What is your favorite scary movie? - Page 4

Red · #46 10-26-2005, 02:34 AM

I really can't watch scary movies because I am SUCH a pussy.

Seriously, even commercials for scary movies have damaged me beyond repair. That commercial for the Grudge with that creepy pale cat-kid? Scared the PISS out of me! The Exorcist crab walk down the stairs? Sleepless for 3 nights!! Gahhhhh, I can't take it.

Moony · #47 10-26-2005, 03:36 AM

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28 Days Later ........scared me so bad.....I will NOT watch that movie again.

Oh wow, you're the first person I know to agree with me on that movie! I thought it was scary as hell. Anything with Zombies pretty much scares the **** out of me though.

Others....

The Shining
The Excorcist
Rosemary's Baby
Trilogy of Terror (that goddamn Doll!)
Silence of the Lambs
Scream (the opening is genuinely frightening. The rest...funny)
The Blair Witch Project (I don't care what anyone says, this movie is EFFIN SCARY)

Shaun of the Dead (ok, not scary really. But absolutely hilarious)

Brwn_eyes0511 · #48 10-26-2005, 03:41 AM

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Oh wow, you're the first person I know to agree with me on that movie! I thought it was scary as hell. Anything with Zombies pretty much scares the **** out of me though.

I thought the first hour of that movie was GREAT! You can capture any frame of it and it would be art! But the last half just got a little too "commercial" for me.

GODDESS6 · #49 10-26-2005, 06:11 AM

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Well....The Exorcist is scary ****. So is The Shining, but not to extent of the Exorcist. Then there is The Day After, for its creepy depressingness. God I hate that movie.

the nuclear movie?, that was the name of 1, & it was filmed about the airbase that is like 1 mile from me~

jannieC · #50 10-26-2005, 06:35 AM

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Stir Of Echoes

Oh man, this movie stayed with me for a long time. I used to live in a big house, and every morning when I would walk down the stairs, through the livingroom, then through the diningroom to get to the kitchen (to get my coffee), I just knew that girl was standing behind me. I would run back upstairs with coffee in hand as fast as I could!

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Phantasm

I vaguely remeber this movie. I know I saw it when I was little and it scared the HELL out of me.

I love scary movies and love almost all that have been posted here. There was another movie I saw as a child that messed with me but I can't remember the name of it. It was about a man (piano player, I think) whose hand was chopped off. The hand would crawl around and attack people. For years (Okay, to this day and I'm 37 years old) I could not sleep with my hands out of the blankets). Does anyone rememebr this?

I thought The Ring was really scary. I have major problems with scary dead kids. The little girls in The Shining were what did me in with that movie.

irishgrl · #51 10-26-2005, 06:53 AM

Angel Heart is a Psychological thriller, which I tend to prefer over blood and gore movies.

The only movie that truly scared me was Alien. to this day that monster still creeps me out.

A fun scary movie is The People under the Stairs.

irishgrl · #52 10-26-2005, 07:00 AM

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There was another movie I saw as a child that messed with me but I can't remember the name of it. It was about a man (piano player, I think) whose hand was chopped off. The hand would crawl around and attack people. For years (Okay, to this day and I'm 37 years old) I could not sleep with my hands out of the blankets). Does anyone rememebr this?

I remember that movie...black and white right? one real bad scene was when it strangled a man while he was driving. Was it called The Thing?

that reminds me, there was an old Vincent Price movie called The Tingler that scared me as a child....and there was another movie about this really creepy octopus monster that lived in a wall....dont remember much about it except that ONE EYE looking at everyone when it got exposed! ARRGH!
Some of those old movies were far better (I dont mean the campy ones!)
I found a review of the Tingler:

THE TINGLER
Unrated (PG these days)
Copyright 1959 William Castle Productions.
Reviewed a long time ago.

Warren - Vincent Price! Pathologist who has been studying fear and its effect on the human body. The sharpness of his scalpel is only matched by his razor wit.
Isabel - Warren's cheating wife, she hates being married to a man not drawn to parties and social events.
David - Warren's assistant and a good guy, worries at times that the doctor might go too far.
Lucy - David's girlfriend and Isabel's younger sister.
Oliver - Unhappy man, helps his wife run an old theater, but does not like being married to a spinster.
Martha - Oliver's deaf and mute wife who has a serious phobia about blood, in addition to constantly washing her hands and making sure her safe is locked. Dies of fright.
The Tingler - Creature that feeds on fear and lives inside the human body. The one removed from Martha's corpse looks like a disgusting centipede.

Films based on crazy scientific premises (not that I critique any of those) are usually something I find easy to poke fun at. However, after watching this one for only a few minutes I had already suspended belief, entirely willing to go with the idea of a parasite living along my spine; a creature capable of killing me unless those very tensions we experience, in moments of terror, are screamed away.

We begin with a humorous introduction by William Castle, he gives us that trademark wry smile while talking about how scared we shall be watching his film. Then the grand showman hints at "Percepto" and members of the audience experiencing the Tingler sensation. Theaters had some seats set up to give the reclining watcher a mild electric shock, sort of a "tingling" along your spine! Imagine it, as a youngster, watching this film on a Saturday afternoon when suddenly a jolt makes you jump in the seat! Popcorn flies everywhere and friends wonder what in the heck your problem is. Who is going to sell the idea of electrocuting the audience these days? Surely, I was born twenty-five years too late.

