Scary Movie Night

[Raistlin]

So Jojo (Jojee here) has some interviews in D.C. and will be staying at my apartment for a weekend. She's a ridiculous wimp, but for some reason wants to stay up and watch scary movies. Our current list of possibilities looks like this:

The Shining (she's never seen it)
Silent Hill
Rec
The Mist

Topic: Do you like scary movies? What are your favorites? Feel free to give other suggestions for us.

[Bunny]

The Orphanage was pretty enjoyable.

[krissy]

RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS

ginger snaps 2

[Raistlin]

Oh yes, I forgot about the Resident Evil CG movie.

However, Ginger Snaps is actually just terrible/hilarious, and An American Werewolf doesn't look scary enough.

[Jojee]

I am never going to let you sleep again after this. Every night I will call you and wake you up at 3am crying about how monsters are going to eat me or something. FYI.

It will be so fun! :</>D

[Raistlin]

I'm pretty sure your reactions throughout Scary Movie Night will be worth it.

[McLovin']

The Haunting in Connecticut was pretty damn scary.
If you want spooky then there's the Exorcism of Emily Rose and Silent Hill.

A scary movie with a good story: 'The Uninvited' comes to mind.

And Rec is smurfing awesome. (the Spanish not the English version)

[Namelessfengir]

dreamcatcher that was funny scary

if shes that much of a wuss go with nightmare on elm street its like spicy food if you eat enough you love it

[Burtsplurt]

I've got a lot of time for The Descent and Let the Right One In (the latter isn't particularly scary, though).

Other than that, any George Romero zombie film! Dawn of the Dead is probably my favourite (the remake isn't bad either).

[Jiro]

I'm a wuss, I hate scary movies. Though I'm slowly building up tolerance to them. Slowly.

[Levian]

The Descent is great indeed.

Saw, My Little Eye, The Others.

[Raistlin]

Saw is off the list.

Rec is apparently also off the list because Jojo doesn't want subtitles so she'd have to actually look at the screen. Presumably she will be cowering in terror for half of every movie, so it looks like English-only suggestions will be considered.

Thanks for the other suggestions, and we'll look them up. I'll be sure to post here what we ended up going with and then we can keep track of how many days Jojo goes without sleep.

[Jojee]

You do realize we'll get through maybe 1 scary movie and then I will be either too freaked out and/or too drunk to watch/pay attention to the rest? xD

The Others looks good, and The Descent seems pretty scary. Good reviews for both. Let the Right One In isn't in English, but I'll see it sometime on my own time since, yay vampires. The other movies mentioned have pretty mediocre IMDB ratings. xD

We're not gonna get to see all the movies on the list, but we can pick later Wesly.

Silent Hill
The Mist
The Shining
The Others
The Descent

[Crimson]

I'm shocked at the lack of 80's horrors in this thread, you people disgust me.


Anyways,

Romero's Dead series (minus Diary, that film sucked)

Return Of the Living Dead 1 & 2 (supposed to be scary, but mostly hilarious)

Rec

The Thing

The Descent was pretty creepy too

The Poltergiest series, VERY jumpy

Pulse, also very jumpy

Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge series, the ORIGINAL japanese versions, the American remakes were laughable.


And thats it for now, Silent Hill and Resident Evil were nice for what they were, but I personally didnt find them scary.

[Jojee]

Speaking of Japanese horror films,

Oh my GODDDDD has anyone seen "Hair Extensions"? THAT MOVIE IS SO MESSED UP. Japan is so messed up!! xD

Edit: Here it is. Ekusute (2007) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0904049/)

[Dreddz]

Horror movies are the best movies in my opinion. But its not usually because their scary. I'm a big fan of comedy horrors like Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead 2, Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator.

The Shining is pretty creepy on a first viewing. Although Jack Nicolsons performance will likely just make you laugh. If you want my advice, watch Eraserhead if you really want something to disturb you.

[Raistlin]

I like The Shining because it actually has an engaging plot. And Jack Nicholson is great.

I have not seen Eraserhead, but I'll look it up.


You do realize we'll get through maybe 1 scary movie and then I will be either too freaked out and/or too drunk to watch/pay attention to the rest? xD

Yeah I know, but I'll have 2 or 3 just in case. :p

[Shoeberto]

I think The Descent would be a great movie for you guys to see. I can pretty much imagine it scaring the crap out of Jojo.

[fire_of_avalon]

Oh my god yes. The Descent. That's probably the scariest movie I've ever seen.

[Craig]

the strangers is quite scary

[Breine]

The Descent is great indeed.

