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Of course you will.
I know that Emily Rose is based on a German exorcism. The exorcism I listed is where "The Exorcist" author got the idea from.
Of course you will.
Marklar, "The Exorcist" is based on a Maryland exorcism. I think everyone knows that. Do you have a link that says otherwise. If so, I would question the source because I've seen do entaries of the real exorcism that took place in Maryland and that inspired the book. The iden y of the child -and location- was changed to protect the boy.
i consider myself somewhat of a connessiour of horror movies
and every horror movie for the last 4 or 5 years has sucked ass
There's horror and then there is scary. The Ring is the scariest movie I have ever seen. It was excellent. If by horror you mean Freddy Kruger chops up teenagers crap, that stuff is pure trash. Any 6th grader could write that garbage and any 5 year old could understand it. You can keep that .
they're the same...nightmares on elmstreet 1 was more scarier than the ring
See, people don't realize, the major thing that makes today's scary movies scary, is today's incredibly bad ass soundsystems.
Take M Night Shamamalyan, or the Ring for example. In M's movies, theres long, drawn out silence, then loud ass shreiking fast pulsing sounds, that get the audience scared to . In teh ring, when that stupid at the beginning is all where are you where are you, her death is accompanied by a very loud, quick sound.
Horror movies have been doing this since the advent of DVD's. Back in the day, they relied on physical methods of scaring you.
re-watch horror movies from this era, you will see alot of them use the sound technique
BTW there's also the densensitization issue, all the blood and guts and gore of Nightmare 1 was very scary back then, and when u watch it you have to put it in context. today's society is so desensitized that we can't even comprehend old people telling us that Bonnie and Clyde's ending scene was the most horrible thing they had ever seen (also very contraversial for its time)
so i guess the directors kinda have to rely on stupid like loud noises to scare people now, but this effect will wear off too.
I provided a link that shows that The Exorcist was roughly based on the Maryland exorcism. I said they changed the person from a boy to a girl. Changed names were implied.
"The true story began in January 1949 and involved a 13-year-old boy named Robbie who lived with his parents and grandmother in Mt. Rainier, Maryland. "
I was informing others who did not know this. And there was a History channel/TLC show on Thursday about this particular exorcism, and had The Exorcist's author on it.
It's not about the sound. It's about the story lines. Scary movies targeted toward teenagers have weak story lines if any and are really just centered around chopping people up in gruesome ways. They are based on gore and the acting and writing is almost always terrible. It's the lowest common denominator in film making.
Movies like The Ring, 6th Sense, The Omen, and The Exorcist are smart, well-written, well filmed, well acted, have intriguing storylines and don't insult the intelligence of the viewer. These movies stick in your head and scare you long after you have watched them. For me, The Ring, especially had that effect. Just the scene of the girl coming out of the well sends shivers up my spine. There is also almost no blood in that movie. Nightmare on Elmstreet stuff just grosses people out. That's easy and cheap entertainment.
Exactly. Resident Evil for example. No gore whatsoever, would have made a better movie.
Event Horizon
Psycho
Poltergeist
The Shining(Nicholson)
are a few good ones.
I'm not much for scary movies and got drug to this one.
But i want to comment on the "older movies are better" theory.
So what if your desensitized to stuff? I guarandamntee that if you watched todays scary movies back in the 70's/80's whenever, they would have scared the out of you more.
Children of the corn and Nightmare on elm street haunted me for a long time when i was young but there basically comedies after something current. Who cares HOW they scare you? Really?
you cant lump nightmare on elmstreet 1 and 2 with all the others. The first two had a good director (wes craven i think). While the first two did have blood and gore they weren't the chop happy you're thinking of...those did not come until later.
Scary movies targetted towards teenagers?
The sixth sense, omg are you serious? we are talking about SCARY movies, no? A movie with Haley Joel Osment is about the furthest thing from scary i could ever imagine. Plus he used the sound technique like no OTHER in that movie (m night uses this technique so much i almost walked out in that movie with mel gibson when those lame ass aliens were killed by ing water)
I wont deny sixth sense was a good movie, but i wouldn't call it scary in the least....
You make a good ponit with the omen and the exorcist.I love the Omen I. Very subtle and clever movie.
I never said older movies are better, i said horror movies of this generation suck ass, and i think the storylines are nig weak, they have to rely on lame devices like quick flashes of darkness and then a shadow accompanied by a super boomingly loud noise on the bad ass theatre sound system.
Of course today's movies would scare older generations, probaly make them throw up and run out of the theatre too
The Ring scared me as did the first time I watched The Blair Witch project...but the headache sucked.
The Excorcist, when watched when it orginally came out was one bad ass scarey movie to me.
The Shining was also great but the book was even better.
btw, if you watched the ring at any point in your life, then watched it years after, do you really think it would have the same lasting effect? in the end, all scary movies become "comedies" if you wanna put it that way.
to me, it does matter how they scare me. its high on my list.
I saw the Exorcism of Emily Rose yesterday afternoon. I thought it would be scarrier than it was, but I still wasn't really dissapointed. The whole believing and not believing in demons and such was really interesting. It was and average to good movie, but if you're looking for a scarefest I wouldn't recommend it.
The books are always better.
If someone offered to pay me $1000 to watch this movie..............I still wouldn't watch it. Can't Be Faded...I don't know how you have gotten yourself immune to all these scary movies. I, on the other hand, completely refuse to watch a scary movie....be it Freddy Kreuger....the Ring............the Exorcist.
I get scared -less very easily!
I can't believe how many people were scared by The Ring. IMO, that movie blew. Some of the visuals the showed were kind of creepy, but I wouldn't say any of those were scary. I can't think of a movie that has scared me since I watch the first Exorcist when I was about 8. The third Exorcist scared me when I was young but I can't see any movie scaring me ever again. I guess I've lost the ability to suspend reality.
Those were scary to me bc those two scenario's somehow seemed more realistic in a way than most didn't. While i watched it i imagined things were happaning that weren't. When i rewatch a modern movie that scared the out of me, i still KNOW what's happaning yet the sound and techniques still scare the out of me again.
Why the do you watch these types of movies if your mainly interested in the plot? Seriously, thats about as bad as complaining about the plot of a cheap porno but one that really turns you on. Do they not do the job there intended too? When people say they like certain types of comedy, say a deeper, frasier type humor, if they laugh there ass off at something sophmoric loaded with fart jokes, Dumb and Dumber?, they only thing that makes them say they didn't enjoy it is there pride.
But back to the original comment you had. Take your niece, nephew whatever that likes scary movies and find them an older one that they haven't seen.
Its like prying them away from San Andreas to stick Frogger in front of them. Go ahead, tell me that it was initiative, a groundbreaker whatever.
When i'm giving out pioneer awards maybe i'll remember that but till then i'll take the more enjoyable selection which is USUALLY the newer one.
The Ring was lame. It was so fake that I never even got the least bit scared.
If a movie does make me keep one eye open in bed that night, it blows as a horror movie.
The Exorcist was the scariest movie in the history of the movies...I could not sleep at all the night I watched it and still to this day will not even look at it for 10 secs, when I am flipping channels and I see it is on HBO.
The first time I saw the ring, I wasn't really freaked out till that chick came through the TV screen. Other than that it just was interesting, not scary.
The last scary movie I saw that kept me up at night was The Grudge. I wouldn't go near my cat all night and i swear i kept seeing that damn boy all in the shadows of my room
Now that is scary.
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