Scariest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Whitedog
wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me what
the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
This is probably how I would rate my top 10, with very little thought put
into it:
1. The Exorcist (the original, the remake bites)
2. The Shining
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
5. The Haunting (Old B&W film, saw it in high school, freaky)
7. The Omen
8. American Werewolf in London
9. Psycho (didn't do much for me, but it is a classic)
10. Any video of President Bush
David Carson
> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow. She
> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me what
> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
"Poltergeist" is the one that scared me the most, I was just a kid when
I saw it, like you with The Exorcist.
Cheers!
David...
Shiflet
"Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow.
She
> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me
what
> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
>
> This is probably how I would rate my top 10, with very little thought put
> into it:
Movies don't scare me. I know, it sounds weird, but I can never "imagine" it
being truely "real" enough to scare me. I always know it's fake, so nothing
movie wise scares me. Even as a kid I didn't find them scary. Kinda
dissappointing, really. Here's some good creepy ones that had some potential
though:
1)Suspiria
2)The Haunting(original, not the craptacular remake)
3)Halloween(loses effect after seeing 800 other slashers, but the original
is a milestone)
4)Texas Chainsaw Massacre(original, not remake)
5)The Changeling
6)Suicide Club(aka Suicide Circle)
7)Session 9
8)Candyman
9)Poltergeist(when I was younger)
10)Alien
And lots of people I know found Blair Witch Project terrifying, me, I found
it complete crap, not scary, not creepy, not atmospheric, NOTHING. Same with
Ringu(and The Ring), I enjoyed both movies, but aside from 1-2 scenes(same
scenes in both versions) I didn't find them particularly creepy. Supposedly
Ju-On(the one remade here as The Grudge) has some really creepy moments, but
I've yet to see it(nor have I seen the remake).
ro...@telus.net
Of these, all but Omen, Werewolf and Bush are on a number of top-10
lists. Other frequently mentioned classics are Alien, Night of the
Living Dead, Hallowe'en, and Nightmare on Elm Street. If you want to
go with early horror, Nosferatu and The Mummy are both good.
-- Roy L
Jaakko Raipala
> "Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me
> what
>> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
>> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
>> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
>
> Movies don't scare me. I know, it sounds weird, but I can never "imagine" it
> being truely "real" enough to scare me. I always know it's fake, so nothing
> movie wise scares me. Even as a kid I didn't find them scary. Kinda
As a kid I remember being scared by many films at first, but once the
special effects started rolling, it always felt so fake that I just
couldn't get scared anymore. Even as a kid I found The Exorcist no
more scary than Ghostbusters. The effects don't feel real and all that
religious imagery has never meant anything to me. I don't see why I
would be scared by it.
For a party, I'd just forget scary and go with a splatter. Braindead
is probably my favourite. Just make sure it's the longest version, not
some badly cut crap! (Might not be easy to get in some countries.)
> And lots of people I know found Blair Witch Project terrifying, me, I found
> it complete crap, not scary, not creepy, not atmospheric, NOTHING. Same with
I just found BWP unwatchably boring. I usually get so involved with
the plot that no matter how crappy the movie is, I *have to* see how
it ends, but with BWP I just turned off the TV.
Shiflet
"Jaakko Raipala" <rai...@pcu.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
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> For a party, I'd just forget scary and go with a splatter. Braindead
> is probably my favourite. Just make sure it's the longest version, not
> some badly cut crap! (Might not be easy to get in some countries.)
I found Braindead(aka Dead Alive) rather lame. Sure, it was bloody and
violent(though very obviously fake) as all get out, but 95% of the many
attempts at humor failed to amuse me. The priest scene had it's moments, but
other than that, I didn't find it real enjoyable.
> I just found BWP unwatchably boring. I usually get so involved with
> the plot that no matter how crappy the movie is, I *have to* see how
> it ends, but with BWP I just turned off the TV.
Yes, it is VERY dull. I saw it in theaters, and since I won't walk out of a
movie I paid $5 to go see, I sat through the entire thing. The end did not
redeem it in any way. It was still a terribly dull movie filled with
obnoxious characters that I had absolutely no reason to care if they lived
or died.
Gabriele Neukam
> She
> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me what
> the scariest movie I've ever seen was.
No idea, but you might try Hellraiser, or The Fog (a 70ies movie)
Gabriele Neukam
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Shiflet
"Gabriele Neukam" <Gabriele.Spam...@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> The Fog (a 70ies movie)
Actually, it's from 1980. I've got the DVD, cool movie, another John
Carpenter one, a man who's pretty consistent when it comes to horror movies.
chainbreaker
And if you were fortunate enough to see it in theaters during original
release you don't have to ask why.
I see The Exorcist mentioned on quite a few lists Some of you might be
interested to know that during original release, quite a few theater
audiences viewed what are supposed to be some of the scariest scenes with
quite a bit of humor, and laughed at them uproariously, including the
audience at the screening I attended.
The only scene that scared them was the scene in the hospital when they
inserted the needle prior to doing the carotid arteriogram--the one where
the blood shot across the room. Heh, I didn't even get to get scared over
that one because I was working my way through school as a hospital x-ray
orderly. Since those exams were done in our department, I'd seen just that
scene dozens of times. :-)
--
chainbreaker
short
> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow.
She
> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me
what
> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
>
> This is probably how I would rate my top 10, with very little thought put
> into it:
>
> 1. The Exorcist (the original, the remake bites)
> 2. The Shining
> 3. The Silence of the Lambs
What was so scary about the silence of the lambs? That movie seems to move
along so sloooooooooooow for me.
> 4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
> 5. The Haunting (Old B&W film, saw it in high school, freaky)
> 7. The Omen
> 8. American Werewolf in London
> 9. Psycho (didn't do much for me, but it is a classic)
> 10. Any video of President Bush
>
>
First I'll make a list of my favorite movies of the horror type
The Shining
Misery
Seven
Friday the 13th
Salem's Lot
The Cell
Trilogy of Terror
The Changeling
Gates of Hell
The Prophecy
Hellraiser (more than one)
Reanimator? I think its called.
Ok, they're not all "horror", but they all have their creepy moments :) I'm
leaving out several that I can picture scenes from but can't think of the
names.
They don't make scary movies, IMO. I don't know what would really scare me,
but all the monsters and ghosts never cut it for me, because, well, I just
don't believe in them. I remember watching the Exorcist with my Uncle when
I was a little kid (he's 4 years older than me) and he was hiding his face
under the blanket while I made fun of him for being scared. HOWEVER, there
were two movies that freaked me out when I was little.
Killer Bees, and The Birds. For weeks after I saw the Bee movie, if I even
thought I saw a bee, I was gone. I lived in Ok, and there has been talk for
YEARS about the Killer Bees coming up from Mexico and Texas to kill
everyone, so it was too real for me (I don't know how old I was though).
Recently, I saw that House of 1000 Corpses, but Rob Zombie. It wasn't
scary, but it was very_disturbing.
The Omen is a bit creepy
The Shining is one of my favorite movies of all time. Hehe, my wife still
can't finish it, but she freaks out easily.
The Haunting was cool, looks like lots of us saw that one.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was pretty good, all the 43 remakes
since then have been really lame.
Recent movie called "They". I wasn't scared, but holy crap, it was strange.
Same with Darkness Falls, and Jeepers Creepers.
I loved The Ring
Blair Witch Project was stupid, stupid, stupid. I have no idea how that
movie made all that hype. It was definitely one of the worst movies I've
ever seen, and I will NEVER watch it again, and I can't say that about very
many movies. I mean, nothing ever happened, in the entire movie. SUXORS, I
say.
Some movies make me jump or startle me, but none actually scare me. I keep
trying to find one that does, but I can't. If I can see a movie that scares
me enough to keep me awake then I'll be happy. I don't think they'll ever
make one though. I don't consider myself a horror movie buff, but if its
supposed to be scary I'm there :)
Ooh, I almost forgot. Watching a Children of the Corn marathon, then having
my car break down on a little country road in between 2 cornfields did creep
me out a bit.
short
Whitedog
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The Exorcist really isn't scary, its disturbing. I don't know how else to
describe it. It doesn't make you scream in fear, it just makes you very
uncomfortable.
