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October 31, 2008

Halloween Movies Thread
— Ace

Just saw this at Hot Air and I figured I would copy it, minus Ed's atrocious film selections.

I'm going to try to avoid the obvious ones.. with the exception of two of my all-time favorites. I'd like to avoid them, but I can't. Have to give them their props.

The Thing. Is tension fear, per se? Not sure. One of the most well-made, tensest horror movies in history. As longtime readers may know, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. Not just horror movies, any movie.

Murder on the Orient Express. Here's the thing: I like horror movies, but they almost never actually scare me. Murder mysteries, on the other hand, do give me a high creep factor at times. Maybe it's because they don't have the distancing effect of a supernatural premise: They're just about human beings, who can, and frequently do, kill other human beings.

There's something about this one in particular -- the creepy score, the hazy flashbacks, the awful circumstances of the murder-before-the-murder (that is, the long-ago murder of the Lindbergh baby, here called the "Armstrong baby," which is giving me shivers just as I type this).

Great movie, a cast so full of 70s era stars it's not funny (Sean Connery, Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, on and on and on and on...). And creepy.

Couple of other murder-movies with a high creep factor: the superior and underrated Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper film Murder by Decree (very effective creepy replay of the Ripper murders), and forgotten 70's gem The Last of Sheila.

Halloween III. Yes, Halloween III. I like Halloween, but it's very overrated, and there's no point mentioning it, is there? It's not like you don't know about it.

But Halloween III is a very interesting (if very flawed) little jaunt. Seems that John Carpenter intended to retire the Michael Myers boogeyman after Halloween II, and thought from that point on he would simply make a new Halloween movie every Halloween, but with a new story unconnected to the original.

Well, this was his first attempt, and it was so badly rejected by fans he gave up this interesting idea altogether.

But I think fans rejected it chiefly because it wasn't a Michael Myers slasher pic, which they had been expecting. Instead it's a hybrid detective-horror picture (with some light action overtones) about the fusion of black magic (druidic) and high technology.

The acting is kinda crappy, production values low, and the whole middle act is very overpadded (really, this is an hour's worth of story at best stretched to 100 minutes), but I still love this movie. I'm one of the thirty people on the planet who does. Give it a chance, maybe we can get the numbers up to 50.

And for all of those of you who are dieheard anti-Irish bigots, and wonder "Why don't they make movies about how creepy, conspiratorial, and demonically evil the Irish are?," well, buddy, do I have the movie for you.

Carrie. The treatment of Carrie by the mean girls is so awful it rises to the level of horror. Which makes that vengeance ending... um, satisfying, in a very wrong way.

Dawn of the Dead (remake). I swear by this movie, one of the best-written, best-acted, best-directed horror movies of all time. Honestly, it's not really the scariest movie; it's sort of a comedy-action movie which just happens to feature zombies. But it's outstanding.

Dementia 13. Francis Ford Coppolla's directing debut (I think), producing this nasty little flick for Roger Corman.

Is it good? Oh, it's reasonably good. But what makes this movie stand out is that it has one of the creepiest creep-music scores I've ever heard.

Oh, it's just the sort of typical deedle-deedle, deedle-deedle creepy harpsicord type stuff. But really well done. You can hear it at about the four minute mark here, as you watch the opening credits.

And Four More: Which were never actually made. The four fake-movie trailers from Grindhouse. Strong, Strong Hard-R Content Warning but very funny.

Seriously: Content Warning.

Oooohhh... Fright Night, yes! "You gotta have faith for that to work on me."

Not really scary, but pretty much the best vampire movie ever made. "The Rules" of vampires here should be industry standard.

Oh, a New One: I can't give this movie a big recommendation, but it's new, and it's free on Fear.net, which is a free horror channel that many cable stations have.

Midnight Meat Train, padding Clive Barker's very brief short story into a 100+ minute film.

What's good? The acting, the writing, the fairly impressive production values.

What's bad? The gore, which is always so ludicrously over-the-top the net effect is comedy rather than horror.

And it does, yes, wear out its welcome as it pads out this very short story into a full feature.

But I liked the characters and gay shit of this nature. Bradley Cooper (the asshole rival in Wedding Crashers) gets to play the hero, Leslie Bibb his girlfriend. (Some quality side-boobage here.) Vinnie Jones plays the Big Bad.

I don't really like the oh-so-cliched ending, which is the sort of ending short stories always have, but whatev's, I put it on late night expecting to fall asleep ten minutes in and stayed up till three o'clock to finish it. That says something, I guess.

Best Horror Trailer: Dead Career Sketch mentioned Phantasm.

The movie is... meh. At best. (What is up with that puppet bee? Did they just make that up on the day of shooting?)

But the trailer... This scared the shit out of me as a kid.

Posted by: Ace at 04:09 PM | Comments (199)
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1 Fright Night!

Posted by: Jim62sch at October 31, 2008 04:14 PM (6rQXk)

2 Vincent Price - Last Man on Earth. It has "classic" slow zombies.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at October 31, 2008 04:15 PM (OqXyp)

3 Evil Dead II

Posted by: mydemonsdriveon at October 31, 2008 04:15 PM (ahrXH)

4 Dawn of the Dead (remake). I swear by this movie, one of the best-written, best-acted, best-directed horror movies of all time. Honestly, it's not really the scariest movie; it's sort of a comedy-action movie which just happens to feature zombies. But it's outstanding.

It sucks brutally. I thought so the first time I saw it, then forgot about it, then read you raving about it at some point and bought it for eight dollars, then watched it again and remembered how much it utterly sucked. Good first 10 minutes, good last 10 minutes, root canal for the 70 in between. Every last character is an unlikeable douchebag.

Posted by: Allah at October 31, 2008 04:16 PM (wsk0o)

5 Honestly, one of my favorites in a while was 1408, but not many people like it.

Posted by: BrackaBama at October 31, 2008 04:16 PM (GEVSM)

6 My recommendations:
Below
Session 9
Shadow of the Vampire
The Machinist
Wolf

Posted by: Watcher at October 31, 2008 04:18 PM (ms7Cf)

7 Snake Plisken for President !!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDjZxDf6tSg

Posted by: Barry's Peace Force at October 31, 2008 04:18 PM (+FzLa)

8 Return of the Living Dead ... black comedy, horror, and a great soundtrack.

Posted by: Fernandozer at October 31, 2008 04:19 PM (wzNME)

9 Death on the Nile for another Christie film

Catpeople- the original 1942

The Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Marathon!

Christine - Stephen King

Posted by: ginaswo at October 31, 2008 04:19 PM (hBvl2)

10 Session 9 scared the shit out of me. So did Event Horizon.

Posted by: Clovis27 at October 31, 2008 04:19 PM (jhDr1)

11 Like I just said over there, The Thing was the only movie that ever sacred me. We were partying in a rental house on Cape Cod, it was about 2am and I was still going when everyone else passed out and I started watching it with the dog (a big German Shepard). I convinced myself he might be possessed by The ThingLOL! I kept looking at him and he kept looking at me. It went on that way until dawn when I finally passed out cold!

