Favorite Scary Movie(s)
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With Halloween just a week away I thought it would be interesting to have a discussion on what everyone's favorite scary/horror movies are.
I'll start it off with a few of my faves:
American Werewolf in London
Bride of Frankenstien
Alien/s
Evil Dead 2
I'll start it off with a few of my faves:
American Werewolf in London
Bride of Frankenstien
Alien/s
Evil Dead 2
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The Ring
Sleepy Hollow
any Hammer film
any of the classic Universal monster films
any Godzilla movie
Underworld
Dagon
The Blair Witch Project - everyone mocks this film but name another horror film that had so many people who believed it really happened... the only thing that i can think of is the radio broadcasts of War of the Worlds. speaking of...
War of the Worlds radio broadcasts
28 Days Later
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - when the Dementors show up on the train and the music cuts out and the camera moves in to the Dementor opening the door is just a classic horror moment.
also any other movie such as THEM!, Night of the Leapists, Attack of the Killer Shrews, John Carpenter's The Thing, anything by Sam Raimi, John Capenter, Fracis Ford Coppala, George Romero, M. Night Shyamalan, ect ect...
Saw had some very tense moments.
American Werewolf in London. I remember seeing it when I was about 10, and the Zombie Nazi dream scene haunted me for years.
The Micheal Jackson "Thriller" video scared me a bit when I wa a young lad
Now just Micheal Jackson
Evil Dead 2 is funny as hell.
The Ring. I accually got a bit scared when I saw it.=)
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Havent seen the original, dark water was kick ass so maybe I should try to get hold of the original somewhere.
The first and third Nightmare on Elm Street
The Exorcist
Dead Alive
Evil Dead
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (although R. Lee Ermie was fucking awesome in the remake)
The first 2 Hellraiser movies
I haven't liked any recent horror movies. With todays special effects and with how nice the cameras are now they're just not as scary as back in the 70's and 80's when they were still grainy with bad sound. They were just creepier back then. Plus the stories have either been utterly terrible (House of the Dead, House on Haunted Hill, Thirteen Ghosts, Wishmaster, etc.) or they've just been very uninteresting and just not scary (The Others, The Ring, Sixth Sense, etc.). I think the golden age of horror movies is over.
EDIT: Ha! Dukester, awesome that you mentioned The Thing also. That one's my favorite of all time. Best Horror Movie Monster Ever!
I mean Movies like Dead Alive had nothing Scary in them at all, it was funny as hell and was chock full of more fake limbs and blood than any other movie I've seen.
Though I think my favorite Horrors/Splatter Flicks Are:
Bram Stokers: Dracula
Evil Dead 1 n' 2
The Exorcist (Actually Scared the shit out of me...when I was 5 though :P)
Sleepy Hollow
Creepshow 1 & 2 (Something about the Yeti in the first one, gets me every time I see it)
Anything Clive Barker ( Yeah, I even enjoyed the last 50 Hellrasier movies, lol)
Plan 9 From Outerspace (Oh yeah, you need to have an Ed Wood film in there too)
I know there's more but I can't remember
King's the Stand gave me nightmares bit time and the other King film Nightflyer did me in. Dwight Reinfield gave me the utter creeps!
Though I watched the movie again recently, it's not that great...lol, and I think there's like 4 of them.
Also I was allowed to read the Exorcist at 10 and I read all the way up to where she started fu(king herself with the crucifix and I freaked out and wanted to see a priest and my parents took the book away. Does that count?
Chilling more than scary but put that sucker on a big screen with lights out and surround sound pumping....that'll get ya going.
The Thing
Saw.
Things Best Left - A 5 minute short with pratically no dialogue. Really creepy.
And while're they're not remotely scary, I've gotta add the Evil Dead Trilogy and Dusk 'til Dawn to the list.
"Shivers", "Rabid", "Scanners", "Videodrome". Yeah.
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Shining
The Serpent and the Rainbow.
I used to be scared of the Moomins.
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Is it the ties and name tags? or the bicycles?
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Evil Dead 1 & 2 (3 was a complete disaster of a disney film)
HellRaiser 1 & 2
The Thing
RingMaster (1/2 simply down to the gore)
BrainDead (gorey and funny as ph00k)
I saw a bunch of splatter films I like but only for gore entertainment value, as films they were awful.
Bruce Campbell is the King! (bubba ho-tep
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but for halloween i would prefer watching them good ol steven king classics
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Also, Dead Snow.
The Thing
Silent Hill
Dark Water(Korean Version)
Pulse (Original Japanese version)
High Tension, Martyrs, Inside (Gotta love those French extreme flicks!)
Night of the Demons (favorite to watch on Halloween)
Halloween
28 Days Later
Suspiria
The Lost (based off Jack Ketchum's novel0
Roin: which Night of the Demons? I've only seen the one with Shannon Elizabeth and Edward Furlong so I have to kinda question your taste there.
Trick 'r Treat, avery fun anthology film from a couple years ago that is suitably creepy and very well tied together. A mostly good cast and excellent practical effects. Not scary but perfect for halloween
Event Horizon is always good.
the original Fright Night and Fright Night part 2,
Creepshow - I can't remember if its part 1 or 2, the
one with the hitchhiker, I still think that about every damn time i get out of a car in a garage.
Evil Dead 2.
Return of the Living Dead 1 and 2 are both very entertaining 80's zombie flicks that aren't scary in any imaginable way.
Doghouse, I found this on netflicks and just took a chance that was so totally worth it
a bunch of guys go on a weekend trip and endup in a town where all the women have turned into crazed zombie-demon's
If you're unsure about a particular movie or just want to see what all is out there, I strongly suggest Killer Reviews, it's a database of Horror and fantasy films and most of them have several reviews both staff and user so you can get a good idea from different points of view.
....And thats all I gotta say about that...
This movie right here is like the perfect halloween movie! So much atmosphere. It reminded me of halloween as a kid. Except the sexy werewolves...
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Hide and Seek. not too much of a scary movie but very suspenseful.
The original Night of the Demons of course! The remake is crap.
Trick R Treat is another one that is perfect for Halloween night!
Let's get a less insane list here:
Carpenter's The Thing.
An American Werewolf in London
Cronenberg's The Fly
May.
There are a bunch I'm forgetting.
Poltergeist
The Devils Backbone
House ( 1986 ) - Horror Comedy - but plenty of scares in it
Sixth Sense
The Amityville Horror ( 1979 ) - the red eyes at the window...!!!
The Entity
The Fog ( Original 1980 release )
Patrick ( 1978 )
I'm sure there is lot's more, I grew up watching these kinds of movies !
And an episode of Lassie when I was a kid, where they stayed in a old barn during a thunderstorm, and during the night, a giant shadow walked past the barn, but was never addressed at any other point during the episode, haunted me for weeks.
And just because I loved them so, not necessarily scary : -
The Return Of The Living Dead
The Gate
The Nightmare Before Christmas