Most scary movie?
The "Jaws" thread reminded me of the most scary movie I ever saw - age 17, new girlfriend, circa 1975, went to see "Race with the devil" starring Peter Fonda - I thought it was about motor racing.
WRONG. It was about a camper van with two sets of happy couples being chased across America by devil worshipers - full of scary camera angles, duel perspectives, murdered pets etc. Scared me and the entire Macclesfield Essoldo shitless. I've never been one for horror movies (maybe because of that) and doubtless if I saw it now it is probably a wobbly set load of schlock, but my word did we walk home swiftly.
Anyone seen it? What are the other great scary movies?
Oh, and yes I jumped through the roof when the head fell out of the hole in the boat...
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Night of the Demon!
OK, the devil may not satisfy the demands of a digi-fed audience, but the tension as the runes are passed is well big. Oh, and it's in black and white.
Excellent choice
It's certainly up there as really scary movie (or it was when I saw it oh so many years ago).
I thought the 1st Poltergeist film was pretty scary.
Race With The Devil is
Race With The Devil is brilliantly scary. Some years ago I watched it after ingesting certain hallucinogens, and that added quite a frisson...
But I'd go for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which totally blows away all the generic slasher/horror films of recent years, and Don't Look Know, which adds an emotional weight to the unnerving mood. Oh, and The Shining.
Most modern 'horror' films just seem to consist of the same generic music, tricks, camera angles and editing. Not to mention all those tiresome 'spoof horror' pics...
Dawn of the Dead
Shock, horror, remake better than original, and that is something you don't hear every day. Almost sacrilege to say it, as a man who brought his children up on the George Romero original trilogy, citing them as modern parables, humans are the bad guys etc etc. But the recentish remake has quite a few genuine scares, especially the realisation that the neighbours are revolting at the beginning. And zombies that run......
(That last statement reminds me of the estimable comic strip "Roasted" in the observer colour mag, where there is careful explanation between zombies, who stagger, and the infected, as in 28 days later, who run. No longer, comrades, no longer.......)
Scariest movie ever...
...is, of course, "The Shining". I used to watch scary films on video. When I felt that the scary bits were approaching, I'dd scan through in fast-forward, see what was to come, then rewind and watch again at normal speed.
Took me about 6 hours to get through "The Shining" and, bearing in mind that the whole process was done during a day recuperating from flu, it was one of the most exhausting days of my life.
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