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Just watching scream and wondered whats everyones favourite horror/scary film?

mine has to be the ring (the original) scary yet funny
Quiffy | 17 Jul '05, 23:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I watched the original Ring a couple of years ago on video at 1am alone (everyone was out of the house). Was bloody scary.

Dario Argento films are great.
Jesus_Quintana | 17 Jul '05, 23:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i dont recomend anyone watches that film alone at night. i watched in broad daylight in the afternoon and i was scared witless lol
Quiffy | 17 Jul '05, 23:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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it's a 'marmite' thing, but i loved the blair witch project. also the shining, which is one of my favourite films fullstop.
katgem | 17 Jul '05, 23:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i don't find horror films scary. so they're pointless. i hardly watch them.
wishpig | 17 Jul '05, 23:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I like too many to say really but did you see the remake of Dawn of the Dead? I was dreading it but it was really fucking good.

Can't fuck with Texas Chainsaw tho.
alex_raoul | 17 Jul '05, 23:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I don't like Evil Dead
not keen on exorcist, it's amusing though
Texas Chainsaw annoyed me

I like Dark Water (original) I've not been scared like that in ages.
Ring Japanese
Poltergeist
Damien The Omen
Amityville horror
Friday 13th
Halloween
Freddy until 4
Blair Witch Project
Childs play - amusing like Kruger
Candyman
Night Of The Living dead original
Bodysnatchers original
Psycho and some hitchcock
Loads of stuff some of it dross
Patricide | 17 Jul '05, 23:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Children of the Corn 1 2 3 4 5 & 6

Wes Craven's Newsround
HeartbrokenStar | 17 Jul '05, 23:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Critters - funny trash. I've never seen the much revered COTC.

Is modern horror mostly crap? the Americans seem to have given up on originality since the spoof films came out. Their horror output has been terrible. They are now content to pillage eastern films as they did with action.
Patricide | 17 Jul '05, 23:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ah yeah, candyman's a good 'un too
katgem | 17 Jul '05, 23:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I love the Exorcist, it bloody scared me the first time I watched it. It does go a bit over the top with some of the stuff but I love it when weird things first start happening, the theme song's brilliant as well.
Monkeys_Gone_to_Devon | 17 Jul '05, 23:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Badge boy!!! :)

See it has been built up over the years and then I see it and I was deeply underwhelmed. I followed it in the same way I would follow any other film.


With Texas Chainsaw I couldn't warm to the characters or care about their plight. the girls screaming was enough for me to will them to die and for leather face to triumph.

Evil Dead uses plasticine :S
Patricide | 17 Jul '05, 23:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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dawn o the dead was surprisingly good especially the beggining.

Any1 seen cabin fever? its sooo crap its brilliant as anything Dennis rocks
Quiffy | 17 Jul '05, 23:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You're right about the screaming in Texas Chainsaw actually but i reckon it's more about the evil characters even if it wasn't meant to be.
alex_raoul | 17 Jul '05, 23:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Hitchcock is only scary the first time. I like subtle horror now. I'm tired of blood guts and gore as a means of entertainment.
Patricide | 17 Jul '05, 23:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Hello Patricide, come up with any good ideas since your last moment of genius?
Monkeys_Gone_to_Devon | 17 Jul '05, 23:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Gozu, Dark Water, Ring, Eraserhead. Some other horror films, but these are the main one's as they are creepy rather than other one's which are labelled horror but are amusing yet still good like Bad Taste, Braindead, Evil Dead and the ilk.

Also, Cabin Fever was not that bad. Being David Lynch's protégé (sp) probably helped but for a teen slasher it was quite cool.
less_than_zero | 18 Jul '05, 00:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I didn't really like Ring, havn't seen the remake. Found it a bit boring. I'm guessing maybe over-exposure to imagery and people saying "OMG it's totally shit your pants scary!" might have dampened the impact.

Dark Water (original) was generally freaky, the end was terrible tho.

Blair Witch was very unsettling.

I love Wicker Man, some people call it a horror. It's more horrific than a horror if you get my distinction.

Might go and see that Descent on Orange Wednesday, then again, I might go see Fantastiche 4.
monpot | 18 Jul '05, 01:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Lynch probably is a horror film maker even though it's never really mentioned.

Lost Highway scared the shit out of me anyway.
Jesus_Quintana | 18 Jul '05, 01:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeh some of the visual codes of horror of noir is a huge influence on Lynch.

