Which horror is scarier?

[Shaka_Khan]

We have seen blockbusters on these monsters recently.
Which would be the situation that you would want to avoid the most: chest bursting, changing to a zombie, changing to a vampire, changing to a werewolf, or having your spine pulled out?

If these monsters go face to face, I would bet on the predator. The predator does not have to go near anyone to kill. The vampire might have the best chance to escape thanks to its ability to fly. The alien comes close to being the best because I think the alien's acidic blood makes it immune to whatever the zombie, the vampire, and the werewolf has in their blood.

So which one makes a better horror movie?

[Don Corleone]

Hmmm.... that's a tough question. As for the one I'd like the least... I think I have to go with the Alien facehugger not getting into me. That looked pretty wretched. Predators don't kill people by ripping their spines out, they do that to take the trophy after they've killed them (with their laser or crossbow or spear).

As for the other 3, changing to a werewolf always looks excruciating when they show it in the movies (such as American Werewolf in London). Then again, that scene in the Howling 3, where it was clear the Alpha male gets a lot more than just the Alpha female for his troubles has me considering....

Vampirism always looks like it's not so much painful as it freaks the new minions out... until the blood hunger kicks in.

Changing into a zombie usually involves getting bitten/partially eaten/ etc. It usually looks rather unpleasant and painful too (I'm thinking the Living Dead series here...). Not to mention... werewolves and vampires are cool. It'd suck to get picked to be a zombie... they're dirty and they're mindless.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Alien.

Zombies are slow, Vampires weak in the sunlight and facing crosses, garlic, silver, stakes, etc., Werewolfs are predictable (full moon), just get some silver hollowpoints, Predator...meh.

Besides, it'd be cool (for a while) to be a vamprie. Aliens don't change you, they burst out through your chest after jumping on your face.

Crazed Rabbit

[Kraxis]

Alien... No doubt.

The Predator is too sophisticated to be truly scary, it is just cool (not that it wouldn't be scary to meet).

Zombies are scary but often only when there are huge numbers of them. If there were an equal number of Aliens I know what would be more scary.

The Alien is quite humanoid, yet so far from how we are. It is a perversion of ourselves. We always dislike that and fear it. You can see this in the Praying Mantis, it is often the image for intelligent insects, mostly because it is so similar to us.
The sneaky predator style the Alien has is also scary. Humans really dislike being hunted (DUH!). The mouth-in-mouth is pretty scary, yet not nasty like zombies feeding.
The ability to more or go where it want to makes it an unpleasant enemy to the mind ('is it over there?'). And you have to be in it's grasp to get killed/injured, that beats getting shot with a shouldercannon anyday as to scariness.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Good cinematography.

I find people scarier than fantasy creatures (serial killers, possessed by devil, ghosts whatever).

[BigTex]

Violent Feminism, that has to be the absolute scariest situation to be in.

[Moros]

I hate horror movies. They never scare me for one reason. So why even boher to watch?

btw: many people voted for alien, you tought it was scary movie? :s

[yesdachi]

I think zombies make for a better horror movie just because they are scarier to me. The shock of one being your loved one or that you could be turned into one is too much. Plus you know if there is one, there is going to be a fricking hundred of them! Not so in the case of the others.

Aliens and Predators are more sci-fi to me and don’t scare me much. If I try and put myself into a situation where I might encounter one I can’t help but think I would have some killer space marine weapon to protect myself with.

Vampires and werewolf’s are just plain cool! One would attack and instead of running I’d be like, can you really turn to mist? Where’s all that hair go when you turn back to human? Don’t kill me just “turn” me and we’ll go paint the town! I know some girls from around the way who would totally dig a couple of night feeders! Oh, I had this econ teacher that would crap his pants if he saw us! Do you drink beer?

[Viking]

Movies that contains the unknown.