Saw, My Little Eye, The Others.

The Others is a good movie.

I like scary movies - generally I like thrillers more than slashers.

EDIT: Also, Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist (classic thriller, although today it's viewed somewhat as a comedy to some people I guess?).

[Shauna]

Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge series, the ORIGINAL japanese versions, the American remakes were laughable

Pssh. I watched the original Japanese Grudge, and it was so boring. I would actually rather watch the American one, and I thought that was pretty poor also.


I quite enjoy scary movies. Though, I have to be in a certain mood to want to watch them. Can't think of any good ones off the top of my head, that hasn't already been mentioned. I can only think of House on Haunted Hill, and that's because that scarred me as a child. xD

[Raistlin]

Right now, simply based on the recommendations here, I'm leaning towards The Descent for our first movie.

[Shoeberto]

Be sure to watch it in the dark.

[Bunny]

I think I've seen The Descent and I recall not liking it very much. However. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1073105/)

[Namelessfengir]

i forgot cujo definitely cujo.....

[trancekuja]

I can't remember the last time I saw a quality horror movie. I'm so disappointed in this genre lately that I don't even want to risk paying some gil for renting them. That's a shame cause I like horrors. What I like even more are atmospheric movies with eerie setting. The Village is the best example.

[Dreddz]

The Descent seems to have gotten a lot of recommendations here. The film was alright, but nothing special (the ending is was great though). I wonder why, out of all the horror movies out there, that The Descent is the one people seem to be picking. Odd.

[Madame Adequate]

The Thing is pretty much the definitive study of paranoia and horror. But then I would recommend it for any movie night, even a girl's rom-com.

The Shining is fairly spectacularly excellent and is a great second choice.

I've never seen The Descent because the trailers never grabbed me. That said it was written and directed by the same chap who made Dog Soldiers (Which is also epic and should go on the list, though it's very comedy-heavy) which is a big point in its favor.

[sephireland]

So Jojo (Jojee here) has some interviews in D.C. and will be staying at my apartment for a weekend. She's a ridiculous wimp, but for some reason wants to stay up and watch scary movies. Our current list of possibilities looks like this:

The Shining (she's never seen it)
Silent Hill
Rec
The Mist

Topic: Do you like scary movies? What are your favorites? Feel free to give other suggestions for us.

Great list there but Silent Hill is a bit out of its depth.

Halloween (original)
The Changeling (the one about a haunted house with George C. Scott)
The Others (because it's both scary and beautiful)
Carrie.
The Sixth Sense.
The Fog (original)

Some goodies there :)

[Rye]

The Thing is pretty much the definitive study of paranoia and horror. But then I would recommend it for any movie night, even a girl's rom-com.

I was very skeptical about The Thing at first, it looked so gross and scary! But Hux made me watch it and although I did squeal a bit I have to admit that he's right about how great it is.

[qwertysaur]

Barbie and the [insert random phrase here] >_<

[Shoeberto]

The Descent seems to have gotten a lot of recommendations here. The film was alright, but nothing special (the ending is was great though). I wonder why, out of all the horror movies out there, that The Descent is the one people seem to be picking. Odd.
It didn't scare me that much, and it's not really like one of my favorites or anything. I just have this feeling that it's going to be the kind of thing that will scare the pants off of Jojo, which I figured was the goal.

[sephireland]

Fully endorsing the people who mentioned The Thing and The Descent. Both are excellent. The Exorcist is worthy of a mention too.

[Crimson]

Ha! Here's a good one that just came into my head, pity it's often not heard of because it's an excellent film (imho) that's creepy as hell.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)

[Raistlin]

I was very skeptical about The Thing at first, it looked so gross and scary! But Hux made me watch it and although I did squeal a bit I have to admit that he's right about how great it is.

I don't care if she thinks it's great or not. I want her to be terrified. Hsu knows what's up.

It seems I will have a fair amount of research to do this weekend.

[Madame Adequate]

I was very skeptical about The Thing at first, it looked so gross and scary! But Hux made me watch it and although I did squeal a bit I have to admit that he's right about how great it is.

I don't care if she thinks it's great or not. I want her to be terrified. Hsu knows what's up.

It seems I will have a fair amount of research to do this weekend.

Oh man, no dude, she's lying through her teeth. She was pretty much constantly hiding, it scared her :bou::bou::bou::bou:less. She's just trying to be too :cool: for school right here.

[Raistlin]

While scaring Rye is not exactly much of an accomplishment, neither is scaring Jojo, so I'll add The Thing to list of considerations.

