Scariest Movie Ever
Replies
-
OneHundredToLose wrote: »I tend to go for horror which leaves me feeling genuinely unsettled afterward. With that in mind, here's my list, in no particular order:
-The Poughkeepsie Tapes
-The Devil's Rejects
-House of 1000 Corpses
-The Green Inferno
-Cannibal Holocaust
-The Human Centipede
-The Human Centipede II
-A Serbian Film
-Alone With Her
I'll post more as they come to me, but I'm an avid horror fanatic and particularly am a fan of the "Torture Porn" genre.
Finally someone else who is familiar with a Serbian Film! Though honestly I'm not sure I'd admit watching it to many people irl. That is one disturbing movie!1 -
singingflutelady wrote: »OneHundredToLose wrote: »I tend to go for horror which leaves me feeling genuinely unsettled afterward. With that in mind, here's my list, in no particular order:
-The Poughkeepsie Tapes
-The Devil's Rejects
-House of 1000 Corpses
-The Green Inferno
-Cannibal Holocaust
-The Human Centipede
-The Human Centipede II
-A Serbian Film
-Alone With Her
I'll post more as they come to me, but I'm an avid horror fanatic and particularly am a fan of the "Torture Porn" genre.
Finally someone else who is familiar with a Serbian Film! Though honestly I'm not sure I'd admit watching it to many people irl. That is one disturbing movie!
For sure, I'd probably put that on a very short list of the most *kitten* up movies I've ever watched. I loved it for that - something that can leave me feeling genuinely unsettled for days afterward is a powerful piece.0 -
I refuse to watch Cannibal Holocaust because animals were slain during the filming; intentionally so, not just a case of "Oops a horse got hurt that scene and it's the 1970's so who cares if we kill it now?"
If you are considering watching this film, be aware. I cannot personally abide such needless cruelty and am very happy we live in a kinder, more enlightened time.2 -
born_of_fire74 wrote: »I refuse to watch Cannibal Holocaust because animals were slain during the filming; intentionally so, not just a case of "Oops a horse got hurt that scene and it's the 1970's so who cares if we kill it now?"
If you are considering watching this film, be aware. I cannot personally abide such needless cruelty and am very happy we live in a kinder, more enlightened time.
I understand that viewpoint, but given that it was made ~40 years ago and can now be torrented pretty readily (so as not to contribute to the filmmaker's estate), can't it now be studied as a piece of film history? It's not like watching it makes those animals any more dead (as crass as that may sound).1 -
OneHundredToLose wrote: »born_of_fire74 wrote: »I refuse to watch Cannibal Holocaust because animals were slain during the filming; intentionally so, not just a case of "Oops a horse got hurt that scene and it's the 1970's so who cares if we kill it now?"
If you are considering watching this film, be aware. I cannot personally abide such needless cruelty and am very happy we live in a kinder, more enlightened time.
I understand that viewpoint, but given that it was made ~40 years ago and can now be torrented pretty readily (so as not to contribute to the filmmaker's estate), can't it now be studied as a piece of film history? It's not like watching it makes those animals any more dead (as crass as that may sound).
Indeed. And I must admit that I'm comfortable overlooking that a cow of some sort is killed in Apocalypse Now, which is among the greatest films of all times IMHO. It's just different in Cannibal Holocaust, gratuitous and lacking the meaningfulness of the cow juxtaposed with Sheen's killing of Brando in Apocalypse Now. The turtle really bothers me for some reason...
0 -
born_of_fire74 wrote: »OneHundredToLose wrote: »born_of_fire74 wrote: »I refuse to watch Cannibal Holocaust because animals were slain during the filming; intentionally so, not just a case of "Oops a horse got hurt that scene and it's the 1970's so who cares if we kill it now?"
If you are considering watching this film, be aware. I cannot personally abide such needless cruelty and am very happy we live in a kinder, more enlightened time.
I understand that viewpoint, but given that it was made ~40 years ago and can now be torrented pretty readily (so as not to contribute to the filmmaker's estate), can't it now be studied as a piece of film history? It's not like watching it makes those animals any more dead (as crass as that may sound).
