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post #1 of 49
5/25/01 at 6:09am
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One day I hope to be a horror film maker, or at least be in a mental institution thinking that I am making a horror film. I only have one problem with this. I have not been scared from a movie since I was 10 and the little boy vampire was hovering outside the window in Salems Lot. So I pose to all of you, what scares the hell out of you. Please no comments about Woody Allen and Mimi from the Drew Carey show in a love scene.
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post #2 of 49
5/25/01 at 7:55am
Fear is a very personal thing. One man's terror is another girlcreeture's Saturday night out...

However, being claustrophobic, there are certain scenes that scare the crap out of me. My favourite still being when Dallas goes into the Air Ducts looking for the Alien in (obviously) ALIEN. The cramped space and the knowledge that SOMETHING is in there with him gets me everytime.

Mind you, I'm also scared of horses (for some irrational reason), yet BLACK BEAUTY really doesn't worry me. Hmmm....

On a less personal note the last 10 minutes of RING scared the hell out of me. Probably the secret is the slow build-up of tension leading to ONE moment of horror.

If the film had been shocks and scares throughout, the final scenes wouldn't have been as terrifying since we would have grown desensitised to the fear.

[This message has been edited by flint (edited 05-25-2001).]
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post #3 of 49
5/25/01 at 7:59am
When you say 'horror film maker' are you interested in Directing or Writing your own feature?

I ask because a Writer can create the scariest script imaginable and a kek-handed Director can turn it into a cheesy pile of shite.

Of course, a good Director can get a bland script and theme it into a real masterpiece.

Just curious I guess...
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post #4 of 49
5/25/01 at 1:43pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by flint:
Fear is a very personal thing. One man's terror is another girlcreeture's Saturday night out... ]
Hee hee, I like that.

Things that scare me? Definitely Ring, like Flint, I go with the slow tense build up of the unknown, watch that movie if you can, it's a real creep fest.

As a kid and now, it's always been the hearing and/or smelling of whatever coupled with the lack of seeing that got to me.

My brain filled in the rest. It's the delivery of course that determines whether my overactive imagination will make me twitch though. Another example besides Ring is the Blair Witch Project's ending. Many of you will now try to stone me to death but I must admit that scene was grotesque in its implications. Watch Dario Argento too for slow twitchy build ups.

Then there's the typical gross out that always gets me, though the gross out doesn't really scare me so much as it satisfies the gore hound in me, gotta love a good bloodletting I tell ya


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post #5 of 49
5/25/01 at 2:00pm
Yeah.

What really scares me is the unexpected. I haven't seen 'Ring' yet, but hope to very soon (creeture, I'm looking at you here...), but the ending of 'The Nameless' really sat with me. It didn't scare me so much that I jumped out of my seat, it was more disturbing then anything else. I think that's true fear, when you can use and image or actions that really site with someone and make them think about it for a long while after viewing your movie. No one's going to look back at the cheap-ass scares in movies like 'Valentine' and recall being terrified.

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post #6 of 49
5/25/01 at 4:18pm
Use of the phrase Screaming Meemies gives me the chills too

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post #7 of 49
5/25/01 at 5:04pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by trippingbillie41:
The last 10 minutes of the Blair Witch Project scared the shit out of me. A nice ending to the previous 80 minutes of MIND-NUMBING BOREDOM.

Also, zombie children and clowns are freaky.
I totally aggree.

Claustrophobic places and things chasing you are always scary.

One personal fear of mine is getting infested with things inside my body.

IE: Aliens, bot flies, Night of the Creeps.
That sort of thing.

P.S. I also have a fear of cheeze.

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post #8 of 49
5/25/01 at 9:05pm
Aye, Ring scared the crap out of me with its big moment near the end. That movie is probably my fave horror movie right now (I'm glad I live in DVD region 2 for a change, since I have it on DVD now).

Probably the scariest moment ever was seeing Jaws when I was five or something and the head comes falling out of the hole in the boat...

Playing Resident Evil II late at night sometimes works very well too, especially when teh zombie arms come through the boarded up windows and grab ya!

