Scariest movies

[Exsilium]

Not really a horror movie but as a 10 year old kid I was at my older cousin’s house and walked into the living room when her and some friends were watching Robocop.

I walked in right around the moment when Murphy was cornered in the steel mill and his partner was knocked out. Needless to say I can’t watch that movie even now as an adult because the sheer brutality shocked me. I had nightmares for weeks, my parents were not impressed with my cousin.

Candyman is another movie that totally unnerved me as a teen.

In terms of books, there is a short story by Stephen King called “Sometimes they come back”. I read that as an adult and it frightened me. Somehow teenagers menacing adults seems quite real to me. Teenagers can be cruel.

Candyman was great.

 

[Eelementary]

Imo:

Ringu (waaaaaaaaaay better than the American remake)

Calibre (more tense, than outright scary, but it is excellent)

Alien (the original film is still terrifying, imo)

Saw (torture porn, but that man-pig...holy shit...)

The Orphanage

The Shining

The Stepfather (original)

Paranormal Activity (that scene in the bedroom...f**k, me it's creepy)

 

[Mr Spock!]

Imo:

Ringu (waaaaaaaaaay better than the American remake)

Calibre (more tense, than outright scary, but it is excellent)

Alien (the original film is still terrifying, imo)

Saw (torture porn, but that man-pig...holy shit...)

The Orphanage

The Shining

The Stepfather (original)

Paranormal Activity (that scene in the bedroom...f**k, me it's creepy)

Yeah Calibre was pretty good.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Not really a horror movie but as a 10 year old kid I was at my older cousin’s house and walked into the living room when her and some friends were watching Robocop.

I walked in right around the moment when Murphy was cornered in the steel mill and his partner was knocked out. Needless to say I can’t watch that movie even now as an adult because the sheer brutality shocked me. I had nightmares for weeks, my parents were not impressed with my cousin.

Candyman is another movie that totally unnerved me as a teen.

In terms of books, there is a short story by Stephen King called “Sometimes they come back”. I read that as an adult and it frightened me. Somehow teenagers menacing adults seems quite real to me. Teenagers can be cruel.

Yep I read Salem's Lot about half a dozen times and it was damn creepy.

A shame that it didn't transfer well to screen.

 

[Mr Spock!]

This scared the shit out of me as a kid

 

[Mr Spock!]

This haunted me as a kid. Good series too.

 

[Mr Spock!]

And loooooved the Nightstalker

 

[Silent Knight]

Yep I read Salem's Lot about half a dozen times and it was damn creepy.

A shame that it didn't transfer well to screen.

Salem's Lot is one of my favourite reads of all time. Bone-chillingly frightening, in particular the parts where the deliverymen drop off the coffin at the Marsten house and Mike Ryerson is filling in Danny Glick's grave and feels like he is being watched...from below.

There is a short story covering the aftermath of the burning of Salem's Lot, called One for the Road. Turns out the fire didn't end all of the vampires, some of them managed to survive. I would have loved to learn what become of Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, maybe the vampires got them.

Anyway some independent filmmakers did a version of One for the Road and it's available on youtube.


It's actually not bad, although I guess they were limited in terms of what they could do with the vampires. But the atmosphere is pretty sombre and bleak. The actors are good.

 

[gUt]

Echo those calls for the Candyman, have not watched in years but as a kid this was one of my favourites.

I rate The Ring (Naomi Watts version), The Witch and Antichrist as really good modern horror movies. Antichrist is especially f**ked if you're in a certain frame of mind.

 

[horrie hastings]

 

[horrie hastings]

This haunted me as a kid. Good series too.

I used to watch the series sometimes back some time in the early 70s and i remembered getting creeped out by one which had Susan Dey from The Partridge Family in it, finally found it on you tube, will watch it all the way through again sometime soon.


Also another one that all i could remember was this woman getting phone calls and on the other end a voice just kept on saying Barbara,just found it on you tube also

 

[Mr Spock!]

Salem's Lot is one of my favourite reads of all time. Bone-chillingly frightening, in particular the parts where the deliverymen drop off the coffin at the Marsten house and Mike Ryerson is filling in Danny Glick's grave and feels like he is being watched...from below.