Indeed. And I must admit that I'm comfortable overlooking that a cow of some sort is killed in Apocalypse Now, which is among the greatest films of all times IMHO. It's just different in Cannibal Holocaust, gratuitous and lacking the meaningfulness of the cow juxtaposed with Sheen's killing of Brando in Apocalypse Now. The turtle really bothers me for some reason...
For me, the meaninglessness of the violence in Cannibal Holocaust was the meaning. It felt viscerally real, because there was absolutely no point other than the cruel depictions of death. That alone felt more realistic to me than virtually any other movie.0 -
If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..
I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:
Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?0 -
Coffeebeenz wrote: »If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..
I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:
Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?
I have seen "The Lost Boys" so many times that I pretty much know it line for line, but that doesn't exactly count as a "hidden gem". Let The Right One In is an absolute must-see but you mentioned that of course...Shadow of the Vampire is great too. Unfortunately if you don't like the glittery romantic kind of vampire, there's not a huge selection.1 -
OneHundredToLose wrote: »Coffeebeenz wrote: »If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..
I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:
Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?
I have seen "The Lost Boys" so many times that I pretty much know it line for line, but that doesn't exactly count as a "hidden gem". Let The Right One In is an absolute must-see but you mentioned that of course...Shadow of the Vampire is great too. Unfortunately if you don't like the glittery romantic kind of vampire, there's not a huge selection.
Ha, yeah I love the Lost Boys. Death by Stereo. Lol. But unfortunately we've all seen that a million times. I'll check out Shadow of the Vampire, thanks!0 -
OneHundredToLose wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »OneHundredToLose wrote: »I tend to go for horror which leaves me feeling genuinely unsettled afterward. With that in mind, here's my list, in no particular order:
-The Poughkeepsie Tapes
-The Devil's Rejects
-House of 1000 Corpses
-The Green Inferno
-Cannibal Holocaust
-The Human Centipede
-The Human Centipede II
-A Serbian Film
-Alone With Her
I'll post more as they come to me, but I'm an avid horror fanatic and particularly am a fan of the "Torture Porn" genre.
Finally someone else who is familiar with a Serbian Film! Though honestly I'm not sure I'd admit watching it to many people irl. That is one disturbing movie!
For sure, I'd probably put that on a very short list of the most *kitten* up movies I've ever watched. I loved it for that - something that can leave me feeling genuinely unsettled for days afterward is a powerful piece.
I told my brother I was watching it (he is really into horror movies and his wife is an immigrant from Serbia) and he told her and she said to me that she could give me a list of much nicer Serbian movies lol.1 -
You have a well-reasoned and compelling point of view. I think it boils down to a matter of personal taste. I don't care much for torture porn or gore, as can be seen by my movie recommendations. I spend too much of the movie covering my eyes and asking husband if the gross stuff is over yet to really appreciate such things ^.^
To each his own and thankfully they don't kill animals for movies any more. Even Deodato has expressed regret over the animal killings although it's hard to know if it's due to their controversy and the resulting nuisance for him or if it's the killings themselves.1 -
Coffeebeenz wrote: »OneHundredToLose wrote: »Coffeebeenz wrote: »If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..
I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:
Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?
I have seen "The Lost Boys" so many times that I pretty much know it line for line, but that doesn't exactly count as a "hidden gem". Let The Right One In is an absolute must-see but you mentioned that of course...Shadow of the Vampire is great too. Unfortunately if you don't like the glittery romantic kind of vampire, there's not a huge selection.
Ha, yeah I love the Lost Boys. Death by Stereo. Lol. But unfortunately we've all seen that a million times. I'll check out Shadow of the Vampire, thanks!
You'll love it as a fan of the genre. It's pretty much a "what if" scenario of the making of Nosferatu, and it has a much younger John Malkovich and Boondock Saints-era Willem Dafoe as the main roles.1 -
Coffeebeenz wrote: »If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..
I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:
Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?
You kinda can't beat Near Dark given all the contenders you've eliminated. The love story is whatever, whatever but there's some really cool ideas that have become canon to the genre in that film. I'll ask husband if he has any ideas when he's home; he's got a much better memory than I do.
1 -
born_of_fire74 wrote: »Coffeebeenz wrote: »If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..
I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:
Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?
You kinda can't beat Near Dark given all the contenders you've eliminated. The love story is whatever, whatever but there's some really cool ideas that have become canon to the genre in that film. I'll ask husband if he has any ideas when he's home; he's got a much better memory than I do.
