Weird. That’s the 3rd time in less than 3 hours that KKFOS has come up in conversation for me. I guess I shouldn’t fight it any longer. I’ll go watch it again. (I was at the store waiting for them to open when the DVD was released. Prolly seen this movie about 60 times now.)
“What are you gonna do with those pies, boys?”
I found The Others to be terribly creepy, even if I hated the little girl. That’s mostly because death portraits of any kind give me the willies.
I kept hearing that Ringu was, like, a million times creepier than The Ring…but then I actually watched it, and just couldn’t agree. I liked the original Japanese version as a film, but the American version, in my opinion, had a better horror atmosphere. It gave me more of an itchy, everything-is-not-okay feeling.
The Eye (the original Chinese version) had some parts that were just sorta weird, and I got the impression that there were some cultural themes that I was missing…but my god, that elevator scene is one of the most terrifying things ever to be put to celluloid. I had trouble getting into elevators for weeks afterward.
The Orphanage was a great film, but, as someone else said, horribly depressing. The “knock on the wall” scene was creepy as hell, though.
As for The Haunting…I actually saw the '99 remake first. I thought “all right, this…wasn’t scary at all. Whatever,” and forgot about it. Then I heard the audiobook of the original novel, and just about pissed myself. Shirley Jackson is VERY good at suspense.
I saw it for the first time in the theater. It was made extra scary by the fact that people in the theater were acting weird. Random people would sit down in the middle of the movie, or leave, throughout the whole movie, often in the row right in front of me. My Dad kept falling asleep next to me. It was very disconcerting.
When I was a wee lad, my aunt took me to see Amityville Horror and also Jaws. After AH she drove me to the actual Amityville house! After Jaws she took me to the beach. :eek: When I was older I considered taking her to see Blair Witch and then bringing her to an abandoned property I knew about in the woods.
The story makes more sense on repeat viewings and, I hear from a friend, the director goes into detail about what’s happening if you listen to the DVD commentary. It’s definitely less of a traditional horror film and more of a really interesting look into a scarred, traumatized girl’s mind. It’s one of my favorite films, but it doesn’t make a lot of sense the first time through.
My sister was traumatized for life by Fire in the Sky and she didn’t even see the movie! When we were kids, they used to play ads for pay-per-view movies on the ‘preview channel’ (which also had the TV listings). They played that one on a continuous loop for about a month and she was deeply affected by this.
She’s now in her twenties and if you even mention the name of the movie she gets weirded out.
My other sister is similarly weirded out by The Human Centipede, which she has also not watched. As her older sister, it was my responsibility to toughen her up properly by yelling “HUMAN CENTIPEDE!” at random times for a few weeks. 