Horror Movies

I used to really enjoy Horror movies. But once I had kids and the very real horror of something happening to them occured to me...I found my enjoyment flagging. I suppose that's only natural as so many horror movies surround kids or young people and no parental supervision or parental weakness lol!
 
When I did watch I enjoyed Hellraiser...the first one...Halloween...the first one, Creepshow..the first one, Nightmare on Elmstreet...the first one...ALL of the old 40'/50's ones, Invisible Man, Dracula, Wolfman, Black Lagoon, etc. The scariest movies I've seen, probably the original Hill House made in black and white, and the "Shining"...original version.
 
They are neat.....but I've really not been interested in the new guard of Horror out there..Saw and whatnot. Sometimes seeing LESS is a lot more frightening than seeing everything. Movie makers seem to have forgotten that. I suppose it takes so much more to shock people these days where graphic violence is so commonplace.
 
Anyone interested in horror films should read Stephen Kings Danse Macabre...he has a greta section in there about horror movies and how they affected and inspired him []

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I enjoyed Hellraiser...the first one...Halloween...the first one, ... Nightmare on Elmstreet...the first one...

ditto. plus the original friday the 13th, the texas chainsaw massacre (the original directed by tobe hooper), the evil dead (the entire series including the army of darkness), ...

i am sure there are others i am forgetting.

oh cool,  happy b-day tomorrow melinda! my daughter also is a little halloweenie.
 
horror movies have always been my favorite, but since i have a little one around they don't seem to fit into the schedule very often anymore. my favorite ever is children of the corn. i don't really like the slasher-type horror films though, they always just made me laugh. 

The Exorcist...That movie was scary and still hold up today.It still the only movie that get to me if i watch it alone,late at night...

  Does anyone here remember seeing this movie when it first came out on the big screen back in (1971)?

I heard stories that people in theaters acroos the country were completely frweaked out and some even passed out..lol

 Salems lot was great,and the scenes of the Glick kid tapping at the window,and the grave digger sitting in the rocking chair were done perfectly..

  The shining had alot of great scenes...

The Shining is great. I love that movie. Sometimes the music alone makes a movie scary to me. That's why I still think the original Psycho is scary. The Sixth Sense creeped me out like no other film. Some say it's more of a thriller, but that movie SCARED me. So did The Others. I like movies that are creepy, not so much gory and knife slashing type of stuff. The movie needs to really get under my skin and stay with me afterwards for me to consider it scary. I was scared by The Ring. Oh and another one that I thought was really creepy was Frailty. Again, I don't think anyone would classify these as horror films, but for me, they were scary.
 
As a kid though, nothing scared me more than the Nightmare on Elm St movies. And the Halloween series. Also, Stephen Kings "It" gave me nightmares for days. I refused to watch that movie again until I was 22 years old. My brother asked me to pick out the scariest movie I remembered as a kid and I chose that one. So we went home to watch it and he was laughing within the first 30 minutes because it was so corny. I couldn't believe that I had been so scared by it. Just goes to show you how impressionable young minds can be! []

I love a good scary movie more than anything, but they do seem to be more gross than scary these days.  I like the ones that leave something to my imagination (which is pretty darn vivid) and tend to really be scared by things I can actually believe could happen.  One movie that kept me thinking and scared for the longest time was called "A Stranger is Watching"..or something like that.  I just remember the babysitter called the police and they said the call was coming from inside the house.  That whole movie freaked me out, but I think it was because I believed something like that could actually happen to me.

[link>http://forum.dog.com/asp/showProfile.asp?memid=21963]gaylemarie[/link]:  Thanks!  Happy Birthday to your daughter too!  I've always loved having my bday on Halloween (I'm weird like that).  []   Children of the Corn is pretty good (I may be a bit partial because it's supposed to be set in my home state:  Nebraska).
 
[link>http://forum.dog.com/asp/showProfile.asp?memid=20464]MhadDog[/link]:  Sorry, but I wasn't around in '71  [8D]  I would have LOVED to been there! 
 
For me a good scary movie can be either spooky and/or gruesome.  I think the spooky ones are the best to try to scare someone.  For spooky I agree with Ashland, Frailty, The Others, and Sixth Sense (unfortunately The Others & Sixth Sense I figured out pretty quickly).  For gruesome movies I would have to go with House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects & the remake of The Hills Have Eyes.  I hate to admit it (espicially when I work PT at a video store) but I haven't seen too many of the older horror flicks.  I need to sit down and have a horror movie marathon some weekend!

I like movies that are creepy, not so much gory and knife slashing type of stuff. The movie needs to really get under my skin and stay with me afterwards for me to consider it scary

 
Yesssss!  I really don't like real-life type gore stuff.  So, I mainly watch the Hitchcock movies.  Everytime I see Rear Window I'm on edge when Grace Kelly is in the killer's aparatment and the killer is at the door.  I know it's a little corny, but The Birds kind of freaked me out.  I was okay with it until I went outside and all those crows were sitting on the phone line.  And it was deadly silient outside that day.  All I could think about was that movie.  Creepy.
 
The first time I saw the Shining, I was house sitting for some friends of the parents.  It was on tv.  Wrong movie to watch!  They had a bird and a fish tank that made strange sounds.  Well, I sould say I watched most of it.  Sometimes I'd flip channels and hide under the blanket. 

Gonna show my age here, anyone remember Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black? The voodoo doll segment scared the daylights out of me!
 
Dawn

Is that the same one with the woman driving her car and being terrified by someone driving behind her only to find out there's a KILLER inside her own car and the driver behind is just trying to warn her?

i loved the movie IT, until the end, the giant spider thing ruined it for me. stephen king seems to have a problem with that, he will write an awesome novel and then just totally destroy it with some cheesy sci-fi ending.
 
i forgot about the hills have eyes (remake), after watching that im afraid of the desert even though i've never seen one. that is one movie that actually bothered me. what made watching that movie worse was that right before watching it i had just read a book about the nuclear tests they did in utah and how miners were subjected to massive doses of radiation and tons of sheep were born pot-bellied with no fur or legs. makes me shudder thinking about it.

OMG!! lol
i was just akid and saw that movie when it aired...she did just about everything you cold do to kill that ugly little thing..kik

i wonder if it was the inspiration for Chucky..


 do you remember what the other 2 storieswere about?

just remembered... one of the funniest horror movies that i love is shaun of the dead. watched it on cable this past weekend. wasnt quite the same as it was edited for tv, but still pretty funny.

ZOMBIE MOVIES ROCK!!  []