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So since Halloween is coming up soon, suggest your favourite horror movies to me.

Movies don't really scare me, but I love the classic Night of the Living Dead.

Pumpkin Head is my all time favorite Halloween movie. It's not really scary, but it is season appropriate.

Movies don't really scare me, but I love the classic Night of the Living Dead.


I went past most of the places that film was shot, in the area around Pittsburgh. I love that movie :)

Changling. one scene with blood in it... the rest is a ghost story atmosphere.

I don't remember being scared much, I remember watching The Shining as a kid, and that creeped me out, but mostly because I knew if my parents found out I was going to die.

I really for all time love the Amityville Horror series, they are so bad, so very bad, so very good.

It's my own guilty pleasure.

I hate movies that actually frighten me, so I'll have some odd suggestions.

28 Days Later is actually a good film. This is one time when other people tend to find the film more frightening than I do.

Phantasm. And its sequels. Phantasm is classic dumb horror. I'm a fan.

And for classic '80s horror movies (which had at their primary goal showing naked girls rather than scaring you), Howling 2. Sybil Danning was the queen of being naked in terrible movies. This is a good entry for the occasion.

The Exorcist of course. I named my firstborn after Linda Blair's character.

I hate movies that actually frighten me, so I'll have some odd suggestions.

28 Days Later is actually a good film. This is one time when other people tend to find the film more frightening than I do.

Phantasm. And its sequels. Phantasm is classic dumb horror. I'm a fan.

And for classic '80s horror movies (which had at their primary goal showing naked girls rather than scaring you), Howling 2. Sybil Danning was the queen of being naked in terrible movies. This is a good entry for the occasion.


I <3 28 days later. Thats one movie that gave me a nightmare.

The Exorcist of course. I named my firstborn after Linda Blair's character.

Should I name my firstborn Damien? :p

Movies don't really scare me, but I love the classic Night of the Living Dead.

Hear, hear! :D

Some of the ones based on stephen king books are good, alot of the ones even made are classics

Should I name my firstborn Damien? :p


That's the spirit! :D

Phantasm. And its sequels. Phantasm is classic dumb horror. I'm a fan.

Phantasm was fun. Never saw the sequels, though.

Some of the ones based on stephen king books are good, alot of the ones even made are classics

Just stay away from Sleepwalkers. Worst movie ever.

Phantasm was fun. Never saw the sequels, though.
They recast the main character for Phantasm II, but then brought back the original kid for III, IV, V, VI...

The funeral is about to begin... SIR!

Gotta love Angus Scrimm.

Just stay away from Sleepwalkers. Worst movie ever.

Never eard' of it. Good ones though: Pet Semetary, Kugo, Christine...

Favorite Halloween Movies:
The Raven w/ Vincent Price (not scary but a cool, twisted, comedy)
Ghost Story
The Fog (the original...still havn't seen the remake)
Halloween
Hellraiser II

EDIT: OMG!!! How did I forget the most awsome trilogy of all?: Evil Dead I & II and Army of Darkness (part III)

Just stay away from Sleepwalkers. Worst movie ever.

and stay as far away from the TV movies... they make Sleepwalkers look like a multi oscar winner.

The new version of The Omen is pretty freaky, of course, I was in the theater on 6-6-06, at night, and my good friend Ashley was practically spending the entire movie grabbing the little cross necklace she was wearing and praying.

Strangeland. It is awful, yet amazing.

Of course, as Scarlet said, The Exorcist

Stigmata

The Dentist, again, while being horrid, is great.

The new version of The Omen is pretty freaky, of course, I was in the theater on 6-6-06, at night, and my good friend Ashley was practically spending the entire movie grabbing the little cross necklace she was wearing and praying.

I hated the new version for no reason except that it is exactly, shot for shot, the same movie. They didn't do anything new with it except put new faces in.

I hated the new version for no reason except that it is exactly, shot for shot, the same movie. They didn't do anything new with it except put new faces in.

Thanks. Saves me some change! (maybe I'll check it out on the late late movie some time)

I was just on a long drive with my mom, and we tried to go through our fave Halloween flicks lists. Took over two hours. We are both movie buffs and horror buffs. Here are just a few:

All the Hammer movies, especially all the Draculas (Christopher Lee) and all the Frankensteins (Peter Cushing). I love the color red they used in all their movies. Hammer Red, a color you'll never forget.

Of the Hammer movies, I especially love "Dracula, Prince of Darkness" and "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed."