Posted by: TheBigOldDog at October 31, 2008 04:20 PM (0oAW0)

12 Seven - Se7en or however the hell they spelled it. Saw it with a girlfriend in the theatre - got home to my empty apartment, called one of the guys cause I knew they were out that night - said come pick me up because I am a-freaking. Went out and drank until I knew my roommate would be home. I have never watched it again.

Have never watched the Exorcist. Devil movies scare the hell out of me. Slashers and serial killers and people who grab you in a deserted parking lot at night - IOW, realistic horror themes - eh. Don't get me at all. Possession and voodoo and weird omnipotent freaks who can do impossible things to people? Yep. I fra-reke out.

Posted by: holly at October 31, 2008 04:20 PM (bY5Wu)

13 Ringu, the original Japanese movie, not The Ring remake. Subtitled, but you'll know when to jump.

Posted by: lukemcgook at October 31, 2008 04:20 PM (S6FaR)

14 Any Sesame Street movie featuring Cookie Monster is a horror flick.
-If you are a cookie.

Posted by: Tushar at October 31, 2008 04:21 PM (PTWes)

15 3. oh yeah the whole Bruce Campbell marathon!!

while we're at it how about The Gate, lol

anyone else lovce the old William Castle flicks? House on Haunted Hilll, Thirteenth Ghost

and the old Roger Corman films, especially the Poe series with Vincent Price

Posted by: ginaswo at October 31, 2008 04:21 PM (hBvl2)

1 Fright Night!

That one was good, though almost a comedy. When I was 7 my mom took us to see Wes Craven's first feature: "Last House on the Left" at a drive-in. For some reason that one stuck with me for a long time. Seemed plausible, given that it was the early '70s, and what the two girls had to endure was pretty horrific. One of the first grindcore movies made. Of course Craven totally screwed up the ending with that idiotic kazoo/slapstick thing. Yes, I know why he did it, but it just didn't work.

Loved the tagline though: "Just keep telling yourself 'It's only a movie'" or something like that.

Posted by: genghis at October 31, 2008 04:21 PM (HwY1l)

17 Sorry to post off-topic, but Ace or someone, we've GOT to get this up! Arnold DESTROYS Obama today at rally, a MUST SEE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o81VuUcwnEk

Posted by: watchdog at October 31, 2008 04:21 PM (yCbBv)

18 Good list, but shouldn't that be the Lindbergh baby? Unless there's a little Rush around I haven't heard about...

Posted by: Sharky at October 31, 2008 04:22 PM (1CHmN)

19 Carpenter's The Thing is fantastic - I also really liked his lesser-known Prince of Darkness. I thought it was Lovecraftian, but YMMV.

Posted by: Jim62sch at October 31, 2008 04:22 PM (6rQXk)

20 The original Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney, Sr.

For some reason, The Grudge scared the bejebus out of me. Of course, I was pregnant at the time, so that may have had something to do with it. But the idea that Japanese poltergeists actually follow you around...at least western poltergeists lose interest when you cross running water.

Oh, and if you want to laugh your ass off, check out Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave. Kung fu, zombies, Dracula. What's not to love?

Posted by: mpur at October 31, 2008 04:22 PM (BotaL)

21 high school musical... that will scare the shit out of you...

Posted by: Kaptain Amerika at October 31, 2008 04:23 PM (4Qspj)

22 and of course "Evil Dead"

Posted by: Kaptain Amerika at October 31, 2008 04:23 PM (4Qspj)

23 Poltergeist. My favorite horror, tied w/ The Thing. Apples and oranges but they both achieve what they're going for 100%.

Posted by: tachyonshuggy at October 31, 2008 04:23 PM (JBuzy)

Exorcist. I went to see it because my girlfreind wanted to go. Didn't know anything about it other than it was new. Had to sleep with the light on for the next 6 months. Yeah, I'm a wussy.

Posted by: Hammer at October 31, 2008 04:24 PM (8nB5X)

25 Sleepy Hollow with Depp and Christina Ricci was well done...a good Halloween night movie

Posted by: CanaDave at October 31, 2008 04:24 PM (6w8jL)

26 Genghis

have you seen I Spit on your Grave? equally horrifying as Last House on the Left...

is 1408 the John Cusack , King one about the hotel room, cause that scared the crap out of me..

Posted by: ginaswo at October 31, 2008 04:24 PM (hBvl2)

27 Wait Until Dark - the original with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin

Posted by: 12 at October 31, 2008 04:24 PM (jSYra)

28 watchdog at October 31, 2008 09:21 PM

Holy shit, he practically calls him a girly man - ROFLMAO! This is killer!

Posted by: TheBigOldDog at October 31, 2008 04:25 PM (0oAW0)

29 Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

I couldn't go into a closet for fifteen years without pissing myself after I saw it

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at October 31, 2008 04:25 PM (F1b/5)

30 Session 9 is a good one.

Carnival of Souls is extremely creepy, for an early 60s film. The original Saltair Pavilion is one scary building.

The Descent is awesome.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 31, 2008 04:25 PM (Ds4I5)

31 I second Even Horizon. That movie is one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen. Another good one - Pitch Black. Not as scary after you've seen it the first time, but still very good.

Posted by: OU_Gryphon at October 31, 2008 04:26 PM (1OiHj)

Exorcist. I went to see it because my girlfreind wanted to go. Didn't know anything about it other than it was new. Had to sleep with the light on for the next 6 months. Yeah, I'm a wussy.

I saw that first time on TV...I didn't sleep right for weeks after that either!

Posted by: CanaDave at October 31, 2008 04:26 PM (6w8jL)

33 And don't forget the original Nightmare on Elm Street, before Freddie sold out and franchise became a parody of itself.

Posted by: Jim62sch at October 31, 2008 04:27 PM (6rQXk)

34 The Day After scared the shit out of me. I knew that if that film had any effect on voters that would lead to "nuclear freezes" or disarmament. Soviets would have been in Europe the next afternoon.

Posted by: mrcaniac at October 31, 2008 04:27 PM (Rbulg)

35 You know what scares me?

Hanging bold HTML tags......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 31, 2008 04:28 PM (Ds4I5)

36 Now I have the Silver Shamrock jingle in my head. I never get bored of "Alice Sweet Alice". Brooke Shields is an adorable kitten-strangling little moppet. "God always takes the pretty ones"...

Posted by: Joanie at October 31, 2008 04:28 PM (Yyy1m)

37 I second "Return of the Living Dead" -

Not really scary, but somewhat forgotten and f-king hilarious.

