Scary books & movies

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<p>I want to go all out for Halloween this year - I don’t have kids at home but we have a neighborhood full of them
So trying to get in the mood, however I have a very low gore tolerance - I want shivery stories not too goopy…
To start off the season- a movie with Fred Astaire.
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<p>Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty (really) is quite good.</p>

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<p>i like scary movies without the gore, too!</p>

<p>Some of my favorites include</p>

<p>Orphanato (one bad scene - the rest is creepy but not gory)
The Gift
The Mothman Prophecies (the one with Richard Gere - not the remake)
The original Halloween (really - it’s not that bloody, it’s mostly just suspenseful)</p>

<p>How do you feel about disturbing imagery? I mean, I really like “The Ring,” but that jerky, black-and-white imagery really creeps me out.</p>

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<p>Both the book and movie of The Shining, The Exorcist and Night of the Living Dead terrified me. </p>

<p>The Amityville Horror book was creepy too when I read it as a young girl. I couldn’t look out the window at night for a while thinking there was a walking pig with red eyes staring at me. Other creepy books that I read were Flowers in the Attic and Pet Semetary.</p>

<p>The Omen and Jeepers Creepers were interesting horror movies. </p>

<p>The Grudge and The Ring are movies that I prefer to watch day time.</p>

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<p>Remember Twilight Zone, the movie? It’s creepy/scary but I can watch this one. The only gory horror movie I ever saw was Night of the Living Dead, and that turned me off of the genre forever (and was one the main reasons that the movie rating system was started).</p>

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<p>Salem’s Lot by Stephen King scared the hell out of me when I read it back in the '70s.</p>

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<p>Rosemary’s Baby is the scariest movie ever.</p>

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<p>The Uninvited (1944) w. Ray Milland
The Haunting (1963) dir Robert Wise
The Changeling (1980) —w. George C Scott
Nosferatu (1922) dir. F.W. Murnau-- withe the scariest imagery EVER
( and for fun watch the movie Shadow of the Vampire with John Malkovich as F. W. Murnau and Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck)</p>

<p>And I am with you…I hate gore and find an unexpected well timed foot-fall in a spooky house much scarier.</p>

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<p>The original When a Stranger Calls was one of the scarier non gory movies I ever saw.</p>

<p>“Why haven’t you checked the children?” Ugh, goosebumps still.</p>

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<p>Actually, Daniel Radcliffe’s recent movie “The Woman in Black” was really creepy!</p>

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<p>Gleeps, emerald - that’s quite a photo in the link you posted! Agree about The Shining, book and movie. Stanley Kubrick’s images are hugely creepy - and talk about disturbing.</p>

<p>I was reading The Exorcist during my first week of college. I got to a certain point and was so scared I had to put it in a drawer and walk down to the lounge to see who else was up at 3 AM - met some lifelong friends that night.</p>

<p>Two other terrifying films: Wait until Dark and Alien.</p>

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<p>“An American Werewolf in London” is good.</p>

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<p>I think Rosemary’s Baby was the scariest movie I have ever seen. Can’t remember if I read the book first - it seems like I did, but I must have been pretty young.</p>

<p>Also, Invasion of the Body snatchers- the 1978 version with Donald Sutherland.</p>

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<p>I agree about Rosemary’s Baby. It was John Cassavetes performance that REALLY creeped me out. The things some actors will do to get ahead.
And the fact that it was filmed at the Dakota…</p>

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<p>There have been many movies that were startling due to some unexpected thing jumping out at the protagonist(s), but the only movie that I found to be truly frightening as an adult was The Ring.</p>

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<p>The Others with Nicole Kidman is a good suspense/scary one. I liked both The Orphanage and Pan’s Labyrinth. Also, for some reason, I have always been scared by the old stand-by, Poltergeist- kiind of hokey but there is that scary clown scene. Arachnaphobia is also a fun, scary movie with a little humor thrown in.</p>

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<p>Just remembered Don’t Look Now, from back in the 70s, with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Very unsettling and ultimately sad. That’s how I’d also describe Mulholland Drive, which has one of the single scariest scenes I’ve ever seen in it.</p>

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<p>The Haunting is my favorite scary movie. I like the 1963 version with no special effects although the newer version is good also. It is still one of the scariest movies ever. I think I have watched it at least 20 times. </p>

<p>I would really like to see the scary movie with Daniel Radcliffe. I love ghost movies.</p>

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<p>I suggest two.</p>

<p>*The Uninvited *</p>

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<p>Read the reviews. Delightfully scary!</p>

<p>Arsenic and Old Lace</p>

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<p>I’m told it was a B’way play first.</p>

<p>Funny, scarey, Halloween themed.</p>

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<p>The original Salem’s Lot movie with David Soul and Bonnie Bedelia. Only a few of us left on campus during Thanksgiving break my freshman year, and we all watched it together in one girl’s room. That Christmas break, I read the book and didn’t sleep much the whole time. Still think it’s the scariest movie ever made.</p>