Whitedog
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>
> "Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:g5Ggd.43808$OD2....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow.
> She
> > wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me
> what
> > the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> > time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at
like
> > 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
> >
> > This is probably how I would rate my top 10, with very little thought
put
> > into it:
> >
> > 1. The Exorcist (the original, the remake bites)
> > 2. The Shining
> > 3. The Silence of the Lambs
>
> What was so scary about the silence of the lambs? That movie seems to
move
> along so sloooooooooooow for me.
That's because you're stupid. :) Realize, I don't mean I was hiding under
my bed pissing myself. In my opinion, Anthony Hopkins plays one of the
creepiest characters ever portrayed in that movie. If he doesn't freak you
out, something is wrong with you.
> > 4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
> > 5. The Haunting (Old B&W film, saw it in high school, freaky)
> > 7. The Omen
> > 8. American Werewolf in London
> > 9. Psycho (didn't do much for me, but it is a classic)
> > 10. Any video of President Bush
> >
> >
>
> First I'll make a list of my favorite movies of the horror type
> The Shining
Classic, but really long. That Red Rum scene with the kid is insane.
> Misery
Movie is just messed up.
> Seven
Good, but not really scary.
> Friday the 13th
The first one is good.
> Salem's Lot
That scene with the kid in the window drives me nuts. I can't handle kids
in horror movies.
> The Cell
Weird, can't say it ever freaked me out though.
> Trilogy of Terror
> The Changeling
> Gates of Hell
> The Prophecy
Never saw them.
> Hellraiser (more than one)
Never did anything for me. Always seemed to be all gore and no creativity.
Gore doesn't do much for me, as I've seen it all in real life. I used to
develop autopsy photos. A person with their face peeled off is just a
person with their face peeled off.
> Reanimator? I think its called.
> Ok, they're not all "horror", but they all have their creepy moments :)
I'm
> leaving out several that I can picture scenes from but can't think of the
> names.
>
> They don't make scary movies, IMO. I don't know what would really scare
me,
> but all the monsters and ghosts never cut it for me, because, well, I just
> don't believe in them. I remember watching the Exorcist with my Uncle
when
> I was a little kid (he's 4 years older than me) and he was hiding his face
> under the blanket while I made fun of him for being scared. HOWEVER,
there
> were two movies that freaked me out when I was little.
The Exorcist is a movie that becomes increasingly disturbing the more you
understand it.
> Killer Bees, and The Birds. For weeks after I saw the Bee movie, if I
even
> thought I saw a bee, I was gone. I lived in Ok, and there has been talk
for
> YEARS about the Killer Bees coming up from Mexico and Texas to kill
> everyone, so it was too real for me (I don't know how old I was though).
Lol, for me it was Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Not really scary, but to
this day I still don't like clowns. :)
>
> Ooh, I almost forgot. Watching a Children of the Corn marathon, then
having
> my car break down on a little country road in between 2 cornfields did
creep
> me out a bit.
LOL!
Morgane
Whitedog <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
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> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow. She
> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me what
> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
I'm a 'germophobe' so Cabin Fever is the scariest movie I've ever seen. Before
that it was Un Chien Andolou, but I was very young when I first saw it.
Morgane
short
Well, gore (no, not Al) is ok in my book. If not for a bit of gore and
sex, what else are we going to watch movies for? Surely not for the
dialogue!!
> > Reanimator? I think its called.
> > Ok, they're not all "horror", but they all have their creepy moments :)
> I'm
> > leaving out several that I can picture scenes from but can't think of
the
> > names.
> >
> > They don't make scary movies, IMO. I don't know what would really scare
> me,
> > but all the monsters and ghosts never cut it for me, because, well, I
just
> > don't believe in them. I remember watching the Exorcist with my Uncle
> when
> > I was a little kid (he's 4 years older than me) and he was hiding his
face
> > under the blanket while I made fun of him for being scared. HOWEVER,
> there
> > were two movies that freaked me out when I was little.
>
> The Exorcist is a movie that becomes increasingly disturbing the more you
> understand it.
>
What's there to understand? She was possessed, freaked out a bit, and
that's it!
Those movies just crack me up.
> > Killer Bees, and The Birds. For weeks after I saw the Bee movie, if I
> even
> > thought I saw a bee, I was gone. I lived in Ok, and there has been talk
> for
> > YEARS about the Killer Bees coming up from Mexico and Texas to kill
> > everyone, so it was too real for me (I don't know how old I was though).
>
> Lol, for me it was Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Not really scary, but
to
> this day I still don't like clowns. :)
>
I don't either! Damn Stephen King and his "It".
I forgot to add that spider movie too, that one creeps me out.
> >
> > Ooh, I almost forgot. Watching a Children of the Corn marathon, then
> having
> > my car break down on a little country road in between 2 cornfields did
> creep
> > me out a bit.
>
> LOL!
>
>
It's funny now, but it sure wasn't then. It took me about 30 minutes to
work up the nerve to walk (read: run blindly) through the field to the
nearest house.
I also forgot to add one, 28 Days Later. Its the old "virus creating
zombies theme", but it goes farther into that with the aftereffects on the
surviving population, etc. Pretty good, I thought.
short - some gore in it though, so watch out!
short
"Morgane" <zia...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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Oooh, I forgot Cabin Fever. Disturbing, to say the least. And Un Chien
Andolou, is that the one with the razor+eyeball scene?
short
Saint
I don't think I've seen all 5 of them, but after seeing the first one when I
was 11 or so, even now, at 27, seeing that doll in a rerun on tv, scares the
... out of me :)
Muppeteer
QUINN R PAYNE
"Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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"Arachnophobia" is at the top of my list.
The first movie to ever creep me out when I was a kid was the original
"Invasion of the bodysnatchers" hehe...now ,of course, it's just funny.
IMHO, movies that leave the scary parts to your own imagination are allot
scarier than the special FX displays.
Dano
Exorcist
Carrie
Halloween
Jaws
The Thing(kurt russel one)
Nightmare on Elm Street
Phantasm
Evil Dead
"Saint" <ezr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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ward mcfarland
> ts Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow. She
> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me what
> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
not a movie, but see if you can rent the first season of American
Gothic...
"Someone's at the door"
Gabriele Neukam
> And Un Chien
> Andolou, is that the one with the razor+eyeball scene?
There is such a scene in it, but this movie was supposed to be
"surrealist" (done by artists like Bunuel and Dali), and break every
convention and rule. They wanted to shock, but not by horror, but rather
by disgust.
Whitedog
That was just wrong. The end is classic, "I'm having a friend for dinner"
lol.
> >
> > Never did anything for me. Always seemed to be all gore and no
> creativity.
> > Gore doesn't do much for me, as I've seen it all in real life. I used
to
> > develop autopsy photos. A person with their face peeled off is just a
> > person with their face peeled off.
> >
> Well, gore (no, not Al) is ok in my book. If not for a bit of gore and
> sex, what else are we going to watch movies for? Surely not for the
> dialogue!!
I prefer a psychological thriller over horror anyday. Blood and Gore just
looks cheap to me. I'd rather have a movie screw with my head.
Its supposedly based on a true story. :) Seriously, I'm not kidding. I
guess it helps if your even mildly religious.
> > > Killer Bees, and The Birds. For weeks after I saw the Bee movie, if I
> > even
> > > thought I saw a bee, I was gone. I lived in Ok, and there has been
talk
> > for
> > > YEARS about the Killer Bees coming up from Mexico and Texas to kill
> > > everyone, so it was too real for me (I don't know how old I was
though).
> >
> > Lol, for me it was Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Not really scary,
but
> to
> > this day I still don't like clowns. :)
> >
> I don't either! Damn Stephen King and his "It".
> I forgot to add that spider movie too, that one creeps me out.
I saw IT once, and I refuse to ever watch it again.
> > >
> > > Ooh, I almost forgot. Watching a Children of the Corn marathon, then
> > having
> > > my car break down on a little country road in between 2 cornfields did
> > creep
> > > me out a bit.
> >
> > LOL!
> >
> >
> It's funny now, but it sure wasn't then. It took me about 30 minutes to
> work up the nerve to walk (read: run blindly) through the field to the
> nearest house.
