Scary gif thread!

[pixy0stix]

Oct 30, 2012 17:54:35 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Oct 30, 2012 17:48:41 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm extremely disappointed I can't find a Pet Semetary gif with the kid under the bed.

People under the bed is always creepy. Do you happen to remember that episode of The X Files with the amputee mother living under the bed who breeds with her own sons?

Yes! The one episode that never re-aired, ever? That one still haunts me.

[IIOY]

That is the only episode of X Files I ever watched from start to finish. I caught it by mistake and was riveted. Much as I love the creepy, suspenseful, and supernatural, X Files never did it for me. I have no idea why.

[benitabutrell]

Oct 30, 2012 17:59:37 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Oct 30, 2012 17:54:35 GMT -5 IIOY said:

People under the bed is always creepy. Do you happen to remember that episode of The X Files with the amputee mother living under the bed who breeds with her own sons?

Yes! The one episode that never re-aired, ever? That one still haunts me.

"This is our home.."

[IIOY]

That family was in Pennsyltucky, which tells you everything you need to know about the middle of my state, LOL.

[Jam]

Oct 30, 2012 17:29:04 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Oct 30, 2012 17:14:01 GMT -5 Jam said:

1st is my favorite in recent times- Martyrs.
2nd is an old favorite- Dead Alive (not so much scary as it is just awesome)

I've been going back and forth on whether to see Martyrs because it seems more like torture porn than suspense, and I'm a much bigger fan of the latter.

Why is Dead Alive awesome? I don't think I've even heard of it.

I honestly don't think it's torture porn. There's an actual story and it is suspenseful while being gory. I've never cried during a horror movie and that movie made me cry in hysterics. I couldn't sleep. It's all I thought about for three days after I saw it and I've yet to find anything that lives up to it since.


Dead Alive is an old zombie flick from the 90s by Peter Jackson. It's gross and gory and ridiculous. It's not really scary IMO but I love a good gore fest.

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Oct 30, 2012 17:49:49 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Oct 30, 2012 17:37:46 GMT -5 @2009miss said:

And your siggy is honestly the most horrifying thing in this thread. I could not stop staring at it. The thought of waking up and seeing someone standing over like that is one of my biggest fears.
Besides someone grabbing my feet/ankles while I step out of bed.

Here's that scene if you are interested. This is actually a crappy quality preview of the film, but that scene is at the very beginning.

FWIW, the preview doesn't do the film justice at all. Frankly it's cheesy. In reality, that whole movie is an extended exercise in creepy suspense genius, and I think it's the pinnacle of the entire J-horror genre.

Huh. I thought Ju-On was utter bollocks. It made no sense, it was just "hey, look, scary stuff"...the end. Well executed scary stuff, sure. But I guess I prefer my stories to have a story of some kind lol.
Having said that, I read somewhere that it is a difference between western and japanese thought - where we need to have things all tidy and explained, and they find it scarier if its not.

[IIOY]

Oct 30, 2012 18:43:40 GMT -5 @reeve said:

Oct 30, 2012 17:49:49 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Here's that scene if you are interested. This is actually a crappy quality preview of the film, but that scene is at the very beginning.

FWIW, the preview doesn't do the film justice at all. Frankly it's cheesy. In reality, that whole movie is an extended exercise in creepy suspense genius, and I think it's the pinnacle of the entire J-horror genre.

Huh. I thought Ju-On was utter bollocks. It made no sense, it was just "hey, look, scary stuff"...the end. Well executed scary stuff, sure. But I guess I prefer my stories to have a story of some kind lol.
Having said that, I read somewhere that it is a difference between western and japanese thought - where we need to have things all tidy and explained, and they find it scarier if its not.

I won't disagree at all that the story is a total mess. I couldn't keep the timeline straight and was completely confused in general as to who was who, especially when they'd disappear for a while and then reappear. I remember getting to the end of the film and being very WTF about the plotline.

However, I suspect what scares me falls more in line with what you describe as appealing to the Japanese perspective, which was the utter chaos of the film.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Goddamn it Pixy! I will call Wayne Brady out here to cut a bitch!

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This thread is awesome. My BFF owns every horror movie made in the US, Japan, Italy, and Korea in the last 20 years (really... it's an immense collection) and it's been fun to place the gifs.

The ghoul in the bed one is from a short film called Bedfellows. It won a horror short film award in 2008 (I think).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6xGU2_g9s

FEWDIO has a lot of great scary shorts if you have nothing to do on Halloween night...

fewdio.com/