WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

I know my brother got scared watching Ghostbusters back when he was a kid. For me though, it was Are You Afraid of the Dark with an episode about some asshole clown. Scared the shit outta lil' me, nothing else came close.

Silent Hill 4 was scary too, kinda. A friend rented it and visited me back when it came out. While he was playing he got to the forest and needed help so I whip open gamefaqs and end up reading ahead about what's to come including the apartment room possession and start getting freaked out which doesn't help my buddy any. We end up staying up all night playing the game because we were too scared to go to bed like good dumb kids. It wouldn't be until way later when he rented the game again and getting to the second half of the game we saw the dreaded "

THE SHOES WALK ON THEIR OWN

" and it was just dumb. Dumb fucking kids.
(also a dumb escort mission)

BEWARE THE WHEELERS

the biggest problem with cgi is theres almost no limitations other than #ofworkers/money/time which most companies generally have a lot of. thus you'll have a dragon with like 10 mouths and 2 wings and flipping out every shot, the pipeline is so flexible that they can have SO DENSE EVERY SHOT EVERY FRAME IS JUST GONNA BE GREAT its gonna be great. there just isn't enough directors that have a specific minimal direction.

though most people dont know what cgi is and what isn't anymore considering practical is still around!

I feel like CGI still has yet to evolve. Currently, CGI animation looks too distinguishable from animatronics in that CGI objects tend to look "smoothed out" compared to the real textures found in animatronics. To give it credit, though, we're in a better spot with CGI compared to the early 2000s. Remember how flippin' obvious that CGI was in the remastered Star Wars movies?

@GRS: Its hilarious moreso due to the fact that people were actually scared by this shit. I raise you a Dracula:

@Ratty: To be fair, back then when films were new, they only had stories to draw from so seeing something brought to life was a lot more shocking, I believe. Now-days we're inundated with scary things all the time via media so that the stuff they'd have thought terrifying back then is just normal TV viewing now. Can you imagine audiences back then reacting to today's horror movies? It's not a wonder we don't find the older stuff terrifying then (though there are some pretty neat ones).

Also, for the record, vampire mythology has evolved a lot since the original Dracula movie. A lot of the things we consider about vampires to be 'normal' were created by various authors between that time and now - most notoriously Anne Rice and her depiction of vampires as sexual beasts of great pomp and swagger. The gothic arrogance and exuberant violence is due to her books. She sexualised the vampire and authors after her continued that depiction of them until we have shows like Buffy (I ain't complaining~), True Blood and (sigh) Twilight.

Same with werewolves and other creatures of the night who have since been dubbed 'glamorous'. Where once they were truly monsters, now they're considered sexy and awesome to be. It's not a bad thing, completely, but it is something to keep in mind when comparing such things. We look at vampires nowdays and think sexy and glamorous violence. They looked at them back then and they were monsters. Just monsters. It's easier to be scared of something when the humanity is stripped away and all you see is a monster and not a being that embodies aspects that you want to be (glamour, power, virility, sexual appeal, etc)

It just gives me hope that someday, people might think I'm sexy. (Sexy werewolves...I don't see it.)

the look of old 70s movies and audio is strange and bizarre

author=Linkis

author=kentona
Now I want to watch WolfCop. I hear that it is all just prosthetics and fake blood and no CGI.

DAMN, WolfCop????? Where is it???? Canada:( We don't get to see the really great TV shows till they come out on DVD :)
Although Teen Wolf and Dominion ain't bad.... another :)

This was made here in my hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The directors won a nationwide competition through CineCoup, which granted $1 million dollars in funding and a guaranteed a short run in Cineplex theatres across the country.

http://wolfcop.com

So yeah, 1 million dollar budget is peanuts in movie-production terms, but still they were able to pull off a decent looking film! I hear it has exception special effects (given that budget). no cgi - just oldschool prosthetics.

"​Wolfcop Is The Best '80s Movie Ever Made In 2014"
http://io9.com/wolfcop-is-the-best-80s-movie-ever-made-in-2014-1600249694

author=Corfaisus
the Phantom of the Opera

Relevant.

author=Dudesoft
I... Had... The time of my life~
And I owe it all to Roo!
(Roo is my gf's dog. I sing this to Roo on a regular basis. But only those lines. The rest of the song would be creepy.)

Because singing to the dog of the woman you're going steady with about how it gave you the time of your life isn't creepy at all. (￣▽￣; )