The creepiest movie ever?

paradiddle · Post by **paradiddle** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:03 am

Anibody seen "the eye"? Wonder if it's any good.

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:43 am

I've seen The original version of the eye - like many japanese/chinese/thai horror/ghost stories it's mostly quite subtle, but most def spooky with some nice visuals to cause one to jump.
Haven't seen the remake (& i'll usually watch any crap if Jessica Alba is in it).

paradiddle · Post by **paradiddle** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:51 am

Yes that's the one (chinese) version. I didn't know there was a newer version.

Another one that I liked, suspiria. I think it's mostly the Goblin's music that makes it creepy. I've also seen inferno but Emerson's music didn't do much for me compare to suspiria.

abletoff · Post by **abletoff** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:56 am

Suspiria is a pure masterpiece.
Truth is, a long time ago Italy was the place to be if you wanted truly disturbing cinema times. "Buio Omega" is just an example, but you could pick a "Don't torture a duckling" and a Cannibal Holocaust almost anyday...

paradiddle · Post by **paradiddle** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:47 pm

From what I remember about some Italian horror film was lots of gore. I remember this movie in particular, I think it's burnt offerings not sure but it's some couples going in a manor and they are some zombies and this kid is tripping out on his own mom and eventually turns into a zombie and rips her nipple out by chewing it. LOL that's pretty disturbing if you ask me. edit: the movie is called Burial ground.

I got a few Mario Bava movie over here like black sunday, black sabbath (I liked the telephone segment),ect. Old but great stuff.

I've seen a lot more Italian horror but it's been so long and I don't think I would remember the title or be even able to identify them.

abletoff · Post by **abletoff** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:05 pm

Italian directors made some good horror flicks (L'Aldilà by Lucio Fulci, really intriguing), but it's an age now gone and forever so

It was the vision of what's truly horrifying that stroke it for me. Check out "Rabid Dogs" by Mario Bava if you want to get shocked without the usual funfair horror gimmicks. You won't be disappointed.

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:56 pm

+1 on the signal. very eerie indeed.

weeddigger · Post by **weeddigger** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:57 pm

stonee wrote:http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/933928/

my freind is a conceptual artist, and is fucked in the head. but this... this left him speechless.....

This was one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen!!!

Where the hell was this the last time I did shrooms?

Fuck... I almost feel like I'm tripping now...

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:58 pm

diverdee wrote:I've seen The original version of the eye - like many japanese/chinese/thai horror/ghost stories it's mostly quite subtle, but most def spooky with some nice visuals to cause one to jump.
Haven't seen the remake (& i'll usually watch any crap if Jessica Alba is in it).

kinda funny, the remake has the exact scene as the eye 2, the elevator scene.
the beginning is quite scary (original then) but as most horror flicks it goes from something scary an unknown to something with an explanation and a stupi climax displaying the monster or whatever totally destroying the whole mood.

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:36 pm

If it's Creepy, scary(ish) one want, rather than gorefest's Guillermo Del Toro's 'the devils backbone' is a good ghost story, & it's a marvelous film anyway.
If you watch it & like it i'd definately recommend 'pan's labyrinth' - maybe not really a scary fil, but one that's haunting with images that will remain long after you have watched it, plus it is a gain a visually beautiful film.
I've yet to watch 'the orphanage' (el orfanato) which is produced by Del Toro, but i've heard it's another atmospheric ghost story in the vein of the devils backbone.

For a totally different flavor how about Rob Zombies 'the devils rejects' - some truly uncomfortable scenes, pretty relentless, violent & gory in parts, reminds me in a way of the already mentioned (& bloody excellent) Wolf Creek - scary because one can imagine that there are sickos like this out there.

DaffyDub · Post by **DaffyDub** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:15 pm

ICHI - The killer

jlgrimes · Post by **jlgrimes** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:41 pm

Movies I found creepy (a lot aren't scary),

Crying Game

Can't even give it away but probably the creepiest movie every made (even though it isn't a scary movie at all). Movie starts off very well at the begininng (a bit of action, heavy drama, little mystery) and have you at the edge of your seat all waiting to see what happens. After the first half of the movie the plot turns around for the worse and it gets so creepy most people on this forum probably couldn't even stand to see the rest. But for the creepiness factor it gets beyond an A+. Nontheless a very nice drama movie.

