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[beccaluvsghostsntexas]

Reading through all of these great movies I remember one called Tourist Trap & it was about the most scary movie I have seen since The Exorcist. The part where he suffocates the girl using plaster to cover her face (while she is tied down to a table) is almost tooooo much for me. This movie is one wicked movie!

[Bobnoxious]

beccaluvsghostsntexas, on Sep 10 2006, 03:31 PM, said:

Reading through all of these great movies I remember one called Tourist Trap & it was about the most scary movie I have seen since The Exorcist. The part where he suffocates the girl using plaster to cover her face (while she is tied down to a table) is almost tooooo much for me. This movie is one wicked movie!

I really need to see that one again. I saw it as an adolescent, and it definitely left an impression, but the specifics are hazy now. All I really remember is Chuck "The Rifleman" Connors and a bunch of creepy mannequins. Believe it or not, that movie was rated PG!

[opterasis]

Ya know, I thought the same thing Bob. So I bought the dvd a while back, and boy was I dissapointed. It was nothing like what I remember. It left the same sad, empty feeling as when i watched Garbage Pail Kids for the first time in 15 years

[jakob493]

Well, I wouldnt call it the "best", but last night I watched "The Evil Dead"... I LOVED IT!! On a scale of 10, I'd give it a... 12. When it wasnt insanely gory or just plain weird, it was hilarious. The stupidity of the characters for much of the movie was irritating and funny at the same time.

[DeadWatch]

I'm looking at this poll and am very surprised at the totals...The Grudge in the lead and Halloween behind it? Is this what our society has evolved in to? Are we so much on the 'POP' culture kick that even our horror movies have suffered. It is a sad day in America when The Grudge is considered the best horror movie...where is George Romero or Tobie Hooper when we really need them?

[opterasis]

Tobe Hooper is too busy making crap like Mortuary.

[whiskeysuicide]

Bobnoxious, on May 26 2006, 11:40 PM, said:

Can I say "none of the above"? Suspiria is my fave horror flick, followed closely by Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974 version), Night of the Living Dead (1968 version), The Haunting (1963 version), Don't Look Now, The Shining (1980 version), and then maybe Halloween.

oooh i've always wanted to see susperia. i love his other movies oh so much!

i've always loved freddy. his movies used to scare me a lot when i waas younger.
i still absolutely love them but i notice his little "one'liners" now, which make it not so scary.
but i love freddy krueger and always will <33

[GiaCat21]

Axman, on Jan 3 2005, 05:30 PM, said:

Willow, on Jan 2 2005, 09:43 PM, said:

Axman, on Jan 2 2005, 09:58 PM, said:

Actually I'd say Burnt Offerings starring Karen Black from back around 1976!

I've never seen this one but have heard alot of good reviews about it

I've seen this one about 3 or 4 times. Usually it's on the late show. I'm not sure if it's available on video but it's a terrific ghost story.

We have "Burnt Offerings" on DVD... I didn't "get" it the first time I saw it. The sound qaulity on the DVD is crap though... I have to turn the volume all the way up and I still feel like I could really use a hearing aide...

[NightangelChris]

I had to vote 'The Grudge'. That movie had me afraid to even hide under my own covers for weeks! And the way the actress naturally crawled down the stairs in that last scene... (SHE DID IT FOR REAL!!! NO TRICKS!!!!)

[DuchessofBoogie]

I voted Halloween.
Not so sure about The Grudge. IMO, the way she kept showing herself toward the ending was kind of a joke. I had to laugh at it. I am interested in the originals to The Ring & The Grudge. I'll get to watching them sooner or later.

[BellaRose]

The Original Japanese version of The Grudge...
Vewy, vewy, scawwwwwy!!!

~Bella

[jakob493]

I think The Grudge in its entirety is a joke. Just terrible.. The gargling sound was getting old pretty fast (but not to some of my friends, who are still terrified of that to this day... They're good targets for pranks). The surveillance camera scene had potential, but the rest of the movie pretty much ruined it.

The Ring was almost the same, but slightly better. Not much though. I couldn't stand to watch either of them again.

Halloween was good, but as the series went on they started sucking.

[Willow]

I think maybe the Grudge should be replaced by a far scarier Japanese film like Audition or possibly the original version Ju-on

[erato]

while i found these flicks reasonably frightening.. (I don't usually flip out and am one of those horrid people who enjoy freaking my friends and family out -- pushing their fear buttons.. .. but one film that I found scary was Blair Witch I.. the documentary style I thought was brilliant esp the scene where the chains fell from the chimney.. hmm that pushed my freak button...

Edited by erato, 15 March 2007 - 05:50 AM.

[MrGrey]

I liked Blair Witch but only for its originality, didnt think it was scary one bit. As for whats on the list i'm going to have to go for The Ring, although the Japanese are better.

One of my all time favourites is not there though, The Shining, i mean surely thats an all time classic, you just cant beat creepy twins, it used to scare the proverbial poop out of me when i was a kid:)