kpowers said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

The only ones I saw on the list are 10 9 6


http://www.msn.com/en-us/...p#image=11

Mia Taylor 51 mins ago

Heart Racing Horrors

Halloween, like so many other cultural traditions, has been upended this year by the coronavirus pandemic. But even if we can't enjoy trick-or-treating or Halloween parties, we still have horror flicks — which is why Google searches for "horror films" are up 2,750%, the experts at GIGACalculator note in explaining what inspired their experiment: asking 150 people to watch 10 scary films for the first time while wearing a heart rate tracker. By monitoring their pulse and comparing heartbeats per minute against an average, they got a ranking of each movie's fright factor from least to most. Read on if you dare.


10. The Exorcist (1973)

9. The Conjuring 2 (2013)

8. It (2017)

7. Us (2019)

6. The Descent (2005)

5. A Quiet Place (2018)

4. Insidious (2010)

3. The Babadook (2014)

2. Saw (2004)

1. Hereditary (2018)

Way too many 2000's movies on the list. Not saying they are not scary but they do rely a lot on CGI

I said the same thing. Too much of these are gore movies. I'm not into that

That is a good list, that mirrors my favs.
There are a few like this one that I have not seen.
I just watched the trailer that had me jumping
They made it feel like an older time too.
I definately need to see this. But with other people.
I lived someplace with a basement like that. The horror is real. Daytime or Night.

https://www.youtube.com/w...jMMn0t58Lc
The Conjuring Official Trailer #1 (2013)

kpowers said:

My list in no real order

https://www.youtube.com/w...-rrlwyD1uI

The Conjuring True Story - What Really Happened

https://www.youtube.com/w...14di7CMcPY

The real-life story behind 'The Conjuring' w/ Andrea Perron

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TrivialPursuit said:

kpowers said:

Nah Halloween 1 set the standard. The music was scary as hell.

Interesting mention. I was talking to a friend and moviebuff over the weekend. We talked about horror films. I said how I thought Halloween was relatively boring, to me. She said, "it was the music that saved the movie. The music is scary as hell."

TrivialPursuit said:

kpowers said:

Nah Halloween 1 set the standard. The music was scary as hell.

Interesting mention. I was talking to a friend and moviebuff over the weekend. We talked about horror films. I said how I thought Halloween was relatively boring, to me. She said, "it was the music that saved the movie. The music is scary as hell."

It added to the movie, the way it was shot and the story were also very good. Donald Pleasence was excellent in the role of Dr. Loomis.

Misleading thread title. That's a list of ten specific films, sorted by the physical responses of 150 viewers, not a list of "the scariest horror films ever made" by any stretch of the imagination.

OldFriends4Sale said:

That is a good list, that mirrors my favs.
There are a few like this one that I have not seen.
I just watched the trailer that had me jumping
They made it feel like an older time too.
I definately need to see this. But with other people.
I lived someplace with a basement like that. The horror is real. Daytime or Night.

https://www.youtube.com/w...jMMn0t58Lc
The Conjuring Official Trailer #1 (2013)

kpowers said:

My list in no real order

Besides the Conjuring what other movies on my list haven't you seen? You saw Conjuring 2 but not part 1?

Lianachan said:

Misleading thread title. That's a list of ten specific films, sorted by the physical responses of 150 viewers, not a list of "the scariest horror films ever made" by any stretch of the imagination.

And most of them, if not all, were all in their 20's judging by their responses

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Great individual scenes in Halloween. The quieter horror worked. Not the stabbings.

Friday the 13th rips off Halloween, but that is a good thing. The lady under the bed--scary. Great gore. Axe in the face, shows she was two faced--lol. How good was the main girl? Sexy, but not lovely. The old dude on the bike, yes.

The slowness of Shining is important. Horror is about the wait. What lurks around the corner. I'd love to stay at that hotel, just not with ghosts.lol

kpowers said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

That is a good list, that mirrors my favs.
There are a few like this one that I have not seen.
I just watched the trailer that had me jumping
They made it feel like an older time too.
I definately need to see this. But with other people.
I lived someplace with a basement like that. The horror is real. Daytime or Night.

https://www.youtube.com/w...jMMn0t58Lc
The Conjuring Official Trailer #1 (2013)

Besides the Conjuring what other movies on my list haven't you seen? You saw Conjuring 2 but not part 1?

Conjuring II, i've seen everything else. Love all of those. I just watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers again last year on Netflix. Forgot how suspensful and scary that was.

Lianachan said:

Misleading thread title. That's a list of ten specific films, sorted by the physical responses of 150 viewers, not a list of "the scariest horror films ever made" by any stretch of the imagination.

It's the title used at the link. I try to stay safe by just using what the website provides lol

2freaky4church1 said:

The slowness of The Shining is important. Horror is about the wait. What lurks around the corner. I'd love to stay at that hotel, just not with ghosts. lol

That hotel actually built a maze garden inspired by the movie. It didn't have one originally.

A year or two ago, just before Doctor Sleep was due to hit the big screen, I decided to finally read The Shining and Doctor Sleep. I was a huge SK fan as a kid and still am, but never read that book. I have to say, it's 1000% better than the movie. While the movie is sorta its own thing, the book starts further back in the family history, and builds nuances that later affect Jack, Danny, and Wendy in their hotel stay. Danny's little imaginary friend is more pronounced and has a timeline. Even Jack's alcoholism and violence toward Danny plays a bigger part. Even the TV movie, with Steven Weber and written by SK himself, didn't fully embrace the book (although the latter got the plot points better).

