Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:46 pmi forgot about them Barry good call,The omen when i first saw it shat me up too,and those bloody evil dogs
You great big bunch of nancies!!!!!
And Jmac - you utter girl!!!!!
I haven't been scared by a film for years! Some make me jump, but I think I'm more or less past the "can't sleep through fear" stage!!!!!
The scariest films I've ever seen, together with the age (about) I watched them at:
The Boogeyman (3/4 years old at most). I absolutely crapped my pants for weeks after watching that bloody thing. It must have been on at about 4 in the afternoon aswell!!!!! I hated that - he had snot and bogies for a face. Unnerving stuff that.
Childs Play. (5-7) Can't remember exactly how old I was, but I watched it with my older Brother and his girlfriend in the dark. I had real problems getting past the fear that evoked!!!
Nightmare on Elm Street (5-8?) I can't remember which one it was, but I know I regretted agging my brother to let me watch it!
IT (10-ish) When it came on TV (in three parts). I was watching it alone in my bedroom - not a good idea.
The most frightening things for me were the realistic programmes. I know it's not a film, but "London's Burning" had me crapping my pants about fire for years. It used to be on on a Sunday night, and I was seriously terrified by it. I used to have to check every light switch about ten times, and devised my own escape route (which involved climbing out onto the kitchen roof and jumping down on to the coal bunker, then the grass!!!!!).
It's always been the same with me - if something can happen realistically then I'd be scared.
Terminator I and II really had me worried. The prospect of a nuclear war for someone who's scared to buggery by fire is very disturbing. (Think Sarah Conner scene where she goes to the playground fence in her dream and the bomb lands.)
The best horror recently was "Descent" - if your a bit wimpy, don't watch it - seriously. Then "The Ring", and thats about it.
"Jeepers Creepers" was and is the biggest pile of horse sh*t ever made, "Saw" was a total letdown (I watched it the other day) - OK, but nothing like I was hoping, and the less said about "Scream" the better.
The best horror films ever (IMO) are the "Hammer Horrors" though. For my money Peter Cushing was a damn fine actor, and whether he played the hero or the villian, he was always fantastic. I know they're very dated and cliched now, but remember that the stories and plots were all origional back then, and what we now view as a cliche, was being done for the first time in these films. Utter brilliance. I used to love it when they were on the TV every Friday night at about 1.35am!!!!! Magic!
