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After all these great suggestions (and fantastic to see Rowan back in here) I feel it's crap to suggest this film but what the hell.

I still find Event Horizon to be one of the most disturbing films I've watched. The build up is good but it's that crew video that does it for me. That and the audio snippet they listen to and mistranslate.

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The Entity is worth a watch by the way, for a horror film.

Yeah, I really enjoyed this film. It worked for me because of the completely unpredictable plot surprises, rather than any particularly amazing filmaking or the nasty edge it had. Kept me on my toes til the credits rolled. Great shout.

For those who say you never feel scared - you remind me of my mum. She maintains that no film has ever so much as given her the creeps but if I forced her to watch something late at night with the volume up high I'm pretty sure she'd be a bit of a quivering mess a the end.

I remember watching the original Dark Water late, loud, near the telly and in total darkness. That fucking worked.

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Watching films late at night on a big screen with headphones does make all the difference to horror movies. I have spoken to people who slate things like Blair Witch for example, until I then find they watched it on a kitchen-sized TV over breakfast for instance :)

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After all these great suggestions (and fantastic to see Rowan back in here) I feel it's crap to suggest this film but what the hell.

I still find Event Horizon to be one of the most disturbing films I've watched. The build up is good but it's that crew video that does it for me. That and the audio snippet they listen to and mistranslate.

The first half of Event Horizon is superb. And then ... yeah I dunno. It turns into a different type of film altogether.

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I watched both the original Dark Water and Blair Witch in the cinema. So in the dark, on a big screen, and loud. I thought Dark Water was really good, and there were a couple of slightly scary parts. But definitely not 'quivering wreck' territory.

Blair Witch was boring until the very end (and I mean the last minute or so). Then just as I started to get interested, it finished.

Saw Event Horizon at the cinema too. Really enjoyed it. First half especially. But again, I didn't find it scary.

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Yeah, I hadn't seen Event Horizon until recently, and I wasn't really impressed by it as a whole. It did a good job of building up a Lovecraft-in-space atmosphere and then kind of blew it. But that's the classic Lovecraftian problem where you end up writing yourself out of a satisfying revelation by establishing that something beyond comprehension is involved. I think that's why I'm more affected by films where the horror lies in the mundane.

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I'll have to give it a rewatch then. I really wasn't impressed at all when it came out though.

I dismissed the film after watching it with my friends which didn't help. However, this sounds ridiculous but if you let go and let the atmosphere sink in, I found Blair Witch a really great film.

Also Lake Mungo is a great film too.

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marcus

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Short summaries of a few horror movies Ive seen of late.

I put my ratings out of 10 for what its worth, based on my enjoyment rather than how technically good/bad it is, I am probably easier pleased than most as horror is my favourite genre but I feel I can still recognize the shit from the decent :)

Contracted (2013) Young girl has a sexual encounter with a man at a party, picks up a very nasty 'STD' in the process. Film follows the days after the event and her deterioration. 6/10

As Above, So Below (2014) Shot in the catacombs of Paris, follows two archeologists as they try to find legendary treasure surrounded by evil. 7/10

Deliver Us From Evil (2014) Two NYC cops investigate murder cases which set them on a path towards the occult. 8/10

Jessebelle (2013) Girl involved in a serious car accident returns to her old home, and is haunted by the spirit of her deceased mother. 6/10

Afflicted (2013) Two backpackers on a dream trip around the world, one has an encounter with a girl who passes on a disease which provides superhuman effects, at a cost. 6/10

Willow Creek (2013) Found footage of two explorers trying to find Bigfoot. 5/10

The Seasoning House (2012) Brutal movie about young girls prostituted out to the military. 6/10

Oculus (2014) Girl trying to provide the existence of a supernatural phenonomenon to exonerate her brother. 7/10

The Possession of Michael King (2014) A man documents what he believes to be the world of fake exorcisms to expose them as frauds. 6/10

The Den (2013) Girl uses an online chat website to document social interaction over the internet, witnesses a murder and finds herself as the next target. 5/10

Dyatlov Pass Incident (2012) College students on a project to retrace the steps of a group of hikers discover an unspeakable evil. 6/10

Kristy (2014) Girl left alone in a large college for the holidays has to fight off mysterious hooded assailants. 6/10

Alien Abduction (2014) A family terrorised by what appears to be an alien invasion. 6/10

Skinwalker Ranch (2013) Investigation to Skinwalker Ranch - supposedly the subject of a UFO sighting whereby the ranch owner disappeared 6/10

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Rowan Morrison

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In a totally non-scary twist, but as it's sort of a scary film, I heartily recommend The Night Digger / Road Builder. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067486/

It's definitely creepy, but kind of relaxing as well, so if you like the British seventies oddball vibe you will probably...ahem...dig it.

