The Ring is really, really really fucking scary. It's as scary as the Exorcist.
Scarier. The latter did nothing for me.
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Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2004 11:42:26 am PDT #223 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica - Jul 12, 2004 11:44:57 am PDT #224 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
You know,other than The Last Unicorn when I was 5, I can't think of any movie that's truly scared me. I just don't think my brain is built for horror movie appreciation.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 11:45:51 am PDT #225 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do horror books scare you, Jess?
Polter-Cow - Jul 12, 2004 11:48:09 am PDT #226 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The two movies which gave me nightmares were Candyman and Event Horizon. Also possibly Child's Play.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 11:51:33 am PDT #227 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm lucky in that movies and books don't give me nightmares. In fact, just to be sure they don't, I think about the material extra hard and extra vividly as I fall asleep. Because I never dream about the things I think about then.
Jessica - Jul 12, 2004 11:54:13 am PDT #228 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Hard to say -- I haven't really made much of an effort to get into them. Stephen King does nothing for me. Orson Scott Card's "Tales of Dread" are absolutely terrifying.
Glamcookie - Jul 12, 2004 11:55:20 am PDT #229 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Poltergeist scared the crap out of me at the time of its release. I was like 12 or so when it came out. The funny story my mom likes to tell is that it came out right before ET and when I went to ET, I was scared witless for the first 10 minutes or so waiting for it to be like Poltergeist. Damn you, Spielberg!
In recent years, The Blair Witch Project frightened the shit out of me. The Ring didn't scare me. It had some creepy moments, but I was so amazed at the terrible acting Naomi Watts did that I couldn't lose myself in it.
Nutty - Jul 12, 2004 11:58:22 am PDT #230 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Movies scared me when I was a kid, but when I was a kid I thought a tiger might be lying on my bed when the lights are off. (No amount of proof would make each approach to the darkened bedroom any more logical.)
Movies startle me now, and make me think about them and remember them and sometimes come back to them with "Oh, that's awful" or something, but scare? In the "there might be a tiger on my bed" sense? No.
Miracleman - Jul 12, 2004 11:59:11 am PDT #231 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Polter-Cow, re: Spidey-2:
I was very fortunately unspoiled, so I didn't expect Willem Dafoe or the set-up for Harry Osborn to be the next Gobby. I mean...they did that in the comics, sure, but comic movies are not necessarily beholden to that canon, so I never expect them to follow it. Also, because I was so burned on the later Batman flicks, I was impressed they bothered to set up the next villain in the course of this movie. Makes it a flowing narrative rather than "And now it's Villain X! Played by Impressive Actor! Oooh, scaaaarrry! Aren't you impressed?"
Also half expected everybody who saw Spidey without his mask to die. So I wasn't holding out a lot of hope that a) MJ would actually see Peter be Spidey and b) if she did that she would survive. Same with Harry Osborn.
All in all, very good.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 12:00:34 pm PDT #232 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have not read Tales Of Dread. I think King's been good at mixing creepy with gross -- I still think of that guy getting sucked through the slats of the raft in The Mist witha shiver.
But mostly it's smaller things, like the eyes of the seagulls in The Talisman.
As for movies, often it's just shock -- which wears off. But the end of The Ring, and its implications for those directly involved -- that's where real horror lives for me.