[Kagemusha]

Ghosts.Movies that have ghosts are the only one that sometimes frighten me.For example The sixth sense was great.I dont know whats it about ghosts but they are scary.:skull:

[Viking]

The game F.E.A.R. was quite good at horror. It was the supernatural element that made it such.
You don`t know what`s gonna happen because the supernatural doesn`t follow the laws of nature, etc. etc..

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Alien

I mean common. They have acid for blood. They have a spear for a tail, AND they have a skull penetrating tongue...

Who doesn't pick Aliens?!?!:inquisitive:

[Don Corleone]

I thought the thread was about the scariest of the options presented, not the scariest thing we've seen in movies...

Things that imply or come right out and state that the punishment will be eternal and unbearable bother me, i.e. movies involving Satan or some satan-like being, like Pinhead in Hellraiser. Must have been that Catholic upbringing, but the first time I saw Hellraiser, I immediately started whimpering and my first thought was "I KNEW I NEVER SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THAT DAMN PORNO!!! NOW WHAT DO I DO?!?!!?"


Warning: Plot twist to a so-so thriller revealed inside:

Angelheart, for very different reasons, really screwed me up. It played at the back of my mind saying "what if you only think you're on the going up list, because the devil is toying with you... what if you discover at some point that it's too late to get out of that you've repressed the memory of that point where you bought your 'down ticket'." Kinda scary, no? I spent MANY sleepless nights CONVINCED Lucifer was down below cackling away with his cronies hooting away "And he doesn't even know, so he can't repent for it!!! Ha ha ha ha".

[Ianofsmeg16]

Religious horror, theirs nothing scarier to me than the Devil, or soem of the monsters in the book of revelation. Next would have to be alien, then predator, I agree with what Kraxis said, Predator could be scary, but hes mostly cool.

[Ironside]

Aliens and Predators are more sci-fi to me and don’t scare me much. If I try and put myself into a situation where I might encounter one I can’t help but think I would have some killer space marine weapon to protect myself with.


I'll take it you haven't played AvP2 then. The aliens aren't scary because they can take much damage, but because they are next to you within the time it takes to aim properly...

Personally zombies freak me out more than those scare me and induvidually they aren't that much of an enemy.

Werewolves and vampires got thier coolness factor (esp vampires after playing VTM Bloodlines, I mean no getting evil by default and no turning everyone you bite into new vampires) and it's a bit of rather getting transformed than torn apart (unlike the zombie case).

Predators got thier predictness against them and aiming for playing a cripple might actually pay off (target not worth hunting).
But a mad predator hunting with thier claw-weapon in those classical future corridors would be very scary. Seeing you partners get ripped apart one by one, by an unseen enemy in an area were you cannot run from would be extremly nerve-tempering. The most dangerous enemy in one vs one combat too.

Wiith aliens you've got no chance of mercy, getting captured will make your chest go splash. And it's a formittable enemy to say the least and often in large numbers. Certainly the film monster with most potential.


many people voted for alien, you tought it was scary movie?
I suspect that most people have voted for what would be the scariest thing to meet, not the scariest movie. Neither alien or predator were horror movies for example, but that wouldn't change that meeting those would be extremly scary anyway.

As for the scariest movies, it usually need to involve some supernatual stuff to be scary for me, for some reason. Voted Aliens BTW.

[drone]

Religious or supernatural horror revolving around humans. People doing twisted, unthinkable things to others. Most of the traditional horror monsters (not the alien types) are derivatives of humans anyway, behaviors transferred into monstrous forms to separate them from humanity.

[The_Doctor]

Probably aliens.

Cybermen and The Borg will turn you into them.

The Daleks will "Ex-Ter-Min-Ate" you.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/index13.shtml

And of course there are Ewoks.:skull:

[Al Khalifah]

The Birds (from the film of the same name) or the creepy local villagers (in the Wicker Man - the scariest film I've ever seen).

The scary thing about these is that they COULD happen and that they COULD get you. The Wicker Man is even scarier because nothing happens, they just let the guy burn and they sang. Singing is very scary.