Posted by: AD at October 31, 2008 04:29 PM (BcEoC)

38 Oh, and Freaks.

Posted by: mpur at October 31, 2008 04:29 PM (BotaL)

39 An Obama presidency sounds like a Halloween movie in the making.

Posted by: Jay at October 31, 2008 04:30 PM (qddqX)

40 Correction: John McCain has posted the ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER VIDEO. DEVASTATING. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxSW9nK3kI8

Posted by: watchdog at October 31, 2008 04:30 PM (yCbBv)

41 I thought Carpenter's The Thing was dull and ridiculous, but I love the Hawks' version.

Planet of the Vampires is terrific.

The original The Haunting is the best scary movie ever.

And pretty much any Obama campaign commercial.

Yeah. I like the old shit, but, sorry, silly gore puppets and threats of being vivisected just nauseate me, they don't scare me. Horror works best for me when it's about being overwhelmed, not butchered.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at October 31, 2008 04:30 PM (MMC8r)

42 Something else that's scary.

Spiders. And women.

And Spider Women......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 31, 2008 04:30 PM (Ds4I5)

43 The Fog, anyone? Not the crappy remake, the original version

Posted by: OU_Gryphon at October 31, 2008 04:30 PM (1OiHj)

The Day After scared the shit out of me. I knew that if that film had any effect on voters that would lead to "nuclear freezes" or disarmament. Soviets would have been in Europe the next afternoon.

I got a copy of that recently and watched it...hadn't seen it since high school...it had a big impact at the time, but jebus, looking at it now...pretty damned manipulative of the TV people...can you say agenda? That was the beginning of the 'tail wagging the dog'...look where we are at now...bastards.

Posted by: CanaDave at October 31, 2008 04:31 PM (6w8jL)

45 Stephen King's IT. I hate clowns.

Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 04:31 PM (qSqPf)

46 Devil movies and zombies and such don't scare me all that much, but anything with creepy evil children? Nightmare fuel.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at October 31, 2008 04:31 PM (VqrIw)

47 Horror Films rarely bother me. I think Silence of the Lambs was the only one that kept me up at night.

But one night I spent hours listening to recordings of numbers stations. That freaked me out.

Posted by: Justin at October 31, 2008 04:31 PM (iH1PP)

48 The Masque of Red Death. No traditional horror per, but just a strange, debauched Poe story with Vincent Price with beautiful visuals. Oh yeah, and Satan.

Posted by: shibumi at October 31, 2008 04:31 PM (tZB/c)

49 Halloween III is the one with the computerized halloween masks, right? I remember seeing it on cable as a kid and enjoying it, but was totally confused because there was no Michael Myers.

Posted by: M�tenloch at October 31, 2008 04:32 PM (Js8cd)

50 Vagina Dentata, Parts I and II. Scariest EVAH!

Posted by: Dan Collins at October 31, 2008 04:32 PM (SohFK)

Something else that's scary.
Spiders. And women.
And Spider Women......

Dog Soldiers...good movie

Posted by: CanaDave at October 31, 2008 04:33 PM (6w8jL)

52 Sleepless in Seattle! Went with a girl as friend, she was giving funny looks after about 20 minutes. I would rather watch the Texas chainsaw massacres rather than that.

Posted by: locus ceruleus at October 31, 2008 04:33 PM (e2mBS)

Im trying to think what the last horror flick I watched was the most scary.
Now I get freaked out by lots of guts and shit when watching the movie, but after wards your allways telling your self that its fake and that it was just too much gore. And thrillers like alien are all gravy too getting you to jump the hell out of your seat but I think for sure that my most terrifying movie that I have ever watched was candyman. Number one, im the fuck allergic to bees, number two it had that whole creepy talk to the mirror thing going on, and it happened to play around that critical age where you watch a movie and it totally drastically changes your world view sort of deal. I think thats what sealed deal: Im the fuck alaregic to bees, I was 9 or some shit, and it had creepy mirror talk. So offically still in my fragile mind Terrifuckifying.

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 04:33 PM (K1+tY)

54 Oh, and March of the Evil Dead Penguins.

Posted by: Dan Collins at October 31, 2008 04:34 PM (SohFK)

Exorcist III -- the nurse station scene.

The Shining -- "Hello, Danny...."

The Omen will never scare me after the SNL skit--"why, those are three nines! Everything is fine!"

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 31, 2008 04:34 PM (n2eCn)

56 WOW!

I wasn't expecting the Schwarzenegger clip to be that good.

That was pretty fucking amazing.

Posted by: Watcher at October 31, 2008 04:34 PM (ms7Cf)

57 Exorcist III - highly underrated.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at October 31, 2008 04:35 PM (9u8Jf)

58 Session 9 is incredibly creepy.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 31, 2008 04:35 PM (zXJGz)

And don't forget the original Nightmare on Elm Street, before Freddie sold out and franchise became a parody of itself.

Yeah, that was a good one. One thing that I liked about it was that the girl wasn't a helpless victim - she was smart and wokred out a plan to get rid of Freddie.

Oh and a bit of trivia - this was Johnny Depp's first film role.

Posted by: M�tenloch at October 31, 2008 04:36 PM (Js8cd)

60 Event Horizon?

That piece of shit scared you? It scarred me. See Allah's review of the Dawn of the Dead remake? That's not even half of how much I hated Event Horizon.

I always wanted to meet the guy who made that movie and asked him what the hell happened? Was it budget cuts? What did he want the movie to be because no one could have set out to make that piece of shit.

The only good part of it....Joely Richardson. Oh yes, those were very good parts.

Posted by: DrewM. at October 31, 2008 04:36 PM (hlYel)

61 If we're talking John Carpenter, someone has to mention "Prince of Darkness." That movie scared the living Hell out of me. Victor Wong (minus his six demon bag), Donald Pleasance, and Alice freakin' Copper as a demon-possessed homeless dude.

Posted by: CrankyProf at October 31, 2008 04:36 PM (waYsO)

Exit to Eden

http://tinyurl.com/6zslum

Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 04:36 PM (qSqPf)

63 I remember thinking the first Nightmare on Elm Street was pretty damn unsettling when I was a kid. When Freddy drags those knives across metal pipes, it's creepy as hell. The rest were crap, but that first one was good filmmaking.

Posted by: UGAdawg at October 31, 2008 04:36 PM (MDHAs)

64 I would have to add "They Live". Not quite a horror movie, but it is cheesey and has a line from Roddy Piper that would make Bruce Campbell proud.

Posted by: mrcaniac at October 31, 2008 04:37 PM (Rbulg)

65 Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 09:36 PM (qSqPf)

Yes, close your eyes very tightly when Rosie is on but when Dana Delaney comes on? Hello!

Posted by: DrewM. at October 31, 2008 04:39 PM (hlYel)

Dawn of the Dead (new one) scared the fuck outta me. I had trouble sleeping for a few nights. And I used to sleep with my bedroom door open to the rest of the apartment.. no longer... I don't wanna wake up to a zombie child ( or Obama voter) just waiting for me to awake before feedin on my tiny brain.

I also close the door from the bathroom to the bedroom cuz of IT. Never saw the movie but the book really fucked with my head while listening to the faucet drip in the bathroom while trying to fall asleep.