Also:
Dracula (Bela Lugosi)
Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein (Boris Karloff)
The Black Cat (Lugosi & Karloff) (crazy art deco Poe extravaganza)
Black Sunday (witchcraft, ghosts, vampires)
Suspiria (witchcraft)
The Haunting (ghosts) (the old one; the new one sucked)
The Woman in White (ghosts)
Bones (the Snoop Dog movie) (ghosts)
Curse of the Demon (witchcraft)
The Uninvited (ghosts)
Cat People, Curse of the Cat People (werebeasts) (the old Val Lewton movies)
Dracula (Louis Jourdan) (old PBS miniseries; most faithful version ever)

I could go on forever. I'll basically watch any movie about ghosts, vampires, witchcraft/sorcery, werecritters, and man-made monsters. I also enjoy space monsters but I don't think they are scary. I prefer supernatural horror stories. I don't really dig slasher movies; I find them kind of dull.

I don't consider psychological horror or killer movies to be proper horror genre stories. Also, I think the real evil things that people do are a thousand times scarier than any ghost or monster.

So, the scariest movie I've seen in the past 20 years, would have to be Bill Paxton's movie "Frailty" in which we are left to wonder if he really is hunting demons for God or if he's just a psycho who pulls others into his murderous delusions. That scared the living crap out of me because it seemed so realistic.

Scary movies aren't scary. They are just bloodsport. They are similar to action movies, except one side is obviously inferior. It's just a bunch of gore and entrails everywhere made with special effects.

You want scary? Read H.P. Lovecraft.

Scary movies aren't scary. They are just bloodsport. They are similar to action movies, except one side is obviously inferior. It's just a bunch of gore and entrails everywhere made with special effects.

You want scary? Read H.P. Lovecraft.
There's gore and entrails in Lovecraft, too (The Horror of the Middle Span, Pickman's Model), but yes, he is a great master.

Thanks. Saves me some change! (maybe I'll check it out on the late late movie some time)

had it been an original movie, yeah, it would have been good. But since it is a remake, I was hoping they would do something different

I once saw a disgusting horrow movie....I dunno the name and I would appreciate if someone can tell me what it is.

The story goes like this....a biiiiiig house...a man and a woman (white) live there...a black kid accidentally goes inside to get some play thing (don't remember clearly)...the couple locks him inside...the kid finds their girl child also kept captive...sometime later the kid escapes from that room and runs around the house...finds a boy (the couples son) with tongue cut and gross starved people eating gross stuff...a dog and the man chase the kid and the kid escapes finally...turns out that the couple are actually siblings (ewww)..I can't go on...I am already grossed out remembering the details...

I once saw a disgusting horrow movie....I dunno the name and I would appreciate if someone can tell me what it is.

The story goes like this....a biiiiiig house...a man and a woman (white) live there...a black kid accidentally goes inside to get some play thing (don't remember clearly)...the couple locks him inside...the kid finds their girl child also kept captive...sometime later the kid escapes from that room and runs around the house...finds a boy (the couples son) with tongue cut and gross starved people eating gross stuff...a dog and the man chase the kid and the kid escapes finally...turns out that the couple are actually siblings (ewww)..I can't go on...I am already grossed out remembering the details...

People Under the Stairs

People Under the Stairs

I looked up at imdb and yeah that's the one. I saw that sometime last year at this time...I was stuck in Chicago....all alone at some hotel...could not sleep and ended up seeing this creepy movie...uggghhh...

Thanks for the name.

I loved the Amittyville Horror movies. They weren't too scary for me. I mean, they're supposed to be some of the scariest movies ever made and even I can stand to watch them. This is coming from a guy who can't even look at a Scream mask without getting ready to scream.

There really is no such thing as horror movies anymore. Just snuff flicks and gore films. True horror films truly did stop with the '80s. That was the culmination of horror movies, but there was no decline, just an abrupt stop. Movies today just put as much blood in as possible and then hype it up as scary, because you see someone's intestines ripped out. It's stupid. Actual horror films are about the mood, atmosphere, and the just plain creep out factor. You can have a phsyco killer jump out all of a sudden but it's not scary unless you have been thouroughly creeped out already. And even then, some people just aren't scared by fake stuff, so not everyone will think these movies are great either. The only 2 movies I have ever watched that actually scared me was the old Night of the Living Dead and then its oldest remake. I had nightmares for a week. I still don't watch those two movies. I can watch the newer remakes but those two I just can't bring myself to do it.