<p>EPTR: Yes, it’s on Netflix (I just re-checked to make sure).</p>
<p>I agree, Krlilies - most of del Toro’s stuff isn’t really scary (although I admit that I screamed once during “the Orphanage.”) You seem to like the smae kind of creepy movies I do - do you have any suggestions?</p>
<p>Don’t Look Now is a very scary psychological thriller. The original Haunting of Hill House movie and the book really scared me (it’s been over 40 years, but I still remember both).</p>
<p>Stephen King, up UNTIL Cujo. Carrie. Salem’s Lot. The Shining. I had a "dissociative episode " with Carrie, and had to sleep with the book The Shining in another room…in medical school! The Stand. I think I have everything he has ever written including “On Writing” , but the later stuff just didn’t grab me. I could not read Gerald’s Game. Different kind of story. </p>
<p>I like Jodie Foster. Little Girl who Lived Down The Lane, Panic Room, Flight Plan. </p>
<p>Not recent but, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.</p>
<p>Suddenly, Last Summer was pretty frightening when I saw it on television. It was made in 1959, & I was born in 57 so not sure how old I was when I saw it, but it made an impression. With Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift.</p>
<p>Stephen King’s first book of short stories is titled “Night Shift.” My favorite tale in it is “Graveyard Shift,” and it demonstrates King’s vivid imagination and brilliance when he was a young writer. Warning: You may not want to go down into your basement for a very long time!</p>
<p>I saw “Psycho” in a movie theater when I was a teen and it scared the bejeebers out of me.</p>
<p>@scout59: I think all the good, horror films have been mentioned in this thread. I haven’t seen the older movies cited though so I might check them out too. Here are some scary movies I’ve seen that you might want to add to your queue: The Eye (Japanese version), the Spanish horror films REC & REC2, Drag Me to Hell, A Perfect Getaway, Splinter and John Cusack’s Identity & 1408.</p>
<p>Not exactly horror films, more thriller but worth watching: Buried which stars Ryan Reynolds and Contagion (Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard).</p>
<p>Has anyone seen Melancholia? It was on cable lately and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days. It runs you through a lot of emotions and although you know what the ending is, it is terrifying.</p>
<p>The original When a Stranger Calls, plus the Devils Triangle, Exorcist, and Salems Lot.</p>
<p>Satan’s Triangle I mean.</p>
<p>Krlilies - I have heard good things about REC. Thanks! I don’t think I could watch “The Eye” though - I’m too squeamish when it comes to my own eyes.</p>
<p>Loved Contagion, too. It’s more of a real-life horror movie.</p>
<p>“Drag Me to Hell”–my kids told me it was so outlandish that I’d be laughing by the end of the movie. And I was. They took every cliche and packed it in to the point that it became a joke–but I enjoyed it.
“Clover field” was good.</p>
<p>Agree with shrinkwrap about Stephen King novels. “The Shining” got me initially hooked and I read just about everything he wrote up to “Cujo” where he started to lose me. I couldn’t get past chapter one of Gerald’s Game.
“The Stand” is still one of my all time favorites.</p>
<p>Shyanne its funny you mentioned that.
The two DVDs I have from Ds list are The tree of Life, & Melancholia.</p>
<p>Melancholia is an artsy-fartsy film that drove me nuts. The opening scnes kind of reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The shots were breath-taking though. You kind of want to put the opening scenes on repeat in a big, flat screen on the wall as some sort of art work if only the theme wasnt so depressing. I dont know which movie was more depressing this one or 21 Grams or Leaving Las Vegas. I want to rush off to the Happiest Place on Earth after seeing this movie.</p>
<p>Bumping this up for any more horror film or book suggestions! Halloween is my second favorite holiday and October is my favorite month.</p>
<p>I don’t like many horror films so for me October is one long month - all those endless Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street sequels on TV all the time.</p>
<p>I read The Passage by Justin Cronin a while ago and thought it was an excellent scary book; then I started the sequel, The Twelve, and the whole thing seemed kind of silly to me. I hate when that happens.</p>
<p>They’re remaking Carrie, which seems unnecessary. I thought the original was a terrific genre film and I don’t know what a new version will do that the old one didn’t.</p>
<p>Stephen King has a sequel out to The Shining - Doctor Sleep. The reviews have been good and I like his books, but I might not have the heart for this one. He doesn’t shrink from putting his child characters in harm’s way.</p>
<p>Frazzled, are you sure you’re not my twin separated at birth? (I’m thinking of your “breaking Bad” posts, too…)</p>
<p>I loved “The Passage” but HATED “The Twelve.” (It didn’t get much better as it progressed…) I bought a copy of “Dr Sleep” but haven’t had time to read it yet. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen a really scary movie or read a really scary book in a long time.</p>
<p>At least “The Walking Dead” starts tomorrow.</p>
<p>Maybe - I always wanted a sister. :)</p>
<p>My kids are pushing me to watch The Walking Dead but I don’t usually go for zombie stories. I thought World War Z and 28 Days Later were good, though. And something has to fill the Breaking Bad gap on Sunday nights.</p>
<p>I wasn’t much for zombies either, before TWD, but it’s more a story about the human survivors than it is about the zombies. It’s not as good as Breaking Bad, but it fills the void…</p>
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<p>They pulled a stunt for the movie. The Carrie character came into a local coffee shop, got into an argument and used her powers. Freaked out customers coming in for morning coffee. You can see it on youtube.</p>