Scary Movies...
 

So my friends and I wanna have a scary movie night but none of us really watch scary movies...Whats everyone's favorite scary movies?!?!

My picks are weird in that I do not believe in the devil, but I do find The Exorcist and The Omen scary. I have mixed feelings about Rosemary's Baby, but Ruth Gordon is always worth watching.
I also like The Others.

On the other hand, slasher movies do nothing for me, and as for more recent releases, I found The Ring completely laughable. (Yes, I'm aware that there are many who would say the same thing about The Exorcist.)

- Jake

Thanks Jake =)

I actually found The Ring scary xD

Devil ~ It's not uber-scary, but it sure did freak me out.

I've always been a fan of Vincent Price movies. I don't really think that you need gratuitous gore in order for a horror to be successful. I've always been rather too impressionable with the more gory films, anyway. My imagination runs away with me and I frighten myself to death. The remake of Thirteen Ghosts, anything involving Zombies, Final Destination and Pirahna 3D are particularly scarring for me lol.

Of cables 500 channels, I was surprised to find the MGM channel plays such classic made-for-tv movies I love. I watched some movie last night with Valerie Harper in it from 1977 called Night Drive where a maniac follows her around everywhere she goes. Was kind of creepy and I love classic thrillers like that of yesteryear. They don't make films and tv movies like that much today.

I just watched "The Last Exorcist" or whatever its called lmao SCARED ME!
Needless to say I was hiding under the blanket and behind a pillow and I kept asking ashley "Do you see her yet?" over and over LOL

Oooh! Every night in October should be "Scary Movie Night". Here are a few of my favorites:

1. Halloween (The original, not the crappy remake)
2. Friday the 13th (Parts 1-4 are good)
3. The Shining
4. A Nightmare on Elm St. (the original and part 3)
5. The Strangers

If you want good spooky, but not scary choices, these movies always put me in a Halloween mood:

Sleepy Hollow
The Lady in White
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Where is Brett when we need him?!

Some of my favs are Halloween (entire series and remakes except #3), The Strangers, When A Stranger Calls (original), When A Stranger Calls Back, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake), Thirteen Ghosts, Trick 'r Treat, Amusement, House of 1000 Corpses, The Omen, I've Been Waiting For You, Scream (entire series), and Saw.

Thanks =) I'll look for some of these at Movie Stop =)

Halloween - all of em
Psycho
Dark Shadows - the movies and the TV series

I tend to like more "spooky" ghostly movies that all out horror and gore and that mess. :cool:

A few vampire movies, and no not the glistening ones.

Fright Night (from 1985/86).

Let The Right One In (2008, foreign).

Let Me In (remake, 2010).

My List of favourite scary movies include:
1. [Rec] (Spanish original verison)
2. Paranormal Activity
3 Blair Witch Project
4. It (with Tim Curry, based on Stephen King's novel-trauma from the childhood :))

I LOVE horror/thriller movies. While I like a good amount of that I see, here are a few I reccomend.

1. Halloween (1978 or 2000's remake) - #4 and H2O are both good movies in the series as well.
2. Friday the 13th (Part 2)
3. Freddy vs. Jason
4. Scream (1, 3, and 4)
5. It
6. Saw part 1
7. Trick R Treat
8. The Amityville Horror (remake)
9. High Tension (This movie is foreign, but man is it scary)
10. The Descent (both parts)

Yes, these are all quite terrifying. Staying on topic of exorcism movies, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" scared the **** out of me and I, like you, do not believe in the devil. Still, I couldn't sleep after watching that movie.

I'm sure someone mentioned this one, but "Paranormal Activity" is really terrifying. The sequels not so much. Another good movie that came out a couple of years ago called "House of the Devil" is really good too. It's got a slow build, but by the end of the movie, you will be terrified!

My list of fave horror films, ideal guide for Netflix or video-store browsing:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/johnde...e_horror_films

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Strangers

These movies scared me. Most don't. I love horror movies - they're my favorite genre. I don't find slasher/gore films even the least bit frightening - they're just bloody and gross. But I'll watch them sometimes, though mostly they bore me. I like demons, monsters, ghosts & real scary sh*t.

