My eyes are watering. Warning: skeery.

[stoney321]

Look. I love horror movies. LOVE. love scary stories, love it. Love that feeling of fear. It took me a few minutes to see it in this picture and then I jumped.





DO YOU SEE HER?

DO YOU SEE? (Note: it seems this picture was taken in the "Amittyville Horror" house and is something that "lived" there. Awesome.)

Ack! Took me by surprise, that's all. :) I'm watching Hellraiser later for some BDSM fun later, whee! ;)

Oooh, just because I'm booooored: scariest movies for me of all time, in order from least to scariest:

1. Psycho, and if this movie doesn't freak you out in places, even though it's old, you're not paying close enough attention. Seriously, though, when Bates is in the police station, smiling and that fly is crawling all over his hand and that voice over of "his mother?" Jeebus.

2. Poltergiest, again, I have no belief in ghosts. BUT. That clown! There's not a person around that's a Gen-Xer that isn't terrified of that clown in particular. And at the end when the mom is trying to get to CarolAnn and the room telescopes? GAH. Child in peril = I'm a mess.

3. Ils [Them], and I just saw this the other day. This is the French movie that "The Strangers" was based on, which I didn't see. Oh my GOD, this feels REAL. They have a hoax that "this movie is based on real events" but it's not.... really. The creepy noisemaker that one kid has and AUGH. Frighteningly awesome.

4. The Exorcist, the BOOK, mostly. Oh my god, it's the weird thing the demon does to her body, I'm not actually afraid of Satan, whom I don't believe in. Just... that crab walk on the ceiling?! (That's in the book.) Yeesh.

5. Rear Window, NO WAIT. No. Okay, that movie has one of the most terrifying moments in movie history, when Grace Kelly is across the courtyard looking for a ring, or any kind of evidence, and Jimmy Stewart is completely immobilized, LITERALLY paralyzed (from fear, too) and hiding in the shadows and Ray Bradbury looks straight across the courtyard and right through the binocular lenses and HE'S CAUGHT and oh my god, that gives me chills. God, that's a great movie.

6. The Grudge 2 (either version, and just this one scene) when she's attacked in her BED under her COVERS where you are supposed to be SAFE, oh my Jesus that I don't believe in, it's IN BETWEEN HER LEGS. Holy sheep shit. And that face appearing in the glass while she's riding down on the elevator??!?!

7. THE RING. Gah. The herky-jerky movements out of the TV, things that move fast that don't look like they'll move fast freak me the hell out, see: Zelda in "Pet Semetary" a so so movie, but Zelda with her creepy back and disease AUUUUUGH.

8. HANDS DOWN THE MOST FRIGHTENING MOVIE EVER. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. a) Most of it happens in the DAYTIME. b) The crack on the head with a ballpeen hammer, the guy twitching on the floor in death throes, and the SLAM of the corregated metal door. c) The girl tripping and landing on a killing floor, being HUNG UP ALIVE on a meat hook, being SHOVED INTO A MEAT LOCKER, STILL ALIVE and D) the most frightening bit in the whole damn thing: As the main girl is being chased by Leatherface, at one point she's running white-eyed and freaked RIGHT AT THE CAMERA. And you can see Leatherface GAINING on her. Which means he's gaining on YOU. Every time I see that scene I yell out, TURN RIGHT!! GO THAT WAY!!! Ahahahaha.

Okay, that's all I can think of on short notice, feel free to tell me yours. :) And now I'm not so freaked by that picture. I am, however, holding my hand over my computer screen to block it. Hee. <3


This post brought to you by my own boredom and refusal to do something constructive, like shampoo the carpets.

Comments

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

DO YOU SEE HER?

eeeeee! Oh, crap. Heh. I was like, see who, see who-- OH SHIT GAH. All the short hairs stood up.

I love that feeling, too. Thank you for sharing. :D

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HEEEEEEE. That's EXACTLY my reaction, too. I LOVE THAT FEELING!!!!

*smooch*

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

Wah I don't SEEEEEE anything!

It's probably just me. I could never see any of the three-d things in those shiny foil pictures at the mall either.

Fabulous list! Although I think you mean Raymond Burr in Rear Window? (But I do LOVE the idea of TERRIFYING HOMICIDAL RAY BRADBURY...)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

OKAY. You want to look for two glowing, beady eyes at the turn of the stairs. oh god...

Who did I say? Ahahahahaha, WHOOPS. I'll fix that, hee!!

[windstar.livejournal.com]

ooh, I really like that moment in Rear Window too. I am not a big horror movie fan, and I have that picture scrolled up so I can't see her...