I don't know why I haven't heard of this before, but the notion that Yootha Joyce plays a character named Mrs. Palafox has shifted it right to the top of my queue.

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The Flypaper is great. You can get most of the early amazing first three series Tales of The Unexpected on Youtube, and loads of the later series too. They are a bit more like Tales of That's Just What I Expected, but still wonderful. This one is my favourite from series one I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD9uUk7W1us

Joan Collins, Peter Bowles, John Gielgud...and some cracking lines. Plus creepy old Roald Dahl introducing it. Perfect.

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Neck is brilliant! I got the box set a couple of Christmases ago. Definitely worth it (certainly definitely worth receiving it as a gift), despite the later slide in quality. I think Flypaper is the only really scary one, though. I might allow Timothy West's performance in Royal Jelly. The Landlady is another candidate, but that's more camp than anything else.

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Rosemary's Baby is brilliantly creepy but you've probably seen that. Audition is a good shout, as is Tale of Two Sisters. The Orphanage and The Devil's Backbone also. Doesn't sound like anything will scare you though.

The Orphanage isn't scary as such - a few jump scares and some creepy off camera sound. It's a mystery who-done-it too. The ending, when the reveal starts and you realise what's happened is harrowing; I cried and had to pause it for ten minutes. If anything, it's just an excellent film rather than a 'good horror'. The final minutes are almost an apology for the film destroying your emotions. It's not 'shock horror' - it's tense and sad and deeply tragic.

I loved the Orphanage.

Del Toro tends to go for the theme that it isn't the supernatural that's evil, it's humanity itself and bad things can happen to good people. The Devil's Backbone exemplifies that more than any other of his wonderful films.

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I hardly ever watch horror films - certainly not at the cinema - but I made an exception with The Orphanage and it shat me right up, especially the bit with the old lady about halfway through. I'm a complete pussy. Brilliant, brilliant film though.

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I really hated Deliver Us from Evil, I don't know why specifically but it was really average and just a typical of that genre.

I've been reading the book it's based on- Beware The Night by Ralph Sarchie. It's an autobiographical book about his time in the NYPD where he also fought demons in his spare time.

I think it's fair to say Ralph is no stranger to the ways of bullshit.

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The new Woman In Black I thought was pretty average. Certainly not badly put together, but pretty standard stuff. Worth watching, I guess. For the most part I thought it was better than some of the films I mentioned above. Certainly a lot better than Insidious chapter 2, in that it actually had some atmosphere.

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Yeah, Annabelle has two proper scary moments in it.

Child runs across corridor towards housewife.

Lift in the basement garage.



Both of which are really well done but it's a bit weak apart from that. And the ending is terrible- and kind of dodgy as well when you stop and think about what's happened.

Then again I still think Paranormal Activity is a genuinely brilliant slice of scares and escalation. The repetition of that open door bedroom shot, the structure of night after night... although it depends on whether you can get past how annoying the main characters are.

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Yeah, Annabelle has two proper scary moments in it.

Child runs across corridor towards housewife.

Lift in the basement garage.

Both of which are really well done but it's a bit weak apart from that. And the ending is terrible- and kind of dodgy as well when you stop and think about what's happened.

Then again I still think Paranormal Activity is a genuinely brilliant slice of scares and escalation. The repetition of that open for bedroom shot, the structure of night after night... although it depends on whether you can get past how annoying the main characters are.

I've come to accept that *most* horror movies have bad/terrible endings, its usually about the journey rather than the destination I find. I too loved Para, i saw a teaser for it well over a year prior to its cinema release and avoided it for fear of spoilers, by the time it came out I had hyped it so much in my mind that it was unlikely to live up to expectations but I loved every minute of it. I enjoyed the rest but they get progressively poorer, by the time I got to the Kinect one it had lost most of its appeal unfortunatly. And Marked Ones was just terrible imo.

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