the first Elm Street film was genuinely scary, you just didn't know what (and when) was going to happen...

Friday is more shocking/disgusting than scary, gore and granny cinematography included lol

Japanese horror films are much better. Slasher films are fuck up in Japan. There this horror film called evil dead trap. Turns out the killer is this guy conjoined twin. The fetus manipulated the guy against his will and like killed people. Don't get me started on korean horror

Yeah they were spooky back in the day. To much CGI in horror movies today.

And i will give NOES the credit it deserves. The concept is brilliant! i mean it's a really good concept and i'm sure in 1984 it scared the fuck otu of people. I guess just having seen so much crazy shit in real life... and hundreds of really gruesome horror movies. That it's like watching a fantasy flick for me over an actual horror film.

The kills are creative and well... funny i mean come on 50% of the writing for NOES anf 80% of the writing for F13 were in the creative kills.



ALSO who the fuck falls asleep while benching

Rococo said:

Japanese horror films are much better. Slasher films are fuck up in Japan. There this horror film called evil dead trap. Turns out the killer is this guy conjoined twin. The fetus manipulated the guy against his will and like killed people. Don't get me started on korean horror

Japanese & Korean films are not to be fucked with. Yeah, they themselves can be silly. But a lot of the time THEY GO THERE... and i mean EVERYWHERE they are not afraid to do the msot twisted shit you can think of.

Gunsnhalen said:

Rococo said:

Japanese horror films are much better. Slasher films are fuck up in Japan. There this horror film called evil dead trap. Turns out the killer is this guy conjoined twin. The fetus manipulated the guy against his will and like killed people. Don't get me started on korean horror

Japanese & Korean films are not to be fucked with. Yeah, they themselves can be silly. But a lot of the time THEY GO THERE... and i mean EVERYWHERE they are not afraid to do the msot twisted shit you can think of.

I am still over the original version of "The Grudge".

I love Japanese and Korean vampire movies, too.

Both these movies were extremely scary but then Nirvana ruined rock and roll and now look.

this movie still fuckin' rocks

It's called DESENSITIZATION.

There was a time when The Wizard of Oz was considered too scary for children.

Now it's less gritty than the average cartoon.

When Friday the 13th came out it was scary as f*ck.

But year by year movies become darker, gritter, grosser & scarier.

Society is becoming desensitized to the scenes of violence.



So short answer: YES, they were scary.

Any movie, video, show or game that has jump-scares is scary.

No one gets desensitised to that.

I always liked late 70's early 80's horror movies such as Friday the 13th, The Fog, Salems lot, Halloween 1 & 2. I'm sure there are more.

I will say this:

I saw "Halloween" in a movie theater the weekend it came out. The place was packed. The movie was so freaking scary. The part where JLC runs into all the tombstones? Forget about it!

And when she put Michael Myers down the first time, and the shot is of her crying and him lying down behind her, I actually screamed out loud, "He's not dead! Turn around quick!"

I wasn't joking, either. LOL.

Hell yeah NOES was scary! Freddy was funny but he was out cold when it came to killing. He even killed the then unknown Johnny Depp's fine self in bed. There was that creepy jump rope rhyme...

"One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Three, four, better lock your door.
Five, six, grab your crucifix.
Seven, eight, gonna stay up late.
Nine, ten, never sleep again.
One, two Freddy's coming for you
three, four better lock your door
five, six grab your crucifix
seven, eight gonna stay up late
nine, ten he's back again."

Then after all the nightmares were over and Freddy was "gone". The set-up of alls well, that ends well was shot straight to hell when he snatched the smiling, happy, waving Mom through that little door window and took control of the car with the teens in it.

In 1984, that was some scary shit. By today's standards though, it's just funny as hell.

JoeTyler said:

this movie still fuckin' rocks

I loved Fright Night, too!

RodeoSchro said:

I will say this:

I saw "Halloween" in a movie theater the weekend it came out. The place was packed. The movie was so freaking scary. The part where JLC runs into all the tombstones? Forget about it!

And when she put Michael Myers down the first time, and the shot is of her crying and him lying down behind her, I actually screamed out loud, "He's not dead! Turn around quick!"

I wasn't joking, either. LOL.

