Posted on 02/27/2020 8:07:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yeah, that was a weird one!
***The Shining didn’t make the list? ***
The great movie version or the horrid made-for-TV long version? Like two different films.
I’ll take the original THE HAUNTING (1963), BURNT OFFERINGS(1976) and POLTERGEIST (1984)as the scariest, along with RACE WITH THE DEVIL(1975).
EXORCIST was silly.
THE OMEN was good.
As for SI-FI movies, the first one to really scare me was BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS back in 1954, and the original INVADERS FROM MARS. The next, seen on late night tv was I WALK WITH A ZOMBIE.
I still thrill at the original FRANKENSTEIN movies from the 1930s. How come none of those great old UNIVERSAL films are on the list?
At the time I read it in the late 60s, can’t recall which one, but it was a book by H. P. Lovecraft. Not so much scary as incredibly spooky and profoundly atmospheric.
I need to go back and read some of his work again.
Scanners, hands down!
It’s different watching horror as a kid and as an adult. When you’re a kid, you are very willing to suspend your disbelief and that’s what everyone behind the making of a scary movie hopes _everyone_ will do. Because while you can unsettle adults, they are always aware that what playing before them is not real.
I like the great horror classics of the 1930’s and 1940’s the best, but most are held in esteem today because of the great acting, cinematography and art direction, not for their ability to terrify, as they are so tame compared to most modern horror flicks.
The movie that began as a comedy and ended as a documentary.
#7.
Lovecraft is the master of spooky atmosphere! Too bad he had such a terrible time with ending his stories.
Saw and Hostel are not “Horror” movies. Torture porn
I would argue that Hitchcock was the master.
I have to go with the Movie version.
I didn’t know there was a TV version.
Have you ever watched some of the Italian horror/suspense films (Giallos)? There are some interesting films in that genre.
Any Barbra Streisand movie.
Different medium. Hitchcock film, Lovecraft the written word.
But Lovecraft might have trouble beating out Edgar Allen Poe.
Susperia. Both the original and the remake. Pretty good.
That’s the stair case in “The Exorcist.”
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