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Mandrake · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 8:08 pm Post subject:

also, if you want a good list of scary flicks, the terror trap has a grand listing of excellent films throughout the years:

http://www.terrortrap.com/

and, from what I've heard, 28 days later is damn scary as far as recent horror films go.
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Ironshanks · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:58 pm Post subject:

Huh, I feel kind of out of sorts since I don't like scary movies at all. Well to each his own I suppose.
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LeoDraco · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 7:20 am Post subject:

I, personally, had trouble sleeping for about a month after watching The Ring. While I'll jump at startle points in movies (I have a jumpy personality), it's relatively hard to scare me. I think the thing with the ring was that it was more of a psycological horror film, more than anything else. Not to mention trippy -- especially by the end of the film. Both the boy and the girl are frightening. Even now, over six months since I saw the movie, I start to get a bit nervous if I think too much about that film.

I have Ringu; I haven't had a chance to watch it, yet.
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Ironshanks · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:33 am Post subject:

I found the surreal imagery in the movie the best part of that film, like the giant centipede. The whole movie was tense, even without the more obvious scare moments.

Anyway, I scare easily, so I really didn't sleep well after it :P
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m2j · Guest

The only film that scared me was jurassic park, and thats still there.

But I agree, most films use gore and jumpyness instead of atmosphere and believablity to get to the audiance.

And I agree that the fat zombie in notld remake was freaky, and I too kept imagining zombies behind my shower curtain (too much information).

I've never seen the original notld film (or any other zombie films for that matter), but my dad did and it is the only film that scared him, and it scared him so much he's never watched a horror film again.

But I do have a soft spot in my heart for zombies and all zombie films. And I've been looking around for some of the non notld/evil dead zombie films, and I've found a few, all by this italian or french guy, and some of them have only one zombie... Its like they hadn't yet worked out what zombies were...

I had a really enlightening comment to make on horror rpgs but I've forgotten it...

Matt

m2j · Guest

been reading movie plots from terror traps and I'm sitting in the computer room, in total darkness except for the monitor, everyone in the house is gone to bed so all the lights are off and all the doors are closed and I keep seeing zombies out the windows. I'm scared shitless.

if I die, you know what happened.

On a side note, anyone making a zombie flick: If you have zombies (crowds) coming to a house, take the shot from inside the house looking out. I'm looking outside through two sets of windows, and if there were zombies out there it would not only be cool (all multi zombie shots are cool), but it would give the claustraphobic feel that hiding in your house gives, because of looking through the windows.

Matt

Ironshanks · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 4:29 am Post subject:

Well originally zombies didn't spread zombification like that...it was just one person brought back from the dead by a shaman to act as a servant, and quite harmless for the most-part. Just like a normal person but brain-dead.
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m2j · Guest

it wasn't even reanimated dead, it was a voodoo term for a trapped spirit or something, and it sometimes resulted in a walking corpse that was used to work in the feilds.

Or so i've been told,

matt

Ironshanks · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 7:28 pm Post subject:

Oh sorry, that's what I was talking about. They'd administer something to the person who would appear to die, but come back to life after they applied a second substance. Only when they came back they'd be mindless and soulless.
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ThousandKnives · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject:

Ironshanks · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 11:12 pm Post subject:

Well that and the fact that the poison was a neuro-toxin and the victim would be brain-dead anyway.

Of course it's never actually been confirmed that stuff is just from the stories, the poison I mean. They checked the pufferfish and apparantly they don't contain any neuro-toxin so it's pretty much just urban legend.

But I can tell you for sure that vodoo shamans did zombification deliberately, where they picked up the idea I don't know.
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