I'm interested for a couple reasons: A new horror movie, The Grudge, is turning out to be an enduring hit, and that piqued my curiosity. It also reminded me of my two most horrifying experiences with horror movies. When I was 14, my parents let me see an evening showing of The Blob...at a theater three miles from my home. I grew up in a town and a time where there was no problem or danger with my getting myself home. The deal was, I could go to the movie, but I had to walk home. I broke the deal: I ran the three miles so fast I wish I'd been timed, because I would have qualified for the olympics. I also ran the three miles with my head turned almost all the way around--checking behind me for that freakin' blob!
My other experience that is unforgettable? The Exorcist. Saw it when I lived in the country. Twenty miles to the theater. I was driving, and went to a midnight showing. Exhausted (sleep deprivation ruins logic, of course, and self-control), and spooked from that spooky movie, I drove the twenty miles home...with my head turned all the way around! Kept imagining things in the back seat! Hmmm...maybe I've been avoiding horror films because I'm so damned suggestible.
Freepers...your thoughts?
It's not a horror movie, but the original "Cape Fear" with Robert Mitchum caused me to walk out of the theatre because I just couldn't take the tension. I still can't watch it, and refuse to.
It wasn't a horror movie, but "The Fan" (DeNiro) scared me a bit since I can picture that happening in real life.
Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn. I still shudder just thinking about it.
Blair Witch Project was spooky. I slept that night with the bathroom light on. Alien would be my all time fav.
OKay, the scariest most damaging movie I ever saw was
THE OMEN!!!!!!
"ahhhh Damien this is for you....."
John Carpenter's "The Thing"...that sprouted head freaked me out...
A good one for me : Hellraiser.
Made well before the wretched 90's move towards more PC violence (explosions and car chases), with a decidedly unsettling subject matter.
Alien
Groundbreaking, scary as hell, beautifully made, one of the greatest movies ever made period. Often copied, but never quite matched.
"The Ring." NOT my favorite, I don't like horror movies. My son begged me to take him to see this, and I had to get up and leave the theater before it was over.
In fact, I won't watch horror movies anymore. But "Night of the Living Dead" and "Alien" are two that I would avoid more than others.
The show actually had the top 100. I wrote down the top 25 only because I had a bet that Exorcist was Number 1, of course I lost.
TuhRayZuh at the DNC convention. That a freak so terrifyingly detached from reality might well occupy OUR White House had me quaking.
In my later years, The Shining.
3 of the best camp/horror imho
cannibal campout
sorority babes in the slime-bowl-o-rama
stuff stephanie in the incinerator
these 3 deserved academy awards but didn't quite pique enough of the motion picture academy voting mamber's attention............or something like that.
28 Days Later... a virus spreads through Britain that turns people into cannibalistic psychos with glowing red eyes. Lots of good scares that make you jump, an icky subplot with some sex-starved soldiers that made my stomach sink... it's a good movie!
Hmmmm ... horror. I watch very few of those but I suppose Jaws was classified as horror and I sort of enjoyed those but I can't watch those weird horror like movies.
I will say that Harrison Ford's 'What Lies Beneath' was pretty scary - LOL
Eraserhead,Freaks