Event Horizon almost pegs the creepy-o-meter . Same with Prince of Darkness.

Posted by: turtle at October 31, 2008 04:40 PM (lTGOl)

Oh how about a video game thread!!!

I can tell you for sure the viedo games have offically scared the beeeeeejezzzus out of me more than film!

#1 Remember Resident evil, the first one, when the dog came through the windows to eat you alive? That shit made me jump from my desk to cover! Freaaaaked the crap out of me.

#2 System shock #2 OMG This game was brutal!!! Not only did they give you bat hearing but it was the creapiest game I had played in a long time.

#3 Doom 3: You can only hold a flash light or a gun. Demons. It was pretty terribad.

#4 Bio Shock: Creepy girls

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 04:42 PM (K1+tY)

68 I don't suppose I even have to mention how much IT freaks me out.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 31, 2008 04:43 PM (zXJGz)

Ooh, first a disclaimer...I am a scary movie chicken...BIG chicken. But, some kinds I like. Not slashers, but thrillers for sure. And absolutely no hookey-pookey-spookey devil movies - nope not me. My husband would have to go check for every single scary noice I imagined for months on end.

But, for thrillers -

We LOVE to watch Deep Blue Sea - the shark movie with LL Cool J, can watch it over and over. How about that parrot? It's got tension and laughs - best combo for me!

Event Horizon - yes, us too!

And I remember years and years ago we went and saw Manhunter - it was a Michael Mann film ( of Miami Vice and such) and had William Peterson in it (Grissom on CSI), I remember being scared on the ride home from Jacksonville that night!

Oh, and is the big alligator movie that is like a funny satire movie - is that Lake Placid? Add that one!

Posted by: freetofly at October 31, 2008 04:43 PM (Qvtkv)

If I were an Obama fan, that Arnold vid would scare me. I NEVER watch YouTube videos for more than a minute or two--short attention span and small children interrupting constantly--but I've still got it playing at 8 minutes plus.

Awesome. Ace, can you put it in a post please?

Best costume I saw tonight: the chihuahua witch. As in a real dog, in a witch costume. Well, not that chihuahuas are real dogs...

Posted by: MamaAJ at October 31, 2008 04:43 PM (X6Zdh)

I would have to add "They Live". Not quite a horror movie, but it is cheesey and has a line from Roddy Piper that would make Bruce Campbell proud.

And the world's longest, pointless fight scene! Or he could have put on the goddamn sunglasses.

Posted by: M�tenloch at October 31, 2008 04:43 PM (Js8cd)

72 Not all of these scared me, but are some of my favorites:

The Fly
28 Days Later
The Shining
The Orphanage (Spanish Horror Movie)
Rec. (Spanish Horror Movie) Great movie too
Hellraiser
Nightmare on Elm Street 1
Jacobs Ladder
Seven (Not necessarily a horror, but disturbing as hell)
Audition (Asian Horror Movie)
Alien
The Ring
The Thing (with Kurl Russel)
The Descent
Dog Soldiers
Dawn of the Dead (one with Ving Rhames in it)

Posted by: Luthien at October 31, 2008 04:44 PM (saFMR)

73 Evil Dead. Not Half ass Evil Dead II. Not Thrillomedy Army O' Darkness. Evil Dead. scary. (If your are in fourth grade)

Posted by: Mr. Chumpo at October 31, 2008 04:44 PM (i73Rf)

74 I have some half-eradicated memories of scary movies I watched as a little kid (normally when my parents were out for the evening) that fueled nightmares from then until now.

What was the movie about a woman trapped alone in her house with a sentient computer that impregnated her somehow? That one gave me major creeps.

Posted by: Jim62sch at October 31, 2008 04:44 PM (6rQXk)

All of us Gen Xers--those devil child movies of the 60s and 70s (Rosemary's Baby, Exorcist, Don't Look Now, The Omen, The Shining (kind of)) depicted how alienated how parents were from us. Ergo, Nirvana.

Dittos on the numbers stations being freaky. On the radio, every once in a while, Art Bell had campy/scary stuff on, like Shadowpeople, the Ditch from Hell, Malachi Martin.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 31, 2008 04:45 PM (n2eCn)

76 Manhunter is another one of those murder movies which creep me out.

That thing with putting the slivers of mirrors into his victims eyes and arranging them around the living room, like he's watching tv with the family he just butchered.

Creepy.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 04:46 PM (1WR4H)

77 Anyone for Silent Night, Deadly Night? You never hear about this one because of the Xmas theme; but it was really twisted if I recall.

Posted by: Mr. Chumpo at October 31, 2008 04:46 PM (i73Rf)

78 My recommendations:
Below
Session 9
Shadow of the Vampire
The Machinist
Wolf

Posted by: Watcher at October 31, 2008 09:18 PM (ms7Cf)

Hmmm... after thinking on it some more, I'd also add:
Cube
Stir of Echoes
The Gift

Posted by: Watcher at October 31, 2008 04:47 PM (ms7Cf)

79 And:
The Fly II

Posted by: Watcher at October 31, 2008 04:48 PM (ms7Cf)

80
What was the movie about a woman trapped alone in her house with a sentient computer that impregnated her somehow? That one gave me major creeps.

Demon Seed. It looks surprisingly dated now.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at October 31, 2008 04:48 PM (MMC8r)

One night not too long ago I was channel surfing and hit Independent Film Channel, where I caught a few minutes of "The War Room". It was horrifying.

On a lighter note, I would like to mention "The Shining". Jack Torrance is my hero. And that bitch Wendy... oh man, she has it coming as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Jones at October 31, 2008 04:48 PM (VkNlv)

Sleepaway Camp series- lots of boobage for the guys and maybe gals

Friday the 13th- boobies

The Watcher in the Woods

The Hills Have Eyes

Creepshow 1 & 2- boobies

Tales from the Crypt- not a movie, but a great series.

Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 04:49 PM (qSqPf)

83 The Machinist is very good, very creepy.

It's one of those movies where you have no idea where it's going, which adds to the creepiness. You have no idea what's going on.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 04:49 PM (1WR4H)

84 Ghost Story: Talk about a sleeper. hold on I have to look up the cast.

Posted by: Mr. Chumpo at October 31, 2008 04:49 PM (i73Rf)

85 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1977

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 31, 2008 04:49 PM (n2eCn)

86 catholics, if they know anything about their faith, SHOULD be voting for mccain/palin (it's mostly the abortion thing)

church-going catholics, if they're currently supporting obama, are much more likely to switch to mccain

team obama knows this, so they'll be working this weekend to suppress this crucial vote:

Priests for Life is warning that James Salt and Chris Korzen from the pro-Obama organization Catholics United sent a blast email on Thursday offering instructions on how to prevent pro-life Catholics from distributing electoral guides near Catholic parishes around the country. source

doing literature drops at catholic churches on saturday evening (usually around 5pm) could be VERY EFFECTIVE for the amount of effort and expense required

ACE: I STRONGLY SUGGEST literature drops at catholic churches during every mass (hit the parking lots) and handing out literature after every mass

mass times are typically:
one mass on saturday evening
several times sunday morning
find out local mass times

ACE: I WILL PROVIDE a pdf that can be printed out for the effort

who's on board?

