blair witch project,..ha ha ha...i could make a more frightening film with my camcorder and a $5.00 filiming budget...a little fake blood could make for a more entertaining piece.
gremlins??..pleeease
poltergiest?,...well,.ok,.ill admit,.the maggots eating that guys face in the bathroom was a bit freakish,..but only when i was 8 yrs old.
the exorcist is a tad bit overrated,.and the film's stronghold seems to be getting dated.
there's different things that scare different people, and when the people coin the phrase "the most scariest movies", it tends to become misconstrued..and here's why....
first you have "scary" movies, that really arent scary at all,..more of what i call "surprise films",.that being that they scare by unexpectedly surprising the audience, and usually the surprise in question has no gore element to it all,..it could be something as simple as someone hiding behind a tree and then jumping out from behind it..simple as that.
GORE...this is the more traditional type of horror film. films of this nature dwell on showing the viewer a gruesome visual depiction of the fright. in this instance, there doesnt need to be any type of surprise element at all,.although it usually would intensify the moment. in gore films, the camera seems to stay focused on the object of gore,.and the gore intensifies, whether it be someone getting slowly decapitated, or a knife slowly going into the flesh....(yeah, yeah...i know,..i need to stop)
the third type of scary film, can scare the viewer by sheer words,..just as i may have done with my last ending statement in my previous paragraph. however, usually, films of these type tend to utilize suspense, in that the main actor is unaware of the danger that lies ahead,.but the viewer is aware because of witnessing what the attacker plans to mentally concoct then perform on their prey. in these type of films, the viewer is usually trying to warn the victim, almost forgetting that it is just a film, and the victim already knows what lies ahead, because they read the film's script before they starting shooting. idiots.
and lastly, you have films that are eery..not really scary,..just eccentric, odd, and weird. a perfect example of this film would be a film such as "child's play", "nightmare on elm street", or "friday the 13th" for example. not really scary in the sense,.but almost to a point that its entertaining, and even to the point that some may cheer on the bad guy, just cause they think he is cool.
now, of course..there are many films that use pretty much all 4 types of scare tactics,.in fact,.most do,.but its a matter of what films use what tactics the most that would categorize them individually from the next.
This post has been edited by mireaux7: 26 January 2007 - 06:35 PM