Anything scary to watch this weekend?

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Looking for some decent horror movies to watch for Halloween.

It seems that there is nothing new out there and we get tired of Halloween, Elm Street, Friday 13th, TXCM, etc.

Anyone found something good? Maybe European or Japanese horror?
 
There is a Hallowe’en ep of Highway to Heaven that I would like to see again. Michael Landon did a very campy reprise of his 1957 “Teenaged Werewolf” role. Mark Gordon is having a nightmare . . . or is it really a dream? 😃 :eek:

Edit: A little judicious searching, and . . .
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There’s a TV movie/show called “A Haunting in Connecticut.” It was one of the scariest movies I’ve seen. I only saw part of it–it was a bright, sunny Saturday afternoon and I was in my mid-40s, and it totally freaked me out. :eek:
 
Turner Classic Movies has a lot of good classic horror flicks this weekend if you’re into those…
 
I came across this movie “Hush” on Netflix a while ago. I haven’t watched it yet, but it’s gotten excellent reviews.
 
on_the_hill said:
There’s a TV movie/show called “A Haunting in Connecticut.” It was one of the scariest movies I’ve seen. I only saw part of it–it was a bright, sunny Saturday afternoon and I was in my mid-40s, and it totally freaked me out. :eek:
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Those shows were well done, even if you just look at them as fiction! Same with that haunting of (celebrity.) Scary!
 
The haunting! The original 1960s version with Claire bloom and Julie harris. It is terrifying and not disgustingly so!
 
Setting the horror of politics aside, here is a great movie !
★★★★ | Review by Roger Ebert, November 24, 1996

The Night of the Hunter

" Charles Laughton’s **"The Night of the Hunter” (1955) **is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves because of its lack of the proper trappings. Many “great movies” are by great directors, but Laughton directed only this one film, which was a critical and commercial failure long overshadowed by his acting career. Many great movies use actors who come draped in respectability and prestige, but Robert Mitchum has always been a raffish outsider. And many great movies are realistic, but “Night of the Hunter” is an expressionistic oddity, telling its chilling story through visual fantasy. People don’t know how to categorize it, so they leave it off their lists. Yet what a compelling, frightening and beautiful film it is ! "

Cast:
Robert Mitchum as Rev. Harry Powell
Shelley Winters as Willa Harper
Lillian Gish as Rachel
Drama, Film Noir, Suspense, Thriller
 
tuscany said:
Setting the horror of politics aside, here is a great movie !
★★★★ | Review by Roger Ebert, November 24, 1996

The Night of the Hunter

" Charles Laughton’s **"The Night of the Hunter” (1955) **is one of the greatest of all American films, but has never received the attention it deserves because of its lack of the proper trappings. Many “great movies” are by great directors, but Laughton directed only this one film, which was a critical and commercial failure long overshadowed by his acting career. Many great movies use actors who come draped in respectability and prestige, but Robert Mitchum has always been a raffish outsider. And many great movies are realistic, but “Night of the Hunter” is an expressionistic oddity, telling its chilling story through visual fantasy. People don’t know how to categorize it, so they leave it off their lists. Yet what a compelling, frightening and beautiful film it is ! "

Cast:
Robert Mitchum as Rev. Harry Powell
Shelley Winters as Willa Harper
Lillian Gish as Rachel
Drama, Film Noir, Suspense, Thriller
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This is truly a frightening movie! My heart was pounding during some scenes!
 
I love “Night of the Hunter,” but don’t think of it as a scary movie. A scary movie has something supernatural, a ghost, a goblin, witches, and the like.
 
on_the_hill said:
I love “Night of the Hunter,” but don’t think of it as a scary movie. A scary movie has something supernatural, a ghost, a goblin, witches, and the like.
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Not necessarily. There are plenty of psychological thrillers–Alfred Hitchcock films, for example–that are quite frightening, perhaps even more so than those with supernatural entities.
 
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