Happy Halloweenie! Favorite scary movie?
 

Since it is almost Halloween, I have been picking out movies from our horror collection to watch all weekend and next week.

first will be the Nightmare on Elm Street series.

then I think we will do the Friday the 13th series.

and probably a couple of Stephen King's in there somewhere.

and I can't forget my all time favorite, Amityville, and also Poltergeist.

we collect horror movies over here. I could go on and on!

Your favorite scary movie? I have a thing for scary house flicks.

Stephen King!!! Love his books and movies.

Without a doubt the original "Halloween". That movie really launched the genre back in 1978.

Friday the 13th 1 and 2
Halloween 1 and 2


Newer ones that had a good scare to them

Vacancy
The Strangers
and although not real scary ..they are still on the horror genre.. but the Saw series of films

|thumb Clive Barker

"The Shining" is the only movie that ever gave me a nightmare. The scene where Nicholson is drinking with the dead bartender creeps me out.
"Return of the Living Dead" ranks right up there as well.

I love horror flicks, but the only one that really freaked me out was "The Exorcist". I actually lost sleep over that fucker.

I've only gotten into "horror" movies recently, so I've not seen as many as others. I did really like the Halloween remake that Rob Zombie did, as well as his other 2 movies.

I did watch all the George Romero movies in order so that I could see how the zombie thing started - there was some good cheese in there |thumb

Dracula with Bela Lugosi when I was a kid. didn't sleep well for weeks.
The Birds by Hitchcock. Flocks of birds still creep me out

I'm more into a "thinking" horror so anything that is like stuck in an insane asylum when you shouldn't be, etc freaks me out.

Oh and the shower scene from Psycho.

Sex in the City. Haven't seen it, but the whole idea of a Sex in the City movie scares the shit out of me.

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch obviously! |nahnah|

No, in all seriousness, I'm a big fan of any zombie movie regardless of how bad it is, like Zombie Honeymoon. The new stuff with the running zombies is good too (28 days, dawn of the dead, etc...)

I really dig the Halloween movies. Michael Myers is the shit. Friday the 13th movies are also fun because they are so retarded. |chainsaw|

Some of the Saw movies are good.

The only ones that really creep me out are the Japanese horror flicks with the really crazy imagery, like the Ju-on (the Grudge).

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

But I've never been all that fond of clowns.

I love classic horror movies like Frankenstain with Boris Karloff and Dracula with Bela Lugosi. I also love all the Friday the 13th, Freddy Kruger and Halloween! And when I was 8 I got traumatized after watching "It" by Stephen King :D

I almost pissed at the beginning with sunrise and that creepy music.
Never finish that one.
And never will.|scared|

oooh and " The Ring" no fucking tv for next three days after this one.

there is a scene with Sarah Jessica Parker w/ no make up that is extremely scary!! |scared|

Let's see. Growing up it was all the b&w Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon. And then the "Creature Features" stuff (Universal Horror, RKO, Hammer, Roger Corman's b-movies, and Japanese monsters), and then the early sci-fi stuff, with the atomic monsters and invading aliens. Plenty of stuff to scare a kid in many of those.

As I got a little older the ones that made an impression have mostly been listed already: The Birds, Psycho, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the rest. The Shining 'cause I loved early Stephen King books and it was a passable version of the book and had Jack Nicholson. Early Clive Barker movies too (after King said Barker was the only one who scared him).

The Omen was scary (the original 1976 version). The scene with the Rottweiler 'graveyard dogs' was scary enough, but afterwards, when I walked my date back to my car there was a big dog in the darkness of the alley next to where I'd parked, which barked and snarled and ran towards us. I don't have any idea how we did it but I had the car unlocked, both of us inside and both door locked again by the time we realized the dog was on a chain and were able to laugh at how we'd reacted. (Note: very good sex that night too, both of us still riding that big adrenalin rush.)

The new horror stuff hasn't worked on me for a long time unfortunately, but I do like how the zombies have gotten faster. I never liked slow creatures when I thought they should be faster. I like fast zombies. (And I like how fast the vampires move in the new True Blood on HBO).

Okay, time to recommend one that hasn't been mentioned yet. This one is from back in 1972 (though there is a new version in post-production now it seems):

The Last House on the Left from Wes Craven. You definitely want to try to get the most unedited version you can find (more info at Wikipedia).

"Outside, Estelle has duped Weasel into a sex game, which concludes with her biting off the criminal's genitals."

Now that's HORROR!

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I think scary is a personal thing but I find that it is the older classics that do it the best. Most have been mentioned already but it is the distinct lack of high tech gadgetry and the need to use the imagination that made these more potent than they actually were. They used suspense and cheesy music to build to terror as opposed to blood and guts and decapitation to drive the point across. Masters of horror in the persons of Alfred Hitchcock, Bella Legosi and Boris Karloff knew how to do it and although with age you have to watch them and wonder why they scared the bejeezus out of you at the time, they are still well worth watching. When I was a kid, Frankenstein sent me under the theatre sear when the monster slowly reached up and ripped off the dressing to finally show its horrible face that to day, by comparison, is more cartoonish than horror.
Ah, the joys of Hallowe'en|jester|

The omen
The excorsist
The very first zombie movie, i dont know how its named, but it all was played in a mall (heay i was a little kid that time)
The Fog ( i was also a small kid, but i do remmeber i was afraid for fog a longggggggggg time)

Grow a set and go see "W"...:D

Pet Cemetery, Child's Play and The Shinning (very scary!!)

I love the nightmare on elm street series.It's not really scary but I just love Freddy's style.

If your doing the The Excorsist this season,you NEED to get the directors cut edition! Theres a scene in it known as the spiders walk and it's disturbing as all hell. If you watch it on youtube your probobly going to think it's silly but you need to see the movie in full and get immersed for it to have the effect. It's just fucked.

The Shining
Angel Heart
House of 1000 Corpses
Rose Red

Oops, almost forgot my favorite and, IMO, the best horror movie of all time: "The Serpent And The Rainbow"

Two others I remembered last night...

Strangeland (1998) - Dee Snider (from Twisted Sister) as Captain Howdy, internet predator and fan of tats and piercings.

13 Ghosts (2001) - Tony Shaloub (Monk) and family trapped in a pretty scary house.


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I love Shutter and Exorcist. I didnt sleep after watching those films. |scared|