Horror

I watched this movie going in blind without knowing it was a horror movie - and that made it all that much more if a mind fuck.

I can't wait for my kids to get just a little older so I can sit down with them to watch "my favorite sci fi movie" mwahahaha

The international/British ending is even better than the American version, in case that's the version you watched

I just rewatched this in September and it held up much better than I expected. It is a really solid movie.

Any idea on if the remake of The Thing was any good? I watched the original 80s version last year and loved it. Also, I read somewhere that Quinton Tarantino's Hateful Eight was loosely based on The Thing, and after rewatching that I can see it.

Yes, the scene in the 80s version of The Thing where they're all tied next to each other is mind-blowing (and I guess poop-inducing too). I imagine that's the one you're talking about.

... can we see it?

I came in here just to mention The Ring. I haven't seen it in almost 20 years, but was talking about it with my coworker earlier today! That scene where (spoiler) the main character is talking to her son and says "it's over, I helped her" And he says "you weren't supposed to help her" sticks with me to this day.

Chills.

It was Ringu that fucked me for months when I was younger.

Any shadow that was five or six feet high just made me think of Sadako, such was the mastery of the film. It was particularly challenging at night when shadows from the trees outside my window cast very tall and slim shadows.

It never really rattled me at the time either - the scene that royally stunned me was the reflection in the TV towards the end of the film.

Brilliant film fair play.

My mom mentioned that she saw the Exorcist in the theaters in the 70s and people were legitimately freaking the fuck out like running out of the theater.

I saw it much later in the 90s and the effects didn't continue to hold up compared to more modern movies, so it didn't really do much for me.

Kind of reminds me of the concept of Seinfeld is Unfunny where something is amazing at the time but then is copied by everything that follows, making it impossible to go back and look at the original in the same way.

I actually just checked, and sure enough that's an example listed.

The Exorcist: First-time viewers today can appreciate the film's quality, but likely won't be all that impressed because so many of the things that were new about it when it came out, the things that led many of the sellout crowds who waited on line for hours to see it even if they threw up and fainted, have been so widely imitated and emulated that they don't come across as shocking the way they did in 1974.

Yikes, came here to see if anyone would mention martyrs.

Scarring. Truly, concretely horrifying. Watched it once, and nearly every scene is still burned into my mind.

Fuck. That. Shit.

That movie was rough to watch. Well done though and good ending.

Martyrs along with Funny Games, Requiem for a Dream occupy this niche place in my brain. I intend to never watch them again, but think of them regularly. Like someone else mentioned, scenes remain clear in my head many years later in a way that isn't true for most movies

I don't know if scary is the word I would use, but it is creepy... Watch it, it's a pretty good movie.

Is that the one with the eyeball? I'm not much older than you and that movie fucked me up.

Same here but we watched it at home, so I associated it with our house. Alien abduction stories seemed to be all the rage in the nineties, so I was already primed to be freaked out. Cue a few years of recurrent abduction nightmares.

The biggest thing that made Blair Witch scary was all the marketing and hype about it. They created a whole fake conspiracy theory online with fake news articles and everything that made it sound plausible. It was in the early days of the Internet so there wasn't the instant fact checking that would happen today.

You could probably get away with telling kids today that it was real, but wouldn't able to generate the same hype.

Then I would also not recommend Bring Her Back, the latest flick from the Phillipou brothers either. I loved both tho