Title: Paranormal Activity - possibly the scariest movie in years?
Post by: THX on October 07, 2009, 12:42:50 PM
ooooo the trailer gives me the heeby jeebies
Title: Paranormal Activity - possibly the scariest movie in years?
Post by: Jar O Pickles on October 07, 2009, 06:31:42 PM
eh looked kinda lame blair witch project is the only movie thats ever scared me
Title: Paranormal Activity - possibly the scariest movie in years?
Post by: GmanJoe on October 07, 2009, 06:38:15 PM
Quote from: Jar O Pickles
eh looked kinda lame blair witch project is the only movie thats ever scared me
If Blair Witch scared you, this will make you cry to sleep for the next month.
Title: Paranormal Activity - possibly the scariest movie in years?
Post by: Jar O Pickles on October 07, 2009, 06:43:18 PM
i dunno i would like to see a ghost for real but being in a tent out in the woods in the middle of the night not knowing whats out their freaks me out
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Post by: Coredweller on October 07, 2009, 07:54:06 PM
Never been camping? Hrrm
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Post by: Jar O Pickles on October 08, 2009, 03:56:45 AM
i have, lots of times. thats why it freaks me out
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Post by: Cerberus on October 08, 2009, 09:49:38 AM
I\'ve never seen a movie that has genuinely "scared" me
I think I was about 14 when I saw the exorcist and it did nothing for me thrill-wise.
amytivlle horror movies, the omen trilogy, alien trilogy and others, none of them did it.
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Post by: THX on October 08, 2009, 02:11:58 PM
exorcist scared the vagina out of me when i first saw it. but then again i also thought House on Haunted Hill & Quarantine were great horror flicks.
Cerebus have you seen Rosemary\'s Baby?
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Post by: GmanJoe on October 08, 2009, 03:02:43 PM
Quote from: Cerberus
I\'ve never seen a movie that has genuinely "scared" me
I think I was about 14 when I saw the exorcist and it did nothing for me thrill-wise.
amytivlle horror movies, the omen trilogy, alien trilogy and others, none of them did it.
Alien? That\'s not even close to scary. That\'s more like....I dunno. Suspense. Not much on the scare genre.
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Post by: Coredweller on October 08, 2009, 03:06:23 PM
I first saw The Exorcist around 1977 - 78, Alien in 1979, and Night of the Living Dead around 1980. All of them scared the shit out of me at that age.
Nothing else has really scared me since. There were a bunch of other horror films from the late 70s, early 80s such as the original version of The Omen (1976), The Fury (1978) and Scanners (1981). Those were mildly scary, but I saw them later, not in the original theatrical release.
Nothing released now can possibly scare me.
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Post by: GmanJoe on October 08, 2009, 03:11:06 PM
Quote from: Coredweller
I first saw The Exorcist around 1977 - 78, Alien in 1979, and Night of the Living Dead around 1980. All of them scared the shit out of me at that age.
Nothing else has really scared me since. There were a bunch of other horror films from the late 70s, early 80s such as the original version of The Omen (1976), The Fury (1978) and Scanners (1981). Those were mildly scary, but I saw them later, not in the original theatrical release.
Nothing released now can possibly scare me.
I have gone through the same path and have the same opinion as yours...The Ring had me scaring myself because of the anticipation. From what I gather about Paranormal, I think it is the same.
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Post by: nO-One on October 08, 2009, 03:52:15 PM
Back when I was a kid I saw Akira at the movies, it was in Japanese and it scared the living shit out of me, mostly because I didn\'t really understand what the hell was going on and because of that freaky as hell soundtrack... it still gives me the creeps.
Also when I first saw the Fly, it scared me because the guy was changing and not really knowing into what, the idea of that really scared me, still does.
Movies like this just get you tense, because you\'re anticipating the next "BOO" and shock coming.
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Post by: Bladez on October 08, 2009, 08:07:58 PM
One that creeped me out was Donnia Darko..that goddamn bunny
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Post by: Cerberus on October 10, 2009, 05:52:52 AM
Quote from: GmanJoe
Alien? That\'s not even close to scary. That\'s more like....I dunno. Suspense. Not much on the scare genre.
I never said it was, other people I have read comments of in the past did.
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Post by: GmanJoe on October 10, 2009, 06:00:44 AM
Quote from: Cerberus
I never said it was, other people I have read comments of in the past did.
Your post was in first person, so you can see why I thought you were referring to yourself.
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Post by: mjps21983 on October 10, 2009, 09:35:42 AM
Quote from: GmanJoe
Your post was in first person, so you can see why I thought you were referring to yourself.
I can\'t believe any of you have not said Stephen King\'s IT that scared the living shit out of me when I was a kid. The 3 movies that cored talked about, I wasn\'t even born when they were originally released, haha.
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Post by: Coredweller on October 10, 2009, 09:42:18 PM
Other fun horror pictures from the late 70s / early 80s:
Creature from Black Lake (1976), The Prophecy (1979), Saturn 3 (1980), Wolfen (1981)
I actually snuck into Saturn 3 in the original release, and it DID scare me... but I still don\'t want to give it any credit because it really is a crappy movie. Still the scene at the beginning where the guy gets blown out the hatch and diced kinda freaked me out.
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Post by: Joker on October 10, 2009, 10:17:12 PM
Quote from: nO-One
Back when I was a kid I saw Akira at the movies, it was in Japanese and it scared the living shit out of me, mostly because I didn\'t really understand what the hell was going on and because of that freaky as hell soundtrack... it still gives me the creeps.
