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We're talking about scary movies in another group of mine. 'Occult' stuff doesn't scare me much. Occaisionally they may get a 'startle' response, but that's about it. Don't keep me up nights.

Movies about real life psychopaths, those make me double check locks and react to every little noise outside.

i do owe japanese horror movies tho...it was by getting my daughter to watch the originals of movies like 'The Ring' and 'The Grudge' that made her realize she could get past subtitles and bad-dubbing to watch foreign films. That allowed me to introduce her to Akira Kurosawa movies.
The DVD of his 'Ikiru' even has some of the flaws from the original film on it, but the story grabbed her so hard she stepped away from the computer to watch closely. (That's when i know a movie has really engaged her.)
She would not have been open to it without watching those Japanese horror films first. We now have the original Thai version of 'Shutter' on our netflix list.

Gonna go with "The EXORCIST".

Silence of the Lamb scared me to death

I'm probably too picky but...in "Silence Of The Lambs"...there's a scene where Lecter, in transport, is locked up in a specially-constructed-just-for-him cage. The too-stupid-to-believe guards have to feed him. Despite all that taxpayers money spent on the cage, it doesn't seem to have a simple slot for a food tray so the guards must enter the cage to feed know-it-all Lecter who has armed himself with a ball point pen so he can extricate himself from the handcuffs. According to Hollywood, you can open handcuffs with just about anything like a ball point pen or a toothpick and circus performer hands. And how did Lecter acquire the pen? As he was bound and gagged and wrapped up like a mummy, he happened to notice it just lying there. So naturally, using his great mental powers, it came into his possession so he's able to open the handcuffs and overpower the two simpleton guards. No matter how scary the rest of the movie might claim to be, it's stuff like that that just drag it down too far for me to classify as frightening.

well that is true gollum but since there are predators in real life that prey on woman, I found the whole film frightening in its concept....but then again with your superior mind I can understand your fault finding

Psycho! I have never been able to get beyond the shower scene! Next is Silence of the Lambs.

i have to agree with gollum's nitpicking...it does detract from my movie experience when they do dumb things like that. (uch like the people who insist on going off alone in horror movies, or women who wear heels to unappropriate environments and then don't even have the sense to use the weapon potential of them. A friend of mine who taught martial arts and selfdefense always said women were lucky because we tend to have things on us like purse, heels that can be used as weapons.

But it has to be said gollum, that stupid mistakes are made in real life, there were victims after Bundy's excape from a building full of LEOs. Police officers sent a teen victim back home with Dahlmer.

Pamela, most men~~not all~~but most, do not get that fear factor for precisely that reason: They have not been the targets, the victims of choice as often as women and children have.

I am always nitpicking too so my son hates to watch movies with me as I am always saying stuff like gollum did. Scary for me would be any of the Chucky movies as it gives me the creeps to have inanimate things come to life, especially an innocent little doll that did such horribel things. It gives me chills now just thinking about it!

Yesterday my daugther and i watched 'Knowing'. Half way thru we started being snarky and sniping, something we usually reserve till the end, to see if they bring it all together and make sense. You have to understand we love that genre (scifi/horror/thriller--heck the kiddo writes apocalyptic fiction) and have often liked things the critics panned. But 'knowing' was as the DD said in her 'LiveJournal' blog: a colossal 'logic fail'. Like they left out the connective tissue from a long novel, or crammed 2 or 3 concepts together without really bothering to smooth the edges so the pieces fit well. Somewhere around the middle it just took a sharp turn and ceased to be raising interesting questions (like how far would YOU go to stop a catastrophe if you were convinced it was about to happen????) and started giving unsatisfying answers. Unsatisfying because they were a little a too vague in some ways and quite frankly silly in others. Aliens/angels--who cares? Unless their memories were wiped, they will carry bits of thoughts and feelings and tendencies from this 'cycle' into the next...what can be gained? Would not truly start anew???

What about Attack of Killer Tomatoes? LOL.....