Halloween's approaching- Your top ten scary flicks?

[Bone Yard]

All great but my favorite has to be "The Thing" (John Carpenter), saw it in the theatre and was on the edge of my seat the entire movie and why hasn't anyone mentioned "Jaws" probably one of the all-time best scary movies. I'm also partial to all the zombie movies.....

[cableguy]

Bill, I love David Lynch's work, and Cronenburg is excellent too. It's been years since I've seen "Nightbreed", and only one I hadn't seen was "In The Mouth Of Madness".

Paul, "In the Mouth of Madness" is perhaps one of the better one's on that list. Highly recommended....


Bill

[tentoze]

Haven't followed this thread at all, but one of the most frightening films ever made (without blood and gore and guts, and filmed in black and white to boot) is still The Innocents- Deborah Kerr was perfect, the camera angles were inventive, the kids were imminently creepy........

[whyaskit]

If you have been following this thread, the movie I was thinking about was The Changling with George C. Scott.

Haven't seen it a long time, but I remember it was damn scary!

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by thedelihaus

Always wanted to see "Wait Until Dark",

It is a real stomach clencher. It is hard to picture Audrey Hepburn in a scary film but she did a terrific job playing a blind woman terrorized by thugs after drugs hidden in her flat. Definitely worth seeing.

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by whyaskit

If you have been following this thread, the movie I was thinking about was The Changling with George C. Scott.

Haven't seen it a long time, but I remember it was damn scary!

Not only scary but creepy with a child abuse theme.

It left an imprint on me and made my list in the #1 spot.

[ponderbear]

the Haunting. Cheesy but damn scary.
Nosferatu.
Alien.
Dr. Strangelove
The radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" still gives me chills.
For scary music, I suggest Stockhausen. "Kontakte" always scares the shit out the kids who come to our place.

[ponderbear]

Originally Posted by soundmotor

It is a real stomach clencher. It is hard to picture Audrey Hepburn in a scary film but she did a terrific job playing a blind woman terrorized by thugs after drugs hidden in her flat. Definitely worth seeing.

agreed, that is one suspenseful movie.

[ponderbear]

Originally Posted by cableguy

Being a tad on the "Freaky-Weird" side of the fence....
Burnt Offerings
Lost Highway
Twin Peaks
Session Nine
Dead Ringers
VideoDrome
Nightbreed
They Live
In the Mouth of Madness

to name a few....


Bill

I was going to say Eraserhead, but the pace of that movie is so incredibly slow, by the time they show the hideous little baby thing, you don't really care anymore.

I love David Lynch otherwise. When things were finally coming together on Twin Peaks, I thought that was some scary stuff. But when Lynch summed it all up in Fire Walk With Me, it was spooky and weird but it didn't scare me nearly as much.

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by ponderbear

I was going to say Eraserhead, but the pace of that movie is so incredibly slow, by the time they show the hideous little baby thing, you don't really care anymore.

Who wouldn't be intrigued by -

"Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child." (taken from IMDB)

Unfortunately and despite the great promise of the above, I just didn't feel it in in 1982 when I saw it. Neither did my GF at the time who stayed with me in spite of my suggestion to go see it at all. Eventually she became my wife and "Eraserhead" still comes up once in awhile. I just asked her what she thought of it knowing what her answer would be (as I've heard it many times over the years)......"I thought it was a jumble of images that might eventually get better and make some sense. I thought that right up until it was over." I know it is on most everyone's must see cult film list but I'll take "Harold & Maude" any day. (Which should have made my list initially!) A better effort from Lynch would be "Blue Velvet" which certainly makes you uneasy enough to work at an adult Halloween party. "He put his disease in me................"

[meggy]

seriously -
the leave Britney alone thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

[jayczar]

"The Last House on the Left", may be Wes Cravens first film and definitely the most disturbing.

[electronjohn]

"Cat People" Very noir, to boot.

[Quest]

Silent movies are scary. You are forced to stare at the screen since there is only background music and the creeks in the home. If you are an HP Lovecraft fan then The Call of Cthulhu would keep you awake. It’s a modern B/W film made to look like a noir film of the 1920s. It’s sure to get the hairs on your back standing.

http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/trailer.html

[Cosmic]

Most of my favorites are already here, but one feature needs to be mentioned:

Men Behind the Sun.

The film is horrifying both because of its content (Japanese human experiments in WW2) and because, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it is fairly primitively shot, which adds immensely to the creepiness.
It does contain animal violence additionally.

Not an easy viewing, by a long shot.

Best,
C.