There goes my prison dwelling bar room brawler image of you. :)
> I also forgot to add one, 28 Days Later. Its the old "virus creating
> zombies theme", but it goes farther into that with the aftereffects on the
> surviving population, etc. Pretty good, I thought.
>
>
> short - some gore in it though, so watch out!
Like I said, doesn't phase me. 28 Days Later was ok, kind of lame imo.
Whitedog
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>
> "Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> > Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow.
> She
> > wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me
> what
> > the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> > time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at
like
> > 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
> >
> > This is probably how I would rate my top 10, with very little thought
put
> > into it:
> >
> > 1. The Exorcist (the original, the remake bites)
> > 2. The Shining
> > 3. The Silence of the Lambs
> > 4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
> > 5. The Haunting (Old B&W film, saw it in high school, freaky)
> > 7. The Omen
> > 8. American Werewolf in London
> > 9. Psycho (didn't do much for me, but it is a classic)
> > 10. Any video of President Bush
> >
> >
> I'm not a big horror film fan, but I absolutely hate spiders! so
> "Arachnophobia" is at the top of my list.
Lol, you sound like my brother. He can't watch that movie. I do admit, its
pretty messed up.
Desktop
> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party
> tomorrow. She wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie,
> and she asked me what the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went
> with The Exorcist. First time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was
> home alone and it came on at like 1am. I never went to sleep that
> night. :)
I don't know about scariest movie but Teletubbies always freak me out.
They've got to be Australian.
desktop at home dot se
Shiflet
> > Hellraiser (more than one)
>
> Never did anything for me. Always seemed to be all gore and no
creativity.
> Gore doesn't do much for me, as I've seen it all in real life. I used to
> develop autopsy photos. A person with their face peeled off is just a
> person with their face peeled off.
Try watching the movie next time. It's a VERY intelligent movie, if all
you're getting out of it is "just gore", I have to ask if you ever bothered
to watch more than the first 10 minutes.
Jaakko Raipala
> I found Braindead(aka Dead Alive) rather lame. Sure, it was bloody and
> violent(though very obviously fake) as all get out, but 95% of the many
> attempts at humor failed to amuse me. The priest scene had it's moments, but
> other than that, I didn't find it real enjoyable.
Gore is exciting enough, even if fake. If you think you need more,
then splatters are not for you.
>> I just found BWP unwatchably boring. I usually get so involved with
>> the plot that no matter how crappy the movie is, I *have to* see how
>> it ends, but with BWP I just turned off the TV.
>
> Yes, it is VERY dull. I saw it in theaters, and since I won't walk out of a
> movie I paid $5 to go see, I sat through the entire thing. The end did not
> redeem it in any way. It was still a terribly dull movie filled with
So, how does it end? The worst part is that even though I didn't see
the end, from the first minutes I thought I knew exactly how it would
end. Since the film so enthusiastically followed the no-special-effects
line, no deaths were probably shown, most likely two of them simply
disappeared and the last one's death was filmed by the camera falling
to the ground. Or something very similar.
Shiflet
> Gore is exciting enough, even if fake. If you think you need more,
> then splatters are not for you.
Gore's not exciting enough when it's as obviously fake as Braindead.
Blair Witch Project SPOILER WARNING coming below.
> So, how does it end? The worst part is that even though I didn't see
> the end, from the first minutes I thought I knew exactly how it would
> end. Since the film so enthusiastically followed the no-special-effects
> line, no deaths were probably shown, most likely two of them simply
> disappeared and the last one's death was filmed by the camera falling
> to the ground. Or something very similar.
They went into a house, someone/something attacked them, the camera fell,
they were never seen again.
Jaakko Raipala
> "Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>> "short" <sho...@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
>> > First I'll make a list of my favorite movies of the horror type
>> > The Shining
I don't like Kubrick movies.
>> The Exorcist is a movie that becomes increasingly disturbing the more you
>> understand it.
>
> What's there to understand? She was possessed, freaked out a bit, and
> that's it!
Yeah. Didn't work for me at all, I've never been that interested in
the possession type of superstitions. As a kid I would've been more
scared of the sauna elf.
...or ghosts! The only stuff that managed to really get to me as a kid
weren't movies, but ghost stories told by the locals, since I lived in
a place where such stories were *very* easy to place (starting from my
family name being an explicit reference to a torturing device -
supposedly inherited from a prominent executioner).
>> > Killer Bees, and The Birds. For weeks after I saw the Bee movie, if I
>> even
>> > thought I saw a bee, I was gone. I lived in Ok, and there has been talk
Last time I got stung by bee(s) (I didn't count) was when I was
showing a Jackass-inspired bee suit stunt to a 10-year-old friend. :-)
> I forgot to add that spider movie too, that one creeps me out.
Arachnofobia? I suppose it's scary, if you don't like spiders. My
fobias have always been about things that don't make good movies, so
I'm sadly missing that experience. (For one thing, I've always found
calmly flowing rivers extremely unnerving - but waterfalls and floods
are OK!)
> It's funny now, but it sure wasn't then. It took me about 30 minutes to
> work up the nerve to walk (read: run blindly) through the field to the
> nearest house.
That's like me walking home as a kid in a dark autumn evening, miles
without streetlights on streets bordering dark and gloomy forests,
repeating to myself that ghosts don't exist, ghosts don't exists,
ghosts don't exist...
(But then, I always stopped fearing the dark when the snow set in. I
guess most of these fears come from unfamiliar stuff, and it being dark
without snow still feels very odd to me.)
Ashen Shugar
like...
>
>"Jaakko Raipala" <rai...@pcu.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
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>
>> Gore is exciting enough, even if fake. If you think you need more,
>> then splatters are not for you.
>
>Gore's not exciting enough when it's as obviously fake as Braindead.
>
>Blair Witch Project SPOILER WARNING coming below.
More detailed Spoiler below!
>> So, how does it end? The worst part is that even though I didn't see
>> the end, from the first minutes I thought I knew exactly how it would
>> end. Since the film so enthusiastically followed the no-special-effects
>> line, no deaths were probably shown, most likely two of them simply
>> disappeared and the last one's death was filmed by the camera falling
>> to the ground. Or something very similar.
>
>They went into a house, someone/something attacked them, the camera fell,
>they were never seen again.
>
That doesn't give away the main point that makes it so obviously
scripted.
In the house the one with the camera goes down into like a basement
searching for the other person and see's them standing in the corner
facing the wall, at which point the camera falls to the ground. As
you may or may not remember, the group heard a story near the start of
the movie from a local about how there'd been some psycho dude that
would kidnap two kids at once, and would make one of them stand in the
corner and face the wall as he didn't want anyone watching him while
he killed the other kid. As an ending it's a good idea, but unless I
missed something, there was no reason to think there was a link
between the murderer and the Blair witch, which makes the ending seem
horribly connived.
Ashen Shugar
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sidekick
Have you seen Finial Destination 2? The gore scens in that movie are great.
The best is when the huge log falls off the truck and goes through the state
troopers car!
Whitedog
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Read back a few posts where I tell how I used to develop pictures of real
dead people. Even did a couple of people that were suicides. No murders
though, those go to the police lab.
Whitedog
> short <sho...@zoominternet.net> wrote:
>
> > "Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> >> "short" <sho...@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> >> > First I'll make a list of my favorite movies of the horror type
> >> > The Shining
>
> I don't like Kubrick movies.
>
> >> The Exorcist is a movie that becomes increasingly disturbing the more
you
> >> understand it.
> >
> > What's there to understand? She was possessed, freaked out a bit, and
> > that's it!
>
> Yeah. Didn't work for me at all, I've never been that interested in
> the possession type of superstitions. As a kid I would've been more
> scared of the sauna elf.
Sauna Elf?
Whitedog
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I've seen all of them all least once. I personally think they suck, it is a
free country you know.
