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The shinning is a great horror movie! Verry effective in freaking me out when I first saw it... You have any horror movies that did anything for you?
(creature from the haunted sea?) :)-thomas
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The Thing with James Arness. Scared the hell out of me when I first saw it, I was about 12 years old, watching it on the old Capeheart down in the basement alone. Scared me a lot less after they figured out what it was, but the first 20 or 30 minutes of that movie was fantastic.
"Alien" is one of the most suspensful, relentlessly frightening movies ever made. It was one of the first popular films to show space and spaceships as a dirty, industrial, nightmare. Then there was all the drawn out tension as no one is ever sure exactly what the danger is.But, the best part was the classic scenario - being trapped, one on one, with a relentless, superior pursuer. It was easy for audiences to picture themselves in that situation. Later sequels pulled the time-tested mistake of assuming that if one alien is good, why not hundreds. More killing, more aliens, more of everything. They lost the isolation aspect.
I just watched "The Thing" again last week and it shares that one-on-one isolation with "Alien". Kurt Russel idoesn't ham it up, and the rest of the cast is good. It still gave me goosebumps all these years later.
re 10/15/99 - Alien 1979: Classic Sci-Fi Horror Poetry, and 10/04/99
The Thing: 1951 Original vs 1982 Remake. - AH
Darkmoebius,
Couldn't agree with you more. What p*sses me off is how so many "critics" view these films as one dimensional shock fests, when nothing could be further from the truth. Alien had very little gore
and an incredibly dense, convincing mise en scene. Between "Creature scenes" The Thing was a creepy who-dunnit story.Rich H.
Alien forever changed the genre of sci-fi/future/horror. It is now, in my opinion, one of the most imitated films in the last 20 years. The slow, vise-like, still gives me the creeps.'The Thing" never got the respect it deserves. Really, a scary who-done-it, that forever keeps you guessing.
I know many will disagree with me, but The Blair Witch Project is the scariest film I've ever seen. Just thinking about the final shot sends shivers throughout my body. Of course I'm not a horror buff and haven't seen all that many horror films. The Exorcist is laughable in my opinion, both as a horror movie and as a film; Friedkin is a terrible and talentless director in my opinion.
...the tale called "A drop Of Water" (the movie is a trilogy of creepy stories). "A drop of water" is skin crawling,
and ended with a shot so chilling it virtually ruined much of my childhood (at night, or whenever I had to go into
our basement to get something from the freezer).
I actually saw it again not long ago. Still fun - very atmospheric - especially "The Wurdalak" tale, with good 'ol
uncle Boris in a creepy old tale of vampires. But you've just got to see the drop of water segment - the creepiest
re-animated dead person shot of all time.Anyway, I rate the Exorcist as easily the greatest, scariest horror film. It kills me that some people view it as
simply an empty collection of shock effects. How anyone can miss the incredible technique, using all that filming
has to offer, in grafting dread into every frame, every moment, ...well, I just gotta shake my head.
(Or spin it).BTW, some other flicks, not necessarily the scariest: The Night Stalker - Darren McGavin as a Las Vegas reporter
stalking a modern day vampire. I've seen it many times and it amazes me how well it holds up, with very
entertaining character actors and some genuinely creepy
vampire moments. Scared the piss out of me when I was a kid.Dawn Of The Dead (sequel to Night Of The Living Dead) had many goofy moments, but also some really creepy
ones - when one of the heroes dies, is covered up with a bed sheet, with the rest of the cast just waiting for him to
reanimate from the dead (very eerie when he does).I recently watched John Carpenter's "The Thing" on DVD and it held up quite well as a chiller
How 'bout a stinker? Anyone here remember seeing "Grizzly?" - Jaws, hook line and sinker but with a big bear?
Peeeyuu.Rich H.
(Sorry for the repeat post - mistake).
Barry Atwater, the actor who played the vampire, 'Janos Skorzeny', in "The Night Stalker", was my main mentor into the hobby of audio starting back in 1974. When he died, I was charged with handling the audio equipment (McIntosh C22, MR67, MC225, MC60, Thorens TD124/SME3009II, Janszen 130 tweeters, double AR-1W woofers, etc.) and vinyl collection in his estate.
Get outta here! That's awesome. I've always felt that Mr. Atwater portrayed the creepiest, most primal, most convincing vampire ever.
