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Debaser · 10-30-2001, 07:31 AM

for something to be genuinely scary, it can't be overly gory and it has to be somewhat understated. the examples you gave are pretty good......on the flipside, a movie like Evil Dead isn't scary, it's just so so gruesome it becomes a farce.
i thought the first Candyman movie was freaky as hell, the first time i saw it. it did a good job of twisting reality in a way that really messed with your head. the Exorcist, though, is the best example of scary movie imagery.

here's a story i heard which i've always found pretty scary. the first time i heard it i got goosebumps. supposedly true, happened to "a friend of a friend", you know how it is...but who knows. still, it's freaky as hell. anyway, this guy was driving on a back road at night, it was pretty dark and there was, like, woods and trees on both sides of the road. he was just cruising down this road, and he saw this girl walking on the side of the road. it struck him as pretty sketchy that some girl would actually be walking at this hour on this backroad, so he slowed down and rolled down his window to ask her if she needed a lift somewhere. the guy said that she was walking kind of weird, like with a limp but not quite. as he got closer, he noticed her feet looked backwards (like left on the right, and vice versa). she was wearing little more but this dress, and her hair was long and kind of matted, and he couldn't really see her face because it was in the way.
so he rolled down the shotgun side window, and asked her "do you need a ride somewhere? you shouldn't really be walking out here at this time of night." she didn't answer or really even acknowledge him...he inquired the same thing a couple more times, all the while following her slowly in the car as she kept on walking. finally, just as he was about to just roll the window up and leave, she stopped walking and turned to him. as she lifted her head, her hair didn't obscure her face any more, and what the guy saw was that her eyes were missing, and there was streams of blood dripping down her cheeks from the empty sockets.
the guy in the car freaked out (of course!), and kept on his way down the road, infinitely disturbed and horrified at what he had just seen.
he kept driving down the road, cussing to himself and trying to come to grips with it. his eyes looked up at the rear-view mirror........

and he saw her face in it. she was sitting in the back seat.

from what i was told, the guy started SPEEDING down this road, trying to get to this one gas station that he knew of. when he finally got there, he looked up at the mirror again, still feeling chills from what he had seen.
she was no longer there.

10-30-2001, 07:31 AM	#2
Debaser Avatar Join Date: June 15, 2001 Location: Virginia, USA Age: 45 Posts: 543	for something to be genuinely scary, it can't be overly gory and it has to be somewhat understated. the examples you gave are pretty good......on the flipside, a movie like Evil Dead isn't scary, it's just so so gruesome it becomes a farce. i thought the first Candyman movie was freaky as hell, the first time i saw it. it did a good job of twisting reality in a way that really messed with your head. the Exorcist, though, is the best example of scary movie imagery. here's a story i heard which i've always found pretty scary. the first time i heard it i got goosebumps. supposedly true, happened to "a friend of a friend", you know how it is...but who knows. still, it's freaky as hell. anyway, this guy was driving on a back road at night, it was pretty dark and there was, like, woods and trees on both sides of the road. he was just cruising down this road, and he saw this girl walking on the side of the road. it struck him as pretty sketchy that some girl would actually be walking at this hour on this backroad, so he slowed down and rolled down his window to ask her if she needed a lift somewhere. the guy said that she was walking kind of weird, like with a limp but not quite. as he got closer, he noticed her feet looked backwards (like left on the right, and vice versa). she was wearing little more but this dress, and her hair was long and kind of matted, and he couldn't really see her face because it was in the way. so he rolled down the shotgun side window, and asked her "do you need a ride somewhere? you shouldn't really be walking out here at this time of night." she didn't answer or really even acknowledge him...he inquired the same thing a couple more times, all the while following her slowly in the car as she kept on walking. finally, just as he was about to just roll the window up and leave, she stopped walking and turned to him. as she lifted her head, her hair didn't obscure her face any more, and what the guy saw was that her eyes were missing, and there was streams of blood dripping down her cheeks from the empty sockets. the guy in the car freaked out (of course!), and kept on his way down the road, infinitely disturbed and horrified at what he had just seen. he kept driving down the road, cussing to himself and trying to come to grips with it. his eyes looked up at the rear-view mirror........ and he saw her face in it. she was sitting in the back seat. from what i was told, the guy started SPEEDING down this road, trying to get to this one gas station that he knew of. when he finally got there, he looked up at the mirror again, still feeling chills from what he had seen. she was no longer there.