The Shining (1980)

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by javy

I had a buddy who passed away some years ago, he was a older fella. He would say, "99% of what I lived through never happened." That's always stuck with me

Wow, pretty close to this famous quote:

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”

― Michel de Montaigne

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/675...rtunes-most-of

[OI8T12]

Originally Posted by Baron Blood

I'm always amazed (and a little jealous) that anyone can be scared by a film when fully grown.

I've been fully grown for many years, and I'm still afraid to watch The Exorcist. I've seen it many times over the years, including when it was first released, and I still get a tingle up and down my spine every single time I watch it. Even just talking about the movie, still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Age has nothing to do with it.

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[I KEEL YOU]

I find that the older I get, the more I'm scared of the unknown, as opposed to any blatant ghoul or monster. That's why The Shining still works for me. But in a different way. Before I used to be scared of the two little girls, etc. But now I'm more scared of the shots of the vast empty hallways in the film. Some guy in a bonus featurette of The Shining made a great point: That there are many shots throughout the film where you see huge areas of space where the danger could be coming from, but without the danger being explicitly shown. And that creepy soundtrack just adds to the atmosphere.

But being scared has nothing to do with your age... or species:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5jf3PFunwc

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by OI8T12

I've been fully grown for many years, and I'm still afraid to watch The Exorcist. I've seen it many times over the years, including when it was first released, and I still get a tingle up and down my spine every single time I watch it. Even just talking about the movie, still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Age has nothing to do with it.

And the book too!!

[Baron Blood]

Originally Posted by eiknarf

Well, these new horror movies today, that keep insisting on trying to scare us with "scary children" has to stop.

Kids aren't scary! I can beat the crap out of any kid!

Kids used in horror movies might be creepy or disturbing, but that's not frightening.

And don't go using The Shining against me just because I said that... Because the child, Danny, in The Shining, isn't used as a character who is going to get me or kill me. He's used as a plot device to create the narrative.

I totally agree.
Any monster I can spank has zero effect on me except my disdain for the film.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

I don't believe in the supernatural either and that has nothing to do with it. Film is a medium which manipulates emotions, you could just as well say that you don't find comedies funny because they are fiction. In the end it has nothing to do with not being able to tell fiction from reality. People who are more emphatic are more likely to find horror films scary, because they identify with the characters and situations more. Women are considered to be more emphatic than men, that's why they are likely to scare more. However men too differ in how emphatic they are from each other, people are wired up differently emotionally.

Are you trying to say "empathetic"???

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Are you trying to say "empathetic"???

Yes, Enlish is not my first language. Now everybody will think I was talking about Deanna Troi from Star Trek.

[crutzulee]

Originally Posted by OI8T12

I've been fully grown for many years, and I'm still afraid to watch The Exorcist. I've seen it many times over the years, including when it was first released, and I still get a tingle up and down my spine every single time I watch it. Even just talking about the movie, still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Age has nothing to do with it.

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I shed my catholicism many years ago, and have zero belief in christian mythology, ghosts or the supernatural.....

But when I watch this movie now, as a grown ass man with a wife and teenage kids, I still revert back to that gullible catholic kid with the belief system required to make this film absolutely terrifying..

Hell, when I showed this to my wife (who grew up Jewish) for the first time, her response was that it made her want to head straight to church!

I guess you could say that THE EXORCIST is a powerful christian recruitment tool. I definitely can say, that in my family, my parents, and those of my many cousins, allowed us to watch this movie at ages well below what I would consider appropriate given the intensity it's content. That was no accident.

[MJD64]

I still recall seeing this film in the summer of 1980, sitting alone in the theater, still counting my blessings that my 15-year-old self had graciously been sold a ticket by the teen girl cashier to an R-rated movie I still wasn't technically old enough to watch unaccompanied (I still remember a group of teen boys about my age near the box-office saying "He's not old enough!" and that cashier saying "He looks old enough, he'll be fine.").The opening of the film, with its smooth and heady camera moves over that beautiful, yet forbidding, landscape on the big-screen still stays with me (and likely always will). The overhead shots of Jack Torrance's car snaking along the road as if viewed by God on high (take another look at the trees from that angle, in that first overhead shot; they stick up like pointed daggers) were as elegant as anything I'd ever seen in a horror film up to that time. All of those shots, accompanied by that eerie score, leading the audience inexorably to the Overlook Hotel. I loved the film back then, and though my response to it has gone back and forth over the decades, I'd never seen a horror film quite like it...and still haven't.

For all its flaws, it remains a hypnotic piece of work. That's what makes a classic. And to that cashier who sold me that ticket when she probably at least suspected I wasn't old enough, thanks again.

[Baron Blood]

Suggesting everyone who doesn't get scared from a fictional Atform is less empathetic as others is another stupid theory.
Sorry.


