ohh scarey???

[House of Usher]

Take no notice. The water tank bit in 'Dark Water' is REALLY scary. While The Wicker Man is a great Film, it isn't scary.

[Mr D]

Sir, I beg to differ. I was hoping for a drawn out scene where she sees something horrifying and we see something that really shakes us, but it became a cheap scare...

And the Wicker Man isn't scary, you're right there. But then neither's Tremors, and that's been mentioned.

[Art]

Um, be wary of spoilers dudes...

[ukdane]

Some of the Omen films had bits that scared me.

I'm ? way thorugh watching Stigmata at the moment. Anyone got a view on it?

[House of Usher]

Stigmata's okay. Nice loud opening by Chumbawamba on the soundtrack, and what follows is kind of gross and horrific (ouch! I wouldn't want that happening to me), with a bit of a love story thrown in. It's neither here nor there, but I can't fault it.

[House of Usher]

There was a glut of supposedly scary horror films last year. Can anyone recommend anything fairly recent? Was Cabin Fever any good? My Little Eye was supposed to be good too. Was it up to much? What have I been missing?

[sixmo]

Hmm, Exorcist3 is the one with the "head scissors" thing isn't it? (a device for trimming unwanted... heads!). That's a lot better than I was expecting.

I got Nosferatu on DVD recently (the 1922 version). It's very creepy, very good. The '79 remake and it's sequel Vampires of Venice, both with arch-nutter Klaus Kinski in the lead, are pretty good too.

Les Diaboliques (made in the '60s, I think) is a cracking movie. More kinda thriller than out and out horror, but really worth watching.

The other older classic horror movies like the '30s Lugosi Dracula and Karloff Frankenstein are much freakier and creepy than you might expect.

That Razorback movie was being shown a lot on Sky Movies recently. I had a lot of fond memories of it from when I was younger, and I have to say I wasn't disappointed. In the same kinda vein was a movie called Wolfen which was about big scary wolf creatures, and Albert Finney running around New York (or maybe San Francisco). Loved it when I was a kid (nb. this is not a guarantee it's any good now).

Also, The Scars of Dracula is possibly my favouritest Hammer movie. Any movie that kicks off with Dracula wiping out every woman and child in a village with a plague of bats because the menfolk are outside his front door with pitchforks and the like has gotta be good!

[stront692]

tremors is good, the sequel is excellent

maximum overdrive - that steven spielberg film about cars taking over the world

exorcist 3 is the best of the lot, a prequel was supposed to be released last year but i havent heard of it


nosferatu and the sequel are indeed excellent

new nightmare is the best elm street and the scream movies are all good

the omen trilogy is geat but forget all the ones after that it gets a bit silly (and nearer comedy due to bad acting)

the scariest film i have ever seen is the 'woman in black' but cant find a complete copy on video - they all have a 30 second blackout and mine is a pro pirate off the tv

the old hammer draculas used to scare me senseless when i was a kid and the only film i cannot sit thru is pet sematary (the sequels crap though)

[Satanist]

"Was Cabin Fever any good? My Little Eye was supposed to be good too. Was it up to much?"

Cabin Fever was shit but still not as bad as Wrong Turn.

My Little Eye is quite creepy in a Sixth Sense kind of way.

[Mr D]

Exorcist: Dominion was delayed, thin kit's out this year.

And Cabin Fever is exactly how the Satanist describes it!!

[Woolly]

So is wrong turn!

[JimBob]

 Horror films i liked are seldom scary, i loved tremors, Dawn of the Dead, the thing, alien, all the usual but for films that genuinely creeped me out:
Witchfinder General, Seven, the Vanishing (original), none of them are supernatural but they are genuinely frightening in their different ways.

[rc]

Scary films I've seen recently Stront, are:-

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT - essential to watch on your own, in the dark, with no distractions. Those who talked through it in the cinema with 200 other goons and say it's shit haven't got a clue

THE OTHERS - surprisingly excellent, with chilling plot developments

THE EYE - shares a similar theme, but is much better than the predictable, pretentious THE SIXTH SENSE

SESSION 9 - very subtle, and compulsively creepy

RING (+ sequels) - the Japanese original is better than the American remake

Er... as far as recent high-street releases go, that's it.

For some quality chills you could also try THE FOG, 'SALEM'S LOT, HALLOWEEN (no.4 is underrated too), THE BURNING, THE OMEN (and DAMIEN), KOLOBOS, RAISING CAIN, CARRIE, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (original & 1978 remake).

If GHOST SHIP scares you shitless dude, these will give you a heart attack.

[stront692]

it was more the ring than ghost ring (must rememvber to watch the thriller last next time),

i have just got underworlde and loved this but am increasingly worried by hollywoods attempts to 'gross' us out in horror

we want scary, not gross (it just ends up being tacky and sad)

[rc]

They cannot even gross us out properly, such is Hollywood's preoccupation with CGI and good taste.

I find it interesting that some people I know are horrified by gore, and others are horrified by tension and suspense.