Scariest classic horror film

[LSK]

I find the 70s the era of the scariest movies.

And I do not include sequels here, only originals.

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. Older? OLDER???

I hate you. :grr:

:P

[LSK]

3. ...

as in not recent???

Is "classic" better for you?

:shrug:

[Pale Blue Dot]

7. When I think "older", I think

"Dracula"; "Frankenstein"; "The Wolf Man". You're making me feel old. And no, "classic" would be even worse. "70's" would probably damage my fragile ego the least (although I should point out that "Night of the Living Dead" was 1968.

:D

[TK421]

2. The original Halloween- a masterpiece

:thumbsup:

[LSK]

4. yes, by the 3rd sequel it was silly

[yellowcanine]

5. Oh man, how can you leave off "Psycho"? I know it is not strictly a "horror" film, but in terms of

sheer terror it was hard to beat.

[livetohike]

6. Two that scared me too death when I was younger are:

House on Haunted Hill - 1959

Village of the Damned - 1960 (I saw this a few years ago and was still scared)

[montanto]

8. What? no Rosemary's Baby??

but of those you list , i'll go with The Shining.

[unpossibles]

9. Bedtime For Bonzo nt

[Phillycat]

10. Definitely The Exorcist.

That movie is seriously fucked up.

[underpants]

12. Yeah and I never thought The Shining was all that scarey

looks liek the normal winter doldrums to me :shrug:

[tigereye]

30. well, that explains a lot!

Remind me not to visit you guys at your winter chalet!

[underpants]

34. Bring beer

need beer oh and some jerky too that helps

[Kerrytravelers]

33. I think The Shining is scary because I put myself in Shelly Duvall's palce and imagine what it would

be like to be stuck someplace with someone who is losing their mind and threatening me and my child. :scared: And those twin kids are seriously yikes looking.

[redqueen]

11. The Exorcist for me...

that one always gets me... ooh that face. :scared:

[skypilot]

13. Of the ones you've listed...

...I'd have to say "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"--the 1979 version. I own a copy of it and that movie actually gets creepier each time I watch it. With the times we live in, that movie just seems to cut a little close to the bone.

Although, my favorite classic horror flick, which is not listed in your poll, is still "Carrie". Not a terribly scary movie but I love it nonetheless.

[trueblue2007]

31. I voted for Other --- THE THING by John Carpenter

the picture of the monsters erupting right out of the dog's body still in my head. I HATED THAT SHOW.

should have told the creep who "told me" we were going to see it to take a flying leap BEFORE I saw it...not after.

I HATE "THE THING" cuz it scared the ($&#*%) outta me

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. The Innocents had some good scares.

I'd have thought it'd be on TV since Deborah Kerr just passed away, but no.

[yurbud]

15. Frailty & Hostel because both could happen in real life

[Perry Logan]

16. "Psycho" and "Alien" scared the peanuts out of my M&Ms.

[Danger Mouse]

20. Alien is a masterpiece of atmosphere and pacing.

good choice. :hi:

[Sequoia]

26. Yes, it was very scary.

[gpandas]

17. SCARY

Freaks

[stuntcat]

18. I count Jaws as classic and as Horror

:headbang:
I voted Exorcist, I love horror movies but I'm still scared to watch Exorcist, I haven't seen it in years.

[Danger Mouse]

19. The Exorcist is not scary. Not even remotely. I can never understand...

why it scares people. I just find it funny.
Now, 'Night of the Living Dead,' THAT is scary. :scared:

[NorthernSpy]

22. you too!

And isn't Night of the Living Dead great? I especially love the part where the first one is coming toward them early on in the cemetery. There's this perfect moment where he is just another person walking toward them, and in just one more step -- he's not.


:scared:


"Yeah, they're dead... They're all messed up."

[Danger Mouse]

23. 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Alien' are two of my favorite movies since they both scare the crap

out of me.
And yeah, the scene in the cemetary is classic.
Interestingly enough, they are never called 'zombies' in 'Night of the Living Dead.' They are called 'ghouls.' This is a more correct designation, mythologically, for their behavior.
Ghouls are undead that feast on the flesh of the living. I don't know why 'zombies' and 'ghouls' became interchangable.

[NorthernSpy]

21. I'm an Exorcist hardhead -- didn't do anything for me...

And I'm very easy to scare.


:shrug:

[martymar64]

24. Watch "Audition"

That movie will seriously fuck with your head. Rob Zombie admitted that it even gave him the crepps.

[AnneD]

25. The one I remember as scariest was...

Night of the Demon with Dana Andrews (1957). Terror and edge of you seat suspense. The Exorcict was pretty intense but I enjoyed the sequel with Richard Burton. It had a nice surreal touch to it.

[nonconformist]

27. The Exorcist, but honorable mention to Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

28. Domn't Look Now

1974 Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland - I loved this movie. It scared the bejeebus out of me. I highly recommend it.

[PassingFair]

29. Night of the Living Dead was the first "horror film" I ever saw.

My parents never let us watch TV unsupervised. It was
all Disney, all the time at home.

But....my Grannie!

I saw Night of the Living Dead all by myself, in the dark,
in the middle of the night,while she was asleep in the next room.
It scared the *hit out of me!

YEARS later, I saw it at a midnight "cult" movie show and laughed
my head off.

"Burn 'em, beat 'em and burn 'em!"

But, that first viewing...... :scared:

[Downtown Hound]

32. Interesting thing about your list

All of those movies were made in the 70's except for Night of the Living Dead, The Shining, and Friday the 13th. And those movies were made on the cusp of the 70's.

The 70's was the greatest decade ever for the horror movie.

[SteppingRazor]

35. Y'know, I thought The Exorcist was scary when I first saw it, but I rewatched it recently...

and found it more laughable than anything else.

[Richard Steele]

36. 1979's "Phantasm" was a very scary movie. It should be seen by all.

The sequels were direct-to-video CRAP; avoid them if possible.

[Highway61]

37. Last House on the Left

1972...scared the bejesus out of me...


Wes Craven's first film was a crude but shocking horror opus that, like George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), became a grind house hit largely because it went much further than terror films before it had been willing to go. Often compared to Ingmar Bergman's stark medieval rape drama The Virgin Spring (1960) (though one wonders whether this was influence or just coincidence), Last House on the Left follows a group of teenage girls heading into the city when they hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge. Like Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre two years later, Last House on the Left was an unrelievedly dark vision of contemporary horror that inspired many future films which copied its effects without achieving its visceral impact.

[BurtWorm]

38. It was only a movie... It was only a movie...

It was only a movie...

[Highway61]

39. Scary for it's day though

did you ever see it???

[BurtWorm]

40. No.

I was just misquoting the tag line in the ads.

I'm not a big horror fan myself--I don't particularly enjoy watching people seeming to be hurt and butchered--but I'm totally fascinated by the phenomenon of movies like LHOTL and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which not only scare people but depress the shit out of them. I can understand why people go see them, I think. But I tend to watch movies like that on video or DVD so I can control the experience and not have it control me.