An audiophile to boot? Too cool.Rich H.
I mean, have you ever been to those big record conventions and ham radio swap meets? Just look at (and smell) some of the people. Geez, a bath and mouthwash once in awhile wouldn't kill you guys! ("Ahhh, the Children of the Night...what sweet music they make!")Seriously, Barry would have been pleased by your compliment. By the early '70's, he had very few TV and movie acting jobs and made his living teaching TV/film sound production at UCLA. Although he didn't utter a single word of dialog in "The Night Stalker", he was awarded 1972's "Outstanding Portrayal of a Vampire" by the Count Dracula Society. My sister still has his red and black cape that he wore for the awards banquet.
...the tale called "A drop Of Water" (the movie is a trilogy of creepy stories). "A drop of water" is skin crawling, and ended with a shot so chilling it virtually ruined much of my childhood (at night, or whenever I had to go into our basement to get something from the freezer).
I actually saw it again not long ago. Still fun - very atmospheric - especially "The Wurdalak" tale, with good 'ol uncle Boris in a creepy old tale of vampires. But you've just got to see the drop of water segment - the creepiest re-animated dead person shot of all time.Anyway, I rate the Exorcist as easily the greatest, scariest horror film. It kills me that some people view it as simply an empty collection of shock effects. How anyone can miss the incredible technique, using all that filming has to offer, in grafting dread into every frame, every moment, ...well, I just gotta shake my head.
(Or spin it).BTW, some other flicks, not necessarily the scariest: The Night Stalker - Darren McGavin as a Las Vegas reporter stalking a modern day vampire. I've seen it many times and it amazes me how well it holds up, with very entertaining character actors and some genuinely creepy
vampire moments. Scared the piss out of me when I was a kid.Dawn Of The Dead (sequel to Night Of The Living Dead) had many goofy moments, but also some really creepy ones - when one of the heroes dies, is covered up with a bed sheet, with the rest of the cast just waiting for him to reanimate from the dead (very eerie when he does).
I recently watched John Carpenter's "The Thing" on DVD and it held up quite well as a chiller
How 'bout a stinker? Anyone here remember seeing "Grizzly?" - Jaws, hook line and sinker but with a big bear? Peeeyuu.
Rich H.
The 1953 version, not the unwatchable '86 remake. I first saw this on TV when I was perhaps 6 years old and it frightened the hell out of me. I had nightmares about it for weeks. It was done on a low budget but not by low talents (William Cameron Menzies directed). The central plot device - a young boy discovers an alien invasion in his backyard, and all the authority figures he turns to for help have already been enslaved by the aliens - couldn't be any scarier to a child. There's a few great images in it too, primarily the scenes showing people being pulled down into the sand.
Yes, my cousin a I saw the '53 version when we were kids too - and were both traumatized by the movie. We remained frightened of our own shadows for few weeks to come. We laugh about it now at family reunions, but that was certainly the scariest movie I ever saw - yikes!
I'd have to say:Night of the Living Dead -- when I saw it 30 years ago I couldn't stand the ride home in the dark. I was a lad of 16 then, but still creeped out.
Eraserhead -- a nightmare come true.
Reanimator -- after HP Lovecrafts story. Gee, you make some juice that brings things back to life, only they bleed from the mouth and become homicidal. What's that you say? Your father just died?
Hellraiser -- This one was so creepy that I had to turn it off partway through and take a break back in the land of the living. I love the imagery of hell being an infinite maze, and not a very nice one, at that.
Good choice. I saw "Hellraiser" on a Saturday night in a theater in Times Square, long before Times Square became a northern suburb of Orlando. Audiences in those theaters considered it a God - given right to talk (or more accurately, yell) back to the screen. As the movie began there was the expected audience commentary. However, as the film progressed the audience got quieter and quieter until they were finally silent. I think even the densest knucklehead in the theater could sense that "Hellraiser" was something out of the ordinary, a truly disturbing movie with some appalling yet original ideas and imagery. I certainly left the theater thinking "the guy who thought up this stuff is really sick."
who makes Stephen King read like Mr. Rogers.Pick up "Books of Blood" if you haven't already. I think there are three of them.
Creepy isn't the word for it. Not sure there is a word for it.
