Frightened or Nervous?

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Hi All, We're all getting ready for the big release the Friday after next, so the jitters and angst feelings are definitely rising. However, regarding the legacy of Sir Ridley's 1979 ALIEN and the ideas about or beginning and the overwhelming interpretations of the SPACE JOCKEY/ENGINEER race of biomechanoids, it seems that there is a deliberate frightening and mysterious substance that is embedded within the DNA of the film. So my question is-is there anyone out there (other than myself) who feels slightly intimidated by the presence this film has and the grand ideas and horrifying implications? By the way, I'm still going to see the movie, it won't kill me. (However, the following things have in the past: [url=http://videowordmadefleshdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/exorcist-face.png][img]http://videowordmadefleshdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/exorcist-face.png[/img][/url] [url=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lGVsN1ILRdc/TdypSNy4L6I/AAAAAAAAAIs/yQoL0Aa1Ry8/s1600/alien-chestburster_001a_1196992871.jpg][img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lGVsN1ILRdc/TdypSNy4L6I/AAAAAAAAAIs/yQoL0Aa1Ry8/s1600/alien-chestburster_001a_1196992871.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_db3qCLhj99E/TC0xg4tv3WI/AAAAAAAAAR4/aFdSZ7wQOn4/s400/signsgu5.jpg][img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_db3qCLhj99E/TC0xg4tv3WI/AAAAAAAAAR4/aFdSZ7wQOn4/s400/signsgu5.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LOiFmVFhLYg/TdAVRxhgyxI/AAAAAAAAAH4/WEPGUPoMoo8/s1600/BenningsThing.jpg][img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LOiFmVFhLYg/TdAVRxhgyxI/AAAAAAAAAH4/WEPGUPoMoo8/s1600/BenningsThing.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/NosferatuShadow.jpg/250px-NosferatuShadow.jpg][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/NosferatuShadow.jpg/250px-NosferatuShadow.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2W0Spmq7X-CTUFZgz9sftL484mGSkumI1BZOp3Md5VtVnNPmTvg][img]https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2W0Spmq7X-CTUFZgz9sftL484mGSkumI1BZOp3Md5VtVnNPmTvg[/img][/url] and this: [url=https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTM36IywodBLI0CEYH0ImFJOPr4kzqUQOuwGGbgE1NxDUu9RHEO)][img]https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTM36IywodBLI0CEYH0ImFJOPr4kzqUQOuwGGbgE1NxDUu9RHEO)[/img][/url]

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May 28, 2012

Oh my god, that picture that you put up Feanor23x is from one of the scariest movies I ever saw. It was a tv movie with Karen Black. It was all about her and a wooden African Zuni doll who chases her through out her apartment with a kitchen knife. It was part of a program called trilogy of terror, and it came out in 1975. I was five then and it still scares me.

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May 27, 2012

I actually watched Exorcist directors Cut at the Theatre. I amused my self by saying what the characters were about to say befor they say it and the rest of the peeps were shushing me all the time. ahahahahh. love that movie.

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May 27, 2012

I was just sitting in the dark flicking through threads and then I just saw your thread and then the exorcist image. I think my undies just turned a shade of brown :(

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May 27, 2012

....lol yeah....shit that first image scares the crap out of me...that face is hectic!

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May 27, 2012

You call yourself a "Space Jockey" and you shit your pants?-Jeez! Even Sir Ridley would belittle you for that!KP

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May 27, 2012

Space Jockeys do shit themselves you know - take the hologram scene in the corridor with David for instance. Their pegging it and its probs cos they saw that horrid exorcist face too.

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May 27, 2012

The thing is that blip split second scene in the film made me really unsettled when I was little (saw a bit of the film when I was like 7 and tormented me to sleep)

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May 27, 2012

[img]http://miscpix.com/files/5/58530.jpg[/img] this movie scared me shitless as a child...and still till this day!

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May 27, 2012

See that one never bothered me it was always the psychological ones that got to me. Im just a great big Space Fairy :/

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May 27, 2012

....the grudge scared the crap out of me for some weird reason....I could not fall asleep for weeks after watching that...then one night I left my bathroom light on so it would just slightly illuminate my room....their was a storm outside and suddenly the light went out...i figured the storm caused the power to go off....but i noticed that my computer screen light was still burning....so I got up very reluctantly and when i went to the bathroom snapped the light switch...it came on....who switched it off!!!!?....i did not sleep for the rest of that night!

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May 27, 2012

Lmao I knw the feeling. The bit in the grudge that got me was when the woman lifts up her covers and shes there under them lol.

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May 27, 2012

....the lighter scene in the beginning...when that woman ghost jumps out of the dark...i nearly fucking died of a heart attack...very tense little movie with a god awful eeriness...i hear the original 'Juon The grudge " is much scarier....i'm frankly to scared to watch it!

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May 27, 2012

Yh I heard its meant to be pretty scary. I get weirded out by posession movies for some reason, dunno why.

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May 27, 2012

....yeah hack and slash movies and monster movies don't scare me anymore...they did when i was a kid....but it is the more psychological ones that get to me now....I was quite horrified at the Halloween remake...Michael as a kid....now that child freaks me out!...and when he kills that other kid with the shovel....very disturbing!

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May 27, 2012

Not seen it, might give it a watch. I hope Prometheus lives up to the 'scare the living shit out of us' quotation Ridley made on the featurette.

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May 27, 2012

....i don't think it's really gonna scare me all that much...i think i will be blown away by the creatures and i will probably have a fright here and their.....but it's simply not the type of movie that's gonna keep me awake....i don't mind tho....it's not something i am suspecting.....I love the fact that their will be gore...but i am more focused on the characters and the story and i know it's gonna be very suspenseful....I think if you try and put yourself into the shoes of the characters....it might perhaps become quite scary!

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May 27, 2012

The ending to Sleepaway Camp had me in shock lol first time I watched it. I can watch anything gorey or sinister since i was a kid don't really scare me but that movie had a cool lil twist ending i loved.

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May 27, 2012

Yh i wouldnt want to be a member of the crew thats for sure. Thats why im a space Jockey ;) I think the film will be more disturbing and slightly shocking than really scary. And like you said its story driven, the terror just spices things up a bit.

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May 27, 2012

....i kinda fallen in love with some of the characters.....and they will most likely die.....i usually takes alot for me to really feel much for people in these type of movies....but just purely from the trailers and featurettes i already have made this connection with them....it's dangerous...lol...anyway i am of to bed...i will try and have sweet dreams...;)

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May 27, 2012

Two of my favorites from the past decade include Eden Lake and High Tension. [b]Eden Lake[/b] is scary because it is genuinely disturbing within its dark social commentary. Another Fassbender film. [b]High Tension[/b] owes most of its squirm to the sound design of François-Eudes Chanfrault. Incidentally, this sound design seems to have inspired Marc Streitenfeld's approach to some of the his more horrific cues in the Prometheus score. A Very good thing. Check out [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J2HY8r7rwg&feature=BFa&list=PL7F73D4D03FDCD645]"Too Close"[/url]. The ending of High Tension is what it is, but it doesn't change the pacing and chills of everything that comes before. In a way, it offers a nice angle on the cracked mind.