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Scary Films you just can not watch alone
Anyone on here who cant watch horror films on there own ? Does anyone just feel there heart racing and you end up covering your eyes:D
I tried watching Grave Encounters 1 on my own then as soon as the weird stuff started happening i turned it of. But i did end up watching it with my friend then moved on to No.2.
Blair witch Project i was 17 when i 1st watched as i had never saw it before.. i got half way through and just couldnt so i called my friend over to watch it with me.
But for me a film that can do that its done its job imo.
I tried watching Grave Encounters 1 on my own then as soon as the weird stuff started happening i turned it of. But i did end up watching it with my friend then moved on to No.2.
Blair witch Project i was 17 when i 1st watched as i had never saw it before.. i got half way through and just couldnt so i called my friend over to watch it with me.
But for me a film that can do that its done its job imo.
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The Blair Witch Project - Utterly terrifying. The scene where they hear noises outside the tent is filmmaking at its most simplistically brilliant.
Ghostwatch - Not a film per se, but without a single doubt, the most frightening thing I have ever seen. I would never watch it again, either alone or with others. No damn way.....ever! If I could remove the memory of it from my mind, I would happily do so. Masterpiece though
Ghostwatch terrified me - I was babysitting and watching it alone and I didn't realise that it wasn't real:o
Actually, most of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's films have also managed to make me feel acutely uncomfortable. Séance, Cure, Charisma, Security Guard from Hell (a dumb film, but some scenes? Brrr), Retribution, Bright Future. Some aren't even horror films. If anything, I would describe his films as slow-burn mystery films with a touch of dread. Or in the case of Bright Future, a tale of aimless twentysomethings that's disguised as a study of quiet anger. The 'it's the quiet ones you have to look out for' type. The uneasiness is always there.
The Fourth Kind / Signs / Dark Skies etc etc
- any alien films just scary the bejeezus out of me!
The BBC understand that the key to something being REALLY scary is making it relatable to the audience.
A story set in a haunted castle doesn't scare me, because I will never visit a castle. Ghostwatch is set in a normal house, with the ghost appearing behind someone's bedroom curtains, so it becomes instantly more frightening because it's a familar setting.
...yes it did feel so familiar, also it was broadcast as 'live' (I have since discovered it was pre-recorded) plus the fact that it also featured trusted presenters such as Michael Parkinson, Mike Smith and Sarah Green made it all the more believable. I have just been reading up on it and read that Ghostwatch has never been repeated in the UK.
Jaws was indeed terrifying and I was a bit traumatised when I first saw it - again it could be because the story is something that really happens i.e. shark attacks.
When you consider that it was heavily covered in that week's Radio Times as a 'Screen One' dramatic concoction, and was also clearly announced as and preceded with the familiar 'Screen One' intro, it presciently says a lot about the uncomfortably potential powers of the TV medium and audience manipulation!!
I remember watching Ghostwatch too, it was really intense stuff at the time. I remember reading stories about people being horrified by it in the newspapers in the days after it aired. It isn't much to see now, but back then it was very scary and the familiar setting, like someone said above, is the main reason for that imo.
Any haunted flick that sets a good atmosphere but doesn't show everything has a much better effect in terms of scares for me. Legend Of Hell House was a good one too, very spooky.
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Gillian Bevan as Dr. Lin Pascoe and Brid Brennan as Pamela Early (mother).
the ring
the omen
And to be honest I can't watch The Others without still getting freaked out.
Mind you, I've seen Ghost hundreds of times and those black shadow things still scare the bejaysus out of me.
I loved the McPherson Tape. I first watched it when I was around 12 and it scared the hell out of me! And ofcourse being so young I did think it was real
As did I! Its that creepy "have you seen these people" part at the end, it still sends chills up my spine despite knowing it's fictional.
Ahhhh, i just searched this and i had completely blocked it from my memory - i won't sleep well tonight:o:cry: