lilg
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Post by lilg on Sept 4, 2002 8:15:09 GMT -5
Many of my friends (the ones who's seen Ring 1) are thinking about watching Ring 2. I'm just going along with whatever they choose
I pictured Sadako while reading your post and was so freaked out. Had I been that girl, I would probably choose the nut house as well. Didn't you think it was so scary in the first one where the mother woke up to find her son watching the tape? And when she questioned him why he was watching it, he said something like "Big sister told me too" - meaning the dead girl? Arrgghhh, the look on his face was really alarming.
But if you say it's not as scary as the first one then I suppose we can handle it. I'm gonna suggest it to them next time we have our horror-movie night.
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Post by KoNeko on Sept 6, 2002 4:03:59 GMT -5
Nah, not as scary because they show Sadako and there's this other chick in it with shoulder-length hair who is like Sadako's reincarnate and you see her face. I think the scary thing about Ring is that you don't know what Sadako looks like, and how she does the "evil eye" thing. In Ring 2, Yoichi does the evil eye on this guy who tries to do psychology test things on him, and you see an actual shot of Sadako, so it's not that scary because they took away some of the freakiness that was established in the first one.
But yeah, the bit in the first one when Yoichi was watching the video, and when his mum wakes up it's at the end with the shot of the well, and he's just sitting there watching it- scary. And hey, you know how he said "big sister" told him to do it? Do you remember the time in the first movie when they're at her house (the girl that died) for a funeral or something, and Yoichi is in her bedroom (where she died) and his mum comes in and asks him what he's looking at and who he's talking to, and he's like, "Big sister is there" and he points to what is apparently nothing. He's a creepy kid!!
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Post by KoNeko on Oct 2, 2002 10:21:21 GMT -5
Hey, has anyone seen that new movie (well, new in Oz) about the people that play with the Ouija board or something and then they die? Is that supposed to be a scary movie? I can't remember what it is called, though.
I was just asking because when I was younger, I had a stint with my teenage friends and a Ouija board.
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Post by max on Oct 3, 2002 22:24:51 GMT -5
You know... I can't watch scary movies anymore.... not because I'm afraid-- but beacause I think they're really funny... I'll be cracking up and everyone else is all scared and can't figure out what's funny.. my morbid sense of humor, I guess..
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Post by KoNeko on Oct 7, 2002 3:21:03 GMT -5
Lucky you, Max. I'm such a wuss!!
Oooh, back to my Ouija board story for a second- this is kind of amusing, and not scary at all- when we were doing the seance thing, I asked the "ghost" if it knew my dead turtle Ernie, and it said yes. Someone else asked if it knew her dead grandfather, and it said no. And then we asked it what job one of my other friends was going to have when she grew up, and it said 'Airline stewardess", but spelt completely wrong.
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Post by KoNeko on Oct 21, 2002 9:46:32 GMT -5
Grrrr! I can't believe Hollywood is already making a movie of Ring- aka. "The Ring"! I saw the ad and it doesn't look half as scary as the original one did!
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Post by Calantha on Nov 1, 2002 15:41:51 GMT -5
I saw the Ring...I was up all night long, didn't sleep more than a half an hour last night, and today I had exams...god was that awful! I went to the theaters...thinking...Oh, let's get scared on Halloween! Argh...why do I put myself through this? After I dropped my friend off, I could hardly drive home, I was so scared...okay, so I'm a wuss...but still, it was awful...and then I went out with my other friends, and we watched Physco at this old movie theater place, and by the time I got home I went to my room, which has a lot of windows...and I was so paranoid...it was awful. I shouldn't put myself through that crap.
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Post by KoNeko on Nov 20, 2002 4:07:59 GMT -5
Glargh. I can't bring myself to see The Ring, even if has that silly horse in it.
Has anyone seen Donnie Darko? Does that count as a scary movie? The rabbit (Frank) in it was kinda creepy.
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Post by lilg on Nov 22, 2002 8:56:09 GMT -5
I saw it today Kono! And I did the exact same thing as in the Jap version, I had my eyes closed and ears blocked for almost half the movie. I'm such a wuss because even though I knew what coming and such, I was still really freaked out. In a way it's much scarier than the Jap version...well except for the television scene which didn't freak me out as much as the Jap one did - but then, I had my eyes half closed so I couldn't really see much.
You definitely should go watch it. They kinda deviated from the original storyline just a bit and unlike the original, there wasn't much of an explanation as to where the daughter ((forgot her name)) got her powers from. Though, I did found the Jap explanation rather weird, it was still an explanation nonetheless . Still, go see it!
And the horse scene was so sad...and kinda funny.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 11, 2003 5:53:44 GMT -5
Stephen King's Dreamcatcher. It's probably been out for a little while in the States, but we just got it here in Australia. The ad on TV for it is kinda creepy, there's a bit when I guy is looking at something and then the next second his face is all warped and his eyes are all freaky. I haven't seen the movie yet at the cinema, but yeah, I was wondering if anyone has?
