i have to admit so few things scare me or have for at least 15 years, Gore makes me smile, jump shock films usually aren't effective (although the decent and when i first saw the scream trilogy were tremendous for it), and most of the films that scared me were when i was 6, and by 7 i loved them,
The last time a film really scared me was the japanese ring back in 1998, i have been repulsed more often by watching everything from the eye to high tension to Martyrs, but scared is so rare, i guess i hunt for enjoymenty i get from horror movies (freedom in direction, low key cinematography and special fx) and to hope i chance across films that stick with me, like when i saw the shining around 10 years of age, i didn't sleep all night, and couldn't put my finger on what i was scared of. I suppose session 9 creeped me out too, and the orphanage a bit, but i just see it all as entertainment, and hope along the way i find something that does scare me. I in no way mean these films aren't scary its down to each persons threshold and i wish mine was much lower.
Thanks as always for all the suggestions, i have many of these on dvd, like street trash, the stuff, Xtro trilogy (sorry i like the gung-ho sequels, i was 12 when i saw xtro 2, it had big guns, and for a 12 year old, thats all it really needs) and that Snowbeast film looks hilarious, i forget that old fade to red trick when people died, i much prefer the night of the demon bigfoot movie where at least castrations, people having their intestines ripped out before being whipped to death with them actually happened before the screen faded to red.
I have never even heard of Bug, well aside the extraordinarily bad one from last year by william friedkin, so will happily hunt that out as so many of you mentioned it.
I guess i was after films with good monsters, and by monsters i mean large beasts attacking people brotherhood of the wolf style when i started this forum, and i have found monster flicks i never would have without you all, from the 70's to laugh at, please keep them coming, but i was after pumpkinhead, mimic, rawhead rex style creatures, ones that look damn amazing (although the bear in the prophecy actually does look amazing, looked like the thing out of the thing
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Keep all your suggestions coming from bad 70's drive in movies to really good movies. Yesterday i watched wolfen for the first time and that was amazing, and is that where they stole the vision for predator from, even the way it heard people was similar.