Uberpoll: Horror Movies (873 hits)
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Submitted by Jack McCallum (View user info) at 2006-06-30 16:35:22 EDT
A simple question. What single moment in a horror movie transcended reality, making you forget you were sitting in a movie theater or watching a dvd?
For me one of those moment is in John Carpenter's The Thing.
I saw it in a theater when it was first released, and at that time prosthetic effects were still primitive. I was already enjoying the creeping paranoia and the gory effects, but when Norris's chest burst open to reveal jagged teeth that bit off Dr. Copper's hands (and Copper screamed, raising blood-spewing stumps), well, I nearly shit my pants. At that moment I knew I was in for something different.
It took a long time for that opinion to be shared by the masses.
When first released The Thing was shit upon by almost every critic, the violence compared by some to explicit porn. It took years of video and dvd viewings by fans before the film attained the cult status it now enjoys.
That movie is still a favorite of mine, as is that scene.
What scene in a horror flick grabbed you?
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-07-03 08:15:18 EDT (#)
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The "Care Bear Stare"...
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-07-02 05:43:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
May as well be a +2, since i love em.
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-07-02 05:41:56 (#)
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No one mentioned the Italian splatter genre (Giallo flicks) which are way more hardcore than their American cousins. (Picture Evil Dead but actually scary, but still fun to make fun of).
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-07-02 05:41:56 EDT (#)
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No one mentioned the Italian splatter genre (Giallo flicks) which are way more hardcore than their American cousins. (Picture Evil Dead but actually scary, but still fun to make fun of).
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-07-02 05:22:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2006-07-02 05:08:45 (#)
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I suppose 'Cube' isn't really horror but that freaked the shit out of me when I was a kid.
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I don't consider "Cube" horror, but a damn good movie. I absolutely HATE when people try and say "Silence Of The Lambs" is horror. It's not. Neither is "Se7en." Only "Alien" was barely a horror movie, beacuse all the sequels were just SciFi in my opinion.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2006-07-02 05:08:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by awj002 (user info) at 2006-06-30 18:40:54 (#)
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"ichi the killer" anyone?
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Wicked film, but the original animated version was shite.
I suppose 'Cube' isn't really horror but that freaked the shit out of me when I was a kid.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2006-07-01 12:43:05 EDT (#)
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Sorry Shlongy, didn't mean to make you relive the 'peeing yourself at the theater while watching Mommy Dearest' incident again.
BigMike reminded me... Phantasm.
I saw that at about the same age as Mike, the kid in the movie. It was a midnight show... and when it was over I had to ride my bike home past a graveyard.
The pucker factor was pretty high that night.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-07-01 09:06:43 EDT (#)
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If Hitchcock's "Psycho" is considered a hooror flick, then the "shower scene" is one that comes quickly to mind as being excellent and "grabbage" material.
If it's considered a "psychological thriller" and NOT a horror flick, than I HATE the entire horror genre of films and this post blows.
It's YOUR call, Jack.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-07-01 08:18:42 EDT (#)
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Too many to list. However, I have to comment on a 'classic'.
The only one who could not outrun "The Mummy" was a quadgaplegic
stoned on downers, and even then it would be close.
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2006-07-01 00:49:17 EDT (#)
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Horror movies. Dear lord, where do I begin?
"Audition"
The chick goes to work on the guy with some needles and does other cool shit to him. Love that scene where she's repeating "deeper, deeper."
"Thirteen Ghosts"
The ghosts are scary and a guy gets chopped in half lengthwise by a glass door.
"The Exorcist"
The movie itself isn't as scary as the subliminal face they throw in at random to freak you out.
"I spit on your grave"
Bad movie, rape scenes, Emasculation.
"The Blair Witch Project"
I don't give a shit what anybody says, I've watched a ton of horror movies. This one, with its study of paranoia, hopelessness, and frustration, is a good one.
"Rosemary's Baby"
Dark imagery.
"Phantasm"
The ball.
"Dead Alive"
Peter Jackson, Lawn mowers and zombies, birth of a zombie baby.
"Re-Animator"
Just see it. You'll know why I'm mentioning it here.
"The Night of the Hunter"
Robert Mitchum, that bastard.
"The Ring"
That bitch is scary and I love the way she moves.
"Hellraiser"
All of them. Freaky. Pinhead is the man. His henchman are the coolest looking things I have ever seen.
That's enough. I could go on and on. I LOVE horror.
Submitted by fried-green-potatoes (user info) at 2006-06-30 20:36:45 EDT (#)
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"Come and play with us, Danny. Forever... and ever... and ever."
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2006-06-30 19:51:00 EDT (#)
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I'm a huge believer in 'they don't make them like they used to'.
However, the Exorcism of Emily Rose was pretty fucked up.
Submitted by Bundaberg (user info) at 2006-06-30 19:37:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Probably the first time I watched the Freddie, I was 6 or 7 and it scarred my dreams for years.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-06-30 19:24:29 EDT (#)
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"Halloween" scared the shit out of me as a kid. Both the scene of him breaking in through the closet and, of course, the classic moment when Jamie Lee Curtis is in the foreground and Micheal Myers suddenly sits up behind her. Fuck yeah... John Carpenter's original "The Fog" freaked me out as a little kid, too. (God, that remakes was horrible.)
I can remember watching "Hellraiser" and finding PinHead absolutely fascinating. Never before had I seen anything like him. He was so much more influencial on me at age 12 than a silent guy in a hockey mask, or a burn finger tosing out puns with a razored glove. "Candyman" was another brilliant villain from Clive Barker.
Yes, "Event Horizon" is a terrifying movie. So much just wasn't shown to you, they relied on lighting and sound. And those sounds in the recording... Another great movie that does this is the indie film "Session 9." So much done just with sound.
