recommendations for scary movies for halloween

celeritas · Post by **celeritas** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:04 am

any recommendations?

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:34 pm

The Host
Old Boy
The Descent
Hills have Eyes (remake)
Silent Hill
Devils' Rejects/House of a thousand Corpses
House on Haunted Hill (remake)
28 days later
Return of the Living Dead, part 2&3
Evil Dead 2
Stephen Kings' It
Stephen Kings' Rose Red
Re-animator
Loads more, but i've not slept in two days, so gimme a chance to make an espresso

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:43 pm

Can't believe you forgot The Exorcist!

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:02 pm

Of recent ones, definitely The Descent; really good movie.

Also The Grudge got to me somewhat - US remake, not the original.

Silent Hill didn't scare me so much as... disturb me. Half way through I turned to Ian and said "What kind of person thinks of stuff like this?"

The Blair Witch Project. I'm in the "love it" camp, Ian is in the "hate it" camp.

Halloween, the original.

American Werewolf in London.

Post by **Teaos** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:08 pm

Look through your perents draws and find one of their home made sex tapes. That would be pretty scary "Moment of conseption"

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:26 pm

Poltergeist 3(the one with the daemon preacher,with that southern accent ''god is in his hooooly temple, come here,child')
The Exorcist (for thorin)
The Thing
Hostel was entertaining but my favourite horrors are the saw quadrilogy, and i even have guilty pleasures like nightmare on elm street, jason x, freddy vs jason, and the hellraiser films
Angel Heart is excellant, esp robert de niros' cameos

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:17 pm

Granitehewer wrote:...and the hellraiser films
Angel Heart is excellant, esp robert de niros' cameos

I was going to mention the original Hellraiser.

And, ANGEL HEART! I haven't seen that in years, but I remember it being superb.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:18 pm

robert de niro made eating a boiled egg scary, i mean more than salmonella lol

celeritas · Post by **celeritas** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:37 pm

Granitehewer wrote:robert de niro made eating a boiled egg scary, i mean more than salmonella lol

irrelevant information: if your eggs are hard boiled, the salmonella are killed. its only when the yolk is runny that you have a 1:20,000 chance of getting infected by salmonella.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:00 pm

...........really as a biology graduate, i was totally oblivious to the veritus in that sagely and scholarly remark of yours and now feel educated..........actually i was making a joke, a frivolous remark, strategically placed to arouse a humorous response, so be game and laugh or i won't recomend another film, that had just popped into my head........

celeritas · Post by **celeritas** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:30 pm

right....excuse me while i self-medicate for toxic sarcasm overdose...

thanks for the many recommendations everybody! i'm still not sure which one i'm going to rent for tonight, but since i haven't seen many of these movies, its good to see whats out there though Granitehewer has given me hankering to watch evil dead 2 again.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:33 pm

'The Grudge' and 'The Ring' films are overrated, both re: the originals and the remakes, but try 'The Dark' -its about the welsh afterlife and hauntingly good, actually 'Half Light' is alright, but perhaps a little too cliched, and 'The Reaping' is banal,bland and has an atrocious ending

celeritas · Post by **celeritas** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:36 pm

actually, the original "the ring" scared the crap out of me when i saw it in theaters in asia.

of course, it's been subject to so many parodies that its lots some of its original creepiness. e.g. what would happen if you placed 2 televisions with the screens facing each other? or what if you directed the tv screen outside of a window on the 37th floor of a building?

anyhow, the ring is off my list for sure, because i believe all my friends have seen it already.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:37 pm

okay okay, i'll give away my gem, although to most people, its crappy, but i love it
watch 'Evil Dead: Army of Darkness', it trails on from the events of Evil Dead 2, and features an army of skeletons being combine-harvested by an A-team'd uber-car!

Boomstick!

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:39 pm

I always thought they should make "Ring : Apocalypse", where they show the video as one of the ads during half time at the Superbowl.