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With Halloween coming up, I was listening to a radio show last evening when they asked this question:

Night of the Living Dead?

The Blob?

Fright Night?

Psycho

The Shining

Scream

The Blair Witch Project

28 Days Later

Rampage

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A-R wrote:The Blair Witch Project

28 Days Later

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These were all mentioned by the callers to the show.

Alien. Hands down. I saw it the week it opened, before I really heard much about it. I didn't sleep until the following night.

In addition to the alien it had the deranged android. The false ending got me. I also thought Sigourney Weaver was the second most beautiful woman in the world.

By the time I saw movies like Psycho and The Birds, they had been talked about too much. Plus I realized that in Hitchcock movies the good guys win in the end.

The Exorcist was creepy, but overall I found it a little too campy to be emotionally horrifying. "Tubular Bells" was an excellent choice for the sound track. That's not something you hear on Muzak.

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- Jim

Army of Darkness. Best scary movie. Ever.



Argue all you want. I'm going to put my ears in my fingers and go, "LALALALALALA!"

"Klaatu Barada N...[pause]... Necktie... Neckturn... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word! Klaatu... Barada... Ni*COUGH MUMBLE*....[pause] Okay... that's it!"

"This is my BOOMSTICK!" Not quite safe for kiddies here...
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=pFriRcIwqNU[/youtube]
"It's a twelve-gauge, double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt-blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right... shop smart: shop S-Mart... You got that?"

another great emotionally terrifying film that is often overlooked around Halloween (because no scary monsters - at least not of the fantastical/supernatural kind) is "Open Water" ... an absolutely horrifying cerebral/psychological movie that forces you to confront some of our basic animalistic "what if" fears ... everything "Jaws" should've been but failed

Obama campaign ads scare me more than any movie.

Creature from the Black Lagoon. An oldie but goodie.

Upon due reflection, horror movies have to be believable on some level.

No one today could take King Kong or Godzilla seriously. Maybe back then people were more credulous. I dunno.

Alien of course is science fiction. No one is going to be traveling to other planets in the foreseeable future. But it hit all the right buttons for a haunted house story where there is no escape and no one can be trusted.

Two other scary movies are Echoes in the Darkness and Deliverance. Echoes in the Darkness is based on a real incident, dramatized, of course. Probably creeps are out there today doing the same things.

I saw Deliverance when it came out. I never really did like camping anyway.

- Jim

Seamus, I like the way you are thinking...

* Alien
* John Carpenter's The Thing
* Halloween

I remember watching "Alien" in a theatre by myself, but there were 5 other people scattered around inside. I felt I was on The Nostromo as well.
I truly wanted to put the popcorn bucket over my head.
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. HA!

OldCannon, I could hardly call AoD scary. Best "B Movie" Ever, maybe.
Bruce Campbell for the win! "Hail to the king, baby."

The Marshal wrote: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.

Hitchcock achieved the same effect with partial views and rapid cuts, particularly in Psycho.

I saw one of the later Alien sequels where the aliens were jumping around like monkeys, and it was literally laughable.

- Jim

The Marshal wrote: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. HA!

This concept is CRITICAL to the horror of Blair Witch Project (the original, BTW, the sequel was awful)

And someone else mentioned Carpenter's Halloween, which really is a great horror film - I just detest all the junk it inspired (Jason, Freddy, etc) - pretty much every formulaic 1980s slasher flick ... until Scream came along and added sarcastic, self-depricating humor to the mix

I might even put the original Saw on the list, but like Halloween I detest the junk ("gore porn") it inspired, and the bits and pieces of its various sequals I've seen were awful

Speaking of Carpenter, his version of "The Thing" definitely gave me the heebie-jeebies.

"The Entity"
from the mid 1980's
if flat caused us to leap from our couch and run out of the house. just as a big scary part was building, we had a bottle freeze in the fridge and burst, talk about great timing
wife and I bugged out of the hot LZ.