Discuss: Your Favorite Scary Movie of All Time
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Hey, so happy Halloween and all that! Today is seriously one of my favorite days of the year -- and not because of candy or shaving cream or anything like that, but because when else do you get to see a vampire holding a briefcase and a witch on her blackberry while walking down Park Avenue in New York City? Never! Only on Halloween. It's the one day a year when we're allowed to be absurd, to get down with our freaky selves, to use our imagination and, most importantly, have fun. These are the good days, so enjoy it while it lasts.
That being said, we've spent all month posting some of our favorite Halloween-related Cinematical Sevens and themed posts, while also giving you a ton of new stuff for 2008. And so with all that out of the way, I guess it's time to just get right down to it and find out which film scares you the most. When you cozy up to your comfy couch late tonight, which scary movie will you throw in the DVD player? It could be a gory horror flick, a creepy psychological thriller ... a romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson? My favorite scary movie (and nothing has replaced it yet) has always been the original Halloween. Sure, it's a pretty basic hide-and-seek horror flick, but what always set Halloween apart from the rest was that damn musical score. I still get goose bumps whenever it comes on.
What about you? Your favorite scary movie of all time, like, ever! Sound off below ...
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10-31-2008 @ 12:24PM
colby said...
Ditto to Erik's choice. I'm sittin' here at work with my Mike Myers mask on my desk (goin' trick or treatin' with my nieces after work).
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10-31-2008 @ 12:26PM
colby said...
Oh, and just to throw this out there. Probably the scariest/creepiest movie I've seen recently was The Strangers.
Saw it 3 times in the theater and several times since it's been out on disc.
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10-31-2008 @ 12:32PM
Erik Davis said...
Yeah, I received a copy of The Strangers on DVD, but I haven't watched it yet. Maybe tonight ... is it gory, though? The wife hates gory flicks. Scary, yes. Gory, no.
10-31-2008 @ 12:39PM
colby said...
I think it would be a perfect choice. It's incredibly creepy, but has very little gore. What little there is happens at the end.
FYI: (I think recently) IMDB has added a Parental Guide link to each entry. I've been finding it very useful. Here's the one for The Strangers:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482606/parentalguide
10-31-2008 @ 12:48PM
Clark Parker said...
I've got to go with Night of the Living Dead. Nothing in all of the genre frightens me anywhere near as much as zombies.
In fact, I imagine a top ten list of my favorite horror films would be populated almost exlusively by zombie flicks... They just get to me. I love the survival aspect, the concept that they are us, the never ending pursuit... The smell. The whole idea just scare the crap out of me. I love it.
My wife on the otherhand, just won't watch scary movies... Eric up there is checking to make sure Stangers doesn't have too much gore... What I wouldn't give to use that as an arguement. "Come on honey, there isn't even any splattery bits."
No such luck... I have to sit through the musicals (Last one was How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, not too bad.. I guess.) but will she ever sit down to a classic like NotLD?
No. No she will not.
Ah well, I still love her. And truth be told, being all alone in a dark room is the best way to enjoy a scary flick anyhow.
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10-31-2008 @ 1:09PM
Herff said...
I'm with Clark. I love zombie movies the best. I would probably go with the original Dawn of the Dead. It's not the scariest film in the world, but probably my favorite horror film.
If you don't like zombies my back up choices would be 28 days later and Ringu.
10-31-2008 @ 1:04PM
Dan said...
I am going to have to go with the Wizard of Oz....the first time I saw that, the flying monkeys made me cry. Of course, I was only 4 at the time.
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10-31-2008 @ 1:28PM
Peter Hall said...
The Thing. Game over.
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10-31-2008 @ 2:05PM
Pat said...
My favorite horror movie is the original Dawn of the Dead. Or maybe Videodrome. Or (John Carpenter's) The Thing. Even the Shining. Or hell, Carnival of Souls.
But I don't think a movie has ever SCARED me as much as The Descent.
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10-31-2008 @ 2:11PM
Max said...
I would have to say The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. That movie managed to creep the hell out of me while still being amazingly well made and acted.
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10-31-2008 @ 2:59PM
treqie said...
I must say Besökarna. A swedish 80's horror movie about a family moving to a house in the country, and there's a demon in the attic. I guess, since I am swedish, it's easier to relate to it, than foreign movies. If you come across it, watch it!
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10-31-2008 @ 3:21PM
Tash said...
Child's Play. I know...I sound stupid saying that, and I know some are thinking how that could be the scariest movie anyone has ever seen. But for me, it is one of two movies (Jaws being the other) that has ever made me literally afraid of something relatively harmless like plastic dolls (or swimming, from the standpoint of Jaws). The movie came out in what, '88? I was three or four at the time, and I was heavy into the action figures and such. Of course this would creep me the hell out. I mean, what kid doesn't want his action figures to come to life, right? But no kid wants them to come to life as a knife-wielding murderer intent on taking over your body!
It's still hard to watch at night for me, but I can watch Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky with no problems lol
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10-31-2008 @ 3:34PM
Raymond said...
Really? No one is bringing up the Exorcist? My hot 16 year old baby sitter snuck me in when I was 12 and that creepy voice still has my head spinning around. Plus I'm really mixed up about sex now.
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10-31-2008 @ 3:39PM
mezzanine said...
God, I have too many. The first that come to mind are Candyman and Scream.
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10-31-2008 @ 4:16PM
Petro1734 said...
Lady in White always creeped me out when I was a kid. The cloak room scene ! Or the scene where the kid is sleeping and the camera slowly pans over to the window where the ghost is just floating there !
But The Shining's gotta be my # 1.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!
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11-03-2008 @ 9:05AM
colby said...
ooh, good call.
forgot about that one.
10-31-2008 @ 5:19PM
Dan said...
I'm gonna have to go with Peter....The Thing is my favorite horror movie of all time.
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10-31-2008 @ 5:52PM
Andrew said...
John Carpenter's The Thing is not only my favorite horror film, but my favorite film of all time. Absolutely love everything about it. Of late though, I've been in love with [REC]. So glad I bought that R2 DVD.
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10-31-2008 @ 7:49PM
Wings said...
"Halloween" for me, too. No matter how many times I watch this movie, I am still on edge afterwards. Any little noise or shadow, and I jump.
I am 37 years old, married with children, and afraid of Michael Myers.
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11-01-2008 @ 5:14AM
J. Craig said...
Evil Dead II...
It's Sam Raimi's best film, and to be honest, it's one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen. I know it can't compare to the Shining in creepiness, or Night of the Living Dead in terror, or even the sense of unrelenting evil in Halloween, but as an all around enjoyable horror flick, it's my favorite; at the very least in my top three.
But we should not forget Nosferatu (1922) and the Phantom of the Opera (staring Lon Chaney the grandfather of special makeup, 1925).
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