 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
Hi, How about the groups' top tens of Horror film classics, The ones that scare you without using all the modern gimmickry. Mike
For me it was the Tarantula when i was 10. On several occasions i had to call my dad into my bedroom as i was certain one was growing behind a chair.For my brother it was Psycho. I was 12 and he was 10. Iwaited for months, testing the bathroom door when he showered. Finally found it unlocked one night and quickly donned one of my fathers bathrobes, got the largest carving knife we owned, pulled the bathrobe over my head, and ripped back the shower curtain waiving the knife. He was actually levitating. He never forgave me. I NEVER left the door unlocked.
I seem to remember a few shivers on this one. Another of those disturbing
and believable haunting flicks.
(NT)
Top two for me:
-Begotten
-Wax: The Discovery of Television among the BeesBegotten - Never ever seen anything like it, very disturbing and puzzling.
Wax - Not a horror film but man, NEVER fall asleep while it is on - seriously wacko dreams are the result. It is a fascinating movie.
I rented both from Spruce Street Video here in Philly, wonderful selection!
The best I had ever seen was 2nd street video run by a guy named Tibor. Long gone I'm afraid....-regards,
Rich S.
I agree the original black and white version of the The Haunting. Totally
chilling with no special effects.
This is a wild one. Pretty scary serial killer stuff.
Before completing any list, check out the above named 1980's horror movies if you can find them. Not as popular as the more well known titles but very scary when originally seen. The first two titles especially make you wonder if the events could take place in real life.
... one film that has remained on my top 10 list of great horror films since I first saw it as a child. It scared me then, and I've gone back to it as an adult and still enjoy it tremendously, though it doesn't scare me any more of course (at 34). Wonderful atmosphere!
"One person's scream is another's yawn".Here is a list of films that scared me at various times in my life:
"The War Of The Worlds" - viewed at age 5, hid mostly under the movie seat!
"The Thing From Another World" - age 7
"Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" - age 8
"The Tingler" - age 11
"Draculas, Frankenstein Monsters, Werewolves&Mummies" - at a young age
"Psycho" - age 12
"The Birds" - age 15
"The Haunting" - age 17
"Jaws" - age 27
"Halloween" - age 30
"Alien" - age 31
"The Shining" - age 32
"Silence Of The Lambs" - age 43.
How's the original version? Is it very different from the newer one? I guess I should just find this movie and rent it. I thought the new one kinda blew though.Jaws scared you at age 27? What's wrong with you!!! ;-)
Totally chilling black and white with no special effects.
No contest between the original and the remake of "The Haunting"; see mine
and other reviews/comments on these films at www.imdb.com. Both available
at Blockbuster Video.
As for Jaws, yes I was 27, but when one has fought off a great white
attack with a surfboard and sheer will-to-live fortitude at age 16, then
the old fears have a way of surfacing when vicariously re-experienced.
- AH
...when the corpse with the mangled eye showed through the hole in the bottom of the boat.The last time I was scared by a film was when I saw "Pet Sematary" in a theater. Pretty creepy, even for Stephen King.
I think there's a couple different ways I would label "horror" movies.1. The slasher/monster type, which doesn't really scare me. Some get to be real funny when you think about it. i.e. Friday The 13th, Nightmare On Elm St.
2. The evil spirit/ghost type. i.e. The Exorcist, The Changling, Pet Semetary. This type, when done right can really scare me silly.
nt
Regardless of what people think about Spielberg, Jaws was exceptionally well done. Simple, almost stark, yet very intense with good acting. If you haven't read the book, its excellent too.
Cesar Romero's (?) Night of the Living Dead.Saw it for the first time in a drive-dn in as a 7 years old. We had just moved from suburbia to this old-dank house in the Pennsylvania countryside. I slept in the hall-way for the next year and still had vivid night-mares of being eaten by zombies. Til this day (31 years later), any living-dead flick, including the comical stuff, will trigger several nights of being chased and eaten by zombies. I hate zombies.
Oklahoma
English Patient
Steel Magnolias
Drop Dead Fred
Sound of Music
Seize the Day
Death Becomes Her
Xanadu
Forest Gump
Titanic
Dangerous Liasons... I think you've got the idea. The real horror is that there seems to end to this tripe. It's like the typical monster that won't die. This polution just multiplies faster than any malignant cancer.
I agree. I think the Mask should be on top of that list. The true horror is the fact that many will actually watch them...I once had a boss - a true idiot. That was back during my HP days. He was hell-bent on renaming the project we were working on - he joined it while already underway and with a decent name. His mind of a five-year-old could not fly any higher than to borrow names from the Teenage Ninja piece of shit. According to him there was logic to the character's names and he would gladly spend time educating us. At the pinacle of that team building excercise was a group viewing of that movie - all during normal working hours of course, in one of the Hewlett-Packard new super-well-equipped conference rooms. By that time I already kissed him goodby so I have not seen the movie. It still strikes a chord in me whenever I hear that name...
Often, you boss can be your worst horror...
one should not feel that a movie is "too long". maybe because i was expecting something else more technical or something rather than a boy meets girl 3 plus hour drama without any real complexity.
