OK ITS HALLOWEEN: GIVE ME YOUR SCARIEST MOVIES:

[ddeclue]

1) The Sixth Sense
2) The Shining (Original with Nicholson)
3) Southern Comfort
4) Silence of the Lambs
5) Aliens (II is the best)


Doug D.

[msongs]

1. henry portrait of a serial killer nt

[mokawanis]

162. Absolutely

that movie really did a number on me.

[kysrsoze]

167. Without a doubt, the creepiest movie I've ever seen. The only one I almost turned off.

[Yes We Did]

171. You MUST see the Descent!

In the Dark of course. AWESOME movie that didn't get much love in the US because it had almost all Brittish actors.

Plot... Acting... Believability... Affects...

Brilliant & Will make you jump out of your skin!

[slampoet]

2. Bob Roberts.

[Uzybone]

3. Doesn't belong in this forum

[rucky]

9. Is that out on DVD?

[ddeclue]

29. Lighten up Francis...

I'm as gung ho as anyone here but the forum won't collapse with the occasional light hearted diversionary post. If anyone needs some stress release its people like us who have been obsessing for years on this election. If people don't like this thread they won't post.

Doug D.

[charlie and algernon]

58. Gary Oldman and Kevin Spacey are excellent in that movie

you never know where the killer is lurking in the forum and the twist at the end is shocking.

[PBS Poll-435]

80. "Two Thumbs Up! Way Up!"

-Famous Person (10/31/08)

[Warren DeMontague]

129. I liked it much more than the sequel, "Mods! I'm telling!" nt

[Overseas]

200. I agree. I was looking for political humor to make it fit.

Others added political humor because they too were trying to make a LOUNGE TOPIC fit in here.

I was thinking "W". Or "Bush's Brain" for that reason.

[BeatleBoot]

4. Klaus Kinski

Nosferatu

[msallied]

5. The Exorcist

The Ring, The Changeling, The Descent, Session 9, The Thing, Psycho, The Birds

All your picks are really good too. :)

[d_b]

22. Changeling ftw

:thumbsup:

Session 9 is another hidden gem.

[msallied]

Most definitely. Simon's voice from Session 9 still gives me nightmares. lol

[fascisthunter]

6. The Thing

[BootinUp]

91. Thats a good one. nt

[boobooday]

7. Duel with Dennis Weaver

Spielberg's first.

[ddeclue]

21. Ooohhh Good... I forgot about that...

also Jaws...

[grannylib]

8. My List, in no particular order

The Omen (the first one)
The Exorcist
Jaws
Halloween (the first one)
Silence of the Lambs

[TheBigotBasher]

111. The Omen and Exorcist

I thought were brilliant when I was a kid. The Omen series kind of worked although the ending of the third was weak as anything.

The Exorcist sequels just did not work.

Now after years of having less religious baggage (I grew up in a Catholic family) they really do not scare as much.

Jaws however still does!

[grannylib]

128. Yeah, the sequels to both were really bad, I thought...but when

I first saw The Omen, I was totally freaked out. TOTALLY. I would not watch them today - I just think that subject is not entertaining, and nothing to mess with, and they seriously still freak me out.

The scene with the uncle under the ice on the lake in that first one was horrible...and that NANNY! Oh.My.God.

[TheBigotBasher]

138. For them to have remained scary

I would have needed to continue believing all my Catholic upbringing in order to believe in the Devil. So they now do not scare.

[cojoel]

10. W

Even that moron could be president! :o

[Rainbowreflect]

11. The 1963, The Haunting.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

41. That's mine! I remember seeing it on TV on Saturday Night at the Movies

and pretty much lying like a rigid cardboard figure in my bed(at bedtime) for at least six months afterwards. Of course, it didn't help that we lived in a creepy old house at the top of a hill in Marblehead Mass at the time!

[ailsagirl]

64. That part when the doorknob started turning ever so slightly...

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

76. One particular episode of Chiller Theater involving mirrors and attics

(I saw this in the sixties when coincidentally my family was living in about the creepiest old house on the face of the earth.)

It was about 2 couples who were staying the night in an old house on cliffs overlooking the ocean that one of the couples had just bought. They bought it very quickly and on an impulse and did not really go through the house very thoroughly previously.

Long story short, although the house was furnished, at some point they noticed that there were no mirrors in the house. The women have to refresh their make-up using the mirror on the back of their train case (that's a little square piece of luggage for those of you who don't get that old terminology)

At some point, for some reason the husband of the new owner couple finds an excuse to go into the attic where he finds many many mirrors and in the largest, most ornate one is the filmy image of a beautiful woman dancing who beckons for him to join her in a very bewitching fashion. He is mesmerized, but manages to shake himself out of it and to get out of the attic pronto.