[Rye]

... That little dingleberry hacked my EoFF. Ban him at once! I have never watched The Thing - I'm far too terrified to. I never will watch it! >:[

[Madame Adequate]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Zak_Dingle.png

Also yeah even the trailer is too scary for her. Which is actually really very lame but does fit the criteria!

[Slothy]

Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge series, the ORIGINAL japanese versions, the American remakes were laughable.

I've seen the Japanese and American versions of both, and the Japanese versions were anything but creepy or scary. The American versions weren't amazing, but I'd put them both marginally ahead of the Japanese originals in scare factor. I still wouldn't recommend either though.

For that matter, if you're looking to scare her (and assuming she is a big wuss), then movies like The Others, Saw, Silent Hill or The Sixth Sense may work, but I didn't find any of them that scary (then again, I don't really tend to find many movies scary. And Silent Hill is laughable by the time they get to the church). I'd go with classics like The Thing, Dawn of the Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, or Halloween, instead. The Descent is decent as people mentioned, though I didn't find it very scary either. Also, a recent one that actually was good and pretty creepy was The Strangers. The first half is better than the second since the anticipation is always scarier than the payoff, but it was still the closest I've seen to a movie actually creeping me out.

[Hambone]

Suspiria!!!!

If Disney did a horror movie, it would be Suspiria. The usage of color in that movie is gold.

[Shiny]

Audition (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/) - Extremely slow in the beginning, but catches up towards the end. I'm not entirely sure if the climax on the film saved it from being completely pointless and not worthwhile, but needless to say, Takeshi Miike does a great job at striking fear in the hearts and minds of viewers.

Psycho (The Original) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/) - Has always been one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock films; if not my number one fav. Like the aforementioned film, it has a twist which most of you probably know by now. I knew before watching this film as to what that twist was, and it was still great. It has a lot of symbolism too--it's not just a bunch of scripted words being acted out. The performances by Anthony Perkins and Vera Miles are fantastic as well.

The Unknown (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018528/) - Definitely one of Lon Chaney's best performances. Unlike many silent film stars, he doesn't go over the top. Instead his performance as a disgruntled man with no arms is both believable and subtle. Lon Chaney is known for playing characters like Hunchback of Norte Dame (he did his own make-up by the way). Though tbh, he looks just as scary without the make-up. This tale has a lot of twists and turns that can be quite shocking. Although some people can see the whole arm thing as funny, this film is actually pretty dark. However, if you're one of those people who don't like movies without any vocals or color in it, then don't watch.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/) - Pretty disturbing film. The set is amazing. I think this is where Tim Burton got his surrealist set designs from. This film is also silent, but I'm kinda glad. I'd be afraid to know what most of the creepy looking characters sound like in this film.

Army of Darkness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/) - Probably my favorite out of the Evil Dead trilogy. It combines hilarity with horror. Always a bonus. Plus you gotta love the chin. I liked how it appeared to be stop motion they were using for the skeletons. It made them all choppy and weird. The skeletons one-liners were priceless. But don't be fooled by the comedy, it definitely has it's frightening moments.

The original Night of the Living Dead and Nosferatu are also honorable mentions. Classic horror films right there. I didn't mind the remake for Night of the Living Dead though.

[Shoeberto]

The original Night of the Living Dead and Nosferatu are also honorable mentions. Classic horror films right there. I didn't mind the remake for Night of the Living Dead though.
These two are freaky in a way that I don't think will ever be able to be recreated on modern celluloid. Count Orlock is the goddamn stuff of nightmares on his own. The light work in the original Night made the zombies more terrifying than any other movie I've seen featuring them - rather than focus on the details, a lot of the time you just see these shambling, white figures off in the distance against a totally black night. It's effective and wonderful.

[Crimson]

The Evil Dead series were effing hilarious but all that comedy outshines the horror.

Though when I was little those "chase" scenes with Ash running from a Deadite and you seeing from the Deadites perspective was pretty creepy the first time you see it.



Groovy.

[sephireland]

The Woman In Black has some unsettling scenes.

[Shoeberto]

The Evil Dead series were effing hilarious but all that comedy outshines the horror.

Though when I was little those "chase" scenes with Ash running from a Deadite and you seeing from the Deadites perspective was pretty creepy the first time you see it.



Groovy.
I love Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, but the first one freaked my :bou::bou::bou::bou: out bad. That was maybe... six years ago, now, in junior high, but still. I never really understood why people say that one is funny. I just thought it was terrifying.

[sephireland]

The Evil Dead series were effing hilarious but all that comedy outshines the horror.