Did you see it the first time it was released or its second release? A little known fact that appears to have escaped film buffs. Halloween had two release dates the only time in history I think that's every happened. Mr. Carpenter always acknowledge the late Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert for championing his movie so hard, the movie studio decided to released it again.

The scene that still gets me is when Laurie thinks she's knocked the shit out of Michael and goes running to her neighbors for help. Then she has to beat on the door to get Tommy to open up the door... soon after Micheal is headed to her door! Yikes!

I'm not a big fan of horror movies. It disturbs me that people like them so much. The Exorcist is still the scariest movie I've ever seen, probably because of the low mix of buzzing bees that is put in the sound design. That whole movie was sick off the charts. I mean, what's more scary to a person raised his whole life with Christianity than Satan?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was another bad one for me. That woman covered in blood at the end and the guy behind me in the theatre laughing all the way through it. Totally sick.

Friday the 13th part 2 was more bareable because I saw it with a beautiful girl who got close to me. Still it was pleasure spiked with pain.

I really don't like the genre. I don't like the larger implications of how it desensitizes people to violence.

When I was a child, Friday The 13th Part 1, 2, 3, & 4 successful convince me to feel very relived that I've never join the boy scouts and/or to take any camping trips.

TonyVanDam said:

When I was a child, Friday The 13th Part 1, 2, 3, & 4 successful convince me to feel very relived that I've never join the boy scouts and/or to take any camping trips.

In your case seeing "... The 13th" moves wasn't such a good idea.

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McJagger said:

I'm not a big fan of horror movies. It disturbs me that people like them so much. The Exorcist is still the scariest movie I've ever seen, probably because of the low mix of buzzing bees that is put in the sound design. That whole movie was sick off the charts. I mean, what's more scary to a person raised his whole life with Christianity than Satan?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was another bad one for me. That woman covered in blood at the end and the guy behind me in the theatre laughing all the way through it. Totally sick.

Friday the 13th part 2 was more bareable because I saw it with a beautiful girl who got close to me. Still it was pleasure spiked with pain.

I really don't like the genre. I don't like the larger implications of how it desensitizes people to violence.

The Exorcist came out in 1973, when I was 3 years old. My mother told me that it was the scariest movie ever at that time. So much so, there were ambulances on stand by, at the theater where she saw it because people had been literally passing out or going into convulsions all over the country at theaters upon viewing it. How true that was, I don't know but when I finally braved up enough to watch it when I was 23, it didn't scare me, at all.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

TD3 said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

McJagger said:

I'm not a big fan of horror movies. It disturbs me that people like them so much. The Exorcist is still the scariest movie I've ever seen, probably because of the low mix of buzzing bees that is put in the sound design. That whole movie was sick off the charts. I mean, what's more scary to a person raised his whole life with Christianity than Satan?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was another bad one for me. That woman covered in blood at the end and the guy behind me in the theatre laughing all the way through it. Totally sick.

Friday the 13th part 2 was more bareable because I saw it with a beautiful girl who got close to me. Still it was pleasure spiked with pain.

I really don't like the genre. I don't like the larger implications of how it desensitizes people to violence.

The Exorcist came out in 1973, when I was 3 years old. My mother told me that it was the scariest movie ever at that time. So much so, there were ambulances on stand by, at the theater where she saw it because people had been literally passing out or going into convulsions all over the country at theaters upon viewing it. How true that was, I don't know but when I finally braved up enough to watch it when I was 23, it didn't scare me, at all.

The Backwards crawl down the stairs is pretty freaky

kpowers said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

The Exorcist came out in 1973, when I was 3 years old. My mother told me that it was the scariest movie ever at that time. So much so, there were ambulances on stand by, at the theater where she saw it because people had been literally passing out or going into convulsions all over the country at theaters upon viewing it. How true that was, I don't know but when I finally braved up enough to watch it when I was 23, it didn't scare me, at all.

The Backwards crawl down the stairs is pretty freaky

I remember they gave out Barf Bags at showings of The Exorcist in 1973.

I always thought the 1st Friday the 13th was scary

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Back then the first Nightmare on Elm Street was definately scary. He didn't talk,...

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Halloween 1 & 2 to this day is scary, will not watch it by myself or at night. Everything from the song Mr Sandman, that piano, the stalking is really the thing, that mask, the shadows and it being the 1970s something about that 'suburban' innocence