Shampooing carpets is horrible and boring, that's why I hire someone to do it for me.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

That moment in Rear Window freaks me out every single time. People where they shouldn't be = ME SKEERD. :)

Bah, but I have a shampooer! I'm just bored - I've never been away from my kids in my house like this and I'm finding that I don't know what to do with myself...

[urbanberber.livejournal.com]

KHASGJLHKDFASD I just jumped. D:

I really don't scare easily, but The Descent (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/) absolutely terrified me. I think it was one of the best horror films I've seen in years... and I make a habit of trying to catch all of them. XD I agree with you on Psycho, ohgod.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

(Argh, you don't have to delete, it's okay! I screw up comments all the time. :D)

OH MY GOD HOW COULD I FORGET THAT ONE!!! I knew NOTHING about it, too. I thought it was a claustrophobia movie, which was scary enough, and then OH DEAR GOD WHAT IS BEHIND HER?!? Dang, that's a good one!

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Creeeeepy!! What the heck is that from?

Scariest for me is the original "The Haunting." When it turns out Julie Harris' hand is being held by a ghost or something. That entire movie I was on the edge of my seat.

"The Innocents" also freaked me out.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I just found it clicking around on the internet!!!!

You know, I don't think I've seen EITHER of those movies! What's wrong with me!? I'll add those post haste. (Ohh, I can't think of this one creepy Korean movie with two sisters and creepy periods and a something under the sink's cabinet - like, where a kickboard would be. It's TOO SMALL for a person how is she THERE?!?!?) Ack.

I'm going to Netflix RIGHT NOW. (Ooooh, and I should add the last few minutes of The Audition, too. That's more horrifying and gross than flat out scary, though.)

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I can't even bring myself to look at the picture. I AM A HUGE WEENIS.

I would have to say Poltergeist scared me the most, although I also got thoroughly traumatized by Candyman and The Ring and even The Blair Witch Project. My stupid overactive imagination gets the best of me on all these movies and it's scary times in my brain afterwards. I never even chanced Nightmare on Elm Street for fear I'd never be able to sleep again. Hee.

*hides behind you in the theater*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

IT CONTINUES TO SCARE ME. SAVE YOURSELF.

Oh my GOODNESS, the very very end of The Blair Witch Project SCARRED me - who didn't play those games, you know? And the creepy handprints, EEEEK.

Nightmare on Elm Street scared me so badly when I first saw it - it's so bloody, and I think that was the first "slasher" film I'd ever seen. Yikes.

LET US WATCH THE BOX CAT ON CUTE OVERLOAD TO FEEL BETTERS!

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Huh. I didn't see anything until you pointed out the lights glinting off the newel post. (I think that's what it is, really. Looks too solid for a ghost.)

By the way, why is your computer suddenly screening me? I've commented here before and never had that happen.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

It's not a ghost, it's a creepy girl peeking out of a dark room and I like to think she's some crazy evil that's been locked away AND NOW SHE'S OUT.

...not unlike jokes, it tends to not be scary when you have to explain. Eh.

I've been inundated with spam-bots, so I've had to screen everyone not on my flist.

[ann1962]

I saw it and I'm not going to look again. That was too freaky.

eeeeeee

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I CAN'T LOOK AT IT AGAIN, EITHER!!! YOW. :D

[toxic-corn.livejournal.com]

The Japanese version of One Missed Call has just recently deprived me of sleep. *shivers* The movies that scare me the most are the ones where the characters are living their normal lives when something terrible happens, they don't go LOOKING for trouble. Like in One Missed Call, their only crime is having a damn phone and in the modern world, you really do need one. Eep.

So I won't be looking at that picture (though I'm intrigued and part of me keeps whispering to "DOOOO IIIIIT") since I've finally managed to shake One Missed Call. Sleep is nice!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I don't know that movie, either! CLEARLY I have to add it to my viewing list. *rubs hands with glee*

[zhyvae.livejournal.com]

THAT PICTURE D: I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight. :(
But I love The Ring :) I don't know why, I am really really scared of that girl, yet somehow I like the movie a lot!

If I may recommend a horror film I watched recently and that is still getting me goose-bumps: Cannibal Holocaust. It is as bad as it sounds, but OMG D: Even simply thinking of it scares me. It's not so much old-fashioned horror but mainly gore and psychological stuff that really gets to your head... uhm. Just sayin' :D

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I PUT IT UNDER A CUT. I WARNED.

Oh, I love that movie, too! I love being scared, though. LOL, Cannibal Holocaust sounds like the sort of thing I'd love, too - I hope it's crappy and gory, those are my faves!

