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I need suggestions for scary movies.

Some favorite non-zombie scary movies (in all cases the originals, not whatever craptastic remakes, except where noted):

The Shining (Kubrick's, not TV remake)
Rosemary's Baby (<-- a bit "Omen-type")
The Exorcist (<-- a bit "Omen-type")
Halloween
The Birds
Psycho
Nosferatu (Werner Herzog)
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau silent movie)
Fritz Lang's "M"
The Haunting
Deliverance
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original, not remake -- 7O's weirdness!)
The Hills Have Eyes (original, not remake -- more 7O's weirdness!)
The Thing (Howard Hawks' 1950 version)
Cloverfield (not a great movie, but some great moments/scares!)
Alien
Aliens
The Descent
The Ring (USA version, I haven't seen Japanese original)
The Last Exorcism (this one surprised me!)
 
The Haunting - the original
The Shining
Alien
Dracula, the Bela Lugosi version
Maybe Sweeny Todd?
 
Some 70s creepy classics:

Play Misty for Me - 1971 (Clint Eastwood)
Carrie - 1976 (Stephen King)
Audrey Rose - 1977 (Anthony Hopkins)
Eyes of Laura Mars - 1978 (John Carpenter)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1978 (Donald Sutherland)

For 70s paranoid thrillers, check out:

Parallax View - (Warren Beatty)
Three Days of the Condor - (Robert Redford)
Marathon Man - (Dustin Hoffman)
 
KeninDC said:
[. . .] For 70s paranoid thrillers, check out:

Parallax View - (Warren Beatty)
Three Days of the Condor - (Robert Redford)
Marathon Man - (Dustin Hoffman)
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Yes, these are great. And also (though not exactly scary): All the President's Men.
 
Someone else mentioned it already, but I'll second Event Horizon. Creepy movie and one that still freaks me out even though I've seen it a few times. When I was younger The Serpent and the Rainbow was also very scary ... I haven't seen it in a long time though. It may not be that bad now.

-Matt
 
This is very tough to suggest scary movies to others.
Because we are all so different, and there isn't a single movie that scared me for the last 50 years or so. :eek:
I just don't get scared at all.

But comedies though, that I can help. :)

* 'Bout a mix of both? ... 'Young Frankenstein'?
 
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Thank you all for the great suggestions. No Jane Austin marathon for me. :banana:

We have decided on the The Shining, The Ring (Japanese version) and The Descent. I have seen The Descent and now carry a flashlight everywhere I go. :D
 
How about a great serial killer movie like Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer. Michael Rooker is truly excellent in this movie. Or how about I Saw the Devil, another serial killer movie with a lot of suspense and pretty gruesome murder scenes.
 
The Ring, or the original Ringu.
The Blair Witch Project.

Both rely on building suspense and dread, not gore or special effects.
 
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