O/T Do you watch any scary movies on Halloween?
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Alicia, we have the same taste in scary movies. You are talking about The Omen. Pretty scary stuff when I was younger. Nightmare on Elm Street is great too.
The only one I refuse to see again is The Exorcist. That gave me nightmares for weeks. Although, my daughter & youngest sister have seen this one & just laughed their heads off. It was rather disturbing.
Marla
The only one I refuse to see again is The Exorcist. That gave me nightmares for weeks. Although, my daughter & youngest sister have seen this one & just laughed their heads off. It was rather disturbing.
Marla
kathryn
Cathlete
Then someone pointed out that all of the
>threads in the open forum are OT. LOL!
Actually, it's more like NO thread CAN be "off topic" in the open forum, because there is no restriction on topics (aside from good taste).
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>threads in the open forum are OT. LOL!
Actually, it's more like NO thread CAN be "off topic" in the open forum, because there is no restriction on topics (aside from good taste).
As per SNM's own guidelines: "Talk about ANYTHING YOU LIKE in this forum, including other videos you like or dislike." (emphasis added, as well as a comma!)
kathryn
Cathlete
I LOVE Supernatural (it's nice to see some good spooky stuff on TV this season!) Even the rather mild-mannered "Ghost Whisperer" can get a bit spooky at times.
I know I wouldn't say "Bloody Mary" or "Candy Man" three times in front of a mirror! (Would something like "Scott Bakula...Scott Bakula...Scott Bakula" or "Patrick Stewart... Patrick Stewart...Patrick Stewart" work?)
Anybody remember "Miracles"? It was only on for something like half a season a couple of years ago. They canceled it just when it was getting spooky! The "God is Now Here"/"God is Nowhere" message gave me chills!
I LOVE good scary movies, and have developed a rather high tolerance for gore as well (like the Friday the Thirteenth original), if it isn't just gratuitous. (Seems that sequels to movies tend to up the gore quotient: maybe they have higher budgets for prop blood and entrails? I think it was the Omen 2--or maybe 3??--where it was almost laughable how many different gory ways of offing people they were trying to cram into the movie...boring!).
I like everything from the moody, "thriller" movies of the 50's and 60's (like "the blob" or one of its sequels that had the blob creeping under someone's bed sheets to get them!) to the more graphic and creepy recent movies like the Ring (I had nightmares about that spooky girl coming herky-jerky out of the well, then out of the TV), to the scary movies that make you think, like "Saw."
I also like the classics (which aren't very scary any more! but are classy)like "Dracula" ("I don't drink....wine," "Children of the night...what music they make") or "The Wolfman" ("Even the man who is pure in heart and says his prayers at night, can become a wolf when the wolfbane blloms, and the autumn moon is bright"---Maris Ouspenskaya)or "Frankenstein"(remember, it's the doc's name, not the monster's!) ("grrrr"!). THe "monsters" in them aren't really that scary, but more tragic figures (poor Creature of the Black Lagoon...just looking for love! Though why he's not more attracted to a halibut than to a shapely human babe..??)
When a movie can be scary, and thrilling, and have some mystery and surprises in (that don't just come out of nowhere), and also make you think a bit, THAT's a good movie to me. So many horror movies are formulaic, and if you've seen a lot of them, like I have, you can predict what's going to happen.
So on the topic of scary movies: what scenes make you scream, jump or have another strong reaction?
At the end of "Friday the Thirteenth" (the original), the lone survivor of the campground slaughter is drifting on the calm. sunlit lake in a boat. The camera pulls back, annoncing the end of the movie, then something (the dead boy) jumps out of the water and grabs the girl. I jumped about 2 inches out of my seat, swore something, and felt my heart beating like a drum. And it seemed to be a general reaction in the audience. Very clever and well-done (though the "monster isn't really dead" has become pretty cliché since then). It was actually a dream the girl was having (from her hospital bed).
Carry's hand coming out of the grave at the end of the movie (another dream sequence) was also a jumper (and also done before the bit had become overdone).
I already mentioned the creepy "crawling out of the well" scene in "The Ring," which didn't make me jump or scream, but made shivers go up my spine, and my hair stand on end, and made me look around to see if she wasn't creeping up on me behind my sofa!)
Anybody know the movie (originally on TV?) called "Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black? One of the three episodes has some wooden doll (a "primitive hunter" complete with weapon) coming to life and chasing K.B. around trying to kill her. He skitters all around the house, behind and under furniture, finds a handy kitchen knife and stabs at her under the bathroom door while making these creepy, gutteral "ada ada ada ada ada ada" sounds (they really ARE scary, but I just don't know how to put them in print!). That gives me the creeps! (As do many "dolls come to life" scenes.)
