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Post by fangirl1975 on Sept 1, 2017 18:48:33 GMT
Who here has seen a horror movie that didn't scare them? For me it's the original The Blob. I think it's too much fun to be scary.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Sept 1, 2017 22:44:32 GMT
The Conjuring I really did not find scary at all.
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Post by Flynn on Sept 2, 2017 3:00:27 GMT
Wow, this is a hard one. In truth, virtually all of them. But I guess I'll go with Night of the Living Dead. It's a wonderful movie to watch, and I do consider it a great film, but I don't think I was ever scared while watching it. Some films will hold me in a kind of suspense that seems like fear, but not NIGHT. I enjoy the drama more than it scares me.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Sept 2, 2017 3:26:22 GMT
There's NO such thing as a scary or frightening film. ONLY disturbing and disgusting (gross) ones. Now of course they CAN be scary IF they're happening to you in real-life. BUT NOT in reel-life.
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Post by Flynn on Sept 2, 2017 12:37:21 GMT
There's NO such thing as a scary or frightening film. ONLY disturbing and disgusting (gross) ones. Now of course they CAN be scary IF they're happening to you in real-life. BUT NOT in reel-life. Whether or not one finds a movie scary depends on one's ability to empathize. If someone has a high ability to empathize, then yes, they do get scared when watching movies because they are seeing the events of the movies from the perspective of the victims. It's not the same form of fear the victims feel because the experiencer ultimately isn't in danger, but it is a form of that same feeling. On the other hand, if the person watching the film isn't one who has an ability to empathize, then focus is often on things that disturb and disgust. It sounds like you fall in the latter camp, whereas I fall somewhere in between. I rarely get scared, but I do get scared sometimes. I could try to find the study where I got this information, but it's been a while since I read it, and I'm not sure what it's title was or where I found it.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 3, 2017 22:20:30 GMT
The Exorcist didn't scare me in the slightest.
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Post by tresix on Sept 3, 2017 22:33:18 GMT
"The Shining" (1980)
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Post by Flynn on Sept 4, 2017 1:25:13 GMT
The Exorcist didn't scare me in the slightest. That's not surprising. All of its techniques to frighten have been pilfered. What was new and innovative in the '70s is cliche now. I first saw it in 1991 in my college dorm room. I had heard about it and rented it from Hastings (ah, the good ole days). Anyway, at the time, I didn't think much of it. About a decade later, I rewatched it and found it to be much better. Now when I watch it I find it to be unnerving. I'm never scared, but I do love it's atmosphere.
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Post by MCDemuth on Sept 4, 2017 2:01:45 GMT
Maybe when I was a little kid, I found some things scary, but now, I don't find horror movies "Scary" at all... As it has been pointed out by other posters, just about every movie that comes out now, has "done it" all already. Interestingly, I find that most horror movies, are so over the top and so full of stuff, I can't actually see how anyone can really be scared of them... Uncomfortable, sure. Even startled, during a "Jump Scare" moment... But, I know now, that most films are all just fiction, and just don't happen in real life... so, it's hard to get scared about anything now, and I feed no need to run and hide... Now, the movies that do get to me, are the more simpler ones, and ones that could happen every day... Like... Cujo (1983). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo_(film)A rabid dog trying to kill you and you are trapped... And all you have to do, is open your door, and CHOMP! or Duel (1971). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)A mysterious truck driver experiences road rage, and tries to terrorize and kill a man out driving a car for a business trip. Both films are much more scary to me than one about Possessed "Killer Dolls"
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Sept 4, 2017 16:00:27 GMT
I think it would be a much easier task to just name those very few ones that actually scared me.
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Post by geralmar on Sept 4, 2017 17:11:48 GMT
The Exorcist (1973)
I was stationed just outside Washington D.C. during its original release. The Washington Post reported people fainting and others fleeing the theater. In D.C. the movie was actually rated "X". Three years later I saw the movie with an all-black audience in a Detroit "grind house". (Actually the glorious Fox Theatre before it was restored.) They didn't take a moment of it seriously, hooting and roaring with laughter through all the scenes that so shocked the "sophisticated" D.C. movie-goers. They much preferred the kung fu second feature. I wish the director and the movie critics who show such reverence for Exorcist had seen it with Detroiters. I think the movie is schlock and remain disgusted with Friedkin for having such little faith in his own skills that he resorted to "embeds" to goose the feeble scares.
