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Favorite Scary Films?
« on: October 31, 2008, 12:07:51 pm »
Tell us about your favorite spooky films!  What category of horror film do you like (thriller, gory, creepy, psychological, mild, etc.)? 




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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2008, 12:41:20 pm »



     I really dont care for scary movies.  I did watch them more often when I was younger.  I dont
like blood and guts stuff.  Im not a fan of watching spewing blood or chopped off body parts.  Therefor
I put a couple of psychological thrillers.. And I will put up my own choice of another scary movie you
didnt mention.  "Wait until Dark."  As you can see, I am more into the kind that are suspense filled, rather than the gotcha kind.



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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2008, 12:46:05 pm »
I voted for "Halloween" (the original, of course) as number 1, because at the time in the 70's, I was doing a lot of babysitting and was kind of a bookworm and insecure about myself, and really identified with the main character Laurie.  Also, I loved the creepy music, and the pervasive, ahead-of-its-time cinematography, such as the psychiatrist talking on the phone while the crazy escaped killer drives past in the station wagon, and the scene where all the lunatics are walking around the asylum in the darkness.  I thought it was a very clever film, and as on every Halloween ever since, I've already got it cued up in my VCR to start at dusk when the kids come calling.

Voted for "Carrie" as number 2 because her eyes scared the crap out of me, and her mother was so anti-mother material.  Plus I was in love with John Travolta / Vinny Barbarino at the time.

And "Amityville Horror" as number 3, once again because of the look of terror in Margot Kidder's eyes several times, and the scene with all the flies on the window just puts me into complete shivers every time.

I wish this poll allowed more than 3 choices, cause I've seen every scary movie ever, my parents put no reins whatsoever on my viewing pleasure as a kid in the 70's, and I could rate them from 1 to 30 if I had to.  My next closest would be "Poltergeist", "The Exorcist", "The Omen", "Jaws".  I would add several more that have been left out of the poll, let me think about it and get back.
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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2008, 01:00:12 pm »
Recent ones I've watched, and maybe they can't be classified in the poll are:

Rose Red - haunted house keeps growing and changing while visitors are trapped inside
Cold Creek Manor - killer trying to reclaim his family home by any means necessary
The Messengers - girl with troubled guilt sees evil all around her
The Others - widow of WW2 living in a darkened world with 3 servants who may or may not be alive

All of them had their moments of terror.
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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2008, 02:30:29 pm »


My all time favorite scary movie is The Haunting, 1963.  It's one of the most subtle and one of the most truly scary films I've ever seen.  It's primarily psychological (not gory or very explicit).  Not only is it a good scary film, it features some gorgeous and very innovative cinematography.  The film by Robert Wise (and starring Julie Harris) was based on the wonderful (and even more scary) book by Shirley Jackson called The Haunting of Hill House.

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The other films I voted for on the list were The Sixth Sense and The Hunger.  There aren't a ton of horror films that I like very much.  But, The Haunting I think is a truly brilliant film in broadest sense.



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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2008, 01:55:03 pm »
Recent ones I've watched, and maybe they can't be classified in the poll are:

Rose Red - haunted house keeps growing and changing while visitors are trapped inside
Cold Creek Manor - killer trying to reclaim his family home by any means necessary
The Messengers - girl with troubled guilt sees evil all around her
The Others - widow of WW2 living in a darkened world with 3 servants who may or may not be alive

All of them had their moments of terror.

Heya Mandy,

Of the ones you list here, I've only seen Cold Creek Manor, and that really is a good movie.  I recall it's pretty mild as far as scary movies go (which is just fine by me! :) ).  Actually, Cold Creek Manor is one of my Mom's favorite movies.



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I'm editing this because I just realized that I was thinking of a different film... the film I was thinking of (and the one that's one of my Mom's favorite films) is Cold Comfort Farm.

 :laugh:  I guess I was mixing up my "Cold..." films.  :laugh:



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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2008, 02:33:54 pm »
Poltergeist, The Shining and Jaws.

Another one of my favorites is Interview With the Vampire.

I love horror movies, but I don't like the ones that are too bloody. I don't like most of those slasher type movies. Some of the earlier ones were pretty good though, like Halloween. I saw Halloween at the theater back in 1978 with some friends and it scared the hell out of me. In fact, Halloween was the very first movie I actually drove to. I got my driver license just a couple of weeks before it was released. :)

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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2008, 02:52:59 pm »
Oh, I love Scary movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!





I watch this one every Halloween! 


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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2008, 02:55:40 pm »



This movie,  always gets a reaction from me. 

I used to wait for the prom scene, and cheer Carrie on.

I used to wish I could do that.


The last time I watched it, I felt horribly bad for Carrie.

She had no one, and went to the one safe place she had, her home, and was attacked.


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Re: Favorite Scary Films?
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2008, 03:00:53 pm »



I watch this one when it comes on, too.  Saw it just last week.  Very creepy.  Although it was the sequal (Dawn Of The Dead) that truly terrified me as a kid, this movie is a great scare.


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
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