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Halloween's approaching- Your top ten scary flicks?

The original Psycho. Which I saw at age 8 when it first came out. (Really was not a movie for kids, but there were no ratings in those days.) I was scared out of my wits, and could barely look at the screen. So for me, that will always be #1.
 
Anybody else ever see "Sisters" a '73 flick w/Margot Kidder & Charles Durning ? Not too scary per se, just very suspenseful & the score...The Score made it 2X as scary as it would have been otherwise.
 
1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
2. Halloween (original)
3. Dawn of the Dead (original)
4. Dawn of the Dead (remake)
5. Blair Witch
6. The Omen (original)
7. Trilogy of Terror (mainly He Who Kills)
8. Burnt Offerings
9. The Shining
10. Alien

Most of these are based on how scared I was the first time I saw them & I saw most of these as a kid. Blair Witch seems to be a love it/hate it movie - I got into it.
Honorable mentions:
Open Water - kind of same deal as Blair Witch
Audition
 
Friday the 13th
Halloween
He Knows You're Alone --Tom Hanks first movie
Fiend Without a Face
Psycho
The Stepfather
Prom Night
Tales from the Crypt-1972
 
Not 10 surely, but here are three that you might not have heard of... Just might scare you and she both. In general, these films work by breaking the rules.

Session 9 (almost an entirely male cast - In an unpredictable setting)
May (A creative new take on Shelley's Frankenstein)
Audition (Japanese film) Has the honor(?) of having more people walk out of the theater than any other film in history. This one goes waaay too far.

As a horror movie aficionado, I like these films because there are NO spring loaded cats. They twist the genre, and earn their scares.
 
I know I'm repeating some, but this is MY list:

Exorcist - ol' scratch scares me, always will
Evil Dead - flying eyeballs
Night of the Living Dead (original) - "Johnny's got the keys"
Demon Seed - creepy and campy
Village of the Damned - George Sanders classes up this low-budget thriller
Halloween (original) - Donald Pleasance is also scary
Dracula (original) - ghoulish and the original "goth"
Body Snatchers (70s version) - classic paranoia and acid-soaked sound
Hellraiser - Pinhead gives me the willies
Rosemary's Baby - again, Satan is scary and John Cassavette's willingness to trade his child to Satan for wordly gain is chilling

Ken
 
fotno said:
Not 10 surely, but here are three that you might not have heard of... Just might scare you and she both. In general, these films work by breaking the rules.

Session 9 (almost an entirely male cast - In an unpredictable setting)
May (A creative new take on Shelley's Frankenstein)
Audition (Japanese film) Has the honor(?) of having more people walk out of the theater than any other film in history. This one goes waaay too far.

As a horror movie aficionado, I like these films because there are NO spring loaded cats. They twist the genre, and earn their scares.
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Session 9- I know the director. Good flick. Saw it at it's Boston premiere, only to have a city brown-out end the flick 2/3rds through.

Audition- yeah- not an easy one to watch.

I preferred Suicide Club and Battle Royale.
 
Geezzzz.. I can't believe not one person has mentioned my one and only most favorite classic horror flick.... PHANTASM...

and if that don't scare her.. take to her to see the one with Jane Fonda in it.. :D
 
Hmmmm... I grew up watching "scarlet theatre" type flicks so there is a heavy influence.

The original "Mummy", the scene where the mummy gets up and leave near the beginning of the movie is possibly the scariest of the 1930's. Even if the acting is more than a bit over the top.

The Exorsist.

Alien

From Dusk Till Dawn

the original Frankenstein, acting is waaaaay over the top, but still a great monster.

Frenzy, not really a horror film but good an' scary.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Wolfen'

Scanners

The Hidden
 
The Haunting (1963) with Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn. Not gross or overtly creepy. In it the hauntings are implied, (suggested if you will) and it makes for a good unsettling movie.
 
How about Black Christmas and Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things? Both by "Porky's" director Bob Clark, who was killed, along with his son, by a drunken illegal mexican on the Pacific Coast Highway recently.
 
Inspired by this thread, I just ordered Wolfen and one I've wanted to see, Shaun of the Dead.
 
1. The Exorcist
2. The Omen
3. Silence of the Lambs
4. Psycho
5. Jaws
6. The Blair Witch Project
7. The Shining
8. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
9. Alien
10. American Psycho
 
I am shocked at the mention of Blair Witch. That was one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated on a moviegoing public.
 
Being a tad on the "Freaky-Weird" side of the fence....
Burnt Offerings
Lost Highway
Twin Peaks
Session Nine
Dead Ringers
VideoDrome
Nightbreed
They Live
In the Mouth of Madness

to name a few....


Bill
 
Celt said:
The Haunting (1963) with Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn. Not gross or overtly creepy. In it the hauntings are implied, (suggested if you will) and it makes for a good unsettling movie.
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That one always has me squirming in my chair too. TCM usually shows it every year around Halloween. I also like House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price.
 
Holst said:
Inspired by this thread, I just ordered Wolfen and one I've wanted to see, Shaun of the Dead.
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Holst, I saw Shaun of the Dead a couple months ago, and I don't know when I've laughed so hard. It's on my "must own" list...

Paul I'm glad to know I'm not the only AKer to have seen Audition or Session 9. Tell me, did you ever get to finish Session 9, or are you still hanging?
 
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