A lot of movies make me jump but none of them actually SCARE me. any suggestions?
2006-07-26 22:54:25 · 22 answers · asked by angeldivagirl 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
the wishing stairs,i think its korean or japanese.it haunts me even in my dreams.and even now when i saw small eyed girls i got scared,i never sleep with a clothes hanging near me,i never open my windows when its already dark and i dont sleep without the lights on.it really did change a lot of my sleeping habits!
2006-07-26 23:24:22 · answer #1 · answered by summer79 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's hard to scare people today. When I watched Alien that was a scary movie. Today it might draw a yawn. Back then special effects was new. So the Alien was a truely wicked creature. The suspense was built up in such a way you wonder all through. Going to take another leap in special effects combined with origional writing to do that again though almost all horror movies today are just gory renditions of 10 little indians by Agatha Christy. You start with 10 and one by one they are picked off.
Alot of movies that terrified people in thier day just produce yawns with modern audiences. The Omen movies really put quite a few people at unease for a time. Jaws and Rosemary's baby were all really new concepts. Of course they like Alien have been redone so many times that the scare is worn right out of them. To be scared you have to suspend your belief long enough to really get into the movie. That requires far more plot writing than Hollywood is willing to produce today. It has to be unpredictable. The chars need to draw you in rather than seem cardbord cutouts whom you can predict the fate of as easily as if you'd already watched that movie several times.
Alien won't scare you today as it has been copied and re-copied until every aspect of Alien is completely worn out. Unless our over 35 you might not realize it but the origional Halloween movie was actually very close to scary. Nobody had done a slasher flik before. The closest was Hitchcock's Norman Bates charactor. BTW Both Norman Bates and the Texas Chainsaw masecre are based on the same real mass murder.
Darkness falls is also based on a true story to an extent. The supernatural aspects of it are not. It does stick with you though and plays on the human instinct to fear the dark. All you have to say is what if she really existed and that movie hooks you. One of the few horror movies you can watch a second time and not fall asleep doing so.
The Ring though, that is a creepy movie. Not really sure why. The suspense is well done but you could predict the outcome yet it was still chilling even knowing the outcome.
Some movies that almost got you going but never quite get the suspense high enough to draw you in include.
Rose Red - Really good plot. One of the best renditions of a King book. They overdo the chars eventually and it pulls you back out before you can be scared.
While they won't scare you the first Hellraiser movie is well worth watching. The Cube is another one I'd recomend. Lots of gratuitious violence but the plot itself is twisted. The prophacy movies often wind up in the horror section. I would not really class them as horror, more as action. Excellent movies in any case. For comedy horror, or horrible comedy Tremors and the Evil undead series can be hilarious at times. The House I think it is where the house swallows up the Viet Nam vet's son and ghosts chase him around. At times I literally felll off my chair laughing so hard.
The best by far without anybody being close make you jump out of your seat scene in any movie I've ever seen is the car wreck scene in "The Forgoten:". There should be special Oscar for just that scene. The rest of the movie is mostly good. The plot interesting but the suspense never really gets built. Well worth seeing if nothing else just for that one scene.
I also recomend The others. No blood and gore but good suspense, very well written. Doesn't "scare" you but the story will horrify you.
2006-07-27 00:20:50 · answer #2 · answered by draciron 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alfred Hitchcock The Birds
2006-07-26 22:58:17 · answer #3 · answered by kiss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Carpenter favorites:
The Fog (the original only)
Prince of Darkness
In the Mouth of Madness
2006-07-27 00:18:07 · answer #4 · answered by Jake Lockley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Ring" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130 ) is my favorite movie. It DOES make you jump, but it's also scary in a weird psychological way. I'd recommend it to you.
Another GREAT movie that it's totally about scaring the watcher and not make you jump, is "The Shining" by Stephen King ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505 ). That's a classic.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
2006-07-26 23:03:01 · answer #5 · answered by alex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ring scared me and so does Dog Soldiers. What's even scarier though is watching CNN and seeing the real horror going on in this world.
2006-07-27 03:49:00 · answer #6 · answered by Bullchit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ring - and this weird movie I saw 15 years back - called Ghost House. The creepy soundtrack is still stuck in my head.
2006-07-26 23:01:12 · answer #7 · answered by melvai 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wolf creek. It's creepy because of the fact that it was based on true events. That and the good old Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
You do know that movie was also based on a true story, right?
2006-07-26 22:59:14 · answer #8 · answered by Bubba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sleepy Hollow
2006-07-26 22:57:44 · answer #9 · answered by arooj r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seven
2006-07-26 23:05:45 · answer #10 · answered by archana3k1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
United 93 any movie that depicts actual events and make you realize about all the terroists in the country,That is scary!!
2006-07-26 23:36:24 · answer #11 · answered by Cherokee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