| Author | Message | ||
     Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.237.130 |
Okay, they're doing the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY thing in this trailer, the mixing of reality with fantasy, etc. I see echoes of lots of other things here... I'm wary, as usual... jaded, faded, in general.... But DAMN does this trailer make me want to see this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbQXxNWNxyY | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
There's definitely an art form to making trailers and it's very easy to get me excited about a film. This looks properly scary, but then alien abduction always freaks me out. One of these days I'll screw up my courage and watch Fire in the Sky again. That one gave me nightmares for months.  And I don't even believe in aliens!  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
My mother - a real bread and porridge person - saw a UFO the other year. She refuses to entertain watching or reading scary tales on the subject. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Count me in for this one...I love anything like this. The most terrifying thing I've ever read was Whitley Streiber's COMMUNION. A certain scene in that book kept me awake for nights on end... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Yes, Strieber's book was stunning. Apparently Stephen King was seriously pissed off that Strieber turned it out as non-fiction. I like a lot of Strieber's books. He's still a damn good writer. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
What's it got to do with King? I find the whole fiction/non-fiction argument redundant (and rather tedious, if I'm honest). Strieber believes something happened - end of. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
I think you're right, matey. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Suprisingly, I sometimes am.  | ||
| Skunsworth (Skunsworth) Username: Skunsworth Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 92.28.168.171 |
Are you? Fuck, isn't that one of the 7 signs that portent the end of the world? You know, the rivers run red with blood, the skies fill with locusts, Zed is right about something, we're all done for kinda thing? Only joking sir! And actually, you are right about this. And King tried it himself with the terrible Rose Red - trailering the series by claiming it was a fictionisation of real diaries! In which he also ripped off House of Leaves... I still like King, but he's not the beginning and end of horror fiction, good as he often is. There. Rant over. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I still like King, but he's not the beginning and end of horror fiction Indeed, my esteemable Unzo. Unfortunately, a lot of modern writers (and publishers) seem to think that he is. A great writer, but often best used as a doorway to what came before him...and some of what came after. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
This looks pretty damn good, I have to say. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.230.246 |
Was the film COMMUNION good? I've never seen it. I did see FIRE IN THE SKY, Kate - yeah, that movie, that one part of the movie, that one part that IS the whole movie, is pretty terrifying.... Based on a true story too, right? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.73 |
The movie of Communion's well worth watching for Christopher Walken's barnstorming display as Strieber. Fuelling the suspicions about Strieber's honesty, though, the movie was still said to be a true story despite presenting the events Strieber recorded in his book in a different way. The two accounts didn't tally. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
@Craig: "True" story, yeah, apparently. Allegedly. Take that with however many grains of salt you will. I tend to. True or not, THAT part is forever seared into my retinas. I saw it when it was in the cinema, however long ago that was, and I still haven't purged the imagery. **shudder** | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.206.8 |
I LOVED Communion, the book. I think it changed me. This movie looks ok. Pixel woman was the scariest thing, the guy doing the trick with the two broomshanks under the sheet wasn't. |