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Post by alphaleader on Apr 1, 2009 15:05:11 GMT -5
Has anyone ever been really scared by The Thing (1982). I'm 13 now and I was 12 when I first saw it and it didn't scare me at all. It didn't even sicken me. (Well, maybe that is because I have a 4 year old brother and 8 year old sister, but nevermind). But just curious if anyone has actually been scared by it.
One movie you should check out though is the SCI-FI original movie Vampire Wars: Battle For The Universe aka Bloodsuckers. My birthday was last Saturday and I got that on DVD. It has awesome acting and a great storyline and a really hot half vampire-half human girl. The only downside is that the movie is Rated R for grisly violence and gore.
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Post by Werewolf on Apr 1, 2009 15:51:19 GMT -5
I have to hold my hand up and say that when i was younger the scene with the dog turning inside out gave me nighmares. You need to bear in mind however that i was never allowed to watch horror movies as a youngster and wasn't as used to horror violence as most young people are today. Not that i'm mega old, i'm only 29 but when i was younger everything scared me! I hid behind the sofa whilst my parents watched Critters and Aliens and the first time i saw the Evil Dead i was terrified. But eventually i grew to be the gore hound i am today! Hurrah!
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Post by alphaleader on Apr 1, 2009 19:01:54 GMT -5
Ha. Now see, I have seen a lot worse that that. Pretty much nothing has ever scared me. I think that the only movie that ever scared me was Ghost Rider (2007). The image of blackheart as a devil really freaked me out. But now I have it on DVD and have grown out of the fear.
I have never seen The Evil Dead or Critters. I have the Alien Quadrilogy, which is a 9-disc DVD set with all 4 Alien movie and I was never scared by any of them.
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Post by Marcus on Apr 2, 2009 9:15:54 GMT -5
I always liked The Thing. Never scared me, as it felt more sci-fi then horror to me. But the effects were incredible when it first came out. They even hold up in most cases to todays level of effects. My parents let me and my brother watch horror films from my earliest memories. None of them really scared me. Few made me jump at particular scenes. I remember that sometimes we used to try to scare our parents once a film had was over for the evening. Worked especially well on my mother, as she loves horror, but gets too scared after watching them if it's dark  Never considered the alien films to be horror either, just action/sci-fi ones, so again never looked at them in a "this is scary" way. I personally think the older horror films tend to be the more scary, as they depend on suspence and building tension rather than gore and effects - simply because they couldn't do those kind of effects back than. Wish someone would combine the modern effects with the older style suspense - with werewolves of course Out of curiosity what would be your top 5 horror films? Curious what you'd list. Don't include comedy types or ones that are more sci-fi than horror (eg the alien films). |
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Post by alphaleader on Apr 2, 2009 13:56:13 GMT -5
1. The Lost Boys (1987)
2. Vampire Wars: Battle For The Universe (2005) aka Bloodsuckers
3. The Howling (1981)
4. Underworld (2003)
5. Megasnake (2007)
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Post by Werewolf on Apr 3, 2009 12:24:01 GMT -5
Everything scared me when i was young! I remember watching a made for tv movie about a couple of doctors trying to steal a baby from a hosiptal and this other guy tried to get in on the act and they pretended he could, then knocked him out. When he woke up he had his hands tied behind his back and a noose around his neck which was attached to the bottom of a lift. Next scene you see the couple who have put him there press the UP button. Scared the hell out of me!
I know the Alien movies are sci-fi and not horror but people still got killed in them and that scared me! I must have been an incredibly senisitive child! Now nothing really scares me, i tend not to class anything as true horror anymore. The Hostel movies disturbed me greatly, i couldn't stand the screaming and begging and i'm totally unable to watch or hear rape in movies. To me that's real horror.
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Post by Marcus on Apr 8, 2009 4:36:34 GMT -5
alphaleader, interesting you list both Lost Boys and Underworld as horror movies. For me the first is a comedy and the second is an action film. It's always interesting to differences in people's classifications of things I agree with you werewolf, Hostle is a rather unpleasent film to watch. When I first watched it, it just felt like an excuse to show extreme gore. I felt like they'd been no effort to make it scary, just very very gory. I like gore, but I like a film to be more than just gore. |
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Post by Nyctivoe on Apr 11, 2009 17:59:11 GMT -5
I don't remember the Thing scaring me when I actually watched it, but boy howdy, when I was laying in bed at night thinking about it I got a little freaked.
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Post by Marcus on Apr 14, 2009 7:33:23 GMT -5
So, who's seen the original version The Thing From Outer Space?
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Post by alphaleader on Apr 14, 2009 15:43:24 GMT -5
I have
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Post by Werewolf on Apr 15, 2009 3:43:56 GMT -5
Nope.... Never
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Post by Moonreaper on May 6, 2009 20:08:46 GMT -5
The thing never really scared me, but creeped me out. As a kid i watched that movie and just sat there say things like "what the @#$%" and "lord have mercy." Then later that night thinking and woundering in bed of how the movie could tie in to my life.
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