Do you remember how it felt to watch A Clockwork Orange for the first time? It's on Netflix and it's still quite disturbing, even more so in ways than it was when I was 15.
Do you remember how it felt to watch A Clockwork Orange for the first time? It's on Netflix and it's still quite disturbing, even more so in ways than it was when I was 15.
Once was enough. I've tried rewatching, but couldn't do it. I think the best movies are really only meant to be watched once though. I don't consider A Clockwork Orange to be a horror movie, more like a psychological thriller. Similar to movies like American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, etc.
Do you remember how it felt to watch A Clockwork Orange for the first time? It's on Netflix and it's still quite disturbing, even more so in ways than it was when I was 15.
Once was enough. I've tried rewatching, but couldn't do it. I think the best movies are really only meant to be watched once though. I don't consider A Clockwork Orange to be a horror movie, more like a psychological thriller. Similar to movies like American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, etc.
I've seen A Clockwork Orange maybe three times, Silence of the Lambs possibly twice and American Psycho roughly 10-15 times over years.
American Psycho I saw when it first opened. The crowd which was mainly horror film fans (horror film fans are a particularly recognizable type), pretty much laughed through a lot of it and it was well received. I did laugh at it as well but I thought was top-tier filmmaking and still holds up incredibly well today.
I don't know, I guess I have a pretty high tolerance for disturbing movies. I don't say this as some sort of Edgelord. However, I do draw the line if the movie contains children or infants being murdered.
I saw this when I was about 16. Watched it several times including solo in an empty house at 3 am. Now I'm in my 30s and i can still see and hear that little m****r f****r when it's dark at night.
Literally any other movie I shrugged off right after the credits hit
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The one horror movie that has stuck with me since 1993 (I was 9 at the time) was Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. Myers breaks out of jail because a random guy in a trenchcoat (the Man in Black, no relation to Will Smith a decade later) blew up a police station and killed tons of innocent cops. Luckily in Halloween 6 the MIB dies--at the hands of Myers.
Even though it was a dumb B-grade horror flick, it still scares the hell out of me when I get to that part--police were under-gunned in 1989 when this was made and had no response to a killer with an M4/M16 breaking him out--it was a slaughter.
The problem is that even then in small town America cops weren't prepared for something like that. We saw this six years later in 1995 with Michael Mann's Heat (Pacino/DeNiro), where LAPD are severely outgunned by criminals with centerfire-round long guns, only combating them with shotguns and 9mm.
Some movies don't scare me because of blood/gore (I'm desensitized to that) but psychological terror and scenes where family dysfunction are present. SAW movies don't scare me--whatever.
This movie made me grateful for our cops and what they do but spooked me for a few years every time I walked into a police station or by one.
The Conjuring movies deserve a mention. Really well done in an age where horror movies generally stink. Also it has the caveat that it's "based on a true story" which ups the fear factor.
Dunno, I definitely picked the pace up going upstairs weeks and months following.
Fight Club isn't a horror movie but that has disturbed me more than any movie has.
I wish they did a Conjuring 4 about the Smurl Haunting in West Pittston (near Wilkes-Barre). Far scarier than Amityville.
They did a bad made-for-TV movie with Sally Kirkland and Jeffrey DeMunn (Walking Dead guy) in 1991 about it, but it wasn't accurate.
Any edition of the "Faces of Death" series. Yeah, the dude in the electric chair is hard to shake some 45 years later
It's crazy to me how the type of content that was in the faces of death series is now ubiquitous. Even mainstream news sources regularly include videos with people dying.
I saw this when I was about 16. Watched it several times including solo in an empty house at 3 am. Now I'm in my 30s and i can still see and hear that little m****r f****r when it's dark at night.
Literally any other movie I shrugged off right after the credits hit
....
The one horror movie that has stuck with me since 1993 (I was 9 at the time) was Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. Myers breaks out of jail because a random guy in a trenchcoat (the Man in Black, no relation to Will Smith a decade later) blew up a police station and killed tons of innocent cops. Luckily in Halloween 6 the MIB dies--at the hands of Myers.
Even though it was a dumb B-grade horror flick, it still scares the hell out of me when I get to that part--police were under-gunned in 1989 when this was made and had no response to a killer with an M4/M16 breaking him out--it was a slaughter.
Have you seen "Halloween VI: The Curse Of Michael Myers - Producer's Cut"?
This version finishes out the ending of Part 5 perfectly.
I saw this when I was about 16. Watched it several times including solo in an empty house at 3 am. Now I'm in my 30s and i can still see and hear that little m****r f****r when it's dark at night.
Literally any other movie I shrugged off right after the credits hit
....
Among horror movie aficionados, of which I consider myself one, I’d say The Ring is fairly middle of the line in scariness. It’s not bad but not particularly memorable either.
Not technically a horror movie, but The Road just gets to me mo matter how many times I watch it. I can’t unsee what the man and boy find in the cellar.
How could any grown man get scared by fake images on a screen?
Because they have brains? It’s not necessarily just images on the screen. A well made horror movie uses a lot of other tactics to instill unease and fear.
The one horror movie that has stuck with me since 1993 (I was 9 at the time) was Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. Myers breaks out of jail because a random guy in a trenchcoat (the Man in Black, no relation to Will Smith a decade later) blew up a police station and killed tons of innocent cops. Luckily in Halloween 6 the MIB dies--at the hands of Myers.
Even though it was a dumb B-grade horror flick, it still scares the hell out of me when I get to that part--police were under-gunned in 1989 when this was made and had no response to a killer with an M4/M16 breaking him out--it was a slaughter.
Have you seen "Halloween VI: The Curse Of Michael Myers - Producer's Cut"?
This version finishes out the ending of Part 5 perfectly.
Very disturbing movie...
I have not. I read that there are two versions of Halloween 6 with the endings of 6 being different (Dr. Loomis laughing and dying as Myers is dying too and then the other version is Myers walking out and disappearing).
I did read a story that said the producers screwed up when they made 5 by putting the MIB in there with no backstory. I'll check it out. Thank you for posting!
Fargo is also a scary AF movie. A very smart movie though.
I read an article once that said how '80s slasher horror was big for a few years and then died down...
Fargo is great, but it’s not a horror movie. I think for a movie to really be considered a horror movie it should have some paranormal element to it.
Have you seen the Halloween series? It was big from '78 to about '96. I was 9 in 1993 when I saw Halloween 4 and 5. The 6th one didn't come out for another few years.