[darlas-mom.livejournal.com]

When I was about...oh, dear Lord, I was nine...The Dark Half (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106664/) scared me witless. My parents took me to see it at the drive-in, and you KNOW scary movies are ten times scarier when you see them at the drive-in!

I haven't seen it since then, so I'll bet it's lame now. But DUDE. So terrifying when I was young. I read the book when I got to be about fifteen or sixteen and really enjoyed it. But I am still traumatized by that movie, dude.

That one scene in Sleepy Hollow (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162661/) where Christopher Walken's zombified body stalks and then kills the little red-haired boy hiding under the floorboards? I almost screamed out loud. I so can't watch kids being hurt in movies and when he picks the boy up and he's screaming and his little legs are going--GAH. GAAAAH. I still don't know if the little boy is killed onscreen or not, because I always close my eyes and bury my face against something at the last second.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

You just hold on to those "it scared me then" moments if you want, because no, I don't think it would do anything to you now. :)

Or hey! Maybe watch them again so you can let go of that fear!

[dancetomato.livejournal.com]

Is a total weenis and proud of it.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Look at the size of your weenis, of course you should be proud!! HEEEEEE. <3 <3 <3

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh, that took me a while to see

I do have a crazy picture from the horror manga Uzumaki, though. It's about spirals (yes, spirals) taking over a town. Posted three pictures here (http://chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com/278759.html#cutid1)

PSYCHOOOOO

I really want to see Ils and some other new French horror films.

HORROR FILMS I HAVE LIKED
- Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) - 1959 French horror film about FACE TRANSPLANTS. What's really freaky about the transplant scene is that it's done so cold and soundtrack-less and aaack
- 28 Days Later - I like zombies, and I'm going to count this one in the category anyway, "infected" or not
- Carrie - I knew about the hand scene, but I screamed like a guy anyway
- A Tale of Two Sisters - The Korean film that the recent film The Uninvited is based on. East Asian psychological horror!
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1970's edition. THEY GET YOU IN YOUR SLEEP! Plus, the end scene.
- The Descent - I actually screamed at the monsters to "Get off her!" at one point, and I was near tears.
- Cannibal Holocaust - okay, it's hard to say you like a film like this, given what happens in the film, but this is true horror at what humans can do. It's exploitation that criticizes exploitation, and it used the characters-carrying-videocamera trick nearly a decade before The Blair Witch Project.
- Audition - starts out as a more bittersweet, dramatic version of a romantic comedy premise. But that's all setup for the madness to come.
- Let the Right One In - quiet Swedish vampire film that's definitely the anti-Twilight.

I got the taste for horror movies from my mother.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

DUDE, those pics!! That last one - yikes. Have you ever played the game "Fatal Frame?" That video game is so damn scary, it's not even funny.

I LOVED 28 Days Later! A TALE OF TWO SISTERS. I was talking about that in comments, but couldn't remember the name!!! Ditto on The Descent and Cannibal Holocaust, which... I am DEF. going to see that one!

I loved Let the Right One In. Absolutely beautiful (and horrible) movie. Audition is another one I mentioned in comments, too, lol. We clearly are on the same wavelength.

[chantal87.livejournal.com]

ooh I love the scary. I gotta tell you Poltergeist II really fucked me up. Because of this motherfucker right here. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/8476/rainkane2.jpg
I had reoccurring dreams about him for years.

and the picture you posted...made me pee a little.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

YA GONNA DIE IN THERE!!!!!

That's quoted often in my house, hahahahaha. I remember the pukin gof the tequila worm, GAH.

Seriously, M, that picture jacked me up I had to share to take away its power, lol.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Repulsion (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059646/). I do not do horror films, for reasons of being a wuss, but was manuvered into watching this one under the rubric of "it's really a French art film!"

The rabbit still haunts my dreams.

Julia,

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, it's a Polanski and I refuse to watch his movies because of the whole quaaludes for a 14 year old and the forcing of sex bit.

Looking at the topics it covers, though, yow. That looks like it would be a hard film to watch regardless.

[violethamster.livejournal.com]

That picture has always freaked me out. THANKS SO MUCH. I remember seeing it on TV years ago, it was supposedly taken in the Amityville Horror house.

Okay, now I'm trying to remember scary movie moments.

That unnatural, skittery movement in asian horror movies always creeps the heck out of me, I love it. Tale of Two Sisters has a good example, when the daughter is in bed and the ghost of her mom crawls out of the wardrobe. I nearly burrowed into my couch during that scene. In Ring 0: Birthday, Sadako does this weird breakdance move that makes me make a freaked out "arrrgghh!" noise out loud every time.

