Pixies Place Forums - I Just Peed my pants!!!!

skipthisone

10-15-2002, 02:17 PM

I watch way to many movies, but this time of the year especially I enjoy pulling out those old dusty scary VHS tapes and getting a good scare. I don't scare that easy anymore but am curious as to what movies really scare you guys. Im not talking about the gore crap that is out today I mean a good old Hitchockian-no sleep that night scare.

Mine, what I consider the best horror flick ever

House of Wax - Vincent Prices best picture. (Cant beat the B&W's)

Coach Knight

10-15-2002, 02:28 PM

The first Halloween was awesome.

Murphy

10-15-2002, 02:32 PM

"Dumb and Dumber" - it scares me that there are REALLY people out there like that.

but for a true horror flick - The first "Alien" That critter popping out of nowhere had me and my date clutching eachother thru the whole movie.

BIBI

10-15-2002, 02:36 PM

The most disturbing "horror" flick I saw was one called "The Haunting" the old version...very psychologically scary about a house being haunted and wanting one of the women in the movie to join it.........gave me the creeps and I can't watch it to this day. Didn't pee my pants but got so damn spooked I crawled in bed with my mom........and I was 17 at the time.

Murphy

10-15-2002, 02:44 PM

Bibi: I forgot about that one! And TCM shows it about once a month! Just saw it a couple weeks ago! oooohhhhh creepy!

skipthisone

10-15-2002, 03:22 PM

I agree totally, The original haunting is one of the best.

Sugarsprinkles

10-15-2002, 03:49 PM

Another vote here for "The Haunting" original b&w version!
Not a drop of blood to be seen, but one of the most frightening movies I've ever seen!
Now, would somebody help me please????? What was the star's name??? It was Julie something.....I can see her face and can't think of her name!!

skipthisone

10-15-2002, 03:58 PM

SS it was Julie Harris, and yes that is what makes all great horror movies great, no or very little blood, just good scares and jumps, oh and really creepy music

Uncle Silky

10-15-2002, 04:00 PM

pfft. gimme the original Twilight Zone any day. but i tell ya, except for the last fifteen minutes, like in every book-to-flick King translation, Rose Red was creepy as balls. and to this day, i refuse to watch Pet Sematary by myself. fuck Zelda. that shit ain't right.

Sugarsprinkles

10-15-2002, 04:03 PM

TY TY TY Skip!!!! It was driving me crazy!!! I KNEW her first name was Julie!
And you are so right about the music!!! That is so very integral...to any movie....but especially to thrillers. The composers who score these movies don't get the credit they deserve.

Summer

10-15-2002, 09:04 PM

When I was younger JAWS scared me something awful.

I also enjoyed Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The 3rd one was my all time fav. "It's a dog eat dog world and from where I am sitting there just ain't enough damn dogs"..."Aww that's a a a hard shell peppercorn" hehe
-Summer :D

skipthisone

10-16-2002, 07:58 AM

Looking through my collection and another must rent...

Black Sunday - 1960 Italian film, very very scary...a witch vampire whose head is encased in an iron mask....anyway, this is a movie where the score makes the movie, I saw it the first time with the american score and it was so-so. Then a few years ago they came out with an english version with the original Italian score and it was 20 times scarier.

GermanSteve

10-16-2002, 10:06 AM

Two movies that are not horror (or are they?) but really scaring a lot have been "Mad Max" and "Clockwork Orange". The second one was so hard that I couldn´t bear watching it completely.
Another movie, science fiction, that is scaring with funny elements was "Dark Star".

dannyk

10-16-2002, 10:56 AM

Anything by Hitchcock is great. I remember the first time I saw 'Birds'. I kept watching my canary out of the corner of my eye the next day!

Then, of course, for pure shock effects... "I hope no one was hurt.", "There was a woman on a bicycle. She died.", "You can see her? Where is she?!"

Saddaddy

10-16-2002, 11:07 PM

I have to agree The Birds ! I saw it the first time when I was 8 & now , I still watch out for SeaGulls .

PantyFanatic

10-16-2002, 11:40 PM

For this teenager it was going on to the movies and then going to park in the park afterwards. Sure as hell it was a foggy night, and even with all the doors carefully locked before we started to make-out :whiteghos, she just didn’t seem to be in the mood. She only had to tell me once that she wanted to go home that night.:o I shouldn’t have taken her to see Alfred Hitchcock’s movie "Physco".
:eek:

BIBI

10-16-2002, 11:58 PM

The Birds was great but it never really affected me until I was in my late 20's and my cat brought home a bird.........
Outside the door all along the fence, in the tree and along the wires were crows, just sitting there watching and waiting. It really unnerved me, not to mention my cat lol........I remember thinking
Holy Shit...It could happen!!! lol

dannyk

10-17-2002, 08:41 AM

I think when kids are the focus of the terror, we empathise more, and so get freaked out even greater.

It brings to my mind 'Sixth Sense', which was my earlier quote, and the original 'The Shining'. But then I'm a sucker for anything King-ly.

skipthisone

10-17-2002, 08:46 AM

King is the master when it comes to telling the story but with a few exceptions (one being rose red as previously stated) all of his movies suck pond water. The Shining was a great movie, but besides the names it was Kubrik's movie.

