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Post by Neko Bazu on Jan 5, 2010 23:37:43 GMT -1
Are there any horror films/genres that genuinely scare you, creep you out or whatever? Any that have you gripping your seat while you watch, or leave you looking over your shoulder when you walk away?
For genres, as a zombie afficionado I can say that absolutely yes, they have an effect on me. I love the genre with a passion, and that lingering discomfort afterwards is part of why - the idea of a zombie attack is so powerful. Where vampires, werewolves etc are essentially singular characters, that suggests that ultimately, they're defeatable. Zombies are an insatiable tide, though; they're not something you can take out with a silver bullet or a stake - you just have to keep running until they finally catch up to you.
I don't think any zombie films genuinely scare me, but I can't remember watching any good ones (Romero's Day of the Dead, or Zombie Flesh Eaters as examples) and walking away without that certain uneasy feeling...
As for single films, I remember Candyman used to really scare me, and I still feel a certain nervousness when saying his name five times in a mirror. I know it's all made up, but the impact's still there. Ju-On (the original Japanese version of The Grudge) literally had me gripping my seat while watching it, and Kairo ('Pulse') unsettled me too, though the acting and film as a whole weren't a bit too poor to cross the line into genuinely scary.
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Post by tomw on Jan 6, 2010 17:01:39 GMT -1
The Wicker Man always puts the shits up me.
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Post by Pete the Wolf on Jan 6, 2010 22:34:07 GMT -1
Exorcism of Emily Rose
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Post by El Morto La Hoja! on Jan 6, 2010 22:38:06 GMT -1
i've always been impressed by the japanese and south korean horror movies i've seen but can never remember the names.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jan 7, 2010 6:56:40 GMT -1
i've always been impressed by the japanese and south korean horror movies i've seen but can never remember the names. They definitely have a certain talent for it, there's no doubting that...
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Post by Travis on Jan 8, 2010 15:33:53 GMT -1
The French are on the whole an obnoxious, knob-munching, spineless race......but their new wave of horror is great!! ;D
Switchblade Romance is still the best horror of the last decade, but there are a few more that include recent releases, Martyrs and Inside which offer amongst other things, a woman having all her skin surgically removed while alive (in order that her tormentors may glimpse an insight into the afterlife) and the spectre of a caesarean birth achieved through the use of garden shears, at the hands of a woman with a mild case of baby envy.
Scary? Pretty. Mad? As a box of shizophrenic frogs!! ;D
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