ErikW Posted October 17, 2002 Share Posted October 17, 2002 What's the best scary movie? (Not necessarily the most scary.) my vote: The Thing (Carpenter version) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipster Posted October 17, 2002 Share Posted October 17, 2002 You want Scary?... PeeWee Hermans Great Adventure. That was Scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Sweeney Posted October 18, 2002 Share Posted October 18, 2002 My complaint with most "scary" movies is that they aren't because of the "doofus factor." OK, you're in an abandonded house, and scary things happen. And you don't leave? Or find a weapon? Or phone for help? Puleeeeze! I find movies that are scary where the people involved do all the right things, and it still goes wrong. And they adjust and try again, and it gets worse. Scary? I'll vote for Aliens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted October 18, 2002 Share Posted October 18, 2002 Scary movies are tough. The original scary movie gets copied so much that it becomes boiler-plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted October 18, 2002 Share Posted October 18, 2002 The Carter Administration. Scared the HELL out of me!!! Oh, wait...that really happened. Never mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted October 18, 2002 Share Posted October 18, 2002 I found the Sarah Michelle Gellar murder scene in Scream 2 very upsetting. The woman wasn't stupd, she did everything a smart person who kept their head could have done in her situation...and she still got waxed. If a woman with that much guts had had a gun she could've turned that psycho into dogmeat in about two seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted October 18, 2002 Share Posted October 18, 2002 The Shining its why I hate big, old buildings... and in a very strange (no pun intended) way, Dr. Strangelove Kubrick's stuff is hypnotic as hell to me, but scary on a wierd level too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
down0 Posted October 19, 2002 Share Posted October 19, 2002 "The Exorcist" Scared me so much, I've never seen it twice. "Blair Witch Project" was pretty good, too. Had my wife talking to the screen from start to finish.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erice Posted October 19, 2002 Share Posted October 19, 2002 Another vote for "The Exorcist". I saw it when I was pretty young, and it scared the crap out of me. EricE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3quartertime Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 The Shining, scary movies shouldn't have to have millions of hollywood dollars to make it scary. Actors create scare. Blair Witch was the most recent attempt, good flick but too hyped. By the time I saw it I was ready for the odd ending, and the fact that it wasn't real. Too bad, great idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George D Posted October 20, 2002 Share Posted October 20, 2002 I saw "The Cat and the Canary" with Bob Hope, 30 years ago and that scared me at the time. More recently, "What lies beneath" -Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Duane, the really scary part of what you said is the concept of Governments rendering their honest citizens defenceless with draconian gun control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhgtyre Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 Alien is a nice, taught, scarefest that managed to combine a great sci-fi setting with shocking gore and glue the entire thing together with unnerving suspense. Even the poster for the movie was frightening. The egg, a familiar comfortable image, floating in nothingness with that "In space no one can hear you scream" tag line was a perfect tease for the film. I have seen a couple of the sequals and, while they were good, I didn't enjoy them as much. They were action flicks not horror films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 "Duane, the really scary part of what you said is the concept of Governments rendering their honest citizens defenceless with draconian gun control." Not really. I mean, I agree that's scary, but that's not what the scene in the movie was about. The Sarah Michelle Gellar character wasn't the sort of person who would have been carrying a gun inside her college dorm, period. And why should she? Most serious gun nuts - even those who carry a gun all day while out in public - take the thing off when they're in their own space. Now I'D have been carrying, but then I'm the sort of weirdo who's armed just about any time he's not behind locked doors in his own apartment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twix Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 "Night of the Living Dead" scared the heck out of me when I was a kid. Might seem stupid if I watched it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 i found the movie " the others" a bit unnerving. the ending caught me by surprize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 Man, looks like you guys already named all my favorites. Scariest movies: The exorcist. Event Horizon.The Shining. (The "Ernest" movies are pretty scary too, though) Best scary movies: Alien series. Night of the living dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 I saw JAWS in the theater. Probably my first scary/thriller in a theater. The scene where the science guy dives into the water to check out the wrecked boat...finds a big shark tooth...then the body comes out of the hole, and we think it is the shark... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
down0 Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 Oh man, the part where Quint tells the story of the Indianapolis is the best scary part of that movie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm iprod Posted November 6, 2002 Share Posted November 6, 2002 The Thing and the first Alien movie. Good endings in both and truly well filmed and plotted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadetree Posted November 10, 2002 Share Posted November 10, 2002 I have to vote for the shining. A simple stripped down movie that scared the piss out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old shooter Posted November 23, 2002 Share Posted November 23, 2002 I have to give an honorable mention to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, when I first saw it I believed it to be true, which made it even more scary Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted November 25, 2002 Share Posted November 25, 2002 When I was 10 I saw "Night of the Trifid's" Man, I woke up with nightmares for weeks. I thought "The Serpent and the Rainbow" was a pretty good scary movie. "From Dusk til Dawn" gave Mona a good scare, we had to leave the lights on for a couple of nights afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPSC CHIK1 Posted November 25, 2002 Share Posted November 25, 2002 Quints story of the Indianapolis has the horror of being true. Sharon Anne L 2387 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajarrel Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 Since we have been talking about movies lately, I thought I would bring this one back to the top for refreshing Favorites Aliens Night of the living dead The Exorcist (I couldn't turn the light off the night I finished reading this book in a Naval transient Barracks in Guam 30 years ago) The Shining But my all time favorite was a "B" movie back when Vampires seemed to be ruling the screen during the late 60's. "The Return of Count Yorga" (I think I got the Count's name right) had an extreme fright factor that just scared the bejeezus out of me in my mid teens. Opened with a foggy night (nothing suprising there!!) and a character walking away from you. Looks like he is in a rain coat, everything is shades of grey.....Then he spins around and displays his blood red satin lined cape and opens his mouth with 743 teeth, two of which must be 3 inches long. Damn. Theater had to re-upholster the seats after that movie had its run. just the thoughts of a scared teenager. dj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liota Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 The Hitcher. Had to leave the theatre. Creeped the crap out of me. Hitchcock was really good. Liota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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