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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 10, 2017 18:07:52 GMT
And explain why. The Exorcist (1973): The face of Pazuzu, which only flashes on screen briefly, really seeped into my brain the last time I watched this. It was the extended cut so I was already freaked out by seeing scenes I had never seen before. I remember checking behind the door in the bathroom to make sure no demons were waiting to get me. And I had trouble sleeping that night! I'm an adult!!! This movie is full of scary images, but that's what bothered me. To add a photo, Google the image, click View Image, Copy & Paste the address into the little box with a picture frame above, be sure to erase the http:// first before adding your url address.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 10, 2017 21:34:12 GMT
Self explanatory really.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 10, 2017 23:49:14 GMT
Agnes, it's me Billy!
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Post by gbone on Oct 11, 2017 0:25:41 GMT
And explain why. The Exorcist (1973): The face of Pazuzu, which only flashes on screen briefly, really seeped into my brain the last time I watched this. It was the extended cut so I was already freaked out by seeing scenes I had never seen before. I remember checking behind the door in the bathroom to make sure no demons were waiting to get me. And I had trouble sleeping that night! I'm an adult!!! This movie is full of scary images, but that's what bothered me. To add a photo, Google the image, click View Image, Copy & Paste the address into the little box with a picture frame above, be sure to erase the http:// first before adding your url address. This S.O.B. ^^^. First one I thought of too. Had nightmares for years!!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 10:15:26 GMT
And explain why. The Exorcist (1973): The face of Pazuzu, which only flashes on screen briefly, really seeped into my brain the last time I watched this. It was the extended cut so I was already freaked out by seeing scenes I had never seen before. I remember checking behind the door in the bathroom to make sure no demons were waiting to get me. And I had trouble sleeping that night! I'm an adult!!! This movie is full of scary images, but that's what bothered me. To add a photo, Google the image, click View Image, Copy & Paste the address into the little box with a picture frame above, be sure to erase the http:// first before adding your url address. This S.O.B. ^^^. First one I thought of too. Had nightmares for years!! She's just an ordinary woman, yes, a woman...that's what we have to just keep whispering to ourselves to make it all okay!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 10:21:18 GMT
A more recent one for me was the demon nun from The Conjuring 2, specifically this scene: Now I hear she's getting her own spinoff movie, The Nun...I may never sleep again!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 10:23:04 GMT
Self explanatory really. So simple yet so horrifying. I never understood the people that didn't like that movie. I remember two teenage girls behind me at the theater were all "That's it? So stupid!" Meanwhile, I was afraid to move!
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 11, 2017 10:26:00 GMT
Agnes, it's me Billy! Possibly the creepiest eyeball in horror history. I'm planning to watch The Grudge and it's sequels and maybe the Ju-on series too if I can find them all. There's a third sequel to The Grudge I never did see and not sure how many Ju-on movies there are, I've only ever seen the first one.
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Post by Marv on Oct 11, 2017 11:03:35 GMT
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 11, 2017 13:05:41 GMT
I was very young.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 11, 2017 13:13:38 GMT
Great idea for a topic/thread, Lebowskidoo. The first image that popped up in my head was that of the true nightmarish face belonging to maybe the scariest looking vampire of them all, Kurt Barlow (Reggie Nalder) from the 1979 mini-series Salem's Lot. As a kid, here in Norway we had a magazine that was called (En gal, gal verden!) A crazy, crazy world! and I loved reading those, as they were full of kind of bizarre and freaky stories, and back then without relying upon the internet all the time, many of them ended up scaring the crap out of us kids, and we loved it even more. Of course, looking back, it was quite incredible that we "fell" for all these ridiculous and over-the-top stories, but I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that we really "wanted" it to be partly true, but nowdays, that magazine would have been ripped to shreds by 4 year olds along with their expensive new mobile phones and laptops, because 99,9 percent of what was published and written was total bullshit, and it would take a few seconds to look it up and realize it is all fake. But it worked back then and in a period of the late 80s (I was too young to remeber as far back then) and early 90s they were doing very well, but I guess when the computer become something everyone had in their home, it was harder and harder to sell these "fantastic!" stories and somewhere between 1993-1995 I think they more or less disappeared for good. Oh, well, now we still something far more frightening, real news stories along with the sleazy tabloids full of "who has beeped who?" and "what kind of plastic surgery have she or he done lately?" and, well I would rather have the old "Frankenstein lived under my bed for 5 years!" or "My next-door neighbor is a sex-starved alien from outer space!". Now thats what I call a great story. Ayway, back to the topic. The reason for all the above is that this image of Kurt Barlow I first saw in a magazine edition of A Crazy, Crazy World! back in 1993 or 94, and it was a very well written (and for a kid, a very scary story only made more effectivly as it all seemed to be true). Vampires are about to take control (or something like that) in Pennsylvania in America, and there was this huge picture of Kurt Barlow and it scared the living shit out of me. I was convinced, and that every line had to be true! That face kept following me, in dreams or more fittingly nightmares and it did not get any better when I by "accident" some years later finally found out were that image was taken from, and that was to be in Salem's Lot. Sure, Kurt is only in for a few minutes, but rarely have I seen someone with such an evil and almost "hypnotic" presence to them, and of course it helps having such a great actor as James Mason being involved, but Barlow is truly a terrifying sight to behold as he comes off as inhumane as they come, with weird and creepy movements and noises along with a face which alone should be more than enough to strike fear into most people. "Your faith against his faith... Could you do that? Is your faith enough?... Then do it... Throw away the cross. Face the master. Faith against faith."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 11, 2017 13:53:27 GMT
