What Is Your Favorite "Scary Movie"?

[The Annoyed Man]

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[snatchel]

The only movies that really manage to give me the creeps are the Exorcist movies. Pretty much any of them.. :Ugh::

[Carry-a-Kimber]

Cannibal Holocaust is up there for me, also Antichrist.(2009).

[Jim Beaux]

One that really comes to mind is the book, "The Shining". Stephen King is one twisted guy. I found the book was far more scary then the movie.

It was still of the night, 1:45 AM, and I was reading the part about the little boy seeing the dead woman in the bath, wow it was descriptive.... and I heard light knocking on my front door!

I thought to myself, "tell me someone isnt knocking on my door", and then I heard it again. I thought, "no, please tell me no one is knocking, I am imagining this"! Finally I worked up the nerve and went to the door and found my goofy 20 year old brother, who was a stoner at that time, on my porch with some gal he picked up!

He said, like hey man, can I borrow your tent? Ya see, this chick is married and...oh, uh, yeah, like, meet Pam...Pam, this is my bro...uh, like anyway, you see, we dont have any place to party...and like.... her... well, her old man is kinda nuts and....I stepped out the door wearing only my boxers and a bad attitude and backed him all the way out to his car. I threatened him, cussed him, and every word that I hurled came out wet with drooling rage! All he kept sayin was "chill, man, youre trippin me out, youre bringing me us down"

[Jim Beaux]

The only movies that really manage to give me the creeps are the Exorcist movies. Pretty much any of them.. :Ugh::

I read the reason that the Exorcist was so unsettling was due to its subliminal sound track. They recorded the sounds that put people on alert....bees buzzing, babies crying, women screaming, and then played it back in barely perceptible levels. I gotta say it worked for me!

[C-dub]

The Thing - the original and the one with Kurt Russell.
Poltergeist - I've only seen the first one
The Birds

I'm not really much of a scary movie kind of person. Possibly because they did give me so many nightmare's and sleepless nights as a kid.

[threoh8]

One Hour Photo

[WildBill]

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

I agree, but sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two. Coming up with a strict definition is difficult.

One of my favorite "scary movies" is "An American Werewolf in London." It is scary, but also humorous at the same time. It has been described as a "comedy-horror" film. Even though it is about werewolves, I consider it to be a "scary" rather than a "horror" film. BTW - Great soundtrack, too.

[SpringerFan]

The Shining freaked me out as a kid.

[WildBill]

The Shining freaked me out as a kid.

It still freaks me out as an adult.

[WildBill]

A couple of not so well known movies:

For Chuck Norris fans, "Silent Rage" [1982] is pretty good.

In the hospital of a small town, three doctors experiment on a man called John Kirby. As a result, John becomes a mute maniacal murderer with the ability to heal automatically every time he gets injured, no matter how bad it is. When he starts killing everyone he crosses, the town's sheriff [Norris] goes after him; but how can he stop someone who can't die, or even get hurt?

Richard Boone [Have Gun Will Travel] starred in a pretty good horror film "I Bury The Living" [1958] http://archive.org/details/IBuryTheLiving1958" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Through a series of macabre "coincidences," the newly-elected director of a cemetery (Richard Boone) begins to believe that he can cause the deaths of living owners of burial plots by merely changing the push-pin color from white (living) to black (dead) on a large wall map of the cemetery that notes those plots.

[Dave2]

Shaun of the Dead?

[WildBill]

Shaun of the Dead?

That's a good 'un!

[seamusTX]

Horror is the name of the genre. Scary is just a description.

The distinction you are thinking of is between movies that are obvious fantasies, like vampire and zombie movies, and movies about horrible plots that could occur, like Psycho and Deliverance.

The horror genre blurs into suspense with movies like North by Northwest, which have a similar emotional impact.

I was never really frightened by the first category. To me they are like a Halloween haunted house or a roller coaster.

- Jim