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You know what's weird? Watching the TV trailers for old movies on the DVD extras, and realizing how lame they were.
The trailer for The Fog freaked my shit right out. I wasn't allowed to see R-rated movies, so I didn't see the actual movie until years later, but I had nightmares from the trailer.
Now, watching that trailer as an adult (a media-saturated one at that), I have no idea why it was scary.
Audition was definitely freaky.
And I remember seeing Halloween when I was maybe 10 years old (maybe younger), and it scared the crap out of me. Not literally, though.
See, I'm not a fan of the slasher/creepifying movies in general. I tend not to get scared, but I get tense, and that annoys me. The movies and scenes that I find truly scary are the ones where regular humans are knowingly doing absolutely awful things to each other - I'm thinking of specific scenes in Payback and The Grifters, but there are many more. I don't like it. I know humans are capable of great depravity, but I don't want to see it in my entertainment.
OTOH, Silence Of The Lambs remains one of my greatest mind-fuck movies of all time.
The movies and scenes that I find truly scary are the ones where regular humans are knowingly doing absolutely awful things to each other - I'm thinking of specific scenes in Payback and The Grifters, but there are many more.
I was going to talk about Straw Dogs yesterday, but figured I'd probably pimped it more than often enough as the most chilling movie I've ever seen on so many levels.
Watching Boondock Saints...this is interesting. And, who to my wondering I should appear but Ron Jeremy? Good lawd!
The first second you figure out how the hooker got killed in Se7en. Oh my God, that is a shudder moment.
t points at Gris
Mean, you are. Just mean.
Watching Boondock Saints...this is interesting. And, who to my wondering I should appear but Ron Jeremy? Good lawd!
Heh. I love Boondock Saints. My brother says when he was showing it to my parents, my dad snickered when Ron Jeremy first came on screen. My mom asked him "Who is that?" and my dad feigned ignorance.
Mean, you are. Just mean.
Somebody mentions SotL, my brain goes to Seven. I think they're a genre all their own.
When you're done with Boondock Saints, rent Overnight.
Actually, everyone should see that.