Also, seeing as this has been bumped I should mention to @Willow that I watched Black Christmas *checks Letterboxd diary* ... twelve days after you mentioned it. So yeah this post is a little late!
I thought it was fine. I liked the mystery and creepiness of Billy - there's that one shot in the film, I think you'll know it off the top of your head, it's terrifying! 😂. Honestly though what ruined it for me were the scenes outside of the house, taking place during the day. Yep, even the one where the old man gets a snowball launched off his head. I love films located in one place, and I think I would have preferred it if it was fully like that, but what are ya gonna do!
But I think the biggest "scare" or what unnerved med the most, was The Shining. Not the film, but the novel. The woman in room 217...ooooh, some scary shit. I'm with King on the subject of the film not being nearly good enough as an adaptation, it's more of a reimagining or "inspired by". Great film, yes, no doubt. But it's own thing and it lacks in places.
There's a television mini-series adaptation that King wrote the screenplay for. It follows the book pretty well.
@Jerseyfornia saw that, and it is really faithful to the novel. I liked it, but of course, as a film / motion picture, it doesn't come close to Kubrick's. I easily acknowledge that.
What I miss the most from Kubrick's, is Jack's exepriences and his being tormented by being a father; his shortcomings and regrets in that regard. I think that's a really central point in the book. I would have loved to see Nicholson go a bit mote into that.
The Conjuring actually gave me a few jumps, the old-fashioned way. I liked that.
Other than that, I guess it's been a while. Wifey doesn't like horror films at all...it's my favorite genre.
Jerseyfornia mentioned Train to Busan, agree with that, that was a really good one.
Back in the day, it was Texas Chainsaw, Excorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street...the usual suspects. Blair Witch creeped me out. A lot of the "classic" horror movies in the 80's were either banned (Chainsaw, Evil Dead) og heavily censored (Nightmare) - I mean, Life of Brian was banned (!) until 1989 or 1990, so it wasn't always too easy to see all the goodies. I remember seeing Hellraiser, and The Farm.
But I think the biggest "scare" or what unnerved med the most, was The Shining. Not the film, but the novel. The woman in room 217...ooooh, some scary shit. I'm with King on the subject of the film not being nearly good enough as an adaptation, it's more of a reimagining or "inspired by". Great film, yes, no doubt. But it's own thing and it lacks in places.
I think a good indicator of how much I love something is if I seek out the book of it, and "The Shining" is one of the first books I ever went out of my way to buy and read when I was younger. The only problem with my reading experience was that I pictured Nicholson and Duvall rather than properly appreciating King's different descriptions of Jack and Wendy.
My niece is hoping to have some friends over for a Halloween gathering. (They are the kids who are in her bubble at school.) My sister asked me for recommendations for scary movies. I was checking through Netflix, Prime, Crave and iTunes, rejecting almost everything because it was to scary. My sister said she didn’t know how I ever watched a scary movie as everything scared me. 😁
These were my recommendations:
Nightmare before Christmas
Corpse Bride
Edward Scissorhands
Gremlins
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
This is for a group of 11 year olds. What do you guys think?
Watched this tonight on Shudder. I only ever saw it that one time in 1980 and most of the details were lost to me. I only really remembered the wheel chair. Excellent film.
The one that sticks in my mind is not a film, but an old TV adaptation of a M.R. James story, "Casting The Runes". It was in a series called Mystery & Imagination. It absolutely scared the shit out of me and my mum. 😁
Anyway there is a 1957 film loosely based on that story, called "Night Of The Demon", and I have got that lined up to watch on Halloween.
Kate Bush used a line from the film in Hounds Of Love:
I am way to much of a wimp to really take part in this discussion, but I do remember being terrified by The Birds, Pyscho and Vertigo when I was about 15. Since then I avoided horror altogether.
Halloween was the first slasher, psycho-killer, teenaged-babysitter massacre type film I ever saw. Up until then all my horror exposure had been monster movies, science-gone-wrong flicks, The Birds, haunted house movies. I was never really scared of horror, like my mother and my younger brother were, but this was different. The stalking, the slow-walk chases, the gore, the teenagers, that mask...and it was all going down on an average street on my favorite night of the year. I might have pooped my pants if I hadn't been scared shitless.
And, for those of you who read First Boy on the Moon; yes, I saw it at the same drive-in where we saw a man stabbed two years earlier. The movie was scarier than that.
My life can be divided into two very clearly defined segments—Before Jaws and After Jaws.
