HI All,
Yes, you are right. I remember seeing "The Birds" (as an adult) and never regarding my parrot the same way again. Just kidding, of course. But still........... I looked him square in the eye and asked if he could really do that. All I got was a squawk.
Has anyone seen Paranormal Activity 3 ? Any different from the first 2? Scarier? Produced for $5m and had an opening day sales of $54m! Must be something different...
I watched The Unborn a couple of nights ago. It had a PG-13 rating so I let our daughter watch with us. Now how in heck could this movie had just a PG-13 rating? I suppose seeing a breast demands an R but gore and violence like a knife weilding 4 year old stabbing a co-ed doesn't? Sheeesh. Gary Oldman played too small a part in this film. Too bad. I got the BD because of him. All in all it had it's jolting moments. Not too bad.
We watched Rango immediately after. That settled my daughter down.
I watched The Unborn a couple of nights ago. It had a PG-13 rating so I let our daughter watch with us. Now how in heck could this movie had just a PG-13 rating? I suppose seeing a breast demands an R but gore and violence like a knife weilding 4 year old stabbing a co-ed doesn't? Sheeesh. Gary Oldman played too small a part in this film. Too bad. I got the BD because of him. All in all it had it's jolting moments. Not too bad.
We watched Rango immediately after. That settled my daughter down.
Jack, I usually 'screen' such movies first before recommending or watching them with my teen kids. In the first place, both are a bit averse to themes like these. In our house each of them would run down to find us when they suddenly realize they're alone. Girl's threshold would be Twilight movies and my teen boy told me he couldn't sleep well after watching SAW 1.
I totally skipped the entire SAW franchise even if I like Donny Whalberg's acting. Too much for me. The gore fests from my youth like Friday the 13th, Halloween and Elm Street are like Barney the Dinosaur by comparison. Other horror BDs I have on deck are The Crazies, Paranormal Activity 1 and 2, and Clive Barker's Book of Blood. Barker was as twisted as they came even then (Hell Raiser). I'm having second thoughts about watching this film.
Monster movies don't creep me out at all. Ghost/Possession movies however...........
Scariest of all are the types of horror movies based on non-supernatural baddies. As a kid I never had nightmares about ghosts or monsters. I vividly remember some nightmares where I was watching vapor trails of ICBMs headed down to earth. Childhood during the Cold War was interesting huh?
Well, Saw 1 was the least gory of them all, the succeeding ones are overdone, imo. At least Saw 1 had a plot the unwinds throughout the whole movie. To me, demonic possession movies are the scariest, and I have realized these at a latter point in my life. A friend told me there was even a Discovery series on exorcism that I refuse to even dig out in the net.
The Rites wasn't very scary. The Unborn which is also an exorcism flick, albeit based more on Judaism rather than the usual Catholicism, was scarier. The movie I am seriously avoiding is The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Ain't no way I'm watching that!
The Rites wasn't very scary. The Unborn which is also an exorcism flick, albeit based more on Judaism rather than the usual Catholicism, was scarier. The movie I am seriously avoiding is The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Ain't no way I'm watching that!
Emily Rose was the one that ended my interest in these kinds of movies. There was a scene where at like 3am there was the habitual possession of Emily and the music/sound was the scariest I've heard. Then, when I slept that night, I DREAMT about that scene it was almost like it was happening inside my room and I woke up thinking the you know what was beside me! My heart pounded and I had cold sweat and it was just around 12 midnight when I woke up to that nightmare. The buck stopped there.
The Rites wasn't very scary. The Unborn which is also an exorcism flick, albeit based more on Judaism rather than the usual Catholicism, was scarier. The movie I am seriously avoiding is The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Ain't no way I'm watching that!
My college freshman son told me that last week, an English Literature teacher brought in a DVD of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and showed the film to the class as he dimmed the lights and turned on the projector. My son, was in front row, and he couldn't sleep that night. And they had to make a movie report on the film. Horrors.
The Fog was quite intense. All of the scenes in Magic with the ventriloquist and the dummy talking to each other are nightmarish. The child collector in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was no picnic either.