Warren's duties as a coroner for Death Row bring him into contact with Oliver (whose brother-in-law was fried in the chair) and Martha. From idle conversation the disillusioned husband learns of Warren's belief that a person can die of fear, giving him the perfect chance to dispose of Martha. Assisted by the patented "hand reaching around the door" and a bathtub full of blood (in color!) his plan works and the poor lady is killed by her own terror.

Oddly enough if anyone in this film should want to kill off their spouse, it would be the good doctor. Isabel flounces her infidelity in Warren's face several times. He always catches her stealing kisses in the front yard or notices a strange tie clip left astray, she is lucky he does not take more drastic action.

Something happened a few paragraphs back that was important... ...oh, Martha died! Warren performs a spontaneous autopsy to remove the huge Tingler, its growth unchecked by screaming due to her voiceless nature. The actual removal is performed behind a screen and watching that ghastly shadow being pulled from a woman's lifeless body allows one's imagination to run wild.

Of course the Tingler manages to escape and cause panic in a theater - much like the one the audience was in. Now, as Price urges the audience to "Scream! Scream for your lives!" the projector is turned off and electric current is applied to those lucky patrons. After a few moments the thing is paralyzed by screaming and the interactive part of the film ends. The Tingler can now be returned to the host body (well, corpse) where the characters believe it will naturally expire.

The film keeps you guessing at a few points (hats off for not spelling everything out letter by letter), in fact I am still not certain Warren had nothing to do with the mute lady's death. Wouldn't that be delicious? He used Oliver as an unknowing patsy all along, having guessed the husband's scheme and providing a helping hand with the mysterious injection.

GODDESS6 · #53 10-26-2005, 07:02 AM

love
the exorcist
all the friday the 13th movies except when he went to NYC & space
all the halloween movies
rosemary's baby (cable has been playin' the **** out of it)
the hills have eyes
the amityville horror
the ring
silence of the lambs & sequels~

jannieC · #54 10-26-2005, 07:04 AM

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the amityville horror

Oh god, my girlfriend and I rented this movie several years ago as a joke. Neither one of us had seen it in years and we thought it would be funny. We were terrified!

GODDESS6 · #55 10-26-2005, 07:06 AM

[QUOTE=jannieC]I vaguely remeber this movie. I know I saw it when I was little and it scared the HELL out of me.

I love scary movies and love almost all that have been posted here. There was another movie I saw as a child that messed with me but I can't remember the name of it. It was about a man (piano player, I think) whose hand was chopped off. The hand would crawl around and attack people. For years (Okay, to this day and I'm 37 years old) I could not sleep with my hands out of the blankets). Does anyone rememebr this?QUOTE]

was it called "the hand" w/ michael caine?, we are the same age & i totally remember that movie, his hand got cut off when he was waving a car by or something while he was passenger in a car, that hand just crawled all around killing people, i saw it once a couple of yrs back & it didn't scare me as bad, but when i was younger i would dream about that hand ~

**mylittledemon** · #56 10-26-2005, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by irishgrl

dont remember much about it except that ONE EYE looking at everyone when it got exposed!

THE TINGLER
Unrated (PG these days)
Copyright 1959 William Castle Productions.
Reviewed a long time ago.

HAHA...you said "one eye." Then you said "Tingler"...hee hee...isn't that a condom? Or is that the Tickler? Oh well.

irishgrl · #57 10-26-2005, 07:33 AM

I did a search for the Disembodied Hand and found this site:
the Hand, Digits of Death
which outlines a history of Horror films about Hands that KILL!!

I actually think the name of the movie is The Beast with Five Fingers....
it seems to have been a fairly popular theme as there are a few "hands of Orlac" movies made (a piano player who loses his hands and has the hands of a killer grafted on, then goes on killing sprees)
The Michael Caine movie was made in the mid-80's and the movie I remember was made during black and white television era....

Raeven Skye · #58 10-26-2005, 07:39 AM

oooh...I love scary movies:

The Exorcist
The Eye
Nightbreed (although it's not that scary)
Rosemary's Baby is classic
Psycho (and pretty much anything Hitchcock)
Hellraiser (and anything Barker)

and although I can't stand his books, Stephen King's movies are usually good.
anything "B" :most recently watched: Brain Damage

GODDESS6 · #59 10-26-2005, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by irishgrl

I did a search for the Disembodied Hand and found this site:
the Hand, Digits of Death
which outlines a history of Horror films about Hands that KILL!!

I actually think the name of the movie is The Beast with Five Fingers....
it seems to have been a fairly popular theme as there are a few "hands of Orlac" movies made (a piano player who loses his hands and has the hands of a killer grafted on, then goes on killing sprees)
The Michael Caine movie was made in the mid-80's and the movie I remember was made during black and white television era....

cool, here is the one i meant, wow there are tons of "hand" movies out there~
http://www.movietome.com/movietome/s...9447/The_Hand/

**mylittledemon** · #60 10-26-2005, 07:53 AM

You want scary?

The Wicker Man...with Christopher Lee. Believe it.