My top 5 The Shining Alien Alien's Night of the Living Dead (origional) Jaws Recent favorites: 28 Days later Devil's Backbone
you know (sorry about that a-train), i was thinking the same thing. i guess with it being new or something it wasn't included. it scared me schitless. running zombies... not slow running, but sprinting? !?
Yeah, good call on "28 Days Later", not super-scary, but a very good horror movie. One movie that pretty much sucks, but might be the most disturbing thing I've seen in a long time, was "Event Horizon". Seriously messed up stuff.
Good lists as usual. Here's one of my favorites that's often overlooked... The Fury ('78), directed by Brian De Palma, that's got a terrific cast... Kirk Douglas (who's great), John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Charles Durning, Carrie Snodgress... Daryl Hannah and Dennis Franz even have roles in it. Has to be one of Hannah's first films. This is one of De Palma's best and scary as hell.
I was going to start a new thread but this fits here: Dawn of the Dead-The Remake, baby! http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/dawnofthedead/ I was in college when the original came out back in the day and remember being scared pissless. Did any of you see the orginal in the theatres?
The Shining Psycho Poltergeist Tex. Chainsaw Massacre Blair Witch project (btw the bare wench project is good but not as, uh, scary) Sleepaway (underrated 70s schlock but not too bad) NIght of the Living Dead Dracula (w/Bela Lugosi) Misery (borderline horror but I'll take it) Carrie (same)
When it comes to Horror movies, I'm more of a B - movie enthusiast so... In alphabetical order Army of Darkness Bordello of Blood Chamber of Horrors Curse of the Undead Die, Monster, Die! Dracula vs. Frankenstein The Evil Dead The Evil From Dusk Till Dawn The Hitcher And that’s just through the “H’s”
Army of Darkness Evil Dead Evil Dead II Psycho The Shining The Omen MacBeth's #6 with all the movies mentioned tied Alien(is it horror, or sci-fi/suspense?) The Others Night of the Living Dead(original)
I see a bunch of votes for Nosferatu - I personally prefer the 1922 version. The 1979 version was just way too homoerotic/homophobic propaganda for me. And how bout Shadow of the Vampire? That was way more creepy in my opinion - considering it actually looks into the legend surrounding Max Schreck. Bela Lugosi is the king of scream on the silver screen.
I recall finding A Nightmare on Elm Street very scary when I first saw it back in the 1980s. And I will agree that Event Horizon was something. I don't know if scary is the word, but it was something. Other than that, I'm not a big horror movie buff. Liked the Friday the 13th/Halloween movies as a kid, but never found them to be scary to any degree.
For some reason that John Carpenter movie about Satan in the fluid scared the crap outta me. Prince of Darkness? My faves, however, are: Alien Jaws (I was 4 and living in Cape Cod when this came out) Evil Dead 2 (not scary, but awesome) Halloween When A Stranger Calls Psycho The Ring The Thing American Werewolf in London and for some reason... The Birds, esp that last scene
There are so many people I've talked to that haven't seen this movie but are missing out. Seriously disturbing images that just kind of stay with you after the movie. Sort of Hannibal Lecturish.
Alien The Thing - John Carpenter's Signs Nightmare on Elm Street Event Horizon Night of the Living Dead Halloween Poltergeist The Exorcist The Ring Some of the greats didn't really scare me... Jaws Pyscho The Birds The Shining
Actually the movie only shows the disturbing images in flashes. You can manage to catch only glimpses of the images, and then you mind will work on them and fill them in with your own imagination. I think that's what's so scarry about it, because your mind knows what exactly are the most horrifying stuff that "suits" you. The interesting thing is that after watching the movie, I was afraid of going to the kitchen by myself (eventhough my brother was in the living room), and the problem was that I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW what was it that I was so afraid of! Unlike movies like Aliens or others, where you "know" what is behind you mind (the creature) that is so scarry; for Event Horizon, you don't. You are just scaring yourself.
The Ring is far and away the scariest movie i've ever seen. i get chills just typing about it. seriously. no other movie has ever done this to me. The Shining was my scariest movie ever, creepy and scary both, but it only affects me while i'm watching (well the part where she gets to the top of some stairs and sees those people in costume in that room is just creepy as hell). The Ring, man, i think i actually covered my eyes at one point in that movie, and i've heard other people admit to worse. so The Ring definitely is at the top of my list. The Shining is next, and then i'm not really sure what i would put next. Jaws is a great movie, but it's not scary, and i gotta concur with A-Train on the Exorcist, were people just wusses back then? i mean i'll get scared at stuff, but that does nothing for me. apparently i need to see Event Horizon.
that movie was funny. especially the part where she was trapped in the room upstairs, then they rescue her and put her on the couch downstairs while she's still passed out. shortly thereafter, she wakes up, her eyes pop out, and her arms go flailing everywhere because she thinks she still being attacked. wasn't supposed to be funny, but it was.
