I want a scary movie

[Golden_Shores]

I remember being in Paris & seeing the Blair Witch before it opened in the UK. I knew nothing of the movie or the hype around it & it freaked the hell out of me!
Very simple, clever movie.

The allure of the movie, in my opinion, was not really knowing whether or not it was real.  You're absolutely right... it was scary because it was so simple.  This is something I've heard many times:  scary movies try to do too much!  And they do!  What you don't see is far freakier than what you do see.

[primushead]

Anyone ever seen 'the last house on the left"?  It was a wes craven movie i think...it's real gross and fucked up though.

[Spider_Beard]

Finding Nemo  :(

[fitzcarraldo]

Seriously disturbing:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00009W0U4/ref=dp_product-image-only_0/002-5144364-2482427?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=507846&s=dvd

[Chills]

For those that thought The Blair With Project was scary, here is some seriously disturbing stuff, and obviously a big inspiration.


Cannibal Holocaust (1979)

While Umberto Lenzi began the Italian-made cycle of brutal Amazonian cannibal horrors with Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio and effectively ended it with the nauseating Cannibal Ferox, it was Ruggero Deodato who directed the subgenre's most enduring film.
This popular bloodbath features a fetus ripped from a woman's body, people fed to piranhas and impaled on spikes, a genuine tortoise-flaying, and numerous other indignities, both real and simulated.
The plot concerns the efforts of a group of American explorers to discover the fate of a missing documentary film crew.
They receive a scratchy film-reel containing the bloody truth from a tribe of tree-dwelling natives, and the reel's contents make up the bulk of the film. Advertisements claimed that "the crew who filmed it were actually devoured alive by cannibals," yet most of them were spotted alive in future unsavory gore films.

While the film is undoubtedly gruesome enough to satisfy fans, its mixture of nauseating mondo animal slaughter, repulsive sexual violence, and pie-faced attempts at socially conscious moralizing make it rather distasteful morally as well. The fact that the film's sole spokesperson for the anti-exploitation perspective is played by porno star Richard Bolla should give an indication of where its sympathies lie.

By the end of the film, the violent (literally and aesthetically) images leave viewers with an unshakable sickness that they won't soon forget. Composer Riz Ortolani's score effectively moves from a familiar, somewhat pensive melody into harsh tones that make viewers actually feel the violence they bear witness to onscreen. This is not a film that is watched, it is a film that is endured, and audiences that have any doubts about their ability to do so are best advised to follow their instincts.

[Spider_Beard]

For those that thought The Blair With Project was scary, here is some seriously disturbing stuff, and obviously a big inspiration.


Cannibal Holocaust (1979)

While Umberto Lenzi began the Italian-made cycle of brutal Amazonian cannibal horrors with Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio and effectively ended it with the nauseating Cannibal Ferox, it was Ruggero Deodato who directed the subgenre's most enduring film.
This popular bloodbath features a fetus ripped from a woman's body, people fed to piranhas and impaled on spikes, a genuine tortoise-flaying, and numerous other indignities, both real and simulated.
The plot concerns the efforts of a group of American explorers to discover the fate of a missing documentary film crew.
They receive a scratchy film-reel containing the bloody truth from a tribe of tree-dwelling natives, and the reel's contents make up the bulk of the film. Advertisements claimed that "the crew who filmed it were actually devoured alive by cannibals," yet most of them were spotted alive in future unsavory gore films.

While the film is undoubtedly gruesome enough to satisfy fans, its mixture of nauseating mondo animal slaughter, repulsive sexual violence, and pie-faced attempts at socially conscious moralizing make it rather distasteful morally as well. The fact that the film's sole spokesperson for the anti-exploitation perspective is played by porno star Richard Bolla should give an indication of where its sympathies lie.

By the end of the film, the violent (literally and aesthetically) images leave viewers with an unshakable sickness that they won't soon forget. Composer Riz Ortolani's score effectively moves from a familiar, somewhat pensive melody into harsh tones that make viewers actually feel the violence they bear witness to onscreen. This is not a film that is watched, it is a film that is endured, and audiences that have any doubts about their ability to do so are best advised to follow their instincts.

 :D

[dragonboy]

Cannibal Holocaust was the most famous of the "video nasties" that all got banned & disappeared for a few years in the early 80's.
Last House On The Left that Primus mentioned was another.
Cannibal Ferox, I Spit on Your Grave etc.
Most have been released again now & look pretty tame by todays standards but I've heard that Cannibal Holocaust is pretty fucked up.

[Chills]

Advertisements claimed that "the crew who filmed it were actually devoured alive by cannibals," yet most of them were spotted alive in future unsavory gore films.

Yeah, it's pretty fucked up indeed.
But I really liked this quote anyway!

[Clarkwork]

Hey Baxter, did you see where the director of Audition is supposed to be the director for the new Halloween movie?  That should be interesting.

[CC]

Hey Baxter, did you see where the director of Audition is supposed to be the director for the new Halloween movie?  That should be interesting.

it will definitely be interesting if he gets creative freedom to do what he wants but I doubt it, hollywood will be hollywood.