Before Jaws you couldn't get me out of the water, not the ocean, not a pond, not a pool. Nothing was better than being at someone's house after dark when they had a pool. We'd go to the beach and I'd be in the water for 95% of the time—just hours and hours on end. Public pool, muddy local pond, whatever, I was there.
And then I saw Jaws. And it was just never the same.
Oh, I still enjoyed swimming, but I never again had the full body and soul enjoyment of the ocean like I'd had for so many scores of hours previously: no matter how much fun I was having, there was always at least some little part (and often some big part) of my brain that was whispering, "you have no idea what's down there. It could be, it probably is a shark...shark...shaaaaaaark..."
I have never even been able to enjoy swimming in a pool at night since then.
I know it's silly. I know that with every fiber of my being. And yet.
I'm like Mario on this subject; my favorite genre, but not many movies actually scare me. Jump scares, moments of gore...they have their impact, but overall I like a frightening tone that carries the creeps through a movie.
I remember seeing The Changeling in the theater when it came out. It was scary.
Jaws gave me a lifelong fear of swimming in the ocean and Alien killed any astronaut dreams I may have had. A lot of movies that scared me as a kid (The Hills Have Eyes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday The 13th) don't scare me as an adult.Recently, I thought Busan Train and The Wretched were decently scary.
I'm particular about horror films, so this might be a long read.
My favourite genre of films, but they don't scare me as much as I'd like them to and I'm usually very critical as to what makes a good horror film. I'm prone to jump scares as we all are, but there's little that's genuinely terrified and traumatised me. Fwiw, The Shining has been my favourite film - or one of - for a long long time, and I've always been more in admiration of it than frightened since I was little.
That one that freaked me out the most when I was younger was A Nightmare on Elm Street. For weeks after watching that I'd sit beside the door of whatever room I was in to try and stop it randomly closing. So I guess that's the answer? When I last watched it two years ago for Halloween season blog reviews (https://cantfindtickets.wordpress.com/category/2018-halloween-season-film-reviews/) though, again I more so appreciated the quality of it.
Seeing as it's always regarded as the scariest film of all time, I'll mention that I was never scared by The Exorcist, but the scene where they take her in for surgery and are sticking tubes, wires, needles in her neck is disturbing in how real it is. A real squirmy moment.
I've watched a few notable horrors for the first time this year like The Blair Witch Project, Dawn of the Dead, Scream, The Hills Have Eyes etc. and though there have definitely been moments and scenes that left me saying "Christ!", the one film scene this year that's had my heart racing in anxiety mode is the opening one from When a Stranger Calls. The film as a whole is a bit naff, but this first scene is magnificent.
Also, seeing as this has been bumped I should mention to @Willow that I watched Black Christmas *checks Letterboxd diary* ... twelve days after you mentioned it. So yeah this post is a little late!
I thought it was fine. I liked the mystery and creepiness of Billy - there's that one shot in the film, I think you'll know it off the top of your head, it's terrifying! 😂. Honestly though what ruined it for me were the scenes outside of the house, taking place during the day. Yep, even the one where the old man gets a snowball launched off his head. I love films located in one place, and I think I would have preferred it if it was fully like that, but what are ya gonna do!
There's a television mini-series adaptation that King wrote the screenplay for. It follows the book pretty well.
The Conjuring actually gave me a few jumps, the old-fashioned way. I liked that.
Other than that, I guess it's been a while. Wifey doesn't like horror films at all...it's my favorite genre.
Jerseyfornia mentioned Train to Busan, agree with that, that was a really good one.
Back in the day, it was Texas Chainsaw, Excorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street...the usual suspects. Blair Witch creeped me out. A lot of the "classic" horror movies in the 80's were either banned (Chainsaw, Evil Dead) og heavily censored (Nightmare) - I mean, Life of Brian was banned (!) until 1989 or 1990, so it wasn't always too easy to see all the goodies. I remember seeing Hellraiser, and The Farm.
But I think the biggest "scare" or what unnerved med the most, was The Shining. Not the film, but the novel. The woman in room 217...ooooh, some scary shit. I'm with King on the subject of the film not being nearly good enough as an adaptation, it's more of a reimagining or "inspired by". Great film, yes, no doubt. But it's own thing and it lacks in places.
Tremors.
My niece is hoping to have some friends over for a Halloween gathering. (They are the kids who are in her bubble at school.) My sister asked me for recommendations for scary movies. I was checking through Netflix, Prime, Crave and iTunes, rejecting almost everything because it was to scary. My sister said she didn’t know how I ever watched a scary movie as everything scared me. 😁
These were my recommendations:
Nightmare before Christmas
Corpse Bride
Edward Scissorhands
Gremlins
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
This is for a group of 11 year olds. What do you guys think?
