Favourite Scary Movie

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witchymand

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Hi Folks,
I have just watched a really good scary movie called "PARANORMAL ACTIVITY" i thought it was excellent and the acting was very good it was filmed using hand held documentary style camera work which is popular now just wondering did any of you see it? and also while were on the subject of Scary movies whats your all time favourite?
 
I saw the Exorcist soon after it came out - it still freaks me out.

I find any movie with Hugh Grant also quite freaky!
 
baldyman27 said:
The Exorcist.
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Also, part 3 is quite scary. Forget part 2 which was rubbish - part 3 was mid 90s with George C Scott and 'The Gemini Killer' in the cell, the old peoples homes etc? Pretty freaky and loosely related to the original.
 
...just had a really horrible scary thought.... what if they did a remake of the Exorcist.....and it starred Hugh Grant!
 
Has to be the original Hallowe'en.

Low budget, not just complete gore from start to finish like many of them, but very suspenseful and scary.

Quality. Best music in a horror film too.
 
Have to agree with RMCF superb film Michael Myers what a guy? also the japanese horror movie JU-ON is excellent
 
Went to see a screening of original Nosferatu a few months back with live band playing contemporary version of the score and it was fabulously creepy.

My personal scary favourite is The Omen, the Windsor Safari Park scene still freaks me out. That and the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
 
truthseeker said:
My personal scary favourite is The Omen, the Windsor Safari Park scene still freaks me out.
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Omen 2 - The scene where the guy (Damien's cousin?) gets trapped under the ice during the hockey match, and is swept away by the current, but in sight of all the familly - chilling (pun intended).
 
Same here , went to see Nosferatu in Christchurch Cathedral in Waterford with an organist playing the original score , hugely enjoyable.
Really loved the Hammer Horror pictures as a kid , bought the box set recently in HMV at a knockdown price - still brilliant after all these years.
 
Complainer said:
Omen 2 - The scene where the guy (Damien's cousin?) gets trapped under the ice during the hockey match, and is swept away by the current, but in sight of all the familly - chilling (pun intended).
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Interesting what our various psyches perceive as scary.

I thought The Descent was horribly scary, the scene where the girl breaks her leg underground, Ive a horrible fear of leg injuries in awkward places (due to a couple of knee surgeries probably!!).
 
Susperia was my fav scare when it came out (the scene with the blind guy in the square as the dog attacked....) but saw it again recently, and it did not age very well.
 
For actual scary moments as opposed to the movie as a whole, what about Black Christmas (I think?!)

The police phoning the babysitter to advise that they had traced the pervy/freaky calls and that she was not to panic and to slowly and calmly walk to the front door ...

...the calls were coming from inside the house

A cliché probably by now but not then. I still remember the delicious chill I felt at that moment!
 
truthseeker said:
Went to see a screening of original Nosferatu a few months back with live band playing contemporary version of the score and it was fabulously creepy.
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At the IFI? Was there too, fantastic event, though the IFI generally is excellent.

As with Deiseblue, the Hammer films can be excellent. Very underrated and often thought of as camp, but some of them were genuinely excellent scary films.

Have also seen Paranormal Activity and despite my scepticism over the hype I enjoyed it, very well made, slow boiling film.

Overall, I'd keep comming back to The Excorcist, that just nails everything for scary films, the shocks, the suspense and building tension.
 
Latrade said:
At the IFI? Was there too, fantastic event, though the IFI generally is excellent.
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Yes, thats where it was, I loved it.

I do love The Exorcist as well, very iconic scary scenes.

For me the best ones are the psychological scary movies as opposed to the gorey scary movies.

I like Cape Fear as well, more to do with how its directed.

Oh I loved Pans Labyrinth too.
 

Love the IFI's festivals, the vampire one was just perfect.

I think the problem with modern films is that they're essentially just pornographic gore. It's to make you cringe rather than scared.

I think a genuine iconic scary moment is the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth chasing Ofelia. But then I think del Torro is a genuine genius showing the connection between fairy tales and horror.

I also class Alien as Horror and not sci-fi. The Motion Detector scene is tense horror at its best.
 
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