Speaking of movies: I'm sleeping with all my lights on tonight

That Amityville Horror was pretty freaking. It strayed some from the book but it was 200% better than the original and scary to boot!

Been a while since I had a good scare

Is it the jump out at you Texas Chainsaw Massacre or the intense Silence of the Lambs scary?

I read where about 10 years ago the Lutzes (the people who the book is based upon) finally fessed up that the whole story was a hoax, but the legend is out there and the movie was good to the entire legend about that house. They used unknown actors for the main characters and both of them did a great job

I'll have to wait until it's out on DVD. Then I'll watch it on a Saturday afternoon with the lights on. I saw the Ring at home on a Saturday and I was still freaked out when I went to bed.

Alas, I'm a scary movie wimp.

than "The Shining?"

...but the Ring is definately creepy. But I won't see the Ring Two - I don't want a good thing ruined

I don't scare too easily, but the Shining was CREEPY AS SHIT.
:scared:

and said it really sucked.

:hide: I hid behind a couch!

When I first saw the original Amityville Horror I was like 10, and it scared the piss out of me.
The Exorcist though, really fucked me up. That movie disturbed the shit out of me

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I haven't been able to watch it more than twice in my life. It's only the second-scariest movie I've seen, and it's completely brilliant, but also? DISTURBING. And if you've never read the book, you just might want to let that life opportunity pass you by as well. 'Cause damn. That one will stay with you.

The tv version was creepier, esp the bathtub (eww) but I saw that one before the Jack Nicholson (which wasn't nearly as creepy).

Silence of the Lambs didn't creep me out until the 3rd time I saw it (at night), but now it's one of my favorite movies.

the old '70's movie with Jack Nicholson, which I found creeeeeeeepy! The TV show is worse?!!?

Jack Nicholson looked crazy the whole time. In the tv one, Steven Weber get crazy gradually. He's way scarier. Oh and there's a scene when Danny's playing out side and the bushes are shaped like animals and they come alive and start moving.

My mom said the tv version is much truer to the book (which of course I won't read or I'll have nightmares).

I taped the TV version when it was on, but I'm sure they may have it at Blockbuster or something. You should really see it.

Edited to add: I just looked it up on Amazon, and the tv version's on DVD, so I'd really think you should be able to rent it.

The T.V version scared me..

But that damn book actually kept me from going to sleep ugh.

Your mom is correct the T.V version is more truer to the book.

I love The Shining, but I have yet been able to pick it up and read it again.

she said no they were too scary. So to this day (at 24) I still have never read a Stephen King book.

that movie's imagery was seriously demented.


The Grudge, too

not the movie but actually about the whole legend surrounding Amityville Horror

http://p214.ezboard.com/bthetruthabouttheamityvillehorror

I know someone who lived on the same street as the actual exorcist case the book and movie were based on, and knew who the boy it actually happened to was.

...and this comes from a girl who use to Water Ski in the waters by Three Mile Island before AND after the accident

by yourself...home alone...

I couldn't watch it a second time.

I'm really a wimp when it comes to scary movies.

Never completed it

but the end of the Ring was by far more scary than anything in the Grudge

And furthermore "Spoiler under here for those who haven't seen"...
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I actually started to chuckle when that girl got sucked under her bed (I think she got sucked under her bed can't completely remember the movie, but in any case got a chuckle out of me)

The Ring though.....

Has anyone seen the Japanese version Ringu?

I don't know if because I didn't find it as scary, it's imagery did not hit nearly as hard, or I found the Japanese acting to be a little corny, I did not get the same chill from it.

I know other people who thought it was better, but not me.

i enjoyed it, but I definitely understand you on the Japanese Acting, wasn't the best. I think if you see the Ring first and then Ringu, Ringu is definitely going to pale in comparision. In the end regardless, I agree The Ring is in my opinion superior because like you said the imagery hit hard. That and it is one of only two movies I know of that empited out the entire boys and girls club living room back when I worked there. (Not my movie selection... I wanted to show them The Goonies.)

I know the feeling.

Reminds me of when I was a kid and I saw The Exorcist.

I get kinda weird when religion is somehow mixed in with a horror movie. If it was just a boogieman, I'm fine. But demons were involved and that kinda gets under my skin

...Wow, was Tom Delay in it?? :shrug:

I swore Regan was gonna come out of my heat register in my room and float over my bed...

Lol!!!!

Relax sweetie, and get a favorite drink and chill....

Its gonna be just fine.

Horror doesn't necessarily have to have religion in the mix (someone already mentioned "Silence of the Lambs"), but it does have to make you afraid to tuen out the lights three days after watching it.

Thrillers don't have to scare you, they only have to shock you, with either some guy jumping out of a dark corner or something really groos, it doesn't matter if it makes you jump for half a second.

At least that's how I differentiate between horror and cheap thrills.

demonology and shit really freaks me out. After I saw the Exorcist, I was seriously disturbed. I was 10 or so and it fucked up an entire summer.

One of my mother's friends grew up in Mt. Rainier, MD right outside of DC. Down the street from where she lived was the family whose son was possessed and it was that possesion that became the inspiration for William P. Blatty to write the Exorcist. This happened when she was little, very little, in the late 1940s---but everyone in her neighborhood knew who the guy was and the house. :scared:

"While not conclusive, the study in this week's Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests lights at night rob your body of cancer protection"

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:xugrHS8i86wJ:www.thepittsburghchannel.com/health/2247868/detail.html+study+sleeping+lights+cancer&hl=en

that could be scary too!

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...with the person having massive panic attacks will happen?

I'll survive - not like I'm doing this the rest of my life. Anyhow, I keep my place pretty dark most of the time since lights on means electricity being wasted!

that house is about ten minutes from here. LOL... it sits on its side on the block...VERY strange. the front door faces the side of the neighbors house, I kid you not. Other than that though, I've lived here my whole life, heard crazy things back when it all happened, but then nothing much since.

Well....sweet dreams!

eeeeks. I don't really know what they've done to the house... I'd have to purposely drive there, it's not like I pass it going anywhere else. Now I want to go outside in the dark and smoke, or use the basement...holy crap. :scared:

A friend of mine who has an aunt who lives in that neighborhood

Avg. Rating: 3.9/10
2/4 "In a ghost story, the narrative doesn't have to be a model of originality or coherence, but it needs to support the scares. In The Amityville Horror, the writing is so bad that it detracts from the 'boo!' moments and creepy interludes."
-- James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS

2/4 "If they scare up enough business to perpetuate this sort of retread, that will be the real horror."
-- Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

"You'll want to get out of Amityville long before the Lutzes do."
-- Sean Daly, WASHINGTON POST

3/5 "Low-key creepy rather than outright scary, the new Amityville marks a modest improvement over the original."
-- Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES

D+ "The filmmakers have managed to take a mediocre movie and make it worse."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS