Good Scary Books or movies

[wade3504]

I think I'll be going to rent some videos this weekend and visit the library.

Amanda

 

[Watcheye]

OH BOY! I love scarry movies (as long as there is no torture). Its really rediculous because they scare me half to death and Im a HUGE WUSS! I watch them anyways. I call it my morbid curiousity.

I LOVED Red Dragon

the Grudge and Ring 2 were also good. Did you see the Japanese versions? Did you know that when they remade them for America, they used the same crew? I find that fun.

Amityville Horror (the new one is the only one I have seen) was great fun but I am so used to a goofy Ryon Renolds that seeing him like that was a bit akward

I also liked Resident Evil Apocolipse (sp???) a lot

I did not like the Village at all

there are others but I have to get going for now. Have fun with Movies. I want to get them now too!

 

[Jill]

We watched Saw 2 the other night. I am not at all squeamish about movies, but OMG! I did have to keep looking away especially the first scene! And, I loved every minute of it!!!

There's this documentary that scared the heck out of me when I watched it. BUT, I don't remember the name. It was about a family, I think in Georgia, with a haunted house. It was 2 hours long, and may have just been called something like "A Haunting In GA". It really, really scared me. Also, the documentary that runs sometimes on Discovery about the real story behind the Exorcist is VERY scary.

 

[tagalong]

There was also another one.....one of those good OLD scary movies. And the housekeeper use to walk around saying something like........"when your all alone..........in the DARK..........in the NIGHT" Wish I could think of the name of that one. Someone??? Anyone remember??????? I have rented a bunch trying to find it, but no success.

THAT'S FROM THE HAUNTING!! :new_shocked:

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[user 488]

There was also another one.....one of those good OLD scary movies. And the housekeeper use to walk around saying something like........"when your all alone..........in the DARK..........in the NIGHT" Wish I could think of the name of that one. Someone??? Anyone remember??????? I have rented a bunch trying to find it, but no success.

THAT'S FROM THE HAUNTING!! :new_shocked:

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THANK YOU! I just kept seeing Margaret Hamilton's face (lady who played wicked witch in W. of OZ) and the only scary movie she played in was 13 Ghosts......and quite sure it wasn't the same movie!

THANK YOU AGAIN!............I am going to have Jim go rent that.

And Jill, there were two of those specials made. Haunting in Georgia and I THINK Haunting in South Carolina. One was much better than the other. I loved the one with the two brothers that slept in the basement and the devil ghost made the one brother go nuts.

Carol

 

[pepperhill]

A really good, OLD, suspense film is The Changling with George C Scott. I don't usually like the old black and white stuff, but this one had me so on the edge of my seat that when hubby tried to hand me a bowl of ice cream I startled so bad I knocked it right across the room! I also love Sixth Sense. These are good in the suspense scary catagory, not so much in the blood and guts scary catagory. I also liked Seven Deadly Sins with Morgan Freeman. I almost forgot about the Blair Witch Project! Criminy, that one had me unsettled for days!

I am a book junky and go through at least one per week. I love good scary books or gory mysteries. Here are a few of my favorite authors. Pretty much anything they write, I will buy.

Patricia Cornwall

James Patterson

John Sanford-- his "Prey" series is really good

Tess Garritson,

Tami Hoag

Dean Koontz

Jonathan Kellerman

Michael Palmer

All these guys are good writers, IMO

Enjoy, Linda

 

[tagalong]

The good thing about The Haunting (from 1963) is that it is pyschologically-driven as opposed to special effects driven. There are no grand, over the top special effects... just subtle small ones here and there that add to what you are already imagining.

I think that was what scared the crap out of me... what I was imagining behind the door was far worse than anything special effects could have created....

The movie came from a book by Shirley Jackson.... The Haunting of Hill House...

 

[stormo41]

had any one said "Psycho" yet? that is also a good older movie, there is a black and white one and a colour one.

and for the person who said they did not think the village was scary, i also did not find it much of a thriller but the message behind it is, and the concept is good. it shows just how easy people can be conrtoled when they are scared.

 

[AppyLover2]

It was a VERY long time ago but House of Wax, with Vincent Price, absolutely scared the bejesus out of me as a teenager. Definitely the scariest movie I've ever seen. Oh yeah, I think there was some 3D in there too.

 

[Cronewolf]

:new_shocked: Last House on the Left

 

[user 488]

The good thing about The Haunting (from 1963) is that it is pyschologically-driven as opposed to special effects driven. There are no grand, over the top special effects... just subtle small ones here and there that add to what you are already imagining.

I think that was what scared the crap out of me... what I was imagining behind the door was far worse than anything special effects could have created....

Well, went and tried to rent The Haunting from Blockbuster yesterday! They don't even carry it! Wonder why? Said it wasn't even available.

Carol