The only ones on that list I've ever seen are The Shining and The Haunting, which were certainly scary and awful and gorgeously tragically atmospheric, but really not unbearable. I've heard things about almost everything lower down on the list that sounded far more viscerally, emotionally, lizard-brainily horrifying, and most of them I would happily pay good money never to see (and, even more so, Audition, which isn't even on the list). I don't know what it says about me that I'd cheerfully watch the #1 and 2 movies again anytime but the very thought of seeing most of the others even once makes me cry.
Look, Angel, I know you've been out of the loop for a while, but I'm still evil. I don't do errands...unless they're evil errands.
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JZ - Apr 18, 2006 5:36:20 am PDT #1353 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2006 5:38:12 am PDT #1354 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've seen The Ring, The Others, and BWP. The Others was nice and creepy, The Ring was so boring I almost fell asleep, and BWP was just irritating.
Conclusion: I don't actually like horror movies.
Scrappy - Apr 18, 2006 5:46:04 am PDT #1355 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Don't Look Now is deeply disturbing. Not scary but it does get under your skin in a creepifying way (and it seems to have had a strong impact on David Lynch). It also has one of the cinema's most famous sex scenes, between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, which is beautifully shot and edited and hot hot hot.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2006 5:55:37 am PDT #1356 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
New SOAP interview with Samuel L Jackson.
Volans - Apr 18, 2006 6:06:27 am PDT #1357 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I think the conclusion I drew from that list was that 70% of scary horror movies are titled The {Noun}.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2006 6:07:07 am PDT #1358 of 10001
"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
The Others was well-made, but didn't strike me as all that frightening. Likewise The Haunting, while a great movie, wasn't just heart poundingly frightening to me.
To that list I'd add Ju-on which was a lot scarier than The Ring IMHO, The Haunting of Julia, and the creeptastic gold medal winner, The Exorcist. I've never seen Audition but I'd guess it deserves a slot too based on the reactions all those horror directors had to it.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Apr 18, 2006 6:42:06 am PDT #1359 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Also, that film has lesbian subtext like whoa now that I think back on it.
Doesn't it become text at some point in the middle? With Julie Harris telling Claire Bloom she wasn't "a dirty lesbian"? I may be cracked in my remembering.
askye - Apr 18, 2006 6:58:15 am PDT #1360 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
The Haunting totally creeped me out, I had to go turn on the lights. the handholding was creepy, but als when they are all locked in one of the rooms (the library?) and they hear the dragging sounds and the wall start to bulge inwards.
The only parts of The Audition were the clips from Bravo's to scary movies and that was enough to totally creep me out.
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:09:46 am PDT #1361 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The Ring still freaks me out. Enough so that I haven't watched Lilo & Stitch or Spirited Away since I found out it's the same little girl.
shudder
Volans - Apr 18, 2006 7:27:05 am PDT #1362 of 10001
move out and draw fire
To that list I'd add Ju-on which was a lot scarier than The Ring
So totally wrod.
and the creeptastic gold medal winner, The Exorcist.
And again.