I can't think of any that I couldn't actually watch though.
There's a scene 25 minutes into the recent British film The Descent that had me considering leaving the theatre. It played to a particular phobia of mine.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
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IAmNotReallyASpring - Oct 26, 2005 2:25:46 am PDT #8262 of 10002
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Anne W. - Oct 26, 2005 2:35:00 am PDT #8263 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The only thing that I have to watch through my fingers is people embarrasing themselves.
Oh, hell yes. I have a visceral loathing for most "comedy" based on this premise. There are a few exceptions to this rule (mostly involving Steve Martin), but I generally don't find that sort of thing funny at all.
Dana - Oct 26, 2005 5:33:43 am PDT #8264 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
whoever wrote them had a knack for freaky-ass death.
Pretty sure Morgan and Wong, of X-Files fame, wrote the first one (which also explains the presence of Kristen Cloke).
Frankenbuddha - Oct 26, 2005 5:48:03 am PDT #8265 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Pretty sure Morgan and Wong, of X-Files fame, wrote the first one (which also explains the presence of Kristen Cloke).
I think one of them directed, too. Didn't they also do the Crispin Glover WILLARD remake?
sumi - Oct 26, 2005 6:03:03 am PDT #8266 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
bon bon - Oct 26, 2005 6:07:21 am PDT #8267 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Reading about "interesting deaths" popped various images from Final Destination and Final Destination 2 into my head. Terrible movies, seriously, but whoever wrote them had a knack for freaky-ass death.
I haven't seen it, but FD2 has quite the cult following. Same guy directed Cellular.
Morgan and Wong did Willard and FD1, yes.
Hayden - Oct 26, 2005 6:14:00 am PDT #8268 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
There are a few exceptions to this rule
I hope the British version of The Office makes the cut!
Glamcookie - Oct 26, 2005 9:24:38 am PDT #8269 of 10002
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
On the scary movies front, I agree with The Blair Witch Project (I found the whole thing scary as shit).
In Scream (which I generally didn't find scary), I was freaked out by the dude in the bathroom stall. I still think about that when I'm in the restroom at work. Another movie that I remember being terrifying was The Last House On the Left.
Ailleann - Oct 26, 2005 9:34:58 am PDT #8270 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I missed the first five-ten minutes of Blair Witch, so basically all of the exposition. This made 3/4ths of the movie really boring and mildly confusing. The last bit, though... the friend I was with noticed my tension, and at a moment when nothing was happening, he grabbed me and said boo, and I shrieked like... well, like a girl. The running pell-mell down the stairs gave me a nightmare or two.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2005 9:45:52 am PDT #8271 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If anyone's really bothered by scary scenes from recent horror movies, I recommend watching the appropriate Scary Movie spoof which will puncture the tension of aforementioned scenes like a needle through a balloon. The most recent one skewered Signs, The Ring, The Others, The Matrix and 8 Mile.