All-Time Scariest Halloween Movies
For the best of gore, suspense and thrills, take your pick from our R-rated classics. To get your kids into the spirit without scaring them out of their seats, turn to our top family-friendly picks.
R-Rated:
Ages 3 and above
Ages 12 and older
CLICK HERE to read the remainder of the list from Reader's Digest
Do you agree with this list? What would you add, or what would you take away? I think 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' should probably be on the ages 12 and older list, but other than that, I can't think of any.
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The Women’s Forum
Mornin!! The new movie for this year is Halloween. I don't know what the final title will be but the working titles are Halloween9, Hall9ween or just plain Halloween. My daughter, Jenese, is in the scene somewhere near the beginning of the movie. She is a nurse who is getting patients out of a hospital, taking one of them to a waiting ambulance. Later on, she is the nurse who gets her throat sliced.
I always like a good horror movie. Even the stupid ones. The Saw series of movies comes to mind!
"Except for Halloween and The Shining, none of the movies have any connection to Halloween. Halloween is supposed to have an otherworldly element, not just a lot of gore. "
I think the poll was about movies that were scary for Halloween viewing, not necessarily about Halloween. Maybe I'm wrong.
--Don
Out of these listed, though not related to Halloween, 'Seven' would get my vote. I do agree with the post above, however, 'The Exorcist' is one of the creepiest, skin-crawling movies I've seen.
Dave
There is an old black and white film called "The Haunting"....which really shows how to scare the hell out of people with minimal special effects, good acting and good script writing. I think there was a remake in the last 10 years with Liam Nesson and Catherine Zeta-Jones....it was terrible.
The original Night of The Living Dead is also a topper.
" Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. " - George Orwell
The B/W version of "The Haunting" -- based on the terrifically scary Shirley Jackson novel -- was indeed far superior to the remake. It starred the great Julie Harris (in the part played by Lili Taylor in the remake), not Deborah Kerr.
A few others that are just good fun -- "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (the original, though the Donald Sutherland remake has its moments), "The Thing from Another World" (again, the B/W original), and the Val Lewton B-movies ("I Walked With a Zombie", "The Body Snatcher", "The Seventh Victim", etc.)
Dawn of the Dead was okay however Land of the Dead was horrible. I never seen the newer ones like The Hills have eyes, I saw Jeepers Creepers and thought that was boring as well. Horror movies sometimes dont make sense, I watch animated ones which are sometimes more gorier than the real stuff. Take the series Gantz for instance, Extremely violent and graphic, has some rape, a lot of swearing and alot of gore. I wont go into details. Elfen Lied was also violent. Same with Genocyber which was disturbing. But for real movies the only good ones I seen have got to be the Resident Evil Movies, the Silent Hill movie.
Sorry, not much up on the animated graphic novels.
The problem I have with a lot of "zombie" movies is that the second they divert from the supernatural aspects, the "science" just doesn't add up. You have to "suspend" a lot of disbelief in order to accept the movie. My biggest complaint....why don't the zombies in the Resident Evil series attack each other or anything that moves, like dogs and cats? And how the hell do shuffling, decaying corpses have the strength to rip human beings apart? Mind you, exciting films...but you have to just put your brain on hold to enjoy them.
Silen Hill had a real interesting premise and I like that an innocent cop was sucked into the evil world, and reacted pretty much like a normal person would.
senorvmanAs a child, my mom would let me stay up on Saturday nites and watch "Morgus the Magnificent". He was a mad scientist, who would work in his lab with his assistant Chopsley. His show would host the scary movies on Sat. nite.The original "The Haunting" was a very scary movie. It starred Deborah Kerr.Incidently, she passed away just a few days ago.The remake was a disappointment, awful!!
When I was a kid, I was a sci-fi/horror movie junkie.....to the point where my mom would not let me watch certain films. The original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" scared the hell out of me.
On Saturday I use to watch "Zacherly" who was probably the fore runner for Morgus.
Yeah, and the remake of The Haunting was terrible.....proof that CGI cannot replace good direction, script and plot (and acting as well).