Though when I was little those "chase" scenes with Ash running from a Deadite and you seeing from the Deadites perspective was pretty creepy the first time you see it.



Groovy.
I love Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, but the first one freaked my :bou::bou::bou::bou: out bad. That was maybe... six years ago, now, in junior high, but still. I never really understood why people say that one is funny. I just thought it was terrifying.

First one did freak out a lot of people but I can see the humour in it. Parts 2 and 3 are comedy GOLD as is Raimi's latest, Drag Me To Hell.

[Shiny]

In terms of recent films that are scary, that Jeeper Creepers film scared the crap out of me. I'm not even particularly sure why, but around the time it came out, I was freaking out with sweats in the night. A few days after watching it, I was watching the news and they started playing the Jeepers Creepers song. I was like, "Omg, nooooo! It's gonna get me!"

The Ring also made me pretty paranoid. I'd check my vcr constantly to see if anything was in there despite it being like 2000 something and VHS being virtually abandoned. Now when I watch that movie I'm like, "Well, this isn't so bad." Those were the last horror films I've seen that were ever able to frighten me. All the rest I see now are not really scary to me.

[Bunny]

I saw The Ring in theaters and when I came back to my house, I turned on my TV and got nothing but static. That was about the scariest Ring-related thing to happen to me.

[Jojee]

I was under the covers for half of the Ring. Then I wouldn't stay in the same room alone with a TV for like a week. xD

[Raistlin]

The Descent, The Thing, and The Others are currently my main considerations. I think we have plenty of good choices here.

[sephireland]

The Descent, The Thing, and The Others are currently my main considerations. I think we have plenty of good choices here.

Three great choices. Should freak you out suitably. BTW, it's not apparent immediately but The Thing and The Descent actually very similar movies. Enjoy.

[BG-57]

Need some ghost stories in here:

Ghost Story (of course) which has four great actors playing rich old men swapping spooky stories. But one of their stories isn't fictional.

The Haunted Latern is a great feudal era ghost story about star crossed lovers and love that survives the grave. It combines aspects of a samurai drama and Hellraiser. Be forwarned that are some bloody scenes. Every time I see that hovering latern during to O-Bon festival it creeps me out.

The Haunting (original version). It's one of the best haunted house movies ever that relies on physchological effect more than special effects. The remake is great looking but empty, although it's instructive to watch them together.

The Legend of Hell House is in some ways similar, a group is assembled into the house, although these are experts trying to prove the existence of life after death. Boy, do they ever prove it.

Uzumaki (no relation to Naruto) is about a town haunted, not by ghosts, but the shape of the spiral. If you watch it, beware of looking around you after and seeing the spiral everywhere.

Event Horizon is basically a haunted house in space. It's well done and looks spectacular, but man does it get gory. And the director even complains on his commentary track about having to tone it down.

[Raistlin]

The twerp will veto anything too gory. She can't even watch surgical procedures on House without freaking out and looking away.

[Namelessfengir]

The twerp will veto anything too gory. She can't even watch surgical procedures on House without freaking out and looking away.

tape her eyes open and tie her down then make her watch saw until shes desensitized

[Markus. D]

I'm not a big fan of horror movies... I am a huge fan of good/bad vampire films though, alot of them hold up in the Thriller/Horror genre so...

[sephireland]

I'm not a big fan of horror movies... I am a huge fan of good/bad vampire films though, alot of them hold up in the Thriller/Horror genre so...

Check out "Let The Right One In" it's got a vampire and a few scary scenes but mainly it's a drama. Reckon you'll enjoy it.


The twerp will veto anything too gory.

:Eek: And you're gonna watch The Thing??? Good luck with that :hahaha:

sephireland, please don't double post! If you want to put several quotes in your post, use the x-quote button to activate all of the posts you want to quote except the last one, which you use the regular quote button on. Thanks :) -Rantzien

[Raistlin]

The Thing is very gory? Well I suppose there goes that one off the list. :p

[Jojee]

I can watch gory movies, I just close my eyes. xD

sephire, I wanna get into more vampire movies too. I'm gonna watch Let the Right One In tonight maybe~~ but there seems to be a lot of good vamp movies out there. xD

[Raistlin]

Of course, this from the one who thinks Twilight is a quality vampire movie. :roll2

[Madame Adequate]

In terms of recent films that are scary, that Jeeper Creepers film scared the crap out of me. I'm not even particularly sure why, but around the time it came out, I was freaking out with sweats in the night. A few days after watching it, I was watching the news and they started playing the Jeepers Creepers song. I was like, "Omg, nooooo! It's gonna get me!"