Scary noises really get me. The noise that Kayako makes in the Grudge movies. I would shit myself if I ever heard anything like that in real life. The original The Haunting, with those booming noises going down the hallway. And even though the Friday the 13th movies are pretty dumb, the "ch ch ch, ha ha ha" in the soundtrack gives me chills even from just sitting here typing about it.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

WAIT WHAT WHAT?! Oh, that makes it even better!! back when I was a believer in spirits and God and all of that, Ammityville Horror scared the mo'fu piss out of me. That stuff was REAL.

LOL, you're the third person I've talked with in comments about Tale of Two Sisters. I love my flist. That bit with the wardrobe, and then climbing up on the bed?!?!? And what about the thing under the sink cabinet? YOW.

Oh my god, I have a story about that Kayako noise. So I'm watching that with my friend, and we're up in the mountains. We finish it and are going to bed, and she hangs her hair in her face and makes that noise. I smack her, we go to bed, and again, she makes that noise just as I'm going off to sleep. BITCH!! Lol. Man, I love being scared.

I knew you'd be all over this! HI BB!

[bitchygrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh crap I saw her. Oh and yes I agree with most of your list. For me the part in TCM that gets me is when she runs through the plate glass window, because to me that is just the definition of terrified, that the thing chasing you is so awful that you don't hesitate to run straight through a huge piece of glass. I would also add the Hills Have Eyes series to that list, both the original and the re-make because 1) There is no escape and 2) Derek Mears scares me, period. I'm sure he's a lovely man but he scares me and really not much scares me. I loved Ils but wasn't scared by it. I wouldn't necessarily bother with The Strangers, Ils is much better, though tThe strangers has a really creepy ending. Umm Halloween,the original scared the crap out of me because the first time I saw it I was 15 and babysitting alone. I practically ran home. Oh did I mention it was Halloween. The new version isn't bad at all and but it's more sad than scary. Also the 1st Scream movie is scary, and Relentless with Judd Nelson is the reason I will never have a listed phone number, ever.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Nope, cannot do the remake of Hills Have Eyes - I found it to be offensive, and this is ME talking here, the one that never gets offended. (Woman issues, that's all.)

The first Scream movie! That was fun, esp. towards the end when you realize the tape is on delay. AHHHH!!!! <3 <3 <3

[copykween.livejournal.com]

Ohh, spooky chic! Took me a while to see it...I thought it was gonna be one of those trick pics where something pops out and screams LOL.

I recently watched "The Messengers," which wasn't an ok movie, but it was shudder-worthy because it featured a lot of those herky-jerky movements. No matter what I'm watching, that creeps right the fuck out!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I've just been told that the picture is evidently from the old Amityville House!! Creepiness to a factor of 10 now!

The messengers.... that sounds familiar. Herky-jerky movements will ALWAYS do me in, always. Gah!

[altyronsmaker.livejournal.com]

That pic=love. ahahah! I didn't jump, but I was like, "What is she talking about? See who?" then "WHOA! Holy crap! Stoney. Dayam."

Scariest movies? For I am a wuss in the extreme.

Exorcist. When Regan pees on the carpet and just has that beautific smile on her face. Gah! I can't. *shivers* something so mundane made demonic. *will have nightmares now*

Poltergeist. When the dude peels his face off in the bathroom. It's all in his head, but whoa. he. PEELED off HIS FACE!

The Ring. The bitch came crawling out the TV!!!!! I'm sittin' on the floor, in the dark, at my dad's watchin' this flick - bored! because really? - then she comes CRAWLING OUT THE TV!!!!! I was done. That was it.

The Grudge. That throaty noise. the freaky spindly hair that floated everywhere, the little black eyed boy who screamed like a cat and, well, the twisted freak that comes crawling down the stairwell making that thumpy, twisted sound, and the acccchhhhhhhhhh sound. No. Chelle is DONE, y'all.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Yeah - evidently it's from the original Amityville House, which makes it even creepier.

Eeek, that pee scene. It's horrific on so many levels, her poor mother just helpless and not knowing what's happening.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, you might want to avoid some of the comment threads, I'm just saying. :D

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

People/ghosts moving unnaturally gets me, whether it's the jerky movements of J-horror like Ju-On/The Grudge, or that bit in more classic American/Euro horror where you see someone gliding down a hall and you don't quite realize why it's unnatural until gliding clicks, and then they focus the camera on the feet that aren't touching the ground. (The Gentlemen in BtVS are a great exampl of this, but iirc, Ghost Story has one like that too.)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

YES YES YES. MP: Zelda. FReaking Zelda with the twisted spine in Pet Semetary! That's the scariest part in that whole movie, hands down.

