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With Halloween soon approaching, what better thing to discuss than frights, horrors, and things that go bump in the night.......creak....creak....... So I thought, what are some of the more frightening scenes that the movies have brought us in the past few decades...........here's a couple that come to mind IMHO.........creak....creak....creak.....



1}That scene in "Scanners". I mean, in what other movie does the audience get to see someone's head go klabammo by psychic energies alone?

2}Our first glimpse at the alien in "Alien". Doesn't anybody feel just a bit sorry for John Hurt's character in that scene? I mean, he and the others onboard the Nostromo are having dinner, he starts having what he thinks is indigestion, and moments later Hurt's character, Kane, becomes a human ziplock bag as the alien makes his exit, stage left, from the screen.

3}Hearing Jack Nicholson say "Here's Johnny!" in "The Shining". Need I say more?

Any others come to mind, feel free to add them to the list......speaking of which, what was that creaking noise I heard earlier?

All of the movie Torque, I can't believe I watched the whole movie. I had nightmares for a week.

Wanna add two:
Psycho (the 1960 version with Anthony Perkins)
Les Diaboliques (1955 version, the one with Simone Signoret)

gkaytaz wrote:Wanna add two:
Psycho (the 1960 version with Anthony Perkins)
Les Diaboliques (1955 version, the one with Simone Signoret)

Haven't seen the second of those, but I have seen the 1960 version of "Psycho' ....what makes that shower scene in that film so scary is the way Hitchcock sets up that shower scene(usually in most horror films the first person you see on-screen isn't the first person who gets knocked off in the film.....), so that when you see Janet Leigh's character at the beginning, you have no idea what's going to happen.......

Another couple good horror films to peruse...."The Thing", "Ghosts of Mars", "The Fog"*, "Christine". *-the 1979 original, not the recently done remake

mlittle wrote: Another couple good horror films to peruse...."The Thing", "Ghosts of Mars", "The Fog"*, "Christine". *-the 1979 original, not the recently done remake

Good ones mlittle. It's a real pity that the remakes are mostly quite bad. The same goes for Diabolique. Since you haven't seen it, try to find the Criterion Collection DVD of Les Diaboliques.

mlittle wrote: Another couple good horror films to peruse...."The Thing", "Ghosts of Mars", "The Fog"*, "Christine". *-the 1979 original, not the recently done remake

All John Carpenter films!

How about "The Hitcher" particularly the scene where Rutger tears the girlfiend in half by stringing her between two Artic trucks. Particularly nasty and disturbing film.

The Ring (Original Japanese version)

A little less gruesome but brilliantly disturbing Terry Gilliams "Brazil"

And of course there is his exellent rendition of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky

Snowy wrote:How about "The Hitcher" particularly the scene where Rutger tears the girlfiend in half by stringing her between two Artic trucks. Particularly nasty and disturbing film.

Yeah. And speaking of disturbing... What about Spielberg's The Duel? No blood or gore at all but pretty decent thriller.

Snowy wrote:The Ring (Original Japanese version)

I believe it is called Ringu or something like that. Definitely better than the remake (maybe I should call it the Hollywood version).

Snowy wrote:A little less gruesome but brilliantly disturbing Terry Gilliams "Brazil"

And of course there is his exellent rendition of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky

Haven't seen yet. Some more titles to add to my shopping cart

I like Rutger's earlier (pre-1990) works more. He was really cyborg-ish in Blade Runner. Quite gruesome in Hitcher. Capable in Escape from Sobibor.

Don't flame me but I happen to like Blind Fury as well. One of Hauer's better performances in my opinion.

If memory serves he was in the most recent Batman movie too... Oh and also: Sin City.

gkaytaz wrote:I like Rutger's earlier (pre-1990) works more. He was really cyborg-ish in Blade Runner. Quite gruesome in Hitcher. Capable in Escape from Sobibor.

Don't flame me but I happen to like Blind Fury as well. One of Hauer's better performances in my opinion.

If memory serves he was in the most recent Batman movie too... Oh and also: Sin City.

No your right Blind Fury was actually watchable.

You've gone a little but I'm sure we'll be forgiven for lauding Sin City. What an incredibly brilliant film just showing that the grphic novel can be cast in celluliod. My favourite graphic novelist Alan Moore author of Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta has suffered terribly at the hands of Hollywood primarily because he won't have anything to do with the making of his films. He maintains that what he writes is specifically written in such a way as to make it impossible to work on film. That being the case he should really refrain from selling the film rights. Which is what I would do because The League of etc and V were exceedly bad films. But syaing that if Alan had actually helped out they'd have been watchable and probably moore (he he) people would be reading his novels.

Sorry about that way moment there.

How about "The Crow" and dare I mention Blade

The Brady Bunch Movie...

I have never recovered from that one!!!

Snowy wrote:

mlittle wrote: Another couple good horror films to peruse...."The Thing", "Ghosts of Mars", "The Fog"*, "Christine". *-the 1979 original, not the recently done remake

All John Carpenter films!

And they're films worthy of showing in the Lounge......all four of em'!!!

We shall have some beanbag chairs in the lounge; and a few coffee tables for our empty (soon-to-be-filled) glasses

mlittle wrote:

Snowy wrote:

mlittle wrote: Another couple good horror films to peruse...."The Thing", "Ghosts of Mars", "The Fog"*, "Christine". *-the 1979 original, not the recently done remake

All John Carpenter films!

And they're films worthy of showing in the Lounge......all four of em'!!!

Going once again but we could have a John Carpenter evening in the lounge just add "Dark Star" "Assualt on Precinct 13" and "Vampires"

We could sort of work our way up to the scarey stuff.

"Ghosts of Mars" Natasha Henstridge "Species" mmmmm I can honestly say I wouldn't mind being alien "Hensridge" fodder