From: lukas.mariman@REMOVETHISdommel.be   
      
   Evil Sponge wrote:   
   > "Chris"  wrote in message   
   > news:l75qq3pd96s827eu07b4q0v4g0t0fi8c0s@4ax.com...   
   >> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:17:49 -0000, "StainlessSteelRat"   
   >>  wrote:   
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   >>> The Grudge did it for me, although as per Sponge-y I watched that   
   >>> alone in the darkness. I thought The Ring was a bit tamer.   
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   >> Interesting. The only thing that made The Grudge worth sitting thru   
   >> was watching the girl I was with jump where it was supposed to be   
   >> scary.   
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   >> I thought The Ring was much more effective (now The Ring 2 - that was   
   >> crap).   
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   > I haven't seen The Grudge, but my feeling about horror films is this:   
   > it's very easy to make someone jump. A quick movement on screen   
   > coupled with an extremely loud noise is such a basic way of giving a   
   > quick scare - it's too easy. Films that are truly frightening will   
   > leave you unsettled and thinking about them for weeks afterwards. For   
   > me, The Ring was such a film. It's been a couple of years since I saw   
   > it now, and it still occasionally pops into my head when I don't want   
   > it do. God knows why I would want to do this to myself...   
      
   I agree, many movies make use of these cheap scare techniques. That's not   
   hard to do, but to make something truly scary...   
      
   So what are the Really Good ones?   
      
   I want to mention The Haunting (the 60's movie, not the remake).   
      
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