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Visions of Khas

11-09-2009, 01:07 AM

I heard such good reviews for Paranormal Activity that I checked it out earlier today. It's supposed to be one of those films where the anticipation is what gets you. For me, I was disappointed by it, it just wasn't memorable. The only segments that stayed with me were when the "friend" manifested itself through pounding the shit out of the house and screeching, and the very end.

Anyway, anyone else like scary films? Have any suggestions? What kind of scare techniques get to you? Genres - hack'n'slash or psychological thrillers? What about video games, which ones do you like? Anyone seeing The Fourth Kind? Let me know how it is.

For me, Dead Space gets to me; I also like The Orphanage (the old lady really creeps me out) and The Mist, though that one is less scary and more fantastical in nature.

KillaKhan

11-09-2009, 01:11 AM

I don't want to see the movie.

on a side note, your sig is awesome.

Visions of Khas

11-09-2009, 01:14 AM

I kind of want to see it, but the reviews it's received are terrible. On the other hand - greys creep my the FUCK out. srsly

PS Which part of the sig, the poem or the links?

spychi

11-09-2009, 01:27 AM

Alien series... nuff said
first American Grudge
Wrong turn
Chainsaw Massacre

In games
Dead Space
Alien vs Predator 1 and 2
F.E.A.R. 1 and 2

Pandonetho

11-09-2009, 01:53 AM

Dead Space definitely creeped me out.

Want to know what horror movies that suck ass and you shouldn't watch?

Anything from the west.

GentleBen

11-09-2009, 03:23 AM

I don't think I ever found a horror movie to be scary. I thought Silent Hill 2 was pretty disturbing though when I played it.

pure.Wasted

11-09-2009, 04:59 AM

For games, the only thing I've played that was genuinely scary would be AvP2. They just knew how to get you. :eek:

Movies... um... I scare pretty easy, so it doesn't take that much. Obvious contenders are Alien, Blair Witch, The Thing... and the two that kept me up at night in my younger days...

The Shining
Desyat Negrityat -- Russian version of Christie's "And Then There Were None."

I reserve the right to update my list as other good contenders crop up. ^^

DemolitionSquid

11-09-2009, 06:40 AM

Alien and Aliens are by far the scariest movies I have ever seen.

spychi

11-09-2009, 07:57 AM

Oh yeah the Thing lol.
The game was also bit scary.

Heh bout Aliens, I remember when I was 7 when I saw the first Alien movie... I couldn't sleep for few weeks, that was a drama for me.
@ AvP 2
It's a shame that Sierra stopped supporting the mutli, I loved it.

The_Blade

11-09-2009, 10:15 AM

na REC and REC^2(spanish movies) are the scariest movies ive seen this year. Paranormal wasn't that scary.

fucking aliens they scared the crap out of me... but...

the freaking scariest movie ever seen...

THING!!!!! the fucking clown i swer i kicked a clown in the nuts after that movie (7 year old)

And Dead Space kicked my ass, specialy the lullaby trailer... fucking scary

KillaKhan

11-09-2009, 10:25 AM

I kind of want to see it, but the reviews it's received are terrible. On the other hand - greys creep my the FUCK out. srsly

PS Which part of the sig, the poem or the links?

The links hahaha, the poem is pretty good but i lolled at the poker face thing.

Sarov

11-09-2009, 02:26 PM

I don't think I ever found a horror movie to be scary.

Same here. I guess I just don't scary easily. Nothing really scares me.

DemolitionSquid

11-09-2009, 02:33 PM

Same here. I guess I just don't scary easily. Nothing really scares me.

I heard a rumor no beta till 2010.

Boo!

The_Blade

11-09-2009, 03:21 PM

I heard a rumor no beta till the launch of WoW cataclysm.

Boo!

fixed

Visions of Khas

11-09-2009, 09:18 PM

At first I hated the cumbersome control in Dead Space, but realized it gave me a lot more grounding and increased "solid" feeling. It also made me flip my shit because I didn't feel I could run away from the Necromorphs fast enough. Most memorable moment so far (haven't beaten it yet) was when I was heading back to engineering and had a shadow fall across me. I turned around and nothing was there. SHIT!

Does anyone else feel the animatronics from movies like The Thing, Reanimator and Aliens are just more disturbing than any CGI or makeup done today?

Also, another disturbing movie - Jacob's Ladder. Whoa.

EvilGenius

11-12-2009, 11:40 PM

I saw Paranormal... I found it creepy, not the creepiest movie I've ever seen, but if you watch it alone at midnight, it'll freak you out a little bit.

I really need to finish dead space... does it really get THAT scary?

sandwich_bird

11-13-2009, 01:05 AM

Visions of Khas

11-13-2009, 01:19 AM

It's much better than Fear or any other game I've played, but I've not played many. I really want to try out Silent Hill 3, which I hear is the best in the series.

Dead Space gives you a strong claustrophobic feeling, good atmospheric affects, great score and "sound stingers" like in a movie.

Sarov

11-13-2009, 12:40 PM

I heard a rumor no beta till 2010.

Boo!

Even that doesn't scare me. In fact that doesn't affect me at all. My entire response to that post was a shrug.

Zabimaru

11-13-2009, 01:08 PM

I have yet to find a movie that scares me... Proberly because my life is very much like a horror film. Seriously, I spend more time in graveyards then the average person should... and that's just the begining.

Ghost_828

11-13-2009, 01:14 PM

Same here. I guess I just don't scary easily. Nothing really scares me.

Despite my like of horror and 'freaky' films, this ^

Visions of Khas

11-14-2009, 03:14 AM

Seriously, I spend more time in graveyards then the average person should... and that's just the begining.

I approve. I had a date in a graveyard in the middle of the night once. Broke in and had a picnic. It was amazing.

Pandonetho

11-14-2009, 03:56 AM

Zabimaru

11-14-2009, 04:53 AM

Cuz you know, having a picnic in the middle of the night, breaking into the graveyard while you're at it is totally romatic, respectful, and a better choice than having a picnic during the day on the side of a river.

Totally. Though you do need to balance it with the riverside at times. :) Coincidently, I’ve been invited to a graveyard today. :p

Pandonetho

11-14-2009, 06:20 PM

Totally. Though you do need to balance it with the riverside at times. Coincidently, I’ve been invited to a graveyard today.

Was it a funeral? lol

Visions of Khas

11-14-2009, 08:47 PM

In my defense, we didn't sit on any graves, and it was her idea.

She didn't go for the Ouija board idea, though, so that was a no-go. =[

sandwich_bird

11-15-2009, 12:06 AM

And what's so fascinating about dead people and a bunch of rocks?

Pandonetho

11-25-2009, 12:51 AM

So I finally watched Paranormal Activity and thought it was a pretty terrible movie.

First of all, the boyfriend is an idiotic dumbass who thinks he can beat demons with a couple of weeks of "research" compared to a demonologist who's studied the subject for years.

Second of all it was a major borefest. Not scary at all. I waited an hour and 20 minutes before anything interesting happened. Seriously just skip to the end where the chick gets dragged out of bed, and then the next day kills her boyfriend and that's basically the exciting parts.