I know I wouldn't say "Bloody Mary" or "Candy Man" three times in front of a mirror! (Would something like "Scott Bakula...Scott Bakula...Scott Bakula" or "Patrick Stewart... Patrick Stewart...Patrick Stewart" work?)
Anybody remember "Miracles"? It was only on for something like half a season a couple of years ago. They canceled it just when it was getting spooky! The "God is Now Here"/"God is Nowhere" message gave me chills!
I LOVE good scary movies, and have developed a rather high tolerance for gore as well (like the Friday the Thirteenth original), if it isn't just gratuitous. (Seems that sequels to movies tend to up the gore quotient: maybe they have higher budgets for prop blood and entrails? I think it was the Omen 2--or maybe 3??--where it was almost laughable how many different gory ways of offing people they were trying to cram into the movie...boring!).
I like everything from the moody, "thriller" movies of the 50's and 60's (like "the blob" or one of its sequels that had the blob creeping under someone's bed sheets to get them!) to the more graphic and creepy recent movies like the Ring (I had nightmares about that spooky girl coming herky-jerky out of the well, then out of the TV), to the scary movies that make you think, like "Saw."
I also like the classics (which aren't very scary any more! but are classy)like "Dracula" ("I don't drink....wine," "Children of the night...what music they make") or "The Wolfman" ("Even the man who is pure in heart and says his prayers at night, can become a wolf when the wolfbane blloms, and the autumn moon is bright"---Maris Ouspenskaya)or "Frankenstein"(remember, it's the doc's name, not the monster's!) ("grrrr"!). THe "monsters" in them aren't really that scary, but more tragic figures (poor Creature of the Black Lagoon...just looking for love! Though why he's not more attracted to a halibut than to a shapely human babe..??)
When a movie can be scary, and thrilling, and have some mystery and surprises in (that don't just come out of nowhere), and also make you think a bit, THAT's a good movie to me. So many horror movies are formulaic, and if you've seen a lot of them, like I have, you can predict what's going to happen.
So on the topic of scary movies: what scenes make you scream, jump or have another strong reaction?
At the end of "Friday the Thirteenth" (the original), the lone survivor of the campground slaughter is drifting on the calm. sunlit lake in a boat. The camera pulls back, annoncing the end of the movie, then something (the dead boy) jumps out of the water and grabs the girl. I jumped about 2 inches out of my seat, swore something, and felt my heart beating like a drum. And it seemed to be a general reaction in the audience. Very clever and well-done (though the "monster isn't really dead" has become pretty cliché since then). It was actually a dream the girl was having (from her hospital bed).
Carry's hand coming out of the grave at the end of the movie (another dream sequence) was also a jumper (and also done before the bit had become overdone).
I already mentioned the creepy "crawling out of the well" scene in "The Ring," which didn't make me jump or scream, but made shivers go up my spine, and my hair stand on end, and made me look around to see if she wasn't creeping up on me behind my sofa!)
Anybody know the movie (originally on TV?) called "Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black? One of the three episodes has some wooden doll (a "primitive hunter" complete with weapon) coming to life and chasing K.B. around trying to kill her. He skitters all around the house, behind and under furniture, finds a handy kitchen knife and stabs at her under the bathroom door while making these creepy, gutteral "ada ada ada ada ada ada" sounds (they really ARE scary, but I just don't know how to put them in print!). That gives me the creeps! (As do many "dolls come to life" scenes.)
nancy324
Cathlete
Oh, Kathryn, I love the Bela Lagosi Dracula too. How bout the line "I dislike mirrors". What a class act vampire Bela was. LOL.
Yup, I still remember that Trilogy of Terror thing too, and the Karen Black one really sticks out in my mind.
Here's another one for you: To this day, I still cannot watch the episode of Twilight Zone with the woman on the horse who tries to warn herself about the future. I don't know why that one creeps me out so badly. It scared me half to death as a kid and I couldn't sleep for weeks.
BTW, I have to mention this again, if anyone hasn't seen Sixth Sense, run do not walk to your nearest video store.
-Nancy
Yup, I still remember that Trilogy of Terror thing too, and the Karen Black one really sticks out in my mind.
Here's another one for you: To this day, I still cannot watch the episode of Twilight Zone with the woman on the horse who tries to warn herself about the future. I don't know why that one creeps me out so badly. It scared me half to death as a kid and I couldn't sleep for weeks.
BTW, I have to mention this again, if anyone hasn't seen Sixth Sense, run do not walk to your nearest video store.
-Nancy