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| Jory wrote: | | CyclopsSummers wrote: | | I second The Thing, with Kurt Russell. However, upon seeing some of the scenes I thought were particularly scary when I was a kid - for instance the part with the defibrillators (those of y'all who seen it know what I'm talking bout), I wasn't that terrified of it anymore... in fact it now looks funny sometimes. Maybe because the effects have gone dated. |
The film doesn't scare me at all, but the paranoid tension of not knowing who is or isn't a Thing still packs a punch for me. |
Agreed,,,,,,,,,,,,,"The Thing" was not a very scary film.
However,,,,,,,,,,,"The Thing from Another World" (a 1950s sci-fi film from which it was copied) was the scariest movie that I ever saw. |
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| I used to be scared of that show "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction." The Ring scared me a lot when it was actually out in the cinema. There's a movie called Ghost House that was filmed in the 70's about a little girl and her clown and that movie used to freak me out a lot. |
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| Kraichgauer wrote: | | HybridAP wrote: | 
I love that book so much. It gave me inspiration to restart the book I was working on a few years ago. Oh do I love Stephen King...
I also want to create a horror book or movie one day, but the idea I have is pretty sick... |
I could not get through that book, no matter how hard I tried, because it was so damn BORING!
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Boring? Really? "It" is my absolute favorite novel. I've probably read it four or five times. I love coming-of-age horror novels. "Summer of Night" is another really excellent one in that sub-genre.
Now, the movie is total crap. Don't get me wrong, Tim Curry was terrifying as Pennywise, but as someone who loved the novel, it pisses me off that they (yet again) turned the novel into a MADE-FOR-TV movie, instead of a legitimate theatrical release film. They had to leave so much out simply because of the medium. One of my goals is to remake "It;" I think it has the potential to be the most horrifying movie of all time!
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fragileclover
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| Nereid wrote: | | CyclopsSummers wrote: | I second The Thing, with Kurt Russell. However, upon seeing some of the scenes I thought were particularly scary when I was a kid - for instance the part with the defibrillators (those of y'all who seen it know what I'm talking bout), I wasn't that terrified of it anymore... in fact it now looks funny sometimes. Maybe because the effects have gone dated.
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I saw the thing when I was around 10 and it scared the crap outta me! I also remember seeing The Ring in theaters in high school, and that's the only time in my life I've left a movie theater physically trembling from fear. I feel so dumb now when ppl talk about the movie being lame, and picturing them sitting there yawning and mocking the movie and me hiding my eyes.
Scariest book? Probably Scary Stories. Such frightening illustrations!
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I LOVE the Scary Stories books! If you buy them now, they come with different illustrations, which is a travesty. The illustrations are the reason the books were so frightening!
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| The news. |
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Icheb
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I think no book has scared me quite as much as Whitley Strieber's Communion.
The scariest short story I've read is "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby.
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| The scariest movies I've ever seen are probably Event Horizon and the original Amityville Horror. I couldn't sleep for like a month after watching Event Horizon lol, I don't really like horror as a genre much but that movie was very well done. Alien was pretty scary too, the first one. |
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| Nereid wrote: |
Scariest book? Probably Scary Stories. Such frightening illustrations!
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Yes! I still have that book from when I was younger. I read it from time to time, just because the art freaks me out.
Anyway, I f***ing love everything horror, it is one of my major obsessions. But I won't make tons of lists of everything I like.
I'll just mention one thing for now. The movies Trilogy of Terror and its sequel had this little tribal fetish doll that went around killing people. I started watching horror movies when I was around 6, I saw Trilogy of Terror soon after that. To this day, that stupid doll scares the hell out of me. I've watched and read plenty of scary, dark, bloody, chilling, and disturbing movies and books, but that doll still frightens me and I don't know why.
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| The Mist , though in retrospect it was a bit more depressing than scary |
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| The scariest book I ever read was a manga called Uzumaki which is about a town that is cursed and it is related to spirals. That was the first manga I ever read and it scared me for about a few days after I read that. |
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I saw most of "The Shining". That was too scary for me to finish watching. I avoid horror films at all cost now. I don't even watch rated "R" stuff.
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| GreyGirl wrote: | | I saw most of "The Shining". That was too scary for me to finish watching. I avoid horror films at all cost now. I don't even watch rated "R" stuff. |
The movie preview for The Shining that had been advertized on TV used to scare the living poop out of me as a kid. In particular the image of an axe wielding Jack Nicholson half limping/half running in silhouette. I spent a lot of sleepless nights imagining Jack limping down my street at night with that axe!
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| The most terrifying thing I saw wasn't that scary but the concept terrified me as a child. I saw the movie The Omen and it really terrified me to the point I was afraid to sleep at night. |
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| ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote: | | The most terrifying thing I saw wasn't that scary but the concept terrified me as a child. I saw the movie The Omen and it really terrified me to the point I was afraid to sleep at night. |
Me too! In fact, I still recall a nightmare I had had after seeing the movie on TV.
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I was the type of kid who would watch Tales from the Crypt every Saturday (yeah, that kind of parenting), so very little really got to me. However, I would say that Silence of the Lambs really DID freak me out when I watched it at age 7, for this reason: during the prison/ambulance scene (I'm not giving it away) I looked over at my mom, who had passed out. Turns out she had cut herself shaving before the movie began, and a long, dark trail of blood was leaking down her leg. I don't think I ever screamed that much at a movie.
It's too bad. Silence of the Lambs is one of my favorite films now, but it took me ten years to even watch it again. 
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