Fluther: What are some of your favorite scary movies?

What are some of your favorite scary movies?

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) October 9th, 2023
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I’m taking my daughter to see “The Shining” today at a local theater. It’s only showing for about a week. I know it’s not a traditional scary movie, it’s a psychological thriller, but when I was a teenager and saw it for the first time, I found it quite scary. It’s creepy, and Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall are great in their roles, and the hotel is so creepy. My daughter has never seen it. I’d seen it when it first came out, in the theater, but since then I’ve seen bits and pieces but on the small screen, at home.

I also liked The Exorcist.

How about you? Do you have any favorite horror movies or scary movies?

Lately I try to avoid horror movies because they’re just too scary.

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The Shining was at the top of my list.

Deliverance (Burt Reynolds)

Portions of Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone with a knife…)

The Birds (original, with Tippi Hedren) – Hitchcock movie

Those are the ones that immediately pop to mind.

elbanditoroso (33159

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Arsenic and Old Lace
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

I avoid scary movies.

Hawaii_Jake (37350

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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (Bette Davis and Joan Crawford) will “yikes” you guys right out. And Ms Davis again in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte might just keep you awake for a bit.
(Linking to IMDB is a problem for me today, they are worth looking up)

canidmajor (21235

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I don’t really have expertise or interest in the zombie movie genre, but I think Train to Busan is an excellent zombie movie.

kevbo1 (1669

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Jaws (1975)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Alien
The Thing (1982)
The Exorcist
The Shining
Duel (1971)
Psycho

More sci-fi action than scary movie, but great:
Aliens
The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2
Predator

Not so scary, but great:
North By Northwest
Charade
Rear Window (1954)

More comedy than scary:
The Ladykillers (1955)
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
Shaun of the Dead

Zaku (30365

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Jaws
Psycho
Cloverfield
The Blair Witch Project
Dracula (1931-Browning)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Mummy (1999)
Day Of The Triffids (1981)
Alien
Aliens
The Birds

filmfann (52230

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The ones that scared the bejeezus out of me were The Shining, The Birds(saw it when young) and The Blair freakin’ Witch Project. When I was reading the book version of The Shining, I should have put my book in the freezer many times. There were times I couldn’t even read it in the daytime!

There are many others that I like. I don’t like the cheap thrill ones – the kind that make you jump just because they can. After my racing heart calms down and I quit swearing, I usually laugh at them. Love psychological thrillers!

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North by Northwest – best two scenes in the movie:

1) the very end, last scene, reeking with sexual innuendo -> the train racing full speed into the tunnel.

2) climbing down Washington’s nose.

elbanditoroso (33159

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Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street
Hellraiser is my favorite.
I like Hostel and off beat horror too.

KNOWITALL (29690

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Not a favorite but a great horror film. The hellish real time movie called “The Trump Show : The Maggoty Case of the Bloated Orange Douchebag”

mazingerz88 (28820

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Oh btw, favorites…

Fright Night

Night Life ( from the 1980s )
( you have to be a real “obscure horror film” aficionado to know and appreciate this one )

The Ring

The Exorcist

mazingerz88 (28820

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An Inconvenient Truth.

RedDeerGuy1 (24473

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The Crawling Eye or The Trollenberg Terror 1958. (Two names for the same movie.)

I saw that as a kid and it scared me so much I wanted to nail all the windows shut.

LuckyGuy (43691

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Omigod, @LuckyGuy, I remember The Crawling Eye! Nightmare fuel, for sure!!

canidmajor (21235

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@smudges Did you read Doctor Sleep? I enjoyed that too!

filmfann (52230

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The Blob was scary when I was a child.

RedDeerGuy1 (24473

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The Shining is one of the greatest movies ever made.

There are so many different types of horror that it’s hard to rank. The most recent great horror movie I’ve seen is El Orfanato.

Caravanfan (13528

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Mothman Prophecies with Richard Gere. Scary.

mazingerz88 (28820

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@filmfann No, but I will now!

smudges (10725

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@Caravanfan The Orphanage? If that’s the one that film was creepy enough but has a huge plot hole.

mazingerz88 (28820

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Another creepy one is The Others with Nicole Kidman. It’s not scary like stabbing people-type of scary but it’s creepy and you can’t quite figure out what’s going on until the end.

jca2 (16268

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^^Love that film. Glad that it came out when they still shoot using actual film.

mazingerz88 (28820

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ooh ooh ooh! “The Strangers” with Liv Tyler. Even having seen it several times and knowing what’s going to happen it scares me! Can’t watch at night.

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Some of my favorites:

The Babadook
The Orphanage
The Exorcist
The Conjuring
Barbarian
Rosemary’s Baby
The Devil’s Backbone
The Innocents
Les Diaboliques (1955)
The Haunting (1963)
Alien
The Thing (1982)
The Ring (2002)
Eyes Without a Face
Black Christmas (1974)