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your favorite scary movie?

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Started 6 months ago by gracie
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What is yours? It doesn't have to be a slasher type - just maybe suspense. Ones I've seen - Halloween (that music still creeps me out), Nightmare on Elm Street (why do the people always run up stairs in house to get away). Some old ones - Exorcist (green pea soup spewing all over) and Psycho (shower scene) and The Birds.

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BuffaloHawk

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The Shining

Children of the Corn

Poltergeist - I am still afraid to look under my bed

Gremlins

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Edog

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National Velvet!

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PaytonKemp-AlleyOop

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John Carpenters "Halloween", the music always haunts me as well.

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SEdholm

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Evil Dead
Then anything from Vincent Price like House on Haunted Hill or Last Man Standing.

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While we are on the subject of scary and it being Halloween. When I was a kid my older cousins would get me with this song. I still think it is by far the creepiest ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwyg2YpxdrE&feature=related

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pennygirl

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The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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gelsol

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Profondo Rosso (1975) - Early Argento work with killer Goblin soundtrack.

Entire film:
http://youtu.be/wmh-G8nZqTA

And of course, no Halloween is complete without Student Bodies! I love this movie so much.

Entire film:
http://youtu.be/di4FI23I8RU

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Shaun of the Dead

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I've seen a ton of "horror" movies, and there are only a handful of them that I found truly terrifying. Ironically, most of them have little or no gore. Halloween, TCM, Serpent & the Rainbow, Jacob's Ladder, Hellraiser, and Day of the Dead (Romero's version) are standouts from my early years. More recent films that I thought delivered the goods include Blair Witch Project, The Decent, and Them. But the movie that scared me more than any other is definately Jaws. I was only 10 when I watched it the first time, and I'm still afraid of the water 32 years later.

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BuffaloHawk

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Flowers in the Attic

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Salem's Lot.

I still have nightmares about the dead brother floating up to the window 30 years later!

here it is: (be warned)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

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BuffaloHawk

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GI - haHa

We where just discussing it a few weeks ago http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=14658&page=2

The book is much scarier than the movie FWIW

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I heard it was Stephen King's favorite book (that he wrote anyway)

I totally missed that thread! lol at being scared from the same scene--probably also my catholic upbringing!

never read the book. I'm afraid. very afraid.

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pennygirl

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Salem's Lot. Terrifying.

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gracie

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boardbrown - I, too, was scared of going in the water after seeing that damn Jaws. The music when shark approaching. I went to Hawaii with couple of friends & it was some time after seeing that movie and I couldn't go in the water at first. Finally got courage & got in water by our condo staying at, floating on my back & felt something on my back. "Friend" on beach yells at me "shark" & I practically was walking on water to get out. Then I noticed she was laughing & turned around and my other "friend" apparently had floated her feet under me & tickled my back. Next time I went to Hawaii by myself, different island, and I just couldn't get in the water - three weeks there & I only went in the pool. How lame is that.

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oldguybc

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Uhhhhh, Deep Throat?

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BooRadley

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If you're streaming Netflix, there's some good ones for tonight.

John Carpenters "The Thing"

"An American Werewolf in London" (fave)

C.H.U.D. classic.

Also if you go to Retrovision.tv and click on cult movies there's some great B movie entertainment.

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teigyr

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Speaking of Argento, Suspiria.

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woodchucker

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Aliens
The pit & the pendulum w/Vincent Price
The hills have eyes
Jaws

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BARBIE

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Silver Bullet or Fright night!

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BooRadley

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Available on Youtube, the full version of "Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator"

I've never actually watched it but the title cracked me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Afhnsnwwtw

Might be the winner.

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pennygirl

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Oh! The Hills Have Eyes! Thank you chucker.

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Cate

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The Fog (The 1980 John Carpenter Version not the remake). I am still spooked on foggy nights at the beach.

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SmartsyArtsy

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Wait Until Dark I leapt up from the floor to the sofa on top of my ex husband

Psycho

The Shining

Carrie

I don't do much gore

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Novalis

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This one, at the time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093777/

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gracie

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Smartsy - Wait Until Dark. Is that the Audrey Hepburn movie where she is blind? If so, that movie is reason I gave a gun back to my boyfriend (he gave to me for protection after an incident at my home). I thought my luck an intruder would be in my bedroom doorway, I have to shoot and as I step over this person he reaches up and grabs my ankles.
Shining - favorite line "Wendy, you bitch, I'm h-o-m-e".

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Creepshow - The one where the woman hits the construction worker.

Thanks for the ride lady

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY9gvIre4Zk

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SunsetHillMarauder

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The Justin Bieber movie: Never Say Never

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JeanJean

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I saw the Exorcist at a far too tender age. Scarred me for life. Couldn't watch Linda Blair in another thing. Subsequently, I flinch at any type of supernatural horror.

I accidentally scarred an adult sister with Fargo. As far as I am concerned, one of the best scary movies ever.

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gracie

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How could I have forgotten - Silence of the Lambs. Read the book & saw the movie. When he did that sucking motion & then "Clarese" Great line at end of movie "what am I doing? I'm having a friend for lunch."

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Holy Crap, Buffalo Hawk, I haven't heard that scary DOA song for 35 years. We had a great radio station in Chicago called Triad 106. They played all the prog rock stuff.

My favorite scary movie is Whatever happened to Baby Jane

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Mr. Pyramid Burr

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2 more to add to the list:
1.Burnt Offerings (that chauffeur!)
2. The Tingler - One of the finest B movies ever made.

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