~misfit~
>> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party
>> tomorrow. She wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie,
>> and she asked me what the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went
>> with The Exorcist. First time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was
>> home alone and it came on at like 1am. I never went to sleep that
>> night. :)
>>
>> This is probably how I would rate my top 10, with very little
>> thought put into it:
>
> "imagine" it being truely "real" enough to scare me. I always know
> it's fake, so nothing movie wise scares me. Even as a kid I didn't
> find them scary. Kinda dissappointing, really. Here's some good
> creepy ones that had some potential though:
> 1)Suspiria
> 2)The Haunting(original, not the craptacular remake)
> 3)Halloween(loses effect after seeing 800 other slashers, but the
> original is a milestone)
> 4)Texas Chainsaw Massacre(original, not remake)
> 5)The Changeling
> 6)Suicide Club(aka Suicide Circle)
> 7)Session 9
> 8)Candyman
> 9)Poltergeist(when I was younger)
> 10)Alien
>
> And lots of people I know found Blair Witch Project terrifying, me, I
> found it complete crap, not scary, not creepy, not atmospheric,
> NOTHING. Same with Ringu(and The Ring), I enjoyed both movies, but
> aside from 1-2 scenes(same scenes in both versions) I didn't find
> them particularly creepy. Supposedly Ju-On(the one remade here as The
> Grudge) has some really creepy moments, but I've yet to see it(nor
> have I seen the remake).
I also don't find movies scary but my better half does. In fact she scares
me, jumping and grabbing me etc. at the scary moments. Anyway, just thought
I'd say I thought "The Ring" was pretty scary if you are the scaredy-cat
type. ;-)
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~misfit~
"Free country"? Let me guess, American no? Usenet is intenational dude.
(Sorry, pet peeve).
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Sean McCabe
>I don't like Kubrick movies.
Ouch.
No "Clockwork Orange"?
No "Dr. Strangelove"?
Sean
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Whitedog
"~misfit~" <misfi...@hooya.co.nz> wrote in message
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He's an American, I'm an American, hence free country.
Hey, and remember where the internet started. :)
Shiflet
great.
> The best is when the huge log falls off the truck and goes through the
state
> troopers car!
Yeah, that movie's rather entertaining.
Shiflet
> I've seen all of them all least once.
Well, you only need to see 1-2.
> I personally think they suck, it is a
> free country you know.
Doesn't change the FACT that the movie is NOT just about gore though, which
you stated it was.
3phAse
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> Alien, no question.
>
> And if you were fortunate enough to see it in theaters during
> original release you don't have to ask why.
Yup, saw (most of) this when I was 12, it only just missed out on an R
rating (over 18) here in Australia and they let us two 12 year olds
in.
I say I saw most of it, because when the chest-bust scene happened I
told my mate I was going to get popcorn and didn't come back for about
20 minutes. :)
My partner always says that Poltergiest was one of the scariest she
remembers.
I guess some of these movies were breaking new ground at the time
(Werewolf in London, Alien, Halloween, Potergiest, The Thing). 12-14
year olds probably wouldn't bat an eyelid at poltergiest nowadays.
> I see The Exorcist mentioned on quite a few lists Some of you might
> be interested to know that during original release, quite a few
> theater audiences viewed what are supposed to be some of the
> scariest scenes with quite a bit of humor, and laughed at them
> uproariously, including the audience at the screening I attended.
>
> The only scene that scared them was the scene in the hospital when
> they inserted the needle prior to doing the carotid arteriogram--the
> one where the blood shot across the room. Heh, I didn't even get to
> get scared over that one because I was working my way through school
> as a hospital x-ray orderly. Since those exams were done in our
> department, I'd seen just that scene dozens of times. :-)
>
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> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow.
> She
> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me
> what
> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
>
> This is probably how I would rate my top 10, with very little thought put
> into it:
>
> 2. The Shining
> 3. The Silence of the Lambs
> 5. The Haunting (Old B&W film, saw it in high school, freaky)
> 7. The Omen
> 8. American Werewolf in London
> 9. Psycho (didn't do much for me, but it is a classic)
> 10. Any video of President Bush
>
>
Id have to go for alien or aliens2.
The scene in aliens2 where sigourney and the young girl were trapped inside
a room with a larva was particularly scary.
Nightmare on elm street was pretty damn good too. (the original)
chainbreaker
Did you read the books before seeing the movie(s)?
I did, and wonder if that changed my perception at all.
I know I frequently found myself adding the book dialogue to that of the
movie, particularly in the scene where she first meets the doctor. Heh, I
have to wonder about somebody who can think some of that stuff up--or where
they found it, if it wasn't original. El yucko.
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chainbreaker
>>> The Exorcist is a movie that becomes increasingly disturbing the
>>> more you understand it.
>>
>> What's there to understand? She was possessed, freaked out a bit,
>> and that's it!
>
> Yeah. Didn't work for me at all, I've never been that interested in
> the possession type of superstitions. As a kid I would've been more
> scared of the sauna elf.
>
Maybe you have to be Catholic . . .
Of course if you *are*, then I just dunno.
The Exorcist didn't do much for me either, except I did get a few good
chuckles from it, as I said.
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Stephen R. Marsh
>> 10. Any video of President Bush
hmm
My daughter's halloween party at the house featured watching The Ring together
again, and it was too scary for some of the high school students.
I skipped out and read some, while being the dutiful parent.
Stephen
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Jaakko Raipala
> Short wrote:
>>I don't like Kubrick movies.
That wasn't him, that was me! I'm not short. I'm tall. And long.
> No "Clockwork Orange"?
>
> No "Dr. Strangelove"?
I don't like them. Kubrick's movies are so clinically perfectionist
that they ooze fakeness. He's only good for movies like 2001 with as
little human-human dialogue as possible.
Whitedog
I think the story line is pretty tacky, hence just a gorefest to me.
Jaakko Raipala
> "Jaakko Raipala" <rai...@pcu.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
>> Yeah. Didn't work for me at all, I've never been that interested in
>> the possession type of superstitions. As a kid I would've been more
>> scared of the sauna elf.
>
> Sauna Elf?
It's an elf that lives in the sauna. (Well, what did you think it
was?) The sauna elves are usually benevolent spirits, but they can be
easily angered by disrespectful behaviour (especially small talk) and
then they'll burn down the sauna (and usually the house with it).
Jaakko Raipala
> Jaakko Raipala wrote:
>> Yeah. Didn't work for me at all, I've never been that interested in
>> the possession type of superstitions. As a kid I would've been more
>> scared of the sauna elf.
>
> Maybe you have to be Catholic . . .
>
> Of course if you *are*, then I just dunno.
There are only a few thousand Catholics in the entire country. I think
they were in theory banned from settling in Finland until 1917. I was
baptized as Lutheran, but I never had a religious upbringing and I got
out of the church as soon as I realized that I belong to a church.
Yeah, I'd guess a little more exposure to Catholicism might make The
Exorcist a bit more exciting. It probably doesn't work even on the
ultrareligious crackpots here, since they'd all rather get possessed
than turn Catholic anyway. Why do you think the Pope wears those silly
hats? He's trying to hide his horns, of course.
sidekick
"Gaze" <ga...@abnt.org> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:15:18 -0400, in alt.games.diablo "sidekick"
> <sidek...@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>>Have you seen Finial Destination 2? The gore scens in that movie are
>>great.
>>The best is when the huge log falls off the truck and goes through the
>>state
>>troopers car!
>
> were pretty well done IMO, if I had to pick one as the 'best' it'd be a
> real toss-up between the falling window and the final effect. (don't
> really
> want to give the whole thing away now <g>) All in all I thought it was a
> pretty good movie, one I'm going to have to add to my collection <g>
> It had a decent story line, fairly believable acting, and as has already
> been stated some really good fx.
> --
>
> Gaze
>
>
> "Chalk it up to experience" is a euphemism for "Dang I f**ked up!"
That window falling was very good also. I would have to agree with you
about it being a toss up. Both are very good scenes. IMHO the movie is
worth a second look.....well Vie seen 3 times and still like it.
Sean McCabe
>My daughter's halloween party at the house featured watching The Ring
>together
>again, and it was too scary for some of the high school students.
>
>>
I thought "The Ring" was one of the creepiest films I have ever seen.
Here are a couple moldies that I enjoyed that weren't mentioned:
The Sentinel
The Hills have Eyes
Asylum
Silent Night, Deadly Night (might have also been called Black Christmas)
The Abominable Dr Phibes
All Dracula movies starring Christopher Lee from the Hammer studios
Freaks
movie starring Deborah Harry who gets seduced by her television, which I forget
the title.