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post #9 of 49
5/26/01 at 3:24am
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**double post**

[This message has been edited by Keeper of the Grove (edited 05-26-2001).]
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post #10 of 49
5/26/01 at 3:25am
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Flint,
To answer your question about writing and directing. I would like to do both but, I am better at taking someone elses writing and visualizing it than making someone visualize from my writing. I am a much better technical writer. When I think or fantisize about anything (doesn't have to be sexual) it's like I see it through a camera. the different angles and things like that.
I hope that doesn't scare anyone

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post #11 of 49
5/26/01 at 3:09pm
The demons in Jacob's Ladder scared the shit out of me. Pretty much all of Alien is scary.

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post #12 of 49
5/27/01 at 3:29am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Nasty Savage:
What I want to know is, WHAT THE HELL IS SO SCARY ABOUT THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT???????? That was by far the worst movie ever made.I can't believe people find that scary ..... can someone tell me??????
It was that chick. I would never go into the woods with her.



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post #13 of 49
5/27/01 at 10:09am
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Hey U.D. Keep the faith brother, make a movie and shove it so far up someone's ass that they have to pay attention to you.
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post #14 of 49
5/27/01 at 10:38am
I think to be scared by TBWP, you had to already have an intense fear of being lost in the woods. I do, and was scared by this movie.

When I was a tyke (about6 or 7), I got lost in the woods. Not too lost, my dad eventually found me, but, it left an impression nonetheless.

Then when I was about 10, my uncle took me up to his land in Maine for some camping, and, took me for a stroll in the pitch black. He played a prank on me. He shut off the light (let me tell you, you don't know dark until you've seen dark in the woods), told me the batteries went dead, and snuck off to make some noises.

Needless to say, that scared the crap out of me. So, to be scared by that movie, I think you need to have that one thing in common with the characters. An intense fear of being lost in the DARK woods.

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post #15 of 49
5/28/01 at 5:45pm
I never liked TBWP (In fact, when I went to see it in the cinemas, my friends and I laughed our asses off). The only time the movie came close to being scary was at the end when they were in Rustin Parr's house. But even then, the horrible acting spoiled any chance of the movie having a good fright at the end.



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post #16 of 49
5/30/01 at 3:26am
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Good stuff tugly, I think you are on to something.

Keep them coming guys, I am taking notes.
So far I have learned not to make The Blare Witch Project, unless it is 10 minutes long.
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post #17 of 49
5/30/01 at 12:35pm
Hmmm...the twins in the hallway in The Shining. The dread that builds as Danny rides around on his big wheel, only to run into those two...holy fuck! That's scary stuff.

For personal reasons, stuff like Fire in the Sky and Communion probably scares me more than anything else. But ghost stories like The Shining will do the deed pretty well too.
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post #18 of 49
5/30/01 at 3:41pm
Quick note from a amateur story teller.

No matter how good a little scare may be, the story is what makes or breaks those little scenes.

You gotta setup the situation.
Plus you have to have a great plot.

Example of a sucky movie: Blair Witch

Great idea about getting jacked around in the woods, but bad acting, sucky camera work, and the lack of gore kept it from being a great movie.

Example of one of my favorite creature movies: The thing.

1. Great idea.
2. Isolation - big scare for me.
3. Creature seemingly unstoppable.
4. Great characters you can relate too. - Makes it worse when they get it.
5. Inevitable doom forseen, but maybe just maybe the characters will survive.

Another good story and good scare is Dawn of the Dead.

Hope this helps.

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post #19 of 49
5/31/01 at 1:45pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Underground Dweller:
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Originally posted by billylove:
Example of a sucky movie: Blair Witch

Great idea about getting jacked around in the woods, but bad acting, sucky camera work, and the lack of gore kept it from being a great movie.
I think you may have completly missed the point of the whole movie.
I got the point, and did not like it. That is why it sucked.


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post #20 of 49
5/31/01 at 2:45pm
[quote]<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by billylove:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Underground Dweller:
[b]Example of a sucky movie: Blair Witch
Great idea about getting jacked around in the woods, but bad acting, sucky camera work, and the lack of gore kept it from being a great movie.

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Originally posted by billylove:
I got the point, and did not like it. That is why it sucked.

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post #21 of 49
6/1/01 at 1:46pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zeus:
I think the best horror movies are the ones that dont show as much. If ya add in too much gore and junk it lessens the scare factor
For you maybe, but some of the best horror I have seen has a lot of the red stuff.



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post #22 of 49
6/1/01 at 1:52pm
Wow, who knew this would turn into a bashing of 'BWP'. Hasn't that been bashed to death already?

