What's your favorite scary movie?

[bexx09]

Yeah! Deliverance ruined me on float trips on the river for the same reason.
I like the unrealistic scary flicks not the ones that could and do actually happen.

That's what was so scary about The Strangers, Ils and Funny Games! Stuff like that could totally happen...

[faeryedark]

I love the Others as well. I'm also a Stephen King fan. I love Christine and Salem's Lot. Also the Stand is a big fav. Also love the Warlock movies

[couponfanatic]

To me it's not scary, but it falls in the genre.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, the one w/ Winona Ryder. Hands down that's it. I could watch that forever. The DVD that is. The cable movie channels cut it, even though they say they don't.

The Changling scared the snort out of me when I was a kid, haven't seen it in years though.

Ghost Ship is okay, but the real version (again dvd only) has this AMAZING scene with peole on a dance floor getting cut in half by a wire rope. I know sounds gross, but it's not really. But again, anywhere other than the dvd that 5 minute scene is about 10 seconds.

Liked 13 Ghosts alot.

The Ninth Gate is pretty good.

But then...my tastes run darker than most. If I won the lottery I'd make them build me the house from Tales From The Crypt.

[faeryedark]

To me it's not scary, but it falls in the genre.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, the one w/ Winona Ryder. Hands down that's it. I could watch that forever. The DVD that is. The cable movie channels cut it, even though they say they don't.

The Changling scared the snort out of me when I was a kid, haven't seen it in years though.

Ghost Ship is okay, but the real version (again dvd only) has this AMAZING scene with peole on a dance floor getting cut in half by a wire rope. I know sounds gross, but it's not really. But again, anywhere other than the dvd that 5 minute scene is about 10 seconds.

Liked 13 Ghosts alot.

The Ninth Gate is pretty good.

But then...my tastes run darker than most. If I won the lottery I'd make them build me the house from Tales From The Crypt.

You sound like me, I was once asked who was fav. TV. family. I answered the Addam's Family, oh, the looks I got LOL!
i guess I should mention Sometimes They Come Back, and is The Lost Boys considered scary? Oh, and Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken (who was really creepy as the Headless Horseman

[enginerd]

Rosemary's Baby
The Omen
Hostel (but very gory)

[mocha poka]

Jaws
Seven
Pan's Labyrinth
The Thing
The Evil Dead
The Hitcher (the first one with Rutger Hauer)

[Deja Vu]

I haven't seen a scary movie since my children were born because my whole frame of mind is different.
But back in the day The Blair Witch Project was one of my favorites ( not that I have seen it more than once) because it actually frightened me. I of coarse I believed all the hype, and saw it in the theater, and believed it to be "real."
It made me lose some of my deep-woods adventurism though. On our honey moon in Lake Tahoe we stumbled upon an abandoned house in the middle of the woods, and I was unable to bring myself in, atypical to my natural drive.

[neglectarino]

Cape Fear, the first one with Robert Mitchum is at the top of my list. His eyes look so cold & dead & he could just stand still doing nothing & be completely terrifying.

Closest thing to him in that movie was Alec Baldwin in The Juror. Demi Moore's as deadpan serious as always, but Baldwin clearly studied Mitchum.

The Birds

The first Halloween is always a treat.

ETA: and how could I forget the red menace terror movies of the '50s, The Blob & Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

When I was a kid the giant crab & the giant ant movies were very scary. It & Them, I think were the titles? Definitely Them for the ants.

[neglectarino]

The Shining with Jack Nicholson. LOVE IT!

Good pick

Oh, and bexx, the quote is from one of the Scream movies. I think the 2nd, but might be part of the phone conversation with Drew Barrymore in the 1st.

[brixtonrileightaylor]

Ils (Them) - Same plot as The Strangers... couple is terrorized in their home by strangers. But the ending was a surprise... so it's totally worth watching. It is a foregin film though so if you're not into the subtitle thing then you might want to skip it.

That was an AWESOME movie!! If i remember correctly there really wasnt much dialouge so even someone who doesnt like subtitles might be ok watching this one!






My favorite scary movie is probably Lost Boys or Silver Bullet *not really scary by todays standards but I was a HUGE Corey Haim fan and they just bring back good memories* ooh and Watchers too! LOL I still watch them sometimes