What's the film with the saxophone player who turns into a teenage mechanic half way through? The bits at the start where he's in his house is pure horror.
monpot | 18 Jul '05, 01:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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That would be Lost Highway...
Jesus_Quintana | 18 Jul '05, 01:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The scariest bit is with the guy at the party who looks like a clown and says "I'm at your house now"

FUCK I won't be able to sleep!
Jesus_Quintana | 18 Jul '05, 01:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I always get Lost Highway and Wild At Heart confused for some reason.

I havn't actually seen Wild At Heart.
monpot | 18 Jul '05, 01:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It's not as good, but worth seeing
Jesus_Quintana | 18 Jul '05, 01:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Phantasm 2 on several hundred mushrooms was interesting.
cadd | 18 Jul '05, 04:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The Howling
Event Horizon
lyle | 18 Jul '05, 07:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Dead trilogy
American Werewolf In London
Frankenstein/Bride Of
Exorcist
Halloween
Braindead
Re-Animator
Suspiria
Noseferatu
The Thing
Demons
The Fly
Rosemary's Baby
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Dracula(1931)
Near Dark
Cat People
The Brood(And most eary cronenberg)

Too many others to list.
cosmik_debris | 18 Jul '05, 09:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Monkey the muse has deserted me. I'm not part of the DiS ideas club even though I should be director general by now.
Patricide | 18 Jul '05, 10:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The Shining
Suspiria and plenty other Italian films
aaaaand nothing else scares me.

but I consider Taxi Driver a horror movie and that's the best film ever maybe. so watch that.
i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band | 18 Jul '05, 11:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The Grudge (both American and Japanese) versions scared me.
Dark Water is a good film.
Tale of Two Sisters you have to watch a few times before you get it and know what's actually going on.
The only bit in Ring (Japanese) that scares me is the bit with Shizuko at the mirror.
Shikoku is a standard ghost story.
Ring 2 (American) was the definition of shite and I can't watch Ring 1, various parts of the aspect of Samarra and her family where just too close to home and it does scare me.
Psyche | 18 Jul '05, 12:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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whenever I need to fetch anything from the attic I remember the grudge and get too scared to go up. So I find an excuse to make mrs zxcvbnm go up first.
There I said it.

Don't Look Now is scary too. And the Ring. And Blair Witch.

I also *LOVE* Hammer films. But they're not very scary.
zxcvbnm | 18 Jul '05, 12:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Grudge scared me more than Ring ever did, I didn't think the American version was too bad, they could have fucked it up like they did with Ring 2 USA.
That was just shit. Will be interesting to see how Dark Water USA turns out.

My boyfriend is making me watch the Transformers Film, so if I have to watch it, I will make him watch Ring.

White Noise was shite, I expected to be scared. Wasn't.
Gothicka was majorly shite. Didn't even make sense.
Psyche | 18 Jul '05, 12:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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White Noise bored me to tears!
sadpunk | 18 Jul '05, 12:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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His girlfriend was annoying, I was glad when she vanished.

The twist was shite as well, it would have been better if you had found out WHAT those dark shadows where rather than some hobo wittering on about, "it was their idea".
What? Is this meant to be a crime drama?
Psyche | 18 Jul '05, 12:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The Chucky series are the best...they are soooo funny! watch it as if youre watching a comedy film NOT a horror film. the bride of chucky is hilarious..how do dolls have sex? well they can apparently!
oriental_canadian | 18 Jul '05, 12:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I don't find zombie films very scary but whenever I watch them I have nightmares about zombies*. So I think they do scare me on some subconcious level.


* even "Shaun of..."
zxcvbnm | 18 Jul '05, 12:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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As I said Grudge scared me more than Ring did, the only bit that really scared me in Ring was in Ring 2 when Mae came back from the Cave to find Shizuko combing her hair in the mirror, it was just the silence and the way she turned round slowly...slowly....that really scared me and the look on her face, "WHO ARE YOU? GET OUT"
Made me hide under my bedcovers.

If you want a very funny, tounge in cheek film watch "Chinese Ghost Story"....it's too funny, the hero Li Choi San is a bumbling fool, a giant tounge stalks people and Swordmaster Yin does a rap about "Dao", which unfortunately is pronounced DOH so when he does the finale of his song he sounds as if he's going DOH, DOH, DOH, DOH.....
Psyche | 18 Jul '05, 12:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i found grudge the least scary horror movie i've ever seen... i LOL'ED when the creepy chinese girl walking down the hall was meant to be scary... i see people walking down hallways ALL the time :D

Now ring.. that scared me, and sadly so did ring 2, i am a big wimp.

