Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
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Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/26/2011 11:50 AM EDT
- freddym48
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Great list. I have seen most of them. Well done -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/26/2011 3:23 PM EDT
- greatpumpkin74
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How come there's little representation on this list for classic monsters? Funny spots or not, "An American Werewolf in London" has moments of outright terror. the scene on the moors when the original werewolf is stalking the 2 American college students before it murders Jack and infects David is masterfully done, as is the sequence of attacks following David's 1st transformation. This is before we even get to the definitive human metamorphosis scene in all of cinema. I'm sorry, it's scarier than all but a handful of the films on this list. Try watching something besides slasher movies next time.
Also, x2 on Let the Right One In -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/26/2011 4:00 PM EDT
- CatherineHogan
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I am surprised by that The Shining isn't No. 1 - as it is more realistic and probable that some of those above it on the list. Also - Manhunter = the original Dr. Lecter vehicle is FAR scarrier than Silence of the Lambs. And it isnt even on the list! For SHAME! Great fun to see the list thp! Thanks. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/26/2011 6:44 PM EDT
- jnunes63
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Loved "Let the Right One In" (Swedish version, better than the almost exact American replica "Let Me In") -- great film. However, did not find it incredibly scary... saw it as more of a romantic drama that happened to have some horror elements and conventions.
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Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/26/2011 9:28 PM EDT
- jstizz
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"Cujo" is on your list, but not "Carrie?" That's a joke. "The Others" is a great film missing from this list. "Rosemarie's Baby" is a classic. "Mommy Dearest" is scarier than half the movies on the list. I'd say the list is flawed to say the least. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/26/2011 10:05 PM EDT
- gandalf433
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I was looking for "Wait until Dark", a scary movie with a great cast made in the late 60's. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/27/2011 2:22 AM EDT
- detritus
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The omission of "Pandorum" is truly glaring; dark, slimy, violent, and just plain weird. Had me totally creeped out for days. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/27/2011 10:56 AM EDT
- Bensdad1
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No doubt. Exorcist is the scariest. If you believe in Good (God) then there has to be bad (devil). It's a movie that I have to be in the proper mood to watch. Why does the Devil have a British accent? -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/28/2011 1:41 PM EDT
- atarichampion
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I swear, it seems like for the past two years this Top 50 Scariest Movies list has been featured more prominently on this website than any other news item in the Boston area. What is this site's fascination with this? How many times do I need to come to boston.com to be reminded how scary The Exorcist is? Enough already, we get it. Please, after this Halloween put this thing to bed! -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/28/2011 3:03 PM EDT
- KCMDux88
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n Response to Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?:I swear, it seems like for the past two years this Top 50 Scariest Movies list has been featured more prominently on this website than any other news item in the Boston area. What is this site's fascination with this? How many times do I need to come to boston.com to be reminded how scary The Exorcist is? Enough already, we get it. Please, after this Halloween put this thing to bed!
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I was thinking the same thing. It has been on the website several times in the past year to the point where it got annoying. I don't understand why they did that. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/28/2011 4:14 PM EDT
- cmdrflk
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Jaws won my top rating as it had it's primary action taking place in briliant sunshine. Nearly all the others had their action taking place at night. There are other daytime horror flicks, but Jaws, scared you 24/7. Can you admit to not being wary of any beach after seeing Jaws? -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/28/2011 4:23 PM EDT
- cmdrflk
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In Response to Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?:I was looking for "Wait until Dark", a scary movie with a great cast made in the late 60's.
Posted by gandalf433
"Wait Until Dark" had a lukewarm reputation, as it may have had only brief flashes of violence. How could Jack Weston's creepy little fat guy not bother people? Just asking. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/28/2011 4:26 PM EDT
- cmdrflk
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In Response to Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?:the 2011 Red Sox should be on this list
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Yes, the September meltdown was in the words of Leonard Finch Garnell: "Horrid, simply horrid". -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/28/2011 4:57 PM EDT
- adelie
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Loved the fact The Thing was #1, I completely agree with that. However, The Blair Witch Project not on there at all is just mind boggling to me. That is one of the mind F'ing movies ever without having to show a single thing. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/28/2011 4:59 PM EDT
- adelie
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In Response to Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?:"Cujo" is on your list, but not "Carrie?" That's a joke. "The Others" is a great film missing from this list. "Rosemarie's Baby" is a classic. "Mommy Dearest" is scarier than half the movies on the list. I'd say the list is flawed to say the least.
