I love scary movies. Just the other night my friend had a scray movie marathon at her house. We watched scary movies non-stop. My two favorite scary movies are Scary Movie 2 and Rose Red. I loved both of them, even though I was half asleep while I was watching Rose Red, I thought it was really good.

I don't like horror movies, but there was one I liked. It's more suspense tan horror but... Silence of the Lambs. Gret Movie and Great Cast.

My favorite scary movie would have to be The Grudge or Boogeyman.I am possibly the only one on this forum that likes The Grudge.I saw it the day it came out and it REALLY scared me.Also Sarah Michelle Gelar is in it and she is the one who plays Buffy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and when the grudge lady is like crawling on her you were like,"Kick her Buffy kick her!!".Boogey man can really scare you.If you sleep with all your lights off and your closet door closed,after you see this movie,you WILL change your mind.Because the Boogey man he comes through darkness and doors.So you will get scared by that movie.Both movies actually!

Personally I think that the Horror genre has taken a distinct slide over the past couple of decades due to the fact that SFX and make up have improved so much. In the films today, everything is so in your face that filmakers tend to forget the one thing that can be more terrifying than anything an effects studio can concoct - your own imagination. I think it was Stephen King who called it the 'Seven Foot Monster' syndrome. Basically, the premise runs that if you hear a noise outside your house at night and find a seven foot Monster stood there, you will be scared but, at the back of your mind, a part of you will be saying 'at least its not an eight foor monster'. If you find an eight foor monster, part of you will say 'at least its not a nine foot monster', and so on. If left unchecked, your own imagination can scare you far more than anything else.

Anyway, to get back to the subject in hand, the horror films that have impressed me most of all (although not all of them necessarily scared me, they did make me uneasy) are:

The Haunting (Robert Wise's 1963 original)
Deathwatch
Ghost Ship
The Blair Witch Project
The Legend of Hell House
Ringu (Hideo Nakata's original)
The Ring (I did enjoy the re-make)
The Wicker Man
The Exorcist

With all of these films, on thing remains constant - atmosphere is everything.

I couldn't agree more Slain, horror movies have become the least subtle, most in-your-face, bloodfests. I really have been drawn away from horror movies because of thier frequent gruesome scenes (I don't do to well with blood and what not) which are less scary and more disgusting.

It's like you have said, fear of the unknown is much scarier than having the monstor put right in front of you plain as day. That was what I used to like about horror movies; they were much less gorey and left much of it up to the imagination.

Although, one of the movies on your list surprised me: The Blair Witch Project. I didn't think this was a very good movie at all (too much cursing and then they die). Although, it may have been a tad scary, the plot was not good.

Otherwise, I completely agree with your above post.

I like horror movie, they make me laugh most of the time as you can always tell when something is going to happen...lol

I would have to say the best horror movie i have seen would have to be The Amityville Horror. That film put shiver down my spine and the real cool thing about it is it is based on a true happening. It is just such a crepy film I just had to buy it. Most places it is rated for people over 18 because of how bad it can get. But i say if you get the chance to see it do as it is worth it.

I also liked the Ring movies, the little girl is so cute...hehe. But another crepy film would have to be War of the Worlds, the one with Tom Cruise in it. Ok it is not a horror movie but it can really creep you out and make you think what it would be like if that kind of thing was real and really happened. And you just has to love the sound of the Tripod's, that can send a real shiver down your spine.

I loved the Ring and Ring 2. They were pretty scary at times. But I think my favourite has to be Halloween H2O. That scared me senseless. Although I must admit, Nightmare on Elm Street could certainly give H2O a run for its money in the scream department.

The Amityville Horror seems to have some good reviews lately, but I haven't seen it yet. I think I'm going to try and get it on DVD at some point, just to see if the publicity is just that. Word of mouth, and the film is really not worth all the fuss.

Can't beat H2O or Nightmare on Elm Street in my opinion. Two incredably scary films!!

Personally I found A Nightmare on Elm Street to be incredibly dull - in fact I think I only watched about 20-30 minutes of it and gave up as the dialogue and acting was excrutiatingly bad. I have had similar reactions to the Friday 13th films, original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Evil Dead, Long Time Dead, Wrong Turn (not even Eliza Dushku could salvage this one), and pretty much every other 'modern horror' I've tried to watch lately (the main exceptions being Ghost Ship and Deathwatch).