Thanks! And, yeah, Near Dark was pretty dope. And one of the "judges" at our Halloween shindig is a HUGE Alien fan, so ya know.... pandering
*thumbs up* Stakeland is kind of more apocalyptic than vampire... but I kinda like that about it.. 0 -
"The Fourth Kind" and "Melancholia"1
-
"Alien" scares the hell out me,
seems like it could happen!
"The Ring" gave me the creeps1 -
The Fourth Kind is aliens not vampires! But if you're gonna go there, Lifeforce is pretty obscure so unlikely many have seen it and you get both in one tidy package: vampire-aliens or alien-vampires, whichever appeals to you more. With judging involved though, you're prolly better off pandering with Near Dark because Lifeforce is pretty crap LOL.0
-
I consider "The Exorcist" the scariest movie I have ever seen, and the new series on TV so far is pretty good. A movie I saw as a kid called "Mark of the Devil" gave me nightmares for years. The movie was played at drive-ins in the 70's and when you got tickets, they gave you a vomit bag, like the sickness bags on airlines. The movie was very graphic and disturbing. I own the dvd now and it still is a disturbing film. If you're a fan of the genre, you should find this movie and check it out.1
-
born_of_fire74 wrote: »The Fourth Kind is aliens not vampires! But if you're gonna go there, Lifeforce is pretty obscure so unlikely many have seen it and you get both in one tidy package: vampire-aliens or alien-vampires, whichever appeals to you more. With judging involved though, you're prolly better off pandering with Near Dark because Lifeforce is pretty crap LOL.
Watched "Lifeforce" back in the day.
At the time I thought it was a scary concept.
Kinda corny now a days.1 -
So, husband is going on and on about "The Car" which is not a vampire movie at all. I don't think we're getting any suggestions out of him.
Not a vampire movie either but [rec] is very good. The Spanish one, not the American version with Jennifer Carpenter--that one is mediocre at best.0 -
Your moms3
-
Another vote for The Exorcist. More than just a scary movie, it's a film about faith and doubt, with the complex characters that most films of this genre lack.
Also love The Ring, and the even better original Japanese version, Ringu.
And any time I walk alone down a long corridor in an old hotel, I imagine those two sisters from The Shining appearing from nowhere.
2 -
I am a scary movie junky! Love them...except anything to do with curses, Satan, ghosts. They totally freak me out so my will-NEVER-watch-agains are:
-candyman (slept with my bathroom light on for years & the door closed)
-the ring
-the grudge
-annabelle
-it follows
I got tricked into watching some of these. I have a habit of when I start a movie I have to watch all of it. Doesn't matter if I didn't want to see it and have no interest in it. They love to take advantage! Rotten boys. (-_-)0 -
I'm still in therapy....
3 -
@Coffeebeenz. Play them Vampyr by Carl Theodor dreyer.1
-
This content has been removed.
-
the original "Wickerman" was horrifying - when I saw that big man thing burning OMG the Nicholas Gage remake was just sad
Also "The Dulwich Horror" in the 70's seemed pretty scary at the time - I don't think it would be now
When I was a kid the banshee from "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" kept me awake many school nights0 -
Coffeebeenz wrote: »If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..
I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:
Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Midnight. I haven't seen it yet, but it's a vampire movie on my list.1 -
^ oh yeah. I've been meaning to watch that too0
-
Supernatural movies don't really scare me. The scariest movie I have ever seen was a lesser-known movie called Megan is Missing. Most people disagree that it's scary because there are very few "jumping out" parts. And I admit the acting sucks. But, what makes it so terrifying is that it can actually happen!!! It's set up in a sort of Blair Witch Project way in that its filmed through video cameras and webcams. It's basically about a girl who gets kidnapped and her friend tries to find her but puts herself in danger doing so. It's so scary that I never watched the ending because I read about what happened at the end and got too scared... that was a year ago haha!0
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 393.4K Introduce Yourself
- 43.8K Getting Started
- 260.2K Health and Weight Loss
- 175.9K Food and Nutrition
- 47.4K Recipes
- 232.5K Fitness and Exercise
- 426 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.5K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153K Motivation and Support
- 8K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.3K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.7K MyFitnessPal Information
- 24 News and Announcements
- 1.1K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.6K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions