Yeah, I know, another list.
I figure I will keep posting them until a) someone tells me to knock it off or b) I run out of lists.
But as this is the internet and everyone has an opinion, I am pretty sure that b) above will never, ever happen.
So this list is for those nights when you want to be scared out of your wits and have to sleep with all the lights on and a baseball bat under your pillow.
Oh, and make sure and check under the bed and lock the door and windows before you go to bed :)
- Bill
Posted: Aug 22, 07 1:42pm
OK, here goes:
Alien 1
The original Night of the Living Dead
The Wizard of Oz (Hey, I couldnt watch it by myself until I was 18)
Posted: Aug 23, 07 7:06am
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I'm with ya, baby.
Two words: FLYING MONKEYS.
The witch didn't bother my 6 year old self at all, but the monkeys?
Oh my GOD.
They still creep me out 40 years later.
Fly My Pretties! Fly!
Posted: Jan 18, 08 3:26pm
I had nightmares of flying attack monkeys for years, and when I was real little when the flying monkies came on TV I covered my head. I've even had dreams as an adult about entering the "Emerald City."
Posted: Jan 18, 08 3:34pm
I was so afraid of the flying monkeys when i was a little girl! I'd cover my head when they came on TV. I had nightmares about them for years! Even as an adult I've had dreams of the "Emerald City"! I was terrified as a young child when Dorothy and Toto's house got wound up in the tornado!; but I always wanted to watch it. I think the "Aliens" movies were like that for my nephew, they terrified him but when all was said and done, he wanted to watch them.
Posted: Sep 23, 07 9:26pm
The Haunting - the best, scariest ever, with the brilliance of using sound and angles to create the fear - imagination is so much worse than actually seeing anything. It's a Shirley Jackson story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/
It even scared my then 15 yo old a couple years ago....:-)
Posted: Oct 31, 07 4:00pm
Tingler, hands down, the best. Old, but great.
Posted: Mar 25, 08 4:36pm
Oh, yes! The Haunting was one of the few scary movies that made it difficult for me to go to bed without turning on a light!
Posted: Dec 6, 07 3:29pm
Halloween (the original) and probably any horror movie with Jamie Lee Curtis in it....lol
Posted: Dec 7, 07 4:46am
We just had a Hitchcock week here in KC. I still watch Psycho and even though I know what will happen - that shower scene scares the crap out of me.
I just watched 'The Omen" and that was pretty scary too. But the ones that really kill me are the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
Posted: Dec 7, 07 6:24am
Eraserhead
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness
Reanimator
Blood Diner
Dead Alive
Bad Taste
Posted: Dec 7, 07 9:07pm
LOL joe,
You're going to force me to have to peruse my dvd collection. Or worse...the vhs tapes...ARG
Posted: Dec 9, 07 8:21am
I only like them if they're stupid.
Posted: Jan 7, 08 8:23pm
JoeHorizon, I love you. These are some of my favorite movies, let alone horror movies. Nice list.
Posted: Dec 9, 07 12:45pm
I was home sick last week watching the boob tube and came across a 1950's classic.....Killer Crabs From Space
Posted: Dec 9, 07 9:19pm
Or it may have been attack of the monster crabs....or, monster crabs from space....(hmmm, must've had too much cold medicine). It definitely had talking crabs in it, though. LOL
Posted: Jan 7, 08 1:41pm
These were some that really got ot me:
The Omen I & II
The Exorcist
The Birds
Nightmare on Elm Street
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ( Hey I felt the sister was scary)
Hell Raiser
Candy Man
Psycho
The Fly -the original one- (help me, help me) that cry got to me lol
Rosemary's Baby
Posted: Jan 18, 08 3:37pm
"The Birds" and "Rosemarys Baby" were absolutely chilling for me the first time I saw them!
Posted: Jan 8, 08 8:34am
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Honeybee - you took my movie LOL
Here is a little something to remind you though. I was just a little girl when this on came out.
oohhhh, don't open the door.....
Duck, Duck
Posted: Jan 8, 08 8:04pm
The Howling!!!!!!!!
Blair Witch Project.
"Candy Man" character that hated children in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. YIKES!
Candy Man. Wow. Bet you can't say that three times fast lookin in a mirror.
Poltergeist!
Amityville Horror.
All the original ones.
Sexiest was Dracula with Frank Lungella. I threw out all the garlic, locked up the crosses and opened the windows baby!!!!!!!!
by the way..anyone know why I was awarded "biggest flirt" ??
Posted: Jan 18, 08 3:38pm
"Blair Witch Project", didnt want to watch it, but somehow I did! Disturbing!
