Scary Movies
 

Have just watched a tv show where viewers voted for the 100 greatest scary moments in movies,tv etc.see www.channel4.com/film for full rundown."and the winner is"....
The Jack Nicholson ,Shelly Duvall door chopping/"Here's Johnny scene.Now The Shining was a great movie but top scary moment dont think so.Well what do you think?.
What were the movie moments that made your popcorn fly...

The Shining defintely scared the crap out of me. But one of their top 10 seemed less than that. Number 5 was the Blair Witch Project. Did anyone else find this movie to be scary? I thought it was kind of dumb.

The rest of it seemed pretty good. The Ring had its scary moments (I hear the original Japanese version was ten times scarier). Alien, Halloween, and The Exocist are all good for a scare. Alien has been re-released in theatres here in the states, I plan I on seeing it.

Amazinly, the Robb Zombie flick House of a Thousand Corpses did not appear on the list. I only watched about 20 minutes of it and was FUCKED UP!!!

I've always liked Sci-fi horrors. For a good one check out Event Horizon. I have not seen Solaris yet but I plan on getting the DVD at some point.

A very complete list (some repetition, tho).
Scariest moments in film history (from Fark)

my opinion
 

not quite a horror flick, more of a suspense scene, but the scene in Silence of the Lambs where Agent Starling is hunting the killer in the darkened basement where she can see nothing and he has night vision and can see her...that had me on the edge of my seat...literally!

Brian

scary movies
 

Razorfish.
Don't bother with Solaris 2hours of George Clooney overacting
complete crap

'The Haunting'. I know I've mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. That movie is terrifying. I'm talking about the old one, not the new Dreamworks crapfest. The lighting, along with the abundant shadow creates the insane house of horrors look, and the sound is top notch. The scene with the banging throughout the house followed by the "breathing" door is as scary as any film I've ever seen. The acting may have been a bit over the top, but it doesn't overwhelm the movie at all.

For most of the same reasons, I really enjoyed 'The Others'. Doubly scary is watching that movie in surround sound turned toward the loud end of your volume dial. The sound is as much a character as anything else in that movie, and you're cheating yourself if you don't hear all of it.

THE EVIL DEAD

the evil friggin dead

scary movies dont scare me, but damn...the evil dead

just the first one...the sequels all stunk

when she stabs the guy in the ankle with a pencil? OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Signs. Very suspenseful. Very creepy. I like the less is more method in suspense/horror. The Alien in the film of the same name appears for only 12 seconds. Ridley Scott was(is) a genius.

I see both The Ring and Event Horizon got their nods, but the one that really stuck with me was when the boy was drowning underneath the floor in The Changeling, that was inspiration for many an uncomfortable moment.

The Blair Witch moment they have on there - where they're in the woods and they can hear their friend in the distance being tortured. Yeah, that creeped me out. That whole movie left me very unsettled.

Have to say, all-time scariest movie moment...there was a lot of this one...

The good reviews of The Sixth Sense.

Someone recommended that I see the movie 28 Days Later. It does look good (zombies are usually pretty scary).

I saw Resident Evil a few weeks ago. It wasn't bad but it doesn't make any sense unless you played the video games (which I did for a liitle while). Like I said, its not bad at all, but it does copy a lot of scare tactics from other horror films.

Bravo was showing "Army of Darkness" the other night. I forgot how cool that movie really is. Its not really scary, though it has a couple tense moments. The entire Evil Dead series is good for zombie action.

I haven't seen "28 Days Later" yet, but my brother told me it really wasn't about zombies. Let us know what you think if you watch it.

28 Days Later == good. Saw it in theater. Bought DVD day it came out. Good deal.

So is it really a zombie movie?

Not really, but kinda.

The premise of the story is that there's a virus in some chimps called Rage. Animal rights activists break into a lab and free them, not having any idea what they're unleashing. It starts spreading. Those who can flee do so, and those who can't get consumed by it. It does basically turn you into a zombie, but... I won't tell you any more.

What the story is really about is a group of survivors trying to make it out alive. Some of the most tense scenes don't even involve the "zombies".

But yeah, it's good. I highly recommend it.

28 days later is a remake (in spirit) of The Omega Man, imho.

Not that that's a bad thing but it might help give you an idea about it.

I liked it because I thought it was a good story but I didn't find it scary in the least - especially since its billed as the most terrifying movie since whenever.

I did think the cinematography (some kind of speeded up stop-action technique) was excellent. That type of filming is what made the Saving Private Ryan battle scenes look so real. In 28 days, they used it primarily to film the zombies and it is very effective. And their eyes! Best zombie eyes ever.

Not enough gore for a zombie movie for my taste but a lot of suspense. It even had a few sad moments.

I recommend it - overall, thumbs up. :)

"Shop smart, shop S-Mart"

Shame the Evil Dead game sucks ass.

Ok - I can watch the real life shows with blood and stuff like Trauma life in the ER and the operation shows. Hell - I get pictures every day of people's injuries. But - I cannot watch scarey movies. Gives me nightmares and completely freaks me out for days. Go figure. Maybe my real life is scarey enough

I am exactly the opposite. I can watch the blood and gore movies for days on end. But a single frame of one of those emergency room shows turns my stomach.

I dig both.

But one thing that really made me go EEEEEUUUW.

HBO just ran an episode of their "Autopsy" series, in which the host, Michael Baden, who is/was the coroner for the Capital District of NY State actually performs an autopsy.

Most of it I thought was way cool, although they were kinda wimpy with the camera angles and didn't show anything too gooey ... but the sound when he broke the corpse's sternum to remove the breastplate and then the *ssssssssuck-POP* sound that results when the skullcap is pried off were just ICKY.

Jeppers Creeped me like nothing else!!
 

I know this is pathetic, but the scariest thing i have ever seen i believe is that mainstream movie Jeepers Creepers. noone else i know thinks its scary but even now (several months later) if i hear someone even humming that godawful song (jeepers creepers whered u get those peepers) i get chills and have to go have some warm milk to calm me down. that final scene where the young guy has his "peepers"removed, just sends me to bits. nightmares for years i reckon!! :(

Primary Colors....

ah, is this an american thing Griff?

Scariest movie I never saw. This "journalist" covers the first Clinton election but keeps the chacter issue to himself so he can write a book (followed by a movie) after the election.

Ah yes, john Travolta in all his glory. :rolleyes:

as far as zombie movies go ....
 

Anything by fulci. night of the living dead, dawn of the dead. 28 days later was great - especially with the eyeball scene with the music crescendo.