Posted by: anonymous at October 31, 2008 04:49 PM (Vwqdb)

87 ace, if you like thouse kind of you dont know where its going movies, I recommend paranioa 1.0. It should freak you out.

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 04:50 PM (K1+tY)

Ace,

I was very surprised to see H3 in your list. It was definately not the routine Halloween movie. Had a nice bit of big corportation teaming up with occult to kill your kids paranoia. The ad jingles during the movie were very creepy too.

Posted by: turtle at October 31, 2008 04:50 PM (lTGOl)

89 I would have to add "They Live". Not quite a horror movie, but it is cheesey and has a line from Roddy Piper that would make Bruce Campbell proud.

Well, if we're going for cheesy movies with classic lines, you have to include Silent Night, Deadly Night 2.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at October 31, 2008 04:51 PM (1xqu1)

90 #45 I remember watching IT when I was 5 and I have trouble looking at clowns ever since.

Posted by: MFin G I M P at October 31, 2008 04:51 PM (vXCPF)

91 I'm on board, but I wish you'd chosen a different thread, anonymous.

Posted by: Dan Collins at October 31, 2008 04:52 PM (SohFK)

92 "Exorcist III" Agghcck! I haven't seen that since I was 15, but that confessional scene has stayed with me. That freakin' demonic voice.

Posted by: Joanie at October 31, 2008 04:52 PM (Yyy1m)

93 Ghost Story (1981) Directed by John Irvin. With Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Oh yeah! The terrifying Fred Astaire.

Posted by: Mr. Chumpo at October 31, 2008 04:52 PM (i73Rf)

94 so whats the offical freak out age (for a movie)? Seems any where between 5 and ten

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 04:53 PM (K1+tY)

95 No one has mentioned Phantasm?

Posted by: Dead Career Sketch at October 31, 2008 04:53 PM (JTN0y)

96 I'm probably the only one here who likes the Saw movies. Maybe not scary, but at least squemish. I just saw the fifth one, dimninishing returns with each sequel but still entertaining.

I'm another person who's still creeped out by Event Horizon.

Also with the video games. All the Resident Evils. Remember the 3rd one when Nemesis first chases you and all you can do is run?

System Shock 2 is one of the scariest games ever. Highly underrated. The abandoned ship, the audio logs, the "Many"....yikes.

Posted by: brak at October 31, 2008 04:54 PM (h4Tgf)

97 Not a Halloween movie as I recall, but Life Force was a great vampire movie. Check it out if you get a chance. Best looking naked female space vampire in the history of the universe.

And if there's any one thing that I know a lot about, it's naked female space vampires. It's a gift.

Posted by: SlaveDog at October 31, 2008 04:54 PM (6Gy0q)

98 There are two kinds of people, those who watched IT when they were kids, and now have a crippling fear of clowns, and those of us who didn't and think Pennywise is the most awesome evil clown ever.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at October 31, 2008 04:54 PM (1xqu1)

99 I'm a big fan of the tales from the crypt movies, especially the second one with Dennis Miller.

Bordello of blood. heh.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 04:56 PM (1WR4H)

100

76 Manhunter is another one of those murder movies which creep me out.

____________________________________

One of my favorites.

Posted by: oldfart at October 31, 2008 04:56 PM (L8y/X)

101 Photo link please of afforementioned outer space female vamp (sin Ropa)

Posted by: Mr. Chumpo at October 31, 2008 04:56 PM (i73Rf)

102 Dead career, while the idea of flying death balls is terrifying, it felt like a hellraiser rip off clone. I mean, I still dont like death balls drilling my brains out; it just doesn't do it for me. But it was creepy. When I saw it i wanted my own to remote control to core peoples heads out.

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 04:56 PM (K1+tY)

103 Amityville Horror

Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 04:57 PM (qSqPf)

104 I loved the first Saw. The rest are eh. Okay, but declining in quality and ability to surprise every time.

They're still okay, the sequels I mean. They never got awful. But it is another step down every time.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 04:57 PM (1WR4H)

105

For me the scariest movie will always be The Changeling, with George C. Scott.

It's got great atmosphere. A terrific mystery. Inanimate objects coming to life. A terrifying seance. A ghost child's voice on tape. Grief. Betrayal. Revenge.

This movie freaks me out every time I see it. It's not gross or gory, but chilling.

Posted by: LR at October 31, 2008 04:58 PM (7dYFF)

106 I saw Carrie on the big screen while doing shrooms. Very strange. Strangeness surpassed only by watching Apocalyse Now on acid.

Posted by: perhaps I should remain nameless at October 31, 2008 04:58 PM (PD1tk)

107 Ginger: yeah amityville was pretty creepy! The fly scene still gets me.

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 04:58 PM (K1+tY)

108 For me the scariest movie will always be The Changeling, with George C. Scott.

Don't drown me Father! Very creepy

Posted by: perhaps I should remain nameless at October 31, 2008 04:58 PM (PD1tk)

109 Perhaps, isnt that a new movie? Its a remake? When was it released before?

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 05:00 PM (K1+tY)

110

I'm a big fan of the tales from the crypt movies, especially the second one with Dennis Miller.

I'm not a fan of the movies.

Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 05:00 PM (qSqPf)

111 "83 The Machinist is very good, very creepy.

It's one of those movies where you have no idea where it's going, which adds to the creepiness. You have no idea what's going on. "

If you are talking about the one with Christian Bale I agree completely. Awesome movie that messes with your head. I read that in order to lose all that weight all he ate was like an apple a day with some water. Anyone that has seen this knows what I mean by him losing weight.

Posted by: Luthien at October 31, 2008 05:01 PM (saFMR)

112 Sithson mentioned video games. Silent Hill was a fucking nightmare. I couldn't even play during the day.

Posted by: Justin at October 31, 2008 05:03 PM (iH1PP)

113 Holy hell I had to quit playing Silent Hill because it freaked me out so much.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 31, 2008 05:04 PM (zXJGz)

114 Id like to see how the kos kidz react to that news: they have the One up still by like 6 points. Which if you add bradley effect = dead even

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 05:06 PM (K1+tY)

115

Ooops! I forgot to add (this a true story) Red Dawn. I was an 18/19 yr new mom and my husband and I went to see it. I guess bc we were young and impressionable - it really gave us both pause. Made us realize that freedom could be taken away, things we weren't naturally otherwise prone to think about at that time in our lives. We got copies for our sons a few yrs ago, bc we wanted them to have that same impression. It is a family fav.

"That thing with putting the slivers of mirrors into his victims eyes"
Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 09:46 PM

YUP!

