DIdn't much care for The Grudge, but as far as monster flicks go (at least from the last 30 years), I think you hit all the bases here.

Have you seen "White Noise" with Michael Keaton? It's about contacting spirits through EVA (the static on TV or radio). It was REALLY scary. ?Then again, I was on an airplane going to hong kong... dark cabin and extreme turbulence....

Still, I don't listen to static at all. I turn the channel right away

I think you hit all the bases here.

Awwww.......I only touched on them, and I didn't even do anything involving 80's slash fests, a boy and his chainsaw, 50's B scifi, or anything starring Neve Campbell. Ya gotta have a favorite scary movie, right?

I don't listen to static at all. I turn the channel right away

I don't think that's an option for us, although NBS is free to do so now.

I concur with Nightmare Before Christmas and Evil Dead 2. With the sort of theme you're going for (more camp, less serious?), I'd suggest Dead Alive (but make sure you get the Unrated version; the R rated version cut a bunch out, so you don't get all the gory gags). It's gotta be good; Peter Jackson (Meet the Feebles, Lord of the Rings) directed it!

Awwww.......I only touched on them, and I didn't even do anything involving 80's slash fests, a boy and his chainsaw, 50's B scifi, or anything starring Neve Campbell. Ya gotta have a favorite scary movie, right?

I'm glad you skipped the 80s slash fests since they are not worthy of mention. Wes Craven is to horror as Ozzy Osbourne is to Opera Arias. ;~D

I also didn't think you were talking about "scary" movies in general but merely Monster flicks (vampires, zombies, ghouls, werewolves... etc).

I'm more into the ghost story flicks. The Changeling is my favorite, but there are many others. Every year around Halloween we host a horror movie night (the 27th this year). We usually play at least one old time horror (this year will be Vincent Price's "House on Haunted HIll", a cheezy horror B Movie (which we usually have fun heckling)... and then a more contemporary horror movie (haven't decided on that one yet). The Changeling is always the fall back in case the modern one fails to induce heebies or jeebies. ;~D

An older horror movie I would recommend is Event Horizon. What alien tried to be, Event Horizon succeeded! However, while it is a horror move, it isn't what I consider "halloween horror".

Ummm...

Define "older", ParaTed2k... Event Horizon came out in 1997, starring Sam Neill and Lawrence "Cowboy Carl" Fishburne.
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But for me, "Firestarter" is cheesy but good fun.
"Beetlejuice" and "Nightmare Before Christmas" are excellent. (Every film Tim Burton does is a Halloween classic; you're telling me "Edward Scissorhands" was a Christmas movie?!?!)

"Lady in White" (except for the storyline with the black family, especially when the man gets shot.)

"The Mascot"

"The Lost Boys"

this year will be Vincent Price's "House on Haunted HIll", a cheezy horror B Movie (which we usually have fun heckling)...

Come on, you aren't terrified by the skeleton puppet? And I swear the rope curling around that girl's legs must be where Raimi got the idea for the girl getting "attacked" by vines in Evil Dead. I'm a Vincent Price junkie. I've tried to get everything he's been in. I've got some of his old stuff like The Bat, and the House on Haunted Hill, but I've got some of his later stuff too, Thriller, his appearance on the muppet show, Edward Scissorhands, etc........

Wes Craven is to horror as Ozzy Osbourne is to Opera Arias. ;~D

So.....he's a rock star of the horror industry. This is a bad thing?

An older horror movie I would recommend is Event Horizon

Excellent film.

Lady in White" (except for the storyline with the black family, especially when the man gets shot.)"The Mascot"

Haven't seen these two yet, The Mascot is the french one from the thirties with the toy dog, right?

Define "older",

Older than the last MRE you ate...........you hope.

Haven't seen these two yet, The Mascot is the french one from the thirties with the toy dog, right?

"Lady in White" is a great ghost story. Very surreal. Starring Lukas Haas and Katherine Helmond (Jessica Tate from Soap.)

I saw a shortened version of "The Mascot" on Night Flight titled "Devil's Ball."

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TITLE: Mascot, The
DATE : (1933, France,Short 30 mins)
GOOD : YesYES
FIND : rare
GENRE: Animation, Childrens, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Foreign
THEME: Artificial Life, Creativity, Dreaming, Extraterrestrials, Growth/Healing, Journeying, Mind, Myth/Religion, Spirits, Transformations

PLOT : Toys come to life at the devil's midnight party. Amazing early stop-motion animation of stuffed dog that braves a devil's enchanted party of rubbish creatures to bring back an orange to a sick girl
NOTES: beware shortened versions, dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz, aka "Fetiche", aka "Puppet Love", aka "Stuffy's Errand of Mercy", aka "The Devil's Ball"

I always liked Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" for the atmoshphere. Very visual freak.

Also.... "The Blair Witch Project." I admit it. I had to sleep with the light on in this movie. I can see why people trashed it, but I spent two summers of sleeping in the woods in a tent in places where we were flown in by helicopters (the joys of treeplanting) and if I saw some freaky (word of the day apparantly) stuff like that... Weird things can happen in the woods.

There are plenty of great horror movies out there. I stopped getting afraid after the first few Freddy movies. But lately we have had a few good ones. I liked The Ring, hadn't had a movie shake me up in a long time like that on did. The grudge got me pretty good as well but the one movie that got me so bad that I had to watch cartoons for 3 hours before I went to sleep was The Amityville Horror 2005. That movie made my wife cry. It was great.

"The Blair Witch Project."

This movie made me seasick, with all the motion and quick cuts. Didn't scare me at all. I was a masterpiece of marketing, though.

The Ring

Now, this flick freaked me out. I loved it. Very weird.
There's one, too, about creatures from some other realm, that only people who had night terrors as kids can see. Can't remember the name, though. It was pretty good.

There's one, too, about creatures from some other realm, that only people who had night terrors as kids can see. Can't remember the name, though. It was pretty good.

Wasn't that the one, Tooth Fairy or something like that? Don't remember, it had a horrible name, decent movie though.

The Amityville Horror 2005.

That one didn't do much for me. Not badly made. Just didn't connect for some reason.

but the one movie that got me so bad that I had to watch cartoons for 3 hours before I went to sleep was The Amityville Horror 2005. That movie made my wife cry. It was great.

Ha ha!!! My wife does that. She loves scary movies but they freak her out something awful. The first time I found out, we stayed up 'til two in the morning watching Silence of the Lambs. When it was over, I rolled over to go to sleep, and all I heard was uh-uh. 45 minutes of Fantasia later, we finally turned out the lights.

Halloween! 4TW!

Seriously, I am a horror movie fanatic. Halloween, Halloween II are still at the top of the panthelon of horror movies.

I feel that newer movies like the Ring, Grudge, and the such, tend to be to visual, too in your face. Though I did enjoy the Ring. I think that a lot of movies that go for the psychological edge tend to be better. But, that isn't to say that some of the movies that came out in years past weren't bad.

Good topic!

Here's a few that people have missed so far ...

Just plain disturbing:
Eraserhead (Link)

Best monster thriller:
The Thing ["John Carpenter's The Thing"](Link)

Best character-driven thriller (mystery?):
The Ninth Gate (Link)

Best psychological thriller:
Dead Ringers (Link)