It is that time of year again...

[97RangerXLT]

So lets start a scary movie thread.

List some of your favorite movies based on scare factor.

Personally for me, gore does not scare me. the movies that leave it to your imagination to scare you with possibly some good special effects to help.

My scary movies:
1. The Changeling. This movie was creepy. that is one seriously pissed off kid. the bathtub scene, the seance, the ball going down the stairs, the well scene and the flipped over police car/shattered mirror were all very creepy.
From the seance:
"How did you die, Joseph...? Did you die in this house...? Why do you remain...?"
A bit of wisdom from the local historical society:
That house is not fit to live in. No one's been able to live in it. It doesn't want people.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/

2. What Lies Beneath. This movie had some really interesting uses of mirrors. The bathtub scene was really spooky. The scene where the truck drives off into the lake was creepy, and the scene where the dead girl takes over the body of the wife.
Part where the dead girl takes over the wife:
Claire Spencer: Hello Doctor Spencer.
Norman: You're not yourself today are you?
Claire Spencer: No, No I'm not.
Claire Spencer: I think she's starting to suspect something.
Norman: Who?
Claire Spencer: Your wife...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161081/


3. The Haunting (original movie from 1963, not the turd with Catherine Zeta Jones). An excellent adaption of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House. the nursery and the the whole house in general, and the way the entity slowly took over Eleanor Lance's mind...
Opening to The Haunting:
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. -- from the first paragraph of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/

 

[chittybangbang]

1991's silence of the lambs.More of a thriller but scary just the same.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.

 

[98greenrangerguy]

Does anybody remember the movie Cujo? The scene at the end where Cujo jumps thought the window always gets to me.

 

[Apollo]

i get the heeby jeebies everytime i watch "pet cemitary".

 

[LittleBigFoot]

Evil Dead 1, 2, and Army Of Darkness. I've watched these moves on haloween every year since we went to Hooters for my friends 13th birthday (and watched them all that night)

 

[baddis]

the exorcist . the original one seen it in about 78 and i was 7 years old. still scares the hell out of me.

 

[chico4554]

yea the exorcist is definatley creepy. the texas chainsaw massacre always got to me. I guess cause i can see it actually happening.

 

[baddis]

my wife says nightmare on elm street and her sister doesn't like the children of the corn

 

[ozzy85]

The only one I can think of that disturbed me was Seven. That one actually gave me a couple of bad dreams. There are probably people out there that are that warped.

Most "slasher" flicks are too over the top bloody to take seriously. They're more amusing. The Evil Dead series is a good one.

 

[Shoeboy]

I'm not usually scared of scary movies. The ones that got me however, were House of a thousand corpses, that Rob Zombie directed, that scared/creeped the everliving shit out of me, for some reason, and then the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Both Creepy, and I think I'm going to watch TCM in the next few days. Glad I remembered I own that DVD. I don't really think the movies where zombies and monsters that jump out at you are scary, its the ones that could actually happen that are the scary ones, Zodiak and SawI, were 2 others that were creepy only because it could, or did happen. People are sick and twisted now adays.

As a side note, I laughed my ass off at the exorcist, the green pea soup, bwahahahahaha

 

[irishblessing]

Cant forgot the classic THE SHINING with Jack Nicholson

 

[Original_Ranger84]

I wouldn't say scary as its more creeping me out... Wait Pee Wee hermins Movie, Scared the C**P out of me! funny talking guy who popped out of nowhere all the time and that talking chair!

But on a sereious not I get the Heeby Jeebies at about any movie thats supposed to be scary. Chainsaw, the ring, anything like that.

 

[irishblessing]

it was scary wierd like when he walks in on that bunny giveing that guy he** it was scary lol

 

[Insanejughead]

Not a movie that creeps me and scares the hell out of me, but Doom 3.

 

[irishblessing]

haha i havent played doom in a long time one of my favorite games i should look for that on ebay that and
duke nukem land of the babes that was a sweet game