Ah yeah true that. I was massively surprised by how great that movie is, it looked like typical teen crap bollocks and turned out to be pretty damned unsettling and awesome.

And yeah The Thing is pretty gory but that sort of adds to the whole thing because it's not gratuitous torture porn or whatever, it actually... you know... makes sense in context and adds to the movie. xD

And if we're talking about vampires then really, we only need to talk about From Dusk Til Dawn. :mymelbert:

[Crimson]

Of course, this from the one who thinks Twilight is a quality vampire movie. :roll2

I cried aloud with mirth and merriment


screw you unfunny meme censor :mad2:

[Dreddz]

And yeah The Thing is pretty gory but that sort of adds to the whole thing because it's not gratuitous torture porn or whatever, it actually... you know... makes sense in context and adds to the movie. xD
I'd say The Thing is pretty gratuitous to me. Although it definitely adds to the whole experience. The gore is probably the only thing that qualifies The Thing as a horror film as the film is hardly scary. On the subject of body horror, The Fly is required viewing.


And if we're talking about vampires then really, we only need to talk about From Dusk Til Dawn. :mymelbert:
Its funny you say that because I always felt that the vampire aspect of the film really brought it down. It just seemed kind of unnecessary considering they had a pretty solid script before they introduced the vampires. Then it just seemed like an episode of Buffy after that. If we're talking first rate vampire films, then look no further than The Lost Boys.

[Shoeberto]

but there seems to be a lot of good vamp movies out there. xD
Correction: There are a lot of vampire movies out there. Not a whole lot of really good ones, though.

[Madame Adequate]

And yeah The Thing is pretty gory but that sort of adds to the whole thing because it's not gratuitous torture porn or whatever, it actually... you know... makes sense in context and adds to the movie. xD
I'd say The Thing is pretty gratuitous to me. Although it definitely adds to the whole experience. The gore is probably the only thing that qualifies The Thing as a horror film as the film is hardly scary. On the subject of body horror, The Fly is required viewing.

The Thing is the greatest examination of paranoia in human history. It's better than being a spy in the freaking Cold War. But you're right that gratuitous wasn't the word I was looking for - more, that the violence serves a purpose.


Its funny you say that because I always felt that the vampire aspect of the film really brought it down. It just seemed kind of unnecessary considering they had a pretty solid script before they introduced the vampires. Then it just seemed like an episode of Buffy after that. If we're talking first rate vampire films, then look no further than The Lost Boys.

Ah yeah megafail on my part tbh :( The Lost Boys fgj

[Shiny]

30 Days of Night is a pretty beastly vampire flick as well. It didn't scare me, but it was highly entertaining. I was impressed with Josh Harnett's performance. It's probably the only movie I can say I liked him in. Ben Foster is another notable mention.

[Heath]

The Thing isn't really a scary film, but it's one that I really enjoyed watching. It's the paranoia and psychological stuff that goes on that makes it a good film, not it's ability to scare. I liked how the audience is made aware of things that the characters are not and how that plays within the dynamics of the film.

Edit: Also, I don't think it's been suggested yet but 28 Days Later is a quality film.

[sephireland]

So how did scary movie night go Raistlin? I hope you did watch The Thing. It is very gory but it's also amazing. The director was at the top of his game and the performances were excellent. Do let us know how it went regardless.

[Bunny]

Ben Foster is another notable mention.

He's good in almost every movie he's in though.

[Raistlin]

So how did scary movie night go Raistlin? I hope you did watch The Thing. It is very gory but it's also amazing. The director was at the top of his game and the performances were excellent. Do let us know how it went regardless.

It's not until next weekend. I was just planning on figuring out what movie(s) to watch by tomorrow.

[Freya]

Omg you should do it for the eoff cinema thing! Scary edition!

[sephireland]

So how did scary movie night go Raistlin? I hope you did watch The Thing. It is very gory but it's also amazing. The director was at the top of his game and the performances were excellent. Do let us know how it went regardless.

It's not until next weekend. I was just planning on figuring out what movie(s) to watch by tomorrow.

Planning ahead eh. Well allow me to throw Frailty into the mix. More of a thriller but should freak your friend out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBGiPz0heI ;)

[BG-57]

There are some very effective creepy films that use a minimum of gore: Ugetsu, Eyes Without a Face, and Peeping Tom all create dread by implying violence instead of just showing it.

[Jojee]

I just watched The Lost Boys yesterday with krissy. We're gonna watch Let the Right One In soon too~

[Shiny]

Planning ahead eh. Well allow me to throw Frailty into the mix. More of a thriller but should freak your friend out: YouTube - Frailty (2001) - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBGiPz0heI) ;)
Ah, I remember this movie. It only scared me because it reminded me of some insane Christians I've had the unpleasant experience of meeting. Even after the ending, I still thought Adam was the most sane.