The husband is a little out of it when he rejoins the others and at some point he realizes that his wife is missing and asks where she is and the other couple tell him she followed him into the attic and screams "She went into the attic? And you let her? Oh, noes!!!". They all troop into the attic and they discover that now there are 2 images in the mirror! The husband takes a poker and smashes the mirror and his wife drops back into the room, limp and presumably, dead.

Later, after the funeral the husband is alone in the house and outside the big picture window overlooking the cliffs he sees a figure beckoning to him. He shouts "Peggy? (or whatever his wife's name was) and runs towards her, and smashes through the window, presumably to his death below.

Last scene - A sign in front of the house says "To sell or rent" and the real estate agent is driving up to show a new couple the house.

Now, has anyone else ever seen what I am talking about? I have never met another person who saw this movie, tv show or whatever the heck it was.

[spiderpig]

87. Sounds like "The Hungry Glass" episode of "Thriller" hosted by Boris Karloff

in the early 60s. William Shatner was in that ep! Here's the IMDB link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0723102/

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

94. OMG! That has to be it! Thank you!!!!!!!

Notice how the description talked about how so many children were traumatized by it! Hahahaha!

I am just disappointed that there isn't a complete synopsis to read so I can see how accurate my memory is.

The woman in the mirror was supposed to be a very vain dancer that was mesmerized by her own image, I remember that much. Interesting that she was portrayed by Donna Douglas of Beverly Hillbillies fame. And of course, I LOVE that William Shatner was in it prior to the Shatner 2000 turbo toupee days.

I clicked around on the page for the plot summary but couldn't find it - did I just miss it?

[spiderpig]

98. I loved that old series, and your description seems right on to me.

Didn't see a plot summary on that site, but I'm going to check around a bit. I've been waiting for the series to be released on DVD, and recall finding some fansites on the web. (The ep about the eyeglasses that allowed the wearer to read people's minds also freaked me out!):scared: And the one about the guillotine! And the one about Andrew Bentley...see, now you've got me going!:rofl:

[spiderpig]

103. There's a nice long analysis here:

http://monstergirl.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/the-hungry-glass-essay-on-boris-karloffs-thriller/

oooooohhhh! You can download it at Mininova:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1327691

[Poiuyt]

142. That episode of Thriller scared the shit out of me when I was young!

I finally got it on tape when they started showing it on TV, but I missed the first few minutes. I have to look for the DVD.

[ailsagirl]

63. Yesssss-- now THAT was truly scary. Also Polanski's "Repulsion"

[msallied]

65. Speaking of Polanski, Rosemary's Baby was also really great.

Polanski's personal life is a mess, but he makes a great movie.

[ailsagirl]

70. Brilliant man, yes. But a bit tortured, I'd say. I also enjoyed

"The Innocents" with Deborah Kerr.

And, yes, Rosemary's Baby was excellent

And so was the original "Night of the Living Dead"

And PSYCHO!!


"In Cold Blood" (the original) literally made me sick to my stomach

[illuminaughty]

180. The Innocents! Great haunting film

The end is just enjoyably creepy.

[ailsagirl]

198. Yes it was-- Truman Capote wrote the screenplay

[TheManInTheMac]

206. That's my pick too.

Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon is also seriously spooky.

[cemaphonic]

101. and "The Tenant"

the red-headed stepchild of Polanski's "going crazy in a creepy apartment" movies.

[illuminaughty]

179. Great film

If you get the chance, watch DVD extras. Seems Julie Harris had serious issues during the filming and almost had a nervous breakdown. Very worth the watch. I love the mood of that film

[4lbs]

12. The Omen and Burnt Offerings. Also, The Medusa Touch.

I saw "The Omen" (original one with Gregory Peck) when I was about 8 or 9 years old, and the music, especially at the end, scared me to the point of crying.

Burnt Offerings I also saw at the same time.

The Medusa Touch was also pretty scary.

[susanwy]

30. Burnt Offerings

that movie gave me the worst nightmares!

[AlCzervik]

48. Zomg Karen Black as Mrs. Allardyce---nightmares! that's a great pick.

[Bigleaf]

13. Halloween, The Exorcist, Black Christmas, When a Stranger Calls

[grannylib]

140. OOoohh, Black Christmas was horrifying!! Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey...

pure terror.

[BlooInBloo]

14. The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!

'nuff said.

[msallied]

23. I use that line frequently, inserting whatever compels me in the Christ slot.

Because it's often the power of booze that compels me, or some such. :rofl:

[spiderpig]

117. "The bed is on my foot! The bed is on my foot!"

(Richard Pryor, SNL) :rofl:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1601/saturday-night-live-the-exorcist-ii

[BlooInBloo]

133. Hah! I never saw that! Thanks!

[Whalestoe]

15. McCain becoming President.

[doublethink]

16. This one ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WSifLbn3UQ

besides Halloween !!

[d_b]

17. k

The only movies that scare me are The Changeling and Exorcist I & III.

[illuminaughty]

182. The Changeling with George C. Scott?

This is the way to make a scary film. I love it.

[d_b]

190. yea that one

great flick.

[spiderpig]

196. Exorcist III. Two words...

Nurses' station.:scared:

[d_b]

201. never fails

rented that when it came out (1990?), and my mom was sitting a little too close to the TV and about fell out of her chair lol. Gets 'em every time.

[jfkraus]

18. The Amityville Horror

Those two little red eyes in the window freak me out.

[BootinUp]

88. I would add that one to my list.

I seem to recall a freaky devil looking character coming out of the toilet drain.

[justiceischeap]

19. Here we go

The Blair Witch Project ('cause it could really happen)
The Shining (original)
Amityville Horror (original)

Those are really the only two movies that scared me.

Session 9 (didn't scare me but great indie horror flick.)

[msallied]

26. deleted dupe

[msallied]

27. I'm so happy to see another Session 9 reference! :)

Love that movie. It did creep me right the hell out, though. LOL

[justiceischeap]

32. Very few "scary" movies scare me.

Although Session 9 was, as I said, quite a little masterful gem. I'm excited and counting down the minutes to Ghost Hunters Live. :)

[msallied]

38. I'm weird about scary movies that way too.

Slasher movies don't scare me. Blood and gore are rather trite. But subtle, atmospheric things really get to me for some reason.

Ghost Hunters Live? I must look this up!

[justiceischeap]

43. Sci-fi channel -- starts at 7pm EST :) nt

[illuminaughty]

187. Hey, I've got it DVRd. Can't wait to watch.

It's at the fort, right?

[illuminaughty]

186. Session 9

Another one to rent and listen to Directors commentary on DVD extras. They went through some pretty weird experiences filming at the location.

We like to walk around saying "What are YOU doing here?"

[AlCzervik]

40. Session 9 was a great movie and probably the only really thing Caruso has appeared in.

move wise.

[msallied]

46. Yes, I am not a Caruso fan, but I liked him in this movie.

I loved the digital cinematography in the film as well as the fact that it was filmed on location at Danvers State Hospital and almost nothing was changed. It just feels so authentic.

[MikeE]

47. That was a great one

It totally creeped me out, especially the end!

[msallied]

52. "I live in the weak and the wounded."

Got chills just writing that. LOL

[illuminaughty]

184. My Blair Witch experience

It's really hard to scare me for a variety of seasons. But I was in L.A. with family for the opening of Blair Witch and it was the VERY FIRST viewing at midnight. People were lined around the block to get in.

Couldn't believe how scared I got. Of course, that was because they were still selling it as a true story and that the video was legit. Next day, once I found out it was "created" not so scary.

BUT GREAT FUN.

[justiceischeap]

210. Blair Witch

Even though I knew it was fake, it still scared me because, as I stated above, it's one of those things that could really happen. You could really get lost in the woods and a crazy person could really stalk you and want to kill you.

As far as GH, yeah, it's at Fort Delaware. They were having all kinds of camera problems (to forewarn you) when they were following Jason & Grant. It didn't go as smoothly as the other two did, that's for sure.

[ThatsMyBarack]

20. Recount.

[Butch350]

24. The Exorcism of Emily Rose

[H2O Man]

25. Bedtime for Bonzo

[WinkyDink]

28. "The Night of the Hunter".

[expatriate]

126. "Chiiiiildreeeennnnn ...."

Night of the Hunter is one of the most atmospheric and scary films I've ever seen. Glad to see someone else remembers it.

[WinkyDink]

211. Likewise! :)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

145. That one scared the bejeebers out of me when I saw it on TV as a kid.

:scared:

[illuminaughty]

188. LOVE HATE!

[AlCzervik]

31. i am going to recommend a fantastic ghost story that more people really need to see if you

love Ghost stories and excellent movies.

The Orphanage, it's is not to be missed.

[msallied]

34. Ooh!! I couldn't agree more!

That movie had me in a constant state of chills! The sound effects and the lighting were top notch. And the kid in the burlap mask. Yikes! Very good imagery in that film. And it was also quite sad at the end. I loved that movie.

[AlCzervik]

36. i loved it and i wish more people knew about it.

[ddeclue]

37. Oh...I forgot Angelheart!

Louis Cipher... :evilgrin:

[msallied]

39. Yiiiikes! Very scary movie!

I saw that when I was quite young and I don't think I slept much afterward. lol

[ddeclue]

56. The Sixth Sense is by FAR my scariest movie...

I used to think it was the Shining until I saw Sixth Sense.

It really creeped me out with the temperature going down on the thermostat and seeing people's breaths and ghosts popping up from rooms down the hall. The ghost who was the kid who killed himself with his dad's gun had me jumping up out of my seat - that scared the hell out of me. Also the little girl who grabbed Haley Joel Osmond's ankles under the bed - I just about peed my pants. Also the other things like the dead people hanging in the school, the dead teacher from the fire, the dead bicyclist..the kid knowing things from soldiers he had no way of knowing - it really freaked me out.

The ending freaked me out too but I don't want to discuss it in case someone here hasn't seen it yet.

The Shining creeped me out for similar reasons like the little girls down the hall and "redrum" and the way Nicholson descended into homocidal madness with the axe.

Southern Comfort was scary because they had no bullets for their guns and were being hunted by the Cajuns they pissed off through the swamps of Louisiana. Really this is the classic high school horror flick transformed to an unusual setting (Louisiana swamp) and an unusual cast (National Guard soldiers instead of teenagers)

The Silence of the Lambs was totally scary in the last few minutes when Jodie Foster was in the dark with the psycho with the night vision goggles and the build up to that moment put you in just the right spot to be scared.

Aliens was particularly scary the first time as the aliens kept getting the upper hand, the soldiers lost their gear, etc. In some ways similar to SC.

I originally forgot about Angelheart and Jaws.

Doug D.

[ddeclue]

69. I also forgot: The Devil's Advocate n/t

[susanwy]

33. Carrie

and the bucket of blood!

[Touchdown]

35. Carrie. Watching it Tonight. n/t

[msallied]

42. Hey good call! I think I might watch that one too. :)

I was trying to decide between that or The Descent. Maybe both if there is time. :)

[justiceischeap]

50. Forgot about that one!

Carrie is an excellent piece of cinema. I think there are only two really good Stephen King adaptions to film and Carrie's one of them. The other is The Shining (w/ Nicholson).

[ailsagirl]

110. I really liked "The Dead Zone" -- gory but very well done

[justiceischeap]

127. Damn! Forgot about that one too!

I'll add a third good adaptation. Good call!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

44. "Ed Gein"...

...the one with Steve Railsback,



...NOT the one with Kane "Jason from Friday the 13th" Hodder,



...because the Railsback film is in the spirit of Psycho (Gein was the "real life" inspiration for Norman Bates, as well as "Leatherface" in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Buffalo Bill" from "Silence of the Lambs."

The Hodder flick is just another Friday the 13th film. NONE of the psychological underpinnings from the Railsback film are there.

The REAL Ed Gein was scarier than ALL of the fictional characters I just named put together:



:scared:

[msallied]

I remember reading a true crime novel about Gein and being scared out of my wits.

I felt the same way when I also read something on Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker.

[AlCzervik]

51. I saw that on Sundance---someone in the lounge had an uncle that grew up in that

town during the Ed Gein era.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

61. The residents burned the whole farm to the ground after he was arrested

The farm:



And the article that appeared in the L.A. Times:

[rzemanfl]

45. Fahrenheit 911. I just didn't know it at the time. eom

[MikeE]

49. I love the Grudge series

Those are fantastic!

[AlCzervik]

53. Have you seen the originals, i am a huge fan of asian horror films.

[MikeE]

68. Yes, the first 3

but I guess they did more. Asia Extreme is one of my friends on my MySpace page. I really love the asian horror films too.

[AsahinaKimi]

113. I listed a few good asian films

Maybe you have seen them..

1. Uzumaki (Spiral)
2. JU-ON (The Grudge)
3. One Missed Call (1&2)
4. Ringu (The Ring)
5. Cursed (2004 film)
6. Shikoku (land of the dead)
7.Jisatsu saakuru (aka Suicide Club or Suicide Circle)
8.Dark Water (aka Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara)

more can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Horror
and one Korean horror/monster film;
The Host

[Jed Dilligan]

54. The Serpent and the Rainbow

Good mix of old school suspense and modern-day gore. The live burial plot is particularly horrific.

[msallied]

60. I think I need to watch that.

My TIVO keeps recording it as suggested viewing, because I watch so many horror movies. lol

[Jed Dilligan]

134. It's a quality film with some real grounding in ethnobotany & Haitian politics.

Check it out!

[FreeState]

55. Secret Window with Johny Depp n/t

[msallied]

62. I've heard conflicting reports on the movie, but I can say that the story was excellent!

I've read it several times.

[FreeState]

78. I have not read the book - but the movie was so good I could hardly watch it LOL n/t

[cemaphonic]

114. It's Ok, not great.

It won't really insult you if you like the story, but it doesn't really bring anything new to it either. Tuturro does a good job projecting menace even though he is largely reprising his "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" role, and Depp is dependable as ever.

The biggest problem is that sort of personality disorder works in print, but isn't very convincing on film. The only movie, I've ever seen it work in was "Fight Club," but it wasn't going for psychological realism at all.

[Eyerish]

57. Hellraiser I & Silence of the Lambs

[workinclasszero]

59. IT....written by Steven King

The ending is a small let down but its a pretty scary movie all the way through.

[TheBigotBasher]

71. King is a great author

but most of his movies are just pure awful.

[Poiuyt]

141. This was the best King film adaptation

I've got the DVD, but no one will watch it with me!

[TheBigotBasher]

143. IT?

Hmm.

[ddeclue]

74. Forgot about Stephen King...

Pet Cemetery
Christine
The Frighteners
Cujo

[Kceres]

84. Yes, "It." I was waiting for someone to mention that one.

Nothing worse than a clown to creep people out and that one was horrifying.

[workinclasszero]

106. "Everything floats down here....."

BOO!!!! :scared:

[Perky]

66. SIleneceof the Lambs

ANd yes ALiens (II) was the best

[BootinUp]

67. Omen

Jaws
Cujo
Thinner
Silence of the Lambs

[crazy_vanilla]

72. scarier than fiction ... E. Hasselbeck and S. Palin in the same room

Beats Jeepers Creepers and Saw combined.

[jeffrey_X]

73. Prince of Darkness

1987 i think

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

146. Oh, yeah.

I have a tape of it, and I can't make myself watch it again. :scared:

[Bucky]

75. An unusual choice, but the scariest political movie ever: Gabriel Over the White House

A supernatural being possesses the president and the fascists become the good guys.

Made in 1932 when many thought fascism would replace democracy. William Randolph Heart at his best & worst.

[TheBigotBasher]

118. Has Bush been in that long?

I thought it was 8 years?

[lunatica]

77. Jacobs Ladder with Tim Robbins

EEEEEEeeeeeekkk! Grotesque, nightmares, worst dark thoughts, repulsive, scary.

Seven was the same way. Slimy horrible creepy crawly stuff.

[Whisp]

172. this one would be my pick. omg, night sweats over that one. nt

[Doityourself]

79. The Exorcist and Carrie!

[AzDar]

81. Anyone remember a movie about two couples in an R.V. being pursued by Satanists?

Scared the HELL outta me when I was 10 or so...:scared:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

83. I saw that one and it was scary. Can't quite think of it, but someone will. nt.

[rvablue]

104. Azdar, why'd you hafta go and remind me of that

I was exactly the same age when I watched that thing on TV and the scarinesst only left me a few years ago....wasn't that the same movie where there was an evil little girl running around in a raincoat??

AWWWW! Thanks a lot...I probably won't sleep tonight! :)

[pamela]

175. Race with the Devil n/t

[onager]

178. "Race With The Devil " (1975)

With Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Lara Parker, and Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H fame.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073600/

You can buy this one in a 3-pack for about 10 bucks, with a couple of other Motorhead Movies. One is the excellent Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry, also with Peter Fonda and Vic Morrow.

The third movie is, unfortunately, the Abomination of Desolation--the absolutely awful TV-movie remake of the classic Vanishing Point. I don't know how they talked poor Viggo Mortenson into doing that turkey. I guess he needed a paycheck.

The guy who re-made "VP" is a right-wing hack. The DJ in the original is now a Limbaugh-type right-wing radio ranter!!! All drug references are removed, natch. The bad guys are the ATF and FBI. And Kowalski (about whom we knew nothing in the original) is given a standard Pregnant-Wife-In-Crisis backstory.

Oh, and Steve Railsback turns up as demented rural sheriff. He launched his career by playing Charlie Manson in Helter Skelter. Bwah!

Only worth watching for the cars--a 1970 Hemi Challenger and a black 1968 Charger, crashed by Railsback.