Though ol' Clive stopped being as sick once he came out of the closet. I think a lot of repressed emotions got into his writing. Pity. Maybe he could start repressing something else, like a fondness for sheep or something.
It is by far, his most visual, intricate book. It always reminds my why I took all those drugs in my younger life. Not the most scary, but has some his most eery villans written.I agree with you, Barker makes Stephen King look like a Boy Scout. Although, King wrote a great forward to one of his early books, it went something like "I've seen the future of horror, and that future is Clive Barker."
"Books of Blood" is great, but "Damnation Game" ripped my skull open and rammed it's fingers in.
If they ever made a movie out of this book, and did a decent job of recreating the events and creatures, it would be creepy. I read a lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and I really liked this book. The question that kept popping into my head was: "What kind of a sick mind could conceive of this stuff?"
Ooops ... nobody mentioned Ridley Scott's terrific "Alien"???Thom
Not a well known film - made in the early 70's and genuinely scary.My other votes would go to
Eraserhead
The Haunting
The Shining
Psychoand
Brazil ... that's right - Terry Gilliam's "black comedy" a la 1984.
It may not be a horror film according to strict interpretation, but I found it deeply horrifying and almost physically unsettling.
agree--one of the most unsettling films I've ever seen--brilliantly directedbetween the notes is the horror of mind
add 2001 to your listStanley Kubrick was the master of silence:
think of the scene with the red body tumbling into and eternity of black panic...
followed by...
"...Open the pod bay door HAL..."
Ok, really cheesy and probably one of Carpenter's worst films, but I like it . . . and it did scare the piss out of me when I first saw it.Evil Dead 1 & 2 - I second those nominations.
Funny thing: probably the scariest movie experience I ever had was the very first time I saw "Aliens" in the theater. Now it seems like a bad comic book of a movie, but that first time was terrifying.
I always wondered who the shadowy figure was supposed to be. Is it Satan emerging into the world? I thought that dream clip in the movie was extremely creepy.
-best regards,
Rich S.
The original film, in B/W, directed by Cesar Romero: it gave me the creeps, and my wife got scared to the bones. We saw it during our honeymoon, and I still have good memories of it..."The Heart of the Angel" (not sure if that´s the original title) by Robert de Niro and Mickey Rourke, was a very good one (sorry, can´t remember the director), too.
Enjoy the darkness: images are better.
BF
Mr. Jones, The Night of the Living Dead was certainly a heavy duty horror movie which also inspired the Michael Jackson video "Thriller". Cesar Romero did not direct this movie, as he was an actor probably best known as playing in the 60's Batman episodes as the Joker, GEORGE A. Romero directed this movie.As far as ANGEL HEART, it was directed by Alan Parker who also directed these fine movies as well as others:
Evita
The Commitments (great film)
Mississippi Burning
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Fame
Midnight ExpressAlan Parker does not make alot of films, similar to Stanley Kubrick, but he usually makes them right when he does. Angel Heart was indeed intense and actually is one of those movies which needs to be seen twice to pick up all of the little things.
And thanks for the data on Alan Parker, too.Regards
BF
Otto Preminger played Mr. Freeze in Batman !
I saw the Exorcist about 2 blocks from where they filmed the movie in Georgetown the first night of its first release. They had kept the contents of the movie real top secret and did a great job. The movie was packed (no empty seats) and about halfway thru the movie about 50 people had already headed for the exits. This was an awesome horror movie and the entire cast did a fantastic job. I think this movie holds its own against anything in terms of pace and suspense, when the old priest and the young priest go into the room and the demon changes into the young priest's mother and speaks to him in Italian "Timmy, Timmy, why did you do this to me??" gives me goosebumps every time I have seen it (probably 10 times!!). This movie really had an atmosphere which was very intimidating.
My vote is for Begotten, Wicker Man, Crawlspace, or this film I saw about drunk driving while in high school - the only time I had the shakes after seeing a movie...ughOne that could have been really amazing - The Crazies by George Romero
- virus destroys us all type horror movie.
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I watched the original "The Haunting of Hill House" and found it very chilling. For years, every time I talked about certain scenes*, I would get shivers. I watched it a couple of years ago and it wasn't as scary to me. I showed it to a Grade 7 class and got mixed responses. Some kids were glued, others bored. In general, they didn't have much patience for the pace and subtlety.*The one when the two women are in bed and the one complains about the other one holding her hand too tight. Then the lights come on (or a flash of lightening - I don't remember) and they're across the room from each other - very effective.
