Kevin's Watch

For me it begins and ends w/ the Excorcist. Nothing scarier ever.

Highlander II is my favorite horror movie.

Oh, I though it said "horrible movie".

In 1979 I went to the movies to see a sci fi movie I didn't hear anything about before going. It was Alien and I can't remember being as affected by a movie before or since.

I saw the first Evil Dead movie when I was in highschool.
Basically most of the movie scared me most of the time.
Oh, and when the demons spoke:
I loved it!

When I was a kid the Tiki doll that came to life in the Trilogy of Terror scared the living crap out of me for like 10 years!


That's about it for being scared though.

I liked the Blair Witch and the end of the Ring was pretty creepy.

We usually have a horror night of 3 movies.
My all time favourite scary movies are (in no order and I am probably forgetting some)

- The Changelling
- The Ring
- The Haunting (B&W version)
- House on Haunted Hill (new version)

The Haunting (1963)

Starring Julie Harris and Clair Bloom.
(i saw it the year it came out in a double feature with The Birds!! i was 6!)





oh...i forgot to add, it's based on one of the best pieces of american literature EVER! The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. i love this book so much that if i were in Farenheit 451 and i ran away to the place where everybody memorizes a book, i would be The Haunting of Hill House.
most brilliant first paragraph in American Literature ever.

The haunting (b&w) is great!

Slasher flicks don't scare me, i must say. The pychological stuff is great though. Also liked the Ring, but pound for pound give me Regan and Cap'n Howdy!

A Gunslinger wrote:For me it begins and ends w/ the Excorcist. Nothing scarier ever.

Agreed.

Stephen King's Cat's Eye scared me when I was a wee one. Especially the breath-sucking troll sequence.

dlbpharmd wrote:

A Gunslinger wrote:For me it begins and ends w/ the Excorcist. Nothing scarier ever.

Agreed.

i DO have to agree that The Exorcist stands up as one of the scariest films ever. especially with that added crabwalk scene!!
i do own it.

Scraiest of all time:

Saw a movie not too long ago, Independent flick, very psychologically disturbing called "Hunting Humans", very scary to me.

Last house on the left is another very disturbing movie.

Hostel, watched it this weekend, and it's very disturbing as well.

Favorite, too many to name, but, the really disturbing scary ones are not my favorites, my favorites are probably George Romero's First two Zombie flicks, and their remakes (Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead).

The original Halloween, the Exorcist, Exorcist III, Alien, and Romero's Zombie films.

No film has ever scared me. There are three films that have made me uncomfortable though:

1) The Wicker Man (the original one)
2) Ring (the Japanese one)
3) Eraserhead

Of the three, the only one I'd consider horror is Ring. So that gets my vote.

Most horror movies bore the hell out of me. I did like the Hellraiser movies, though after Bloodlines... meh. I really liked The Ring, though the fact that my wife and I were the only people in the underheated theatre on a cold autumn day probably had a lot to do with it. Ambiance is everything. Recently, both Saw and Hostel were pretty good, the former moreso than the latter. But if I had to pick one, I have to give Rob the Nod of Respect with Devil's Rejects. news linkage. Nobody's ever convinced me to root for the monster before.

The (old) Haunting and In the Mouth of Madness are two of my favs! (The Serpent and the Rainbow pretty cool too!)

My favorite movie specifically at Halloween time is Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Love the cinematography.

Runner-up Halloween favs would be the two Blair Witch films. I must be part of a very small minority who actually liked the sequel.

Favorite all-time horror flick is Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Many probably think of it as just another tedious, drawn-out Kubrick opus, but that's all right. I also know that Stephen King himself did not much care for this adaptation of his novel, and that's okay, too. It's still an awesome movie to me.

Movies that truly scared the crap out of me: The Exorcist and Carrie (the original with Sissy Spacek). Saw them on TV as a kid.

Heh. I dug the sequel, too, MM.

Yes, I remember your post in that witch movie thread a while back. I think we're it, Syl. I doubt there's much Blair Witch 2 love around here.

Eraserhead. I made a vow right then to never watch it again and have held fast to it.

Blair Witch was as great as BW2 was earth-shatteringly BAD!