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The appeal of scary movies

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by GBNF, May 3, 2008.

  1. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Just saw perhaps the scariest movie trailer I have seen since Alien.

    The Strangers.

    I know it will fall short, but the trailer is a Hall of Famer.

    http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/352630/The-Strangers/trailers
     
  2. What was the verdict of Cloverfield? Worth seeing? I guess I should just look it up on rottentomatoes.com
     
  3. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    Oh my God, did it fucking suck.
     
  4. Beaker

    Beaker Active Member

    Unless a horror movie is done almost flawlessly, I've almost never been able to enjoy them. I end up laughing most of the time.
     
  5. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    No one was actually surprised by that, right?

    JJ Abrams = abject, unspeakable fail
     
  6. Rex Harrison

    Rex Harrison Member

    Just mindless slasher flicks are great for Halloween. It's a pathetic attempt to recapture a bit of my childhood by doing stuff like watching slasher flicks, dressing up and giving out candy to the neighborhood kids. Other than October, I don't watch horror movies, and even then I stick with the classics. Modern horror isn't very good.
     
  7. CentralIllinoisan

    CentralIllinoisan Active Member

    As I watched this, I sat in my basement, Murphy walking alone upstairs, my wife and Jake not home.

    I did not finish watching it, clicking the red X as soon as the dude pops in behind Liv Tyler in the doorway. How incredibly creepy.
     
  8. I saw this trailer at a matinee I went to last weekend with a friend. I was absolutely freaked out at a theater at 12:30 p.m. That had to have been a first for me.

    I went to a movie last night with my fiancee and told her, because she likes these kinds of movies, that she had to see this preview. Glad it got posted here, because now I can show it to her later.

    Only other preview that scared me half as much was the initial one for White Noise, a movie that I never saw but heard sucked.
     
  9. BigSleeper

    BigSleeper Active Member

    This pretty much nails it for me. However, so few movies these days actually succeed in reaching this goal. I love horror movies (I actually paid to see "Wrong Turn" in the theater, I'm somewhat ashamed to say). Unfortunately, most mainstream horror movies these days are either torture-porn tests of one's intestinal fortitude (i.e. "Hostel") or some watered-down PG-13 suckfest.

    I'm always on the lookout for a well-crafted scarefest. The original "Halloween" freaked me out. John Carpenter's "The Thing" was also good. "Alien," if we can even call it a horror movie, was four-star excellent. "The Strangers," looks promising. I watched "High Tension" before it came stateside, and thought it was pretty good. "Blair Witch" succeeded on a lot of levels, but it's only good for one viewing. "Hard Candy" was pretty damn powerful, yet reminded me of this sick, twisted Japanese movie called "The Audition." Most recently, "The Descent" -- which they are unfortunately making a sequel to, thus ruining the original's true ending -- was very good, as well.

    I haven't seen it yet, but I hear "The Orphanage" from Spain is a quite a good freakout.
     
  10. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Seven is on Encore tonight. Excellent "scary" movie that wasn't necessarily in the genre.

    I remember seeing it in theaters with no knowledge other than the recommendation of a friend, and I and my fiture wife just sat in the car in the parking lot afterward, just trying to wrap our heads around what we just saw.

    THAT is the appeal of these films. When done well, the images become ingrained in your mind.
     
  11. Tripp McNeely

    Tripp McNeely Member

    I went to see "Silence of the Lambs" with that exact same mindset and it blew me away. I didn't know much about it when I went into the theater. Coming out, I knew I saw one of the great thrillers of all time.

    I don't necessarily enjoy scary movies more than another type of genre. I enjoy a well-made movie that makes me FEEL something. Sad, happy, scared. I want to watch a movie that brings out some type of emotion in me.
     
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