I've not actually seen any of the Halloween sequels although I confess that I do think the original is a superb film, then again, I am quite a John Carpenter fan.

Did you find Ghost Ship scary? It was more of a thriller than a horror for me, the only gruesomely scary part being the wire and mass murder scene on the deck. Totally unexpected, although I think I knew something would happen, just not that big of a scale. The rest was pretty heart-pounding, and small parts made me jump, but it wasn't all that scary. A good film though...

Wrong Turn, that was kind of disappointing for me. Not much really happened did it? A couple of creepy things living in a shack and feeling murderous, hardly an entertaining plot-line.

I recommend H2O, it's insanely gross. Lots of dismemberment and blood. I was hiding under my quilt most of the time, which in my opinion is what a good horror movie should make you do. I want to see the first and third Halloween. H2O wa my first Horror and it was a friends birthday party, but I haven't seen the others unfortunately. I like John Carpenter, too, incidentally. I'm not a huge fan, but he's done some great work.

I don't think I've ever found any horror film particularly scary. The ones that I've listed as liking have been more in the nature of 'unnerving' as they rely so much on atmosphere and suggestion to play with your mind.

Saying that H20 is gross is one the things that is likely to put me off watching it. As I have said earlier, I fins that the more graphic and explicit a film is, the less respect I have for the filmaker - to me, gore and dismemberment is generally an over reaction to a lack of decent atmosphere which is far more unsettling.

As for John Carpenter, I think he is one of the most original and inventive film makers ever. Just take a look at Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York, They Live, Vampires, Big Trouble in Little China, The Fog, Dark Star, Prince of Darkness or Christine. Ok, he's made a few errors (Starman leaps to mind) but the quality of most of his out put speaks for itself.

Oh I agree with you there. John Carpenter is an unpresidented genius. Some of his works are trully sensational, when you look at the depth and originallity that he includes. Vampires is another of my favourites, though I haven't seen it in a while.

I haven't seen Starman. When you say errors, are they 'film is completely ruined' errors or 'ok, I can live with that' errors? A few of my mates have said it was a little disappointing for them, but I haven't yet had the chance to sit down and watch it start to finish, unfortunately.

Sorry, didn't mean to put you off with the rather descriptive wording for H2O. It is gruesome, but the atmosphere makes up for it in a way. (I never was good at reviewing ). Tense and rich and 'OMG what's comin' next?' kind of stuff. I can't deny that it's a gory film, but unlike a lot of the gores (Texas Chainsaw Massacre hits the nail on the head here), there is a plotline other than constant murder, which makes it ever more interesting and exciting to watch.

What I meant to say is 'error in judgement'. Starman is basically about an alien who has crash-landed in the United States takes on the the appearance of a woman's dead husband and enlists her help to escape from pursuing authorities and rendezvous with a spacecraft on the other side of the country. As he learns how to be more human the alien begins to take on more and more qualities of the woman's husband, drawing the woman closer.

While the film is far from being bad, I found it tended to wallow in the worst sort of sentimentallity, the sort of thing I'd expect from Stephen Spielberg (whom I'm not a particular fan of) at his most saccharine.

I've also heard quite a few Carpenter fans comment that Escape From LA and his remake of Village of the Dammned were not among his better ideas. Having not sen them, I can't really comment.

I love horror movies. My favorite, would have to be the exorcist. It's a classic.

I will agree, in part, with you there. The Exorcist is an immensly enjoyable film but falls short of the original novel for sheer suspense

I love horror movies but I dont think I've ever seen one that actually frightened me. My fave would have to be possibly the goriest movie ever, Dead Alive. Its absolutely BRILLIANT!!! Its soo gory and hilarious. Peter Jackson is awesome at making horror movies. Other favorites are the Silence of the Lambs, Interview with the Vampire(dont know if that counts as horror, dont care, its still one of the best movies ever), Sleepy Hollow, Evil Dead, Return of the Living Dead, The Ring, and Carrie. Personally I found the "classics" such Psycho and the Exorcist quite boring.

I cant sit and watch horror that is mainly gore and NOTHING else. Texas Chainsaw Masacre is like that. I saw it at the drive-ins and hid under the seat with a throbbing headache until it was over. Maybe I'm too sensitive

Some films that I would consider psycological horror are Eraserhead (truely disturbing) Bad Boy Bubby (insanely bizarre) and possibly on the more traditional side of things - "The Thing" (massively creepy)

I saw Poltegist when I was very young, and it scared me senseless. I lay awake at night wondering if there was some ancient indian burial ground underneath the house that would come bursting through the floor suddenly. (utterly ridiculous considering I live in Australia)

I thoroughly enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, which I watched with my Horror Movie obsessed cousin one night. We hadn't laughed so much together in a long time!

More recently, I really thought Gothika was rather a stylish film, even if it wasn't as original as I'd hoped.

Lastly - the Evil Dead trillogies. The first flick I saw in a friend of my brothers bedroom, and while they both hid under the covers, I spent my time laughing my head off (not literally, of course ) It really did have some horrifying moments, blended with extraordinary comedy! Basically the second two films were just good fun.

Other films I've seen were probably more thrillers than horrors ... Oooh, though I did see the night of the living dead many years ago and that creeped me out, as well as made me laugh ... "Brrainnns!'

The actual definition of a 'horror'film has shifted slightly over the years. Today, the term 'horror' has come to by synonymous with buckets of blood, gouged eyes and dismembered limbs barely held together by the flimsiest of plotting and excerable dialogue.

Many of what I would term 'classic' horror' films (and here I'm talking about the Universal films of the 1930s/1940s, the Hammer films of the 1960s/1970s) as well the various others dotted throughout the years no longer fit that definition. One term I have heard bandied around lately is 'Supernatural Thriller' which, I suppose, is a more accurate, if less snappy, definition.

One good film that doesn't sem to have been given much of a mention is 'Bubba Ho-Tep'. If you've not seen it, its well worth it.

I think the Ring is pretty scary and White Noise.White Noise not so much cos when my friends and I watched it there are parts that are very abrupt and give you a major fright!
I ahven't seen the Ring 2 yet cos my mom says it is too scary!But I would like to see what its like.
House of Wax is also pretty scary,but horror movies now a days are so stupid and they are not original and classic.I think they are so over rated that they are being made to have gory scenes and blood all over the show...

I love all the parts of Child's Play except Chucky's bride and i liked Sleepy Hollow and The Omen.

Hey, I never came down here to this section of VTM...I just stayed where everyone talked about the books...

One time I had a dream where all the Gorillas from the movie Congo were attacking my house...just thought that I would put that out there...but its not even scary...

I like Saw, to be honest. I thought it was well done with a great twist at the end. What just grossed me out of any movie was The Fly...all that stuff was just disgusting...I mean, I can handle a lot...but I felt like throwing up after that movie.

I also thought The House of Wax was at least decent.

I forgot what the movie was called...but it starred Ewan McGreggor and he was a midnight shift employee at a morgue...but that was sort of scary...cheap thrills I guess...

Amityville Horror was also alright, was it really a true story?

Also the newer versions Dawn of the Dead, and Land of the Living Dead are ok.

The Amityville Horror is based on the murders in the house in Amityville. However afterwards the family were sued for making up all the stuff about the haunting to scare away prospected buyers. It was a big case and all, quite sick really, plus i was driving past Amityville like only a few weeks before the new film was released!

I've always liked The Shinig, that's a really good film as well as scary. Apart from that i'm not really sure how to define a horror movie, i suppose i would say Clockwork Orange and Apocalypse Now because they really mess with your mind!

Of course Stephen King, but i mean i wasn't alive for the movie let alone the book so when i sprouted eyes to read i was straight into Harry Potter (after an interlude of a few years upon recollection!). Harry Potter is certainly unputdownable. Just thought i'd mention that quite a few people found the Ring scary. I personally didn't find it scary but a lot of people found it scary. I could understand finding the little girl scary, but it was a little far off for me. Lets keep Japanese cinema Japanese, lets not turn it into Hollywood if we want to keep the fantsastic flow of Japanese horror and anime flowing (someones going to mention Howls Moving Castle, i just know it!).

So I am pretty big on scary movies except I can't find any really truly make me jump in my seat, scream out in fright, scary movie. I think the scariest one I have ever seen would be Signs, or...Texas Chainsaw Massacre, mainly because it was true. But other than that nothing is really doing it for me. So I was wondering what movies scared the bejeesus out of you, maybe someone could recommend one to me.

Wow, I get scared really easily so pretty much every scary movie has terrfied me. As you said, Texas Chain Massacre was frightening because of the fact the it was real, the part that got me the worst was the very beginning and end, with the real police investigation and the guy gets them. That really scared me knowing he's still on the lose. And, well I have older sisters who when I was aot younger used to baby-sit me during the summer, they'd rent scary movies so of course I looked up to them and wanted to be with them and watch them so before the age of 9 I saw a wide variety of scary movies such as the Exorcist, Pet Semetary, Child's Play, and practically every other scary movie on this planet. But, as I said I get scared really easily and if I see a movie once it will like qorry me for life, so when I'm home alone I get, like, terrified, so I walk with my back against the wall, and even though House of Wax wasn't scary, in the movie the killer cuts the wall with him chainsaw thing, so that really worried me with the whole, maybe I'm not exactly safe with my back against the wall. But, I haven't seen any of the newer scary movies, for reasons I stated, but yesterday my friends talked me into see 'The Hills Have Eyes' with them, that was scary, wow. I also thought it was sad.

This is long post, wow!

Hehe I do that if i scared too, walk with my back against the wall. Or I casually walk around with a baseball bat in hand.
The hills have eyes, looks reeeeeally scary I am going to it but no one will go with me! What dorks.
It looks sad though too...
The exorsict was silly in my opinion but Jeepers Creepers freaked me out a bit.

I'm not much for scary movies. I have seen The Ring, but that was with a huge group of people, and me and my friend were stuffed into this little chair, and we had someone tell us where all the scary parts were, and we closed our eyes. The Hill Have Eyes looks really scary, with that creepy little girl with weird eyes who is like "Will you play with me?"

I get scared really easy. When I was 11 (just a few years ago) I was home from school for 2 weeks because I had the flu, and I watched this mummy movie. It was meant to be educational, but boy, I was terrified of mummys after watching that movie. I remember being really scared that there were a bunch of mummys burried inside the walls of our house.

Hmm scary mummy movie..never seen one. I have seen The Mummy (original huh) and when I first saw it, I was freaked out but I love that movie these days. Lol isn't it funny how active our imagination becomes when we are scared? I think so. I somehow always think some crazy senario up kinda like the mummies in the walls that would be a good movie though we could call it: Mummies within! Dun dun dah!!! hee hyperness.

Please don't laugh.....The ring.....I have seen so many other scary films and none have litterally made me speechless like that film did, when she climbs out of the well and then starts to stifly walk to the television and crawls out, oh my god my heart was beating so fast I thought my chest was going to explode. What makes it worse that since i was a child i am scared of anything that can cast reflections, especially at night.This is because i believe that spirits are looking at me through the reflections (no not mad, just different) So all my my mirrors and tv have to have cloths over them. After watching the ring and turning pale with fright. i couldn't sleep properly for about 2 days.



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My sister's worst film is the grudge. I had this long black wig at the top of my stairs hanging a door. My sister was walking up the stairs and caught sight of the black hair and freaked out and actually ran back down the stairs and tripped up.


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Lol your poor sister that would scare me too but i thought the grudge was silly I actually laughed out loud several time during it.

The ring was pretty good, the movie that people watched before getting 'the call' was a little freaky but the actual movie didnt scare me, but yeah her coming out of the Tv is a firghtening idea...if she came out of my Tv i would probably throw my popcorn at her and say, "GET OUT! DONT GET MY FLOOR WET!" Yeah lol and no worries Im not mad either just different and I think spirits are cool.

Speaking of which I saw this documentary on some channel about these people who saw a mans face in their TV then it shattered or something so its not crazy that you cover it, sometimes at night when i see my blank Tv screen i get a little scared

Haha, when I first saw the ring I was at my friend's house and we were watching it with her older sister and some of her friends. My friend and I were sooo scared during it, so her sister's friends decided to pull a prank on us and say he had to go home and then about 5 minutes later the phone rang and my friend picked it up and he did the whole '7 days' thing or w/e. I was so scared!

Hmm, we've been going through a scary movie faze so I've seen a few good ones and a few duds. White Noise had a few tense times, especially with the chick bashing the screen - I jumped. The Cube trilogy - The Cube, Cube 2 and Hypercube, some of the ways they die in that are scary. Jaws always scares me - mainly coz I'm afraid of deep water so I'm therefore afraid of sharks........

the only movie that scared me was dressed to kill (1980),i saw it in the middle of the night, i'm a huge horror movie fan, and i hardly get scared.

Instead of closing an active topic, I decided to merge it with an established thread discussing your favorite scary movies. If you have any questions, feel free to PM a prefect or mod.

