Well, Halloween is my favorite holiday and I love scary movies so I’m looking for some advice on good scary movies to rent for Halloween this year.
I have some of the classics like:
The Lost Boys
Halloween
Scream
The Changeling
The Silence of the lambs
Dracula
So, what do you recommend? I like dark comedies and “funny” scary movies like Young Frankenstein so give me some recommends! Thanks!
Phantasm
Dead Alive
House
The Changeling
[Edited by slythe on 10-19-2000 at 07:42 AM]
Ooooo… I LOVE a good horror flick. Must have something to do with the fact that I’m born on Halloween…
Somewhat in order of preference:
The Exorcist
Night of the Living Dead – a Halloween classic!
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Nosferatu
Alien
The Thing (John Carpenter’s version)
Army of Darkness
Phantasm (second vote!)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original)
The Omen
Rosemary’s Baby
I thought Prophecy (with Christopher Walken) was damn freaky. It’s actually the only movie in recent memory to give me the willies.
I second (or third) Phantasm, Exorcist, and Evil Dead.
Nosferatu has some of the creepiest scenes… The shadow of him going up the stairs still gives me the chills.
One I like, which IMHO Blair Witch ripped off, is The Last Broadcast.
Hell Raiser
Nightmare on Elm Street Part One and…umm…I think it was Three that was the other decent one.
The Craft, not exactly scare but I liked it.
Hellraiser
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Friday the 13th
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (yes it’s actually a movie)
Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (if you like HP Lovecraft the first and second stories are good, the 3rd one is crap)
In The Mouth Of Madness: Very Lovecraftian, very good movie about sanity and evil.
Psycho- and no not the crappy remake
From Dusk Till Dawn- I don’t know if this is technically a horror movie, but it has vampires, so it gets my vote
Nosferatu- Put on some Cradle of Filth or some Nile and this move is so much better.
“Carrie” and “The Omen” made me soil my underwear. Would “Silence of the Lambs” qualify as a scary movie?
A few days ago the Halloween section at MSN mentioned a flick I really loved as a kid. I liked it so much at the time I’m afraid to look at it now.
It was “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors.”
Today you’ll see references to Peter Cushing, Donald Sutherland and Christopher Lee in that film. At the time, though, Roy Castle was appearing regularly on The Garry Moore Show and was (IMHO) most recognizable to the American public.
slythe – let me bitch slap you for listing a movie I already listed and then misspelling it! Shame! The Changling?! Oh you sorry, sorry man! I’d come and kick your butt but I have a feeling that we’d never get that far… 
Baglady – ah, we meet again for the first time in the livingroom! 
I have all of the Evil Dead movies (including Army of Darkness) and I have to rate them A++++!!! I have to get Rosemary’s baby; classic!
Lazlo – I’ll have to check out “The Last Broadcast”. I’ve never heard of it… thanks!
Cyndar – I’ve got The Craft… but Hell Raiser is one I haven’t seen for a while…
Azargoth – OOOO! Thanks! I’ve forgotten how good the original Psycho is! That’s a classic!
Doug Bowe – Bitch slap! I mentioned Silence of the Lambs! Shame! However, you redeemed yourself with “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors.” I’ve never heard of that one so I’ll see if I can find it!
Hey, thanks ya all! I’ve got quite the list going! My video guys are going to think I really know my horror stuff!
Byzybody, what misspelling? It was a German film from the 50’s about a stalker who could be identified by the sound of money changling in his pocket.
Yeah. That’s the ticket!
(What I won’t do for a good bitch-slap!)
[Edited by slythe on 10-19-2000 at 07:52 AM]
Plan 9 from Outer Space. It’s a family tradition.
I’ve always been partial to It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Browm. Just don’t watch it with the lights off.
Several Years Ago I watched just about every version of Dracula (not the sequels – you’d be there forever) I could find on Halloween. Dammit, Bela Lugosi is STILL the best Dracula, although the script was pretty poor. I thought the 1970 Jess Franco version was really interesting – it was the first version that TRIED to be faithful to the book – and it stars Christopher Lee! The Louis Jordan version is pretty faithful, too, but BORING. The Coppola version with Gary Oldman is really good at some points and appallingly bad at others. But it’s the only version that tries to work in all of Stoker’s weird details.
If you’re looking for humor, then Young Frankenstein is your best bet. But also watch Zacherly’s Horrible Horror (if you can find it) and It Came From Hollywood – the MST3K before there was MST3K.
I’ve recently gotten totally hooked on Re-Animator (1985), starring Jeffrey Combs. If you get the Independent Film Channel (IFC), they’ll probably show it again in the next couple of weeks. If you rent it, get the unrated version, which is extremely gory, not the sliced-and-diced R rated version. A wonderful blend of horror and dark comedy, loosely based on a series of Lovecraft stories. Unfortunately, since St. Louis has NO small independent video stores any more, I’ll have to hope that IFC eventually shows “Bride of Re-Animator,” because otherwise I’ll never see it.
I second “Dead Alive” and “Evil Dead II” as being funny and good films, although not particularly scary.
For the scary stuff:
*Exorcist
*Exorcist III (avoid Exorcist II like grim death)
*The Omen
*Psycho
*In the Mouth of Madness (I cannot recommend this film enough, it’s VERY underrated)
*Looking for Mr. Goodbar (not horror, just scary)
*Silence of the Lambs
*The first Nightmare on Elm Street
*Hellraiser
*Texas Chainsaw Massacre
*Original Night of the Living Dead
The clown part still scares me - Poltergeist
I’ve heard - The Cube - is good?
Children of the Corn and The Shining
The Haunting (original)
The Haunting of Hill House (the re-make)
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Not scary but favorites nonetheless
Mr. Booggedy and Bride of Booggeddy (on TV night before last)
The original Disney Halloween - with the scary mirror as well as Donald’s Scary Tales
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Disney again)
Beetlejuice (Winona Rider and Geena Davis…)
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (made for tv movie, ca. 1973, that scared the snot out of my siblings and me.)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (see above.)
The Sixth Sense (a modern-day classic.)
Did I miss it or didn’t anyone think Blair Witch Project was scary… it’s a true story you know, those are the scariest kind.
I know what you did last summer
Hellraiser
Serpent and the Rainbow
Scream
Halloween
Friday the 13th
Freddie Krueger
Funny…
Transylvania 65000 or something like that…
Evil Dead 2… absolutely hillarious
Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, I had it’s moments
Funny/scary, my wife had this aversion to the Leprechan, which I still use to this day… flashlight under my chin and trying to imitate his ‘little’ voice
Any fans of MST 2000? That always cracked me up
I also have to put in a good word for In the Mouth of Madness - very creepy!
Also, Wait Until Dark is not supernatural in any way - more suspense, but definitely scary - I saw it after reading Danse Macabre, in which Stephen King mentions the movie.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Blacula
Scream, Blacula, Scream
Blood Feast
Count Yorga, Vampire
The Hunger
Hellraiser
House On Haunted Hill(The New One)
Innocent Blood
Well most of my suggestions were already mentioned but I was creeped out by Audrey Rose. The first Terminator movie is pretty scary and much better than most slasher films IMHO.
I recently watched Strangers on a Train and that was pretty intense. Also The Birds is a really creepy movie. There is a movie called Anguish which is an excellent scary movie/within a movie/over a movie.
Boy I am just a rambling guy.
“My name is Hurbert George Wells. H.G. Wells. I came here in a time machine of my own invention. I am pursuing Jack the Ripper who escaped into the future in my machine.”
From Time after Time The second best time travel thriller.
The best time travle thriller is The Navigator a Journey across Time.