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
And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Giles ,'Touched'
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Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:09:46 am PDT #1361 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2006 7:31:23 am PDT #1363 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
and the creeptastic gold medal winner, The Exorcist.
I've never seen it, but I have run drills up and down those steps (my crew team rowed less than a mile away). That was horrifying.
lisah - Apr 18, 2006 7:31:50 am PDT #1364 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
The Ring and the BWP scared the bejesus out of me. I think BWP because the setting was so familiar.
The Ring scaring me PISSED me off because I didn't think it was that great of a movie. But I couldn't sleep for three nights afterwards and couldn't bear to watch even the ads for the DVD when it was released.
The Others didn't scare me at all because of the resolution.
The Shining I think I saw too late. So many of the really scary images had been parodied and recreated out the waz.
I remember liking Carnival of Souls but not getting as creeped out by it as I thought I would. Does it have a happy ending?
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:32:17 am PDT #1365 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
See, I went to see The Exorcist to get over my fear of scary movies and it did nothing for me. There were some "OW OW OW!!" parts, but nothing that made me jump or hide. I was sorely disappointed.
lisah - Apr 18, 2006 7:34:53 am PDT #1366 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I think I had the same thing with The Excorcist as the Shining. I knew it too well before I ever saw it. (Also I saw the Excorcist at someone's house while I was staying in N. Ireland as a teenager. I couldn't concentrate on gettin' scared because I was mostly concerned with what cute Irish boy I'd be snogging that night. )
Jessica - Apr 18, 2006 7:36:55 am PDT #1367 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:39:49 am PDT #1368 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
That looks "OW OW OW!".
Vonnie K - Apr 18, 2006 7:42:40 am PDT #1369 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I remember liking Carnival of Souls but not getting as creeped out by it as I thought I would. Does it have a happy ending?
Nope. The movie ends as the protagonist's corpse is being dragged out of the water, with the implication that she's been dead--or lingering in a limbo between the dead and the living--all along.
I have, like, deep psychological scarring from the vision of Herk Harvey's white ghoulish face grinning from the second story window. It's been a decade since I've seen the movie, and I still hesitate to look out the windows in the dark.
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:45:32 am PDT #1370 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
There was a freaky movie out awhile ago about a woman whose daughter gets yanked from a school play, I think, and a whole bit about an apple orchard and I think a cider mill.
Ring any bells for anyone?
ETA: In Dreams. That's it!