kathryn
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Yes! I remember that one! IIRC, Alice Krieg (sp) plays the woman?
How about the "Trilogy of Terror" (with Karen Black) with the Zuni doll that comes to life? That creeped me out when I first watched it.
Favorite scary movies
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How about the "Trilogy of Terror" (with Karen Black) with the Zuni doll that comes to life? That creeped me out when I first watched it.
kathryn
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I felt EXACTLY the same way about "Hostel".
toughYrun
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Same here! Hostel was one of the most disturbing movies I have ever watched. My DH forever insists that it is a Quentin Tarantino movie no matter how many times I tell him it is not.
spyrosmom
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spyrosmom
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We watched The Hills Have Eyes (the newer remake) the other night. That was a gore fest! I love horror movies, but that was straight gore and creepy w/ the nuclear testing. Not sure I liked that one.
Nan
spyrosmom
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Ok, some of my faves....
All the classics - Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, The Exorcist, original Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Bruce Campbell movies, Night of the Living Dead
More recently - Paranormal Activity, the 1st Hostel, Drag Me to Hell (it was fun, classic 80s horror movie), The Ring, The Grudge, Wrong Turn (? the one with the crazy inbred hillbillies), Session 9, Black Sheep (funny! the horror movie, not the David Spade movie), Dead Alive (funny!), Killer Klowns From Outer Space (fun!), Zombieland (fun), and Shaun of the Dead (fun)
Saturday nights at our house are horror movie and wine nights. I've seen a lot of good ones, and a lot of very bad ones.
I can take a pass on most Alfred Hitchcock (boring!) and most Stephen King movies (boring!). Although I think Hitchcock may have done the one about the axe murderess who killed her husband and was released from jail back to family and went all nutty again - can't think of the name, but it was good.
Nan
All the classics - Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, The Exorcist, original Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Bruce Campbell movies, Night of the Living Dead
More recently - Paranormal Activity, the 1st Hostel, Drag Me to Hell (it was fun, classic 80s horror movie), The Ring, The Grudge, Wrong Turn (? the one with the crazy inbred hillbillies), Session 9, Black Sheep (funny! the horror movie, not the David Spade movie), Dead Alive (funny!), Killer Klowns From Outer Space (fun!), Zombieland (fun), and Shaun of the Dead (fun)
Saturday nights at our house are horror movie and wine nights. I've seen a lot of good ones, and a lot of very bad ones.
I can take a pass on most Alfred Hitchcock (boring!) and most Stephen King movies (boring!). Although I think Hitchcock may have done the one about the axe murderess who killed her husband and was released from jail back to family and went all nutty again - can't think of the name, but it was good.
Nan
ebonynicole
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I liked Hostel, I think it's more disturbing because that is something completely in the realm of possiblity. It sounds people getting satisfaction from hurting other people and those individuals come from all walks of life.
Alot of the other movies, allow our imaginations run wild, but nothing surpises me in this world
ebonynicole
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I don't like horror movied from like the 30s and 40s, only like the ones from the 70s and on. I don't know just can't get into them. I can't stand any of the animal horror flicks that Sci-Fi makes either, again just can't get into it.
I like alot of the ones you've listed here Spyromom, I haven't seen the 1st paranormal activity but definitely want to see the 2nd. I agree don't digg Hitchcock or King movies that much, just doesn't seem to be much going on there.
Movies like Wrong Turn makes me think to never go to West Virgina or at least stay in the populated areas
Kitterfly
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no no no no more scary movies for me anymore,I've seen all the ones from when I was younger, hellraiser, elmstreet, etc, my mind doesnt like it anymore, the last movie i watched " I am legend" ( not that scary) had me have all the lights on in the house etc and scary dreams, now how am I supposed to go in dark underground areas without thinking theres zombies or something around the corner huh? Smurfs here I come. LOL but I did record " maximum overdrive" from the 80's to watch for halloween this year so hokie but scary/fun sort of for me 
T2B
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I love this movie! Yep, that last scene stays with you doesn't it?
I am totally hooked on scary movies. I watch SyFy all the time. I even like the hokey scary ones like "Sharktopus" and "Dinoshark".
I thought I was the only person that love watching those sometimes silly Syfy movies. LOL!
Some of my favorite scary movies are:
Salem's Lot
28 Days of Night (really good vampire themed movie). I just saw that there is a 28 Days of Night 2 (will have to rent that).
I really enjoyed Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch Project.
I love scary movies but I will not watch them on the big screen. Has to be at home during daylight hours (unless it's SyfY nights).
kathryn
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I just watched "Shutter " (the original Thai version: I'd already seen the American remake). Creepy, with some scary visuals (Asian horror movies really know how to use creepy imagery). I had to watch something a bit lighter to not feel creeped out going to bed, so I followed it with 'An American Werewolf in London".
Speaking to the cheesy-horror tangent (à la Syfy--why DID they change the spelling?), anyone ever see the movie "Lepus"? It's about giant bunnies in Australia (escapees from some lab experiment) eating people. The FX are very lo-tech, like double exposure to show a giant bun-bun in a cave next to some people he's about to eat (actually, the bunny looks like he's chewing on some grass, and, despite his big size, doesn't look too scary).
Speaking to the cheesy-horror tangent (à la Syfy--why DID they change the spelling?
), anyone ever see the movie "Lepus"? It's about giant bunnies in Australia (escapees from some lab experiment) eating people. The FX are very lo-tech, like double exposure to show a giant bun-bun in a cave next to some people he's about to eat (actually, the bunny looks like he's chewing on some grass, and, despite his big size, doesn't look too scary).
janiejoey
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Movies that will always scare the bezeejus outta me:
The Grudge (saw the American version; couldn't sleep for weeks)
VACANCY (with Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale; this was so frightening I couldn't finish watching it; DH did and told me I was right to bow out when I did).
HAPPY HAUNTING, PEEPS!!!
A-Jock,
I forgot about The Grudge. I still haven't been able to finish one of those movies. Ewwwwww! I shiver in my bones. Now I'm going to have to try to watch VACANCY.
I just looked up VACANCY. No way!
Janie
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kathryn
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I LOVE the original "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (with Michale Rennie, NOT the lame remake with Keanu Reeves). Not scary to me at all: more of a morality lesson than a scary movie ("Klattu, barata nikto" sp?).
kathryn
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Yes, it used to be SciFi (which is the traditional abbreviation for science fiction). IMO, "syfy" just looks like bad spelling!
kathryn
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Dolls comiing to life in general are really creepy, IMO.
I remember going to see a horror movie with a friend that had a doll that came to life. After we left the theater, we were both creeped out, and imagined the doll under the car, under the seats, in the back seat....