And you're right, oh god of gods, usually the less gore the better. Like in 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. How much gore did you really see, and for how long? Not much, and not for very long, yet it remains one of the scariest films ever made because so much is implied. If you can do it right, you can even fool the audience into thinking they just watched something horrifically gory.

To give my .02 on the whole 'BWP' thing...The filmmakers tried to do something no one had done in a while, and make a very, very original horror film. They accomplished that, and were very successful in the process, reafirming the belief that people want to be scared. The sad thing is, however, that the Hollywood money machine over-hyped it, sequelized it, and basically ran it into the ground until everyone was so sick of it, they almost wished it'd never been made. I remember when I first heard of it, I was very excited. Now, I'm tired of talking about it.

For what it was, it was a good film. Period.

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post #23 of 49
6/1/01 at 10:00pm
my opinion about BWP:

when I saw the first trailer, I was very taken by it (the apology in the tent shit worked for me. well, it did at that time anyway).

but when I saw the movie with a couple of friends I was just amazed at how badly they screwed up a cool idea. the acting and script were laughably bad, which ruined it for me (the acting was especially horrible).

Really, like I mentioned before, I prefer a quiet horror movie such as Ring above gory stuff. I like prefer feeling disturbed, depressed and unnerved above just feeling sick (then again, Braindead is still in my top five horror movies ever)...

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post #24 of 49
6/2/01 at 12:08pm
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You guys/gals are awesome, I am learning much more than I hoped. Please keep it coming!

Don't worry Mr. Butane, If I can make a movie, CHUD and the Corner will definitely have the exclusive, if you want it.

I did think of another thing that scares me. You know that scene in Pulp Fiction with Zed the rump wrangler, Ving, Bruce and The Gimp. Well that scares the hell out of me. Seriously, what the fuck was that scene(besides good cinema). I don't ever want to walk in to a pawn shop ever again. I may be no Tarentino, and that might be a good thing, but that is one powerful scene and I can only hope to be that good someday.
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post #25 of 49
6/2/01 at 1:08pm
Yeah.

Get the gimp!

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post #26 of 49
6/8/01 at 3:16pm
Ryan Rottin scares me.
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post #27 of 49
6/8/01 at 7:12pm
Me too. He knows too many people and everyone likes him. I think he made a pact with the dev-iel.

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post #28 of 49
6/8/01 at 11:16pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by FallenAngel_045:
...dawn of the dead is the very opposite of scary, its a funny, campy movie that just makes me want a gunshop and plenty of targets...

It's NOT campy! Arg!


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post #29 of 49
6/8/01 at 11:18pm
DOUBLE ARG!

That up there ^

Is ME. Girlcreeture, NOT Johnny, who's starting to worry me, not only is he typing my posts now (damn the computer saving names and passwords and shit....), but he's starting to wear my clothes too!

He look good in short shorts

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post #30 of 49
6/8/01 at 11:41pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by FallenAngel_045:
dawn of the dead is the very opposite of scary, its a funny, campy movie that just makes me want a gunshop and plenty of targets
Ok, I just gotta comment since Johnny did.

I didn't think it was scary, but I sure as hell didn't think it was funny. I thought it was intense, depressing, and enlightening.

The enlightening part came from the fact that people still held some dignity after the dead took over the world.

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post #31 of 49
6/12/01 at 1:19am
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I do think Lovecraft is a tad disturbing, and i do kind of agree with nightflier up there about Blare Witch Two. I do not think it was scary, but I am glade that I watched it because it is not boring and semi-interesting. That's more than I can say about the rest of the horror flix I've seen lately.

Dude come on! Rose is so hot I thought everyone wanted an bitchy fat chick in the same room as them.

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post #32 of 49
6/12/01 at 12:49pm
What really scared me was Jaws but of course I saw it when I was seven. Little possessed children, clowns or puppets don't really agree with me either. Or deadly plagues like in the first part of the Stand, where 99.99% of the people die. Or Jaws.
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post #33 of 49
6/12/01 at 1:44pm
What really scares me is the fact that we only have one real entry to the Bruce campbell contest. What the hell is wrong with you people? Go to the BRUCE! topic and get posting!!!

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post #34 of 49
6/13/01 at 4:07pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Maggott311:
My biggest fear is that I'll be alone for the reast of my life. No my fear dosen't come from some 1hr cheep ass horror movie it's just to be alone for the rest of my life.
That's a respectable answer, but mine is that I'll be allowed no solitude for the rest of my life. Ah, the polarity of humanity. It's what makes us taste so good!

