Scary Movies

[azzaman333]

I generally find them distastefully boring. "Oh look, some weird thing", "now it's killing stuff", "now it's dead" [credits roll]. Throw in some lame plot twists ("that's not the villain, that's the good guy, the real villian is...", or "OMG MY COMPANION HAS TURNED ON ME"), and startle me a couple of times, maybe toss in 20 seconds of tits and that's pretty much it.

I'd rather read a book.

What I was going to say but expressed better.

 

[FredLC]

I generally find them distastefully boring. "Oh look, some weird thing", "now it's killing stuff", "now it's dead" [credits roll]. Throw in some lame plot twists ("that's not the villain, that's the good guy, the real villian is...", or "OMG MY COMPANION HAS TURNED ON ME"), and startle me a couple of times, maybe toss in 20 seconds of tits and that's pretty much it.

I'd rather read a book.

How do youy like scary books?

BTW, I think genre is a bad way to pick movies; there can be good horros and bad horros, just like any other form. Some scary movies are really good, and some are so in fact that you don't even think of them as horrors per se; like, say, Interview with the Vampire.

Regards .

 

[aronnax]

For some reason, asian horror movies, such as movies from Thailand and Japan scare me more than any horror crap America can produce

I dont like scary movies. I dont understand why people want to scare themselves

 

[Kozmos]

To feel alive I guess. I always had a thing for The Thing.

 

[philippe]

I didn't say it was "horror" in the trend of the horror genre, just "disturbing" in the sense when you watched the film you feel kinda disturbed in the end, a bit unrestless. I had the same feeling with the end of "dancer in the dark" (which is not horror too, but still is kind of...special) (<3 Björk)

and yes, it's absolutely a classic! one of my favorite movies.

 

[JohnRM]

No, they're boring and disgusting.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Brainnnsssssss !!!!

 

[Rossiya]

Are we talking about the Scary Movies, or about scary movies?

 

[philippe]

I just remembered a brilliant movie, the wicker man (the '60s version mind you! )

recommended!
buy it, rent it, pirate it!

 

[JtheJackal]

One of the most recent films that I that actually scared me was The Descent. That movie had me swearing off ever going in a cave again, then the monsters showed up and they showed way to much of them. Top that off with adding pointless conflict between two characters and I stop being scared. But the beginning freaked me out.

 

[GinandTonic]

I just remembered a brilliant movie, the wicker man (the '60s version mind you! )

recommended!
buy it, rent it, pirate it!

Exorcist, Omen, Psycho, Shining. Silence of the Lambs and Alien if we have a slightly wider definition.

Recent horror movies have been just apauling. Watching someone being tortured isnt scary, just vile. You never see anything in Psycho - the legendary shower scene is all smoke and mirrors, suggestion. Even texas chainsaw massacre has very little actual nastyness shown, it's all just off screen.

 

[Dr.Mindbender]

Light sadism used to be my thing that I watch as a teenager. Friday the 13th and all that crap in the 80's. Now it is not my entertainment that I would like to indulge anymore.

 

[Perfection]

How do youy like scary books?

I rarely have the patience to read books, so when I do, I try to go for things beyond horror fiction.

 

[FredLC]

I rarely have the patience to read books, so when I do, I try to go for things beyond horror fiction.

Well, I went through a very long Stephen King phase, and read around 30 of his books. Most of them aren't much scary, but I did found the very ending of Pet Sematary unsettling.

Regards .

 

[emzie]

Generally, no. There's some exceptions like...

I enjoy truly scary movies, but most horror movies are utter bores. I hate movies that are intended to be gross rather than scary. I highly recommend Quarantine. It has some blood and biting, but it's used to great effect.

I screamed like a little girl at the end of the attic sweep shot.

By the end I really wanted that film to end. I couldn't take the suspense. Best experience I've had in a while.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Most movies aren't that scary I find. As previously stated, most are just gore filled. I personally like the zombie apocalypse movies (Land of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, etc).

 

[sourboy]

Horror films are usually more funny than scary. The movies that have the most "scare" to them are usually the one's that are based on true stories or have suspense tactically placed in them to make you "jump".

 

[Berzerker]

Love them. But the problem is that there just are not many anymore, as has been mentioned already, that don't use gore as a crutch. The Omen (the original!), now there's a good scary flick.

yup, I like the Omen. Good movie, good atmospherics - the Italian graveyard and the build up to the preacher getting speared. Then the director uses surprise and shock when the camera guy is decapitated.