[Doityourself]

82. Oh..forgot ...THE OMEN

[otohara]

85. David Cronenberg's - Dead Ringers

The story of The Mantle brothers' mental breakdown - mutant woman ---- still gives me the willies.

[cemaphonic]

105. ugh, yeah - needed brain bleach for that.

Even by Cronenberg's standards, that was a squicky movie.

[TheBigotBasher]

124. Yep all of his films

Not quite scary, but creepy. Brilliantly so.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

86. The Serpent and the Rainbow

It was so horrible that I've repressed the entire thing and will have to undergo regression therapy to recover the time spent viewing it.

[ailsagirl]

112. I watched a little bit of "Last House on the Left" and was sickened

It was really twisted-- like a snuff movie. Wasn't it directed by Les Craven? He seems so normal.

Really-- there is a difference between a good scary movie and one that would make you vomit. Truly perverted.

If you don't believe me, read the plot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_House_on_the_Left

[cemaphonic]

181. The book is really quite interesting though

It's a non-fiction account of a Harvard scientist that goes to Haiti to try and figure out a scientific basis for the zombie phenomenon (since there had been a few well documented cases that suggested that zombies were not purely folklore - actual people who had been "killed," brought back to life and worked as slaves on agricultural plantations).

He worked under the assumption that psychoactive drugs played a big part of this process, and most of the book is spent trying to trace down what compounds were being used (pufferfish poison was used for the "killing" part, since a just-under-lethal dose will slow the metabolism to a point that is very hard to detect), but along the way he discovered that a lot of what made the process really work was the integration of the religion into the fabric of Haitian society.

Never saw the movie. Just the idea that they turned that into a straight-up horror movie is completely insulting.

[Gogi]

89. The Legend of Hell House. eom

[lunatica]

90. The Hills have Eyes (the first one)

Shudder. It's freeky like being in another reality that doesn't have the same rules.

:scared:

[AsahinaKimi]

92. I think Japanese horror is the scaryest.

Here is a good list of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Horror

[juno jones]

93. The Damned w/ Dirk Bogarde

Ken Russell's the Devils
Marat/Sade
Salo

The monsters are human and scarier for that fact. You can't really reassure yourself that it's just a movie after all.

[BootinUp]

95. So no one else watched Jaws when they were 13

and jumped out of the theater seat when that head popped out of the whole in the boat?

And no one else sort of avoided going in the water at the beach summer of '75?

[ddeclue]

97. Best line of the entire movie: We're gonna need a bigger boat!

:rofl:

[expatriate]

148. I haven't gone into the ocean since ...

I figure it this way - don't go in the shark's living room, shark won't bite your butt off ...

I did have a major jones for Robert Shaw as Quint, so I watched the movie a lot and just closed my eyes when the head came out of the hole in the boat ...

[JohnMcCant2008]

96. The Evil Dead

[smoochpooch]

99. Here's a few I haven't seen listed yet: Suspiria, My Little Eye, Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Prowler, My Bloody Valentine.

Some other favorites that aren't really scary per se: The Lost Boys, Battle Royale, and Manhunter.

[Guaranteed]

202. Texas Chainsaw Massacre- the original.

Scariest movie ever made.

Non-stop running and screaming and pure terror for over an hour. Can't beat it.

[Ino]

100. The Others / Blair Witch / Exorcist

I think I'll go watch Blair Witch right now!

[BlooInBloo]

102. Wow. I was gonna say Blair Witch. But I would have been joking.

[iamthebandfanman]

121. yeah, blair witch was only good

when it was only available on the internet and all its fake websites made it look legit(before it was announced as an actual movie).

i know when i watched it on my computer screen alone in my room, in the dark, it scared the crap outa me... made me nervous the entire time...

but wow was it a complete horrible movie on the big screen...
ill never watch it again.

[EastTennesseeDem]

136. Huh. Blair Witch terrified the living fucking shit out of me

Still does. That and "The Others" are the only ones to do that. I'm guessing it's because you go the whole movie without seeing anything.

[iamthebandfanman]

150. yup, i musta closed my eyes the entire time.

being asleep tends to require it.

like i say, before it was a 'movie' and just some random 'lost' footage spreading around the internet... it was horribly frightening...

on the big screen tho... just didnt do it for me.

[charlie and algernon]

137. The Others has a few good jump scenes

i recommend it

[DevonRex]

192. The Others is one of my favorite movies. nt

[RagAss]

107. Romero's original...Night of The Living Dead ! 1967.

[ailsagirl]

199. Yes indeed-- I thought it might be comical because so many of

the older "scary" movies are-- not this one!! :scared:

[lunatica]

203. From the cemetary scene to the last horrible bullet in the good guys head!

I was scared shitless!

