I'm just a big wuss but for a bit of fun:
Hocus Pocus
Ernest Scared Stupid
Also, not strictly movies, but you could marathon the first season of Supernatural. Lots of spooky, jump scares, and creepy factor, also a lot of it riffs on generic horror tropes.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
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I remember being really freaked out by Ernest Scared Stupid
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ElJeffeRoaming the streets, waving his mod gun around.Moderator, ClubPAMod Emeritus
These are some good suggestions!
He's already seen Alien, and found it kind of boring. (He has ADHD and can kind of tune out if things get too slow.) I think Scream might be a lot of fun, that's a good option.
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ElJeffeRoaming the streets, waving his mod gun around.Moderator, ClubPAMod Emeritus
Do you want to give him nightmares for life? Better to show him something that will mess him up less, like Audition or A Serbian Film.
Why won’t the fucking horse just come out of mud is it TRYING to die Jesus fucking Christ
Also, I just want to mention that Audition is great and so very fucked up.
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I fondly recall Tremors, though it has been 20 years since I saw it. But I recall it as a good "Monsters assault small town" that stays in its lane. You could even add Predator, which is an action movie that turns into a horror movie, but compared to the genre, is not particularly gory, torturish or sexualized (Well apart from Arnold I guess).
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Chinatown is now available for Amazon Prime folks.
Watch it, it is a very good movie.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
So there are actually two films in the collection called Something Wild: this film, an independent from 1961, and Jonathan Demme's prickly romantic comedy from 1986. Not that they bear comparison apart from their names, but I definitely prefer Demme's effort.
This one is about a young woman played by Carroll Baker who's raped and finds herself struggling to resume life afterwards. After moving into an apartment block and trying to maintain a job, she's taken in by an awkward and possessive mechanic. It's set in New York City, with lots of good location photography, it's got a Saul Bass title sequence, and Baker, who performs a lot of her role silently, is really strong in it.
The thing is, it just doesn't have any flow. Its unreasonably slow, willing to watch its characters wander about New York and look around a room in silence. I love when films use duration in order to craft or shift meaning, but here it just feels like a headstrong commitment to realism and nothing else. It doesn't escape the histrionic scoring of the time period either, with horns or strings blaring over anything halfway emotional for the characters. Despite its often ignored subject matter that it approaches with maturity, its entirely too uneven to be absorbed; an awkward film in which technique and writing and rhythm are all at odds with one another. It wants to be illuminating, and it sets up an interesting frame, but doesn't have a lot to say or build towards.
I'm just a big wuss but for a bit of fun:
Hocus Pocus
Ernest Scared Stupid
Also, not strictly movies, but you could marathon the first season of Supernatural. Lots of spooky, jump scares, and creepy factor, also a lot of it riffs on generic horror tropes.
Yes I love these! Ernest Scared Stupid really scared me as a kid even though it's silly
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Credit for Poltergeist has been a muddy issue for years but Tobe Hooper is the officially credited director. Accounts vary as to what was his and what was Spielberg's input.
It's been a while since I've seen it but I think it felt more like a Spielberg movie.
I read something in the last year where Spielberg claimed it was because he did a bunch of pick-ups or 2nd unit shots...and one day he happened to be doing that in front of people who didn’t know the difference.
He's already seen Alien, and found it kind of boring. (He has ADHD and can kind of tune out if things get too slow.) I think Scream might be a lot of fun, that's a good option.
My 13 year old had wanted to see a Saw movie and we tried to dissuade him with using Alien. He got bored real quick and we ended up watching Saw anyway. He didn't find it scary at all. Kids these days!
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Ah, my little one is fine with blood, but a little squicked out by gore. He was fine with John Wick, for example, but something like The Thing would not go over well.
Trick R Treat might be a fun one. It's creepy, but I thiiiiiink it wouldn't be too bad.
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I saw Alien as a kid and didn't find it scary. Kids find different things scary. You kind of have to have an adult understanding of things for some things to disturb you. Like there's some, uh, mature themes in Alien that just don't come across if you're too young. Aliens works much better because its themes are more straightforward and less opaque to a young audience.
Thing that scarred me the most as a kid was Temple of Doom.
That fucking hallway with the bugs was just, fuck no. Nightmare fuel.
Guy getting his heart ripped from his chest while he was still alive though? No issues.
Hell, the people getting their faces melted off in the first one did it for me.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
From Dusk Til Dawn could be pretty classy. Violent and some rude titties but not that bad considering what was in the 80's, and it has that sense of fighting back and blowing up vampire scum that can assuage scary moments. There's probably been worse on Fortnite or Tik Tok or whatever kids do these days.
From Dusk Til Dawn could be pretty classy. Violent and some rude titties but not that bad considering what was in the 80's, and it has that sense of fighting back and blowing up vampire scum that can assuage scary moments. There's probably been worse on Fortnite or Tik Tok or whatever kids do these days.
From Dusk Till Dawn opens with like an implied sexual assault and murder...
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I'm just a big wuss but for a bit of fun:
Hocus Pocus
Ernest Scared Stupid
Also, not strictly movies, but you could marathon the first season of Supernatural. Lots of spooky, jump scares, and creepy factor, also a lot of it riffs on generic horror tropes.
Yes I love these! Ernest Scared Stupid really scared me as a kid even though it's silly
I still quote it at work all the time just as a non sequitur when someone says something stupid "I bet you didnt think I could find it this time of year....Miak!"
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Yeah, I'm thinking of what I saw at that age and while stuff had violence and language it wasn't that bad in actually sticking with you, hell Never Ending Story and Artax freaked me out more than something like a Friday the 13th or Total Recall (Murphy dying in RoboCop freaked me out but it wasn't the violence but the cruelty of Red Foreman so when the thugs got toxified or a spike through the face you were all yeah boiiiii).
