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The 2 scariest movies I have ever seen are Failsafe and The Accused.
I saw Failsafe back before the neo-nuclear movies like Testement and The Day After came out. Chills, I'm telling you!
The Accused was scary because at the time I was Jodie Foster's character with more education, but just as stupid. It made me seriously rethink my drinking behaviour!
Stupid is the purest form of evil.
Are sharks stupid? More stupid than the alien? What's the difference? It's all one big biological imperative.
The 2 scariest movies I have ever seen are Failsafe and The Accused.
Were you surprised at the ending to Failsafe? A friend of mine really was. I had been spoiled - even before I read the book, in fact.
How shocking was the movie when it came out? It came out well after On the Beach, right?
Wait, there were aliens in Star Trek called Horta? Horta means "greens" in Greek - it's like having aliens called "The Kale."
Possibly this is deeply funny only to me.
Heh. Actually, the Horta were silicon-based, so not very much like greens to us.
What's the difference?
It's got to be relative to the species, methinks. But I was offhandedly speaking on purely human terms. And also in the terms of "this creature is taunting, torturing and slowly killing you because it lacks the awareness that there is anything wrong with what it is doing". But I think that's still on human terms. Or maybe not. I just have this primal fear of the shit that "stupid" or "impaired" characters can get away with. Which is why I think children scare me so much.
I don't know if I mean IQ level or lack of experience/education/civilization. But Lord of the Flies was certainly good birth control.
Are sharks stupid? More stupid than the alien? What's the difference? It's all one big biological imperative.
I agree about it all being a biological imperative, but I think (in Aliens at least) we're supposed to be surprised by their intelligence.
I don't think horror requires evil. I'd be horrified if a shark was closing in on me even if I was just food to the shark.
It requires Fear of Death. Actually a lot of horror is about plying the Uncanny Valley - creatures which are only somewhat human, or debased or Unclean violate certain lizard brain rules of propriety.
I'd be horrified if a shark was closing in on me even if I was just food to the shark.
Yeah, but if you saw a movie where someone became shark food, would that make it a horror movie?
Hmmm... I'm leaning toward "no."
Yeah, but if you saw a movie where someone became shark food, would that make it a horror movie?
What can I say? I saw it in the theater when it first came out. The audience reacted to it like a horror audience, not an action adventure audience. It wasn't just suspense, it was fear.