"What was the movie about a woman trapped alone in her house with a sentient computer that impregnated her somehow? " Posted by: Jim62sch at October 31, 2008 09:44 PM

That sounds like perfect scary movie camp! Hysterical! How do they think of these things?

Oh - For fun and thrills - 8 Legged Freaks - Love that one!!

Posted by: freetofly at October 31, 2008 05:06 PM (Qvtkv)

116 opps wrong post damnit. sorry

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 05:06 PM (K1+tY)

117 http://preview.tinyurl.com/5gj588

Posted by: Dan Collins at October 31, 2008 05:07 PM (SohFK)

118 I go back and forth on Halloween III. It came out when I was a Freshman in high school and so has a special nostalgic place in my heart.

It gets a lot of crap because it wasn't about Michael Myers, but (a) I have a lot of respect for the fact that the filmmakers were trying to be a little more ambitious with the franchise, hoping to turn it into something larger than Michael Myers, and (b) let's be honest, the Michael Myers films pretty much suck ass. Halloween is pretty good (and holds up okay), but pretty much all of the Michael Myers sequels are mediocre at best and downright awful at worst.

Nonetheless, even though I'll always defend Halloween III against unfair criticism, it's not very good. For one thing, it's plot makes zero sense.

Still, it's got some good creepy imagery (the woman with insects crawling out of her disfigured face) and the female lead, Stacey Nelkin, was cute and sexy. Hawt!

Posted by: Kensington at October 31, 2008 05:08 PM (xFNQx)

119 yeah silient hill was SCARY AS HOLY HELL. Orgins? not so much, like any franchize after the first it goes straight to hell.

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 05:08 PM (K1+tY)

120 Psycho.

Posted by: '80sbaby at October 31, 2008 05:08 PM (zmiSr)

121 Manhunter is the first, and best, movie made from Red Dragon.

Lake Placid is fucking awesome, if only to hear Betty White swear. Well, that and heads keeping getting thrown at Bridget Fonda.

Cabin By The Lake is surprisingly freaky as well.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 31, 2008 05:10 PM (zXJGz)

122 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Taps into political paranoia which seems to be hardwired into us regardless of what anyone's actual politics are.

Posted by: caspera at October 31, 2008 05:11 PM (vSuMy)

123 Any Alfred Hitchcock movie.

Posted by: Ginger at October 31, 2008 05:11 PM (qSqPf)

124 Who remembers The Stuff from 1985?

Posted by: M�tenloch at October 31, 2008 05:12 PM (Js8cd)

125 Mathilda May's boobies in Life Force:

http://tinyurl.com/5gj588

She's a MILFy taste of goodness.

NSFW, of course.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at October 31, 2008 05:13 PM (nOQ1R)

126

Hows about Count Yorga the Vampire? Silly, But one that I remember from the Old Days, And scared the crap outta me.

Cute Chicks eating the castle housepet cats, etc! Freaked me out!

Posted by: Hugh Jass at October 31, 2008 05:15 PM (wGN8x)

127 Dan Collins beat me to it in #119 above.

But he didn't leave the NSFW warning.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at October 31, 2008 05:15 PM (nOQ1R)

128

95 No one has mentioned Phantasm?

Holy shit! You're right. That movie freaked me out as a kid. Game over. Thread winner. Thread closed. G'nite everyone and happy All Hallows Eve.

Posted by: genghis at October 31, 2008 05:15 PM (HwY1l)

129 If we're going truly old school, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu completely and totally scare the hell out of me.

Posted by: alexthechick at October 31, 2008 05:17 PM (zXJGz)

130 I put the trailer up for phatasm in the post... the trailer is the stuff of nightmares.

anyone who was a kid then had nightmares about that freaky acid-trip scary trailer.

Posted by: ace at October 31, 2008 05:17 PM (1WR4H)

131 Mr. Chumpo: Photo link please of afforementioned outer space female vamp (sin Ropa)

voila:

Video of naked female space vampire (Mathilda May) at YouTube.

Posted by: SlaveDog at October 31, 2008 05:17 PM (6Gy0q)

132 #74: Demon Seed

Posted by: ACORN at October 31, 2008 05:19 PM (XmBa2)

133 Tonight, I'm watching the documentary about the Weather Underground. Now this is some scary shit!

Posted by: Bubba Thudd at October 31, 2008 05:20 PM (5j7/G)

134 All the Resident Evils. Remember the 3rd one when Nemesis first chases you and all you can do is run?

RE4 during the first time you play, Dr. Salvador bearing down on you with that fucking chainsaw in the village, and all you've got is your Beretta and that slow-loading Remington 870 you grab in the house.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at October 31, 2008 05:21 PM (1xqu1)

135

I never watch scary movies. The only exceptions are M. Night Shyamalan movies, which aren't very, and once I watched part of "Silence of the Lambs." Holy crap, I had to keep leaving the room.

Okay, and I've watched most Hitchcock's...

Posted by: MamaAJ at October 31, 2008 05:23 PM (X6Zdh)

136 @72 The Orphanage (Spanish Horror Movie)

This was one creepy ass movie, The Devil's Backbone was pretty good too.

The Descent
Session 9
The Thing
In the Mouth of Madness
Invasion of the Body Snatchers '78
Fido (w/ Billy Connolly, its really funny)
Lost Boys
Fright Night

Posted by: POTL at October 31, 2008 05:23 PM (mD4t/)

137 That movie "Dolls" freaked me out as a kid. Which reminds me....Who was that genius 1980s Televangelist who decided making a tv segment about demon-possessed toys, called "Turmoil in the Toybox" was a good idea? And who is the genius that let me watch it? Thanks, Mom.

Posted by: Joanie at October 31, 2008 05:23 PM (Yyy1m)

138

Posted by: sithson at October 31, 2008 09:33 PM - you were mentioning Candyman? I remember that is one of my sister's favorites...

Oh, Hannity just said that Zogby is coming out tomorrow saying McCain up by 1! Woot!

Posted by: freetofly at October 31, 2008 05:23 PM (Qvtkv)

139 Who remembers The Stuff from 1985? I do, just watched it on Netflix recently. But i don't know if it's still available for instant viewing or not. Should be available for rental though.

Posted by: koopy at October 31, 2008 05:24 PM (bL4cA)

140 Not long ago I saw an episode of Masters of Horror about a movie so scary that it drove you insane if you saw it...creepy, creepy. I still remember the name of the fictional movie-within-a-movie - Le Fin Absolut du Monde.

Posted by: Jim62sch at October 31, 2008 05:24 PM (6rQXk)

141 I'm drawing a blank for the scariest movie I've seen but a good scary movie is showing right now (with probably replays later) on G4TV - The Host. It's a Korean monster movie (horror & comedy) which breaks one of the prime rules of monster movies - don't show the monster too soon. They show the monster right near the start of the movie and DANG that's just brilliant (in this movie). Anyway, you get enough empathy for the characters that you get nervous when they're in peril. The movie is messed up enough that you have no idea who's going to live or die. And the funny stuff is funny!