But BEST EVER horror movie is Psycho because norman baites at the end in a wig is really funny, also JAWS! i can no longer swim in the sea due to this film and it's big plastic shark. :(
Brand_New_Hero | 18 Jul '05, 14:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I love the japanese version of Ring, the american version just didn't seem the same and i never got the part about the horse in the american version.

Don't know if this counts as a horror movie but Battle Royale really freaked me out, especially at the end where you see a picture of all the students before they got on the island and you realise that most of them are now dead.
PowderedToastMan | 18 Jul '05, 14:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I don't watch the bit with the horse, it was horrible and pointless.

Battle Royale didn't freak me out, it didn't do anything for me and I don't think I'll be buying Battle Royale 2.
Psyche | 18 Jul '05, 14:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Dawn of the Dead - the new one (Romero's is like a spoof)
28 Days Later
Bodysnatchers - 70's one.

Films that seem like they could be real frighten me the most. Scream last night was awful. Especially the ending. Matthew Lillard should be limited to Scooby Doo films.
wrightylew | 18 Jul '05, 17:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Scream bored me.

Shaun of the Dead wasn't funny, it was cliche, and the actor from it should have shot himself after the NME Awards, or preferably someone else should have...and his little co presenter.
Psyche | 18 Jul '05, 17:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A lot of Itailan movies are good like..
Lucio Fulci-The Beyond,The House By The Cemetery,Zombie etc
Dario Argento-Trauma,Demons,phenomena,Suspiria etc.
cosmik_debris | 18 Jul '05, 17:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Wow. I thought I was the only person on DiS who thought Shaun of the Dead was shit. Pegg went from brilliant dry humour to 'my family with robert lindsay' comedy.
wrightylew | 19 Jul '05, 12:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It was all cliche "I laaaav Laaaandaaan Taaaaan/Bloody weather/I was at Violets Funeral" type boring has been done a million times before each time less funny humour.
I turned it off and walked away.
Psyche | 19 Jul '05, 13:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I saw it at the pics. I laughed about as much as you would at an episode of Where the Heart Is (the program where someone is diagnosed with cancer every week).
wrightylew | 19 Jul '05, 20:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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only japanese horrorfilms scare me.... i guess cos western ones are unscary in general and korean ones.....well...they might be scary but dubbing/subtitles just dont have the same effect.....and it goes back to not being able to go to the loo cos of hanako when i was little.....

the grudge(japanese) scares me lots
sugarfree_hostility | 19 Jul '05, 13:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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only japanese horrorfilms scare me.... i guess cos western ones are unscary in general and korean ones.....well...they might be scary but dubbing/subtitles just dont have the same effect.....and it goes back to not being able to go to the loo cos of hanako when i was little.....

the grudge(japanese) scares me lots
sugarfree_hostility | 19 Jul '05, 13:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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only japanese horrorfilms scare me.... i guess cos western ones are unscary in general and korean ones.....well...they might be scary but dubbing/subtitles just dont have the same effect.....and it goes back to not being able to go to the loo cos of hanako when i was little.....

the grudge(japanese) scares me lots
sugarfree_hostility | 19 Jul '05, 13:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The oldies. Atmosphere over effects. Nosferatu, Dracula,Freaks. There's something scary about monochrome and the fact that everyone you're watching is dead.

Gotta get round to seeing White Zombie at some point.
lanky | 19 Jul '05, 16:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Went to library to try to get Dark Water (Japan) today. Found that every copy has been blagged from local libraries.
cadd | 19 Jul '05, 18:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Dark Water is a good film....or so I thought anyway. You might think different.
Psyche | 19 Jul '05, 18:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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When I was eleven I watched this old black and white film from the 60s. To this day I haven't a clue what it was. I had nightmares years after, and it still effects me now! It was about a couple who buried children alive under the stairs. Never found out what it was.
marilyninthesky | 19 Jul '05, 18:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Did anyone ever watch tha Ghost Watch thing that was on TV one Halloween? About 'the most haunted house in Britain'? That shitted me up good and proper that did.
monpot | 19 Jul '05, 18:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oi taff stop following meh
marilyninthesky | 19 Jul '05, 18:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply