What's Your Favorite Scary Movie?

[body2body]

The Haunting (1963) Directed by Robert Wise, based on a novel by Shirley Jackson. A really scary horror film with no blood or gore. A horror film with terrific performances by Julie Harris and Claire Bloom.

[+ sync]

US Presidential Election 2016...terrifying!

 

Aw! Fuck! It is not a movie. I guess I'll go with: Let the Right One In, the Swedish film.

 

The election is not a horror movie at present, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility.

[Reluctant Daddy]

I absolutely love scary movies, some of my favorites are

 

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The chase scene still gives me nightmares

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx7smh7YHKg

 

 

 

 

And I love the British anthology movies like, Vault of Horror, Asylum, and Tales from the Crypt

[longtime lurker]

FREAKS is quite the curio considering the studio that made it: MGM. Then again, that studio was quite experimental when Irving Thalberg was supervising, especially during the pre-code era. They also produced the delightfully demented KONGO. Now THAT is a bonkers tale of terror! After Thalberg's death, L.B. Mayer really pushed the company into increasingly family friendly territory, so much so that Spencer Tracy was way too gentlemanly in his version of DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE.

[+ José Soplanucas]

I am a fan of the genre, I love too many too much. Just to add to the amazing ones shared above, I am crazy for John Carpenter's and Dario Argento's low budget movies.

 

Vampires and mesmerizers movies make me horny, and I do enjoy such role playings.

 

I thought of posting one of Trump's speeches, but I don't want to break the rules.

[MiamiLooker]

From television: "An Unlocked Window", an episode from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394099/

"A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window."

[AdamSmith]

Another favorite of mine is the original The Thing. None of the remakes ever captured the mesmorising continuity of the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xcVxkTZzM

Yes!!! I first saw this on TV when I was about seven and it was pretty terrifying.

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As much as I admired his work, Vincent Price was always just a little too convincing. http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/2c/12/2c12bfe26bdcecda11c7d056b91ab516.png

[slightly]

As much as I admired his work, Vincent Price was always just a little too convincing. http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/2c/12/2c12bfe26bdcecda11c7d056b91ab516.png

 

[+ poolboy48220]

I rented "The Ring" DVD and watched it alone one night. Kinda scary, and after the film I'm checking out the DVD extras and find an easter egg of just the video that people were watching in the movie (and died a week later). Started watching it, and decided it was TOO scary at that point, and hit "Stop" - nothing happens. No other controls worked either. The damn easter egg was set up to disable all the controls so you HAD to watch it all the way through. I unplugged my TV and DVD player. :-?

[body2body]

Let us not forget Carrie the Brian de Palma original from 1976, not one of the remakes. Besides the blood and violence, my favorite scenes are the ones with Sissy Spacek, and Piper Laurie as her unhinged Jesus freak Mother " I can see your dirty pillows".

[AdamSmith]

As much as I admired his work, Vincent Price was always just a little too convincing. http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/2c/12/2c12bfe26bdcecda11c7d056b91ab516.png

Ach! Where is my mind? The two Phibes films are up there in the stratosphere for me, in their extraordinary stylized way.

 

 

[AdamSmith]

The magnificent finale of Dr. Phibes Rises Again...

 

[AdamSmith]

And in the psychological-thriller genre, there's the great Diabolique (the 1955 version needless to say).

 

But my favorite in that mode might be the cheesy but effective B movie The Screaming Skull. (The title alone!)

 

 

MST3K sends it up...

 

[MikeBiDude]

I guess I was 13 or 14 when I saw "Night of the Living Dead" and for whatever reason I didn't sleep all that night!!!!

[dlee02]

My first foray into horror films was "The Omen". I was quite young when my dad decided to show It to me on laser disc (I was maybe 9 or 10). I remember being quite traumatized but thrilled at the same time. There's actually a very personal connection to the film that makes it all the more "scary" for me which I won't divulge here

 

Fast forward a few years I really got into the genre and even did a comparative film project on different horror films during sophomore year in high school.

 

All time favorite is still the original "The Exorcist"... still scares the shit out of me esp when the girl's head does a 360 turn around!

[s1conrad]

'The Pit and the Pendulum' still scares the daylights out of me. Every scene, from the foreboding castle in the opening scene to the last striking image of Barbara Steele at the end, is the stuff of nightmares. 'Rosemary's Baby' has a hypnotic quality that fills you with intrigue as well as dread. A more recent movie, 'The Others' with Nicole Kidman has a number of jolting scenes--it's a very well-crafted ghost story.

 

Another film, which isn't really considered horror but I find haunting. compelling and creepy-as-hell: Peter Weir's strange and atmospheric 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'. It's the type of film that stays with you for days after watching it--the cinematography and plot reel you in with beauty, mystery and an unseen menace.

[Zman]

Mine is Alien, which has already been mentioned.

[Rod Hagen]

I absolutely love scary movies, some of my favorites are

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx7smh7YHKg

 

I remember reading once that a child saw the "Magic" trailer and would not stop screaming until his parents took him out of the movie Theater. I can relate. I was terrified that that trailer would come on when I was a kid parked in front of the TV at night.

[dlee02]

I remember reading once that a child saw the "Magic" trailer and would not stop screaming until his parents took him out of the movie Theater. I can relate. I was terrified that that trailer would come on when I was a kid parked in front of the TV at night.

 

Man Anthony Hopkins, he's the man!

 

Funny when my parents took me and my brother to watch ET in the theaters, my brother screamed his lungs out and we had to leave in the middle...my brother was about 6 at the time. Guess ET can be considered a horror film...

[JerseyBabyDaddy]

THIS is the most terrifying movie ever:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvjhpnQxRA

 

Just kidding (or maybe not?). Anyway, here are my favorites organized from oldest to more recent:

 

 

 

 

[N13]

"Night of the Living Dead", The original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Eden Lake". Oh, and "Halloween"

[Reluctant Daddy]

Ach! Where is my mind? The two Phibes films are up there in the stratosphere for me, in their extraordinary stylized way.

 

 

 

YES!

[Reluctant Daddy]

I remember reading once that a child saw the "Magic" trailer and would not stop screaming until his parents took him out of the movie Theater. I can relate. I was terrified that that trailer would come on when I was a kid parked in front of the TV at night.

 

Puppets and dolls scare the bejeezus out of me. There was a Night Gallery episode with a killer doll that still scares me to this day.

 

http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/night-gallery-doll.jpg

[TruHart1]

For mindfucking the audience's expectations shaped by conventions of the genre, of course nobody went farther out there than Stanley.

 

 

Some criticize the movie for draining the life out of the book's plot. But I think Kubrick went above and beyond the usual strategy of imparting terror, etc. through the narrative line. On top of that, he added twists that I think work more directly to create fright and anxiety in the viewer by violently breaching and disrupting storytelling norms for this (or really any) genre. Examples:

• Scatman Crothers gets a telepathic image of Danny Lloyd's vision of being in peril, then hurries to the rescue through a long sequence of going to the airport, taking a cross-country airline flight, driving a Snowcat up to the snowed-in resort, entering the building -- then, with no buildup or fight or anything, just suddenly being axed dead by Jack.
  
• The troublingly ambiguous way the ghost bartender is introduced, and you are forced to see Jack's recurrent alcoholism from inside his own hallucinatory, magical-thinking viewpoint.
  
• In the climax, instead of the family dynamic being restored by having Crothers survive and take Jack's place as father figure, Danny and Shelly Duvall go off together, alone, a subtly shocking Oedipal scene.
  
• Etc.
  

...not to mention Shelley Duvall's whining Wendy, who convinced me that I was definitely gay, since I was ready for Jack to kill her as quickly as possible! Duvall was an excellent actor but in this role (perhaps because of Kubrick's instruction) I cringed whenever she had a scene in the latter part of the film!

 

TruHart1