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***Mufasa*** · (This post was last modified: 11-01-2011 06:33 PM by Mufasa.)

Toss 'em out there.
Name some that literally made you reluctant to walk through the house alone. Not so much gore and violence, although I know to some - this is the epitome of fright.
Me?

"Thirty Days of Night".
Something truly horrific about that flic. You know something is coming. Something terrible and inescapable. Everything tells you it is. And you can't get away. Brutally effective.

http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/30daysofnight/

HardwareGrl · 11-01-2011, 08:42 PM

"Something Wicked This Way Comes"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/

Nobody does sinister better than Jonathan Pryce! (Shiver!)

Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, (who knows psyc-scary better than him?) and in my opinion is based in one of the bestest scary places ever! Not a ghost town, not a haunted house, but a freaky carnaval!

These are the kind of scarey movies I like, not buckets of blood and gore, but a story that plays with your head, thats where the best scare is!

**Scythe Matters** · 11-02-2011, 01:49 AM

Night Of The Living Dead. The original in B&W. Even thinking about it scares the bejeezus outta me!

And I agree --- gimme a scary movie, not torture porn. Undecided

Rey · 11-02-2011, 07:42 AM

I really like "The Hitcher" for suspense (and its a road movie too). Well, the one from 1986 anyway, there are newer movies with the same title but I haven't seen those.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091209/

**2Beers** · 11-02-2011, 08:29 AM

The original 13 ghosts ( black & white version). I never wanted to sleep in a canopy bed.

***Boomer*** · 11-02-2011, 08:30 AM

"NOSFERATU"...the silent black and white one. Saw that movie in 5th grade, and I still have nightmares about that hideous creature.

N'awlins · 11-02-2011, 09:36 AM

Anything Hitchcock! Psycho, Rear Window, The Birds...I still believe him to be the Master of Suspense!

Semi-Gory: Steven Kings' "It", Pennywise (Tim Curry) makes the scariest clown on the planet!

Gore Fest: "Hellraiser", Pinhead, Chatterbox, all the demons, hooks, chains, blood....yuck! (but scary!)

**BrianW** · 11-02-2011, 12:32 PM

The Exorcist - I sat on the floor of my brothers' car at the drive-in.
Alien (the first film) - the suspense of nothing happening (at first) but you know all hell's gonna break loose made us squirm!

**Gungawoman** · 11-02-2011, 01:42 PM

I'm with you, Brian, on the 1st Alien! SCARY! Confused

***old honda rider*** · 11-02-2011, 02:08 PM

N'awlins mentioned the original Hellraiser with that pinhead fellow. I really enjoyed that, there seemed to be a lot of levels to it - search for meaning, desires of an extreme nature, etc - and I really should watch it again.

But for me the scariest movie was the original Exorcist. Scared the bejeebers out of me. Now I can watch it without so much as a second thought, but when I saw it the first time in the theatre, and the whole head turning 360 thing, omg I had nightmares about that.