Life Force, which features a woman vampire who spends most of the movie naked,
and later turns into JeanLuc Picard ( a must-see) : )
tcells
> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow.
She
> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me
what
> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
I saw Salems Lot the same way - a little earlier in the night, and I did get
to sleep, but I'd rank it for the same reasons.
Another was a Dr Who series which I saw when very young (~5), some weird
evil dolls were in it. Funnily, I've spoken to a few people who must have
seen this at about the same age, they all remember it and were all scared by
it.
>
> This is probably how I would rate my top 10, with very little thought put
> into it:
>
> 1. The Exorcist (the original, the remake bites)
> 2. The Shining
> 3. The Silence of the Lambs
> 4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
> 5. The Haunting (Old B&W film, saw it in high school, freaky)
> 7. The Omen
> 8. American Werewolf in London
tcells
>
snip
> 10)Alien
yep it should rate
>
> And lots of people I know found Blair Witch Project terrifying, me, I
found
> it complete crap, not scary, not creepy, not atmospheric, NOTHING.
it was so boring I never even saw the ending. Totally pathetic.
tcells
"Desktop" <des...@home.sweden> wrote in message
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> Whitedog wrote:
> > Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party
> > tomorrow. She wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie,
> > and she asked me what the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went
> > with The Exorcist. First time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was
> > home alone and it came on at like 1am. I never went to sleep that
> > night. :)
>
> They've got to be Australian.
>
much closer to your home - British
Watchman
1) Alien
2) Jaws (only the original)- I just love that music.
3) The Exorcist
4) Halloween
5) The Thing (1980's version)
6) An American Werewolf in London
7) Ring (the japanese movie)- well, it was spooky.
8) Nightmare on Elm Street - (though only the first one)
9) Hellraiser
10) Frankenstein - alright, it wasn't really scary. But it had style.
And I as only ten when I first saw it. ;)
Whew! Never thought it would be so hard to think of ten movies that
scared me, at some point.
Most of the more recent horror movies tend to be more spectacular than
scary. Or maybe it's just me. Just for the record, I thought The Blair
Witch Project sucked too.
Watchman :)
--
'Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really know what's going on'
Watchman
>
> Stephen R. Marsh wrote:
>
> >My daughter's halloween party at the house featured watching The Ring
> >together
> >again, and it was too scary for some of the high school students.
> >
> >>
>
> I thought "The Ring" was one of the creepiest films I have ever seen.
>
> Here are a couple moldies that I enjoyed that weren't mentioned:
>
> The Sentinel
> The Hills have Eyes
> Asylum
> Silent Night, Deadly Night (might have also been called Black Christmas)
> The Abominable Dr Phibes
> All Dracula movies starring Christopher Lee from the Hammer studios
> Freaks
> movie starring Deborah Harry who gets seduced by her television, which I forget
> the title.
Videodrome, I think.
B.B.
"Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow. She
>wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me what
>the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
>time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at like
>1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
"Pile-Driving Mrs. Daisy." Freaky as all hell. Scarred me for life.
--
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Shiflet
> Did you read the books before seeing the movie(s)?
Afterwards...though AFAIK, there was originally only one short
story(Hellbound Heart), not books...did he write more later? I prefer
Hellbound, as the Cenobites were more "neutral", a force of nature that
occurs upon a specific act...they don't necessarily wish to do the things
they do, but are obligated to because that's the "rules". And they're
willing to accept loopholes, if a targeted person finds one.
> --
> chainbreaker
>
>
Shiflet
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> it was so boring I never even saw the ending. Totally pathetic.
Another lucky soul who didn't endure the whole snoozefest.
Shiflet
"Watchman" <str...@SPAMPHOBICwhyalla.net.au> wrote in message
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> 8) Nightmare on Elm Street - (though only the first one)
As far as "creepiness" goes, I actually think New Nightmare is better than
the first...darker and creepier. And the ONLY movie in the series where
Freddy seems like pure evil, rather than the wisecracking wit so many of the
others painted him as.
> Just for the record, I thought The Blair Witch Project sucked too.
Good, it's not just me then.
ro...@telus.net
wrote:
>movie starring Deborah Harry who gets seduced by her television, which I forget
>the title.
Videodrome. Yes, it was creepy.
-- Roy L
Morgane
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> Oooh, I forgot Cabin Fever. Disturbing, to say the least. And Un Chien
> Andolou, is that the one with the razor+eyeball scene?
>
Yes, that's the one. It's a great film period, and it's aggressive as
surrealism and even Dada should be. The eyeball scene stands up to even the
most modern gorefests. These guys were called 'genius' for a reason.
Morgane
Desktop
Practically the same country if you ask me. ;-)
desktop at home dot se
chainbreaker
Heh, sorry Shiflet--I somehow got the thread crossed up. I *thought* I was
commenting on the Silence of the Lambs, et al. <blushes>
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Shiflet
> Heh, sorry Shiflet--I somehow got the thread crossed up. I *thought* I
was
> commenting on the Silence of the Lambs, et al. <blushes>
Heh, oops.
Well, to answer that question then, no I've not read the books(any of them).
Come to think of it, haven't seen any of the other movies either, aside from
Manhunter which I saw years ago and don't remember much of anything about.
3phAse
> "Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:g5Ggd.43808$OD2....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party
>> tomorrow.
> She
>> wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked
>> me
> what
>> the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist.
>> First
>> time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on
>> at like
>> 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
>
> I saw Salems Lot the same way - a little earlier in the night, and I
> did get
> to sleep, but I'd rank it for the same reasons.
>
> Another was a Dr Who series which I saw when very young (~5), some
> weird
> evil dolls were in it. Funnily, I've spoken to a few people who
> must have
> seen this at about the same age, they all remember it and were all
> scared by
> it.
Was that the one with the Fu Man Chu puppet thing? That was a scary
one, and the episodes with the Pumkin Head guys used to freak me out.
I see them now and think... the props never looked that fake when I
saw them as a kid.
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> "chainbreaker" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>> Heh, sorry Shiflet--I somehow got the thread crossed up. I
>> *thought* I
> was
>> commenting on the Silence of the Lambs, et al. <blushes>
>
> Heh, oops.
>
> Well, to answer that question then, no I've not read the books(any of
> them). Come to think of it, haven't seen any of the other movies
> either, aside from Manhunter which I saw years ago and don't remember
> much of anything about.
>
I can recommend Red Dragon, the book upon which Manhunter is based, and
Silence of the Lambs. It was SotL to which my "strange dialogue" comment
referred.
Thomas Harris went in such different directions between the two, it's almost
like different authors wrote them.
tcells
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> "tcells" <tce...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > "Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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snip
>
> Was that the one with the Fu Man Chu puppet thing? That was a scary
> one, and the episodes with the Pumkin Head guys used to freak me out.
> I see them now and think... the props never looked that fake when I
> saw them as a kid.
>
yes I think so. I remember my little brother hiding behind the couch :)
I wasn't too much better, but because he was my little brother, I could
hardly be seen to run away could I :)
vonho...@juno.com
called "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things". I actually spent
the night with my bedside table lamp on. That's not something that
happens every day...
Vandevere
tcells
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but do you sleep that way every *night*? ;p
~misfit~
> "~misfit~" <misfi...@hooya.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:2uip5dF...@uni-berlin.de...>>> news:10o7ur3...@corp.supernews.com...>>>> news:lGNgd.44941$OD2....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>>>>> Hellraiser (more than one)
>>>>>
>>>>> Never did anything for me. Always seemed to be all gore and no
>>>>> creativity. Gore doesn't do much for me, as I've seen it all in
>>>>> real life. I used to develop autopsy photos. A person with their
>>>>> face peeled off is just a person with their face peeled off.
>>>>
>>>> Try watching the movie next time. It's a VERY intelligent movie, if
>>>> all you're getting out of it is "just gore", I have to ask if you
>>>> ever bothered to watch more than the first 10 minutes.
>>>
>>> I've seen all of them all least once. I personally think they suck,
>>> it is a free country you know.
>>
>> dude.
>>
>> (Sorry, pet peeve).
>
> He's an American, I'm an American, hence free country.