[FormerDittoHead]

108. I think "The Mist" was underrated...

Honestly, this one blew me away, but it's gotten a lot of bad word because it wasn't 100% faithful to the book, unlike all the other movies based upon books.

[depakid]

109. The Descent

Thirty Days of Night

The Ring

The Mist (for it's ending)

[TTUBatfan2008]

168. I just watched 30 Days of Night...

rented it on Blu-ray. Great picture quality. The movie was not very scary. Just lots of blood and gore.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

115. Silence of the Lambs

Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
Red Dragon
The Exorcist
Freaks
Night of the Living Dead (original - scared me shitless when I saw it stoned at a midnite movies back in the 1970s)
The (original) Mummy. Karloff's facial expressions are terrifying, especially in closeup and it's a beautiful film.

[RBInMaine]

116. Silence of the Lambs and The Exorcist

[cemaphonic]

119. Les Diaboliques

Creepy French film-noir that has been cribbed from by just about every suspense movie for decades.

[Canuckistanian]

120. Gotta agree with The Shining

That is one psychologically freaky flick.

[Connie_Corleone]

122. The Bush/Cheney Administration Parts I and II.

The Descent.

[iamthebandfanman]

123. ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES! n/t

[Cats Against Frist]

125. I like Dario Argento's "Inferno"

I also like Suspiria and an old movie from the 80s called "The Curse," with Will Wheaton. The Amityville Horror. Rosemary's Baby.

[Warren DeMontague]

130. "Gigli"

:shrug:

[spanone]

131. the day the earth stood still

forbidden planet
the fly (original)
the exorcist
shining
them
aliens

[TheBigotBasher]

132. Mine

In no particular order

and they may not be frightenening now.

Terminator 2
Arnie in a day job he was good at, because he was so bad at it. He was the ultimate cybernetic organism. Without becoming too much of a conspiracy theorist, this film becomes scarier as time moves on. Except for the time travelm the technology, although not looking like it does in the film now pretty much exists.

Horror Express
A really awful film now, only scary because I remember watching it as a kid (yep my mum used to let me watch horror films), I went to bed and woke up to see cats eyes staring at me. The film is about some possessed frozen monster that transfers through bodies and can be picked out because the eyes light in the dark.

Crash (original version)
Just wrong. Was banned for a while in the UK.

Faces of Death
Still banned in the UK. Very freaky.

I forgot Monsters Ball.

Cannibal Holocaust
I believe it is still banned here, even now.

Videodrome & Repo Man
Nuff said.

Deliverance.
That banjo playing kid freaked me out.

I forgot Monsters ball.

[kenny blankenship]

135. Carnival of Souls

It will haunt you. For real.

[cemaphonic]

149. oh yeah, good call

That's an easy one to overlook, but it is eerie. I liked the effect of all the sound cutting out a lot of the time.

[TuxedoKat]

139. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead (nt)

[POAS]

144. Supersize Me n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

147. The Birds by alfred hitchcock

I saw this when I was young and it terrified me!

[FVZA_Colonel]

151. Day of the Dead.

The absolute hopelessness of the situation is what got to me.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

152. "Play Misty for Me" & "Psycho" - 2 of my favorites. nt

[moc]

153. Wait Until Dark

:scared:

[illuminaughty]

189. You know when that film came out

they didn't let people into the theater after a certain point. Because of the intense final scenes filmed mostly in darkness they didn't want light entering the theater.

[HeeBGBz]

209. That was gonna be my pick

My childhood friend pissed her pants at the end of that movie. Scared the bejeezus out of all three of us.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

154. Picnic at Hanging Rock

You never find out what the hell happened!

In a good way.

The book is just great.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

155. Oh yeah -- Invaders From Mars

The original.

Really, really scary stuff. Message - Even those you love most, like Mom and Dad and the friendly neighborhood Army General could be secretly working for the alien invaders. Trust no one! Not even Mom and Dad!

Spent the rest of my life looking for scars at the base of the neck.

[mzmolly]

156. "Black Sabbath"

Scared the crap out of me when I was ten. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAAzJiz3cOM&feature=related

[AnnieBW]

157. The Handmaid's Tale

Scary because it could happen here.

[WCGreen]

163. Yea, that was a tough one to watch...

[Quixote1818]

158. Bambi

That was some fucked up shit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eHr-9_6hCg

[AlCzervik]

159. Adding one more-Shadow of the vampire, a must see for any horror fan.

[Blondiegrrl]

160. My list:

Halloween
The Shining
The Exorcist
The Ring (the part where it crawled out of the TV ... well, I nearly wet my pants)

And, just for campy goodness:

Phantasm

[Rob Gregory Browne]

161. Halloween Favorite:

The Lady in White.

