storymilo

I wouldn't really. Time Travelers Wife doesn't appeal tome at all.

Guybrush

Paranormal Activity looks a bit interesting. It hypes itself as the world's scariest movie. I've watched a lot of films that some people think are the scariest and they're usually not and so that being the only thing to go on, there's not much to excite me about PA, but .. I love a good ghost story. It's one of the reasons why I like movies like The Changeling and The Woman in Black so much.

I don't know if Paranormal Activity is a good ghost story or if it's just "scare after scare", but I'd watch it to find out.

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bunker's hill

An American Werewolf in London.

Could be a banker interested in prime mortgages.

Captain Awesome

I wasnt born until the 80's i saw halloween in the year 98/99 (roughly) and to me although it was dated it was more terrifying than any other "horror" movie at the time. I don't find halloween dated, sure the clothes are different and the music but there's nothing slapping you in the face saying "im 3 decades old" like there is with so many other movies. But maybe that's just me.

Movie makers have forgotten how to make horror films, they just throw in as much gore as they can (not that i dislike gory movies). Halloween is a legendary piece of horror using various lighting techniques, creating ominous shadows, blurry images of a killer pasing through the dark room, a chilling and extremely haunting soundtrack to create an atmosphere where i am literally ****tin my awesome self.
it's the astute observations that made halloween fans **** themselves and lie awake at night for the following several days. It's the very small details and the fact that (in the first movie at least) the concept is horrifyingly realistic and could actually happen. It's not a vampire alien from hell tearing off arms and beating people to death with them. It's a psychotic serial killer set loose in a small town. A human (or "more evil than human" :p ).

I have a collection of just under 100 horror dvd's and i've seen more than i've bought and yet halloween is the only one that scares me no matter how many times i see it. I laughed at the exorcist, i literally fell on the floor with laughter at the cinema when watching final destination, i feel asleep when watching scream, i watch the saw movies simply for the soundtrack and to see how it ends (if it ever does) and the friday the 13th movies bore the hell out of me. The list is endless.

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tgpo

I've never had a movie keep me up at night. I'm one of those people who can expect twists and turns in movies. I call endings 5 minutes in, reveal a twist before it's started to build up.

For me, a good horror movie can screw my brain up do I don't know what's going to happen next. Stuff jumps out that I don't expect and I didn't see coming. That's what a great horror movie is to me, a surprise. Gore can be fun, suspense can heighten a scare, and humor has its place, but the surprises much be there.

Halloween had no surprises for me. It was very vanilla and bland. I'd take the first Nightmare on Elm Street over Halloween any day...( If you don't hold the nightmare sequels over me, I won't hold the halloween sequels over you )

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Captain Awesome

lol fair enough and it wasn't the plot twists that kept me awake at night it was the thought that myers was sitting outside my house staring through the window contemplating killing me, waiting for the chance. I'm certain it was the same for many halloween fans.

Nightmare on elm street was also a good horror movie but it didn't scare me in the slightest, so although it wasn't successful as a scary movie it definitley had a strong plot and good acting plus it was different from the rest of the horror films at the time. It was just to far fetched to scare me.

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the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."


"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

crash_override

Paranormal Activity is some pretty freaky ****. I'm normally the type of person who laughs of scary movies and/or don't find them scary but I had trouble sleeping the next few nights after seeing that movie. It's the fact the the movie seems so real and personal that it sort of hita home with you. It's hard to believe it was made on such a low budget. I really liked it as a movie as well, it was very well made (even though it was almost the exact same concept as Blair Witch Project). The ending will probably surprise you, and I've also heard tale about a few alternate/ original endings scenes that are out there. I would love to see those.

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Tyler Durden

I saw it at a film festival last year with the original ending. It is definitely much scarier. I was very mad when I found out that they changed it.