Posted by: Arthur at October 31, 2008 05:24 PM (2+qaE)

142 @140 Not long ago I saw an episode of Masters of Horror about a movie so scary that it drove you insane if you saw it...creepy, creepy. I still remember the name of the fictional movie-within-a-movie - Le Fin Absolut du Monde.

Jim, wasn't that episode by John Carpenter? Cigarette Burns... Udo Kier

Posted by: POTL at October 31, 2008 05:27 PM (mD4t/)

143

Loved "Killer Clowns from Outer Space", just in case anyone thought I had good taste or somethin'.

Posted by: MamaAJ at October 31, 2008 05:27 PM (X6Zdh)

144 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - the greatest low-budget slasher flick of all time.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - Michael Rooker is just intense and creepy.

The Hitcher - Rutger Hauer, 'nuff said.

Reanimator - campy but classic.

Steel Magnolias - The horror...the horror...

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at October 31, 2008 05:29 PM (Ulsfn)

145 Friday The 13th. I went to school where the opening scenes were filmed, and have been to Camp Nobebosco, where the camp scenes were filmed.

Posted by: William Teach at October 31, 2008 05:30 PM (7yTel)

146

130 I put the trailer up for phatasm in the post... the trailer is the stuff of nightmares.

anyone who was a kid then had nightmares about that freaky acid-trip scary trailer.

The ending really messed me up. It appears to have all been a dream and the kid goes upstairs to pack up his things and...no, I've said too much.

I liked the little sci-fi twist to it as well.

"Aliens," while technically a sci-fi action feature, had some truly scary scenes...if you're claustrophobic that is. For that matter "Alien" also had a high creepiness factor to it.

Two more from the '70's:

"The Brood," which HBO seemed to play every 4 hours for a year (not terrifying but supremely creepy) and "It's Alive," wherein mom gives birth to "something" which immediately slaughters everyone in the delivery room (except mom). The rest of the movie is spent trying to hunt Junior down as he slaughters his way across a city.

I agree with a previous comment about "Demon Seed." Yep, it looks a little dated, as do all '70's dystopian movies, but it was still pretty good, and very original. Hopefully my Dell doesn't try and knock me up with its spawn anytime soon.

Posted by: genghis at October 31, 2008 05:33 PM (HwY1l)

147 "if only to hear Betty White swear." LOL! That's the truth! She's a mess!

Posted by: freetofly at October 31, 2008 05:33 PM (Qvtkv)

148 If you are talking about the one with Christian Bale I agree completely. Awesome movie that messes with your head. I read that in order to lose all that weight all he ate was like an apple a day with some water. Anyone that has seen this knows what I mean by him losing weight.

Posted by: Luthien at October 31, 2008 10:01 PM (saFMR)

Yeah, an apple and a can of tuna a day... he lost an insane amount of weight. Then he had to buff up right afterwards for his role in Batman Begins.

Posted by: Watcher at October 31, 2008 05:34 PM (ms7Cf)

149 One that always freaked me out was The Tarantula. A 50 foot long spider. Which bites people.

Posted by: William Teach at October 31, 2008 05:36 PM (7yTel)

150 Rosemary's Baby and It I still hate clowns and sometimes babies.

Posted by: Tee866 at October 31, 2008 05:46 PM (HNlVq)

151

What everyone else's said plus:

Burnt Offerings, The Legend of Hell House and From Beyond. And especially the original '79 version of Salem's Lot.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at October 31, 2008 05:48 PM (YYanS)

152 Pop Horror = The Lost Boys
MetaHorror = The Reflecting Skin
SuperCheese = Sssssss!
Zombie 2.0 = Shaun of the Dead

Posted by: adamthemad at October 31, 2008 05:52 PM (aVVGO)

153 saw, halloween films except 3 (sorry ace), and any vincent price film

Posted by: YRM at October 31, 2008 05:52 PM (004wR)

154 Halloween III couldn't suck enough.

Posted by: SlaveDog at October 31, 2008 05:54 PM (6Gy0q)

155 'The Hitcher' fans,

Read this and then take a shower because you should feel icky.

Posted by: adamthemad at October 31, 2008 05:57 PM (aVVGO)

156 "Not of this World" (1957) and "Them" are two great oldies that scared the crap out of me as a child.

Posted by: Nostradamus at October 31, 2008 05:59 PM (6XCLG)

157

Exorcist III - highly underrated

Agree completely, 3 of the best "BOO!" Scenes in film.

Same with arachnophobia, but Arachnophobia only had 2 boo scenes.

But Excorcist the original is creepy through and through, especially if you were raised catholic.

"Rosemary's Baby."

Someone Mentioned "The alive" or "It's alive," there were sequals, I don't know which was the first, but the one where muppets that look like the guys from "goolies" are slaughtering everyone.

Actually, all the Alives were good.

SCARIEST movie I ever saw is "When a Stranger Calls," The original has 40 minutes of the most intense suspense there is, and the finale is almost as intense. I have stories about a bunch of young bad ass marines watching it.

Can't think of too many really scary movies off the top of my head.

and none of them had been releast in the last ten years.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 31, 2008 06:05 PM (ul7te)

158 The Uninvited, a 1940ish film noirish B/W ghost story

Posted by: nuncproturd at October 31, 2008 06:06 PM (o3yZA)

159 The original The Blob scared me as a kid and gave me nightmares. I still can't sit through The Exorcist. Blood and guts movies don't bother me but devil movies do. Its not scary, but Young Frankenstein has to get a mention.

Posted by: Swegin at October 31, 2008 06:13 PM (q0Z3p)

160 "The original The Blob scared me as a kid and gave me nightmares." I started to mention this one. But I was so young, it is almost silly, but, I still remember looking at that blob on a tiny black and white TV! I was completely mesmerized!

Posted by: freetofly at October 31, 2008 06:29 PM (Qvtkv)

161

I have to correct myself, "The Ring" was more than a bit creepy.

My brother just got his new house up and running, and I was doing some electrical and general construction work for him, and I was wondering where the hell my bro went.

My bro, is my BIG bro, he's older than me, and he's bigger than me physicaly.

I'm done with all the work I would do that day, so I go up to shower and change, and I see my brother in his "computer room" at the time, and he's staring at the screen, he doesn't even great me when I say "hi."

I go into the gest room, I get my clothes before I take a shower, and I say to my brother, who is staring at his computer monitor, "BRO!" so I get his attention.

"WHAT THE FUCK! Oh, Nevermind, ALL COOL! never mind, seen this? FUCK, no, cool, just cool!"

The power of "The ring," is that it's easy to fall into the world and to allow suspense to build.

Too much horror is halfassed gorified, and lame.

I suggest you all watch "When a Stranger Calls" THE ORIGINAL! without reading any reviews.

CREAPY CREEPY KREEPY!!!