The scariest movie of all time is still Ring (the Japanese version), and then maybe the Blair Witch Project.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 11, 2003 8:05:25 GMT -5
I went and saw Final Destination 2 the other week. It's meant to be a scary movie and I laughed most of the way through it. It just seemed more funny to me than scary with the way all these people were dying and stuff. Was pretty cool though I guess special FX wise, and the theory it was based around did make you think. But I think that peole who took it a little too seriously would spend the rest of their lives looking for signs of getting killed.
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Post by En on Aug 30, 2003 11:32:19 GMT -5
Goofy thing about Blair Witch; I didn't rank the movie all that highly in the end, myself, but it has made me acutely aware of when music is and is not used in every other film I watch.
It did use a lot of the Horror Forms in interesting ways -- you know, the elements that are used over and over in different ways in most horror stories. Like, how we never see the bad guy(s). Dividing and conquering the good guys. The dilapidated house hidden in the forest. Strange symbol recurring. That kind of thing. Really, it was a film about guerilla warfare; the evil force picked them off slowly and demoralised them to the point of no return.
The annoying thing is that as much as I like the genre, there aren't terribly many accepted superstitions anymore, so horror films almost have to be about government conspiracies or reclusive murderers for people to be able to suspend their disbelief. It really takes the wind out of some great classics like The Exorcist.
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Post by Calantha on Aug 30, 2003 14:43:47 GMT -5
The Blair Witch Project made me have a killer headache. The way it kept on moving around. So I wasn't focusing on the movie too much and had to keep on leaving the theater room so I didn't get sick. I remember the hype about it when it was coming out here. And it was this really big thing, like everyone just had to see it...because it was going to be this spectacluar horror film. But I didn't like it very much...okay, partially because it was so bumpy...I like the idea of it...just not when it was put into action. The little reoccuring symbols though became a big joke though, with my friends and I...so for that Halloween we recreated our own Blair Witch Project at my friend's farm because she owned a horseback riding place and they had these great woods. But I will say, that I saw it a little while ago and it manged to make me feel very on edge going to sleep. But then again, most movies make me feel like...
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Post by KoNeko on Sept 1, 2003 0:27:29 GMT -5
Ahhh, I had advance screening tickets to Blair Witch and they did the whole scene setting thing at the cinema before you went in, like, they plastered the wall with "Missing:" posters and they made those scarecrow things, and they put the bloody handprints on the walls. So yeah, I was a bit more hyped about it than probably you were when you saw it, Cal, but still, the camera work really got to be after a while. But it was an interesting way of shooting a film, directly and completely from the protagonists' perspective. I'll give them that much. Hey, one guy down the front actually threw up during the movie, when they did the running thing, and then again when they found the bag of teeth.
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I saw a Japanese film yesterday called Battle Royale, and while it's not strictly a scary movie, there were pretty gory bits in it. Basically the story was that in Japan every year a class of high school kids would be selected to go to a deserted island and duke it out with a vast array of weapons until there was one survivor. So, this 9th grade class got chosen, and they were sent out onto this island. They had these necklace things put on them to register their movement and pulse etc. The other thing was that they couldn't take the necklace off or it would explode, and if there were designated "danger zones" (they got maps so they knew the coordinates) at different times and if you were in one, you'd explode. Oh! And there was a 3-day time limit on it, so if there was more than one survivor after three days... everyone explodes.
So, when you send about 40 15-year-olds out into the sticks with minimal provisions, weapons (or various objects) varying from shotguns to scythes to GPS machines to saucepan lids, and this barbaric overarching "you must all fight to the death" mentality, people naturally go crazy. There were some who took it seriously, turned on their friends and killed them, and those that decided that hanging themselves or jumping off cliffs was better than getting shot by a friend or exploding at the neck, and then those that just ran like hell.
And it got me thinking- what would I do if I were in that situation? Would I make it? And then I thought of these kids all turning onto each other, and, really, is that a reflective view of society? If we were fighting for survival, would we be hunters or runners? And the more I thought about it, the more I realised that in such an extreme situation, you'd be hard-pressed trying to find someone that you could really trust. And that's the scary bit.
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Post by Sphi on Sept 1, 2003 0:43:53 GMT -5
I've watched Battle Royale before! I liked it (well, maybe not the ending...that was stupid ), although I would call the movie more disturbing than scary. The whole idea was disturbing enough, and then whoever made the movie had to add things like the introductory video with the happy lady explaining the "game."
My brother said that the gore looked very unrealistic, which is why the movie isn't really scary. But I was still disturbed the way some of the people reacted to the situation. There was that one girl (I can't remember any of their names anymore ) that was like a crazed slut who killed a bunch of boys while they were taking a bath or something. And there was that one guy who volunteered to join the game. Very disturbing.
Neko, I also found myself wondering which one I would be. I figured that I would be like that girl who was hiding in the shack and ended up shooting the boy who just wanted to talk to her and tell her that he liked her all along. See, I think I would become very paranoid and start to distrust everyone, but I would end up regretting a lot of things I didn't do in the past.
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