Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn. I still shudder just thinking about it.
Wait Until Dark is a great movie, but isn't is more of a "thriller"?
I'm talking about pure, unadulterated horror--The Fog. The Thing. All the Freddy and Jason movies (which I really dislike). Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I guess Alien would qualify.
Love that one! Alan Arkin was really good, an Audrey Hepburn was, well Aufrey Hepburn - what else needs to be said.
I remember seeing it in the theatre when it first came out! The theatre owners were instructed to turn off all of the lights in the seating area, and to now allow people to enter during the last 30 minutes of the movie, because it would ruin the movie for the viewers. I still remember the screams at the climactic scene where he jumps at her!
The Broadway play was better and yes,I saw and really enjoyed both.
Horror, thriller. I don't care. That movie creeped me out. Particularly Alan Arkin.
When they made The Rocketeer a few years ago, Alan Arkin played the older, techie friend of the hero, 'Peevy' Peabody. The guy playing Howard Hughes in that movie found out Alan Arkin was to play some scenes with him and he was a little scared to actually meet him, after seeing him in Wait Until Dark.
When the guy finally met Arkin he was shocked to find out that Arkin felt the same way about him. Hughes was played by Terry O'Quinn, who had played the creepy bad guy in Stepfather and Stepfather II.
They're both good actors.
Scariest movie I ever saw, horror or not, was the original Alien. I saw it at an afternoon showing when it first came out at a theater in San Francisco down near Fisherman's Wharf.
My wife was at a class that evening when I got home. When she got home from her class later she asked "why are all the lights on?" Without thinking about it, I had turned on lights in our apartment that we had never turned on.