Topic: Scary Movies (Read 1295 times)

Bush Tucker Man · « **on:** August 13, 2007, 21:09:38 »

What's Your Favourite?

I don't mean of the slasher/gore-fest/zombie genres, I mean of the 'It Could Happen' scenario

1. 'OutBreak'
I started watching this at work last night (on a late tea-break) & finished it off at home (after SWMBO had watched 'Billy Elliot'*)
Now that's a scary proposition, an airborne virus gets transported around the world on a passenger jet, with no recognised cause & no known cure:(scared):
There's a scare every so often with Ebola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_(film) (Wikipedia link won'twork, with brackets)

(Mindst you, it also has the 'hot' Rene Russo in it :(biglove):

2. 'SuperVolcano'

This is also a very scary one, as the title sequence states,
'This Is A True Story, It Just Hasn't Happened. Yet...'
It was a brilliant productionfirst aired on the BBC, & still shows on the 'UKTV' documentary channels on cable/satellite
The basic premise explores the 'what if?' if the Yellowstone Caldera blew (this is a 9,000 square kilometer eruptable spot!!)
Most of you have heard of the phrase 'Nuclear Winter'? If Yellowstone goes, that winter would be a very long one indeed!

* There's a link between these 2 films. know what it is?

BBC pages

Wikipedia

For more scientific information, visit this site & pay attention to the diagrams; the first scale map & the comparative magma outputs.

3. 'Armeggedon'/'Deep Impact'
There's been a few near-misses (in cosmic terms).
If an asteroid was found to be on a known collision course, would 'we' be informed, or kept in the dark to prevent the breakdown of every society & religion??

4. 'Independance Day'
Hey!, it could happen (but hopefully without Will )Smith

So, come on, am I 'hitting the mark here', or have I missed a few

muddyjlx · « **Reply #1 on:** August 13, 2007, 21:14:56 »

towering inferno.

earthquake

them :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

BigSi · « **Reply #2 on:** August 13, 2007, 21:16:42 »

There was a documentary on TV a while ago, which depicted several catastrophic events. One was flooding, virus attack, falling meteorite, and some machine opening a black hole? All these events were very plausible, and certainly made you think!

redhand · « **Reply #3 on:** August 13, 2007, 21:28:15 »

Outbreak was an amercianised remake of a classic british series Survivors http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/ Thats the problem with Hollywood no originality

Lord Shagg-Pyle · « **Reply #4 on:** August 13, 2007, 21:31:12 »

28 Days Later

that programme that was on about gridlock on the M25 that then causes massive tailbacks and culminates in aircrashes

Hot Fuzz! trust me, it has happened!

muddyjlx · « **Reply #5 on:** August 13, 2007, 21:35:37 »

some [ed: naughty] letting of a nuke in london.

war games, it could happen

strapping young lad · « **Reply #6 on:** August 13, 2007, 21:43:44 »

the last train (although a tv series.. it COULD happen)

deep impact more than armageddon (no planetary death on armageddon)

the day after tomorrow

24 :)

heroes (how COOL would they be!)

L90OOK · « **Reply #7 on:** August 13, 2007, 21:44:38 »

The day after tomorrow. :shock: We'd all need Icelandic style 4x4's 8)

gtomo2 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 14, 2007, 19:50:28 »

Sorry but my scary movies would have to be a couple of classics like
The fog the orignal version with carrie fisher in.
evil dead the orignal banned version

Sorry didn't see the bit of youre post about zombie's etc.

So could happen.
28 days later would be the one.

Boggert · « **Reply #9 on:** August 14, 2007, 20:20:03 »

28 days later... Scary

marsie · « **Reply #10 on:** August 14, 2007, 20:31:19 »

The supervolcano filum was a bit of an eyeopener :shock: ,especially as if it follows its regular cycle,an eruption is already overdue :| .28 days later is a brill film,cant wait for 28 weeks later to come out later this year.

As gtomo2 says The Fog still gives me the creeps,but watched the re-make recently and thats not so scary.Once had midnight ghosty stories told to me and some freinds on a beach by a bloke just like him in the fog :shock:
But one of my alltime favorites is The Shining
REDRUM REDRUM!!!!
Paul :twisted:

Hobnailkelly · « **Reply #11 on:** August 14, 2007, 23:24:22 »

Wolf Creek - based on a true story I believe

Thrasher · « **Reply #12 on:** August 14, 2007, 23:44:05 »

Shreds <shiver>

Bush Tucker Man · « **Reply #13 on:** August 15, 2007, 07:56:57 »

Quote from: "marsie"

The supervolcano filum was a bit of an eyeopener :shock: ,especially as if it follows its regular cycle,an eruption is already overdue

Yes, especially when you consider points like; the park lifted by over a yard between 1924 & 1984 due to internal pressure.
Scary, a very very scary prospect

Quote from: "Hobnailkelly"

Wolf Creek - based on a true story I believe

Is that as in 'Wolf Creek Pass' by CW McCall???