If Hollywood had done the Wicker Man, at the moment when the flames started to touch the police man, 100 apache gunships would have flown over the side of the cliff and straffed the area killing them all or one of the villagers would have had a change of heart, freed the slaves and charged the scene resulting in a pointless inaccurate battle sequence.

The Birds is especially scary now we have avian flu.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Oompa Loompas look kind of scary too. Have you seen Charlie and the Chocolate factory? Those things eat worms and...ick...

They're just plain freaky...:inquisitive:

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Alien was a horror movie - at least as much as a sci-fi.

Aliens was plain sci-fi, and better, to boot.

[Quid]

I favour to be a vampire. Simple reason is the chicks they seem to be getting all the time. Just bite them and they are all yours :2thumbsup:!

As for films...I reckon anything that one could relate to in real life gets you thinking. None of the above, therefore, as they are all too fictional in character.

Quid

[Strike For The South]

My mum. Im still scared of her

[Byzantine Prince]

I think video tapes are pretty scary. From the list I'll go with the princes of darkness, just because I love vampyrs.

[GoreBag]

I'm gonna go with 'retard'. Honestly, I can remember playing Manhunt and only being frightened by the man with the mind of a six-year old, wearing a smiley-face mask and carrying a shotgun, struggling to call out, "Where are you? Come out and play?"

I find dementia far more disturbing than any old monster.

[Csargo]

Mine was Alien because there just fricken scary.

Frickenin running across the border without anyone seeing them sneaky little guys...Oh never mine

[Samurai Waki]

I think I'd rather have my torso ripped apart by an alien than being the subject of "experimentation" by someone like Hannibal Lecter.

[Banquo's Ghost]

None of the listed options provoked any deep emotions in film, but for me the scariest memory I have from the cinema was watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a kid.

Robert Helpmann's Child Catcher terrified me at the time, and still evokes a shudder at the memory.

"Lollipops...." :hide:

[Zalmoxis]

Zombies.

[English assassin]

I'm with DC that only catholics truly know the meaning of fear. Notwithstanding my views on religion I seriously wished I had a bible in the house the night after seeing the Exorcist.


Which would be the situation that you would want to avoid the most: chest bursting, changing to a zombie, changing to a vampire, changing to a werewolf, or having your spine pulled out?

Hmm. I'm struggling with what criteria to use for a decision here. I'm pretty sure it would be being a zombie, although that assumes zombies are self-aware. I can't see much upside to being a mindless undead rotting corpse. Being a vampire is overrated IMHO. What with sunlight and garlic and crosses and holy water and who knows what else. And besides, I like the Sisters of Mercy as much as the next man but i wouldn't want to have to live the rest of my death as a goth.

Being a werewolf would be quite fun in a way.

[Duke John]

Other. The best horror movies uses the imagination of the people watching it instead of showing the actual beast or monster.

[TB666]

http://orballo.f2o.org/weblog/imaxes/pinhead_hellraiser.jpg

^This guy.
While you don't know it, this guy will make your worst horror come true and double it through pain.:hide:

[Mithrandir]

No one has a girlfriend/wife here?

my vote:

Mother in law.

[Don Corleone]

Damn you Mithrandir!!! I have spent two years of intense therapy and sedation learning to sleep again by forcing myself to suppress my memories of that terrifying hag! Now, she's right back in the front of my mind....


All kidding aside, my mother-in-law does freak me out, but not in that sense.

[lars573]

The Thing, not the crap Frankinstien monster rip off from the original but the shapshifting thing from John Carpenters remake.

Or the slug things from the new movie Slither that eat most of your brian then take control of your body.

Goa'ulds are kind of freaky too. I mean a snake that burrows into your brain and takes control.

[Fragony]

Zombies all the way, there is just something wrong with them. They are a slow but unstoppable force, and if they get you they eat you alive :dizzy2: