Anyone have any favorite scary movies to watch this time of year ?

MarkinPhx

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This is a partial list of what I try to watch every year...

1). Young Frankenstein- OK..not a horror film but feels like one
2) The Exorcist
3) Rosemary's Baby
4) Halloween-the original
5) Dracula-the original or Francis Ford Coppola's version
6) Eyes Without a Face
7) Sleepy Hollow
 

I don't watch any movies especially for Halloween, but the one that I've seen that pops into my head is Pumpkinhead.

 
I avoid scary movies at all cost but occasionally find myself watching one by happenstance, like "Secret Window" with Johnny Depp, "Village of the Damned", and "Sixth Sense".
 

Another movie I liked, catchy tune in the movie that stuck in my head...The Nightmare Before Christmas

 
I love the classic monster movies: Bela Lugosi's Dracula and Boris Karloff in The Mummy or Frankenstein. They scared the bejeebers out of me as a child and I have fond memories. I was a odd kid.....I loved being scared.

I could never understand how the Mummy could shuffle through the swamp, one arm wrapped to his body and dragging one leg and STILL catch an able-bodied man or woman. And the bat? Just don't open the window....is that so complicated? Frankenstein's monster couldn't run fast, but the village mob never could catch him in time.

I will never miss "Plan 9 from Outer Space" whenever it shows.....it is, without doubt, the absolutely worst "B" movie ever made. I am a connoisseur of really, really bad B movies. I have my standards and this movie is the Gold Standard of bad B's. You want goofs, you want anachronisms, you want complete idiots making a movie? "Plan 9" fills the bill. Bela Lugosi died in the first few days of filming but the director didn't want to lose his name appeal, so they used his wife's dentist instead who just happened to have a nice widows-peak. Of course, they had to keep his face covered with a cloak, which had absolutely NOTHING to do with the character. And it goes downhill from there. I love it!
 
I didn't know about "Plan 9 From Outer Space" until I watched "Ed Wood". I have watched it a few times since and it is hysterical.
 
I avoid scary movies at all cost but occasionally find myself watching one by happenstance, like "Secret Window" with Johnny Depp, "Village of the Damned", and "Sixth Sense".

"Village of the Damned" still creeps me out. Something about evil kids that puts me on the edge. I can't watch "The Bad Seed" . Too terrifying for me.
 
I didn't know about "Plan 9 From Outer Space" until I watched "Ed Wood". I have watched it a few times since and it is hysterical.

Quite a bit of the movie is supposed to happen at night, but they filmed it all during the day. There are two ways to film "night" movies: using a special, expensive film for night filming or chemically "darkening" the film to make it look like night. They did....neither. They just filmed it during the day and pretended that it was night. I guess they figured every one would be laughing so hard they wouldn't notice.
 
I love scary movies, but will not watch really gory ones like the chainsaw, slasher, axe murder ones.

I think the scariest movie I've seen in recent years was "The Ring." For some reason that one really creeped me out and left me with a kind of creeped out/upset feeling for a couple days. If you're going to watch it, don't watch it really late at night when you're alone in the house.
 
I love scary movies, but will not watch really gory ones like the chainsaw, slasher, axe murder ones.

I think the scariest movie I've seen in recent years was "The Ring." For some reason that one really creeped me out and left me with a kind of creeped out/upset feeling for a couple days. If you're going to watch it, don't watch it really late at night when you're alone in the house.

That's exactly how I watched it and, I agree, it's not a movie to watch alone. Really creeped me out. I went around turning on the lights afterwards.
 
I love scary movies, but will not watch really gory ones like the chainsaw, slasher, axe murder ones.

I think the scariest movie I've seen in recent years was "The Ring." For some reason that one really creeped me out and left me with a kind of creeped out/upset feeling for a couple days. If you're going to watch it, don't watch it really late at night when you're alone in the house.

"The Ring" freaked me out also. Another current movie that did the same is "The Witch". I usually don't watch the ones with gore either but I do still like the original Halloween after all these years.
 
That's exactly how I watched it and, I agree, it's not a movie to watch alone. Really creeped me out. I went around turning on the lights afterwards.

I did the same, and if my phone had rung soon after watching that, I would probably have jumped out of my skin!

Not sure what was SO creepy about that film, but it sure did leave me feeling unsettled.
 
I used to watch all those old scary ones when I was a kid. Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Lon Cheney Junior as the Wolfman, Boris Karloff as the Mummy. They used to scare me to death.

The Dracula ones scared me so much that I went through a period when I would put on this necklace with a crucifix cross on it around my neck and make sure it was right over the middle of my chest and facing up before I would go the sleep.

 
A huge horror movie fan. Even as a young girl, loved them. Would watch all the old horror movies with my dad every Saturday night. Some of my favorite newer ones would be the Exorcist, the original Halloween and the Paranormal Activity ones too.
 
The Exorcist still creeps me out. Another, I think lesser known movie, is Stir of Echoes starring Kevin Bacon. First time I saw it I totally had a meltdown. Thing is, it was not a gory scare, just a mess with your head and emotions scare. I reccomend it.
 
The Exorcist still creeps me out. Another, I think lesser known movie, is Stir of Echoes starring Kevin Bacon. First time I saw it I totally had a meltdown. Thing is, it was not a gory scare, just a mess with your head and emotions scare. I reccomend it.

Stir of Echoes looks interesting. Thanks !
 


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