Paranormal Activity and Other Scary Movies

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.

I don't want to see the movie.

on a side note, your sig is awesome.

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?

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

Dead Space definitely creeped me out.

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

Anything from the west.

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.

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. ^^

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

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.

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