What's your favorite Scary Movie and Movie memory?

[Beetlescott]

Hello all. Given that it is October, and the last day of the month is Halloween, Oct seems to be the time of year to pull out the Scary Movies to watch. AMC hosts Fear Fest and ChillerTV.com is hosting scary movies all this month. My question to you is what is your favorite Scary Movie? I just love the classics. The black and white ones like Frankenstien, The Wolf man, and Dracula with the likes of Bela Legosi, Lon Chaney,Jr. and Borris Karrloff. I have memories that go way back to the early 60s when we would be put to bed early on Saturday night, and our Daddy would awake us at midnight to watch Shock Theater. So that said what is your favorite Scary movie or favorite movie memory?

[Boopster]

That is so funny this thread is posted, because last night we watched the scariest places to go in america that are haunted, and when I watch stuff about ghosts I can't walk in the dark for a while cause it spooks me. Anyway, I was just telling my husband last night that I remember just as clear as a bell still in my mind, when my mom and dad took me and my sister to the movies to see Frankenstein I think it must have been one of the first ones cause Boris Carlo (think Carlo is with a c maybe k) played Frankenstein, and when they were showing him on fire, I screamed and cried so loud they had to leave the theater I was about 3 years old

[Boopster]

BTW Beetlescott since you live in Louisville Ky. you may have heard of one of the most haunted places in america, that is in Louisville, it's the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Wouldn't catch me going in there

[AmyJane]

Originally Posted by Boopster

BTW Beetlescott since you live in Louisville Ky. you may have heard of one of the most haunted places in america, that is in Louisville, it's the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Wouldn't catch me going in there

Ghost Hunters did an investigation there. It was really creepy looking but I don't think they found a substantial amount of evidence. It was a pretty boring episode compared to some of their others.

[Beetlescott]

I havn't heard of that before, but I will indeed check it out. They do have a 100 year old morgue called "Baxter Ave Morgue" they open every Oct and sell tickets to tour it. I havn't been there yet, but I am thinking about it for this year. We went to the Theater and watched Dracula our second year here, it was awesome! It was based on the original Bram Stoker classic.

[chiltepin]

Current scariest movie: Viy, a Russian movie based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. It's on YouTube. A young monk kills a witch and is charged to watch over her body for three nights alone in a chapel. The witch pops out of her coffin, the coffin zooms through the air above his head, demons creep out of the walls, and he is saved only by the circle he has drawn around himself. By the third night he has turned white and gone mad. Then he dies. Incidentally, it was a different story by Gogol, sometimes known as The Sorcerer, that's the scariest story I ever read.

Scary movie memories: When I was very young, a neighbor took a whole bunch of us kids to see a revival of The Wizard of Oz. Well, the witch scared the bejesus out of me and, much to her annoyance, the kind lady had to take me out into the lobby.

Another memory, this time from my 20s: Staying out at my brother's, watching a really creepy movie--not something hokey like Dracula, which you can laugh about, but really creepy--and staying in a small room separate from the rest of the house and hearing scary noises all night. Just tree branches and wild animals, probably, but I moved back into the main house and sacked out on the sofa. BTW I haven't the remotest idea what the movie was or even what it was about, but I hope I never see it again.

[chiltepin]

This thread deserves not to die an ignominious death on the second page.

[Boopster]

I agree heres "the man"

[jdesigns]

I did enjoy the "Blair Witch Project" years ago.

[Beetlescott]

If you wanna keep the thread going, along with your memories, why don't you list your favorite top ten Horror/Monster movies when you finish?

1. Halloween
2. Friday the 13th
3. Alien
4. Halloween 2
5. Halloween H20
6. When a Stranger Calls (original)
7. The Wolf Man (1942)
8. Frankenstien (Karloff)
9. Dracula
10.Stir of Echoes

[chiltepin]

A favorite moment from Ed Wood, though it's comical rather than horrific: Martin Landau, as Bela Lugosi, exploding with a number of unprintable oaths at a fan who has dared to mention "that ****-******* limey' (Boris Karloff) in the same breath.

[Beetlescott]

Was Karloff in the Ed Wood movie? I havn't seen that one, I will put it on my Netflex account.

[pixelnexus]

I was traumatized as a kid by "The Stuff".

There was another movie about some kids who turned into zombie like killers after their school bus drove through a mysterious cloud. Their fingernails turned black and they started killing their parents, siblings etc.

I dont know the name of the movie, but I'm reminded of it everytime I see an emo/goth kid with their nails painted.

[Beetlescott]

I have a small tidbit for people who might be interested. Did You Know the elderly lady who played in Titanic, also, in her 20s, played the bride in the original Frankenstien?

[AmyJane]

Originally Posted by Beetlescott

Was Karloff in the Ed Wood movie? I havn't seen that one, I will put it on my Netflex account.

Silly Scott. Ed Wood was made in 1994. Boris Karloff died in 1969

[D2Beetle]

I like horror movies, however I do not find them scary; the only movie that scared me was the original Phantom Of The Opera and that is because I was alone and around 9-10 when I saw it.

The only horror/suspense movies that I do not like are those that are just bloody hack-n-slash; otherwise I like all horror/suspense movies.

[AmyJane]

Originally Posted by D2Beetle

I like horror movies, however I do not find them scary; the only movie that scared me was the original Phantom Of The Opera and that is because I was alone and around 9-10 when I saw it.

The only horror/suspense movies that I do not like are those that are just bloody hack-n-slash; otherwise I like all horror/suspense movies.

Same here! I love scary movies yet I have yet to find one that scares me! I'm still searching

[thorgipsy]

Originally Posted by Boopster

BTW Beetlescott since you live in Louisville Ky. you may have heard of one of the most haunted places in america, that is in Louisville, it's the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Wouldn't catch me going in there

It's a popular attraction around Halloween. Radio stations and kids flock to it.

One of the scariest movies when I was very young (awhile back) was The Haunting from '63.
Not to be confused with the laughable remake from '99.
The ghosts chilled me to the bone, I was however very young at the time.

1. The Haunting
2. The Amityville Horror
3. The Exorcist
4. Alien
5. Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. The Thing (John Carpenter)
7. Event Horizon
8. Hellraiser
9. War of the Worlds (1953)
10. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Honorable mention: Smurfs on Ice (not a movie but pretty damn scary!)

[LadybugEwa]

I was 7 and I watched "The Forbidden Planet" with my parents one evening.
That was the only time I remember (and my mom agrees) that I got up and bothered them in the middle of the night about being scared.

[Alan From NYC]

Two stories.

When I was five, I had to be removed from the theater. "Bambi" was just too upsetting.

Years later, on a Saturday afternoon, I went to see a movie called, "Mark Of The Devil," which graphically told the story of witch hunts. Nasty stuff. Horrible.

Monday morning, between classes, the chairman of the English department was addressing his entourage in the hall, and talking about the movie. "It was excellent," he said, "but I felt very uncomfortable because someone sitting behind me was poking me with a screwdriver."

"Y'know," I interrupted, "I saw that movie, too."

"Did you like it?" he asked.

"Yeah," I replied. "But I dropped my screwdriver."

For a moment, he looked at me in abject fear before breaking into a stupid grin.

"You didn't!"

"It was a Craftsman," I said, smiling and walking away.