[Alassante]

Its almost Halloween and they have been running scary movies non stop on TV. Last night we watched the new version of the Amityville Horror and it was surprisingly very scary. It would have been a lot scarier in the theatres though and I wish I had seen it there. I am big on suspense movies not slasher movies

So what are your top scary movies? Maybe its not as scary to you now but when you saw it the first time, it terrified you.

In no order-
Sixth Sense
Amityville Horror 2005
The Ring I
Jeepers Creepers I
The Shining
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Exorcist (the one with the creepy spider walk down the stairs)


As a kid - Nightmare on Elm Street - first one and Poltergiest - not too scary now though.

[ZeeDrippyVessel]

Does my wedding video count?

[NancyBrooke]

[Ottis413]

Wifey and I watched 'House Of Wax' last night, got to see Paris H get snuffed! It turned out to be a better movie then I thought it was going to be. (but not by much) Fav scarry movie of recent years is prob 'The 6th Sense', but as a kid the creepiest movie for me was 'Marry Poppins', get chills just thinking about it!

[nienor]

The Village. *shudders*

Watched it with a friend. I was at least able to look at the screen, while he was hiding under his jacket and asked me "Can I look again"?

[SpaceWeavil]

Favourite scary movie so far is 'Creep' (Brit film set on London Underground. I was so glad I didn't have to take the tube home after watching that one...)

Then, others, in no particular order,
The Exorcist
The Omen
The Wicker Man
Bram Stoker's Dracula (F.Ford Coppola one)
Exorcist: the Beginning
House on Haunted Hill (1990s version with Geoffrey Rush)
House of Wax
The Ring (Japanese version)
The Ring (US version)
The Watcher in the Woods (old 70s Disney film)
White Noise
Ghost Ship (for daft horror film value)
Below
The Others
Sleepy Hollow
Blair Witch Project

(I'm a bit of a scary film junkie, heh - but not gory ones)

[RobinKa]

My fav scary movies:

"Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror" (1922, F.W. Murnau)
"Bram Stoker's Dracula" (F.F. Coppola)
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" (Peter Weir)

As a kid, what frightened me the most was Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

[Alassante]

[SpaceWeavil]

[NeumeIndil]

First "horror" movie was Silence of the Lambs... on a black and white set... at night... by myself in my room.

I'm not into the horror genre in general but "What Lies Beneath" literally had me in tears, though, funny story: 2 of the 10 or so people I was watching it with were terrified, so I ended up trying to help them calm down (one of them was quite literally sitting in my lap). Then, when the movie was over and they'd both relaxed, I started shivering and crying and rocking slightly in my chair...
I don't watch too many horror movies.

[ghettoelleth]

There are movies that truly scare the crap out of me and others that just gross me out so bad I want to hurl, anything in Texas involving a chainsaw for example, blah. I like some of the really old ones and one or two are scary, but for the most part, I'm more creeped out by stuff that has or can really happen. The Ring suck'd cuz Boz worked on it and I made the mistake of seeing it with him instead of going with someone else the first time. Running monologue on who's an ass and who blew whom killed alot of the tension. No particular order:

1. The Hills Have Eyes
2. Original Invasion of the Body Snatchers
3. Saw (I made my son wake up at 1a.m. to watch the second half of this, it scared me so bad)
4. Seven
5. Hannibal/Silence of the Lambs-count as one cuz...just cuz. And where will it tickle you, mom? Will anyone ever name their child Clarice or Let their psychiatrist meet their census taker ever again?
6. Manhunter - Original film version of The Red Dragon/Granted, Ralph Fiennes eating the William Blake painting was creepy as hell and the entire red dragon theme was lost in the original, but Manhunter's Dolarhyde was wayyyy creepier than pumped up hawty Fiennes, and William Petersen, way hotter than Edward Norton in the profiler role.
7. Dusk 'til Dawn - Didn't scare me so much as made me feel like I'd lost my mind or had fallen asleep watching one movie and woken up watching a totally different one with the exact same cast wearing the exact same clothes. Salma Hayek's lines to George Clooney, priceless.
8. The Shining - Jack Nicholson scares me when he's on the Tonight Show, Jack Nicholson as crazed psycho shit head, too horrifying to bear.
9. Scream and Scream Again - The suburban Johnny Get Your Gun factor just creeped me out, though it was really lame.
10. The original The Fly - David Heddison, heeeelp meeeee, Vincent Price with the rock, brrrrr, then riding off merrily into the sunsent with dude's wife. Freaky shtuff

[Robbie]

If you liked "Dusk 'til Dawn", try "Dog Soldiers".

Same sort of funny but gruesome stuff, but in a Scottish Accent (and without the Mexican cats)

[SpaceWeavil]

[NancyBrooke]

[Alassante]

Ooohhh I totally forgot about Thirteen Ghosts! Yeah that was pretty scary too even though I think Tony Shaloub is hysterical. The Haunting terrified me in the theatre except the ending was a little lame. Up until then it scared the crap outta me though. Rose Red was scary and there was another one about that called the Diary of Ellen Rimbauer that was good. And Ghetto's right - Seven was scary but awesome. That last scene out in the desert where Brad loses it....not gonna tell why...but oh that was sooooo intense. Silence of the Lambs is a awesome one too. I love scary movies with great plots and now that I know that The Saw is scary I'm gonna have to see it. The worst one I have seen lately that just grossed me out (cannot watch gory ones) was Wrong Turn. They get lost in West Virginia and run into some crazy inbreds who aren't very nice to them. I wanted to hurl in the theatre on that one. Another good suspense movie is Fraility with Bill Paxton and Matthew McConaughey.