Oh - also - The Fourth Kind. The first hour scared the bloody hell out of me.

Midnight Meat Train. This movie was disturbing - at one point I had to turn it off and just make some food and watch some lighthearted TV. All in all it was pretty lame, but had it's good moments.

Slasher films don't do anything for me either. I like a good scary well made thriller. But regarding Emily Rose, I've never seen it but my brother and sil rented that when it came out and was in the middle of the film busy watching it and all of a sudden papers in the kitchen started flying off the fridge they'd stuck up with magnets from the kids' school projects and stuff. They turned that movie off and told me about it the next day and to not watch it. Now for those here who don't believe and are snickering, there are us others who do and that you can open doors and invite the unknown in if you let them. :nod:

That said, I have never seen the film to see what it's all about, to even know.

Rest Stop (but, definitely NOT Rest Stop 2)
Vacancy (w Luke Wilson & Kate Beckensale)

SO MANY MOVIE TRAILERS I HAVE TO WATCH lol

Ive aactually never really been into scary/horror/gory/etc movies before...Ive just always been too scared and then it would take me like forever to fall asleep at night. Oh and not to mention I HATE when things pop out of no where and freak me the **** out lol I scream and then hide under the blanket...and then those bloody ones are just gross lmao I could barely handle my own blood let alone gushing blood on tv....and paranormal movies freak me out too...then when I go to bed I think something is there lol

Ive been into scary movies lately for some reason and yet I still get scared lmao but not as bad

I'm not a huge scary movie guy because... well... they scare me. :lol:

One of the few scarier films that I've seen more than once that always freaks me out is 28 Days Later.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose was fantastic! Gotta check into The Strangers.

I recently watched and enjoyed "INSIDIOUS" - It's sorta low rent, but creepy in all darkest places of your mind! And beside Patrick Wilson being hard on the eyes, Barbara Hershey gives Karen Black a run for her campy creepiness throne. She's getting quite good at this type of role, think Black Swan.

DEVIL was also "entertaining" enough. It starts out more disturbing, then became unintentionally laugh out loud, everytime the lights went off in the elevator:laugh: I was highly amused!

Great Movie!!

Has anyone seen DREAM HOUSE yet?

Oh!! And my favorite new twisted campy horror TV show is AMERICAN HORROR STORY on FX! Gotta check this out. I've only seen 2 episodes, but it is movie quality sh*t! All perverse and creepy...I LOVE THIS!

Dream House was not scary, but it was really well acted (as directed by Jim Sheridan) and it is BEAUTIFUL to look at (shot by the GREAT MONSTER GENIUS D.P. Caleb Deschanel). Despite its flaws, I appreciated its social understanding: as the nightmares of one house destroy the dreams of another.

Ten Greatest Horror Films (1 per director)

1. The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978)
2. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
3. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
4. Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman, 1977)
5. The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984)
6. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
7. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
8. Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973)
9. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
10. The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)


ETA: The eight-minute short Hearts of Age (Orson Welles, 1934) is the scariest movie I've ever seen. I saw it in junior high as a bonus feature on a Citizen Kane Laserdisc. I swore I would never see it again. . . and I still haven't broken that oath.

I did see Insidious - I enjoyed it, but found it started off far better than it ended.

I *love* American Horror Story. I'm already annoyed that I have to wait in between episodes. :laugh: I'm curious as to what Zachary Qunito's role will be; I loved him as Sylar in Heroes and hope that he's playing an equally disturbed role. It's those eyes!

Oh this Insidious movie has Patrick Wilson in it? I'll definitely have to watch then...

The Shining and The Exorcist scare me pretty good. The Thing ( the one from the 80s with Kurt Russell) is pretty darn creepy too.

Jamie

Ohhh.. almost forgot...The Strangers with Liv Tyler. :nod:

Yeah, the first The Thing remake (the Kurt Russell one) was pretty damned scary!

Not so much "scary", as "thriller", Enough with J-Lo, Billy Campbell, Noah Wylie & Fred Ward.

