Nah it doesn't show much when you watch it carefully.
I wanted to put in Insidious but you can't get it on Amazon, Apple TV or Netflix in the UK
I'm letting them choose 2 from a menu of 8, because if I just choose 2 they'll complain and automatically think they are shit, but if they have a bit of choice, it'll be much easier!
How old were you when you watched it?
If you really want to shit them up, as they get to a scary part of the film, start flicking the light fuse off and on. They fecking shite themselves.
Why, out of interest, would you choose the Poltergeist remake over the original? I've watched that with my 14 year old recently and it's a classic of the genre and suitable for that age group.
Yeah, abit of a odd one. The original is great fun.
Just because anything I show them pre 2000 is branded old and boring. I showed my eldest omen and alien recently and she was bored out of her mind and kept asking when they would get scary. I though the remake might be more acceptable to them.
How’d this end up? I think most of those on your list are too intense for that age group. Maybe one of the funnier horror movies would have been good, like Evil Dead 2.
The willing suspension of disbelief is key for horror movies, and getting really stoned before one makes it a lot easier to go with what story you’re watching. I saw BWP when it was still only playing at a couple film festivals and didn’t have a distribution yet. My friend’s brother owned an apparel company and somehow knew someone etc etc and we had the movie on VHS. This was still in the window when the actors were kept off press junkets so that people believed it was real. We got thoroughly baked and watched it, and it was totally engrossing and horrifying, the scene at the end in the basement freaked me right the feck out.BWP came out in 1999 so I assume it was a couple of years later when it was on Channel 4/Film 4 (so I'd have been 11/12?). It seems silly now for me too but all the grainy footage spooked me as a kid. It felt unsettling and claustophobic.
I think that's the thing with horror - there always tends to be something that makes people feel scared. For some kids it'll be ghosts (especially in and around the home), for some it'll be demonic visions, etc etc. Whatever relates to existing fears.
It's why I think stock stuff like Zombie or Werewolf movies, while scary, doesn't unsettle people the same way. You don't tend to encounter or think about them much in daily life. They only exist in the movies (or at least I hope).
No idea if I'm being helpful here for the point of your thread but the idea behind horror movies interests me a lot
They initially picked The Quiet Place but after about 45 minutes decided it was boring and not scary enough, so they asked to change to Insidious, but we couldn't stream it, so they decided they wanted The Conjuring, I tried to put them off it, but they pushed and pushed so they watched that in the pitch dark on a projector. Out of ten of them, one was a bit freaked out but nothing bad, the others enjoyed it, but were a bit meh at the end! They did all scream though when the clapping hands appear! All the parents that came at 10 to pick up their kids were told what they'd seen and thankfully no one minded at all.
We actually watched The Exorcist last night. I thought it was quite silly, but I remember seeing it at the pictures when it first came out and it seemed much more shocking. I think it's just that the special effects nowadays are much more impressive.
The older films that I remember being terrifying, (I'm thinking The Exorcist, The Omen or more recently Blair Witch) just don't scare kids in the way they used to. I think it's because though they were ground breaking at the time and we hadn't seen or even imagined anything like them, for today's kids the tricks, tropes and cliches etc have been used again and again so don't shock or impact in the same way.
All done and dusted last night, they watched The Conjuring, which in my view is is way too scary, but they were determined. They were fine and the parents were all good too, so no harm done!
Always good to get through those things without parental anger. Well done.
Honestly, the most frightening horror film I ever saw is a black and white one from 1957 called "Night Of The Demon" (released in the USA as Curse Of The Demon), with Niall McGinnis and Dana Andrews. It's rated highly on review charts of all-time-best horror films. The demon itself is as you'd expect for a film of that era, but the sense of foreboding and impending doom throughout the film is absolutely terrifying.
Cool, ill check that out.