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 31, 2008 06:47 PM (ul7te)

162 Some recent ones that are pretty good that you might have missed: Rogue - Australian crocodile horror, very naturalistic so it starts a little slow but very good, more creepy than bloody, very well plotted. Nightmare Detective - Japanese movie at Blockbuster, has the creepy thing going on especially once you realize what's happening, the ending may or may not work for you Old Boy - korean thriller, but more a tragedy in the classical sense ie. inspires dread and horror in the viewer Kontroll - slasher flick and very dark comedy, Hungarian Silent Hill - better than it has any right to be, not great but some effective scenes

Posted by: rinseandspit at October 31, 2008 06:51 PM (oEAm5)

163 How about Trilogy of Terror? Karen Black fighting the voodoo doll. Good stuff.

Posted by: caspera at October 31, 2008 06:52 PM (vSuMy)

164

Nice call on Phantasm. I saw that film when I was a kid and it scared me senseless. I still can't watch it and that was some 30 years ago. I haven't been in a mausoleum either.

How about Motel Hell? I still don't know if it was a parody or just bad. It ws funny as hell either way.

Posted by: Max Entropy at October 31, 2008 07:00 PM (4gHqM)

165

MOTEL HELL!!!!

The Jerky movie?

HELLS YEAH!

But that was more gorified, less suspense, I prefer suspense.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 31, 2008 07:02 PM (ul7te)

166 Watched the 2007 remake of The Hitcher, surprisingly good.

I always watch one cheesy 70's horror movie on Halloween. Last year it was Evil Dead, the year before, The Fog... tonight... The Car. I hadn't realized how closely the car Bender changes into in the Futurama episode "The Honking" was based on this cheesy movie.

Also, both versions of Amityville Horror suck.

Posted by: Socky at October 31, 2008 07:05 PM (d2fuu)

167 A movie that I'm sure absolutely no one has mentioned: Viy (1967), which is notable for having been the first "horror" film ever made under Soviet censorship. A young priest in 18th-century Ukraine is hired to do a three-night prayer vigil by the coffin of a beautiful young woman who has died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. Only (a) she's actually a witch; (b) the priest himself had inadvertently caused her death; and (c) she's not QUITE dead, and is in a really pissy mood. By American standards -- even 1967 American standards -- the "horror" sequences are far more campy than scary. But the fairly lavish period-piece production is entertaining, and I'd be willing to bet (though I can't confirm it) that the makers of Ringu were familiar with Viy -- since the Ukrainian witch and the Japanese ghost-girl definitely have that "identical cousins" thing going on.

Posted by: Throbert McGee at October 31, 2008 07:09 PM (NwOTJ)

168 Ace, as a heads up, they're turning the Machete trailer into an actual movie, either a theatrical release or a direct to DVD. Dunno if anyone posted that up-thread, but what the hell... I probably look like a dumbass anyways.

Posted by: David at October 31, 2008 07:12 PM (7VvFI)

169

Scary comes in two varieties. Scary fun, like a rollercoaster ride, and scary scary, which is scary but not fun. Then there's just plain scary.

Scary: Alien, Dagon, The Haunting (original), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original), Night of the Living Dead (original), The Resurrected.

Scary fun: CHUD, Event Horizon, Resident Evil (the first), Return of the Living Dead (original), [others].

Scary Scary: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), [others]

Scary stupid: Friday the 13th (any).

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 31, 2008 07:30 PM (fnoZ9)

170

For me the scariest movie will always be The Changeling, with George C. Scott.

x10. Absolutely the best classic gothic ghost story movie ever made. Scared the bejesus out of me.

Others: Ghost Story, The Wolfman, Poltergeist, and a 70's-era movie I once saw on late night TV, the name of which escapes me, about a sorority house with a psycho killer hiding in the attic. He keeps calling the girls, but no one realizes that he's calling from inside the house. Totally creeped me out.

Posted by: TiredWench at October 31, 2008 10:59 PM (Kx1hM)

171 Interesting list, but you certainly missed two --

Clive Barker's "Candyman"

The poster alone -- a human eye up very close, with a bee hovering a wingspan away -- is enough to creep you out. No real "scares" here, that's not what it aims for -- but it's a very effective movie at being steadily unnerving. They aren't out so much to make you scream as to make you want to push away.

David Chronenberg's "The Dead Zone"

Again, not so much after making you wet your pants, as much to make you feel really really creeped out. Good performances all around from Walken, Adams, and Sheen, as well as a good supporting cast.

.

Posted by: OBloodyhell at October 31, 2008 11:26 PM (00mT8)

172 Also, you missed the REAL horror movie.

The original theatrical version of Manos - The Hand of Fate !!!

Just think of having to actually sit through 70 minutes of that crap!

See, you're already screaming in your head: "The Horror! The Horror!"

P

.

Posted by: OBloodyhell at October 31, 2008 11:28 PM (00mT8)

173 Shaun of the Dead is fantastic. Hilarious and creepifying.

Posted by: nightwitch at October 31, 2008 11:37 PM (vQPBu)

174 #82 -- I'm pretty certain there are no boobies in the first Creepshow, but it's one of my favorite Halloween movies.

Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at November 01, 2008 01:32 AM (Tp/gn)

175

Ed should not be allowed to make movie lists.

"The Exorcist - When I finally saw it, it had already become a cultural joke, so it lost some of its power for me but still first class. "

You mean, one of the best fucking horror movies EVER? sorta cultural Jokes?

Ed?

Don't comment on pop culture, it's not your thing.

OBVIOUSLY.

Really, JOKES?

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 01, 2008 04:02 AM (ul7te)

176

okay, this is a little terrifying.

http://tinyurl.com/58uo8z

Not just the outcome, but the sycophantic worship expressed in the article.

If Obama loses on tuesday, I can see this loser begging for blood.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 01, 2008 04:07 AM (ul7te)

177

Being a major horror fan, I've been looking for Session 9 for a while, but can't find it. Will need to look harder.

Vincent Price - Last Man on Earth. It has "classic" slow zombies.

Agree w/ this one. It's a great flick, good story line. When his wife comes to the door....goooood scene.

Some other scary ones:

Ringu (original Japanese one), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Black Christmas, Nosferatu, Black Sabbath, Dementia 13, Communion, The Changeling, The Legend of Hell House

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178 Exorcist III had some very creepy stuff such as the old woman walking insect-like on the ceiling, and the hospital hallway scene with the nurse which I think is one of the best horror moments of all time. Setting, music, mood, camera perspective, and the visual at the end of the hospital scene was perfect blend for terror. And a good argument for less is more.

Posted by: Prindle at November 01, 2008 06:13 AM (K55GU)

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Crud, forgot one.

Ju-on. It's the *original* "Grudge", not the Americanized Gellar version.

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180 I second Masque of the Red Death, although the Busby Berkeley of Death number at the end is swimming in Velveeta. Still, creepy throughout. Roger Corman put a great psychological spin on those Poe stories, which were pretty creepy to start. Love the Hammer horror Peter Cushing movies, especially Curse of Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein: now there's a sociopath.

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