Ooooh, the gentlemen freak me out. I love the one shot of Tara walking and all of a sudden there's movement behind her. GAH!

[essene.livejournal.com]

HEE! Thanks! I finally saw her there...creeptastic.

For a bit of fun have you ever seen this? The Cat with Hands *laughs evolly*

Also, for great jump factor I adore this movie: The Changeling.

There's something about the black hair, pale skinned creature/ghosties in the Ring and The grudge that just freak me the fuck out--more than regular old ghosts and zombies and such. I like that.


Also, I've been meaning to tell you...you're doing the time away from family thing WRONG. There's too much work going on in there. *hands you a tequila sunrise and a chick lit* Now go lie outside and get a tan.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, the Cat with Hands, hee!

I LOVE the concept of a Changeling - that's so damn freaky. I haven't seen that movie in YEARS.

I drank all weekend, I hurt my BACK. It's throbbing, so I can't do much but lay about. It's driving me bananas. :( I need massaging!!

[mumsisdaughter]

Wolf Creek--an Australian film about a sadistic rancher who brutalises three young backpackers. The cruelty is frightening enough but there's a twist at the end that makes me go 'ooer'.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I found that to be terrifying, too! And that has that "daytime is when you're safe" not happening-thing, too. :D Oy, that one threw me for a loop, just because it seemed so plausible how they filmed it.

[dovil.livejournal.com]

It's a demon ghost boy - JESUS! Give him a complex why don't you.

You saw the same show I did!!! Maybe!!! I saw the Amityville Horror debunking thingy in the weekend (as well?). Apparently the photos didn't turn up until three years after they were supposedly taken, and well me thinks they stuck one of their kids there and slipped it in. Such a big phony phone thing, but on the bright side they made a mint out of it and we got to see Ryan Reynolds in the remake with his shirt off. I think everyone won.

Okay, so now I've read properly you didn't watch the same thing, but quite frankly I'm too lazy to go back and re-write this comment. Plus The Ring, frecked the hell out of me - and it's twice as scary if you fast forward parts because she just COMES AT YOU FASTER! AHAHAHA!

My horrid fear of clowns is down to 'It', plus the fact that they're all child murdering perverts.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes to clowns. A) they are most likely pedophiles. b) What's with the grease paint, it's filthy stuff. c) It was SO FRIGHTENING until the 12 year old gang bang at the end and the turtle. HUH? you had me up to there, King, you had me up to there.

I've read about the debunking thing, too - I know what you're talking about. But that picture is still FREAKY. Ahahahaha at making the girl come faster. NO NO NO!!!! :D

[69512.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is freaky. She SEES you.
Totally agree about that scary clown in Poltergeist. Couldn't stand toy clowns after that. The movie that scared me the most was The Shining. I can vividly remember the little boy on his Hot Wheels going down the corridors and those creepy little girls. ICK!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

YES YES YES!! it's that she's looking RIGHT AT YOU. Gah!!

Oh my GOD, how could I forget The Shining!?! That movie is absolutely TERRIFYING.

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

SCREAMS AND SCREAMS

Like Killa, the hair on my arms stood up.

SCREAMS MOAR.

I find it interesting that you mention that scene from The Grudge 2, because that really stuck w/ me, too, but not just the bed, the whole concept of that movie and Ringu, which is that there IS NO ESCAPE. This is a premise in Japanese horror that American horror doesn't usually replicate. The very concept really fucks with my head.

Ok, and I see we have the same reaction to the frame removal technique (which is what they used to do to get that jerky effect, but I don't know if that's still the case). IT FREAKS ME THE FUCK OUT.

I'm not much for horror movies because I overthink it, but I do find Japanese ones the scariest (see above). Paranormal horror has always scared the the most because it's inexplicable and the rules that govern the paranormal are by their very nature different from our own.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

KASS SHE IS LOOKING INTO YOUR SOUL. (Oooh, now I want to watch The Evil Dead 2)

Jesus, it's just... you're supposed to be SAFE under the covers, and her wicked, evil face is peering up at you while she crouches between your KNEES. Christ. God, I love that - and yeah - it fucks with your head because SURPRISE NO SAFETY NET. I love when movies go where I don't think they're going. Nothing pisses me off more than a dog bring saved, a kid being saved, something that would NOT HAPPEN IRL, also, lol you can't outrun the sun, The Mummy. That one made me laugh for days on end.

Do you remember that scene from Pet Semetary? The movie over all is pretty cheesy and predictable, and then BAM, creepy, ill sister that moves to the camera in a serpentine way super super fast and she's an invalid. GAH. I love that.