I like scary movies and am wondering if anyone knows of a good one I haven't seen. My top 2 are probably "exorcist" and "tale of two sisters"

I don't know about scary, but one of my favorite people ever is Tim Burton. He always has an eerie feel to what he does, like he's balancing on the edge of terror and tranquility. There is always something just a little off but distinctly wrong with whatever is happening in his works.

Edward Scissor Hands
Nightmare Before Christmas
Big Fish
Corpse Bride

If you haven't read his little book of nightmare poetry and illustration, you must get it. Highly amuzing, full of that dark Burton humor.

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I still have nightmares.

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I love horror movies, but I haven't actually been scared by one since I was a kid. The last one I saw that scared me was "Dead Heat" which I believe came out in 1984. It's a buddy cop movie, only one cop buddy is a zombie.

Anyways, the scary part was when the characters were trapped in a huge slaughterhouse meat locker and whatever cinematic voodoo that justified the zombies went to work on the animals and they came to life. All those cuts of meat flailing around and clucking, mooing, whatever . . . freaked me the f out. Haunted me for DAYS. It's a wonder I didn't end up a vegetarian.

I asked my sisters this question and one said the Willy Wonka movie with Gene Wilder (specifically the boat ride thru the tunnel), and the other said "Ghostbusters", which she didn't realize was supposed to be a comedy. She also blamed me for letting her watch stuff like "Re-Animator" and "The Howling" when she was like 6 and scarring her for life.

2 kinds of scary: the suspense scary which is like an intellectual thriller movie and the horror scary which is all to overdone and not done well at all in general.

The 2 Scary Films in the horror genre for me are Alien and Aliens

The Intellectual Scary is hard to get...one I recall from my childhood was The Hitcher. Then there was Blair Witch...I know, I know...but to be honest I thought it was pretty damn good.

Then I saw one that I don't know the name of...it was a subtitled French flick about a girl who disappears and her boyfriend tried to find her. She was kidnapped by a guy at a rest stop and the BF does catch up with him, but I won't say anymore because people who release spoilers should be skinned alive and rolled in salt.

Hmm...I could do a spoily thing I guess:
He finds the guy. The guy shows him how he picked her out (totally random) and kidnapped her. Then he makes a deal with the BF. Drink this coffee that I spiked...you will fall asleep...but when you awaken I promise you will be alive and you will know what happened to her. So of course like a moron he does. He wakes up buried alive in the guy's backyard. End scene is the killer playing with his family in the backyard where we know the BF and GF are buried. Ugh it was so f*cking creepy!

it's called "the vanishing". the american remake had keifer sutherland...and it was not so good

That's a redundant statement.

Halloween

Something about that white expressionless mask still gives me chills

But . . . you were asking for recommendations.

GINGER SNAPS
One of the most smartly written movies I've ever seen. It's about a pair of sisters who are a little too close to each other (to the point of making a suicide pact) until one of them contracts lycanthropy.

Re-ANIMATOR
One of my all-time favorites. This is how gross out horror and comedy should be done. Medical student Herbert West has developed a glowing green serum that can bring the recently dead back to life, and browbeats his sweet but spineless roomie into helping him work on it. You see, it isn't quite perfect yet . . . as plagarizing prof. Dr. Hill discovers when Herbert lops off his head and re-animates him in two pieces. Two very pissed off pieces.

THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
"Fool", a little kid from a bad neighborhood who is being trained a burglar by his sister's boyfriend, ends up trapped in the creepy house owned by BDSM-loving local rich couple who've been kidnapping children over the years. So far, none of the children has met their high standards of perfection, and when they fail, Mr and Mrs Creepy mutilate them and lock them in the basement dungeon.

PUMPKINHEAD
A Southern Gothic fairy tale with amazing monster effects. After his only son is killed by joyriding teens, a vengeful man asks the local hex witch to conjure up the demon known as Pumpkinhead, but of course he must pay with his soul. Much more effective than the usual teens-getting-killed movie because you actually sympathize with the grieving father's motives.

All of your movies have nothing on Flowers of Flesh and Blood It's the only movie that has made me queasy and scared. Basically the movie is about a guy who stalks a woman and slowly cuts her in to pieces. The thing about the movie is that it looks so grainy it looks real.

Side Story about the movie: After viewing a portion of this film, actor Charlie Sheen was convinced the murder depicted was genuine and contacted the MPAA, who then contacted the FBI. FBI agent Dan Codling informed them that the FBI and the Japanese authorities were already investigating the film makers, who were forced to prove that the special effects were indeed fake

i don't know about films but when you see a scary play in a theatre... lets just say im glad i wore my brown pants.



Thriller by Susan Hill, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. Directed by Robin Herford.

A lawyer is obsessed with the belief that his family has been cursed by The Woman in Black - in an attempt to exorcise the evil, he employs a sceptical young actor to help recount his experiences, but then as the story unfolds - the boundary between reality and memory begin to merge.....

for more...if you dare(evil laugh) muhahaha.....

I'm going to go back a bit....

The first movie to scare the crap out of me was "The Manitou":

..I think the movie really stank, but since I was 7 and it was the first horror movie I had ever seen...it scared the crap out of me. :) I had forgotten about it until Chevy Chase spoofed it in a scene in "Modern Problems."

Now if you like classic creepy horror and not the blood and gore stuff that we're flooded with today I would recommend "The Changeling" with George C. Scott:

Since it's from 1980, and I believe originally a Canadian film, not too many people in the U.S. knew about it. There is a whopping 1/10 of a second of gore in the whole film, but if you can watch the whole movie in a dark room and not get goose bumps you're a better man than I. I've got them now just reminiscing about the film. "How did you die Joseph?"

Good luck finding it though..I had to search high and low and got it on VHS only to loan it out to some jack*ss that moved to Florida unexpectedly and took it with him!..and I never heard from him again and I never bought it again.

But it’s a nice “classic horror”…not to be confused with a “classic cult” horror.

...I just found The Changeling on DVD at Amazon...bought it shipped for under $10..this is your fault!!!

Dupe!

Yeah..I went to edit it to add a quote from the film, but hit "Quote" by accident. Tried to correct it with my other post, but you beat me to it. :)

Ghostwatch.



Trust me on this, although made for TV, it is one of the scariest things I've ever seen (and I watch a lot of horror films).

Very much employs the less is more strategy, and if you have a cupboard under your stairs you will never look at it in the same way again.

The Wickerman is worth a look too. Although not the Nick Cage one.

i cant think of the scariest film ever made, but one i saw recently is pretty freaky! its called creep. the story is about a woman who gets stuck in the london underground when its all shut up, and people start getting killed around her, and she is often left around wandering the underground alone. it may not sound that scary, but if you ever been on london underground late at night and theres noone around, can be quite creepy!

Creep is pretty eerie, although I felt it did tail off towards the end. It had more impact when you didn't know who, what or why Craig was, but that's often the way (just think how much scarier the shark in Jaws was before you saw it).

I did wonder though how much of the creepiness came from knowing the London Underground system and the sense of invasion and corruption of something so familiar.

But of course if we're talking scary involving London Underground, then I have to bring up American Werewolf In London. The creeping POV camera work in that gives a true sense of inevitability and claustrophobic doom. From the offset, you know that guy with the briefcase can't escape.

Scariest movie ever made? That sex tape your parents made when you were concieved.