ohh scarey???

[stront692]

well, just watched GHIOST SHIP and THE RING straight after other, slightly scared witless at the mo??(must admit to frantically making copies just in case)

any other good horrors, seen legend of sleepy hollow (very good), house on haunted hill (missed opportunity), the haunting (excellent), obviously lots of others

[VampiraJen]

i thought the exorsist was SO overrated...

[Mr D]

But... Ghost Ship isn't scary and The Ring (presume you're talking about the US one?) is pretty lame too.

The Haunting though... THAT'S good. S'long as you don't mean the Catherine Zeta Jones starring one!!!!!

[Floyd-the-k]

I dunno how it comes across on the small screen, but Razorback in the theatres was a combination of terror and humour
 Oh yes, the Haunting with Catherine Zeta Jones was abysmal.

[Pyroxian]

Well, Alien and The Thing are both shit-scary but they're also Sci-fi so you may have already seen them...

    Steve

[The Amstor Computer]

Floyd: Razorback still works well on the small screen - scared the crap out of me when I first saw it at some (relatively ;-)) tender age.

It's bloody difficult to find on video over here at the moment, unfortunately...

[Steamboy]

Razorback, saw when I was about 7 or 8 something really scary about flesh eating Boars...hard to find over here as well Blackblood.

CU Krestel

[Woolly]

The Hitcher is a good one.

Not sure if it can be classed as horror, but its VERY tense.

[Smiley]

Razorback

Forgot all about that film. A classic up there with Q The Winged Serpent.

[Priv8eye]

I loved the The Hitcher.  Never bothered with the sequals though.

When I was small Son of Frankenstein really scared me.  (I did say I was very small didn't I?)

I've not really seen many modern horrors that have had me scared.  Personally I prefer to go with the more the more pshychological stuff than the out and out gore.

[Woolly]

Have you seen 'the cell'?

Thats surprisingly good! (but stars JLo, im afraid!)

[House of Usher]

If you liked 'Ring', then you'd enjoy 'Dark Water'. Just as scary!

[Smiley]

Now these are scary.

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=news&page=newsimage&choice=horrorvault" target="_blank">What's Betelgeusian for "shit you up"?

[JamieB]

Heh. Have you seen TREMORS? So good, even the sequels are tolerable...

J-Bo-1

[Mr D]

No, Dark Water sucked.

Ok, a bit harsh. It was utterly brilliant, until near the end. It jumped when they used CGI dents in the water tank, then it turned out the whole thing was a little green girl who looked really stupid, who 'just wanted a mommy'. Pathetic end!!

But the early scenes, where they introduced the ghost subtly and made sure her face was obscured somehow were great.

My two faves are when she sees the ghost stood in a doorway along the corridor as she goes down in the lift and jumps. The ghost is there, but out of focus, as though it isn't *quite* there...
And the other wonderful bit was when they're in the lift, and her daughter takes her hand. The lift doors open and her daughter runs out and away down the corridor, but the hand doesn't move...
Her reaction to that was great!

The Exorcist is an EXCELLENT film, but it's scary like Psycho is - at the time it may have been but now you can only asses it's technical merits really. It's wonderfully created and directed, and a great movie. Just not scary.

The Hitcher is EXCELLENT.

The only films ever to actually scare me, rather than using cheap shocks to make me jump, are Ringu and The Haunting. The Haunting is just.... mmmm. And I don't have it on DVD or anything :(

Audition was one that irritated me. The first half was 'amusing romantic comedy' then it became 'sinister creepy horror' which I liked, but then at the end with the massive torture scene, it was just stupid. There was no need for it at all, and for me it just ruined the rest of the film. I'm not against gore and violence at ALL, but it just didn't work because the rest of the film had been very restrained. It seemed silly.

Good 'horror' though it's more comedy is Braindead by Peter Jackson. Now THAT'S OTT gore.

Evil Dead 1? Erm... The FIRST Nightmare on Elm Street s'long as you haven't seen Freddy in a stupid way before, or any of the sequels. New Nightmare in a similar vein. And the first Halloween is like The Exorcist above.

The Wicker Man, and The Dead Trilogy from Romero. Brilliant films!!

The only Friday the 13th films that you can call 'good' are Jason X and Freddy Vs Jason and that's because they're way more tongue in cheek.

Oh, Silence of The Lambs too. NOT Hannibal. Red Dragon was good though. Manhunter wasn't bad, but I prefer RD.

The Exorcist 3 is massively underrated. II is awful, one of the worst films I've ever seen, but 3 did actually creep me out a bit. The comatose old people, and the priest from the first one. Nice and strange!

I'm going now, but I'll be back! I have a coffin in my bedroom (which I built at school as a video case for horror movies) and I'll be raiding that.