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46 responses to “Open Thread Update: Your Fave Spooky Movies”

1. The blob and body snatchers. Scary, scary, scary as a kid!!

   Reply to Muriel

2. These comments are so much fun! I’m really enjoying them. Does Senior Planet host movie nights online or in person? That is my suggestion in case it hasn’t been made before. Scary movies are my preference.

   Reply to Loretta H. Campbell

   1. its a great idea but we don’t do movie nights at the moment…

      Reply to Virge

3. Carrie and recent version of The Body Snatchers

   Reply to Sue

4. Motel Hell. Good one.

   Reply to Sharona21

5. Come on kids! Who can forget the classic movie that kept us away from showers? The freaky Alfred Hitchcock film – Psycho.

   Reply to John

6. For me, the scarier and gory they are the better. My favorites are Thirteen Ghosts, Saw (all of them), Cabin in the Woods, The Uninvited and Final Destination (not really scary but good) to name a few.

   Reply to Annerys Diaz

7. Get Out (2017) – a very intriguing and suspenseful film about a Black man who comes to discover an unpleasant secret about his white girlfriend while visiting her family in upstate New York. Scary on multiple levels while also serving up social commentary on race and class in America.
   Watch the trailer: https://digitalmoviedeals.nbcuniversal.com/products/get-out?variant=42251185455280

   Reply to Frederick

8. Don’t Look Now–amazing movie and the stuff of nightmares.
   The original version of The Wicker Man–yikes!

   Reply to David Biederman

9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – just horrid!!

   Reply to Fran

10. The House of Wax with Vincent Price. Scared me for years, way into adulthood.

    Reply to Jane Schulenberg

11. Night of the Living Dead…I can think of others that are also scary, but that’s still at the top of my list.

    Reply to Ray

    1. Amen! In college we gathered in Patricia’s room to watch on her black and white TV. I fell asleep and thought the movie was real.

       Reply to Virge

    2. Not Texas Chainsaw Massacre? My late husband thought that was a good choice for a first date movie with the gal who became his first wife. No wonder that marriage didn’t last.

       Reply to Virge

12. ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ still terrifies me. The combination of a convincing Manhattan setting and an even more convincing stellar cast never fails to strike horror in my heart.

    Reply to Beatrice

13. Shyamalan is very good with Signs and The Sixth Sense.
    But the scariest scene I’ve ever watched in any film was the basement scene in Zodiac. Something about dark basements and the unknown – just terrifies me. Watch it!

    Reply to Ellen

    1. Zodiac was creepy and scary on a whole new level because it was real. And that basement scene had me jumping out of my skin. And every one of Zodiac’s attacks were horrible but the one in the park was especially awful.

       Reply to Virge

14. When I was young I saw Night of the Living Dead and Day of the Triffids, both in black and white … made me sleep under the bed for weeks!

    Reply to Peggy Fuller

15. HOCUS POCUS !!!The film about Sanderson Sisters. Taking place in Salem, Massachusetts, the sinister trio are resurrected on Halloween night after high school student Max wants to prove to his younger sister Dani and friend/love interest Alison that the tales about the witches aren’t true. Well, that was a big mistake as they did exist, and he accidentally summons them. Now, they’re trying to steal the lives of the children of Salem before sunrise to become immortal.

    Reply to Francesca Aorta

    1. It has a stellar cast and can be viewed by an inter generational audience – a winning combination. Thanks for the share.

       Reply to Beatrice

16. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre … saw the movie at a “drive-in theatre” at 19! Remember those, my friends! Went to see the movie with a good friend and ended up actually slapping her arm when she screamed (because I was instantly scared too)! We laughed for weeks afterwards ….

    Reply to CHERYL TRAYER

17. The Exorcist is, without a doubt, my candidate for the scariest movie ever. After watching it in high school, I remember leaving the theater and hearing many folks talking about how scared they were.

    When I got home, I had to walk up to the sixth floor of my tenement apartment. As I ascended the stairs, I got increasingly scared, expecting something to jump out at me.

    Reply to J. Anthony Acker

18. Really well acted, completely plausible scary movie is Magic with Anthony Hopkins, released in 1978. Worth watching a second and third time.

    Reply to Robin Welsh

    1. right! and a real sleeper! Hopkins is great!

