<p>Given that it’s Halloween tonight, any recommendations for classic scary movies?</p>
<p>^^Classic oldie, very creepy- Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”</p>
<p>The Shining-- Jack Nicholson is sooooo creepy!</p>
<p>Yes, to the Birdcage (one of our favorites) as well as many others you have all mentioned.<br>
A few years ago, I made the girls sit with me through my Patrick Swayze and Hugh Grant collections (Ghost, Dirty Dancing, Four Weddings . . . etc.)
The one movie I have very fond memories of that they could NOT sit through was The Warriors. Anyone else remember that? That gang in Central Park in the baseball uniforms? And the immortal quote: “Warriors . . . come out and play-ee-ay!”
Darn kids couldn’t see the greatness.</p>
<p>Oh, sorry – we were on to Halloween! What was that really old Don Knotts movie where he has to spend the night in the haunted house?</p>
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<p>The Ghost and Mr. Chicken</p>
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<p>Honestly, I’d much prefer the really early monster films (Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature of the Black Lagoon, The Mummy, Werewolf) over the nasty gory mess some people watch today. I can’t believe how many of those Saw movies have been made. Ick!</p>
<p>Psycho, The Changeling (not the one with Angelina), Rosemary’s Baby.</p>
<p>I second mommusic’s “Last of the Mohicans.” </p>
<p>And we love:</p>
<p>“The Winslow Boy” (Mamet version)
“Breaker Morant”
“The Madness of King George”
“Spellbound” (about the National Spelling Bee)
“Becket”
“Fawlty Towers”
“Anne of the 1000 Days”
“The Pianist”</p>
<p>and one of my favorites “The Illusionist”</p>
<p>Repo-man! My still-favorite line: </p>
<p>“Let’s go for sushi–and NOT PAY!”</p>
<p>I haven’t read the whole thread, but DH and I began introducing DD’s (now 18 and 15) to classic movies when they were younger. They both love all of the old movie musicals and could recite lines from Casablanca and Gone with the Wind by the time they were in kindergarten! Some of their favorites are:</p>
<p>Rear Window
To Catch a Thief
The Philadelphia Story
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
My Fair Lady
Sabrina
An Affair to Remember
It’s a Wonderful Life
Oklahoma
Annie Get Your Gun
The Long Trailer</p>
<p>Then as teens they loved:
St Elmo’s Fire
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Pretty in Pink
Grease
Ghost
Dirty Dancing
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off</p>
<p>The Philadelphia Story is my absolute favorite, but anything with Hepburn works for me. </p>
<p>Our DD is quirky she will snuggle up with me under the covers in my bed to watch what we call prehistorics (B&W). </p>
<p>Our favorite of all time is Holiday Inn with Bing and Fred.</p>
<p>SHe saw Topper with me this weekend and loved it (Cary Grant as a ghost)</p>
<p>I agree if you introduce when they are younger they get addicted.</p>
<p>DD also likes every Gidget, Sabrina and AN Affair to Remember. When she was about 12 she saw the b&w version of Beauty and the Beast and fell in love with it, but it is hard to find.</p>
<p>My favoriite no matter what, b&w, PBS or recent is Pride and Prejudice…I will watch each and every version. will say the PBS one is the best.</p>
<p>Oops forgot to add we love the Sound Of Music.</p>
<p>Great recommendations – and great memories!</p>
<p>A few small films I thought never received the attention they deserved, but always seem to please kids from late tweens/early teens up:</p>
<p>Ever After (you go, girl!)
Wild America (my 12 yr old son SO wishes he were living this kid’s life!)
The Dish (math-y son loves the slide rules; we recently resurrected this one to
celebrate the Apollo anniversary)</p>
<p>We’ve always watched and enjoyed older classic movies with our girls. Now that they’re older-one in grad school and one a senior, they’ve moved onto all of Hitchcock, Truffaut, Bergman and Fellini… we all love Dr. Zhivago and was pleased to introduce them to Reds when it was released two years ago for 25th anniversary. I just saw that Z is being released on DVD… other than all the Monty Python and Mel Brooks movies, Star Wars, ET, Gone with the Wind and the Indiana Jones series, we all love The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Disney films and perhaps most uniquely, The Ten Commandments which both have memorized.</p>
<p>bulletandpima:</p>
<p>The Philadelphia Story is my absolute favorite…</p>
<p>I think it is the best American comedy ever made.</p>
<p>Harold and Maude
Saturday Night Fever
The Deerhunter
Apocalyse Now</p>
<p>I’ve gone through most of the posts and although we seem to have covered most of the classics, I don’t see The Graduate–great movie for college kids.
And did I miss Citizen Kane?</p>
<p>bookmama…when you said Monty Python, all I heard in my mind was;</p>
<p>Bring out your dead…but I am not dead yet…you will be soon!</p>
<p>That and …Come back here I’ll bite off your knee caps. </p>
<p>Our eldest loves Monty Python. He was the hit as a freshmen in the dorm because none of them ever saw it before and thought it was hysterical.</p>
<p>How many of us remember being in hs and going to the Rocky Horror Picture Show…of course no matter where you sat there was no safe seat!</p>
<p>well…i’m a teen,but I love Lassie, Where the Red Fern Grows, and Butch Cassiday & the Sundance Kid</p>
<p>As far as newer old movies(90s)- Homeward Bound, Far From Home(the Adventures of Yellow Dog), & the Amazing Panda Adventure</p>
<p>EDIT: How could I EVER leave out Star Wars?!?!?!</p>
<p>I have not read through those already listed, but:</p>
<p>The French Connection
The Graduate
The Sting
Chariots of Fire
An Officer and A Gentleman</p>
<p>I always recommend Blowup, the 1966 British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.</p>
<p>Great storyline, plus you get to see the Jeff Beck version of the Yardbirds play “Roll On.”</p>