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Best in Class: Scary Movies

by revgeorge on October 31, 2009

Yahoo Movies has a photo gallery selection of the scariest movies in several different classes, best vampire, best haunted house, best killer animal, etc.  Some interesting choices but I think on the whole good ones.  I particularly like the choice for best giant monster. :)

Check out the photos…if you dare!  Happy Halloween!!

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Paranormal Activity and Fear

by Dave the Longwinded on October 19, 2009

Like a lot of the general movie-going public, Jamie and I plunked down some change to check out Paranormal Activity Friday night. First, my quick review: very, very good. The story is simple, and the audience is really supposed to focus on the characters as they sink ever deeper into their fear over what is in their home. The film’s style is much like that of The Blair Witch Project from ten years ago. But, I didn’t find that movie at all engaging, much less frightening. Part of the issue for me was the migraine I left the theater with after enduring nearly an hour and a half of people who couldn’t hold a camera steady. Paranormal Activity solves both of those problems. In short, if you enjoy thrills and confronting your own fears, you need to go see this film.

Movies don’t frighten me very often. In fact, I’ve tried to remember the last film that really unnerved me when I saw it in the theater, but I came up empty.** Paranormal Activity actually left me rather shaken. It is frightening in a way I have never experienced with a film. [click to continue…]

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Scary Movies Week

by Travis Prinzi on October 18, 2009

As we continue our Hog’s Head Halloween 2009, we’ve come upon scary movies week. This week, we’ll look at effective Gothic and frightening elements in films, with particular focus on three movies: the 1922 Nosferatu, which can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube, del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, and I’m guessing we’ll get a review of the recently released Paranormal Activity, which is getting a lot of attention right now.

That’s only three movies. I’m sure you have favorites. Talk about them in the comments!

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Books, Films, and You – Boo!

by Arabella Figg on October 2, 2009

In keeping with our October Halloween theme, what books or films have literally made your hair stand on end, or made you jump, scream or have nightmares for weeks?

I’m around eighteen. I’m reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. It’s late at night and I’m alone; the house is silent. All lights are off, except for the lamp beside me. I’m completely absorbed in the scene where the two women are in the bedroom; the house has come alive, and is breathing and making horrific sounds; I’m totally in that room with them, scared out of my wits. The doorknob to the room is turning.

Suddenly, our front door doorknob, several feet away, begins to turn.

I stare at it in disbelief, hair standing on end. It mysteriously continues to slowly turn back and forth. I get up and creep fearfully to the door, my heart practically jumping out of my chest. I feel a complete unreality. I’m get to the door and (stupid!) open it, and find myself two inches from a face between the opened screen door and me. Before I realize it’s my brother returning from an evening out, I jump and shriek loud enough to wake the neighborhood.

I haven’t read any horror since.

So, what’s your story?

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