Ok, I'm tired of googling this and finding pure crap. I'm not a 12 year old girl for God sakes and the Shining was NOT a horror movie!!!!
I want REAL fear, like the kind I can't shake for a while. I want a movie that wakes up some REAL fear. Like the kinda you get from playing Fatal Frame.
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TO CLOSE: basically, I haven't been REALLY scared since I played Fatal Frame, I've never had a nightmare either... can you guys cange that?
Fatal Frame's a pretty tough act to follow (I actually stopped playing it because it got that deep in my head), especially considering you don't think The Shining was all that scary (because that was kind of my first recommendation). The only movie that's ever really scared me was Event Horizon, but you might not get into that one given your list.
But, if we're working under the premise that horror ultimately comes in three flavors (Creepy, Scary, and Gross) and you're going more towards the Gets-in-your-head creepy versus Leaps-out-from-the-dark scary, You might want to try to hunt down the original Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky (NOT, repeat NOT, the George Clooney vehicle), it's got some rather disturbing images and a pretty matchless haunting quality. Also, everyone tells me that One Hour Photo is pretty eerie and Jacob's Ladder is always listed in examples of films that fit the "creepy" category.
Lastly, this is something of a joke (at least to me, but who knows, it might work): my roommate was absolutely weirded out by some parts of Koyaanisqatsi.
I think you're fighting a losing battle if you want something to match Fatal Frame; I think I've even become desensitized to the trips and trimmings of horror thanks to that game.
It depends what you find scary. I don't think shocks and blood and gore are particularly thrilling, but they work for most people who watch horror movies.
I tend to prefer more psychological horror. Plenty of David Cronenberg's will work: Videodrome and Dead Ringers are particularly good. Don't Look Now from the 70s is pretty good.
The last movie that scared me was the first Halloween but I was watching it late at night while I was the only one in the house. Watch it like I did and maybe it will get you.
A bunch of people will probably disagree but if you have a good sound system,watch drag me to hell. It is basically a B movie with a bunch of jump scares, but it is done very well. And probably one of the best endings in a horror movie I have ever seen.
Hmm, I don't normally find horror films scary (apart from the cheap jump in your seat moments, I mean more the premise and plot), but Mirrors genuinely got under my skin. I was doing double checks every time I came into contact with reflective surfaces for a while after.
I wish I was immune to fear lol. But as for a scary movie well the Excorsist films, the Grudge and the Ring all freaked me out quite a lot. In fact, I can't even think of why I subject myself to scary films...it just puts me off sleeping for a few days.
The issue with horror nowadays is that we can easily UNDERSTAND what will happen, the plot ends up being fairly transparent and generic most of the time, and even video games like Doom 3 lose their fright because you understand how most of the monsters work, a testification to that is the Cherubs (the little baby fucking things), I couldn't understand their attack pattern like I could every other monster, so I was fucking terrified of them. No, not because they're mutant babies trying to claw Doomguy's massive e-peen away, but because I couldn't figure out how the fuck to dodge them.
Speaking of scary TV series I've only seen about two episode of "Buffy" but one of them, the one with the "Gentlemen", is memorable... although honestly the episode was cheesey trash, it was the Gentlemen themselves which were fantastic.
As to other suggestions... The Exorcist has dated although it is still pretty good... Exorcism of Emily Rose is pretty good too.
Arachnophobia is scary only if you're arachnophobic and it gets pretty damn silly towards the end. It's not a "horor" horror and is certainly not a good film. I compare it to "Anaconda" although "Anaconda" was more hilarious.
The Frighteners remains one of my favourite movies but is not really scary. I remember seeing it as a kid and being so proud of myself that I saw a horror film from start to finish and wasn't scared... so that should be your yardstick. I would have been ten when I saw it for the first time and wasn't scared - which is odd 'cause I remember being shit-scared of "The Mummy" when I saw that two years later...
