What Is Your Favorite "Scary Movie"?

[Jaguar]

I was too young for "The Exercosist", but my mom always told the story of her and my dad going to see it in Louisville when we lived in Fort Knox, KY. Half way through the movie my dad walked out, didn't say a word all the way home, just kind of had a hebejeebies shudder every few minutes. I saw it years later edited for TV, didn't do much for me.

Sean of the Dead for the win.

[seamusTX]

I think people who saw The Exorcist for the first time were quite freaked out, especially if they already thought of demonic possession as a real possibility.

By the time I got around seeing it, someone had recited the plot and described the more horrifying scenes to me, like the "pea soup," (thanks, buddy ) so I was more inclined to laugh than scream.

BTW, I'm Catholic. The Catholic Church admits the possibility of possession, but very rarely.

- Jim

[WildBill]

I think people who saw The Exorcist for the first time were quite freaked out, especially if they already thought of demonic possession as a real possibility.

By the time I got around seeing it, someone had recited the plot and described the more horrifying scenes to me, like the "pea soup," (thanks, buddy ) so I was more inclined to laugh than scream.

BTW, I'm Catholic. The Catholic Church admits the possibility of possession, but very rarely.

- Jim

I think the time [1973] was right for this type of movie. The movie won a Golden Globe for "Best Drama".

An interesting note: The author of the Exorcist book and screenplay, William Peter Blatty, attended a Jesuit high school. He also wrote and directed "The Ninth Configuration", a very very strange movie. It was originally titled "Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane". Sometimes scary, sometimes hilarious, but not for the faint of heart. I give it two thumbs up!

[WildBill]

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One of the memorable scenes [with Neville Brand playing the Sergeant]:

I'm convinced that we can walk through walls.
Not only me. Anyone. Cops ... people ... people in Nashville.

[urnoodle]

The 2 that creep me out the most are The Mothman Prophecies and The Ring.

[Kythas]

The Exorcist is still the movie that scares me the most every time I see it. Simply because it relates an actual account.

Something that scary that really happened? Yep, that's #1 in my book.

[jayinsat]

The Exorcist is still the movie that scares me the most every time I see it. Simply because it relates an actual account.

Something that scary that really happened? Yep, that's #1 in my book.

The Exorcist wrecked my childhood. Couldn't sleep with the lights off until....well, anyway.
That movie is DEMONIC! It was way too real for it's time. I'm 45 and very masculine and still don't like to watch it

[urnoodle]

The Exorcist is still the movie that scares me the most every time I see it. Simply because it relates an actual account.

Something that scary that really happened? Yep, that's #1 in my book.

I think thats why The Mothman Prophecies scares me. It's based on a real account back in the mid 1960s. When I was a teenager, The Amittyville Horror terrified me so much that when my friends planned a trip to the location, I wanted no part of it. Now it has no impact. I prefer any other movie genre over horror. I don't need any additional help scaring the bah geeziz out of myself when I'm sleeping.

[Geaux Tigers]

I remember watching "Alien" in a theatre by myself, but there were 5 other people scattered around inside....Note that in the 3 movies I mentioned, unlike today's movies, you rarely saw the monster full on. They all capitalized on your imagination being scarier than the special effects.

I saw Alien in a packed theater. As I said, it was the week it came out, and it was a hit. Grown men (which I was) were shrieking like little girls.

It is incredible now what Ridley Scott did with no CGI and the primitive special effects of that far distant era of 1979.

When I was growing up, so many horror movies relied on the victims doing something stupid that gets them killed. Also the threat was something I thought could be stopped by the simple solution of 12ga buckshot to the head.

One of the things that made the original Alien and the original Terminator so effective for me was the monster wasn't just picking off stupid people who went into the basement alone without any weapons. The victims were armed and capable but that wasn't always enough to save the good guys, because the monster was tough and determined. Not just hiding in the shadows and picking off the injured lambs.

[MadMonkey]

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Movies don't scare me, really... I tend to laugh at them

Video games, on the other hand... there are a few that have messed me up pretty good

[sjfcontrol]

There is a difference in my mind between Scary.. and Horror..

Scary movies like, Psycho, When Micheal Calls, Rosemary's Baby, Carrie, and ... and.. arrrrrg!!! forgot the name of it.. The blind lady that is in her apt, the killer with the switchblade concealed in the Madonna ... (wait until midnight?)


Horror movies like Night of the living dead, Dawn of the dead, any of the Friday the 13th (but honestly, by the 3rd movie, how many different ways CAN you kill someone?) Nightmare on Elm Street..

My wife and I have been listening to the Gregg Bell Media on XM.. These are 40's and 50's serials that played on the radio. Lots of "scary" tales being told on the channel leading up to Halloween..

Close -- "Wait Until Dark" 1967 Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.
Also, the original "Jaws"

[Oldgringo]

"2016"

[anygunanywhere]

Any Meg Ryan movie except "Proof of Life" scares the willies out of me because I might have to feign sensitivity.

Anygunanywhere

[VMI77]

The 2 that creep me out the most are The Mothman Prophecies and The Ring.

I second the The Mothman Prophecies and add the low budget, not particularly well rated, Jeepers Creepers --it just has some creepy elements to it.