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*Bob*

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Having your film 'in foreign' with subtitles is definitely an advantage in the horror genre.


I still haven't seen 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. It's recorded on my PVR though. Amusingly, for some reason starts playing automatically after after a particular episode of 'In The Night Garden' ends.


I ought to find-out how to stop it doing that.

Annasfield

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capt_birdseye Wrote:

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> The Shining.

> The Exorcist.

> The Blair Witch Project.

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> I find the suggestion of horror rather than pure

> gore to be my undoing.

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I agree, films that are open to interpretation are far more chilling than a gore fest.

Keef

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I agree too, which is why Wolf Creek got me. A load of blood and gore does nothing really... Look at Sweeny Todd, that's got more blood than most films and it's a musical!


The remake of Texas Chainsaw from a few years ago was pretty well done I thought.


Jeepers Creepers was a great film for the first half when you thought the brother & sister were being chased by a mad man. Then it turned out to be a human bat of some sort, and the film went to sh!t.

mockney piers

mockney piers

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Blair Witch was utter rubbish though.


They always let you off everytime they've built the tension up, and then it's just a bunch of gits having an argument in a wood during the day.


Old Boy was very good. TCM worth a look and the original can't be beat, as the new one took itself too seriously.

When it was remade as the cartoon "Scooby Doo" it was far superior ;)

lozzyloz

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I remember aged about 10, staying up to watch Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, starring Bette Davis whilst my parents were out partying. I was so freaked out by the scenes with the severed hand and axe that it took me ages to pluck up the courage to go to bed without turning on every single light in the house. Even now the memory of that film still makes me shiver. I'd probably laugh all the way through it if I saw it now.
bon3yard

bon3yard

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Most of these horror films leave me cold. Directors such as David Lynch and Cronenberg affect me far more. Jacobs Ladder freaked me out as well, what with vibrating heads in the back of the car. I have to disagree with Mockney Piers re Blair Witch, the final scene had me shuddering like a girl and near jumping out of the window. Again its the suggestion of terror...the rest has you filling in the gaps in your imagination and boy do I have a vivid imagination. (6)
Keef

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"original can't be beat, as the new one took itself too seriously"


Agree, don't think they should have called it a remake really, they should have just ripped the idea off and made their own film, like everybody else has over the years!


Thought the first Saw was brill, but not really scary. Have been more "scared" by a lot of thrillers rather than horrors, but will have to have a think about which ones later.


Remember an old black & white thriller freaking me out when I was a teen, but no idea what it was!

mockney piers

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I'm an absolute sucker for Hammer films. ok, they're rather camp and not in the least scary, but they've such a wonderful atmosphere about them, love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. Peter Cushing for Prime Minister (even 10? years dead he couldn't actually be worse could he)
lozzyloz

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Annasfield

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lozzyloz Wrote:

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ClareC

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When I was about 13 I watched a film called Witchboard...... really freaked me out!


Also, even younger (and far too young to watch such a film) my friend and I were being babysat and the babysitter (not that old herself) let us watch Audrey Rose which had me scared to go to bed for ages!!


I agree Jeepers Creepers is dead scary for the first half and then turns silly....


I actually found the first Scream film quite scary...... maybe I am just a wimp ;-)

citizenED

citizenED

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Same here MP; saw Invasion... around that age when I was in on holiday with a friend and his family in a creepy old farmhouse in Cornwall. Real cushion-in-front-of-face stuff, after which I had to climb rickety stairs up to a strange cold bedroom with creakng floorboards and ill-fitting windows. Was petrified.
bon3yard

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The Donald Sutherland version was a remake of an earlier film...so which remake are we talking about? There was a moment that really twisted my head re the 70s remake and that was the small dog with the grinning human face. I also remember getting a jolt when the decapitated head floated up from the scuttled wreckage in Jaws...mind you I was only 8. The guy in Poltergeist who scratches his face of in the bathroom mirror...that terrified me for weeks as a nipper.

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