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Date Posted: 08:23:57 08/19/11 Fri
Author: Officer Torch
Subject: Re: The scariest horror films of all time
In reply to: Rick 's message, "The scariest horror films of all time" on 06:16:06 08/19/11 Fri

There are a many "scary" movies, but what could be the scariest? Guess it's a subjective call. Mine actually happens to be a couple of later films, one from 1990, and a movie version from a 1983 TV mini series, a doomsday type program. (There are also Twilight Zone/Outer Limit eps which can be scary, but we'll tackle another time.)

For 1990, a movie called: "Tales from the Darkside, The Movie"...it has solid cast, has 3 stories in a wraparound tale(at beginning/end with beautiful Deborah Harry (aka, singer "Blondie"). I can't say too much without giving things away. The 3 stories are.."Lot 249" about a stalking mummy, "Cat from Hell" ....a killer cat, and my favorite, "Lover's Vow"... Rae Dawn Chong's character indeed has a spooky dark side, which we find after bizarre happenings. I find this segment disturbing even today. It's spooky, I give it five fingernails and highly recommend. A Halloween must see, if you can...if you dare!

Another is some chilling suspenseful moments about potential nuclear holocaust from a TV mini series, shortened into a movie length version (now on dvd) called "The Day After"..the armed nuclear missiles regular folks see blasting out of midwest underground sites are chilling, and the response from the then enemy led to more chilling scenes. Suspense? Horror? dunno but it stuck with me for over 25 years, enough such that I recognized title in a store and bought that dvd.

There were of course others, Poltergeist 1982 was somewhat scary, Halloween 2, Hitchcock's "The Birds" and though campy and low budget, Carnival of Souls wasn't bad. Include Dante's Inferno from 1935, and possibly The Black Cat from 1934, though I never really considered Universal's films really scary, but moreso suspenseful and well made. Actually, when I was a kid, they were probably scary to me. Booo! Surely age is a factor on the scariness meter, and this is a very subjective term.

OK, Tim, Dan, Rick also, your turn. Hey! Bonanza folk, c'mon, join in.

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[> Re: The scariest horror films of all time -- Tim, 20:00:42 08/19/11 Fri [1]

Some of the Universal pictures seemed scary when I was a kid, like Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Black Cat, etc. Today they seem more suspenseful than scary.

Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963) are two of the scariest films ever made, courtesy of Alfred Hitchcock. House on Haunted Hill (1958) was a fun kind of scary, while The Conqueror Worm (1968) was more disturbing scary. Both starred Vincent Price

The original Halloween (1978) would certainly qualify, and parts of Alien (1979) as well. On the low-budget front I would cite Night of the Living Dead (1968) and to a lesser extent, Carnival of Souls (1962), which Officer Torch mentioned.


Tim


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[> [> Re: The scariest horror films of all time -- DAN, 08:24:26 08/20/11 Sat [1]

The first horror/monster films I first saw were, "King Kong" "Unknown Island" "The Lost Continent" and "Robot Monster" on TV in 1956, a year before I saw Shock Theater.

I remember those films being kinda scary to me then.
Now they're not scary to me at all. But they're still entertaining. Especially "King Kong."

The first films that really got me scared was "Invasion of the Saucer Men" and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf."

My uncle took me to see those two films when they were playing on a double bill in NYC in the summer of 1957.

Man at that time I thought those little aliens and the werewolf's face were the scariest things I'd have ever seen before.

Then several weeks later I got a few more chills while I was watching "Dracula" on Shock Theater.

As a kid I thought "The Wolf Man" was the scariest Universal monster. Followed by the Kharis Mummy and then Dracula.
For some reason I never found Frankenstein's monster to be very scary.

Some of the Hammer horrors that I thought were scary back then were "Horror of Dracula," "The Mummy," "Brides of Dracula," and "The Curse of The Werewolf."

Other films I thought were scary when I was still a kid in the early sixties were "House on Haunted Hill," "Psycho," "13 Ghosts," "The Birds," and especially "The Haunting," and "Black Sabbath." The Haunting and Black Sabbth gave me the chills big time.

After I got older I didn't get scared so easily anymore.
The only film that gave me a few chills as an adult (24) was "The Exorcist."

Here's a small list of some of the other films I found slighty scary when I first saw them.

Halloween
The Howling
Friday the 13th
Poltergeist
The Shining
An American Werewolf in London

I know that these films would have surely scared the hell out of me when I was a kid though.


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