Movies You Are Scared to Watch - Page 3

Anyone seen "Men Behind the Sun"?

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Originally Posted by JacknifeJohnny 

I've sat through all sorts of crazy shit in my day. Irreversible, Ichi the Killer, Salo, Waterpower, Cannibal Holocaust, Necromantik, Schramm, etc, but about two years ago I bought Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and attempted to watch it for the first time. Attempted. I couldn't deal with it. I'm getting older and more sensitive to this kind of thing and I realized during the early montage scene of Henry's victims that I was so not situated to deal w/ violence (against women in particular) on such a realistic level. I'll finish it someday, but I'm not marking the calendar.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, Henry's rough.  I watch it from time to time though, because I'm always impressed by what John McNaughton achieved on such a limited budget.  What really blows me away though is how Michael Rooker almost makes Henry sympathetic.  He's obviously the product of unbelievable abuse and his killing is like some sort of autonomic response of his brain.  He doesn't seem to take a childish glee in it like Otis.  Michael Rooker really sells that Henry can't help himself, his violence is irreducibly ingrained in his psyche. He has to kill, he can't not do it unless society physically restrains him.  The film is a fascinating character study of real life evil, utterly mundane and more terrifying than anything supernatural.
 

I have to say I've kind of outgrown being scared by most fictional films. I will say that, for whatever reasons, old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries still give me the chills. Not the new Dennis Farina bullshit but that old school Robert Stack stuff. Creepy as hell.

I also really want to sit down and watch White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at some point in my life but I fear I may never sleep again after that. There's movies and there's that shit.

Question: What's that one TV show special/hoax that had a live news reporter being possessed by a demon on the air? Or was it a poltergeist? Or aliens...? I don't remember! I remember it freaked a lot of people out.

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Originally Posted by Dan Benenson 

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 Yes! Thanks! Gotta bookmark that, I keep forgetting it.

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Originally Posted by RodofWar 

I know it's not a movie (and nothing really seems to scare me anymore), but holy shit the opening sequence for TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE.
I literally can't watch this. The music is the creepiest shit I've ever heard and it's the simplest thing in the world. Gets me every damn time. I'd post it up here but I can't do that from my phone.

That actually used to really creep me out as a kid. I'd be downstairs watching that show alone by myself on my little black and white TV in my bedroom in the middle of the night and that intro and the outro would scare the hell out of me.

 

When I was around 4 years old, I sat down with my Dad one weekend and watched a double feature of The Thing (1982) and The Fly (1986)*.  I don't think I ever watched either of them again for almost ten years.  They scared the ever-living shit out of me.  Beyond that, the strong supernatural stuff (ghosts, demons, etc.) still strikes a chord with me to this day.  I think it is because A) my religious upbringing and B) you just can't outrun that shit like you can most other things that go bump in the night.

* - My Dad is awesome.  We constantly had double features on the weekends in the living room, either from stuff he rented or bought.  I was raised from a VERY early age on a massive dose of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action.  Mom supplied the kid's films (though Dad helped) and my father supplied the imagination/nightmare fuel.  I had a kick ass childhood.