Properly Scary Films
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Anyone remember La Cabina (The Telephone Box)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBiIfZwTek
Bloody disturbing..
Anyone remember La Cabina (The Telephone Box)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBiIfZwTek
Bloody disturbing..
Cloverfield (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYF0f-zMgY
Slow start that takes some enduring but some great moments once the pace picks up.
Slow start that takes some enduring but some great moments once the pace picks up.
"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see..."
I don't really 'do' horror films. Most are weak and predictable, with the 'shocks' telegraphed well in advance. Event Horizon, however, ab-so-lu-te-ly put the s
ters up me when I first saw it in an empty house at 2am. I see that there are fair few PHers who agree.It's the only film that has given me nightmares as an adult, and even after multiple viewings I find it disturbing, with its themes of Hell, mania, and, well, it's an evil f
king film! Saw Event Horizon in the cinema when it came out, it's really scary with a proper surround sound setup / biiiiig screen combo, plus the fact you have no where to hide. It is a cracking film, dunno why it got panned on release, it's a shame that alot of the extras that were cut from the cinematic release were lost, as i would love to have seen a directors cut, that would have been brutal.
speedtwelve said:
"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see..."
I don't really 'do' horror films. Most are weak and predictable, with the 'shocks' telegraphed well in advance. Event Horizon, however, ab-so-lu-te-ly put the s
ters up me when I first saw it in an empty house at 2am. I see that there are fair few PHers who agree.It's the only film that has given me nightmares as an adult, and even after multiple viewings I find it disturbing, with its themes of Hell, mania, and, well, it's an evil f
king film! 
(even that pic is making me uncomfortable)
The part that weirded me out the most in EH was the video remnant. Yeeeuch.
Blair Witch is the only film that's ever really unnerved me. The kids voices, the teeth wrapped in cloth <shudder>
Slightly differently, Return To Oz scared me stless as a child too, but that was more to do with being left alone to watch it in a cinema in Plymouth while mum and dad went shopping.
Blair Witch is the only film that's ever really unnerved me. The kids voices, the teeth wrapped in cloth <shudder>
Slightly differently, Return To Oz scared me s
tless as a child too, but that was more to do with being left alone to watch it in a cinema in Plymouth while mum and dad went shopping. As nuclearsquash says, a lot of the original Event Horizon movie was cut to get it down to an 18 certificate and therefore a UK cinema release full-stop. Ferk knows what the footage they had to cut out was like!
Don't still-frame the video remnant from the original Event Horizon crew's log if you're planning on having dinner.
Don't still-frame the video remnant from the original Event Horizon crew's log if you're planning on having dinner.
speedtwelve said:
As nuclearsquash says, a lot of the original Event Horizon movie was cut to get it down to an 18 certificate and therefore a UK cinema release full-stop. Ferk knows what the footage they had to cut out was like!
Don't still-frame the video remnant from the original Event Horizon crew's log if you're planning on having dinner.
By all accounts the cut stuff was full screen flash backs of the original crew descending into hell over a period of time, real shame it was lost, as i think an editors cut would be damned good, it would add a lot more to the horror of the original crews situation as well as what the recovery team faced.Don't still-frame the video remnant from the original Event Horizon crew's log if you're planning on having dinner.
Nuclearsquash said:
speedtwelve said:
As nuclearsquash says, a lot of the original Event Horizon movie was cut to get it down to an 18 certificate and therefore a UK cinema release full-stop. Ferk knows what the footage they had to cut out was like!
Don't still-frame the video remnant from the original Event Horizon crew's log if you're planning on having dinner.
By all accounts the cut stuff was full screen flash backs of the original crew descending into hell over a period of time, real shame it was lost, as i think an editors cut would be damned good, it would add a lot more to the horror of the original crews situation as well as what the recovery team faced.Don't still-frame the video remnant from the original Event Horizon crew's log if you're planning on having dinner.
On the subject of the Exorcist and The Omen am I the only one who didn't find them scary in the slightest?
From here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/trivia
According to the DVD documentary, the first cut of the film had a longer "Visions from Hell" sequence, more blood, and a different, though similar, ending. The test audience didn't like it, so it was re-cut with an alternate ending involving what director Paul W.S. Anderson called "The Burning Man Sequence." The second test audience didn't like that version, and the film was edited again. The final cut is a less-intense hybrid of both test screenings, with significantly less gore.
The missus doesn't rate sci-fi films at all but she really enjoyed Event Horizon, made her jump several times. I'm trying to get her to watch Alien as I rate that film highly. Surprised nobody has mentioned Silent Hill, that was very atmospheric and quite gruesome at times. Looking forward to watching The Descent 2....
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