'Don't Look Now' with Julie Christie & Donald Sutherland.
What's he been up to lately? I have not seen much of his other than The Witches, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Don't Look Now. What else should I watch?
If you liked The Man Who Fell to Earth, you might want to catch Performance. It has uses the same cut-up style, where it is hard to tell what is in sequence. I think I prefer the Man Who Fell to Earth, but I like both.On a whim I rented Track 29. A bit pretensious, and silly in a B movie way, but quite enjoyable given my rather modest expectations.
I found Walkabout disappointing, but maybe my expectations were a bit too high. The concept was interesting, and ultimately the story was interesting too, but the pace was too slow and Roeg's reliance on languid shots of the protagonists dewy body is too little substance for a two hour movie. In all fairness, though, many others seem to have a different opinion on this film.
Walkabout. It's available on a stunning Criterion DVD with a commentary by Roeg and actress Jenny Agutter. This is, by far, Roeg's best film.
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"Omen" has got to be the most intensee movie that just happens to be a horror flick. This piece is a must have to my video library. It's scary aspects pass the test of time & repeated viewing. Peck's creduality only elevates this epic just as Heston did in the "Planet of the Apes".
....just my 2¢
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Probaby makes sense to also add Clark's favorite - "The Wicker Man" to this list.
...The Changeling, with George C.Scott. It was unusual to see him in such, on first sight,"Un-Scott" role, but once you start watching the film, your mind is gone. There are moments that made me almost scream. If I'd heard a voice from behind, I'd probably either pass out or lose my mind.
I will not disclose the plot and don't think you should read it up on one of those zany film review sites, unless you want to spoil the fun(or horror rather).Granted, I watched this film when I was 19 or 20, and now I am 30, but trust me, not much has changed in the psyche of this young man.:))
I thought the Shinning was a classic but for sheer terror I thought the early Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nighmare on Elmstreet stuff was pretty good. But then the pure evil in Exocist or the Omen probably kept me up on more nights. I also liked a couple with Rudger Hower (spelling??) - The Hitcher and BoneMan (or Bone something). Theres a couple of old ones I can't think of thier titles - spores replicating people and wormlike things climbing into brains and taking over.
... BTW there are three different versions: 1956 directed by Don Siegel, 1978 directed by Philip Kaufman, and 1993 directed by Abel Ferrara. All worth watching, though only the two early versions derserve "classic" status.Best,
Thom
I thought What Lies Beneath was pretty freaky. The music only added to the suspense and psychology. I haven't seen a movie that scary in a while...M
Try "Repulsion". If that doesn't make The Shining look like a high school drama play, I'll give you $5. Then you can rent "Knife in the Water".Then try "Hunger" - it is horrifying. And for a more polished fear - "M" will do fine. All make the Shining look plastic.
Clarifier: The Shining is not a bad film, but I don't see much horror in it. Beautiful surrealism, yes, but horror?
Wow! Thanks for the tips!I'll gather up all the titles and see what I can find at the video shop. I was looking for interesting posts and found them! It's my goal to check out all the great almost forgotten horror films, and add them to a video library i have. I like a movie i can watch more than once.
Dario Argento makes good Italian horror films... susperia being one of my fav's.
I had no idea about the other films you folks have brought up. I'm anxious to view them (for some strange reason) ;-9
Thanks much!-thomas
Victor's has mentioned it before, so I'll nominate "The Vanishing" [aka "Spoorloos" (France, 1988)] as a modern horror nightmare that is effective because it could actually happen. Just don't confuse it with the lame 1993 American remake with Kiefer Sutherland.
That's the one I was missing... I remembered something completely horrifying... but could not put my finger on it.Thanks... and brrrrr....
Well, happy watching...
Maybe not the best horror movies, but certainly the ones that affected me the most were:1. The Re-animator
2. Dead/Alive
3. Night of the Living Dead and its successors Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead.
4. Both versions of The Thing (from Another World). I was about 12 when I saw the original with James Arness as the Thing and it scared the piss out of me. The John Carpenter Version was more true to the original story, Who Goes There?.
5. The Evil Dead series, especially the first. K-Mart will never be the same. Groovy!
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