Blue Velvet

Not really a scary movie but a good story with some very weird moments. Very good drama and acting, although there are some slow moments, the plot is weird and many of the characters are weird.

Superman III

As a kid I was horrified of the lady scientist who got smothered by the computer. I saw the scene about 10 years ago as a teenager and still felt a little uneasy.

Dawn of the Dead (even the remake)

This was a good zombie movie. The movie really wasn't that scary but the end of the movie was the creepiest where nothing but zombies walked the land. That part wasn't in the remake but the remake included other creepy things about the pregnant woman who became a zombie.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 remake and the current 2007 remake).

Similar plot to the Dawn of the Dead but on a more subtler level where many victims aren't even aware whats happening around them. That really increases the creepy factor. Not really a scary movie though, although there are plenty of creepy moments.

The Wiz

Some of the scenes scared the mess out of me as a kid. Especially the inflatable dummies that kept growing.

Saw I

That was a creepy movie. The creepiest parts for me was the ankle chain that delivered electric shock. And the moment where the victim realized the only way he was going to get free was to Saw. The sequels although good tried a little too hard to be creepy.

New Jack City

Mainly the only part was when Nino used a little girl as a bulletproof vest. Kind of borrowed the idea from Frankenstein. Many crime movies such as Scarface, and Goodfellas kind of almost make the movie where the criminal is kind of the hero in an ironic sense. Even though Nino was a clearly bad guy from the beginning of the movie, he seemed to kind of have a little human qualities and some people probably even rooted for him. But the child scene was probably created to turn everybody against him at the end to let you know the guy was a monster willing to do anything to achieve his goals.

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:46 am

paradiddle wrote:From what I remember about some Italian horror film was lots of gore.

I got a few Mario Bava movie over here like black sunday, black sabbath (I liked the telephone segment),ect. Old but great stuff.

Well Sir, as you probably know, before the Italian gore & zombie fests of Fulchi & Co. were the Italian ultra-stylish murder "giallo" films like Argento's 'Deep Red', & before that we had the Italian gothics like Bava's 'Black Sunday'.

I'm a big fan of many of the flicks from these different sub-genres, though I tend to lean more towards the gothic than the gore.

But if you compare what the Italians were achieving against what the UK was creating at the same time (Hammer studios, etc.), the Italians win in my book. Overall their work was more mature, & most importantly, more frightening!

What was really interesting was when Argento completely dispensed with traditional narrative & produced his most dream-like work 'Inferno', which I think is his masterpiece. Mario Bava did a similar thing with 'Lisa And The Devil', which becomes a surreal meditation on decay with an overwhelmingly morbid sense of necrophilia. What's not to like? But you have to see the original, un-cut, un-modified version & not the version which added new scenes with Elke Sommers & Alan Alda imitating 'The Exorcist'.

I think it is a bit of a stretch to consider that the work of Fulchi is remotely in the same league as Argento, despite that people will claim that Fulchi's obvious ineptitude equated with Argento's dream-logic.

Let the Argento Fulchi war begin!

paradiddle · Post by **paradiddle** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:14 am

A bit offtopic but I'm presently watching "plan 9 from outer space". I know Bela lugosi died in that movie and they used a stand-in but at the 30min mark, he seems to be drunk in that scene.

Man that movie is hilarious. There's some many errors, bad acting, obvious goofs and crappy sets like the plane cockpit. When the flying saucers are going by and people throw themselves on the floor.

abletoff · Post by **abletoff** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:48 am

oblique strategies wrote: Let the Argento Fulchi war begin!

As much as I like Argento (till "Tenebrae", then it's utter crap), they were different beasts. Argento took a lot from italian giallos previous efforts (the murderer first view comes straight from "Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer") and then developed an onirical vision that blooms in Deep Red (the murderer's objects on the table, the puppet sequence, absolute shivers). Fulci had a more social oriented hand, he had even shot comedies before committing to giallos and horror. If you know a bit about italy and its history and conflicts, "Don't torture a duckling" it's a movie that can strike some chords.

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