SCARIEST Halloween movies????

I love Halloween movies too!!

We have ALL the "Halloween" series movies, and my DH and I have watched them so many times, they're no longer scary, but at the time they were! He has a Michael Myers mask and dresses up like that every year! The kids around here love it!

I also vote for the "The Exorcist"! And, I still cannot watch Steven King's "Silver Bullet"!! Scares the wits out of me! Also, "The Shining" is a great for Halloween!

Carol
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Hi Lisa! By far hands down it would have to be none other than "THE RING"!! Creepiest movie I've ever seen freaked me out so much I couldn't get a good nite's sleep for over a week! Kathy}(
 
Vickie, I wonder if you and I around the same age. I also love Terror Train and Prom Night. Anything with Jamie Lee Curtis.
 
My list

Rosemary's baby
The Others
The Changeling (with George C. Scott)
The Shining
The Exorcist
Pet Sematary (part one)
 
RE: My list

Oooh, this is a good thread!

Exorcist, definitely, is the scariest movie ever. I have never actually watched the whole thing. I used to try to watch the edited for TV version as a kid and used to end up literally running from the room I was so scared! They came out with the unedited, extra-scenes-added on version in the theatres a couple of years ago. I went, but kept my hands over my eyes half the time! It was the only way I could get through it!

The Alien movies were great, very compelling and scary...What Lies Beneath was really good...Amityville Horror scared me when I first saw it, but I don't know if I'd still be scared by it today...Poltergeist, definitely...probably more that I can't think of right now...

And when I was a kid, two movies that always scared me were Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds...when she used to walk up those stairs, and I'd know those birds would be waiting for her behind the door, I used to freak! The other one was this really cheesy made-for-TV movie about Lizzie Borden! It starred Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched), and for some reason it scared the crap out of me!

I have to say, horror movies are the best!}(

-Marie
 
RE: My list

"The Ring" (The original Japanese version is even scarier).

"The Others"

There is no way I will watch "The Exorcist" ever again. I watched the tamed TV version and I couldn't sleep for days.
 
RE: My list

American Werewolf in London and Friday the 13th were the two that absolutely terrorized me as a child. I slept on my parents' floor for a month, but got tired of my dad stepping on me in the morning! The axe scene in Friday the 13th was so violent, I had never seen anything like it. My dad was fireman and they had axes on the back of their trucks, I couldn't even walk by it when I visited him at the firehouse!

:)
 
RE: My list

American Werewolf in London--I forgot about that one! Great gross-out movie as well as scary! Which reminds me, my all-time favorite gross-out movie--The Fly (the one with Jeff Goldblum)!!! When he start peeling off fingernails, then ears...:eek:

-Marie
 
The movies that are able to scare people without alot of gore are the real classics. Therefore, my vote is for The Exorcist as the all-time best. The Shining and Rosemary's Baby are very good too. These movies play on the psyche without relying on so many gross-out scenes and special effects. Jaws is another great example although not Halloween material.
I suppose the originals of "Halloween" , "Nightmare on Elm St." and "Friday The 13th" were okay but definitely got silly as the endless sequels played out.
Other than these I cannot think of anything worthy in recent history as movies, music, and entertainment quality has gone spiraling downhill in the last five to seven years.If you have a nice bod and are willing to take your clothes off, or have some great special effect, that automatically makes you a media star these days.
I edited this to mention "Amityville Horror", which was supposedly true when it scared the heck out of me as a child but has since been found to be a hoax. Jody the Pig in that was very creepy......
I'll take a good "Twilight Zone" episode anytime also. And, lastly, a good humorous Halloween type movie is "Young Frankenstein" with the infamous line "walk this way" from which Aerosmith titled their hit song from 1975. (I know I am a trivia nerd!)
Trevor :)
 
Great thread!

These are the movies that I find the scariest no matter how many times I've watch them:
The Fog
The Thing
Terminator
Salem's Lot - the complete mini series. I used to have a tree outside my bedroom window that scraped against the glass whenever it was windy. On the night we watched the boy come back as a vampire and scrape a stone against the window, the tree did the same thing to mine that night!
Alien, Aliens
Omen I, II & III
Poltergeist I & II
Dog Soldiers
The Frighteners
Rosemary's Baby
Audrey Rose
American Werewolf in London and American Werewolf in Paris - they're not exactly scary but they're great Halloween movies.

These are the films I thought would scare me but didn't scare me at all.
The Exorcist. The idea is much, much, much scarier than the film, which I found OTT though it gets points for sheer atmosphere.
Ring 0, Ring and Ring II (Japanese versions) - I really enjoyed the films but I just didn't feel scared and I wanted to!
ATB,
- Lisa :)
 
Trevor, I'm with you on the Twilight Zone episodes especially the original black & white tales. Your post reminded me of another: the Amityville Horror. {{shudder}} It scared me into insomnia for days!
 
MMMMmmmmm.

I do see a theme as I just watched Steven King's Biography on A&E I think. I was really good. He is the coolest. Another two not on your list that I loved that I did not know he wrote was Misery and Delores Claiborne.

Good Stuff!!
 
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE good scary movies.

Some of the scariest are:
The Ring (I was home alone with the cats watching this, and started to get goosebumps up the back of my neck when that girl came out of the well!)

Friday the 13th (the end, where the girl is in the boat on the lake, and the camera pulls back, like it's the happy ending...then something jumps out of the lake and pulls her in. Even though it ends up being her dream, I and several other theather goers jumped out of our seat at that moment).

Alien (superb use of clichés not used: like when there is a sound and someone turns around, and it's NOT the monster.)'

Friday and 13th (the original, which is almost always better than sequels, which were more info blood and gore that atmosphere);

A movie I don't even remember the name of , but there was a sequence with a doll that came to life and was in the middle of the road (also some sequences with clowns).

"Trilogy of Terror,"a TV movie with the scariest little killer doll around, who made scary RRRR RR RR RR RR sounds!

When I was little, I watched "The Wizard of Oz" every year, and the flying monkies and the witch scared the @*# out of me! I had to be surrounded by my teddy bears, who, "protected" me.

AT the time, "the blob" was also scary, especially a scene where it is on top of someone's blankets, oozing its way up the bed towards them.

THe exorcist. A classic.
 
What is wrong with ME? I am laughing hysterically at all your posts!!! I thought the Scariest Books thread was a hoot, but this one is right up there too. Oh my gosh, you guys have me in tears! Maybe it's because DH & I don't go to see scary movies??? And...we go to the movies EVERY weekend. Hmmm, wonder if this is why I sleep so good. Just Kidding! Thanks everyone, I know you are not intending it to be funny, but it hit my funny bone!
Your-Friend-In-Fitness, DebbieH http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/wavey.gif[/img] If You Get The Choice To Sit It Out Or Dance...I Hope You DANCE!!!
 
Hey Debbie, Here's another funny for ya. It is in the same category as the 17 year old sleeping on her parents floor. I was 18, pregnant, and staying the night at my parents house. I went to see Halloween 2, I think it was. I was so scared when I went to bed, that I ended up sleeping in my parents bed with them. Talk about a sight. I remember being pretty big and I just scooted right in there. :7
 
Kelley!

That IS funny! Were you in the middle!?!? Ha!
Your-Friend-In-Fitness, DebbieH http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/wavey.gif[/img] If You Get The Choice To Sit It Out Or Dance...I Hope You DANCE!!!
 
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