Im just curious to see what terrifies the forum public here at the escapist. Hopefully it'll add more than a few movies but even if not, a couple more movies to put on my list to watch is cool too. One thing to add, I would prefer the movies posted are still scary with regard to our generation. I mean, a slow meandering villain that stalks the ankle twisted might have scared audiences in the late 70's but it doesn't in this day. So to start out, something from that same time period that I did find absolutely terrifying
The Thing
Made by John Carpenter in 1982 in a very terrifying non Jon Carpenterish way.
Setting: Antartic Research Station nowheresville with horizons of blinding snow
Plot: An alien lifeform with the ability to replicate whatever it infests to a T. Highly intelligent, its only purpose seems to be to kill others, replicate, and repeate. Each replication is its own being. This is much to the dismay of the scientists of the research complex and with an oncoming snowstorm approaching and radio communication cut off they go quite mad with a cocktail of fear, paranoia, and their own will to live.
Why it kicks ass: I never seen quite a delivery of fear/tension as I did in this movie. Various circumstances lead the scientists to leave the company of one another and upon return, is that fellow infected? Why did he come back alone, some slick alien fuck is ruining our equipment and I have a gun. Plus the animatronics for this movie is AMAZING. It kicks the alien in ET's Ass and is still impressive I think when compared to some CGI and is even more delightful that it is animatronics rather than a computer. The choices the characters make are highly believable and very very relatable. A few scenes are spellbindlgly scary and tension filled and have hit bravos 100 scariest moments quite a few times over the years.
The Thing
Made by John Carpenter in 1982 in a very terrifying non Jon Carpenterish way.
Setting: Antartic Research Station nowheresville with horizons of blinding snow
Plot: An alien lifeform with the ability to replicate whatever it infests to a T. Highly intelligent, its only purpose seems to be to kill others, replicate, and repeate. Each replication is its own being. This is much to the dismay of the scientists of the research complex and with an oncoming snowstorm approaching and radio communication cut off they go quite mad with a cocktail of fear, paranoia, and their own will to live.
Why it kicks ass: I never seen quite a delivery of fear/tension as I did in this movie. Various circumstances lead the scientists to leave the company of one another and upon return, is that fellow infected? Why did he come back alone, some slick alien fuck is ruining our equipment and I have a gun. Plus the animatronics for this movie is AMAZING. It kicks the alien in ET's Ass and is still impressive I think when compared to some CGI and is even more delightful that it is animatronics rather than a computer. The choices the characters make are highly believable and very very relatable. A few scenes are spellbindlgly scary and tension filled and have hit bravos 100 scariest moments quite a few times over the years.
