What is your favorite Halloween suspense or horror film?
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“Fright Night,” a 1985 film starring Chris Sarandon and the late, great Roddy McDowall. This vampire movie has the right balance of light comedy and outright horror.
Ghostbusters.
Because proton packs and comedy.
The only answer here has to be Halloween, end of.
I was just going to ask that exact question. At this very moment I’m watching a beautiful print of the great classic “The Tingler” with the legendary Vincent Price and “Dobie Gillis” in a backup role. It’ gotta be the hokiest plot ever contrived. I’m waiting for the great movie theater scene. It’s on AMC right now if anyone’s interested.
No one’s ever going to replace Vincent Price. You can almost literally see his tongue in his cheek. This sort of schlock would be worthless without him. I’m grinning so much I can’t eat any popcorn.
Thanks for the correction. What a hoot!
Actually the costar is Darryl Hickman, Dwayne’s brother
Oh, I like the old ones, the grainy B&W classics—the Bela Lugosi Dracula, the Boris Karloff Frankenstein and The Mummy, and other incredibly innocent horror pics from the days of antiquity, meaning even older than I am. Very clean, no splattering gore, no profane language, and yet you can get into them and still feel the chills. Renfield, yiii.
A bit embarrassed to admit I still love “The Wax Museum.” Scared me in ‘53 when I was a kid and it still kinda does.
I met Vincent Price once!
If I were going to watch a horror movie to celebrate Halloween? Have to be a classic from my childhood. The Birds, or the original War of the Worlds.
More suspense, less gore.
I love the old ones, but the scariest, for me are Alien, Aliens, The Blair Witch Project, and Cloverfield, with the possible addition of Night of the Living Dead.
As for scariness, here was my answer in 2009.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
@ibstubro, I so agree with you about preferring suspense over. gore. “The Thing” is my best example of that. The 1951 version Is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I so hated the two gory remakes.
Yeah, it’s crazy sometimes when you look at the classics objectively and realize there was nothing graphic, @Pachy.
Violins and a splash of dark on the inside of the light shower curtain and you pretty much have the gore from Psycho, one of best known classics.
The Omen. They manage to keep the horror and suspense at the same level. The movie plays like a standard horror movie but still has enough mystery to keep me guessing.
Arsenic and Old Lace is my favorite Halloween film. It’s got everything.
These all warped me into who I am today…
Poltergeist 1 • http://youtu.be/9eZgEKjYJqA
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.•http://youtu.be/KW10xCub3Kg
War of the Worlds- **both** •http://youtu.be/UBJXbRQ_r9Q
Pit and the Pendulum- •http://youtu.be/QChBy15UiTs
The Others- •http://youtu.be/0bMEGtUxajY
Wait Until Dark- •http://youtu.be/ogGKBiMX8KU
Sixth Sense •http://youtu.be/xlkwIPLP_EE
Rear Window •http://youtu.be/6kCcZCMYw38
@Hawaii_Jake Aw, Arsenic and Old Lace is so great!
The last scary movie I saw was The Babadook, and I might not want to see another for a while. I still get the creeps thinking about it.
‘The Bad Seed” always freaked me out, too.
I had relatives that reminded me of that little girl.
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