[sephireland]

Planning ahead eh. Well allow me to throw Frailty into the mix. More of a thriller but should freak your friend out: YouTube - Frailty (2001) - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBGiPz0heI) ;)
Ah, I remember this movie. It only scared me because it reminded me of some insane Christians I've had the unpleasant experience of meeting. Even after the ending, I still thought Adam was the most sane.

Nothing scarier than crazy christians, that's for damn sure ;)

[Raistlin]

Well it looks like we're going with The Descent first, and a second if she's still able to continue will be Silent Hill. My original suggestion of The Thing as the second movie was vetoed because it is "too old." She offered either The Mist or Silent Hill, and I went with the latter because The Mist seems like a rather mindless horror (The Descent should get that out of our systems) and Silent Hill at least attempts to have an engaging plot.

[Crimson]

I thought 30 Days of Night was pretty good if you dig vampires and zombie-level gore.

[sephireland]

Well it looks like we're going with The Descent first, and a second if she's still able to continue will be Silent Hill. My original suggestion of The Thing as the second movie was vetoed because it is "too old." She offered either The Mist or Silent Hill, and I went with the latter because The Mist seems like a rather mindless horror (The Descent should get that out of our systems) and Silent Hill at least attempts to have an engaging plot.

Oh dear. The Mist is a cracker. Nothing mindless about it at all. Sure the mist rolls in, there's all manner of horribleness in it and people get trapped in the store. But the real horror is the "humanity" within the store. Great performances and some really creepy moments. And remember it's a King adaptation and Darabont directed it. He also did Shawshank and The Green Mile. Proper credentials.

Silent Hill. Well I love the games which is perhaps why I tolerate this. Visually it's fine but if I'm honest, it is a crushing let down. I won't go into the "plot" in case you do watch it but I really think you'd be better served by The Mist. Anyway, I've said my piece maybe there's other trains of thought on it...

[Raistlin]

Oh, I forgot The Mist is a Stephen King movie. Maybe we'll go with that, then.

I also heard that Silent Hill was a letdown by all the hardcore game lovers, but since neither of us have played much of the games I didn't think the differences would matter much.

[The Space Pope]

I've never been able to be scared by a scary movie.

I always tend to overanalyze anything I watch and immediately find the tiniest flaws or plot holes. That and the fact that I can't really get into a movie's atmosphere, I always have the mindset that I'm just sitting there watching TV like I would with anything else.

[Rantz]

Misery is my favourite scary movie.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/449/miseryq.jpg

[Dreddz]

My original suggestion of The Thing as the second movie was vetoed because it is "too old."
That depresses me a whole lot. Reminds me when I showed my friends brother and his friends Aliens and they shrugged it off saying the special effects were too cheap. They literally just flushed my childhood down the drain saying that.

Misery is my favourite scary movie.

Misery is a great film. The scene where she "hobbles" him stuck with me for weeks after I first saw the film.

[BG-57]

I also heard that Silent Hill was a letdown by all the hardcore game lovers, but since neither of us have played much of the games I didn't think the differences would matter much.

My issues with the movie have nothing to do with the games, since the movie is what led me to the games. The behavior of one of the characters in the beginning is unbelievably reckless and stupid. The ending is just overkill. That being said, the middle passages of the film are rather brilliant at evoking the three worlds and the inhabitants.

[Madame Adequate]

My original suggestion of The Thing as the second movie was vetoed because it is "too old."
That depresses me a whole lot. Reminds me when I showed my friends brother and his friends Aliens and they shrugged it off saying the special effects were too cheap. They literally just flushed my childhood down the drain saying that.

And yet if you killed them, you would go to prison. And they say there's justice. :(

[sephireland]

My original suggestion of The Thing as the second movie was vetoed because it is "too old."
That depresses me a whole lot. Reminds me when I showed my friends brother and his friends Aliens and they shrugged it off saying the special effects were too cheap. They literally just flushed my childhood down the drain saying that.

And yet if you killed them, you would go to prison. And they say there's justice. :(

Fully endorsed. Just what has it all come to? :cry:

[Raistlin]

My issues with the movie have nothing to do with the games, since the movie is what led me to the games. The behavior of one of the characters in the beginning is unbelievably reckless and stupid. The ending is just overkill. That being said, the middle passages of the film are rather brilliant at evoking the three worlds and the inhabitants.