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Post by geralmar on Sept 4, 2017 18:01:45 GMT
The Exorcist didn't scare me in the slightest. That's not surprising. All of its techniques to frighten have been pilfered. What was new and innovative in the '70s is cliche now. I first saw it in 1991 in my college dorm room. I had heard about it and rented it from Hastings (ah, the good ole days). Anyway, at the time, I didn't think much of it. About a decade later, I rewatched it and found it to be much better. Now when I watch it I find it to be unnerving. I'm never scared, but I do love it's atmosphere. For the adult version of The Exorcist I suggest Il demonio (1963). Exorcist even pilfered from the following scene: m.youtube.com/watch?v=XB25Y_EvudE
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Post by Gourmando the Reindeer on Sept 5, 2017 2:26:30 GMT
Maybe when I was a little kid, I found some things scary, but now, I don't find horror movies "Scary" at all... As it has been pointed out by other posters, just about every movie that comes out now, has "done it" all already. Interestingly, I find that most horror movies, are so over the top and so full of stuff, I can't actually see how anyone can really be scared of them... Uncomfortable, sure. Even startled, during a "Jump Scare" moment... But, I know now, that most films are all just fiction, and just don't happen in real life... so, it's hard to get scared about anything now, and I feed no need to run and hide... Now, the movies that do get to me, are the more simpler ones, and ones that could happen every day... Like... Cujo (1983). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo_(film)A rabid dog trying to kill you and you are trapped... And all you have to do, is open your door, and CHOMP! or Duel (1971). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)A mysterious truck driver experiences road rage, and tries to terrorize and kill a man out driving a car for a business trip. Both films are much more scary to me than one about Possessed "Killer Dolls" Duel is very underated nowadays. And it is scary. I imagine viewers found ut scarier when first aired because there was less traffic on the highways which meant less help in such a situation and NO cell phones. I've always thought the diner scene was incredibly suspensful and so great at inducing paranoia.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 5, 2017 2:55:49 GMT
There's plenty, but of the ones generally touted as scary: The Ring (I actually fell asleep the first time watching)
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 5, 2017 23:15:09 GMT
The Exorcist didn't scare me in the slightest. That's not surprising. All of its techniques to frighten have been pilfered. What was new and innovative in the '70s is cliche now. I first saw it in 1991 in my college dorm room. I had heard about it and rented it from Hastings (ah, the good ole days). Anyway, at the time, I didn't think much of it. About a decade later, I rewatched it and found it to be much better. Now when I watch it I find it to be unnerving. I'm never scared, but I do love it's atmosphere. Yeah. I first saw it in 2015 and I'd already seen countless horrors by that stage - classic and otherwise.
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Post by marianne48 on Sept 6, 2017 1:54:25 GMT
Except for one scene at the very end, I didn't find Carrie scary. And as a lot of others have mentioned, The Exorcist was more strange than anything else. I remember when I saw Alien in the theater, a lot of the suspenseful moments were scary, but when the baby alien first burst out of John Hurt's belly and skittered across the screen, the audience erupted in laughter.
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 7, 2017 12:47:41 GMT
I gotta agree on The Exorcist, I saw it when I was 14 and was expecting to have the hell scared out of me and not be able to sleep, it was interesting but it wasn't scary. I had an adult tell me that it scared them, not because of why it scared everyone else, but because of the idea behind it of a demon possessing your child and you can't do anything about it. It's a good point but I still never thought it was scary.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 7, 2017 12:51:15 GMT
All of them. I love horror, but not because I think that horror films are literally scary.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 7, 2017 13:09:42 GMT
There's NO such thing as a scary or frightening film. ONLY disturbing and disgusting (gross) ones. Now of course they CAN be scary IF they're happening to you in real-life. BUT NOT in reel-life. Whether or not one finds a movie scary depends on one's ability to empathize. If someone has a high ability to empathize, then yes, they do get scared when watching movies because they are seeing the events of the movies from the perspective of the victims. It's not the same form of fear the victims feel because the experiencer ultimately isn't in danger, but it is a form of that same feeling. On the other hand, if the person watching the film isn't one who has an ability to empathize, then focus is often on things that disturb and disgust. It sounds like you fall in the latter camp, whereas I fall somewhere in between. I rarely get scared, but I do get scared sometimes. I could try to find the study where I got this information, but it's been a while since I read it, and I'm not sure what it's title was or where I found it. I don't think it's that simple. I have no problem empathizing with film characters in general. For example, films, though not usually horror films, can make me cry at the drop of a hat. Most horror films I see as "dark fantasy." I expect most characters in them to be killed (that doesn't always happen, of course, but I see it as the default, so I'm not surprised when it does happen). And I tend to see horror villains more as anti-heroes. Horror villains are basically Batman with more twisted moral views. Villains often have many characteristics that make them allegories for social outsiders. A lot of my attraction to horror films is simply the mood. They're dark, macabre, melancholy, creepy, weird, etc. I like those aesthetic qualities. I like fantasy, too. So when watching horror films, I tend to be "rooting" for the villains, the darkness, the creepiness, etc. at least as much as I'm rooting for the "normals." I don't want the mood to end. I don't want Dracula to be killed. I want him to slink off into the darkness to return again (and provide another film for us).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 14:35:09 GMT
Rosemary's Baby
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