There is a short story covering the aftermath of the burning of Salem's Lot, called One for the Road. Turns out the fire didn't end all of the vampires, some of them managed to survive. I would have loved to learn what become of Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, maybe the vampires got them.

Anyway some independent filmmakers did a version of One for the Road and it's available on youtube.


It's actually not bad, although I guess they were limited in terms of what they could do with the vampires. But the atmosphere is pretty sombre and bleak. The actors are good.

There were a couple of movies of salem's Lot.

The first one with David Soul which had Barlow looking like Nesferatu (with a very poor Return to salem's Lot sequel) and a miniseries with Rob Lowe. They both had their creepy moments. The mini series one was more faithful to the book but included an ending where Ben Mears was hunting the vampires that survived in a big city.

So much of that book creeped me out. Like when Susan was caught and waiting for Barlow to get her.

I think I'm going have to read it again.

 

[Mr Spock!]

I used to watch the series sometimes back some time in the early 70s and i remembered getting creeped out by one which had Susan Dey from The Partridge Family in it, finally found it on you tube, will watch it all the way through again sometime soon.


Also another one that all i could remember was this woman getting phone calls and on the other end a voice just kept on saying Barbara,just found it on you tube also

It just goes to show good scary yarns don't need buckets of gore and special effects.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Salem's Lot is one of my favourite reads of all time. Bone-chillingly frightening, in particular the parts where the deliverymen drop off the coffin at the Marsten house and Mike Ryerson is filling in Danny Glick's grave and feels like he is being watched...from below.

There is a short story covering the aftermath of the burning of Salem's Lot, called One for the Road. Turns out the fire didn't end all of the vampires, some of them managed to survive. I would have loved to learn what become of Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, maybe the vampires got them.

Anyway some independent filmmakers did a version of One for the Road and it's available on youtube.


It's actually not bad, although I guess they were limited in terms of what they could do with the vampires. But the atmosphere is pretty sombre and bleak. The actors are good.

Dude that film's got the bald guy Reggie out of the Phantasm (Never Dead) Series.

 

[Silent Knight]

There were a couple of movies of salem's Lot.

The first one with David Soul which had Barlow looking like Nesferatu (with a very poor Return to salem's Lot sequel) and a miniseries with Rob Lowe. They both had their creepy moments. The mini series one was more faithful to the book but included an ending where Ben Mears was hunting the vampires that survived in a big city.

So much of that book creeped me out. Like when Susan was caught and waiting for Barlow to get her.

I think I'm going have to read it again.

They’re working on a new version to be produced by James Wan. Hopefully it won’t be too polished and will have that small town feel with limited CGI and no jump scares. Salem’s Lot is frightening in that there is this foreboding sense of doom throughout the course of the book, and while the heroes did what they could, ultimately the town was always destined to fall into darkness.

 

[horrie hastings]

Really? Did they cut that in 1973? I found that the scariest part in a scary movie.

The reason it was dropped from the original theatrical release was because back in 1973 they didn't have the technology to hide the cables that supported Linda Blair when she did the upside down bit of the spider walk, with technology later on they could digitally remove the cables so that is why the scene was shown in the directors cut years on and not in the original theatrical release.

 

[myrrh ken]

Pin is a good psychological horror

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Dog Soldiers (2002)

Remember seeing this and it being a tense little werewolf thriller, with British soldiers the target.

Has Sean Pertwee and Kevin McKidd in it.

 

[horrie hastings]

Dude that film's got the bald guy Reggie out of the Phantasm (Never Dead) Series.

The creepy house that was in Phantasm was also used in Burnt Offerings and other films.

 

[ACTPanthers]

1. The Thing (1982) Still the best. Claustrophobic and a bunch of blokes isolated in the middle of nowhere where you don't know who the hell is an alien. Great actors.

2. Alien

3. Fright Night (the first one)

4. Clown (where a bloke finds a clown suit which turns him into a child eating demon.

5. It - Part 1 (wtf did they do with the second - try to turn it into a comedy.

There's probably better ones than the last 2.

Gee the horror movies on streaming are woeful. As are most of the ones released in the last 20 years.

Special mention to Evil Dead the original 80s version.

As one of the weird people who has a strange fear of clowns, that f**king Clown movie hurt me. I couldn't let on though, as I was watching it with the missus...