"Silent Hill" is good enough, not particularly brilliant but a decent horror night-at-the-movies - speaking as someone who's never played a Silent Hill game of course. It pretty much completely fell apart at the end though. It got needlessly gory, (even for me,)
The skin ripping-off bit was bizarre and probably impossible but at least tolerable, the graphic immlotion and barbed-wire tentacle-rape, (see Pararaptor, there was rape,) was probably a bit much though.
and the ending kind of left you hollow and by no means satisfied; like having fish for dinner at a restaurant.
"REC" is a good suggestion but it really depends on what scares you. It suffers from being a personally much-hated handycam film but pulls it off well at least and is definately worth a watch. By no means should you watch the American re-make "Quarantine", a film that really has no reason to exist. On the subject of handycam films, "The Blair Witch Project" is also good.
It all depends on what scares you. I mean if you're scared by people getting killed by evil dudes then watch one of the many slasher films, if you're scared by grisly creatures an even grislier deaths watch Silent Hill, if you're scared by ghosts and the unknown try one of the Jap horrors like "The Ring", "The Grudge" or "Dark Water", if you're scared by the walking dead watch a Rolling Stones concert. To each their own.
I do suggest Dawn of the Dead, (the 2004 "reimagining".) It's not all that scary, (unless screeching zombies and gore gets to you of course,) but it's a fucking badass film.
Edit: Ah, Matsugawa yeah, "Event Horizon" is pretty cool, although I'm not sure I think that because the movie itself is good or because I just think Sam Neill is awesome and should get his arse off his fucking vinyard and act in more films. I would recommend it anyway.
Also, this isnt actually a movie but meh. A documentory called Spooked, in which a small handful ofguys go into an old, deserted sanitarium (called Waverly Hills, which i think is in kentucky) which was a big hospital used in the 50s/60s (?) when there was the big outbreaks of tuberculosis. It shows them as they go through it and also has images people have taken yadda yadda.
The Apartment . japanese version
Shutter . japanese version
The Ring
Army of Darkness. just kidding but it's good
REC . it's Spanish so you'll need subtitles , but it delivers 10000 times more than you expect.
First, you've got to find what freaks you out on a personal level, this is different for different people. From there, finding a scary movie should be easier for you.
Make sure that you have the right setting if you want to be scared. Dark and at night, home alone, will usually scare most. Make sure to watch a scary movie in the prime setting. If you are being scared, make sure you are really into the movie and aren't distracted or letting common sense get in the way of the scare factor.
I'm easily scared and I don't like gore much. However, I've seen some films (Thirteen Ghosts and Signs, for example) that were marketed as 'scary' and actually weren't. I also saw most of Saw III and even though I hate gore, I actually want to see the rest of that series. Apart from Billy the Puppet being pretty damn creepy, it wasn't really scary at all, more simply disgustingly sick. Which suits me fine.
The only film I can honestly say has actually scared me properly was the Blair Witch Project. Still loved it, but it's seriously the only film I can say I've seen that has really scared me.
Picture a home video made by serial killers, where you follow them in their day to day lives. As they torture a woman to death while force feeding her her own excrement and severed bits of flesh, cutting apart her boyfriend in the bathtub in the next room. Before they take a tour of a model train exhibit. Then a slaughter house. Then hiring a couple of hookers, who they beat and chase down. Or the time they broke into a family's house on Christmas Day and raped and killed everyone, children included. Or the dead baby with the maggots. All presented in wonderfully subdued, POV footage treated like it's business as usual.
Forgive the expletive. That's just fucking STRANGE.
I am never again going to watch a film before finding out if it's that disturbing.
Not scary that, just disturbing and perverted.
The movie with the ventriloquist dummies is scary, I think. Haven't seen it in a while. The name is Dead Silence I think, and
His Dad's a puppet controlled by his new wife who is actually a witch, like the one he killed who he thought was the only witch and causing the problem.
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