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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Samwise on July 21, 2002, 03:37:46 AM
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I\'m on a quest to find out what exactly makes a movie scary to you. So if anyone could spare a few minutes to think about what techniques that make (some) horror movies scary to them, then I\'d be grateful.
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humanity is deffinetly plagued with a fear of the unknown. anything that is out of our normal conception is scary. Another one is being helpless, think about the dentist. People hate the dentist, though there is pain most people can experience more pain during a normal day then they do at the dentist. It\'s the fact that you are the complete mercy of someone else that bothers most people. Another one for the deeply religious people is anything that causes doubt in there beliefe system, a removal of their safety blanket (aka god). I\'ve found this out from my own experience. I\'m writing a novel, in which I eliminate the possibility of a god existing...or at least being what we concieve him as, and I\'ve found that in the proof reading I\'ve had done, the very religious people were set on edge and disturbed by it. While it is a fiction based story, it uses alot of scientific theories that bother people namely horizontal evolution.
So I would say the biggest scary attribute is the removal of peoples safety blanket. Find out what causes people to feel ccomfortable, and remove it.
(if i sound insane, it\'s because it is very, very late, like 5am)
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No no, that was very good actually. Thanks. :)
More input is always appreciated. :D
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I suppose its personal. Most chicks hate horror movies because of all of the blood.
I hate the thought of being buried alive. I think that sorta thing in a movie really freaks me out, specially if its done right. I also hate seeing people being drowned. Blood really doesn\'t affect me, its more the realistic sorta thing.
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I agree on blood not really being a scare factor. I mean, we\'ve seen so much of it. Personally I\'m way more interested in movies that are scary because of their atmosphere. Films like The Ring (excellent Japanese horror movie btw) do a lot more for me than, say, Psycho Killer Slashes Teenagers XI.
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Freaking you out is a lot different to scaring you. A movie hasnt scared me since i was 6 years old. But a movie like The Others certainly is very freaky and has an absolutely unbeatable atmosphere.
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Yeah, perhaps \'scaring\' isn\'t the best word. So let\'s use \'freak out\' instead. The Ring and The Others are two prime examples of this.
But what would you say does it? The sounds? The visuals? Special techniques (say, \'the killer\' jumping in front of the camera)?
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Atmosphere is certainly a key element, but I also think the actors abilty is very important.
Take Nicole in The Others. She was perfect. That quite, mysterous sorta thing she did with her eyes. I don\'t think anyone else could have pulled the character off.
She was brilliant. Her stance, line delivery, everything was superb, and was one of the reasons why it was so freaky.
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Bullshit.
The reason it was freaky because they laid out an atmosphere that will never be pulled off again, unless a movie is a complete rip-off. Her acting was adequate, I still don\'t think she quite pulled it off perfectly, but some areas were quite brilliant too.
The Others had mystery, it was constantly dark (for a reason), supernatural and unknown elements.. and probably most importantly it had storyline.
Basically EVERYTHING about a movie all contributes to the atmosphere, and the subsequent \'scare\' factor.
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hmm lets see one thing that freaks me out (in movies is when they suddenly crankup the music and the killer pops out a nowhere, the same implies to games too.
theirs one more thing that really not only freaks me out but also scares the chit out of me and thats bobs_hardware in a bikini :eek:.
:p
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*..takes bikini off..*
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*becomes blind*
;)
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I\'d say the shining still scares the living sh!t out of me.
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Yeah, The Shining is definatly another great horror movie, where the whole atmosphere just starts creeping under your skin... REDRUM, REDRUM!
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I hate spiders. Not the huge giant ones in Eight Legged Freaks. The little tiny ones that pack a big bite....eeee...
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I\'m not just saying this, but I can\'t think of any movie that really fills me with horror. Though the closest that any scene has come to unnerving me is the scene in the shining where the twins are stood at the end of the corridor as the little lad rides round the corner on his trike.
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For me the thing that works is a good silent build up.
Kinda like, the idiot comic relief got lost, he\'s alone in the dark and we know he\'s being watched by the evil monster alien bad guy from hell. I love the silent build up\'s. However I hate it when a good build up is ruined when it turns out it was just one of his pals coming to get him or something.
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I\'ll tell you what freaks me out . . . it\'s that evil little Snuggles bear. You know the one that dances around for that detergent.
Ace
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:crap: My stomach will turn at slow torture scenes.
Example ; we see a close up shot of some guy\'s
belly which is slowly cut with a nasty knife and all
guts start to drip out - then a close up of his face
in agony - then a shot of the bloody guts on the floor.
Yuck.
I also remember a torture scene from Red Scorpion,
where Lundgren slowly gets daggers implanted in all
his non vital parts. There wasn\'t much blood in that
scene but it was just realistic enough to almost make
me puke.
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Id have to say i agree with the God thing about scaring ! I remember THE EXORSIST ! DAMN THAT MOVIE scared the living sh*t out of me !:alien: i saw it recently again in the theaters i think last year and it still scared me soo much i wet my pants ! nahh not to that point but you understand ! The atmosphere has definetly something to do with it ! If you never seen exorsist ! watch it now ! :)
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I remember one film that I did see a long time ago when I was very young.
I can\'t remember the name, but it was about a family who crashed their car, and they all magaged to get out OK, except for the daughter. Her brother had tied her shoelaces together in the car, so she ended up getting killed when the car blew up.
There are a few things I remember about the film.
1. She came back as a ghost to take revenge, she threw her brothers basketball up onto the roof, and as he went up to get it, she pushed him off.
2 I also remember something about a pizza cutter she was dragging down the wall has she came down the staircase, the light was glinting off it as it moved.
3. When the mother woke up one night, she saw the ghost of her daughter at the end of her bed with her head resting on her chin.
I can\'t remember the name of the film, but I do remember that it came on AFTER the Piranha movie on BBC1 one night.
Does anyone recognise, or know the name of this film?
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why did you post this topic out of curiousity???
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yeah id say its when you havent seen what the enemie is.............. sorta like how sh make you feel...... u ever seen phantoms. the first part is excellent.. but to be honest i never find a fil real scary
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i dont find typical horror movies scary
the exorsisct was pretty good
the blair witch project was good and scary
communoin scared the pants off me
and the middle part of the mothman phophisies where richard gere is talking to the thing over the phone thats really well done but the ending of the movies sucks
fear on mtv has its moment but its mostly moronic mtv fans acting like moronic mtv fans