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11/02/09
Now, compare that to The Ring. I saw that in a run-down dollar theater with a group of friends. The theater screwed up and didn't have the 2nd reel ready so at one point the movie just stopped. Someone quipped, "so in 7 days are we going to ....?" and the audience laughed nervously. 10 minutes later they resumed the movie ... and we were all still drawn into it and creeped out. Of course, that theater was a scary place and could have been the setting for a horror movie in its own right. (Here's how weird it was: on top of decaying velvet curtains and ripped up seats, the mens room was tiled in black and dark robin's egg blue; even the urinals were BLUE. We asked the women with us after seeing that and they went into the women's room and came out a few minutes later. They reported the women's bathroom was black and dark salmon-pink. It was all just so Not Right.) #horror
11/01/09
TO THE POINT WHERE I COULD COUNT DOWN TO THE BOO MOMENT!
it remains to be decided whether 'event horizon' or 'alice's restaurant' is the worse of the two, but it is not at all in doubt that these are two of the worst films ever in the history of ever. #horror
10/31/09
Watching Sarah Connor's wordless, escalating distress develop, as each day she realises, that today may be the day that initiates the leukaemia that she is 'fated' to die from and that she is as duty-bound to her course of action, as she is to her cyborg 'daughter' and her carcinogenic time-bomb of an internal nuclear powercell, is as viscerally effective as the rope-bound Antarctic scientists, awaiting the result of the 'alien blood test' in The Thing.
All the more so, because just as the 'result' in The Thing arrives (like The Spanish Inquisition) when you least expect it, in TSCC the result is 'inevitable' and the 'cause' is unknown.
It evokes the same kind of universal, primal, body horror that the invasive 'portal installation' in Existenz and being eaten alive by the bear in The Edge do.
That last one is often overlooked, but Anthony Hopkins's unstopable, logic-driven, eidetic 'bookworm' (that was the film's original title) billionaire, is truly a science fiction creation.
One of us! One of us! #horror
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The winner there has the be The Blair Witch Project. I hated every one of those whiny, contemptible morons.
-Kle. #horror
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Just the latest in a long line of vaguely disturbing software glitches in io9 comment land.
Tension rises,
An-ti-ci-pation ratchets,
'Filled with torpor' (lol @annalee) I no longer am.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked,
This way comes.
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It's not April Fools - it's Halloween! #horror
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With regards to Mothman... that's actually one of the more scary movies I've seen. But the caveat is that I dislike horror movies. I really hate having my flight or fight reflex toyed with. Instead of feeling the rush other people get, I get angry, and feel like I want to punch someone's fucking lights out (not that I actually would)... and that's disturbing to me, so I avoid them. So pychologically, Mothman really got under my skin... it's about as much horror as I'm willing to tolerate.
As you say, horror is highly personal. #horror
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10/30/09
That, to me at least, was what made that film scary.
Plus, Nina Sharp when she was young and hot and had both arms.
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Maybe the reason you were left unscared by Left Behind isn't because it was a Christian movie but because it wasn't a horror movie to begin with. It's a disaster movie, like The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, which also isn't a horror movie. In fact, why are you judging non-horror movies against a horror movie standard? Godzilla? Reign of Fire? Yes, they have their scary moments and frightening characters but they are not horror movies. And if they fail at horror it's still okay because they can rely on their true genre categories (drama, adventure, sci-fi and what not) to make up for them. They are not failures. For example, The Joker is scary but in no way shape or form would The Dark Knight ever be called a horror movie.
And, yes, The Exorcist is still scary. You don't need to believe in God to find a girl's head doing a 360 disturbing. Just like you don't need to believe in Elves in real life to buy the drama in Lord of The Rings. #horror
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Does that mean that Paranormal Activity is not scary because you were with the crowd that was laughing all the way through? To you it might.
But to the other crowd that was shacking in their boots, PA is horrifying. The same thing goes with The Exorcist. I am sure if you saw it with a different crowd, you'd probably get a different reaction. #horror
10/30/09