SOULMINER

10-17-2002, 02:18 PM

John Carpenters ~The Thing~ With Kurt Russel...the aliens taking the shapes of other living things....the dog's face peeling apart like a flower...Ewwwwwwwwww, So damn creepy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, and the first ~Alien~ movie was pretty scary. I've seen all the Hitchcock movies everyone has mentioned. Maybe I'm not old enough or just too de-sensitized, but they are not very scary to me.

skipthisone

10-17-2002, 02:25 PM

Hitchcock did not make scary movies as they are made today. His were thinking movies, movies about how real people or things could be the scariest things of all.

A.K.'s Sex-Pot

10-17-2002, 03:07 PM

I'm such a big coward with scary films, so I tend to avoid them if I can.

Like dannyk said I have an absolute terror of anything supernatural which involves children. It's out of control.

I nearly peed myself just seeing the trailer for 'The Sixth Sense' and *blush blush* I HATED 'The Exorcist'. Everyone told me I wouldn't be scared, but I was petrified!!!!! Apparently it gets silly at the end, but by the time it started getting scary I stopped watching (I was clinging to my then fiance, hiding my face and blocking my ears so that I literally didn't see ANY of the rest of the film. Not even a peep at the screen from time to time! I would have left the cinema but we were with a big group of friends and I was driving so I couldn't have left them stranded and I was too scared to stand alone outside and wait for them!)

The worse bit was knowing that it was going to get scary but having to wait for what seemed like an eternity for anything scary to actually happen! Just like with sex, sometimes the anticipation is as powerful as the experience.

I can't believe I just admitted to everyone what a wimp I am!

Lilith

10-17-2002, 03:43 PM

A.K.'s Sex-Pot~ I am worse......Children of the Corn...got to me

skipthisone

10-17-2002, 03:48 PM

Yikes...children of the corn was horrid covered in barf!!!!

for all you new movie lovers just think

Clickkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Lilith

10-17-2002, 04:03 PM

Stop it damn it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dicksbro

10-17-2002, 04:07 PM

Skipthisone, just can't argue with good taste ...

House of Wax - Vincent Price

skipthisone

10-17-2002, 04:18 PM

Wine...good movies...and dicksbro ----> things that get better with age

Humlugb

10-17-2002, 04:55 PM

I am sorry, but i do believe that the scariest film ever has to be SPICE WORLD!!!
Have you seen the acting on that film, it is enough to scar you for life!! I still have nightmares about posh spice trying to drive a double decker bus.

Maybe i should start taking my tablets again!!

GermanSteve

10-17-2002, 05:06 PM

When I was a little boy I had a lot of fear for "The Time Machine".
Today I like it very much and almost laugh about the oldfashioned way to create film monsters.

skipthisone

10-24-2002, 01:29 PM

Scary movie more recent....would have to say Event Horizon, just Sam Neil was a great obsessed bad-guy

south

10-24-2002, 04:59 PM

Graeme Clifford's 1982 movie Frances starring Jessica Lange bothered me dare I say haunted me for months.
Although not a horror movie in the traditional sense it is horrifying that a person who is on the edge of "sanity" can be committed to a mental institution, shocked, drugged, debased, lobotomized and sodomized all for the sake of her "well being". What makes it even scarier is it actually happened to someone in the public spotlight.
There is one line in the movie where they are using her as a demonstration subject and the doctor says to a roomful of his colleges with great pride and glee..."and lobotomy get them home!"

dannyk

10-25-2002, 12:16 AM

Oh geez, Lilith, Children of the Corn! Haven't though of that in years. Thanks for another sleepless night!!!

With Hallowe'en around the corner, I'm afraid to see what Sci-Fi and the other cable channels have dug up!

Oh, and while I think he is one of the greatest actors who ever lived, after seeing Vincent Price on the Muppet Show, he is no longer scary to me! :D

What about 'Blair Witch Project'? Or even Michael J. Fox in 'The Frighteners'?

BIBI

10-25-2002, 07:05 AM

has anyone ever seen "ERASERHEAD"??????

first picture David Lynch wrote and directed and if you did could you please tell me what the hell if anything it was about????
It gave me the creeps......

jjjjbo

10-25-2002, 07:09 AM

I don't do horror flicks, but I love a good suspense movie ..... one of my favorites ... Wait Until Dark .... I still just about jump out of my skin everytime when you think the guy is dead and all of a sudden he leaps out of the darkness!!!!!

skipthisone

10-25-2002, 07:24 AM

Bibi, does anyone really know what any David Lynch film is really about??? all we can do is guess.

Uncle Silky

10-25-2002, 10:23 PM

there's a discernable difference between scary and creepy. one of the creepiest flicks ever filmed is easily Exorcist 3. except for one obvious connection, it doesn't even seem like a sequel. really amazing stuff.

now for outright scary, i'm gonna go with Pet Sematary, although it's just as creepy as it is scary. like i said, fuck Zelda. that bitch is crazy.

LixyChick

10-29-2002, 06:43 PM

When I was really little The Wizard of Oz scared the stuffins outta me!

Later it was the Exorcist.......and NOTHING has since!

P.S. Uncle Silky....My cat looks exactly like the cat from Pet Semetary! Specially when he is scared.....his eyes blacken, his ears go back and he hisses as his tongue gets blood red.......scary cat I got!