I feel you and I discussed this in some other long, lost thread...? I'm with you too, the hack n' slash films get really old fast. But occasionally are fun (with popcorn).

Regardless, I love Midnight Meat Train and I know I really shouldn't. It got under my skin and really kinda creeped me out. But the scariest part for me was when the photographer's girlfriend was searching the serial killers apartment. I was climbing the walls, sweating, freaking and disturbed.

I like how it was filmed too...the color is really awesome and really has a creep feel to just to that, especially on blu-ray. The CGI blood was goofy as hell, but great for a laugh in a film that sent you through a range of emotions. ;)

Here's some other horror movies I love:

The Sentinel (1977)
The Devil's Backbone
Deadbirds
Session 9
Pumpkinhead
Dead & Breakfast ------ This is really fun! Zombie musical.
Willard ------- The Crispin Glover remake. Too good.
Triangle
The House of the Devil
Drag Me To Hell ----- So fun.
May
Cujo
The Descent

The Exorcist is in a league of its own.

Truly. Arguably the worst movie ever made.

Yes, the "Ben" sequence is harrowing. That director did a kinda interesting remake of Black Christmas, as well--but Willard is intense.

Really? Just a couple months ago I ran into Olivia Hussey (from original film) and she is so sweet and we only talked about Black Christmas of course, and sadly the death of the director (and her friend) Bob Clark.

I'll check out the remake.

The original Black Christmas is much better. But since you know both the original and Willard, you might find it interesting as I did.

No, that would be Exorcist II. Unless we count Audrey Rose and Ghost Story.

- Jake

:nod:

Exorcist III was pretty creepy though.

Has anyone seen Paranormal Activity III yet? I hear it's pretty bad. The first one scared the **** out of me.

The Exorcist is one of the best movies all time. I'm just saying that in terms of horror movies, the Exorcist stands alone.

Exorcist II--#4 on my list of horror films--is actually a great, visionary work. Singular as a true work of mysticism out of Hollywood. I watched it again this weekend with a guy I've been seeing (fortunately he liked it lol).

After the movie's prologue (introducing Burton's character, his sense of impotence against evil, and the healer's query--"Why me?"--that establishes the mystic concept of the good locust targeted for destruction by the devil through Pazuzu), filmmaker John Boorman--a GIANT--reintroduces Regan as she attempts to tapdance. She picks up the steps through the wordless communication between herself and the sax player (I've always considered it one of the great mystical co-incidences that this movie was released the same year as Rumours--Blair even looks like Stevie!).

That musical interplay and communication (expressed through shot reverse shot editing) establishes the social/spiritual truth behind the movie's psychic events and storytelling. Later, that tapdance will be interrupted by Blair's empathic experience of Burton's persecution.

The movie's contention that evil exists as a real entity is also built upon this conception of social phenomenon: the wings of Pazuzu. This expresses how evil really operates in the world; history bears the evidence.

Indeed, now consider the title for the movie's expression of a mystic, social truth: the late Father Merrin is under scrutiny by the Church for being a heretic; however, the movie proposes, through outcasts played by Burton and Blair, that the Church is defined by--and protected by--those outside of it (think Joan of Arc).

The movie's meta-challenge must also be met (as the concept of "synching" operates as a movie and dream metaphor). The end of the film challenges the audience to choose between the possessed girl of the first film (grotesque, titilation, the cheapest of responses) and the heroic girl of The Heretic.

Plus the movie contains my favorite Ennio Morricone music cue (and that's saying something!!!): when Blair psychically communicates with an autistic girl, then awakens her out of her waking sleep.

James Baldwin and Pauline Kael kicked sh*t out of that proposal, even at the time.

I remember when David Bordwell taught the movie during the Horror films section of our Film Style & Genres course. I was so angry (it was my official Worst Movie Of ALL Time at the time, and probably still is). It is really junk. So I went up to him after class. I said: This movie won't do and these students should not be exposed to it. He confessed that of all the movies he teaches, it's the one he could do a better job directing. Then I said: You should show Exorcist II as a corrective. He shook his head: "These kids are not ready for Exorcist II." I do not subscribe to such cynicism.