Does anyone else feel the way I do about this movie? I watch a lot of movies, and even most recently Paranormal Activity didn't scare me much at all... but this movie was bone chillingly terrifying... i haven't seen a scarier movie to date.
Mothman and Frailty are both terrifying for the same reason....they challenge us to imagine that the universe does not play by the rules we expect, and that it is a more horrifying and mysterious place than he can imagine.
I agree, TMP is one very creepy movie. That line about how long he was dead and "him" calling John an hour ago, that freaked me out lol. I was like lol
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I was blown away by the reference to Racine, Wisconsin. Particularly Monroe Avenue. My work address is at the corner of 21st street and Monroe Avenue in Racine, Wisconsin! I was chilled to the bone for days afterward. The most scared and bone-chilled I have ever been in a movie.
As a horror movie buff and someone who is quite interested in any and all things paranormal I found this movie to be one of the LEAST scary films of all time. Not trying to make an attack on anyone here, but people scared by this film must be ridiculously easy to frighten :P
I'm kind of annoyed... Went with the OP saying this movies was scary... I wasn't scared in any part besides him waking up next to Mary... But that was just unexpected, this movie sucked. Overly long, kind of random, kind of not really going from A to B. Screw you IMDB... screw you.
I would have to disagree with you. I have watched many, many horror movies from The Omen and The Amityville Horror, to The Conjuring and Insidious, to Friday the Thirteenth and Halloween, to The Ring and it Japanese predecessor Ringu, even to surrealist movies such as Eraserhead, and back again. Out of the movies listed, The Omen is the only one that is as scary as the Mothman Prophesies. Its just one of those movies where it either terrifies you, or doesn't at all.
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Yep you nailed it. Omen and Mothman Prophecies are figuratively speaking like the iron pole that fell from the church roof thrusting through your entire body and never ever letting go...
I would have to disagree with you. I have watched many, many horror movies from The Omen and The Amityville Horror, to The Conjuring and Insidious, to Friday the Thirteenth and Halloween, to The Ring and it Japanese predecessor Ringu, even to surrealist movies such as Eraserhead, and back again. Out of the movies listed, The Omen is the only one that is as scary as the Mothman Prophesies. Its just one of those movies where it either terrifies you, or doesn't at all.
I agree but I thought that TAH, Insidious & The Conjuring were scary but something about TMP & The Omen that's so eerie and unsettling.
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The point is people are scared by this and not by movies that scare others! Care to name any movies that scared you? Let's see if you are ridiculously easy to frighten.
well...until recently, i had managed to successfully avoid the horror/suspense genre nearing somewhere about 15-20 years due to "overdosing" on the scary movies section at the local vhs movie store when i was in my late teens.Through my youth, i was engaged, enraptured and even obsessed with the whole "fear-inducing movie" concept because of the nightmares i heard that they'd produced for most people i knew, whereas i had none....Never once did i have a scary dream or otherwise by means of hollywood storytelling, and i so wanted to know what the nightmares were all about!
i found that by my mid 20's, nothing on-screen compared with the true horrors in real life like income tax auditors, spiders, tsunamis and people who "practice" proctology... so i gave up my hopes that a "good'un" would ever come into production, and resigned myself to the crinme genre as compensation. That is...until now!
Great psychological thriller(mm prophs), that had my heart pounding!! Although the original storyline was based on real events, the movie was (as per usual for hollywood) an overall fabrication and yet, despite that fact, this movie stressed me right the he!! out!!! Excellent execution of subtle yet steady, climactic buildup and as such I would agree that it ought to be on a top five list, for sure!
A thought though... how do you personally rate a "good" movie in this genre? If it gives you nightmares? or, How many times you jumped/screamed/turned away from the movie? or, (as in my case) if the movie haunts you for days, weeks, months, etc? Where does YOUR "scare meter" stem from? i'm just curious, that's all. Thanks.
it is a bit too long but it is a bit creepy. not the scariest movie ever but it has its moments. the motel scene is pretty effective. i remember everyone in the theater freaking out
For me it had a couple of scary jolts and scary "entity" considerations, but it was more creepy/insinuating than terrifying.
One drawback is occasionally bad dialogue, e.g., the sheriff talks about her community as reliable "church-going folks" (just awful)... and horror movie cliches, e.g., the disconnected phone ringing... please.
I still can't figure this one out. Well, I've only seen it twice now. Last time I saw it was damn near 10 years ago. I watched it with my friend and we were both so bored and thought it was a joke, and we're scary movie fanatics. Then I proceeded to have the creepiest dreams about the movie. I guess it haunted me on some subconscious level. My friend laughed at me, said she couldn't believe this movie gave me nightmares. I never watched it again, until now... so I'm watching it and I still don't understand how/why it freaked me out so much. But it did, so I can't deny there's clearly something about it that gets to me.