Originally Posted By DAR I'm planning on watching some different scary movies the next few days with a viewing of Halloween(original) on Halloween. Other movies I plan on watching Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Haunting(1963) The Ichabod portion of Mr. Toad and Ichabod, Evil Dead 2. Anything else I should consider and don't say The Exorcist not scary at all.
Originally Posted By utahjosh Ghostbusters is a holiday tradition for me. Not too scary, though. Just a GREAT movie. Ghostbusters 2 scared me more. That old dead guy is creepy.
Originally Posted By llanatoye Very campy but oh so much fun, do you remember Kolchak: The Night Stalker? I have them on DVD and pull them out to watch at Halloween.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I'm a huge fan of the Universal Monster flicks of the 30's and40's. A few years ago they sold DVD box sets of Dracula / Wolf Man /Frankenstein & Mummy -- have themall and have already started the rotation. Funny my kids ( 14 and 23 ) think the black and white flicks actually make them scarier than they should be because they are so used to color everything. Van Helsing also a scary flick for this time of year - not a great movie,but has a lot of monsters in it
Originally Posted By jasmine7 One of my faves at this time of year is Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.
Originally Posted By mapleservo I LOVE Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. There's monstery goodness in every bite. I'm a big fan of all the old Universal Monster movies as well. I'm not big into the scary - probably the Burton Sleepy Hollow is as far as I go. The Ichabod short has got to be my favourite though. (Monster House is kinda cool too.) We just picked up Monster Squad, the old 80s film after hearing comparisons to Goonies. It's cool to see variations of the classic monsters, but it didn't really grab me too much.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Not necessarily scary: Young Frankenstein (completely essential) Midnight Lace (Doris Day, Rex Harrison) Laura (Gene Tierney, Vincent Price) Wait Until Dark (Audrey Hepburn) first saw it in 8th grade with my Mom; Dad was in Viet Nam; spent most of the movie with my face in her lap....scared the holy goodness out of me! I am such a chicken! And, it's ALWAYS a good time for Ghostbusters! xoxo That's about it...I'm not good for scary movies...
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains What is Laura -- I think I saw it -- does it have a huge house on a shore that catches on fire???
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Nope. Laura is a film noir from the 40's. Black and white. Laura is murdered. The detective on the case learns all about her from her friends, her diary, her portrait....and falls in love with her. Excellent film noir. They give it four stars.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Oh! Which makes me think of another classic...Ten Little Indians. My two youngest DD's have loved it since they were in elementary school...
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Hmm which one is black and white with a house on the hill above the ocean... the house finally burns..
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove I don't know...but you've made me think of another great movie again! LOL! The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison....wow, they've made my list twice each!)
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<Kira: Hocus Pocus of course! >> *pats Kira on the head* Sigh... remind me to loan you "Disney's High School Chainsaw Massacre Musical" one of these days... I for one shall add the original Dawn of the Dead to the list.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I recommended this to someone else (toonkirby??) in another thread: Dead of Night. Classic Brit film from 1945. Pretty much credited with inventing the "omnibus" horror flick, with several short stories and a linking story. The linking story is WAAY better than in most subsequent omnibus horror flicks. It includes not the first, but the best, version of "the ventriloquist who gets taken over by his dummy" (with Michael Redgrave), a great story about a haunted mirror, and the terrific linking story that pulls it all together. Other sequences are less good, but none are bad, including the comic relief (!) section. The "hide and seek" sequence is good for a quick shiver too.
Originally Posted By mele The original "House on Haunted Hill" is a classic. Pretty funny, though. Kind of scared me when I was little. We didn't get to watch scary stuff and so when we did sneak it in, it scared me. Took awhile to get over that. The "House on Haunted Hill" remake, with Geoffrey Rush, is kind of creepy. It's not that great but it has a bit of ick factor going for it. "The Ring" is my favorite creepy movie. Hated the sequel. "Night of the Demons" cracks me up. One of the characters does something very interesting with lipstick. "Witchboard" used to be one of our ultimate favorites (my girlfriends). It's got Tawny Kitean and Patch from Days of Our Lives. (I don't watch soaps anymore but DOOL was my favorite back in the day.) "Fright Night" is another funny one. Roddy McDowell (sp?). My daughter hates scary movies and tends to hang out in the hallway bugging us when we try to watch them. (She won't stay in her if we're watching scary movies even though she spends hours in there when we're watching stuff she finds boring.)
Originally Posted By mele Oh, I used to like "Hellraiser" too but it started to creep me out in a yucky way, not a good, fun way.