I'm not really expecting a moving plot from most/all of these films. :p

[BG-57]

My original suggestion of The Thing as the second movie was vetoed because it is "too old."
That depresses me a whole lot. Reminds me when I showed my friends brother and his friends Aliens and they shrugged it off saying the special effects were too cheap. They literally just flushed my childhood down the drain saying that.

And yet if you killed them, you would go to prison. And they say there's justice. :(

Fully endorsed. Just what has it all come to? :cry:

Good thing you didn't suggest the original Nosferatu.


I'm not really expecting a moving plot from most/all of these films. :p

There's no shortage of movies with cheap thrills. What's unfortunate is a movie like SH that wasted a lot of potential to be something more.

I'd rather watch one Dark City, with intelligent characters trapped in a nightmarish situation that a hundred Friday the Thirteenth's, where dumb people die in creative ways.

[Unbreakable Will]

Misery is my favourite scary movie.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/449/miseryq.jpg

Ahhhhhh!! I only remember a few parts from that movie (namely the leg breaking *shudder*) its freaky as hell.

I love scary movies, ghost movies are my favorites. I also love psychological thrillers The Secret Window with Johnny Depp is smurfing AMAZING.
So here is what I suggest:
Secret Window
props to Descent
The Shining
Excorcist
The Unborn (not as good but like a jewish version of the Exorcist)
Dead Silence ( I am terrified of ventriloquist dummies this movie gave me nightmares for a damn month)

[sephireland]

My issues with the movie have nothing to do with the games, since the movie is what led me to the games. The behavior of one of the characters in the beginning is unbelievably reckless and stupid. The ending is just overkill. That being said, the middle passages of the film are rather brilliant at evoking the three worlds and the inhabitants.

I'm not really expecting a moving plot from most/all of these films. :p

Carrie is both moving and scary. There are some good horrors with great plot. The Others immediately comes to mind. The Orphanage, stuff like that but yeah, most of them are just cheap thrills :)

[BG-57]

I'm not against cheap thrills mind you. But the movies that I return to time and time again usually have something more, either greatness or at least something that resonates with me deeply.

[Shiny]

Misery is my favourite scary movie.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/449/miseryq.jpg
This is probably one of the few Stephen King based movies that I actually enjoyed. Kathy Bates' performance is epic.

[Raistlin]

Ok, I have The Descent and The Mist downloaded. New suggestions may be considered, but it looks like we already have our choices for Friday night. Thanks again for all the suggestions.

Vodka and scary movies. Party time!

[Crimson]

You totally need to download Army Of Darkness if you want it to be a night of scare and laughs.

[Raistlin]

A friend of mine recommended Army of Darkness to me, but we determined that it wasn't really scary enough for my purposes. The whole point of Scary Movie Night is simply to scare the hell out of Jojo. I think the two movies I currently have should be pretty good in that sense.

[drotato]

I love all of those movies. o.o
And the Shining is so good. It's freaking creepy.

I really liked Silent Hill, even though it wasn't just like the game.
(I wasn't too disappointed. /: )

Hmmm... Watch the Exorcist. /:

[theundeadhero]

Only after you have them downloaded do I remember that I've seen Descent before, I think :p If it's what I'm thinking of the trailers for it made it seem really awesome but then later as I watched it I was let down. This movie will do everything you could hope for as far as scaring Jojee though.

[Raistlin]

So we watched The Descent first. It was ok. It was good for last night's purposes because it sure freaked Jojo out; she sobered up a bit because she was too terrified to move to get her drink for the last hour or so of the movie. Otherwise, it did not seem noteworthy. It was pretty lame plot-wise and the "scary" stuff was just monsters jumping out of shadows. I am far from the bravest person in the world when it comes to horror movies, but I found myself trying to liven up the events with my witty commentary.

Then we watched The Mist, which Jojo saw all of 5 minutes of before falling asleep. Not scary at all. I would more consider this some sort of fantasy/thriller, maybe, but even the thrills were pretty lame. I don't know about the book, but the writing of the movie was pretty terrible and a lot of the plot events seemed very forced and fake. They tell you what the mist is in like one sentence with no build up and then don't mention it again. The ending was fairly interesting and unexpected, but did not come close to saving the movie. I found myself being bored through parts of it.

[sephireland]

So we watched The Descent first. It was ok. It was good for last night's purposes because it sure freaked Jojo out; she sobered up a bit because she was too terrified to move to get her drink for the last hour or so of the movie. Otherwise, it did not seem noteworthy. It was pretty lame plot-wise and the "scary" stuff was just monsters jumping out of shadows. I am far from the bravest person in the world when it comes to horror movies, but I found myself trying to liven up the events with my witty commentary.