Still scary, JF?
Watched this tonight on Shudder. I only ever saw it that one time in 1980 and most of the details were lost to me. I only really remembered the wheel chair. Excellent film.
The one that sticks in my mind is not a film, but an old TV adaptation of a M.R. James story, "Casting The Runes". It was in a series called Mystery & Imagination. It absolutely scared the shit out of me and my mum. 😁
Anyway there is a 1957 film loosely based on that story, called "Night Of The Demon", and I have got that lined up to watch on Halloween.
Kate Bush used a line from the film in Hounds Of Love:
"It's in the trees - it's coming!" 😵
Who has seen The Woman in Black? The miniseries, not the movie.
Freaking scary!!!!!
I am way to much of a wimp to really take part in this discussion, but I do remember being terrified by The Birds, Pyscho and Vertigo when I was about 15. Since then I avoided horror altogether.
Slipped my mind, but having just seen it listed on Shudder, Haunt was a good one from last year.
Halloween was the first slasher, psycho-killer, teenaged-babysitter massacre type film I ever saw. Up until then all my horror exposure had been monster movies, science-gone-wrong flicks, The Birds, haunted house movies. I was never really scared of horror, like my mother and my younger brother were, but this was different. The stalking, the slow-walk chases, the gore, the teenagers, that mask...and it was all going down on an average street on my favorite night of the year. I might have pooped my pants if I hadn't been scared shitless.
And, for those of you who read First Boy on the Moon; yes, I saw it at the same drive-in where we saw a man stabbed two years earlier. The movie was scarier than that.
I shouldn't leave out Halloween. Saw it at the Drive-In with Mom and my brothers and it was the scariest movie I'd ever seen at the time.
This scene scared the living daylights out of me.
My life can be divided into two very clearly defined segments—Before Jaws and After Jaws.
Before Jaws you couldn't get me out of the water, not the ocean, not a pond, not a pool. Nothing was better than being at someone's house after dark when they had a pool. We'd go to the beach and I'd be in the water for 95% of the time—just hours and hours on end. Public pool, muddy local pond, whatever, I was there.
And then I saw Jaws. And it was just never the same.
Oh, I still enjoyed swimming, but I never again had the full body and soul enjoyment of the ocean like I'd had for so many scores of hours previously: no matter how much fun I was having, there was always at least some little part (and often some big part) of my brain that was whispering, "you have no idea what's down there. It could be, it probably is a shark...shark...shaaaaaaark..."
I have never even been able to enjoy swimming in a pool at night since then.
I know it's silly. I know that with every fiber of my being. And yet.
I'm like Mario on this subject; my favorite genre, but not many movies actually scare me. Jump scares, moments of gore...they have their impact, but overall I like a frightening tone that carries the creeps through a movie.
I remember seeing The Changeling in the theater when it came out. It was scary.
Jaws gave me a lifelong fear of swimming in the ocean and Alien killed any astronaut dreams I may have had. A lot of movies that scared me as a kid (The Hills Have Eyes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday The 13th) don't scare me as an adult.Recently, I thought Busan Train and The Wretched were decently scary.
Have you ever seen Black Christmas?
I'm particular about horror films, so this might be a long read.
My favourite genre of films, but they don't scare me as much as I'd like them to and I'm usually very critical as to what makes a good horror film. I'm prone to jump scares as we all are, but there's little that's genuinely terrified and traumatised me. Fwiw, The Shining has been my favourite film - or one of - for a long long time, and I've always been more in admiration of it than frightened since I was little.
That one that freaked me out the most when I was younger was A Nightmare on Elm Street. For weeks after watching that I'd sit beside the door of whatever room I was in to try and stop it randomly closing. So I guess that's the answer? When I last watched it two years ago for Halloween season blog reviews (https://cantfindtickets.wordpress.com/category/2018-halloween-season-film-reviews/) though, again I more so appreciated the quality of it.
Seeing as it's always regarded as the scariest film of all time, I'll mention that I was never scared by The Exorcist, but the scene where they take her in for surgery and are sticking tubes, wires, needles in her neck is disturbing in how real it is. A real squirmy moment.
I've watched a few notable horrors for the first time this year like The Blair Witch Project, Dawn of the Dead, Scream, The Hills Have Eyes etc. and though there have definitely been moments and scenes that left me saying "Christ!", the one film scene this year that's had my heart racing in anxiety mode is the opening one from When a Stranger Calls. The film as a whole is a bit naff, but this first scene is magnificent.