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Date Posted: 08:24:26 08/20/11 Sat
Author: DAN
Subject: Re: The scariest horror films of all time
In reply to: Tim 's message, "Re: The scariest horror films of all time" on 20:00:42 08/19/11 Fri

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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