Favorite Scary Movies?

[dragonfly411]

What are your all time favorite scary movies? The ones that REALLY scare you?

Mine have to be:
House on Haunted Hill
The Hills Have Eyes
The Exorcist
Children of the Corn
The Blair Witch Project.

 

[athenaworth]

This is my kind of list. I'm a Halloween baby and I looooooove me some scary movies.

The original Let The Right One In
Jacob's Ladder
The Exorcist
(I will add to the list later - I know I have more, but just can't think of them.

 

[Tuckins1]

Blair Witch Project
28 days later (zombie movies)
The Shining

 

[Madam Bijoux]

I don't get scared, but the two that I enjoyed most are:
Carnival of Souls (1962)
I Saw What You Did (1965)

 

[Demon]

Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween H20
Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th II
Scream, Scream II, Scream III
When a Stranger Calls
He Knows You're Alone (early Tom Hanks)
Terror Train
Prom Night
Midnight Lace
Sorry Wrong Number

I wish they'd make more that I like....

Have to add:

Urban Legend, Urban Legend II

 

[FuturePsyD]

Nightmare On Elm Street-(Love Freddy)!!!
Halloween
Friday the 13th
Pet Sematary
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

 

[Bunny007]

Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street (this genuinely freaks me out)
Sixth Sense
Paranormal Activity
THE SHINING (definitely my favorite scary movie ever)

 

[Autumnovember]

The Fourth Kind
Amityville Horror

 

[JewelFreak]

Ooohhh I'm a scary movie addict!

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Night of the Living Dead -- 1st one, campy & scary & sweet Jake Weber is in it, very young
Sixth Sense -- fave scary movie



--- Laurie

 

[pierreone]

I love scary movies! Here's what I can think of off the top of my head:
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- House of 1000 Corpses
- Paranormal Activity
- 28 Days Later
- Wrong Turn
- Quarantine
- Wolf Creek

 

[Iowa Lizzy]

EVERY horror movie scares the crap out of me. I am just a big wimp. That said, the ones that took me months to get over:

The Ring
Dawn of the Dead (the remake. I know, I know)
The Sixth Sense
Darkness Falls
The three Scream movies
Blair Witch Project

I really want to see Paranormal Activity but I'm waiting until I know DH will not be traveling for at least a couple consecutive weeks. While scary movies dealing with psychopaths are horrifying (like Scream or Chainsaw Massacre), there's something about ghost stories that get to me even more.

I actually love the Hostel movies because I think it's just a great and horrific idea. There was one with John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson about a hotel room that really haunted me for awhile too. Can't remember the name of it.

 

[packrat]

TG-Room 1408 is the name of it. Based on a story by Stephen King, the scariest love of my life.

I so adore scary movies but I don't dig the night after night. JD's not scared of movies about say, serial killer/crazy freak people, but *I* am, and the sad part is, deep down I like it. JD is however, scared by movies about ghosts and such (b/c it's not something he can kill, he says) so for instance, The Ring had us both freaked out for a looong time.

We rented this movie..crap I can't remember the name. It was based on a "true" story (who knows really, right?) about this couple that stays in this cabin or something and people come knocking on the door and they're wearing masks and start playing tricks on them. One was a girl. We never actually watched it b/c as excited as I was to be scared, I was scared of it-just looking at the pictures on the back of the box gave me the heebie jeebies. Masks freak me out badly. I did however spend that night engrossed in reading about it on IMDB and am quite certain that it's a movie that would've scared the pants off me.

Scream movies scared me-masks, I hate them. Amityville Horror was the first scary movie I remember watching, and that was sneaking down to my Uncles basement when he and my dad were watching it and hiding behind the couch so they didn't see me. I tried watching part of it on tv several years ago..it was right at the part where the priest was in the house and it said GEEEET OUUUUUT-and boy you'da thunk there was a cattle prod underneath me when I jumped up and yelled "oohh boy ok ok nope nope can't do it" and scrambled for the remote.

There's a lot that I haven't seen b/c I'm too scared to take the chance.

 

[zoebartlett]

I used to watch "Sleeping with the Enemy" all the time. I used to love suspense thrillers but I never liked horror movies.
I still kind of like suspense movies, but it depends on the amount/type of violence in them.

 

[dragonfly411]

OOoo I will be looking to see if any of these are on insta stream on Netflix tonight!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lyra]

No love for The Descent?

I love scary movies, but I find them mostly more entertaining than actually scary. It takes a lot for me to really love a particular scary movie and want to watch it over and over. I saw The Descent in the theatre and was quite thrilled with it.

Some not mentioned yet, a bit older:

Skeleton Key
Gothika
Ghost Ship
28 days/weeks Later

 

[risingsun]

Psycho
The Exorcist
Carrie
The Shining
Silence of the Lambs
Poltergeist
Pet Sematary
Christine

 

[athenaworth]

Psycho
The Exorcist
Carrie
The Shining
Silence of the Lambs
Poltergeist
Pet Sematary
Christine

So it's fair to say you're a King fan?

I remembered another one I LOVE - The Others.

 

[risingsun]

Psycho
The Exorcist
Carrie
The Shining
Silence of the Lambs
Poltergeist
Pet Sematary
Christine

So it's fair to say you're a King fan?

I remembered another one I LOVE - The Others.

It is fair to say this

 

[artdecogirl]

I love scary movies!!! We used to have Horrer incorperated on after the midnight special on sat nights when I was a kid and I would try so hard to stay awake to watch it but it rarely happened, they would show great old movies, Bela lugosi, Lon Chaney, Vincent Price, peter cushing and many others... Those were great movies. The scariest I have seen lately, Paranormal activity scared the c.... out of me but was soooo irritating, do you think DH would be by the wall and me by the door after the first sound from down the hall?? really? nope, not happening, or that he would still sleep with me after I got up during the night and just stared at him for 4 hours???. Also The strangers, someone mentioned it, very scary movie and the best movie ever The Shining.

 

[iheartscience]

I don't like scary movies-real life is scary enough.

 

[loriken214]

I Know What You Did Last Summer
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
The Birds
Psycho
Jaws

Lori

 

[loriken214]

I used to watch "Sleeping with the Enemy" all the time. I used to love suspense thrillers but I never liked horror movies.
I still kind of like suspense movies, but it depends on the amount/type of violence in them.

Me, too! Sleeping with the Enemy is a great movie, but scary as heck with that psycho husband...I get chills just thinking about him now.

Suspense works for me over horror/violence.

Another one on my list is "Misery" with Kathy Bates.

Lori

 

[Demon]

I Know What You Did Last Summer
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
The Birds
Psycho
Jaws

Lori

Yes, I forgot I Know What You Did Last Summer!

And looking over my little collection last night, I have to add:

My Bloody Valentine

Dressed to Kill

Visiting Hours

I STILL Know What You DId Last Summer.

I am very much anticipating Scream 4. While I still love all these old movies, they of course aren't scary anymore. Only something I haven't seen before.....

 

[anitabee]

serpent and the rainbow
wolf creek
paranormal activity
silence of the lambs
amityville horror
blair witch project
jacob's ladder
halloween (that creepy music throughout puts you on the edge of your seat)