Posted: Jan 9, 08 12:35am
(To LunaLei: No! No! They're seagulls! Seagulls! - Sorry - couldn't help it.) :)
How's this for one that hasn't been mentioned in years but always scared the the tar out of me ... Mr. Sardonicus (1961) The movie that supported mothers' claims that "your face is gonna freeze like that!"
Nosferatu (1922)
The Last Man on Earth (1964) The first version of "I Am Legend" in black and white with Vincent Price.
House of Wax (1953)
The Talisman (hey, it's Stephen King---gotta be at least as good as the book)
Secret Window
Rose Red
The Green Mile
The Storm of the Century
The Shining
The Stand
It
The Mummy
The Phantom of the Opera
The Dark Half
Posted: Jan 9, 08 6:23am
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Hello Rhiannnon - LOL
At my house it is Crows - the flock is sooooo big it is just like being in the movie hehehe - I open the front door just to watch them all scatter
And love love love Vincent Price (oooohhh his voice just gives me chills), and Stephen King. I can't look at clowns the same way anymore....
Here are some others
The Fog (1980)
Invaision of the Body Snatchers
The Exorcist (1973) - I want to turn my head around like that
.....I see you ....
Posted: Jan 9, 08 5:55pm
Let's hope I did this right. I'm aiming for the end of the list. LOL!!
LunaLei: You mean like in the movie where they were gathering outside the school just before what should have been recess? I get nervous when I see too many birds doing that number, too.
I adored Vincent Price, too. When he was out of character he was such a sweetheart. More like the character he played in "Edward Scissor Hands." Saw him on talk shows. He was the sweetest person.
Posted: Jan 10, 08 6:32am
Rhiannnonn - YES, just like that all over my front, side and back yard - next time I will get a picture and post it.
Posted: Feb 26, 08 5:23pm
Hands Down "The Shinning"
Posted: Mar 25, 08 5:30pm
The theater movie, not the (much later) tv movie, I should hope. No one can play Jack Torrence any better than Jack Nicholson, IMHO.
Posted: Mar 25, 08 4:37pm
It wasn't exactly a horror movie, but Wait Until Dark had me on the edge of my seat.
Posted: Mar 25, 08 5:34pm
If it wasn't horror, it was extreme, very extreme suspence. Personally, considering (as long as I'm thinking of the right movie, Audrey Hepburn's character was blind, I'd consider it horror.
How would you like to not be able to see anything and never know if the next thing you came in contact with would be normal or murderous? Defines horror for me.
Posted: Mar 25, 08 10:50pm
I am definitely in the minority here, but I did not like the original Shining movie with Jack Nicholson. I thought the TV movie displayed the essence of the book much better and it included the moving hedges where the original movie didn't and to me that was one of the scariest parts of the book. (If the movie did have them I must of slept through it.) For me the scariest movie I saw was "Scarecrow" on Wonderful world of Disney when I was a kid. That movie terrified me and I couldn't sleep for weeks afterwards and I still get goosebumps thinking about. One other movie that I wished I never saw was "The Hills Have Eyes". For some reason, my girlfriend and I went to see it and we were so terrified I had to call her when I got home, so we both knew each other was safe.
Posted: Mar 25, 08 11:08pm
The topiary that actually moved (as in the book) was the only effect that was in the TV movie that wasn't in the theater movie. That by itself is not enough to amke or break the story. The hedges didn't move, it's very easy to get lost in a maze. My guess would be even easier in the snow.
Look, the guy from the tv series "Wings," the one who played the goofy brother, just plain made a lousy Jack Torrence. He couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag in that movie.
Wow! I'm impressed! Usually when I mention "The Scarecrow," no one has any idea what I'm talking about. Funny how, when you're little, even after you know who is in the Scarecrow's costume, it's still scarey.
Posted: Mar 26, 08 12:00pm
I would like to contribute but I've always been too big of a chicken to watch horror movies. The only complete horror movie I've ever seen is the first Amityville Horror. I've seen bits and pieces of the Excorcist but I was so scared I felt like I was having a heart attack and had to stop watching!
Posted: Mar 26, 08 4:18pm
Don't feel bad, I have yet to watch either of those movies.
Posted: Apr 29, 08 2:12pm
Night of the Living Dead
I also LOVE the film the Shining (and did not like the TV version.) I like the hedge maze better (plus it is more filmic than animated bushes. In the book I love the topiary, but in the film it would have made me laugh
I also loved 28 Days I liked the Fog too
and X man (which has a different name - but it is about a radioactive slime that goes around attacking people.)
Posted: May 2, 08 5:41pm
For me ~ WOLF CREEK creeped me out as this happened!! The day after I watched it I was at Bi-mart and a guy looking just like the killer in the movie was ahead of me in line buying a rifle case!!!! And on to top that off. he had an the accent too!!!~ Ontario, Oregon