>
> Hey, and remember where the internet started. :)
:-)
Point taken. However the internet is just a global network and was
inevitable. If the American military machine with it's
x-billion-dollar-a-year budget didn't come up with ARAPA net first then
someone else would have later.
--
~misfit~
~misfit~
So no small talk in the sauna? I'll have to remember that if I ever have a
sauna again. I hate to annoy elves.
--
~misfit~
~misfit~
Count me one of that number too, walked out of the room it was so pathetic.
--
~misfit~
Jaakko Raipala
> Jaakko Raipala wrote:
>> Whitedog <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>> Sauna Elf?
>>
>> It's an elf that lives in the sauna. (Well, what did you think it
>> was?) The sauna elves are usually benevolent spirits, but they can be
>> easily angered by disrespectful behaviour (especially small talk) and
>> then they'll burn down the sauna (and usually the house with it).
>
> So no small talk in the sauna?
No small talk anywhere in Finland. Also, smiling when not drunk or
entertaining tourists is considered proof of insanity. Nowadays both
have an bad reputation thanks to America, known as the land of
unnecessary conversations, phony whitened teeth and unedumacatedy
presidents who smile *way* too much. (Previously, dubiously excessive
talkativeness was considered a Russian sin.)
Here's a Nordic joke:
Sven (from Sweden) was visiting Finland. By some miracle, he managed
to get invited to a local's home and, naturally, the bottles were
brought out. After an hour of drinking things started to loosen up a
bit, so Sven raised his glass and said "skål!". Disapprovingly, the
Finn then asked "are you here to drink or to talk?"
(It's really funny.)
> I'll have to remember that if I ever have a sauna again. I hate to annoy
> elves.
Another easy way to anger the elf is to have a cold sauna (ie. under
80 C (that's 176 F)). If you've done that, you better appease the elf
by turning the heat up to 250 F and taking it for a good while.
vonho...@juno.com
Funny...
Vandevere
short
it. She was really freaked out though, I don't know why.
I'm still trying to talk her into going to see The Grudge :)
After talking her into seeing House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, and the Ring
though, I don't know if I'll be able to swing it this time.
short - she's a fraidy-cat
short
>
> "short" <sho...@zoominternet.net> wrote in message
> news:2uhpa9F...@uni-berlin.de...
> >
> > "Whitedog" <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> > news:lGNgd.44941$OD2....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > >
> > > news:2uhjtgF...@uni-berlin.de...
> > > > > Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party
> > tomorrow.
> > > > She
> > > > > wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she
asked
> me
> > > > what
> > > > > the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist.
> > First
> > > > > time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on
at
> > > like
> > > > > 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
> > > > >
> thought
> > > put
> > > > > into it:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. The Exorcist (the original, the remake bites)
> > > > > 2. The Shining
> > > > > 3. The Silence of the Lambs
> > > >
to
> > > move
> > > > along so sloooooooooooow for me.
> > >
> > > That's because you're stupid. :) Realize, I don't mean I was hiding
> > under
> > > my bed pissing myself. In my opinion, Anthony Hopkins plays one of
the
> > > creepiest characters ever portrayed in that movie. If he doesn't
freak
> > you
> > > out, something is wrong with you.
> > >
> > I don't know, every time I see that movie I just get........hungry :o)
>
> That was just wrong. The end is classic, "I'm having a friend for dinner"
> lol.
>
I liked Red Dragon, sending a tortured, flaming, tied to a wheelchair guy
rolling down a hill is pretty fucked up though.
>
> > >
> > > Never did anything for me. Always seemed to be all gore and no
> > creativity.
> > > Gore doesn't do much for me, as I've seen it all in real life. I used
> to
> > > develop autopsy photos. A person with their face peeled off is just a
> > > person with their face peeled off.
> > >
> > Well, gore (no, not Al) is ok in my book. If not for a bit of gore and
> > sex, what else are we going to watch movies for? Surely not for the
> > dialogue!!
>
> I prefer a psychological thriller over horror anyday. Blood and Gore just
> looks cheap to me. I'd rather have a movie screw with my head.
>
Oh, me too. That being said, you need to see Godsend :)
>
> > > > Reanimator? I think its called.
> > > > Ok, they're not all "horror", but they all have their creepy moments
> :)
> > > I'm
> > > > leaving out several that I can picture scenes from but can't think
of
> > the
> > > > names.
> > > >
> > > > They don't make scary movies, IMO. I don't know what would really
> scare
> > > me,
> > > > but all the monsters and ghosts never cut it for me, because, well,
I
> > just
> > > > don't believe in them. I remember watching the Exorcist with my
Uncle
> > > when
> > > > I was a little kid (he's 4 years older than me) and he was hiding
his
> > face
> > > > under the blanket while I made fun of him for being scared.
HOWEVER,
> > > there
> > > > were two movies that freaked me out when I was little.
> > >
> > > The Exorcist is a movie that becomes increasingly disturbing the more
> you
> > > understand it.
> > >
> > What's there to understand? She was possessed, freaked out a bit, and
> > that's it!
> > Those movies just crack me up.
>
> Its supposedly based on a true story. :) Seriously, I'm not kidding. I
> guess it helps if your even mildly religious.
>
I used to be religious, but I don't believe that crap about being possessed
by spirits 'nshit. I mean, what is a demon going to accomplish going after
an 8 yr old?
>
> > > > Killer Bees, and The Birds. For weeks after I saw the Bee movie, if
I
> > > even
> > > > thought I saw a bee, I was gone. I lived in Ok, and there has been
> talk
> > > for
> > > > YEARS about the Killer Bees coming up from Mexico and Texas to kill
> > > > everyone, so it was too real for me (I don't know how old I was
> though).
> > >
> > > Lol, for me it was Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Not really scary,
> but
> > to
> > > this day I still don't like clowns. :)
> > >
> > I don't either! Damn Stephen King and his "It".
> > I forgot to add that spider movie too, that one creeps me out.
>
> I saw IT once, and I refuse to ever watch it again.
>
That movie has the absolute worst ending of all time. I think King uses up
all of his creativity (wasting) writing these long, descriptive stories and
then has someone else write the ending. A GIANT SPIDER?? I was
sooooooooooo pissed.
>
> > > >
> > > > Ooh, I almost forgot. Watching a Children of the Corn marathon,
then
> > > having
> > > > my car break down on a little country road in between 2 cornfields
did
> > > creep
> > > > me out a bit.
> > >
> > > LOL!
> > >
> > >
> > It's funny now, but it sure wasn't then. It took me about 30 minutes to
> > work up the nerve to walk (read: run blindly) through the field to the
> > nearest house.
>
> There goes my prison dwelling bar room brawler image of you. :)
>
There was no one to fight!
There I stood, corn all around me. The only sound was from the crickets,
and the occasional rustle from the corn rows. Visions of bloody body parts
and out of control farm machinery kept flashing through my head.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
> > I also forgot to add one, 28 Days Later. Its the old "virus creating
> > zombies theme", but it goes farther into that with the aftereffects on
the
> > surviving population, etc. Pretty good, I thought.
> >
> >
> > short - some gore in it though, so watch out!
>
> Like I said, doesn't phase me. 28 Days Later was ok, kind of lame imo.
>
>
It was lame of course, most of those are.
Kind of like the Star Trek movies
short - if you've seen one, you've seen them all
short
>
> "sidekick" <sidek...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:zeWdneFcer7...@adelphia.com...
> > Have you seen Finial Destination 2? The gore scens in that movie are
> great.
> > The best is when the huge log falls off the truck and goes through the
> state
> > troopers car!
>
> Yeah, that movie's rather entertaining.
>
>
Better than the first one, IMO.
However, I wish that death-by-PC from the first one on a few of our
customers, sometimes
short - OK, more that a few
short
> >> > The Shining
>
> I don't like Kubrick movies.
>
I don't normally, but The Shining was awesome.
> >> The Exorcist is a movie that becomes increasingly disturbing the more
you
> >> understand it.
> >
> > What's there to understand? She was possessed, freaked out a bit, and
> > that's it!
>
> Yeah. Didn't work for me at all, I've never been that interested in
> the possession type of superstitions. As a kid I would've been more
> scared of the sauna elf.
>
Hehe
> ...or ghosts! The only stuff that managed to really get to me as a kid
> weren't movies, but ghost stories told by the locals, since I lived in
> a place where such stories were *very* easy to place (starting from my
> family name being an explicit reference to a torturing device -
> supposedly inherited from a prominent executioner).
>
Ok, what torture device was that?
> >> > Killer Bees, and The Birds. For weeks after I saw the Bee movie, if
I
> >> even
> >> > thought I saw a bee, I was gone. I lived in Ok, and there has been
talk
>
> Last time I got stung by bee(s) (I didn't count) was when I was
> showing a Jackass-inspired bee suit stunt to a 10-year-old friend. :-)
>
ROFL!
> > I forgot to add that spider movie too, that one creeps me out.
>
> Arachnofobia? I suppose it's scary, if you don't like spiders. My
> fobias have always been about things that don't make good movies, so
> I'm sadly missing that experience. (For one thing, I've always found
> calmly flowing rivers extremely unnerving - but waterfalls and floods
> are OK!)
>
I'm not really afraid of spiders, but when that old couple are eating
popcorn........yech. I'm gettin chills right now, just thinking about
actually eating a spider. And then the scene when they're
dead............no way.
> > It's funny now, but it sure wasn't then. It took me about 30 minutes to
> > work up the nerve to walk (read: run blindly) through the field to the
> > nearest house.
>
> That's like me walking home as a kid in a dark autumn evening, miles
> without streetlights on streets bordering dark and gloomy forests,
> repeating to myself that ghosts don't exist, ghosts don't exists,
> ghosts don't exist...
>
> (But then, I always stopped fearing the dark when the snow set in. I
> guess most of these fears come from unfamiliar stuff, and it being dark
> without snow still feels very odd to me.)
>
I was never afraid of the dark, thankfully. Probably due to my uncles
always trying to scare me when I was little. I am scared of water however,
and have never been able to learn to swim.
short - it freaks me out!
short
short
short
> Shiflet wrote:
> > "chainbreaker" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> > news:cm59f...@news2.newsguy.com...
> >> Heh, sorry Shiflet--I somehow got the thread crossed up. I
> >> *thought* I
> > was
> >> commenting on the Silence of the Lambs, et al. <blushes>
> >
> > Heh, oops.
> >
> > Well, to answer that question then, no I've not read the books(any of
> > them). Come to think of it, haven't seen any of the other movies
> > either, aside from Manhunter which I saw years ago and don't remember
> > much of anything about.
> >
>
> I can recommend Red Dragon, the book upon which Manhunter is based, and
> Silence of the Lambs. It was SotL to which my "strange dialogue" comment
> referred.
>
didn't like it much. Red Dragon, I liked. A lot.
> Thomas Harris went in such different directions between the two, it's
almost
> like different authors wrote them.
>
>
Yup.
short
short
"Morgane" <zia...@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:01c4bfe8$ed1dfd60$ce00...@cr1001062-a.ym1.on.wave.home.com...
forever since I've seen that movie.
short
short
"Gabriele Neukam" <Gabriele.Spam...@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:cm0jmp$tk5$02$2...@news.t-online.com...
> On that special day, short, (sho...@zoominternet.net) said...
>
> > And Un Chien
> > Andolou, is that the one with the razor+eyeball scene?
>
> "surrealist" (done by artists like Bunuel and Dali), and break every
> convention and rule. They wanted to shock, but not by horror, but rather
> by disgust.
>
>
> Gabriele Neukam
>
> Gabriele.Spam...@t-online.de
>
>
He got the point across. I can watch just about anything, but that was
messed up.
They should put that in on a Fear Factor challenge
short - I wonder who would do that for $50,000?
short
> > Its Halloween, and a friend of mine is throwing a small party tomorrow.
> She
> > wants to get the shit scared out of her from a movie, and she asked me
> what
> > the scariest movie I've ever seen was. I went with The Exorcist. First
> > time I saw it, I was just a kid. I was home alone and it came on at
like
> > 1am. I never went to sleep that night. :)
>
get
> to sleep, but I'd rank it for the same reasons.
>
>
> Another was a Dr Who series which I saw when very young (~5), some weird
> evil dolls were in it. Funnily, I've spoken to a few people who must have
> seen this at about the same age, they all remember it and were all scared
by
> it.
>
short - I can't place it for sure
Jaakko Raipala
> "Jaakko Raipala" <rai...@pcu.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
>> ...or ghosts! The only stuff that managed to really get to me as a kid
>> weren't movies, but ghost stories told by the locals, since I lived in
>> a place where such stories were *very* easy to place (starting from my
>> family name being an explicit reference to a torturing device -
>> supposedly inherited from a prominent executioner).
>
> Ok, what torture device was that?
That would be a "raippa". I'm not exactly sure of the precise English
translation, but it's something like "flog". Anyway a thing that you
beat people with and they'll end up with really hurtful wounds in
their backs. (The -la thing is a common suffix on surnames, it makes
the word sort of a "place where you'd get flogged". It's very common
for surnames to come from first getting the place named.)
>> Last time I got stung by bee(s) (I didn't count) was when I was
>> showing a Jackass-inspired bee suit stunt to a 10-year-old friend. :-)
>
> ROFL!
Yeah. It was fun! When you grew up sleeping 100 feet from away a big
bunch of bee nests, you hardly notice getting stung...
>> Arachnofobia? I suppose it's scary, if you don't like spiders. My
>> fobias have always been about things that don't make good movies, so
>> I'm sadly missing that experience. (For one thing, I've always found
>> calmly flowing rivers extremely unnerving - but waterfalls and floods
>> are OK!)
>
> I'm not really afraid of spiders, but when that old couple are eating
> popcorn........yech. I'm gettin chills right now, just thinking about
> actually eating a spider. And then the scene when they're
> dead............no way.
Hmm. I really don't find anything troubling about eating bugs. Maybe
it's because the spiders here are rarely big enough to notice...
Gabriele Neukam
> I mean, what is a demon going to accomplish going after
> an 8 yr old?
Turning him into "the wanderer", obviously.
Gabriele Neukam
--
Ah, Information. A property, too valuable these days, to give it away,
just so, at no cost.
Gabriele Neukam
("un chien Andalou")
> He got the point across. I can watch just about anything, but that was
> messed up.
> They should put that in on a Fear Factor challenge
>
>
> short - I wonder who would do that for $50,000?
I did it for free, several years ago. No one paid me for it.
It was a late night cultural broadcast on tv, and I am an
"intellectual", after all. And it wasn't worse than a newsflash from any
given stage of war. Only than in such a newsflash, they don't throw
stuffed camelopard ragdolls and living bishops through windows (I bet
this was Dalis idea).
Last2Know
The inspiration part of it was Xerox-PARC coming up with the form
of broadcast packet switched digital network we know as ethernet.
Having ARPA give money to universities to set up the early
Internet as a decentralized social system was an important sociological
development that shaped its future, and of course the IETF did a
lot of the nuts and bolts work on the protocols and conventions
(some of which is good and some not so good from a technical POV).
short
> short <sho...@zoominternet.net> wrote:
>
> > "Jaakko Raipala" <rai...@pcu.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
> >> ...or ghosts! The only stuff that managed to really get to me as a kid
> >> weren't movies, but ghost stories told by the locals, since I lived in
> >> a place where such stories were *very* easy to place (starting from my
> >> family name being an explicit reference to a torturing device -
> >> supposedly inherited from a prominent executioner).
> >
> > Ok, what torture device was that?
>
> That would be a "raippa". I'm not exactly sure of the precise English
> translation, but it's something like "flog". Anyway a thing that you
> beat people with and they'll end up with really hurtful wounds in
> their backs. (The -la thing is a common suffix on surnames, it makes
> the word sort of a "place where you'd get flogged". It's very common
> for surnames to come from first getting the place named.)
>
the first guy with that last name.
> >> Last time I got stung by bee(s) (I didn't count) was when I was
> >> showing a Jackass-inspired bee suit stunt to a 10-year-old friend. :-)
> >
> > ROFL!
>
> Yeah. It was fun! When you grew up sleeping 100 feet from away a big
> bunch of bee nests, you hardly notice getting stung...
>
> >> Arachnofobia? I suppose it's scary, if you don't like spiders. My
> >> fobias have always been about things that don't make good movies, so
> >> I'm sadly missing that experience. (For one thing, I've always found
> >> calmly flowing rivers extremely unnerving - but waterfalls and floods
> >> are OK!)
> >
> > I'm not really afraid of spiders, but when that old couple are eating
> > popcorn........yech. I'm gettin chills right now, just thinking about
> > actually eating a spider. And then the scene when they're
> > dead............no way.
>
> Hmm. I really don't find anything troubling about eating bugs. Maybe
> it's because the spiders here are rarely big enough to notice...
>
I'll gladly trade some of the big jumpy hairy ones for you not big enough to
notice ones.
short - nothing like going to kill a spider, and having jump onto your
forehead
short
>
> "chainbreaker" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:cm5og...@news2.newsguy.com...
> > Shiflet wrote:
> > > "chainbreaker" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> > > news:cm59f...@news2.newsguy.com...
> > >> Heh, sorry Shiflet--I somehow got the thread crossed up. I
> > >> *thought* I
> > > was
> > >> commenting on the Silence of the Lambs, et al. <blushes>
> > >
> > > Heh, oops.
> > >
> > > Well, to answer that question then, no I've not read the books(any of
> > > them). Come to think of it, haven't seen any of the other movies
> > > either, aside from Manhunter which I saw years ago and don't remember
> > > much of anything about.
> > >
> >
> > I can recommend Red Dragon, the book upon which Manhunter is based, and
> > Silence of the Lambs. It was SotL to which my "strange dialogue"
comment
> > referred.
> >
> I liked Manhunter, but it was pretty cheesy to me when I saw it, and I
> didn't like it much. Red Dragon, I liked. A lot.
>
I *saw* Manhunter...
short
short
> On that special day, short, (sho...@zoominternet.net) said...
>
> ("un chien Andalou")
>
> > He got the point across. I can watch just about anything, but that was
> > messed up.
> > They should put that in on a Fear Factor challenge
> >
> >
> > short - I wonder who would do that for $50,000?
>
> I did it for free, several years ago. No one paid me for it.
>
> It was a late night cultural broadcast on tv, and I am an
> "intellectual", after all. And it wasn't worse than a newsflash from any
> given stage of war. Only than in such a newsflash, they don't throw
> stuffed camelopard ragdolls and living bishops through windows (I bet
> this was Dalis idea).
>
>
:o)
short
chainbreaker
>>> I can recommend Red Dragon, the book upon which Manhunter is based,
>>> and Silence of the Lambs. It was SotL to which my "strange
>>> dialogue" comment referred.
>>>
>> I liked Manhunter, but it was pretty cheesy to me when I saw it, and
>> I didn't like it much. Red Dragon, I liked. A lot.
>>
> <ahem>
> I *saw* Manhunter...
>
>
> short
Now I'm more confused than ever . . .
Gabriele Neukam
> Eh? You let someone slice your eyeball with a razor? Oh wait, nevermind
> :o)
It wasn't mine, but one of a donkey (as one of the authors admitted).
See, they did special effects, too, for arts sake.
Jaakko Raipala
> Whitedog wrote:
>> Hey, and remember where the internet started. :)
>
> Point taken. However the internet is just a global network and was
> inevitable. If the American military machine with it's
> x-billion-dollar-a-year budget didn't come up with ARAPA net first then
> someone else would have later.
Yeah. Americans may have invented the Internet, but look who's ruling
it these days? A mysterious, legendary Scandinavian group of myths
which had been thought to be extinct for a thousand years but which
has now resurfaced to take over the world... I'm talking about trolls,
of course.
The Norsemen raid the world, once again!
Watchman
So Jaws would have a real frightener for you then? You know, being in
deep water, seeing a large dorsal fin breaking the surface and circling
before disappearing. knowing but not being able to see the giant shark
torpedoing up beneath you with it's mouth of dagger-like teeth gaping at
your kicking legs.
And then there's that music...
Watchman :)
--
'Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really know what's going on'
vonho...@juno.com
spiders...
Vandevere
Whitedog
>
> >
> > > >
> > > > Never did anything for me. Always seemed to be all gore and no
> > > creativity.
> > > > Gore doesn't do much for me, as I've seen it all in real life. I
used
> > to
> > > > develop autopsy photos. A person with their face peeled off is just
a
> > > > person with their face peeled off.
> > > >
> > > Well, gore (no, not Al) is ok in my book. If not for a bit of gore
and
> > > sex, what else are we going to watch movies for? Surely not for the
> > > dialogue!!
> >
> > I prefer a psychological thriller over horror anyday. Blood and Gore
just
> > looks cheap to me. I'd rather have a movie screw with my head.
> >
> Oh, me too. That being said, you need to see Godsend :)
I heard that was good, just haven't found the time to see it.
A lot if the demon owns the movie rights to the story. :)
Whitedog
Where are they? We'll bomb them. :)
short
"Watchman" <str...@SPAMPHOBICwhyalla.net.au> wrote in message
news:41897727...@SPAMPHOBICwhyalla.net.au...
> short wrote:
> >
<snippety>
> >
> > I was never afraid of the dark, thankfully. Probably due to my uncles
> > always trying to scare me when I was little. I am scared of water
however,
> > and have never been able to learn to swim.
> >
> > short - it freaks me out!
>
> So Jaws would have a real frightener for you then? You know, being in
> deep water, seeing a large dorsal fin breaking the surface and circling
> before disappearing. knowing but not being able to see the giant shark
> torpedoing up beneath you with it's mouth of dagger-like teeth gaping at
> your kicking legs.
> And then there's that music...
>
> Watchman :)
> --
Yup, Jaws was a good one, esp since I was pretty young when I saw it. We
went to Fla for vacation a few years back, and the first thing I thought
about when I stepped in the water was Jaws. I have to admit, I looked over
my shoulder every once in awhile to make sure nothing was back there getting
ready to take a sample, too.
It didn't make it any better when the guy that took you on the
ride........(can't remember what its called, big parachute, some ropes, and
a boat is involved though) told us about a fairly recent shark attack. The
poor guy dove off of the dock in his back yard, right into a bunch of
feeding sharks.
Apparently he didn't live too far from where some of the ships dump their
crap, and that attracted the sharks.
Of course he could have been making it all up, but it still made me a bit
nervous.
short
~misfit~
> ~misfit~ <misfi...@hooya.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Jaakko Raipala wrote:
>>> Whitedog <jro...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>>> Sauna Elf?
>>>
>>> It's an elf that lives in the sauna. (Well, what did you think it
>>> was?) The sauna elves are usually benevolent spirits, but they can
>>> be easily angered by disrespectful behaviour (especially small
>>> talk) and then they'll burn down the sauna (and usually the house
>>> with it).
>>
>> So no small talk in the sauna?
>
> No small talk anywhere in Finland. Also, smiling when not drunk or
> entertaining tourists is considered proof of insanity. Nowadays both
> have an bad reputation thanks to America, known as the land of
> unnecessary conversations, phony whitened teeth and unedumacatedy
> presidents who smile *way* too much. (Previously, dubiously excessive
> talkativeness was considered a Russian sin.)
>
> Here's a Nordic joke:
>
> Sven (from Sweden) was visiting Finland. By some miracle, he managed
> to get invited to a local's home and, naturally, the bottles were
> brought out. After an hour of drinking things started to loosen up a
> bit, so Sven raised his glass and said "skål!". Disapprovingly, the
> Finn then asked "are you here to drink or to talk?"
>
> (It's really funny.)
I understand your sense of humour better now. It *is* funny.
>> I'll have to remember that if I ever have a sauna again. I hate to
>> annoy elves.
>
> Another easy way to anger the elf is to have a cold sauna (ie. under
> 80 C (that's 176 F)). If you've done that, you better appease the elf
> by turning the heat up to 250 F and taking it for a good while.
I think I'll just avoid saunas altogether and stick to frolicking with the
Dryads in the forest.
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~misfit~
~misfit~
I have a similar situation. Shady loves horror movies but they scare her
silly and she won't watch one unless I'm watching it with her. Then she
dreams about it for the next few days. The movies rarely 'scare' me but
Shady does the way she jumps, screams or grabs me when something happens.
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~misfit~