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Atavachron 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 64351 |
 Posted: May 21 2016 at 17:33 |
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Bowling for Columbine
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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The Dark Elf
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VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 12683 |
Posted: May 21 2016 at 17:43 |
I agree with that one. I would add the original Hellraiser, and Silence of the Lambs.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: @ wicker man Status: Offline Points: 32681 |
Posted: May 21 2016 at 19:25 |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and even The Stepford Wives (1975) creeped me out as a kid.
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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AEProgman
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Joined: August 11 2012 Location: Toadstool Status: Offline Points: 1787 |
Posted: May 21 2016 at 19:43 |
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When I was a kid, Hitchcock's "The Birds" freaked me out.
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Atavachron
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 64351 |
Posted: May 21 2016 at 20:11 |
Love that one, saw it in theater in '78. Great remake set in SF, captures the City like no other film. |
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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GKR
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Joined: January 22 2013 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 1376 |
Posted: May 21 2016 at 21:57 |
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I'am a great horror fan.
Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is my favorite for its photography manly, and a lot of the "classics" as well... I have to say that, nowadays, Babadook is only of the most recent movies that actually made me come back to that fear that I only knew from child. |
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- From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: May 22 2016 at 03:22 |
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The Ring (original) - The Japanese have a wonderful approach to horror, focussing on amosphere rather than 'splatter' (which is not scary at all IMO) and The Ring is the most creepy film I've seen.
The Exorcist - Shocking for it's time and genuinely scary in parts. In the UK, apparently, people were leaving the cinemas in droves unable to cope with some of themes and images in the film. Paranormal Activity 1- The concept of hauntings, poltergeists and demons has always intrigued me. The idea of being pursued by something you can't see or explain is scary indeed. Threads - A BBC docu-drama from the early 80's about a nuclear attack on the UK, focussing on two families from the northern city of Sheffield. The film is cold, scientific, graphic with a very real feel, and making the US film 'The Day After' look like entertainment. It was also set against a very beleivable geo-political backdrop for the time. The film haunted me as a young teenager, and for years after. |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2011 Location: Melb, Australia Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Posted: May 22 2016 at 03:40 |
Two horrendous movies (and I only mean that in a good way!) that really stay with you, for better or worse. So overwhelmingly bleak and relentless, both are impossibly ugly films that are also hugely fascinating and confronting. 
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Seventh Arrow
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Joined: April 03 2014 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: Offline Points: 24 |
Posted: May 28 2016 at 09:36 |
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There's a cool movie called The Broken, it's one of my favourites. Maybe it's more "unsettling" than "scary," but it's good at fostering a sense of dread throughout. It's quite slow-paced though, so you have to be patient with it.
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ALotOfBottle
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Joined: February 17 2016 Location: Lublin, Poland Status: Offline Points: 1990 |
Posted: May 28 2016 at 10:38 |
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It's not a horror, but I was scared half to death while watching The Mothman Prophecies. Without a single shade of doubt one of the best scary movies I have ever seen. I must have been about 12 or 13 when I've first seen it and the mothman has been visiting me in my nightmares exclusively ever after.
The film is open to interpretation. Some interpretations might suggest that there is nothing actually supernatural in the movie, in other words it can be interpreted as a good psychological thriller. Nevertheless, a great, great film. Prog fans will automatically match its mood with the music of Univers Zero or (maybe to a lower degree) Comus.  Like some of the other members suggested, the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers is also pretty darn scary. I really, really like the tension that the film naturally builds up. Another one that appeared ini my worst nightmares! |
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Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.
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MillsLayne
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Joined: September 14 2010 Location: East Bay, CA Status: Offline Points: 2504 |
Posted: May 28 2016 at 18:02 |
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^Have you ever read up on the "actual" Mothman accounts?
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siLLy puPPy
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PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic Joined: October 05 2013 Location: SFcaUsA Status: Offline Points: 14720 |
Posted: May 28 2016 at 22:04 |
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Fast Food Nation
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ALotOfBottle
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 17 2016 Location: Lublin, Poland Status: Offline Points: 1990 |
Posted: May 29 2016 at 00:24 |
Yeah, I wasted about 6 hours total digging the conspiracy theories. 6 hours I will never get back... I mean, who believes in this sort of stuff? As a side note, writing about the film made me want to watch it once again. And so I did  |
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Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.
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sokorny
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Joined: May 31 2016 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 10 |
Posted: May 31 2016 at 01:16 |
Babadook was definitely a psychological scary movie. It definitely made you think afterwards, and was not your usual gore driven horror. Did they ever get the book into production? They tried to do it via an online system but not sure if they ever publishied them.
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Maroona
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Joined: June 02 2016 Location: Earth Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Posted: June 02 2016 at 07:33 |
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I actually was pretty scared by the movie Insidious 3 ( http://movie4k.sc/542-insidious-chapter-3-2015.html )... I know it doesn't have the highest score but still I used to cover my eyes not to look at it.
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sokorny
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Joined: May 31 2016 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 10 |
Posted: June 02 2016 at 07:59 |
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The first two Insidious movies were better I thought, you need to watch them in order
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Blaqua
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Joined: June 06 2016 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 242 |
Posted: June 06 2016 at 20:06 |
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I watched Under the skin (2013) yesterday, disturbing and rather scary
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2011 Location: Melb, Australia Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Posted: June 22 2016 at 08:35 |
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Just rewatched it now for the first time in many years, does anybody else think the Robert De Niro version of `Cape Fear' from the early 90's by Martin Scorsese is (still) absolutely terrifying? Such an unbearable drawn-out tension, and absolutely first-rate performances all round. So the final act might get a little silly, but there are so many memorable scenes and endless cracking dialogue throughout. Probably worth it for the drama class scene with De Niro `bonding' with Juliette Lewis' naïve schoolgirl alone.
It's also shocking when you see De Niro's physical appearance in it, that guy was seriously ripped back then!  Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - June 22 2016 at 08:36 |
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BaldFriede
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Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10261 |
Posted: June 22 2016 at 11:00 |
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"Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby" by Roman Polanski.
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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