I enjoyed both "Texas Chainsaw Massacres," the original and the remake, each for different reasons. And while "House of 1000 Corpes" was a bloated, messy affair, the sequal "The Devil's Rejects" I though was just perfect.
"Hostel" was ridiculous.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Blair Witch Project." I know it's trendy to hate the movie now, but when it first came out it was utterly captivating. Watching that, then driving home through the woods was quite an experience. We saw it when it was still an unknown variable.
However... my dumb ass watched "Night Of The Living Dead" when I was around 10 years old. I sat there, absorbing this grainy, B&W footage as the sun went down at my neighbor's house, his parents away somewhere. When it ended, I ran home so fast, I near collapsed when I reached the front door.
I know I'm forgetting at least 3 movies here... but I've rambled on like an idiot long enough.
Submitted by Wiggles (user info) at 2006-06-30 19:22:25 EDT (#)
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Horror movies are always terrible. The only good horror movie is The Shining, which is barely even a horror movie and isn't scary at all.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-06-30 18:52:29 EDT (#)
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Alien, when that lil fucker comes bursting out of John Hurt's chest...
Submitted by awj002 (user info) at 2006-06-30 18:40:54 EDT (#)
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"ichi the killer" anyone?
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-06-30 18:15:59 EDT (#)
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My parents allowed me to watch The Thing when I was about 7 years old, and it pretty much scarred me for life.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:55:16 EDT (#)
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the tree rape scene in evil dead.
no, i'm kidding.
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:55:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:18:18 (#)
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I had a babysitter who let me watch Holloween when I was about six.... To this day anyone in a Michael costume runs the risk of me stabbing them out of fear.
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I watched that with a friend when I was little but I didn't think it was very scary. It scared the crap out of her though and the music scared her even more. Being the good friend that I was, I'd always play the song on the piano for her when she made me mad. It made her cry.
Remember the part with the German Shepherd? I don't remember if it was the first or second movie but that part made me sad.
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:48:58 EDT (#)
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When I was 4 or 5, my mom let me watch a Freddy Kruger movie so I'd shut up. After watching that movie, I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself for about a year. For some reason I thought Freddy was going to jump out of the toilet and grab my butt with his claws.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:22:09 EDT (#)
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Dolemite
Bone-crushing, Skull-splitting, Brain-blasting ACTION!
"You better hear my message, you honky rat-soup eatin motherfucker!"
^^^
whooo-wheee Lordy dat B som scary shit
Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:18:18 EDT (#)
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I had a babysitter who let me watch Holloween when I was about six.... To this day anyone in a Michael costume runs the risk of me stabbing them out of fear.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:08:32 EDT (#)
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Sadly, I've never been able to enjoy horror movies in this sense. Some are good, some are downright corny, but I've never had one that actually had my forgetting that I was watching a movie, or even terribly scared.
I've also never watched The Thing, though. I did see John Carpenter's Vampires. Except for James Woods, that movie sucked.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:07:31 EDT (#)
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Anything involving fucked up japanese women - so any of the various incarnations of the Ring or the Grudge are guarenteed to fuck me up and lead to frantic phonecalls to anyone available pleading for them to come and sleep with me.
http://angel4life.sprayblogg.no/images/grudge_170117421.JPG
Ugh!
http://www.cinemaeye.com/images/uploads/rev_juon.jpg
Bed is supposed to be a safe haven - having some fucked up japanese crawly spooky woman disregard that sacred universal law is just going too far.
And no, it's not funny to call up someone who is shitting herself because she thinks she can hear the undead crawling up through her kitchen floor and make that "uh-uh-u-hu-u-h-uh" noise down the phone.
Submitted by platonicchic (user info) at 2006-06-30 17:02:34 EDT (#)
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I love horror flicks. Not blood and gore, but real scares. I even like the old black & white Vincent Price stuff. I have to say, "Darkness Falls" is to me, the scariest movie so far.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:58:45 EDT (#)
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the birth of method.
great flick, check it out.
Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:55:07 EDT (#)
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A movie that creeps the shit out of me is 'Event Horizon', a great sci-fi horror movie that is FUCKED UP and awesome.
When I was younger the part in "Indian Jones: The Last Crusade" when the guys ages really fast gave me nightmares.
Submitted by v8lover (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:54:40 EDT (#)
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House of 1000 Corpses.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:47:33 EDT (#)
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Ahem
http://www.ubersite.com/m/89896
Submitted by CrazyCanuck (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:47:05 EDT (#)
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Ever since I was a kid, about 8 years old, and I watched "The Shining", and that freaked me out I couldn't sleep for a week, there has never been a movie that has scared me. I am always on the look out for one that will just scare the crap out of me but they never seem to.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:45:42 EDT (#)
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In The Exorcist when Linda Blair was crawling down the stairs upside down and backwards. She looked like a human/spider hybrid. Freaky!
I love horror flicks but I hate it when filmakers rely on special effects and gore. I consider those to be in the Slasher genre. Not scary at all.
Give me a psychological thriller with a good plot and plenty of suspense any day!
What scares me are movies that although fiction, COULD possibly happen.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:45:07 EDT (#)
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I can't watch them- I get bad dreams.
Submitted by the_lone_stranger (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:43:07 EDT (#)
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Generally, any home movie featuring your mom.
The first time I watched The Exorcist I was 12, home alone, and it was 1 a.m. I finally fell asleep at about 4 a.m. with all the lights on in my house.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:40:43 EDT (#)
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Never seen the thing. Read the book though.
Submitted by WildcatMcGee (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:39:41 EDT (#)
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The first time I watched Aliens. God damn face suckers.
Submitted by polymorph505 (user info) at 2006-06-30 16:38:19 EDT (#)
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It wasn't one particular scene, but "It" scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Then I read the book. Still one of my favorites.