I'd be more concerned these days about the kids who write off Paddington as shallow and pedantic. Those are the kids you need to watch out for.
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ElJeffeRoaming the streets, waving his mod gun around.Moderator, ClubPAMod Emeritus
Yeah, i'm more comfortable with my son watching cartoony violence or seeing a boob than with, say, sexual assault or super demeaning portrayals of women or torture and the like.
Like, I let him watch most of Kill Bill, because it's so over the top that you don't take it seriously. But I skipped past the rape parts because... yeah, no.
Mostly my concern with picking a good horror movie is I don't want him scared to go to sleep, because *I* want to go to sleep.
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Well stay away from nightmare on elm street for sure then. Maybe show him some later ones first when freddy is more comedy than scary. 3 might be the best as they start fighting back, and I don't remember it being particular scary. But again, after seeing part 2, freddy was just no longer scary for me like he was in the first.movie.
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Oh, i'm well acquainted with Nightmare on Elm Street, and no way in fuck am I letting him watch that yet.
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I'm not sure what this means but seriously, don't rewatch The Dark Crystal if you have fond nostalgic memories of it. All it's got going for it is come cool creature design on the birds.
Metaphorically being shocked/surprised. I rewatched it a few years ago and found it held up, still creepy AF. They definitely have excellent designs in the movie.
For lighter fare, Critters was always a favorite of mine. The Gate isn't that great, but I recall liking it at that age. And for a pg13 movie that can really get to some people, Arachnophobia.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
My parents had a pretty reasonable view on movie violence. Over the top to the point of funny violence was fine as was "realistic" stuff like Jurassic Park but stuff that glamorized violence was a pass. Years later when they stopped caring my mom said they were fine with me laughing at violence, just not admiring it.
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Hocus Pocus
Ernest Scared Stupid
Also, not strictly movies, but you could marathon the first season of Supernatural. Lots of spooky, jump scares, and creepy factor, also a lot of it riffs on generic horror tropes.
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He's already seen Alien, and found it kind of boring. (He has ADHD and can kind of tune out if things get too slow.) I think Scream might be a lot of fun, that's a good option.
Also, I just want to mention that Audition is great and so very fucked up.
In fact, I may watch it myself tonight.
Watch it, it is a very good movie.
There is pretty explicit talk about sex in Trick r Treat, but I also have no idea what ages get what education anymore
So there are actually two films in the collection called Something Wild: this film, an independent from 1961, and Jonathan Demme's prickly romantic comedy from 1986. Not that they bear comparison apart from their names, but I definitely prefer Demme's effort.
This one is about a young woman played by Carroll Baker who's raped and finds herself struggling to resume life afterwards. After moving into an apartment block and trying to maintain a job, she's taken in by an awkward and possessive mechanic. It's set in New York City, with lots of good location photography, it's got a Saul Bass title sequence, and Baker, who performs a lot of her role silently, is really strong in it.
The thing is, it just doesn't have any flow. Its unreasonably slow, willing to watch its characters wander about New York and look around a room in silence. I love when films use duration in order to craft or shift meaning, but here it just feels like a headstrong commitment to realism and nothing else. It doesn't escape the histrionic scoring of the time period either, with horns or strings blaring over anything halfway emotional for the characters. Despite its often ignored subject matter that it approaches with maturity, its entirely too uneven to be absorbed; an awkward film in which technique and writing and rhythm are all at odds with one another. It wants to be illuminating, and it sets up an interesting frame, but doesn't have a lot to say or build towards.
Yes I love these! Ernest Scared Stupid really scared me as a kid even though it's silly
I read something in the last year where Spielberg claimed it was because he did a bunch of pick-ups or 2nd unit shots...and one day he happened to be doing that in front of people who didn’t know the difference.
My 13 year old had wanted to see a Saw movie and we tried to dissuade him with using Alien. He got bored real quick and we ended up watching Saw anyway. He didn't find it scary at all. Kids these days!
Trick R Treat might be a fun one. It's creepy, but I thiiiiiink it wouldn't be too bad.
That fucking hallway with the bugs was just, fuck no. Nightmare fuel.
Guy getting his heart ripped from his chest while he was still alive though? No issues.
I fondly remember watching it with my sister and my mother and my sister and my mother
No?
Ah, forget it
The scene where Dana gets taken was the one that gave me the heebie jeebies. I loved the film despite it.
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The Dana scene agreed, I used to hide behind the curtains during that.
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Hell, the people getting their faces melted off in the first one did it for me.
I've had good results in getting friends to buy me a beer by performing that monologue in bars as Billy Mays of Oxi-Clean fame.
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From Dusk Till Dawn opens with like an implied sexual assault and murder...
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I was still endlessly amused Cheech played two characters in the movie.
"what were they psychos?"
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I still quote it at work all the time just as a non sequitur when someone says something stupid "I bet you didnt think I could find it this time of year....Miak!"
I'd be more concerned these days about the kids who write off Paddington as shallow and pedantic. Those are the kids you need to watch out for.
Like, I let him watch most of Kill Bill, because it's so over the top that you don't take it seriously. But I skipped past the rape parts because... yeah, no.
Mostly my concern with picking a good horror movie is I don't want him scared to go to sleep, because *I* want to go to sleep.
If we're throwing scary Spielberg on the pile you can't leave out Duel
Metaphorically being shocked/surprised. I rewatched it a few years ago and found it held up, still creepy AF. They definitely have excellent designs in the movie.