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Nov 01 '06 (Updated Dec 04 '06)
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Honorable mention has to go to King Kong (the current Peter Jackson Version. Lumpy getting his head eaten by the giant leeches...wild.
People seem to forget that the purpose of a horror movie is to scare the crap out of you. Not just gross you out, or intrigue you but flat out scare you.
There have been some great creepy flics that seem to be on a lot of lists that I don’t feel deserve to be there. Great movies? Maybe. but horror movies? Nah.
A great example is the repetition of multiple Stephen King movies on lists. Now I’m a huge fan of the King. He is the modern master of written horror… but by and large his films aren’t all that scary. They don’t translate well.
The Shining? The Dead Zone? Not really scary. Both had moments. Danny Torrance running in to the dead girls in the hall way “…Come Play with us Danny…” and Frank Dodd killing himself in the bathroom were sufficiently creepy but it was the disturbing performances of Jack Nicholson and Chris Walken that propelled these films.
One scary person doth not a horror movie make. Hence the reason Silence of the Lambs didn’t make my list.
If you want to scare me… scare me.
So here we go. The 10 top scariest movies I’ve ever watched.
The Exorcist (1973) “Come In Father Karras…”
Flat out scariest horror movie ever made. I don’t care what people have thrown at the screen in the past 30 some odd years. Having a little girl possessed by Satan and making her masturbate with a crucifix until she tears herself open will never be (and should never be) topped.
When they re-released it “with scenes too scary for theatres” I thought to myself:
“For the love of God… what could they have omitted?”
House Of 1000 Corpses (2003) “Who’s your daddy?”
I’m surprised that this movie hasn’t made more top 10 lists. Granted it ripped off quite a few classics but it was so unrelenting and non- stop intense that… well… I’ll need to paint a picture.
My wife and I watch horror flics for sheer fun. We’ve seen every serial killer movie made. Normally her reaction is “ehhh… it wasn’t bad.”
After this movie ended we sat in silence for a full minute.
Then she burst out crying… and wouldn’t stop for half an hour… and didn’t sleep that night… and still hasn’t let me buy it.
For my part, I just sat there with my hands shaking and repeated “holy sh*t” about 20 times.
The horror equivalent of being hit in the face every 3 minutes for 2 hours
The Omen 1 & 2 (1976 & 1978) “You were born of a Jackal, Damien”
Should be viewed as 1 movie. Maybe it’s just me… little kids possessed by the devil are truly creepy. Especially little British kids.
This had a severe effect on my relationship with the English kid down the street.
“Would you like to invite Nigel for dinner?”
“no.”
“Why not?”
“He sounds like satan…”
I’ve probably said too much already. Some weird accident is going to befall me. I wonder if I should avoid the elevator?
Carrie (1976) “They’re going to laugh at you.”
My exception to the Stephen King rule. Of course, covering someone from head to toe with pig’s blood tends to go a long way.
Sissy Spacek was so freaky and disturbing in this movie that I could never watch her in anything else with out thinking.. “wow, she’s f*cked up.” It kind of ruined Coal Miner’s Daughter for me…. and JFK
Jim Garrison’s wife killed Kennedy WITH HER MIND!!!
Also this screwed up every John Travolta movie. Tough to watch him as an arc-angel when all you can think is “What a tool….”
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) “You could have dinner with us.”
My wife’s pick. I kind of thought it was stupid and liked the re-make better however if I don’t include it, she’ll kill me.
To think they almost called it “HeadCheese”
The Sixth Sense 1999 “I see dead people… all the time. They’re everywhere.”
I shouldn’t have to defend this pick. I dare you to picture Hailey Joel Osment saying the line above (or how about “Grandma Says Hi..”) with out breaking out in gooseflesh.
Or close your eyes and visualize the kid turning around with the back of his head blown off (“I’ll show you where my dad keeps his gun”) .. or the pale girl throwing up under the blanket… or the people hanging in the school…
Or Vincent Gray, standing in the bathroom in his underwear. “Do you know why you’re afraid when you’re alone? I do. I do.”
Go ahead…
I dare you.
Hostel (2005) “I always wanted to be a surgeon.”
I’ll never go on vacation in Prague again.
94 minutes and 150 gallons of fake blood later and I could barely stop squirming. I’ve never seen more graphic torture… except for maybe The Passion Of The Christ
The Asian girl… with the butane torch… and the eye thingy… Jesus wept…. Whoever thought of this should spend the next 10 years looking at ink blots.
Jaws (1975) “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
Classic example of how to highly disturb a male. Take one very attractive woman. Strip her naked. Have her go swimming. Wait till said male is aroused and then…have her RIPPED APART BY A SHARK!!!!
15 years of instant guilt.
You couldn’t get me to go swimming in a POOL after this movie came out. I have no idea of its effect on beach tourism but it couldn’t have been positive.
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane (1962) � “But ya are Blanche… ya are in that chair.”
Bette Davis’ makeup alone makes this a top 10 scary film. Normally thrillers are thrillers and horrors are horrors (for instance Silence Of The Lambs, Seven and Saw 1,2 and 3 are awesome thrillers) but something about this cranks it to the “Horror Movie” status.
Yes, Bette is a stone cold bi-polar douche bag. Yes the rat on the plate freaks you out… but I think the real scary part is that I was the favorite of 4 kids in my family. It was so obvious it was embarrassing really.
I can think of at least 1 of my siblings who begrudge the hell out of me. If I were paralyzed and they had to look after me… I’d be dead.
The Amityville Horror (1979) "...get Out!!!"
This one gets an honorable mention. I was 12 when this came out. It was the first film I snuck in to. It was the first horror movie I saw in a theatre. It was also the first movie that I found so scary that I had to leave after 45 minutes.
By today’s standards.. not too scary. But to a 12 year old, watching a movie about a possessed house with flies and multiple murders and demonic voices and blood filled toilettes and secret rooms… well… pretty scary.
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