74+ Scary Movies, 10 scary scenes

[pgtremblay]

Two years ago I threw down my top 74 horror movie list. Given the list is 2 years old now, I'd like to retroactively add a few more movies to that list, but do it without retroactively removing some of the old titles. That doesn't make total sense, I know, but I'm doing it anyway.

Movies I've seen after I made the list:

--Lake Mungo goes in my

Comments

[nick_kaufmann]

I agree about LAKE MUNGO. It's awesome and beautiful, and the cell phone footage is creepy as all get out.

THE ABANDONED is another movie that creeped me out. Brother and sister in their ancestral home haunted by ghosts of themselves.

[pgtremblay]

Sounds like i need to see The Abandoned.

[buymeaclue]

Thanks for the tip - Lake Mungo sounds superb.

[pgtremblay]

I actually own two copies of the DVD. One for me to keep, one to proselytize with.

[buymeaclue]

Looks like Netflix streaming will hook me up!

[harmonyfb]

How is it that I've never heard of this movie? Wonder if it's on Netflix?

[readingthedark]

May and Ginger Snaps are certainly two of my faves. Our tastes are quite similar, though I strongly prefer Evil Dead to the other two and I have a real thing for Argento, so Suspira would probably be in my top slot. Oh, and Devil's Backbone would be top three for me. And you're a little more into the Universal and 1950s classics where I tend to drift more into Hammer--but our lists of 74 are still going to overlap by at least 64% / 48 films.

[pgtremblay]

I have to admit that I haven't seen any Argento movies in their entirety as for years, I tried to avoid gore in my horror viewing.

Lack of hammer films on my list is a problem.

[docbrite]

I can't watch ANY of Jaws due to seeing it in the theater when I was 7, eating a huge tub of buttered popcorn, and then getting stomach flu the next day. No problem with much gorier movies, but Jaws still makes me puke.

[pgtremblay]

Icky. I don't like buttered popcorn all that much anyway. This cinches it.

[harmonyfb]

My top scariest scenes? (I have issues.)

1. There was a giant spider movie I saw when I was five. Don't know the name. In it, the giant spiders were attacking, and there was a baby standing in a playpen in the front yard of a house, just standing there screaming hysterically, and nobody was coming. I had nightmares about that movie for years.

2. The scene in the Twilight Zone episode "Twenty-Two" where the nurse says "Room for one more, honey." (Again, nightmares for years.)

3. The scene in The Ring where (oh, you haven't seen it yet...um, small spoiler alert, avert your eyes) a fly in the video suddenly emerges into the real world.

4. The scene in Videodrome where the protagonist is spooning with the women he just had sex with, and suddenly he pulls out a long sharp piece of metal and shoves it through her earlobe. ::twitch:: That still makes my tummy feel funny.

5. The endless, merciless pounding in The Changeling.

6. In the (fairly crappy) science fiction movie Queen of Blood, there's a scene where one crewmember goes

[pgtremblay]

That spider movie sounds terrifying. Hate spiders.