       Reply to Virge

19. The Haunting starring Julie Harris
    The Innocents starring Deborah Kerr
    The Uninvited starring Ray Milland
    The classics: Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Dracula
    Nosferatu

    Reply to Corinne Curcio

    1. I agree! All time scariest is the original The Haunting. For a psychological thriller, I vote for What Lies Beneath with Harrison Ford

       Reply to Suzanne Zavala

       1. I haven’t seen The Haunting, and I”m curious. What Lies Beneath was a humdinger!

       2. The Haunting is wonderfully scary because you never see who/what is watching them & causing the things to happen. I used to show it in my “Classic Horror Film Class”

20. How about a funny scary movie? I adore Young Frankenstein. I had a serious crush on Gene Wilder…

    Reply to Patti

    1. ALL TIME FAVORITE – YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – WATCHED NO LESS THAN 20 TIMES AND ALWAYS START LAUGHING / SPEAKING THE WORDS AHEAD OF TIME!

       “COULD BE WORSE … COULD BE RAINING!”

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21. Pet semetary is one I didn’t finish and won’t.

    Reply to Harry Rybolt

22. The scariest movie I would say is carnival of souls

    Reply to Ron

    1. Great pick, Ron! Another vote for the old black and white horror genre which Carnival was a part of! However, I would classify it as very odd and spooky at the same time. European movies always had a different take on certain themes.

       Reply to Steve

    2. First and always the scariest one ever! I have the soundtrack and even that creeps me out.

       Reply to Wendl

    3. For sure.

       Reply to Wendl

23. That’s a hard one. There are so many horror movies that I love. Frankly, I write horror short stories, so I watch a lot of horror movies. My all time favorite is Alien. After that, there are what I call the big five, The Changeling (with George C. Scott), The Others, Shikoku, The Orphanage, and The Woman in Black (both versions are good). Who can forget An American Werewolf in London? Of course, it goes without saying that Jordan Peele is a genius. I never knew horror could be visceral. Wow.

    Reply to Loretta H. Campbell

    1. Yes, Peele is good- Get Out is frightening.

       Reply to Ellen

       1. Ellen,
          I’m going to watch another one of his movies, Us, on Netflix. That will be my Halloween treat.

    2. Thanks for the comment, Loretta. If anyone wants to learn more about Loretta’s horror short stories, take a look at the profile Senior Planet did of her a while ago. Check it out here.

       Reply to Virge

24. Very clever article and very relatable! When I was a very little girl, in the comic book Dick Tracy, Sparkle Plenty, the young daughter of D.T.’s.friends, was getting sicker and sicker and nobody could figure out why. It turned out that some villain put a poisonous bug in her hair and poison was coursing through her system. It was eventually discovered and Sparkle made a full recovery. However, I was so traumatized for a while that if I felt any tingle in on my scalp, I’d run and check for bugs.

    Reply to Pat Gallant Weich

25. The Thing (From Outer Space). This is the original with Jim Arness as the Alien. His first pix, I think. Great black and white with naturalistic overlapping dialogue. I didn’t sleep for a week!

    Reply to Barry

    1. Absolutely agree! Just watched it for the umpteenth time last week. The suspense is “edge of your chair” level! And having it happen in a remote, arctic scientific outpost with limited communications provides the perfect scenario for something not of this world to happen. There’s a newer version of this movie, but doesn’t have the same shock level as the original.

       Reply to Dale

26. My favorite horror films are foreign: Kuroneko (trans: Black Cat) Japanese; The Uninvited and Curse of the Demon (British). Kuroneko begins in feudal Japan: a would-be samurai is leaving his wife and daughter to find his fortune. After many successful battles, he is bound home and stops in a remote castle…
    The Uninvited is equally atmospheric, set in the Welsh coastline. Demon…is closely based on runic occult beliefs and has a villain modeled after the notorious Aleister Crowley.

    Reply to Kathryn Nocerino

27. Once Bitten…I never liked scary movies

    Reply to Patience

28. My most recent faves are A Madea Halloween 1 and 2.

    Reply to Mildred Dawson

29. The scary movies I won’t watch again are the Stephen Kings. IT, Carrie, Kujo are the ones I can remember now. Then again, I never got into the scary movie series like Freddy Kruger and Halloween. A favorite of mine is My Bloody Valentine – not sure it had much of a following.

    Reply to Judy Sherk