Posted by jstizz
Mommie Dearest?!...come on, that's just sad. One of the most laughably outrageous movies maybe, but scary, heck no. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/29/2011 5:42 AM EDT
- Dadairt666
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Rosemary's Baby, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, The Legend of Bopggy Creek, Snowbeast, & The Sentinel (1977). Pretty terrifying films critics always ignore when making thes lists. -
Blair Witch Project?
posted at 10/29/2011 12:48 PM EDT
- monicakaufman
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Oh Jesse Nunez, how could you forget to put Blair Witch Project on this list? I saw it in 1999 when it first came out while I was living in Baltimore. I couldn't sleep for a few days. Then I went backwoods camping that fall with friends in the Shanandoah National Park and hyperventilated, went into full on panic attack just because of that movie. I was convinced the Blair Witch was outside of my tent (even if it was just a deer and some chipmunks) waiting to get me. I still will not go camping to this day unless it is in a large campground, and in the middle of the dang thing so that those on the outskirts will get it first. Very scary movie for sure. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/29/2011 2:02 PM EDT
- Ihatethemedia
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If the Boston Globe is going to recycle this list every year why not at least update it? Why the hell The Blair Witch Project isn't on this list but a stupid movie like Cujo is is beyond reason.
The Thing freaked me out for days after seeing it. I'm sure the remake will be another lame, non-scary, CGI-laden version of the original classic.
Whoever said "Trilogy of Terror" wins a lovely Zuni doll. For 1970s TV production work (sans special effects and CGI) that movie was hella creepy.
Other great scary movies:
The Blair Witch Project (next year it better be on the list)
The Ring
The Grudge
The Others
Gremlins
Jaws
Alien
The Shining
28 Days Later
What Lies Beneath
The Haunting (the original)
Drag Me To Hell
The Audition
Silence of the Lambs
Amityville Horror (the original, please, no more remakes!)
Carrie
Saw
Paranormal Activity
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original)
A Haunting in Connecticut
The Walking Dead (TV show) -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/29/2011 8:22 PM EDT
- Coyote1
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No Blair Witch Project? Poltergeist wasn't that scary. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/30/2011 11:32 AM EDT
- hd55
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The Langoliers (Stephen King), while I believe a TV movie, is definitely creepy. And Motel Hell (while supposedly a satire on other slasher-type movies) is still pretty creepy - low budget, but the whole thing of how he plants humans and then "harvests" them creeps me out - haven't seen it in eons... -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/30/2011 11:38 AM EDT
- Hankerectus420
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In Response to Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?:I swear, it seems like for the past two years this Top 50 Scariest Movies list has been featured more prominently on this website than any other news item in the Boston area. What is this site's fascination with this? How many times do I need to come to boston.com to be reminded how scary The Exorcist is? Enough already, we get it. Please, after this Halloween put this thing to bed!
Posted by atarichampion
Very easy to just ignore it -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/30/2011 11:45 AM EDT
- Hankerectus420
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At the end of the day, its the opinion of the Globe. Not an official list. So of course, we will all have our own.
As for Blair Witch, which I've seen get lots of mention, I never found it all that entertaining or scary. In fact, I don't think I even care for the "found footage" style of filming. Along with Blair Witch I didn't care for the likes of Cloverfield or Paranormal Activity, two other lauded movies in that style.
Watched the French movie "Them" the other night and while I didn't think it was as good as hyped, the ending just leaves you feeling so uneasy. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/30/2011 11:50 AM EDT
- Hankerectus420
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I finally got around to watching Suspiria a few months ago and save for a couple of amusing, disturbing visuals, I found the movie boring and way overrated. I know, sacrilegious to say amongst foreign horror movie snobs. But I found myself nodding througout the movie. -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 10/30/2011 1:34 PM EDT
- JamesFNomar
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1. The Exorcist
2. The Changeling
3. The Eye
4. Jaws
5. The Grudge/ Ju-On
6. Amittyville Horror
7. Poltergeist
8. The Orphanage
9. Insiduous
10. Paranormal Activity -
Re: Your thoughts on our new scariest movies list?
posted at 11/14/2011 10:31 PM EST
- GuessMyName
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Yes, Rosemary's Baby is a horrible omission. Francis Cardinal Spelman forbade good Catholics from seeing this profanation of Our Blessed Mother (staring a Catholic and directed by another). The scene where she is raped by the Devil is bone-chilling!
Other omissions: "Night of the Hunter" and the original "Cape Fear" -- Robert Mitchum, on of my all-time favorites, could be really scary!
Hitch brought a lot of other 'psychos' to the silver screen. Like Bruno in "Stangers on a Train", Uncle Charlie a.k.a. The Merry Widow Murderer in "Shadow of a Doubt". And of course that crow . . .