I'm beginning to think I have a different definition of being scared.
I guess by someones definition you could say The Texas Chainsaw Massacre "scares" me since I get involved in the story and root for the victims.
But I'm more creeped out than scared.
It's what people are capable of in real life that truly scares me.

So... I still get involved in horror films it just might not have the same type of impact on me as it does on others.

BTW~ Watching any movie a hundred times can lose some of its impact for anyone.
But a great, masterful film like The Shining one can also gain a better appreciation for it the more they watch.


My main problem is suggesting there's no point to a horror film unless it scares.
With that theory a film like The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari isn't worth watching.
I can't imagine that film scares anyone today.

[Talal86]

I almost never get scared from movies, as well

but Resident Evil 7 scared me a lot the first time I played it

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by Baron Blood

Suggesting everyone who doesn't get scared from a fictional Atform is less empathetic as others is another stupid theory.
Sorry.


I'm beginning to think I have a different definition of being scared.
I guess by someones definition you could say The Texas Chainsaw Massacre "scares" me since I get involved in the story and root for the victims.
But I'm more creeped out than scared.
It's what people are capable of in real life that truly scares me.

So... I still get involved in horror films it just might not have the same type of impact on me as it does on others.

BTW~ Watching any movie a hundred times can lose some of its impact for anyone.
But a great, masterful film like The Shining one can also gain a better appreciation for it the more they watch.


My main problem is suggesting there's no point to a horror film unless it scares.
With that theory a film like The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari isn't worth watching.
I can't imagine that film scares anyone today.

Plenty of research has been done on that, so feel free to call psychologists stupid. It's not a theory, its science and it's a fact. People who are more empathetic (and that applies more to women) have been shown get more scared at or to not to like horror films at all. It only makes sense as they empathise more with characters and situations. And nobody said anything about any other "fictional Artform".

[Baron Blood]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

Plenty of research has been done on that, so feel free to call psychologists stupid. It's not a theory, its science and it's a fact. People who are more empathetic (and that applies more to women) have been shown get more scared at or to not to like horror films at all. It only makes sense as they empathise more with characters and situations. And nobody said anything about any other "fictional Artform".

OK...I guess I read your post wrong.
I thought you were saying anyone who doesn't get scared is less empathetic as others.

But I'm saying it's a fictional Artform.
So while you might get fooled by a film... for me I'm well aware I'm watching a fictional play in the safety of my home.

As the other poster tried to sell...we don't only watch films with only one part of our brains.
My guess is you watch with much less than me.

[ROSS.T.G.]

Originally Posted by I KEEL YOU

I find that the older I get, the more I'm scared of the unknown, as opposed to any blatant ghoul or monster. That's why The Shining still works for me. But in a different way. Before I used to be scared of the two little girls, etc. But now I'm more scared of the shots of the vast empty hallways in the film. Some guy in a bonus featurette of The Shining made a great point: That there are many shots throughout the film where you see huge areas of space where the danger could be coming from, but without the danger being explicitly shown. And that creepy soundtrack just adds to the atmosphere.

But being scared has nothing to do with your age... or species:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5jf3PFunwc

Yup!

[MifuneFan]

I went to the Alamo Drafthouse theater here in NYC for the first time yesterday, and it's such an awesome place. One thing that was particularly cool was the carpeting, which is designed just like the carpet from The Overlook Hotel

[Darth Marcus]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I went to the Alamo Drafthouse theater here in NYC for the first time yesterday, and it's such an awesome place. One thing that was particularly cool was the carpeting, which is designed just like the carpet from The Overlook Hotel

[Show spoiler]

We're getting an Alamo Drafthouse soon in my area. I hope they lay down the same carpet here.

[popeflick]

Originally Posted by OI8T12

I've been fully grown for many years, and I'm still afraid to watch The Exorcist. I've seen it many times over the years, including when it was first released, and I still get a tingle up and down my spine every single time I watch it. Even just talking about the movie, still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Age has nothing to do with it.

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I was an adult when I first saw the Exorcist and it was the redone version released into theaters in 2000. When the spider walk scene happened some gland in my body emptied itself and I went completely numb from the waist down for a few minutes. I kid you not.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by popeflick

I was an adult when I first saw the Exorcist and it was the redone version released into theaters in 2000. When the spider walk scene happened some gland in my body emptied itself and I went completely numb from the waist down for a few minutes. I kid you not.

[MifuneFan]

I know which version I'm watching this Halloween



(Just arrived today, ordered from Amazon UK for dirt cheap. Forgive the terrible pic)

[skizeegee]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I know which version I'm watching this Halloween



(Just arrived today, ordered from Amazon UK for dirt cheap. Forgive the terrible pic)

Do I bear bad news or am I ignorant but save I must if Halloween is showtime. Isn't this the 120 minute version that is rock bottom priced out of the UK. 144 minutes is the real hunk of a classic that is the must own Blu ray.