, but like the snap of a mutant-chicken's neck, AUDITION turns into a psychotic gut-wrenching shock horror. There are disfigured humans, lots of hydrochloric acid, and enough samurai-sword whooshes to give your greenest high school football player a heart attack. Imagine every soft part of your body either being punctured, peeled, or infected, and that is AUDITION in a nutshell. That's really all there is to it. There's no storyline worth mentioning and no other emotion besides disgust featured in this movie. I finished this movie wishing I could go back in time to the video store and choose something else. But AUDITION was like gastric boot camp or something, which makes for mental toughness (or psychosis), so I give this movie a 7 out of 10 for effectiveness. JY _____________________ "I, for one, am thouroughly entertained by the mass freakout." - Nephilaine Protagonist --== www.artillodesign.com ==--
Arbel Vogel Burstin' w/Fruit Flavor Join date: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 1,155	02-16-2005 11:41 Yeah I just read that, you need to check out Amazon for thier reviews too... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000640S9/102-0273238-6400132?v=glance
Chip Midnight ate my baby! Join date: 1 May 2003 Posts: 10,231	02-16-2005 12:22 Boxing Helena is really creepy. Not scary... just very disturbing. _____________________ My other hobby: www.live365.com/stations/chip_midnight
Maeve Morgan ZOMG Resmod! Join date: 2 Apr 2004 Posts: 1,512	02-16-2005 12:32 Anything by M Night Shamalan His movies are just serious head trips I watched The Villiage last night it was awesome. _____________________ Located in Shark Everything under $100L
Willow Zander Having Blahgasms Join date: 22 May 2004 Posts: 9,935	02-16-2005 12:38 Audition is WAY creepy, I don't scare easy, I watched horror movies since I was 9, although one night after watching Nightmare on Elm St, my bro (who worked in a video store at the time) decided it would be fun to dress up his 6ft freddy cut out in a blade glove, and a hat and stand him in my bedroom doorway about 2am and throw stones at my window till i woke up and BOOM there was freddy, i was NINE ffs, or around that age, but i didn't put me off watching hte rest of the movies _____________________ *I'm not ready for the world outside...I keep pretending, but I just can't hide...* "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." <3 Giddeon's <3
Rose Karuna Lizard Doctor Join date: 5 Jun 2004 Posts: 3,772	02-16-2005 12:55 From: Chip Midnight Boxing Helena is really creepy. Not scary... just very disturbing. That was one freaky movie, did I miss something or does the movie deliberately not let you know whether he took her to the hospital and saved her leg or amputated her arms & legs and kept her? I was never sure which one was nightmare and which one reality. _____________________ I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To
Chip Midnight ate my baby! Join date: 1 May 2003 Posts: 10,231	02-16-2005 13:09 It leaves you guessing Rose. The ending really sucked. It's implied that it was all just a dream, which is by far the most cliche movie ending in the history of cinema! I'd forgotten about the way it ended. _____________________ My other hobby: www.live365.com/stations/chip_midnight
HoseQueen McLean curiouser & curiouser Join date: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 918	02-18-2005 15:06 Thanks everyone!!! I made a list of the ones suggested that I haven't seen, and it's huge! Perfect weekend for scary movies too - it's all dark and rainy and cold. Mmm
Cienna Rand Inside Joke Join date: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 489	02-18-2005 15:12 From: Arbel Vogel That's the one! I'm scared to watch that, even though I haven't seen it....but the things that people said about it...the scenes that they described...shivers I don't plan to watch it...at all I don't really like horror movies, but after Belaya made me watch this one I keep tryin to find my own copy. If you've had scenes described, it will probably not be so bad. I was expressly instructed to watch it without any prior knowledge of it, and.. that.. yeah. Audition would have been my only contribution here if it hadn't been pointed out already. So, I will say The Vanishing and not the remake, but the original Dutch version. kiri-kiri-kiri-kiri-kiri _____________________ You can't spell have traffic without FIC. Primcrafters (Mocha 180,90) : Fine eyewear for all avatars SLOPCO (Barcola 180, 180) : Second Life Oil & Petroleum Company Landmarker : Social landmarking software Conversation : Coming soon!
Belaya Statosky Information Retrieval Join date: 3 Jun 2004 Posts: 552	02-18-2005 21:09 Poor Cienna let me have a crack at her Netflix queue a few months ago and Audition and the Vanishing (original) were among them. I saw a few other good mentions here and there from others in this thread, Torely, of course, not surprising me at all for knowing Suspiria. Here's a nice black and white movie night: Eraserhead Begotten Un Chien Andalou Tetsuo: The Iron Man I'd suggest doing Audition, The Vanishing and maybe something light like Blue Velvet to start. If you're looking for outright violence there's always the legendary Men Behind the Sun, Cannibal Holocaust, Guinea Pig series, other films Takashi Miike (Audition) has done such as Ichi the Killer and Visitor Q. Some people find more out of the surrealist/exteme western-ish works of Alejandro Jodorowski alarming and frightening, such as The Holy Mountain and El Topo, though I found them simply more interesting if anything. The Hitcher is one of my favorite films and soundtracks and is much more pedestrian, so that also gets a vote, too. I think Eraserhead and Begotten, back to back, though, is the closest thing to watching a nightmare as humanly possible, especially with the other two as lead-ups and some heavy drinking.
HoseQueen McLean curiouser & curiouser Join date: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 918	02-18-2005 21:37 I've seen Suspiria! Has anyone seen Castle Freak? It was the same director, I believe. **Edit - not the same director, I just checked. But I could have sworn there was some connection between the two.
Hiro Pendragon bye bye f0rums! Join date: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 5,905	02-18-2005 21:52 The Ring scared me until the last 10 minutes, which sort of invalidated the scary factor for me. Blair Witch Project remains the second scariest movie I've seen - I knew it was fake but I let my disbelief dribble away. (Yes, I realize people either love or hate that movie.) The original Exorcist was scary, though I never saw the original theater version with the subliminal images. 13 Ghosts had some scary moments, but moments only. Poltergeist was pretty scary, but I haven't seen it since I was a kid. Jaws is scary but too much fun to quote to really scare me anymore. (I think we need a bigger boat!) Fahrenheit 9/11 had to be the scariest movie I've ever seen, though, even if half the stuff was exaggerated. _____________________ Hiro Pendragon ------------------ http://www.involve3d.com - Involve - Metaverse / Emerging Media Studio Visit my SL blog: http://secondtense.blogspot.com
Beryl Greenacre Big Scaredy-Baby Join date: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 1,312	02-19-2005 00:04 I'll have to echo Rose here and name The Exorcist as probably my ultimate scary movie for the same reason as she listed, being raised a good Roman Catholic. Incidentally, I just saw this news item about how the Vatican is currently facing a shortage of qualified exorcists. I had no idea this was something the Church was still doing. Others that make my "most scary" list include The Hitcher (Rutger Hauer!) and Night of the Living Dead. I also got some good scares out of The Serpent and the Rainbow, a somewhat obscure Wes Craven film from the 80's. I think my all-time favorite scary movie is The Shining. I've always been a big Stephen King fan. I think this is by far the best movie made from one of his books (though Misery is excellent, as well). The psychological horror of the Jack Nicholson character going slowly mad in that lonely, isolated inn in the wintertime Colorado Rockies is just so beautifully and terrifyingly done. Red rum! _____________________ Swell Second Life: Menswear by Beryl Greenacre Miramare 105, 82/ Aqua 192, 112/ Image Reflections Design, Freedom 121, 121
Raine Skye Me Myself & I Join date: 5 Nov 2004 Posts: 20	02-19-2005 00:12 Yeah well the only movie that has really, really scared me as of late would be The Grudge. Otherwise horror movies really do not scare me at all. My RL hubby hates me! HAHAHA lmao!! _____________________ *~~Raine Skye~~* It's just me, myself, and I
Bel Muse Registered User Join date: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 388	02-19-2005 00:44 I'll chime in on the Grudge. That movie just messed me up in some deep, unexplainable way. I literally was afraid to fall asleep that night. Even seeing the name of it gives me a chill. Something about the hair....shudder Oh and Dead Ringers had one of the tensest, squirm in your seat , "what the hell is wrong with these people...someone get her out of there!" scenes ever filmed. That scene haunts me. _____________________
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