What's Your Favorite Scary Movie?
"Showgirls!"
I must say that Scream is one of my favorite scary movies....and it is both scary and campy and that is what makes it one of my faves....just like Lake Placid, the funniest movie that is supposed to be scary.
On Halloween, I stayed home and watched 100 Scariest Movie Moments.....number one? Well, Jaws of course! Name one person who has seen Jaws who hasn't thought twice about entering the ocean ;)
The original Halloween was also on the top 10....and with good reason: it was the first slasher flick to use music as a plot device.....and reinvented the genre.
I lean more towards the old tyme scary flicks: Dracula with Bela Lugosi, Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and the original Fly with Vincent Price. I also love the movies that AMC used to show on MonsterVison.....THEM! is a classic scary movie with a sci-fi edge. And who could forget the original Blob with Steve McQueen? A big red growing blob eating everything in sight in a small town in the 50's.....makes me just squeal with delight ;)
Oooooo, the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers!!!! It and the remake are both great movies!
Remakes usually really mess up the original's intent....except in the case of The Thing......who can forget James Arness as the original monster?? Maybe those who saw Kurt Russell battle a space invader that takes over all the people at an Arctic research station!
The problem with remakes is that they try to take the gore factor to a whole new level to make up for the lack of an original idea for a movie......just like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.....take an already gory movie and up the ante to gross a new generation of kids out.
I must admit that one sub-genre that I can't get into are the new Japanese gory movies....number 3 on the list was a movie I had never heard of called "Audition" about a woman serial killer who was using accupunture needles to subdue victims while she tortured them. That and the Ring (Ringu in Japanese); I never could really get into those.
I must say that I tend to put serial killer movies like Silence of the Lambs into the thriller category rather that the scary movie category.....and I tend to put The Thing and The Blob into Sci Fi.
And then I also have a whole different category for torture movies like Saw.....ick.
So some of the movies on the list really surprised me, especially Jaws at number one; but it did make sense once I thought about it. :) You can see the link here for more info: http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/index.shtml
or check out Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Scariest_Movie_Moments
Let me know your thoughts!
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