Then we watched The Mist, which Jojo saw all of 5 minutes of before falling asleep. Not scary at all. I would more consider this some sort of fantasy/thriller, maybe, but even the thrills were pretty lame. I don't know about the book, but the writing of the movie was pretty terrible and a lot of the plot events seemed very forced and fake. They tell you what the mist is in like one sentence with no build up and then don't mention it again. The ending was fairly interesting and unexpected, but did not come close to saving the movie. I found myself being bored through parts of it.

Well you have my apologies, I thought both movies were excellent and I recommended them many times. What do you look for in a horror? Maybe Friday the 13th is more to your liking? Not an insult as I quite like Jason too but what kind of horrors do you like?

[Freya]

Don't worry about his opinions. His taste sucks.

[Raistlin]

I don't generally watch horror movies because the lack of an engaging plot bores me. The Mist had potential for that, I just think the movie did a poor job with it (also, why can't any of the massive freakin' monsters break glass? Or crush a car?). The Descent didn't even bother with a plot; the entire story line could be recounted in a paragraph and you wouldn't miss anything. I didn't even know who most of the people were throughout the movie because character development was nonexistent. But that was ok, I wanted that sort of thing for tonight - a scary movie just for the sake of being scary.

The only horror movie I really enjoyed was the original The Shining (someone mentioned The Sixth Sense earlier in this thread which was also excellent, but I don't consider it horror, more like just a somewhat spooky drama).

[theundeadhero]

I also haven't seen an original The Shining yet but I have read the book.

[Raistlin]

I have not read the book, though I want to at some point. The movie was very well done with Jack Nicholson acting incredibly as usual, an engaging plot that keeps you on your toes, and a jaw-dropping ending. If more horror/thriller films were like it I would watch more of the genre.

[sephireland]

Kubrick is the reason the Shining was so good. If more great directors did horror we'd have more great horrors. Instead we get Michael Bay buying the rights to old horrors and letting his friends remake them. God I hate remakes (apart from The Thing :)). The Fog was probably the worst remake ever.

[blackmage_nuke]

I dont quite understand why people seem to like the Descent so much. It was alright but as scary movies go it was more gory and startling than scary. I thought Saw was quite scary

[Lenna]

Shame that Drag me to hell wasn't out before she came round, :P that would have probably scared her big time teehee, I don't get scared easily but when I went to the cinema to see it, I had to curl into my bf the whole time cause I couldn't cope watching the screen!

[sephireland]

Shame that Drag me to hell wasn't out before she came round, :P that would have probably scared her big time teehee, I don't get scared easily but when I went to the cinema to see it, I had to curl into my bf the whole time cause I couldn't cope watching the screen!

I dunno if it would've scared her but it certainly would've entertained her. I laughed harder at that than any comedy so far this year.

[Raistlin]

Shame that Drag me to hell wasn't out before she came round, :P that would have probably scared her big time teehee, I don't get scared easily but when I went to the cinema to see it, I had to curl into my bf the whole time cause I couldn't cope watching the screen!

There's bugs in the previews, I believe, so she would've vetoed it. But yeah, of course it would have scared her; just about everything does.

[theundeadhero]

The movie Bugs creaped me the fuck out.

[BG-57]

Shame that Drag me to hell wasn't out before she came round, :P that would have probably scared her big time teehee, I don't get scared easily but when I went to the cinema to see it, I had to curl into my bf the whole time cause I couldn't cope watching the screen!

I dunno if it would've scared her but it certainly would've entertained her. I laughed harder at that than any comedy so far this year.

If you liked that you should check out American Werewolf in London, blends horror and comedy very effectively.

[sephireland]

Shame that Drag me to hell wasn't out before she came round, :P that would have probably scared her big time teehee, I don't get scared easily but when I went to the cinema to see it, I had to curl into my bf the whole time cause I couldn't cope watching the screen!

I dunno if it would've scared her but it certainly would've entertained her. I laughed harder at that than any comedy so far this year.

If you liked that you should check out American Werewolf in London, blends horror and comedy very effectively.
Yep you're quite right. Have the dvd and it does crack me up, it's even a little bit sad at the end. Some brilliant fx by Rick Baker.

[BG-57]

"Do you mind? The guy's a friend of mine."

One thing I love about del Toro is that he's a big believer in practical effects. He only resorts to CGI when it's too complicated or expensive otherwise. Just look at the Underworld series to see what's wrong with over-relying on CGI.