Favorite scary films

  • Thread starter Thread starter F_Marturana
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Yes. Audrey Hepburn was wonderful in that film. Alan Arkin was just evil.

I heard a story that his mother was very mad at him for mistreating Audrey Hepburn. He said the roll was hard for him because she was as lovely in real life as he expected her to be.

When asked if he felt slighted for not receiving an Oscar nomination for that roll, he answered, “ they didn’t give oscars for torturing Audrey Hepburn.
 
Last edited:
I like the Horror of Dracula with Christopher Lee. Sadly he was under contract and was forced to keep making the Dracula films. He didn’t like most of them, and at a certain point wouldn’t even say his lines.

He was a good actor. He blamed his height for his lack of success in the theatre, he towered over all the other actors to the point it was distracting.

I remember in junior high school a teacher asked if anyone knew who played Dracula. She was referring to Lugosi. I answered Christopher Lee. She told me I was wrong. 😦
 
I think I saw When A Stranger Calls when I was a teenager and got really scared. There’s another movie that kind of scary, or supposed to be, but is cheesy more than anything, called Hell Night. It was made in 1981 and stars Linda Blair and Vince Van Patton.
 
Night of the Living Dead is the only horror movie I really like. I haven’t been a fan of real gory films since I was in high school, so that one’s pretty tame.
 
“Get Out” is very good and probably my favorite. “A Quiet Place” which bishop Barron highly recommends is also very good.

I don’t like movies with supernatural evil in them. But if it’s shot like a horror movie but the bad guy is just a bad person and not some ghost or demon or spirir then it’s not as scary for me and a lot more tolerable.
 
Last edited:
The Shining is one of my all time favorites. Jack Nicholson was magnificent in that movie. The Others with Nicole Kidman too.
 
Night of the Living Dead is such a good movie! There are some very “deep” themes in the movie. Really scary! One of m biggest phobias/fears is to open my curtains and see someone’s face pressed up against my window grinning at me–yikes!!!
 
Jordan Peele came to Illinois this past summer to film another horror movie!! He was at White Pines State Park, and my husband and I love that park and visit it often, and my daughter got married in that park! He apparently was looking for a park with a lot of pine trees, but couldn’t find one in California, and one of his staff who came from Chicago told him about White Pines and he took a look and decided that it was just what he was looking for!

I can’t wait to see the movie! Of course, I’ll probably be scared of White Pines Park after I see it!
 
Last edited:
I’ve never seen the entire film at one sitting.

Kubrick put in so many things that aren’t scary per se, but give you that uneasy feeling.

Danny riding around on his big wheel in one scene. There’s no background music and he’s riding along alternating between a hard floor and a carpet. The sound effect is so disconcerting.

Then the driving scene to the hotel. It almost looks like it’s shot on an angle and you feel like the car is going to plunge down into the valley.
 
I get that POTC was a well done movie but my imagination is sufficient to conjure Jesus’ Passion. I don’t need Mel Gibson’s graphic visuals to emphasize it. Maybe I’m overly sensitive but over-the-top violence isn’t my cup of tea.
 
Probably not. But I still don’t understand the ending: it’s actually a weird kind of Freudian interpretation that is not really Freudian.
 
The two creepiest stories I’ve ever seen are: (1) a 1960’s episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour called An Unlocked Window and (2) a TV-movie from the 1980’s starring Lindsay Wagner and Bruce Boxleitner called From the Dead of Night. Real scary stuff, these two.
 
meltzerboy2 said:
Probably not. But I still don’t understand the ending: it’s actually a weird kind of Freudian interpretation that is not really Freudian.
Click to expand...
I am not sure I really understood it either.
I just remember Anthony Perkins was so creepy throughout the movie.

The Unlocked Window was a very scary episode of Alfred Hitchcock. I remember seeing it when I was very young and it really frightened me! It came on not too long ago, but the show comes on so late here, I wasn’t able to stay awake. I would love to see it again. I have never heard of the movie you mentioned with Lindsay Wagner and Bruce Boxleitner.
 
I only like to watch the very old classics. I love Bela Lagosi.
Newspapers reported that audience members fainted when they saw the shocking scenes of Count Dracula on the screen. LOL

www.liveabout.com

The Story of Bela Lugosi, Hollywood's Most Famous Dracula

Bela Lugosi is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in the 1931 film of the same name. He starred in numerous horror films throughout his life.
www.liveabout.com www.liveabout.com
 
Last edited:
Check out the latter on Youtube perhaps, that is, if you want to be totally freaked out LOL.
 
The opening scene of Ghost Ship is enough to give anyone a start. Decent movie.
 
Jaws is a favorite. I was just posting in a thread on a Facebook group about films that traumatized you as a child. Jaws would qualify; when I was 8, I attended a summer camp for kids with disabilities, and we had an outing to see Jaws at a nearby theater. I remember having numerous shark nightmares after that. I appreciate the film more now as an adult, and I own a copy.

The Alien series, especially the first two. Aliens (the second one) was the first R-rated movie I saw in a theater. Since I was only 15 at the time, my Grandma Betty took me to see it.

The original Frankenstein.

The American remake of The Ring was another good one. That made me a fan of Naomi Watts.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top