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Originally posted by Kinidyen


Not to piss in your cheerios or anything, but, i'm going to need you to back this statement up. Just because from where I sit it looked to me like one of the biggest wastes of film I've ever seen. Was it perhaps a good book?

Kinidyen

Here ya go:

Originally posted by Adairen_BotS
Everyone has different views on what is scary and what isn't but here's my choices. Now keep in mind, I'm naming my choices by how well the film made me poop my pants and not by how well the story went.

Night of the Living Dead - Original || Saw this when I was pretty young in the 80's at home, always a classic.

Event Horizon || Saw this when it came out in the theatres. It was damn scary. My sister and her boyfriend stopped eating their hot dogs, they lost appetite. You have to see this movie in the theatre or at least a good home theatre in order to get the full effect of this film.

Evil Dead 1 || I remember watching this at home when I was young and the part where the girl gets stabbed in the ankle by the zombie still gives me the chills. Of course the sequels are pure comedy. Bruce Cambell owns.

Originally posted by Eomer
Event Horizon scared the piss outta me the first time I saw it, one of my favorite movies. Maybe half of the scare factor was simply because I was expecting some sort of sci-fi Star Trek sorta movie, not anything to do with Hell.

Originally posted by James
Mark me down for Event Horizon as well. It just didn't seem as cheesy as some of the other "scary" movies that I've seen.

Originally posted by Korak Sarathai
I have to echo the sentiments here that Event Horizon is the ONLY movie to ever put fear into me. Plenty of movies can startle you with sudden noise and movement, but EH but real sweaty throat tightening fear into me. Watching it again on DVD was even better because the anticipation of familiar moments only prolonged the fear response.

Those reactions make me rate EH as my favorite horror movie by far. On a more critical note though, I was a little disappointed to learn that the ship had been to "Hell." That explanation spoiled a lot of the cool sci-fi backdrop for me. I wish the ship had been to some other part of the galaxy ruled by terribly chaotic aliens of some type that could have accomplished the same thing; imbued the Event Horizon with sentience and malice.

Sum up: Event Horizon, best... horror... ever.

Originally posted by Searyx
Wow. Event Horizon seems to be the winner, and I agree. Movie scared the living shit outta me.

By the way, the ship didn't go to "Hell". It went to another dimension that was much worse than anything in the bible. I think when the Dead Captain says "Save yourself from Hell", I think he was trying to describe the horror of the plane of existence the Event Horizon had landed in. I don't think the director meant the Event Horizon was sent to BIBLICAL hell. Just that "hell" was the best way to describe it.

"The Dark inside me. I won't go back there!" WOAH.

Other than that, Alien is a close second.

Originally posted by Bumbaz
I'll also chime in on Event Horizon, the funny thing was the marketing for the movie. You have to admit they kind of marketed it as like a sci-fi space movie maybe another Aliens or Star Wars. Well when we get to the theater we notice some mom walk in with like a 5 year old!! OMG that kid was so freakin scared I wouldn't be suprised if he crapped his pants. He kept asking to leave and his mom was like just close your eyes honey it will be ok. I'm like eehh, that kid ain't gunna sleep for a freakin week. Finally after about an hour or so when the shit really hit the fan he started crying and eventually they left. Damn that was funny.

I think more needs to be mentioned of The Thing, that was a good scary movie. Also Alien did the job quite well, along with Candyman. I can't think of anything that no one has mentioned yet though.

Originally posted by OpalesentAsphyxiation
Session 9- Easily the spookiest movie I have ever seen, the brooding sense of pyschosis that builds in that movie is amazing. I can't understand how it translated so perfectly to film. definently reccomended for anyone willing to be truly scared.

Event Horizon- Another movie that really just messes with your head. Its another very good example of everyon playing their parts to perfection and the movie almost being alive with atmosphere.

'Nuff said!

Now, my take on the whole thing is whether or not they actually went to Hell. But that is the beauty of this movie. It plays with your senses and catapults them into a state where we "think" that is where they are going. Your left with your own opinion and that is frightening. Fear of the unknown is something that is in all of us. Read some H.P. Lovecraft and/or watch "In the Mouth of Madness". These stories really fuck with you and they stay with you a long time. EH was just that type a story: total mind fuck.