SHERMAN TANK · « **Reply #14 on:** August 15, 2007, 09:57:44 »

Quote from: marsie

The supervolcano filum was a bit of an eyeopener :shock: ,especially as if it follows its regular cycle,an eruption is already overdue :| .28 days later is a brill film,cant wait for 28 weeks later to come out later this year.

28 weeks later isn't a patch on the first, which is a shame, but hey thats just my opinion.

My favorite horror as a kid and now still has to be Aliens (not very scary after the 20th viewing) but an awesome film. :D

Saw was a great film, but the francise has gone downhill since the first, Saw III was allful. :(

Gonna go now i could talk movies all day long, and i have work to do. :roll:

muddyjlx · « **Reply #15 on:** August 15, 2007, 10:47:17 »

For a man in a rubber suit, alien was very scary.

strapping young lad · « **Reply #16 on:** August 15, 2007, 11:18:54 »

Quote from: "muddyjlx"

For a man in a rubber suit, alien was very scary.

it wasnt a man in a rubber suit! :)

it was REAL

Bush Tucker Man · « **Reply #17 on:** August 15, 2007, 15:40:51 »

Thanks for the input, but I was enquiring about the 'possible' films, not sci-fi/horror

V8MoneyPit · « **Reply #18 on:** August 15, 2007, 17:33:21 »

Ice Age :lol: OK, so maybe a small animal couldn't start off a planet changing chain of events :lol:

Ja1983 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 15, 2007, 20:42:57 »

LOL @ total drift of thread!

i think the BTM was asking for those informative/documenrty type films... ones that show something the in the general opinion could happen....

- an inconvenient truth?

wolf creek put me off going to Auz/NZ for life!! SWMBO went to bed, wish i had, scared me pooy! :lol: :shock:

have seen the one about yellowsone national park, they showed how long term surveying has shown the lake moving some distance...

wing nut · « **Reply #20 on:** August 15, 2007, 21:02:36 »

the last train ..a brilliant piece of british acting by all ...i watched the whole series in one day on scifi channel ..made me late for work :lol:

the day after tommorow ... global warming hype film

teenage mutant ninja turtles :lol: :lol:

marsie · « **Reply #21 on:** August 15, 2007, 22:02:22 »

The day after tomorow was a good film.On the subject of the supervolcano,it said there are 2 extinct supervolcanos in britain,scafell in the lake district and glencoe in scotland :shock: .
Call me if you like ,but i would like to see the yellowstone volcano erupt in my lifetime(hopefully near the end of my lifetime

).Been fasinated with volcanos since i was young
Anybody seen Dantes Peak? thought that was good.Watching Armaggeddon on sky at the mo(for about the 90th time)
Paul :twisted:

Bush Tucker Man · « **Reply #22 on:** August 15, 2007, 22:20:07 »

Quote from: "marsie"

On the subject of the supervolcano,it said there are 2 extinct supervolcanos in britain,scafell in the lake district and glencoe in scotland :shock: .
Call me if you like ,but i would like to see the yellowstone volcano erupt in my lifetime

True, Scafell is volcanic in origin

Quote from: "marsie"

(hopefully near the end of my lifetime ).Been fasinated with volcanos since i was young

Could be the end of everyones lives??

Quote from: "marsie"

Anybody seen Dantes Peak? thought that was good.:

Forgot about that

marsie · « **Reply #23 on:** August 15, 2007, 23:49:59 »

Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man"

Could be the end of everyones lives??

Thats the downside

But would be fascinating to see :shock: .The fact that something left a crater over 100miles across,must have been a hell of a bang???
Saw a program last week also,about giant tidal waves.Experts think that 1/2 of la palma in the canary islands is likely to colapse into the sea causing a massive tidal wave that would wipe out the east coast of america :shock:

Think the moral is,dont emmigrate to america

Paul :twisted:

Bush Tucker Man · « **Reply #24 on:** August 16, 2007, 12:29:50 »

Quote from: "marsie"

Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man"

Could be the end of everyones lives??

Thats the downside But would be fascinating to see :shock: .The fact that something left a crater over 100miles across,must have been a hell of a bang???

It'd be the same with a 'Deep Impact' style asteroid strike, it'd enter the atmosphere at incredible speed, compressing the air ahead of it (which would heat up to perhaps 50,000degrees!!!)
And that's before the worst effects start to happen

Lord Shagg-Pyle · « **Reply #25 on:** August 16, 2007, 18:39:44 »

What a cheerful bunch we are!
As Pvt Frazer used to say "We're doomed, I tell ye, doomed!"

screwy · « **Reply #26 on:** August 16, 2007, 20:12:19 »

No-on mentioned Planet of The Apes? Day of The Triffids?

No more ludicrous than the global warming scenario......

spyke_boi · « **Reply #27 on:** August 17, 2007, 00:34:43 »

Quote from: "strapping young lad"

the last train (although a tv series.. it COULD happen)

I have been trying to watch that series again, but to no avail! anyone got any ideas?????

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