Totally unbelievable characters and a general feeling of a made-for-tv
special.
While I certainly can understand someone finding redeaming values in the Private Ryan (although I disagree with that), the Titanic is totally hollow. It is basically the 1998 (or 1999, whatever...) Cleopatra. It was simply made because it could be made - grandiose and idiotic.In essence it is like someone with loud voice and no brains - he screams loud but there is nothing in that scream, just the air pressure. It represent the rather regrettable state of the today's Hollywood ability to produce nothing but nothing for a lot of money with good financial return. It is a completely dull and dumb spectacle, one that is surely expected to draw a good crowd, though. Like someome dropping his pants in the town square.
To think that once that place was capable of producing movies with content, message, good acting, just plain fun, for petew's sake!
Agreed on Titanic and Private Ryan too. Just the usual big budgets stuff. Sort of like a big merger of companies (really often a merger of CEO egos rather than sound business strategy - I refer only to a few very large ones which have since been or will soon be dissolved - the brokers (read, investment bankers) will make money at the dissolution and at the merger. Not that I have a problem with that of course. I just make sure that I am in the money one way or another.I think too often the public falls for hype but hey, ultimately they are there to be entertained and if they feel entertained, I guess they have received what they paid for just like the story that is sold to Wall Street by the company or is it the other way around sometimes. Satisfaction is in perception and perception is subjective and deceptive too. Does it really matter if we lived in or are living in "the Matrix" to borrow from another recent movie (BTW, I liked "Matrix" even though you and many others did not, maybe because I am a sucker for sci-fi and because I am starved of good sci-fi, I will settle for anything I guess).
Saw the Ronin yesterday as per your recommendation. It gave my surround speakers a better workout than even Matrix. Whew. I loved the car chases too.
Another flop which I rented twice was Ishtar, just because i love seeing different countries etc. Still it was goofy - the cover on the VHS makes me want to take it home.
Wish they invested in movies about Africa etc. But then I would not be alone when I went to these countries.
It could've been better if the actors tried a bit of scene stealing playful comradery. The inevitable consequence of such tactics is bigger than life presence whose tension the grips the audience for a couple hours straight.The director seemed like he was filming a documentary for PBS rather than an action-drama. But, it's still better than 90% of what's out there.
Although, I nearly wet my paints laughing during their obligatory "behind the scenes" schtick. The concern expressed about shooting guns in a convincing trajectory when the film used a cutaway view was hilarious. Maybe I was supposed to see this before the actual film. Then, they worried about the case scenes being authentic enough. Is it me, or isn't this film about the interplay among mercenaries as they're forced to depend on each other in an untrustworthy business? These old world gimmicks are just as hokey as CG. Just because these gimmicks are older doesn't make them a classic. Braveheart is comparatively modern & it's a classic.
Why not talk about Robert De Niro & Jean Réno? I still can't look at Jean Réno without remebering his problems with American coffee in Godzilla. De Niro OTOH constantly reminds me of everything he's done.
My perennial favorite is "The Exorcist", but it sort of straddles the border on effects-driven horror. My cousin reminded me of a few creepy ones I've overlooked: "Carnival of Souls", "The Other", and "Suspiria".
nt
The thought of her dancing naked outside of my room and rhythmically banging on the wall...scares me too!Hope Ed Woodward is doing well. Haven't seen too much of him since his coronary and CBS' "The Equalizer".
nt
This was so long ago I'm not even sure I haven't mixed several films together. It may have been one of Vincent Price's films--and I think the story goes that a man gets the hands of a great pianist grafted on to his arms, or perhaps a great pianist has the hands of a murder grafted on...but it doesn't matter. Wasn't Peter Lorrie in this too? I just remember that hand running around the room in the dark shadows...and him trying to burn it in the fire--poking it with the iron poker...I can't tell the rest....even now it terrifies me! I don't know how they did it but the thing moved like a spider--ooooohhhhhhhh creapy!I've you've studied the bio-mechanics of spiders you'll know that the reason we find them so creapy is their motion is unlike any others in the animal kingdom: it's like they have capicators, and they "burn up" all their energy in bursts, and then have to wait a moment to "recharge". That's why you see them "spurt" across the floor, and then stop suddenly.
Ya, quantum spiders!
Indeed, it was Peter Lorre who severed the hand of his employer (a pianist - Robert Alda I believe) and is now terrorized by hallucinations of the hand. No matter what he does to stop it - nail it to a desk, throw it in the fire, etc - nothing can keep the hand from carrying out its mission.Very inventive shots of the severed hand!
"Night of the Living Dead". Still can't watch it alone!!! All those ghouls eatin' people...yuk!
The Changeling with George C. Scott. This movie scared the crap out of me.
Jaws. the scene where Robert Conrad tells the story of the Indiana is one of my favorite movie scenes. Intense and well done.Alien.
the Thing. John Carpenter's version.
(NT)
Hitchcock's the Byrds comes to my mind.MiKe
Vanishings.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
