Movies that scare ya. I mean really SCARE you to the core?
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forindooruseonly
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I always like "The Shining", I just wish the Olive Oyl looking woman would get clobbered in the end, she is that annoying. Of course, Kubrick wanted you to hate her. Another good classic ghost story is George C. Scott's "The Changeling". Hmm. What else? The original "The Haunting", or maybe it was called "The Others", was a pretty good black & white movie.
"The Road" was disturbing, but I wouldn't call it horror.
My problem with most modern horror movies is that many tend fall under what a lot of people would call "torture porn" in order to be edgy and over the top - movies like "Saw" and "Hostel" where it's a matter of torturing people in the most disgusting ways possible, almost to the point of a fetish. It's not horror, it's just disgusting.
"The Road" was disturbing, but I wouldn't call it horror.
My problem with most modern horror movies is that many tend fall under what a lot of people would call "torture porn" in order to be edgy and over the top - movies like "Saw" and "Hostel" where it's a matter of torturing people in the most disgusting ways possible, almost to the point of a fetish. It's not horror, it's just disgusting.
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The Ring, 30 Days of Night, and the one where John Cusack as a reporter stayed in a hotel room that was supposed to be haunted. The name of it was the room number.
I'd have to say Black Hawk Down. When i first watched it I was in ROTC and there was a very real possibility that that could be me in a year or two. The second time I watched it I was in paramedic school and my buddy sitting next to me just went white as a ghost. When we asked him what was wrong at the end of the movie, he pointed to the guys walking out, and said "That was me" and recounted the story of how he passed out in Mogadishu and woke up in Germany a few days later.
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2016: Obama's America. Very frightening indeed.
george minze
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Youngsters probably never saw Psycho that shower scene was something else especially for the times.....The music or sound was a stroke of brilliance....
finesse_r
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Creature from the black lagoon. Saw it when I was very little. Hid under the theater seat for most of the movie. Every time I see a bullhead I shudder
Getting under one of those theater seats would really be scary. God knows what has accumulated down there.
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Reading the responses in here have caused me to remember a lot of good scary movies that I hadn't thought about for a while. Here's a few that I can remember
.Ghost Story with John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, Fred Astair
.Communion based upon Whitley Strieber's (he wrote the book WOLFEN that was later made into a movie with Albert Finney and Gregory Heinz) account of his abduction by ETs.
.Stephen King's Misery with James Cann Cathy Bates and Lauren Bacall
.Arachnaphobia because of my hatred of spiders
.Dream Catcher with Morgan Freeman
.Ghost Ship
.Several of those y'all have mentiioned like The Ring, Jaws, The Shining.
There's plenty of good ones out there.
Someone above mentioned The Thing. The second one with Kurt Russel Wilford Brimley was pretty good but the original made in '50 or '51 I believe with James Arness as The Thing was the first horror movie I ever saw. The full title I think was "The Thing From Another World". My parents got in a big argument over it. I was only about 6 years old but I was pitchin' a hissy fit to see it. My mom said no, that it would give me night mares for a week (it actually gave me night mares for about 15 years) My dad said, "aw let the boy have some fun. Kids love to watch scary stuff like that."
Between me and my dad we wore Mom down and they took me to see it. Mom kept looking at me to see if I was alright. Dad just watched the movie and ate his popcorn. If Mom ever saw that I was shivering or crying or just plain scared out of my gourd she never let on. But at one point or other I was all three of those.
.Ghost Story with John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, Fred Astair
.Communion based upon Whitley Strieber's (he wrote the book WOLFEN that was later made into a movie with Albert Finney and Gregory Heinz) account of his abduction by ETs.
.Stephen King's Misery with James Cann Cathy Bates and Lauren Bacall
.Arachnaphobia because of my hatred of spiders
.Dream Catcher with Morgan Freeman
.Ghost Ship
.Several of those y'all have mentiioned like The Ring, Jaws, The Shining.
There's plenty of good ones out there.
Someone above mentioned The Thing. The second one with Kurt Russel Wilford Brimley was pretty good but the original made in '50 or '51 I believe with James Arness as The Thing was the first horror movie I ever saw. The full title I think was "The Thing From Another World". My parents got in a big argument over it. I was only about 6 years old but I was pitchin' a hissy fit to see it. My mom said no, that it would give me night mares for a week (it actually gave me night mares for about 15 years) My dad said, "aw let the boy have some fun. Kids love to watch scary stuff like that."
Between me and my dad we wore Mom down and they took me to see it. Mom kept looking at me to see if I was alright. Dad just watched the movie and ate his popcorn. If Mom ever saw that I was shivering or crying or just plain scared out of my gourd she never let on. But at one point or other I was all three of those.
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Demonic stuff or hauntings, etc....don't seem to get really scared, but can't keep the goosebumps down.
Whether old Twilight Zone or newer stuff, can't stand the dang ventriloquist's dummy who starts to do things and talk on his own.
Who would ever have a clown doll in their room and leave it on a rocking chair? Then, in the dark, hear squeak...squeak, ..squeak..
Whether old Twilight Zone or newer stuff, can't stand the dang ventriloquist's dummy who starts to do things and talk on his own.
Who would ever have a clown doll in their room and leave it on a rocking chair? Then, in the dark, hear squeak...squeak, ..squeak..
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marvin the martian
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Whatever they are showing on C-SPAN!
I'm not a big fan of clowns, so Pennywise the clown from Stephen King's 'IT'..."Want a balloon?"
I'm not a big fan of clowns, so Pennywise the clown from Stephen King's 'IT'..."Want a balloon?"
Some one above mentioned The Changeling with George C Scott. That is a good one.
Personal favorite The Exorcist. My wife won't watch it with me.
For you guys who hate spiders, try Eight Legged Freaks! A weird title but kind of a throw back to old fashioned horror flicks.
Personal favorite The Exorcist. My wife won't watch it with me.
For you guys who hate spiders, try Eight Legged Freaks! A weird title but kind of a throw back to old fashioned horror flicks.
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The Day After. Only watched enough to turn it off and try not to think about it. I have not watched "The Road" and after reading the comments, and having a son, I doubt I will.
Cheers,
Joe
Cheers,
Joe
bubbiesdad
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"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane", "Psycho", and "Seven". Because unlike "Jason", or "Freddy Kruger", there are crazy people in the world.
gunblade
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When I was a little kid my dad took me to see the original "House on Haunted Hill" with Vincent Price. Pretty tame now, but it scared the **** outta me back then!
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For Texas Star, found some info. He didnt win the VC, but he did win the DSO, and correct name is John Henry Patterson.
BrianE
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You knew Ed Gein?
cowboy45
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The First power. especially the scene where the bag lady rose to the second floor window and broke in.
Gave me chilly bumps all over my bodddyy.
Gave me chilly bumps all over my bodddyy.
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