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Post by jeff on Jun 18, 2009 8:24:05 GMT
For me the recent film "Drag me to hell" would probably take it - it certainly scared me witless, although my scare threshhold may have lowered over the years.
The other one is an old black and white film, whose name I can't recall and perhaps some of you horror buffs can help me out. It was about these little furry demons who lived in the cellar who dragged people off and eventually turned them into demons themselves. Towards the end of the film a woman was dragged off by these demons as she photographed them for evidence and it ended with tghe demons talking and her voice was one of them. Any ideas as I would love to track this film down and watch it again?
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Post by jeff on Jun 18, 2009 8:26:42 GMT
Sorry - thread started in completely wrong place - but in mitigation I haven't had more than 4 hours sleep any night for well over a week and feel like a zombie.
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Post by Jim on Jun 18, 2009 10:58:46 GMT
Nuns on the Run
sISTER acT
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Post by rakie on Jun 18, 2009 11:14:17 GMT
American Werewolf in London, or the remake of The Fly. I still can't watch either of those without ending up on the ceiling.
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 18, 2009 17:42:56 GMT
The original Evil Dead.
I saw it when it first came out on VHS in the UK.
1st time I watched it I was alone in a large dark house.
Bad idea.
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 18, 2009 19:58:11 GMT
Angel Heart had some moments that really freaked me out.
The sex scene with blood falling on the unaware lovers was creepy enough but the bit that really had me gibbering like a twat was one of the final scenes - the little black kid who points at Mickey Rourke (it's YOU, daddy) with perfectly golden, demonic eyes.
On this subject - why did the fans suddenly change direction every time Mickey Rourke entered the room? I don't remember that in the book.
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 18, 2009 23:32:33 GMT
Angel Heart had some moments that really freaked me out. De Niro with the egg was -creepy- . And the score was brilliantly evocative. Love the book as well... and you're right about the fans
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 19, 2009 17:02:51 GMT
Anyone got any ideas why the fans do that? It's been doing my head in for over twenty years. Was it just Alan Parker trying to be clever?
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Post by Jim on Jun 19, 2009 17:22:53 GMT
from wikipedia
# Backwards rotating fan: The theme of a backwards rotating fan is present during every episode in which Harry commits a murder offscreen, which Harry forgets about, thinking Favorite committed the murder (which turns out to be true, in a way.) It is a reference to the fan that was present at the demonic sacrifice of the original Harry Angel. The act of fanning in classic middle eastern ritual also represents the act of separating the wheat from the chaff, the good souls from the bad. The first fan seen in the movie has six blades, and the total number of blades on all the fans that follow are sixty-six, for a total of "666".
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 19, 2009 17:27:20 GMT
Thanks Jim! Have a karma. When I'm allowed to exalt you, that is. Sigh. Bloody time limits...
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Post by ian on Jun 19, 2009 21:39:30 GMT
The scariest movie I ever saw was The Candyman.
Christ on a bike! That film shit me up something rotten!
I was off my tits on waccy baccy at the time so I'm not sure if it counts.
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Post by Jim on Jun 20, 2009 4:48:05 GMT
when it first came out none of my friends would take the £50 to say candyman into a miror
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 24, 2009 1:03:11 GMT
when it first came out none of my friends would take the £50 to say candyman into a miror Done that. Still here. ....so far Then again, I did sell my soul for a pint of heavy in 1977.
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Post by garryc on Jun 25, 2009 8:16:15 GMT
Drag Me to Hell was almost unwatchable, but not because it was scary... It was just bad!
Candyman did unnerve me at the time, but films stopped scarying me years ago. The first film I watched (about age 9) was Argento's INFERNO and that did scare the crap out of me.
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Post by Jim on Jun 25, 2009 8:31:36 GMT
For me is when a film makes me think about something, like Armageddon, never really thought about an asteroid strike, and t was realising that not even a gigantic ACME spring wouldn't save.
and yes I now how dumb this post sounds
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