Favorite scary films

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I like paranormal horrors like Annabelle, conjuring 1 and 2, insidious, and the nun was the scariest so scary I felt the need to pray to rosary when I got home because I was convinced that I could feel the evil from the movie even when I left the cinema
 
I like the 1980’s version of “Fright Night” and “An American Werewolf in London.” There are lots of other movies that don’t scare but horrify me.
 
For those who have seen “the Shining” I’ve got some discussion points.

Do you think they were ghosts or hallucinations?

Do you think Danny had psychic abilities, “a shining”? To me it seemed yes, since he seemed to be able to speak telepathically with Mr.Halloran.

Did Jack hurt Danny at the hotel? Or was it the hag /ghost?

Also, how did he get out of the locked fridge? 😳

I saw the film as an allegory of domestic violence and alcoholism. The really scary parts are the violence Jack commits against Danny and Wendy.

Also, the pediatrician in the beginning of the film really should have used her mandated reporter powers.
 
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[…] I think it was needed for many to come to fully realize the actual torture and pain Our Lord went through […] I think we need to see what He actually suffered to call it to mind.
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Film wasn’t invented until the 20th century, so for 19 centuries Christians went without the bloody depictions of Christ’s suffering that we have now in certain Hollywood films. You’re saying that we “need to see it”. So by your reasoning, the earlier 19 centuries of Christians had an inadequate understanding or appreciation of Christ’s suffering because they had no gory films. This is nonsense. Prior to the modern age Christianity had no need of these films, why would it need them now? Consider this: if you’re informed that someone died in a car accident, do you need to see their mutilated corpse, or do you need to watch the incident caught on CCTV for you to empathize and/or understand? I think not. Similarly, if you can’t understand Christ’s suffering without seeing it depicted in bloody detail, something is quite wrong.
 
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:sweat_smile:Dr Who (Darlex) and yes, planet of the apes scared me when I was very little… looking around the kitchen door to the screen my big brothers were glued to back in the early 70’s.And the movie Duel (I should have been asleep not watching behind the lounge room chairs)
 
That’s very true…also that we can be a bit desensitised to a degree from having watched some violence ,there are so many lax Catholics and Christians who could have ,would have been woken up through the film.
I watched The Passion at the cinéma when it first came out and cried, I could never watch it again.It was too close to seeing my best friend being tortured and crucified,too real for me.
 
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The single most scary movie I’ve ever seen was The Changeling with George C Scott, 1978. Slept with the light on for three days after that one.
 
Does anyone want to discuss this specific film?

I honestly thought that The Bad Seed was more frightening.

The Shining was frightening. But the frightening part was crazed Jack and his abuse of his family.

All the ghosts were plot points to confuse and let the viewer get lost and confused about the story line.

Jack was abusive of Danny even before they left home.

(I finally saw the whole film.)
 
Do you all think that the torture depicted in The Passion of the Christ was really as severe as it was in the movie?
 
Well, depends who you ask. For the film, Kubrick didn’t believe in ghosts and made it more about psychic powers mixed with the natural world. Stephen King, on the other hand, fully intended for it to be supernatural spirits.
 
Definitely CONSTANTINE II, which features a
chain-smoking exorcist who after committing
suicide at the age of 18 was given a reprieve
from going to hell and RELEASED from there…
IF ONLY he is successful in helping a girl solve
her twin sister’s apparent suicide, which has
demonically complexity to the point that the fate
of MANY souls are at stake. (2004)
 
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I watched “Pet Cemetery” w/ my bro.
who has a Three year old, the same
age as the baby in the show. His res-
ponse was “how could I face him when
I go home!!” He eventually got over it
and even took his son to view the movie.
 
Have you seen the film? I’ve heard about it and hadn’t seen it until recently.

It’s about a little girl sociopath who kills a little boy who beat her at a competition at school.

Her mother realizes slowly that her daughter is a killer. There’s a subplot that the mother had recurring nightmares that seemed real. It turns out that the mother had been adopted by her family. The nightmares were of her very early childhood where she’s running and hiding. She was actually remembering running from her mother. Her biological mother was a serial killer, and it seems killed her older brother.

The daughter then confessed to her mother that she killed the little boy. But she blamed the little boy, and said she wouldn’t have killed him if hadn’t handed over us medal for winning the competition.

At this point the mother becomes very agitated and tense, because her daughter is a killer, but 8 years old. She doesn’t know what to do. For the rest of the film the mom’s hysteria just increases.

It’s psychologically frightening. Can a kid do these things? What would a mother do if she found her kid had done these things? I won’t spoil and let you know what the mom decides, but it shocked me.

I like psychological thrillers more. There is no gore or violence in this, everything violent happens off scene.
 
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I know that King didn’t like the Kubrick film. He used to write the screenplays for the films based on his books. Kubrick discarded it.

I tend to think that the ghost encounters were hallucinations. Like the forbidden room. When Danny wanders in, the door is opened with a key. Ghosts don’t need keys. It wasn’t opened and there were no keys visible when he first rode by.

But then how did jack get out of the freezer?
 
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If memory serves, in the book Danny’s powers are definitely real. But as for what his father experiences (the ghosts in the hotel etc.) it could be real or he could be losing his mind, it’s not exactly clear.

Then again, in the movie Danny encounters those creepy girls in the hallway, and I don’t see why he would be hallucinating or going crazy so I imagine the ghosts in the hotel are real. But I can’t remember if that scene is in the book.

Something is causing Danny’s father to go crazy, and i always figured it was the evil spirits haunting the hotel, not simply writer’s block (though that contributed). The ghosts are simply covering their tracks, because they’re subtle like that.
 
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I never thought much of the movie ‘The Shining’ because I had read the book beforehand and found it far superior. I still think the movie is kind of boring and flat - there’s little to no suspense until the end. Jack Nicholson isn’t scary because he’s Jack Nicholson, a known quantity. I don’t really see how it’s any better than ‘Barry Lyndon’ (in fact I’d say I prefer the latter). Shelly Duval is interesting to watch because her acting is so over the top but other than that and nostalgia, I don’t quite get the cult status it’s acquired over the years - and I’m a big fan of Kubrick’s work.
 
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To me Jack seemed a bit off from the very beginning. The job interview, for example he seems like he’s going to just pop any second.

But he’s an alcoholic, snowbound and alone.

I never saw it, except as a teen for a little while before I got too scared.

The filmmaking is very good, it’s got a number of scary and confusing scenes.

I should read the book.

In a side note, there’s just something odd about Jack Nicholson ‘s face. His eyebrows are shaped to make his eyes look menacing. Not just this role, in general.

That’s why I think I like him as Schmidt in “About Schmidt”. He plays a regular boring guy. And he’s credible in it. You don’t see Jack Nicholson, you see Schmidt.
 
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