[BattyDem]

164. Phantasm

A low-budget classic!

[LaStrega]

165. Suspiria

And The Changeling comes to mind. And Texas Chainsaw Massacre freaked me out. And Last House on the Left.

*shudder*

All movies I saw when I was young.

[CitizenLeft]

166. I grew up watching vampires, werewolves, mummies...

...but it's the human monsters that scare me.

"Cape Fear" - I can't watch it, DeNiro totally freaks me out.
"Silence of the Lambs" - it's Buffalo Bill that gives me the willies - Hannibal not so much - weird!
"Fear" - Mark Wahlberg as a stalker - stalkers in movies really bother me.

"Jaws" - A shark is not human, but I still yank my feet off the floor when Quint gets "et."

Best "Dracula" - Gary Oldman

Best Sci-Fi - "Alien" - the 1st one - though "Aliens" comes very close! The "monster" that fascinated me most was Ripley's offspring in "Aliens 4" - OMG... when it got sucked out...!
Another one - Kurt Russell's "The Thing" ranks way up there.

There was definitely something about "Blair Witch Project."

Someone mentioned "The Mist" - yeah... that ending. Stayed with me awhile.

HATE slasher movies - best one ever was "Halloween" - after that, they couldn't hold up.

Thanks for starting this thread! HAPPY HALLOWEEN everybody! :hi:

[Name removed]

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[ballabosh]

170. The Vanishing

The original (Spoorloos).

Not really scary throughout the movie, but the final scene is one of the most chilling scenes I have ever seen. Still makes me shudder.

[classiccwhitee]

173. silence of the lambs

for sure

[classiccwhitee]

174. and ''critters'' used to freak me out as a kid

yep

[bermudat]

176. Why isn't this in DU lounge?

[classiccwhitee]

177. exactly my thoughts

[BigBearJohn]

185. 'cuz everybody in the Lounge has left to go trick or treatin'... the place is empty

[BigBearJohn]

183. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original version)

[DevonRex]

191. The Spiral Staircase, The Omen, 30 Days of Night, The Shining and The Others.

The last one was more creepy than scary but I absolutely love it.

[WillyT]

193. Play Misty For Me

:scared:

[Hawaii Hiker]

194. Here are some:

The Excorsist

The Descent

House on Haunted Hill - Actually this movie isn't very good, but there were 2 frightening scenes in it....

Evil Dead

The Ring

[bluedawg12]

195. President McLame- the First 100 days.

That would be fantasy, fiction, horror genre.

But no one would green light it.

:rofl:

[JeanGrey]

197. Psycho. Than Halloween.

Silence of the Lambs.

[SidDithers]

204. Poltergeist scared the crap outta me ...nt

Sid

[FailureToCommunicate]

208. yes! That movie make you want to ask a lot

more questions to your real estate agent before buying into a neighborhood...

[Sheltiemama]

212. Three words: the clown doll.

I don't like scary movies, but I've watched "Poltergeist" several times. It doesn't really bother me. The only part that scares me is that damn, murderous clown doll.

[babydollhead]

205. the bad seed , the black and white version

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

213. Truly chilling - that little girl seemed so innocent and yet was so psycho

[babydollhead]

215. one of my girls was like her.

he name is mia. but secretly, we called her meevil. Or Miseria. She came into the world with crazy saying, and I told all of my friends, "If anything ever happens to me, Mia did it" She would say, "I am going to stick pins in your neck" And, "Let's hurt each other," "no, I said. "then lets hurt the baby" she was sorry that we had another baby. She'd say, "Let's whip her and beat her and throw her down the stairs." One day, we were at my in-laws and my FIL was making cracks like, "the only room grandma is any good in is in the kitchen" (he may well have been sucking a chicken wings clean off the bone, but I said, "Let's push him into the fire and see how long he burns." and my MIL said, "Mia's the way she is because of how you are." I was so glad to call my mom long distance and tell her, "Mom, I do not have a macabre or crazy daughter, you do!"

[FailureToCommunicate]

207. Invasion of the Body Snatchers! Scary for the fact that

the "monsters" are your neighbors who have been 'possessed' by the pods. They LOOK the same but they act like ...eh, well, Republicans

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

214. I thought "They" was pretty good

About a group of friends who had terrible dreams when they were kids and now disappear one by one. The young adults are being snatched out of reality by creatures from another dimension who marked them when they were young kids.