Also when I first saw the Fly, it scared me because the guy was changing and not really knowing into what, the idea of that really scared me, still does.
Movies like this just get you tense, because you\'re anticipating the next "BOO" and shock coming.
I too was scared by Akira as a kid. The end where tetsuo\'s body crushes his girlfriend and theres that big red gush of blood freaked the shit out of me.
I also think I was scared by it because I didn\'t know what the hell was going on either.
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Post by: nO-One on October 11, 2009, 09:08:11 AM
Yeah, when Tetsuo started mutating and changing, that scared the crap out of me. For the same reason the Fly scared me, changing and not knowing into what, that is a scary thought.
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Post by: GmanJoe on October 12, 2009, 05:03:39 AM
I finally saw the movie. Saw it with friends. All of them got spooked at the end of the movie. The problem for them was going home and waking up to every little creak in the house. I saw them the next day. All of them did not get a restful sleep after the movie.
I slept like a baby. I have a dog for such paranormal activities to alert me. :D
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Post by: Viper_Fujax on October 12, 2009, 10:58:27 AM
Quote from: GmanJoe
I finally saw the movie. Saw it with friends. All of them got spooked at the end of the movie. The problem for them was going home and waking up to every little creak in the house. I saw them the next day. All of them did not get a restful sleep after the movie.
I slept like a baby. I have a dog for such paranormal activities to alert me. :D
does that mean it was good or that your friends are pussies?
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Post by: GmanJoe on October 12, 2009, 11:04:14 AM
Quote from: Viper_Fujax
does that mean it was good or that your friends are pussies?
It was good. Gave me the goosebumps at the end of the movie. But I wasn\'t like HO MY GAWD!!!! PLEASE STOP THIS MADNESSSSSS! I\'m skurred!
Makes people think about the bumps and creaks in their homes.
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Post by: videoholic on October 12, 2009, 04:28:52 PM
I saw exorcist III in theater when I was at UF right when we had a serial killer (Danny Rolling) on the loose. It was pretty creepy under the cirumstances because there were a lot of coincidences.
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Post by: Eiksirf on October 19, 2009, 05:09:40 AM
I saw PA this weekend, too. I agree that it wasn\'t scary but had a cool ending. The thing that surprised me was it got my girlfriend and I talking about ghosts and stuff afterward, which is something.
And, of course, that night there was tap-tap-tapping on the windows.... OK, that\'s rain. And faint explosions in the next apartment.... OK, that\'s just distant thunder. But then a howling "oooOOOoooo". Seriously? Fine, wind, but since when does wind ever really whistle like that? Ridiculous weather after a movie like that.
So PA didn\'t do much for us in the theater, but it did have us "listening" before bed. And, I don\'t think she ever really fell asleep that night.
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Post by: GmanJoe on October 19, 2009, 10:05:54 AM
People said the same thing about the movie. The movie doesn\'t try to scare you. It\'s your apprehension that tortures you. and when you go home, you realize that the scene setting in the movie eerily looks like your own home. And with the same noises.
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Post by: Coredweller on October 19, 2009, 11:22:00 AM
I saw this film on Saturday, and thought it was worthwhile. Not flawless, but entertaining.
A couple of arguments between the two main characters were somewhat artificial. If you knew your girlfriend had personal experience with a supernatural being in the past, would you push her buttons the way Micha did? He didn\'t seem to have any understandable motivation for his actions. In a film like this where they tried to make everything seem as realistic as possible, the two actors performances turned out to be the only weak points.
Otherwise, I appreciated the structure, the gradual buildup in tension, the discovery of evidence, and so forth. Interesting that they completely omitted all titles and credits. Only an obligatory copyright notice at the end.
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Post by: Sara on October 20, 2009, 03:12:08 PM
Saw this movie without seeing any trailers beforehand - loved it.
Sat pretty close to the screen and felt a little seasick though.
CLOSE THE DOOR, YOU ASSHOLES!
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Post by: Joker on October 25, 2009, 02:34:15 PM
Gotta say the hype completely killed this movie for me. Immensely underwhelmed by it, whenever anything scary happened I thought to myself "now is when i\'m supposed to jump, like they did in the trailers"
However... I saw this last night..
Carriers. It was actually surprisingly fantastic.
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Post by: GmanJoe on October 26, 2009, 07:21:03 AM
Quote from: Joker
Gotta say the hype completely killed this movie for me. Immensely underwhelmed by it, whenever anything scary happened I thought to myself "now is when i\'m supposed to jump, like they did in the trailers"
Carriers. It was actually surprisingly fantastic.
You\'re better off watching Saw movies.
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Post by: Joker on October 26, 2009, 08:11:55 AM
That was probably the best thing about PA. It beat Saw this weekend, and anything that beats any of those pieces of shit get bonus points in my books.
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Post by: Coredweller on October 26, 2009, 10:17:35 AM
Quote from: Joker
Carriers. It was actually surprisingly fantastic.
Wow that trailer looks pretty good. Much scarier than Paranormal Blair Witch SAW on Elm Street or whatever.
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Post by: GmanJoe on October 27, 2009, 04:46:14 AM
Quote from: Coredweller
Wow that trailer looks pretty good. Much scarier than Paranormal Blair Witch SAW on Elm Street or whatever.