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post #35 of 49
6/18/01 at 7:04am
Airplane crashes scare the shit out of me. Maybe it's because it is something that can happen in real life, maybe because you know that in a situation like that you are helpless. Final destination was scary and so was alive. Hell, even that flick with Jeff Bridges surviving a crash had me reduced to a psychological wreck! And I'm actually not afraid of flying.
I guess that's why there's one hell off a plane crash in the first ten minutes of my in-the-works spec script for The Thing II (But that's another story)...
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post #36 of 49
6/22/01 at 5:44am
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That is Dreamscape, with Dennis Quaid, and yes that is an interesting movie, and yes it freaked me out also, but when I was about ten.

There is something really freaky about watching a man morph in to a lizard with big teeth.
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post #37 of 49
6/22/01 at 11:30am
Not only does this movie exist, it's out on DVD now! Great stuff with Dennis Quiad as the dream master that helps a kid beat the snake monster that terrorizes him AND foils a plot to kill the president! What more could you ask for?

Scared the hell out of me when I was a kid, too, that's why I watched it alot.

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post #38 of 49
6/26/01 at 6:14pm
okay...no laughing aloud...

1. sharks - between jaws and that bond movie where the sharks came through the light fixture in the pool...no nighttime swimming for me!

2. my imagination - the Nightmare on Elm Street movies freaked me out b/c I couldn't watch them all the way through and my imagination ran away with me.

3. snakes - need I say more?
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post #39 of 49
7/2/01 at 3:41pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by B.U. Tugly:
Kids in horror movies usually scare the sweet Jebus out of me. Salems Lot with the kid floating outside the window ... the little girl in The Sixth Sense ... the dead twins in The Shining ... those creepy little bastards in Village of the Damned.

Just the sound of children laughing in the right situation freaks me out.
Ditto. Liitle kids in general freak me out. That's why I don't want to have children. I'd be a terrible mom.

Also, being trapped really scares me. I mean really trapped -- there is no escape pod, no hidden door, no way out!

Dead Calm freaks the shit out of me to this day because the thought of being trapped on a boat in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight with a psycho killer on loose....Ahhhhhh!

*shaking* Someone please hold me!

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post #40 of 49
7/3/01 at 2:10am
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Diva, what did you think of CUBE?
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post #41 of 49
7/3/01 at 12:58pm
How is Cube, is it a good renter ?
Is it worth two hours of a Hellspawn's life ?
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post #42 of 49
7/3/01 at 1:08pm
I thought Cube was pretty decent. If like movies that have a lot of math in them (Pi) then you'll proabably like this movie. A little dark for my tastes but I still enjoyed it. I even heard that there might be a sequel coming out.
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post #43 of 49
7/4/01 at 8:08am
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What, Cube harder?
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post #44 of 49
7/4/01 at 11:44pm
I saw Cube so long ago, I barely remember it. Or maybe I've just blocked it from my consciousness.

Here's info on the sequel -- Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) http://us.imdb.com/Title?0285492

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post #45 of 49
7/5/01 at 3:45pm
You know what scares me the most is Income Tax, Ricky Martin and Celine Dion. Now if you guys aren't afraid of that then your are truly without fear.
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post #46 of 49
7/7/01 at 2:02am
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I think Rutgers Shaved Stash is scary. As a matter of fact I've always thought he was scary. WR!!!!!!!!!!!


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post #47 of 49
7/10/01 at 1:54pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jason vorhees 69:
wut freaks me out is like the weird filming like the scene in texas chainsaw when leatherface grabs the guy and then closes the door when there is more silence it is better
Yes, that scene was freaky. That was what made the movie for me. The rest of it was filler.

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post #48 of 49
7/10/01 at 4:18pm
Little Childen freak me out in horror movies too, but if you really want creepy kinds, go play Silent Hill. agh, if there's one game that'll scare the hell out of you, that is it. not to mention the fact that besides being pretty scary, it's also just downright disturbing. especially the bizarre ending, which reminded me greatly of the ending of Cemetery Man/Dellamorte Dellamore. Come to think of it, that ending also scares me: the idea of never being able to escape a situation like that... ack!

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post #49 of 49
7/11/01 at 10:39am
All victims for the Church of No Return, muah ah ah ah ah ah...

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