What Are the Top Ten Scary Movies, According to You?
muichimotsude recently posted a snippet asking what folks thought was the scariest movie of all time. In the spirit of the upcoming Hallowe'en, Dia de Los Muertos, and Samhain season, let me ask you:
Here are a bunch of my faves, in no particular order:
Jaws (just saw it again for the first time in years last night, and it STILL gets me going)
Soylent Green (yeah, I know it's a cheesy 60's sci fi, but it scared the Hell outta' me, and I am about to watch it again tonight, hee!)
Planet of the Apes (the original--another one I saw as a kid, and it got to me)
Alien (::shudder::)
The Birds (when I was a little kid, I saw this movie for the first time, and it totally freaked me out)
The Blob (another one that frightened me as a small child)
The Day After (how can watching the US Heartland getting nuked NOT scare the Hell outta' you?)
The Thing (both the original, and the John Carpenter version)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (this one seriously got to me, even though it was a low-budget flick that was always shot too darkly to see well--Donald Sutherland makes a great scary guy in any movie in which he is playing that role)
Ghost Story (I'm a long-time fan of Peter Straub)
War of the Worlds (the new one with Tom Cruise is currently my favorite)
The Andromeda Strain (another one I saw as a kid, and it got to me)
12 Monkeys
and of course, John Carpenter's Halloween (I am a long-time Carpenter fan). It was the first slasher flick I had ever seen, I was fifteen, and I didn't even know we were going to a horror flick when we went to see this movie. I had to go back to a mobile home back in the deep woods of rural Tennessee after I finished watching this flick, and I was a newcomer there. I didn't sleep a wink all night. I had seen the locals. . . .
2001: A Space Odyssey (HAL? Don't open the airlock, HAL!)
The Perfect Storm (one of the ultimate scary flicks if you are a sailor, yeep)
Angel Heart (I hate chickens, too)
The Fallen
Jurassic Park (according to my goddaughter, the third one is the scariest, but I still vote for the first one)
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Nosferatu
The Shining (although the book was scarier--I read a LOT of Stephen King in my youth)
Charly
Ben