A Public Service Announcement

[sisabet]

Not to spoil anyone or anything - but let's just say you were in the mood for a haunted house movie. Y'know - the usual, the house lives, it wants and it will punish the pretty little movie family that moves in? Hypothetically, right? Well, if this is what you want to see, then by all mean DO NOT watch Cold Creek Manor. There is nary a trace of the supernatural in it. Seriously. I saw the trailers and maybe I "House of Leaves"-ed it (documentary film-maker becomes interested in his old home's past) but I am fairly disappointed right now. I need a house that aches and wants to make people pay. Not a suspense-thriller short on suspense, thrills and general sense.

Why can't I have a house full of retribution? Why?

Dammit - I'm gonna have to watch "Event Horizon" now. At least give me a black hole that wants. On a related but tangential note it took me years to watch that movie all the way through. Creepiest shit I have ever seen.

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[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Watch the Balloon. He will cheer you up.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Oooooh Event Horizon. Creeptastic goodness, yes.

(Damn, who's in Cold Creek Manor? 'Cause I think I had that on my watch list....)

[calendae.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning! I, too, thought it had a "House of Leaves" look. Which, by the way, would be the scariest movie ever.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well after reading the book, I feel like I have seen the movie - because it was so visual - I think a few months ago elynross was talking about it - as far as unusual books - or something.

But - just thinking about it creeps me out. So a movie...well hell, it would be terrifying. Cool.

[calendae.livejournal.com]

I think it would end up being a lot like The Blair Witch project, but with a much better ending.

[pileofashes.livejournal.com]

..."Event Horizon" ...it took me years to watch that movie all the way through. Creepiest shit I have ever seen.

oh thank god!
see, i'm a huge wuss. i refuse to watch horror movies. ever, ever, EVER.
so when i accidentally ended up in the theater for Event Horizon because i had never heard of any of the other movies playing at the time, and we just went "eeny meeny miney moe",, i was almost scarred for life. i spend most of the movie with my eyes closed and scrunched up in the fetal position.
when i tell people how horrifying this movie was, they say it couldn't have been that bad, cause they know how big of a weenier i am.

finally! finally, i know that it's not just me.
~clings to sisabet~

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Dawn wouldn't let me watch Nightmare of Elm Street the other night. She was going to bed. She said even if she was a room away and couldn't hear it, just knowing I was watching it would creep her out.

I adore scary movies. The creepier the better. "Event Horizon" is too scary for me. I can have nightmares if I think about it before bedtime. It is a whole 'nother level of scary. Course I love it and own it and call it George - but I have issues and self-punishment baggage. Some people pierce, some people jump from planes (guh - just. no. ever. I don't like looking over balconies *shudder*) - I scare myself with movies.

::soothes you::

So...

[aexia.livejournal.com]

What'd you think of Jason vs Freddy? Slasher-fic or comedy?

Re: So...

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

A comedy about true love.

[laurashalo.livejournal.com]

Event Horizon is monumentally creepy. I saw it by myself one summer when I was housesitting and the only other person in the theater was this very weird acting man. So the movie plus the guy and my nerves were shot to hell.

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Event Horizon. I got dragged into that movie against my will by a friend who assured me no, of course not, it's not *that* scary!

Yes. I spent about 90% of that movie scrunched up into a cowering ball of terror, with my fingers in my ears.

Of course, I'm (only slightly) less of a wuss now, so I should really rent it one of these days.

/pointless ramblings.

Linzee

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Then again, it could have been worse. you could have stayed home and watched the season premiere of Boomtown.

[luminosity]

God. If you're gonna watch Event Horizon in order to get the Cold Creek Manor taste out of your mouth, I can guess it doesn't taste like Shinola.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

of Leaves is on my "everyone must read these ten books" list. And I don't think a movie of the book could be as scary as the book is itself, because so much of what's frightening is how you are cajoled into envisioning the situation.

[cristophoros.livejournal.com]

Liberate me...
(Save me...)
Liberate tute me ex inferis
(Save yourself from hell)

Fuck this ship!

[thenyxie.livejournal.com]

*favorite moment in a movie EVER*

*the Captain (Laurence Fishburne) flicks off the screen that's just shown them insanity at its worst and most disturbing...*

*...and looks around without apology and says without room for discussion* We're leaving.

That's the smartest motherfucker I've seen in a horror movie EVER. Too bad it didn't help.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was your interpretation of the trailers -- I think they were deliberately misleading. Because I was all hyped up for a supernatural, Amityville-Horror-type haunted house movie too.

What a disappointment. The only good things about the movie were the actress who played the daughter -- I wouldn't be surprised if she goes far -- and the way Sharon Stone looks -- older. She's aging, and not trying to hide it, and she still looks fastastic.

[thenyxie.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. Event Horizon? Fucked me up severely for a couple of days. I had to watch it four more itmes before I could even begin to be okay with it. Still, that is the kind of horror movie I love to be scared by, despite that it disturbed the fuck out of me.

But... The Ring? That was cruel and unusual fucking punishment, yo. I knew it was gonna be bad, but not that bad. That movie has scarred me for life. Two weeks of sleeping with the lights on--or rather--NOT sleeping. Trust me. Event Horizon is a cake walk comparatively. Or maybe I'm just a wuss :)

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

It was partly filmed right here in my little town in Cambridge, Ontario. The whole area around the library was shut off while Sharon did something (there are some bridges across the Grand there and they and the buildings around are supposed to look all historical; we get lots of films made here. It doubled for wartime Poland once and it was shut off this week and covering with American flags...)

Scuttlebutt was that my friend's cousin's house didn't get built on time because Dennis Quaid was staying across from it and said the construction noise was bothering him so the builders couldn't work at certain times.

So I might rent it just to see if I can spot us.

[cristophoros.livejournal.com]

Oh come on...the Ring was boring. And the effect at the end had already been done in Wes Craven's Shocker. Not that you can't repeat stuff, but it didn't surprise me.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I loved The Ring. Analog is evil. Destroy your VCR.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

I only watched Event Horizon for the Jason Isaacs man. In nothing but wet biker shorts, no less.

Me and squeetard freeze-framed the part where he walks away from the camera, so we could gaze longingly at his ass.

Nothing but The Exorcist has ever scared me. Sometimes I have trouble not covering my eyes in really good suspense movies (the first two Alien flicks), but The Exorcist left me afraid to walk into dark rooms.