Even though they are really sick my favourite horror movies are saw and saw II. They are totally genius in the twists at the end! but stuff like roadkill, i know what you did last summer, cherry falls and scream work well for me too! those ones dont scare me though!

You know I looked for scary movies and maybe I am just stupid but couldnt find it...yes I must be stupid . But thanks Tuitus
heeee *blush*

Saw was weird...havent seen saw two.
Never heard of dressed to kill....whats it about besides scary?
Yeah i know what you did last summer, scream, all those are silly and not exactly scary..more like full of suspense....
White noise was a let down they advertised it to be so scary then it wasn't really. I havent ever heard of the cube triolgy although...hypercube sounds familliar

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dressed to kill is kinda like psycho,this girl gets killed by this tall blond haired girl and this other girl sees the murder happen then becomes the killers next target.it's a slasher film.

This is funny. I've seen Saw 2 but not Saw. I'd just gotten off work, I was tired and hingry and was dragged off to see it. Now normally I don't go see scary movies at the cinema but I thought what the heck, it can't be too bad. Boy was I wrong! I had my hands over my eyes for half of it. It was a crazy movie. I've just got to watch Saw now............

The scariest movie I ever saw was Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Me and two of my friends watched it alone in a totally dark house! That was one hell of a freakout! And I dont know why, maybe I was just like in a scary mood, but I also found Wrong turn wacky! And the stupidest (I hope that is spelled right!) "scary" movie ever was Dead End. Has anyone watched it?

I still want to see Urban Legends and Bloody Mary! If anyone has watched it please let me know if it's worth watching!

Hmm. . .I am one that scares pretty easily so I haven't seen a lot of scary movies. One I saw when I was younger was the Others, and that wasn't really scary but the part with the little girl in the white dress and the mobile made me jump, along with a fair few of other parts. The Sixth Sense was pretty good, I thought. My friend and I enjoy watching cheesy old black and white horror movies. I don't know if any of you have seen Cursed, but that was not scary at all to me. I thought it could have been much better. Boogey Man was a little scary to me. . .well, I can't really remember any others right now.

I saw a few days ago HOSTEL and honestly I have never seen such a chocking movie !!

Some people were terrified by Saw 2, because it was a really hard movie, but when you compare Hostel with Saw 2, then you'll see that Hostel is 10 times worser.

In the movie they show really everything !!
On the first screening of the movie, there were 2 people that fainted and one who had to go to the bathroom to vomit.
I think this sais everything.

I hate seeing scary movies in the dark, for the first time anyway. But I'll be going to see The Hills Have Eyes when it opens here. I want to see Hostel but I work days and nights so it's impossible for me to go to the cinema. The Alien series always scares me, especially the one with the white alien (reminds me of Ron Howard).

i loooove horror movies!!!! i have dozen of favorite movies....well maybe my all time favorite horror movie is "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" both 2003 and the 1974 version...it is the greatest slasher films! Also I love Deliverance, man, its really creepy! And the Thai horror film called "Shutter" its the scariest Asian horror film!!!!

ive always been a fan of the older horror movies like the first 2 halloweens and some of the friday the 13ths i was never to big a fan of a nightmare on elm street i always found freddy more hilarious.

My top 10 are:

10) Halloween series
9) The Ring 1 and 2
8) The 6th Sense
7) The Exorcist
6) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (re-make)
5) The Blair Witch Project
4) Suspiria
3) Misery
2) Sleepy Hollow
1) Carrie (original and re-make)

Isn't Deliverance the one with the crazy hilbillies that play that creepy song on banjo? DO DO DO DO DO DO DO DO...yeah that was me trying to do it haha.
Sleepy hollow was a really good movie and not so scary as it was creepy.
Chain Saw Massacre, I think I said something on this one before but it is a really good/scary movie I think mainly just because it is a real story is what makes it sooo scary but the beg, when the chick shot herself scared me silly!
I never watched all of Carrie....i don't know didn't appeal to me. That is the one where she gets pigs blood poured on her or something like that?
Nightmare on Elm street, yeah those were silly, I didn't like them much, they were just so corny! teehee
The Alien series were just cool. Not exactly scary to me, but they rock. Especially the first one, the one where she like mates with it was too weirdo for me. But when I first saw it I my parents said it was the scariest movie they had ever seen and when I saw it I wasn't scared once But they are good flicks.
Still havent seen the hills have eyes but I do NOT want to see Silent Hill that looks too scary even for me.