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« on: October 27, 2005, 01:40:24 AM »
Do you have any suggestions for truly frightening movies to watch for Halloween? What was the last scary movie you saw that really sent chills up your spine? Old or new, black & white or color, any recommendations would be appreciated.
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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2005, 03:35:41 AM »
The original "Exorcist" still gives me the willies!
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2005, 03:38:59 AM »
Halloween might be my favorite time of year, and all the 'scary' movies on tv are some of my favorite. They have nothing to do with anything, it's great.

A very big personal favorite is 'The Fog', the original one. The remake is just awful but the first was a great. The Shining is another good one. I also love Hitchcock thrillers like Rear Window or Psycho. M. Night Shyamalan (sp?) makes good stuff, especially 'The Village'.

I will try to think of others that are a good, genuine scare today.
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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2005, 04:21:24 AM »
The Howling gave me bad dreams for awhile.

Pet Cemetary was...disturbing.

My fav slasher flick is Halloween.

"Zombie" by Fulci(sp?) sets just the right mood to be both scary & creepy.

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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2005, 04:35:15 AM »
Bogeyman made me jump a few times in the theatre.
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« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2005, 04:44:57 AM »
Tradition :

Halloween : Rocky Horror Picture Show,

H.G Wells War of the Worlds
 (Soundtrack of original tape presented Halloween 1929 and listen to it, lights off, candles, oil lamps...and let your imagination wander.)


Scary for Halloween: Halloween,  

Other Traditions...

Turkey Day : Alice's Restuarant

25th of Dec: Casablanca

New Years : Hunt for Red October
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« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2005, 05:20:17 AM »


Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. I only listen to it once a year, but near Halloween it's absolutely required.

For movies, Mrs. Firethorn isn't into hardcore eat-burned-dead-bodies-veins-between-the-teeth. We'll prolly do The Coneheads or something like it this year.

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« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2005, 05:31:43 AM »
The Ring and The Exorcism of Emily Rose are two recent ones that were pretty good.

If you can find some recordings of scary stories read by Vincent Price, though I forget what they're called, they are great to listen to.
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« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2005, 06:03:14 AM »
Children of the Corn
The Omen
The first Freddie movie "Nightmare on Elm St." I think all the sequels sucked.
A Clockwork Orange was kind of scary but not in a horror kind of way.

Probably my most favorite line in all of movieland is when Fred Gwynne says, "That's where my dog Spot is buried." in Pet Semetary. Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2005, 06:06:29 AM »
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Terrifying! Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2005, 09:20:23 AM »
Bowling for Columbine Smiley
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« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2005, 09:37:44 AM »
The Changeling w/ George C Scott is a good one. Not real frightening but a good ghost mystery movie.
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« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2005, 09:38:34 AM »
The original b&w "The Haunting", not the rancid remake.
 Maybe "Shaun of the Dead", just because I'm miserable and need a chuckle...

I don't know, I haven't been scared by a horror movie in years - maybe I'm too cynical. I don't like scary video-games however, 'cos I'm a big baby. Err, a great big cynical baby, who needs a chuckle... Tongue
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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2005, 10:43:45 AM »
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The original b&w "The Haunting", not the rancid remake.
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This one is subtle. Makes it much more scary than an army of Freddy Krugers.

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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2005, 11:10:11 AM »
SE7EN
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« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2005, 07:44:24 PM »
Event Horizon gives me the willies every time
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« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2005, 09:18:43 AM »
Oh yeah, as .41mag suggests, Lucio Fulci's "Zombie" (1979) rivals early Romero for sheer disturbing creepiness.
"Pet Sematary" (the first one, not the weak sequel) is very disturbing ...
And 280plus has it right, the original "Nightmare on Elm Street" is quite scary ...  
"The Ring" is the only recent horror movie that's actually somewhat scary ...
My family's Halloween traditional viewing includes all of the old Hammer Films Dracula movies (with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing) ... The first "Halloween," I thought was well done, and John Carpenter's music is great ...
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« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2005, 03:25:49 AM »
Don't laugh, but the Disney flick "Something Wicked This Way Comes" freaks me out more than most outright horror flicks I can think of.  Maybe because Ray Bradbury paints and all too believable picture of human weakness.
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« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2005, 11:03:12 AM »
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In the Mouth of Madness
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy cow!

I thought I was the only person who liked this movie!
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« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2005, 01:05:34 PM »
'Something wicked this way comes' has freaked me out since I was a wee lad. No shame on that one, haha. Plus, midgets are creepy.
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« Reply #20 on: October 29, 2005, 01:29:21 PM »
The only movie to scare me as an adult (well, 19) was Play Misty for Me, with Clint Eastwood.  I actually checked my closets and looked under my bed when I got back to my room.  I didn't know what the movie was about, and except for one incident, the first half of the movie wasn't scary at all, and showed Clint and his girlfriend walking along the beach into the sunset.  I thought that was the end of the movie.

I was totally set up for the second half.

Now, I've seen some creepy movies since then.  Sixth Sense comes to mind.  The Others is also a pretty good ghost story, although not really scary or very creepy.

There's a definite difference between scary and creepy.  I never found Twin Peaks scary when it was on tv back in the late 80s, but every time the character of Bob came into view the hair would stand up on my arms.  That guy was like evil personified looking right through you to your soul.
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« Reply #21 on: October 29, 2005, 02:17:37 PM »
I'll +1 for SE7EN, and of course Silence of the Lambs.
These for me are the height of the thriller/horror genre.

Kudos for the Sixth Sense-- best "twist" ending of all times.
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« Reply #22 on: October 29, 2005, 03:11:29 PM »
I second "The Fog" and "The Shining". Carpenter's "The Thing" was excellent, also.

"American Werewolf in London" is a good one.

"Storm of the Century" (Stephen King t.v. miniseries) was WAY creepy.
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« Reply #23 on: October 29, 2005, 03:39:38 PM »
Event Horizon
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« Reply #24 on: October 29, 2005, 04:09:01 PM »
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Yech, I hate that movie.  Will never watch it again.  Some of the 7 crime scenes still give me the willies because they were such absolutely horrifying ways to die, but unlike a Freddy movie, you could so totally imagine such a thing really happening.

So I guess I hate it because it achieved its desired effect very very well.
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