Unless (like me) you obviously have been living in a cave and have no idea what movie it's from
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 11, 2017 14:16:39 GMT
Ok, so its not a "true" horror movie, however very few films have had such a deep and lasting impact on me, as The Terminator (1984). And it was to be quite an introduction when I finally saw it, as I had started up seeing T2: Judgement Day (1991) back in 1993 or 94, as a kid and gotten used to having Arnie as the stand-up and save the day, good guy, and all I knew of the original was from seeing an terrifying image of the nightmarish endoskeleton of the T-101 model in a movie magazine and even that was more then enough to tell me that this would be something of a different kind of movie experience. Move on forward to the end of 1997, and a Norwegian TV-channel finally decided to show the 1984 orginal, very late at night, and this time I had not the comfort of watching it with my dad or any of my friends. I was all alone in the dark, and while I will always look back on it with some great and fond memories of seeing the lovely Linda Hamilton in a certain hot 'n steamy love scene, but the rest of the film was very far away of what I had "expected" going in and it took some viewings and time, but it would eventually go on to become not only my favorite Terminator movie, but an alltime favorite of mine. Still, this movie scared me bad or should I say almost traumatized me as this bleak and horrible look of a possible future was more than I could handle back then, and it took a while before I got the nerves to see it again, alone. I think by going in a second time, knowing what lied beneath the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask or layer of skin, made it even more scary the second time around. Ok, enough of that, back to the topic. That image is once again of a completely inhumane and just down right pure killing machine, that even before I saw the movie, had striked fear into me and would also without mine approval go on to have several cameos in my dreams or nightmares, for years to come. Once again, when I finally saw the real deal for the firs time, there was and still is something truly horrible about its weird movements and creepy metallic noises along with those red, calculating eyes of death staring directly at you without any mercy or compassion. Sadly, most of what would come afterwards of Terminator machines in the newer "sequels" would have them being dumbed down from unstoppable walking futuristic nightmares to end up being outwitted and beaten with few problems by little kids. Now had they faced the real Terminator and not some watered down MCGI version that is the useless Throwminator, they would probably be sitting down in some dark and nasty hellhole like the rest of the human species, praying their hearts out that the new rulers of planet earth will not find them, which leads me up to next image from the very same movie: Another fearsome image, this time by one of Arnie's best pals, Franco Colombo who did one hell of a job as an infiltrating unit who is sent into one of the humans last standing safe-houses or so they thought, as it ends up as a total massacre where women and children cries their hearts out as this metallic beast kills everything in sight, all while a helpless Kyle Reese can only look on at this unstoppable enemy that has been created with just one purpose, and that is to kill off as many humans as possible. This scene and picture makes it very powerful yet scary as it shows the humans at their aboslute lowest, living like rats and their situation seems all the more hopeless when coming up against those calculating red and evil eyes, looming into the dark, along with the sounds of people screaming and crying all around, now that is sheer horror.
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Post by gbone on Oct 11, 2017 14:23:26 GMT
Christ! This one too!! Again, nightmares !
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 11, 2017 14:36:08 GMT
Another "handsome" devil to add to this collection is the gruesome creature that is Tarman from Return of the Living Dead (1985). I remember very well watching it with a friend of mine for the first time as a kid along with his older brothers, and while they laughed their heads off, I was completely terrfied. I can see the comedy side of it now, but as a kid, that was scary as hell. That introduction with Tarman taking a bite of the leader punks head like it was an apple, followed by the sounds and his movements, then the screams, now that really did traumatize me. It took months before I kind of felt "safe" again. And as a little extra "bonus" of sitting through the entire film and seeing all that crazy and nasty things happening, when I walked home that same evening, it started to rain. I have never felt as small and frighten from having to walk a meager 5 minutes back home, but it felt more like 5 years. I was sure that Tarman was living under the stairs down to the basement, and to make matters worse, every night I had to go up to the second floor, as the bathroom next to my bedroom was under construction or re-building it, so for a period of several weeks, those stairs felt mighty long to go up and down every night to take a piss, all with my fantasy making it up as good ol' Tarman would be down there waiting for me.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 11, 2017 14:51:11 GMT
stefancrosscoeNice write-ups. Thanks. I like your personal recollections of -ness Not big on "horror" but enjoy reading what the fans have to say !
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 11, 2017 14:57:48 GMT
Thanks Bat Outtaheck. It is always fun to look back and say bravely to myself "I was scared of that?" then only to realize that what scared you as a kid, still do have an impact or create an unsettling effect or feeling thanks to my lively imagination or fantasy, even now, when I'm all grown up.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 11, 2017 17:13:11 GMT
Possibly the creepiest eyeball in horror history. I'm planning to watch The Grudge and it's sequels and maybe the Ju-on series too if I can find them all. There's a third sequel to The Grudge I never did see and not sure how many Ju-on movies there are, I've only ever seen the first one. Hi Lebowskidoo. Just to clarify, my image is from Black Christmas (1974), not from any of The Grudge movies.
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Post by gbone on Oct 11, 2017 17:15:36 GMT
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Post by gbone on Oct 11, 2017 18:34:28 GMT
Alice Sweet Alice. 70's horror movie's were scary cuz I was so young then.
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