They went downhill after that.

Only three great sequels made:
Godfather 2
The Empire Strikes Back and
Aliens
JMHO

Paranormal Activity
Tarantula

Selma Hayek with a snake

1950s B/W thriller about ants mutated to giant size by radiation from atomic testing. A source of numerous nightmares in my youth.....

Second one was "Kingdom of the Spiders"--you can guess about that one. Spoiler--the spiders won......

sound effects were great.

Unique take. Unusual.

The (original) Blob

Night of the Living Dead

The Birds
Psycho
American Werewolf in London (I had the biggest crush on David Naughton from his Dr. Pepper commercial days back then)

list too.

After.Life 2009

An American Werewolf in London 1981

Christine 1983

The John Carpenter Halloween franchise, including Season of the Witch

The Psycho franchise

Salem's Lot 1979

Let's Scare Jessica to Death 1971

What Lies Beneath 2000

The VVitch 2015

Death Becomes Her 1992

Trick r Treat 2007


The Blair Witch Project 1999. I didn't appreciate this movie back in 1999 maybe because it was a well marketed movie. Today I grasp the characters decent into madness and I appreciate the creepy random stick figures showing up out of no where.

Prom Night 1980

I'm 100% sure that I've fogotten some movies that are in my regular rotation. It's okay and I'm not going to worry about it.

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I was having difficulties walking (it all cleared up, never happened again! And right now I can't remember why) at this one point around the time TBWP was out.

So I, my sis, and 2 friends were eating out in NJ before a Springsteen concert.
Well, she (a sometimes snarky person) started in on the TBWP.

I remember she started putting toothpicks (and maybe something else) in at different angles in her mash potatoes.
Well, by the end we were all in hysterics!
And the laughter helped me a bit.
(by the time the concert was over I was so flooded with the right kind of brain chemicals by the sheer fun and energy that I felt much better)

This is a hilarious story. Thank you for sharing.



Last year, I found this unusual looking stick, it reminded me of a praying mantis. I also found material in my yard that had been mowed over and I'm not really sure where it came from.


Anyway, I ended up tying the material on the unusual looking stick and I did this and placed it on one my garden hooks.




After I did this, I kept finding the hummingbird feeder knocked off another garden hook and completely empty in the morning.


My SO sort of scolded me and said, "Perhaps you should stop inviting bad stuff with your witchy stuff!"


I defended myself because I'm not a witch and I don't practice the stuff. My creative inspiration was TBWP movie though. lol


In the end, I found out it was a raccoon that was knocking off the hummingbird feeder and emptying the food that was inside it.


And my TBWP inspired stick came apart after a storm.

At least you still have a photo of it.

I'm easily amused by the little things in life and apparently sticks are on of those items.

A quiet, creepy movie with a vulnerable protagonist. Love it.

After her husband cheats, they're in bed and he's saying something to her, and she responds, "Why don't you leave me then?" She is so broken, my heart broke for her.

The Blair Witch Project, another quiet, terrifying movie.

It has Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Donald Sutherland in an anthology of horror shorts. The frame story finds five typical 1960s British guys winding up in a train compartment with strange old Dr. Schreck (German for "terror", get it?), who reads their fortunes with tarot cards. Each fortune describes the man's future encounter with the supernatural, including a vampire, a werewolf, a killer vine, a crawling hand, and a voodoo spell. The vibe is very '60s, the music is very atmospheric and the stories are clever.

Christopher Lee's first portrayal of the Count, with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing.
Hammer Films took some liberties with the original story, but still pretty scary.

Saw it second run theaters a few times and several times on TV. Just recently watched
it on the Universal Monsters Channel.

Tremors is a fun movie but it has it's moments.

The Thing From Another World was scary for it time back in the early 50s and, IMO, it still stands as a classic horror film.

Alien is perhaps the scariest movie for me.

And the best of all time, hands down. The Exorcist - 1973. A Halloween tradition in our house. Never gets old.

again.

The Haunting.


It's probably the very best haunted house movie (I'll get to the competition in a minute). Directed by the great Robert Wise, it has a scientist examining the house, the heir to the property, a self-professed psychic and Eleanor, who experienced poltergeist activity as a child. It doesn't have the kind of jump scares and gore we see in modern horror movies. It just has suspense - a lot of it. It's an old movie now, and dated, but if you can get into it, this is one of the most impressive horror movies ever made.

Now the competition, which is one of the most scary movies I've ever seen:


They're here! Poltergeist is a legendary movie, from 1982.

Have since kids were in their teens. Kids gone now and we have continued the tradition.

Poltergeist was last nights movie. Definitely a Spielberg joint.

I can and have watched that one numerous times.

Not super scary but a great mystery that can pull a few tears, even.

There are a few very intelligent scary movies that I like to watch:
A Ghost Story
The Changeling
The Uninvited

You can find them all for free if you are a savvy browser. They are the best.

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Night of the Demon (Dana Andrews)

Most any Hammer film

Sleepy Hollow, Ninth Gate, From Hell (all Johnny Depp)

Hound of the Baskervilles (Brett version)

Scarlet Claw (Rathbone Holmes film)

The Fog (John Carpenter version)

has the tenants in the wrong apartments!

I've seen it a few dozen times.

And that, was just on the small screen of the TV! Million Dollar Movie! 😄
It must have been awesome (and a bit scary) on the Big Screen!

I don't like horror.

But, come to think of it, it was more campy than scary, so never mind.

The Gargoyles 1972.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyles_(film)

Years ago, my kids wanted to watch this on Netflix and I thought I would join them....it was fantastic!

...and "Insidious"...

Original Dracula, 1931

Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992

Wolf, 1994. Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, in a werewolf love story.

Bad Moon, 1996.

The Howling, 1981.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931. Fredric March in amazing transformation scenes.

The Tenant, 1976.

Halloween, 1978.

I could go on and on and on....

I love sharing movies! Thanks so much for this thread, Deb.

Love at first Bite
Coco

Ok, not really horror, but those are as scary movie as I will get, lol.

The original Friday the 13th

Although there were plot holes you could drive a truck through, I thought it was well done over all. Plus 2X the Michael B. Jordan.

terrifying. leaves me trembling every time.

It's a great cast and it's very creepy. The human monsters are to me scarier than the mutants and animals and things.

As a kid I trembled when the neighbor on a bike morphed into a green-faced witch on a broomstick. The "I'd turn back if I were you" sign on the witch's forest had me as scared as the lion.
One of the best movies ever.

Starring wrestler Roddy Piper and featuring one of the best fight scenes in cinematic history, it is more relevant now, 37 years later. Consider it alongside Idiocracy as another film that now looks like a documentary.

https://www.theringer.com/2018/10/04/movies/they-live-john-carpenter-america-donald-trump

"The Time Machine" (1960)