If you put 40°22'57.83"N 105°31'9.12"W into Google Earth, you can see the new maze at The Stanley Hotel, that it was based on. However, the external shots for the movie were actually Timberline Lodge in Oregon.

It goes without saying the book was heavily influenced by The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (who King references in his book).

There was a little boy to terrorize a man and his woman to set one against the other, and if it played its cards right they could end up flitting through the Overlook’s halls like insubstantial shades in a Shirley Jackson novel, whatever walked in Hill House walked alone, but you wouldn’t be alone in the Overlook, oh no, there would be plenty of company here.

OldFriends4Sale said:

kpowers said:

Besides the Conjuring what other movies on my list haven't you seen? You saw Conjuring 2 but not part 1?

Conjuring II, i've seen everything else. Love all of those. I just watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers again last year on Netflix. Forgot how suspensful and scary that was.

Remember this

kpowers said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Conjuring II, i've seen everything else. Love all of those. I just watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers again last year on Netflix. Forgot how suspensful and scary that was.

Remember this

Great film and such a wonderful ending but it's not scary at all neither is The Conjuring, such and overrated film.

slyjackson said:

kpowers said:

Remember this

Great film and such a wonderful ending but it's not scary at all neither is The Conjuring, such and overrated film.

I think it's underated.

kpowers said:

slyjackson said:

Great film and such a wonderful ending but it's not scary at all neither is The Conjuring, such and overrated film.

I think it's underated.

And I agree

kpowers said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Conjuring II, i've seen everything else. Love all of those. I just watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers again last year on Netflix. Forgot how suspensful and scary that was.

Remember this

YES!!! that was such a helpless moment. Resistance is futile

It's good when it's daytime and a scene can create fright

OldFriends4Sale said:

kpowers said:

Remember this

YES!!! that was such a helpless moment. Resistance is futile

It's good when it's daytime and a scene can create fright

Veronica Cartwright has some very classic screaming scenes of all time

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TrivialPursuit said:

kpowers said:

Nah Halloween 1 set the standard. The music was scary as hell.

Interesting mention. I was talking to a friend and moviebuff over the weekend. We talked about horror films. I said how I thought Halloween was relatively boring, to me. She said, "it was the music that saved the movie. The music is scary as hell."

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https://www.youtube.com/w...AbDvqPFXvQ

nayroo2002 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Interesting mention. I was talking to a friend and moviebuff over the weekend. We talked about horror films. I said how I thought Halloween was relatively boring, to me. She said, "it was the music that saved the movie. The music is scary as hell."

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https://www.youtube.com/w...AbDvqPFXvQ

No need to update the song. Orginal version still better plus all the other versions of the songs on the orginal Halloween soundtrack

Halloween Theme - Main Title

Laurie's Theme

Shape Escapes

Myer's House

Michael Kills Judith

Loomis And Shape's Car

The Haunted House

The Shape Lurks

Laurie Knows

Better Check The Kids

The Shape Stalks

OldFriends4Sale said:

kpowers said:

Remember this

YES!!! that was such a helpless moment. Resistance is futile

It's good when it's daytime and a scene can create fright

Good point about it being in the daytime. You think everything is good because they survived the night only to find out Veronica Cartwright is the last person on Earth that wasn't taken over.

1. The Exorcist

2. Get Out

3. It Follows

All the rest make me spill my popcorn from laughter

kpowers said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

YES!!! that was such a helpless moment. Resistance is futile

It's good when it's daytime and a scene can create fright

Good point about it being in the daytime. You think everything is good because they survived the night only to find out Veronica Cartwright is the last person on Earth that wasn't taken over.

You're right about the daytime point.

Carrie.

Blair Witch Project

The Exorcist

Wicker Man

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

United 93

Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Last House on the Left

A Serious Man

City of the Living Dead

Disco Godfather

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kpowers said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

YES!!! that was such a helpless moment. Resistance is futile

It's good when it's daytime and a scene can create fright

Good point about it being in the daytime. You think everything is good because they survived the night only to find out Veronica Cartwright is the last person on Earth that wasn't taken over.

the last hope of humanity being wiped out. That was a troubling movie. Lots of suspense.

There were a few movies that ended with that bright daytime hopefulness - Friday the 13th, Carrie, and there was this movie about teens/young adults who decided to spend the night in an Amusement Parks Haunted House, and it was a nightmare, but it ended with the alleged survivor driving away in the day time and this twisted la la lala la la laaa music

OldFriends4Sale said:

kpowers said:

Good point about it being in the daytime. You think everything is good because they survived the night only to find out Veronica Cartwright is the last person on Earth that wasn't taken over.

the last hope of humanity being wiped out. That was a troubling movie. Lots of suspense.

There were a few movies that ended with that bright daytime hopefulness - Friday the 13th, Carrie, and there was this movie about teens/young adults who decided to spend the night in an Amusement Parks Haunted House, and it was a nightmare, but it ended with the alleged survivor driving away in the day time and this twisted la la lala la la laaa music

kpowers said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

the last hope of humanity being wiped out. That was a troubling movie. Lots of suspense.

There were a few movies that ended with that bright daytime hopefulness - Friday the 13th, Carrie, and there was this movie about teens/young adults who decided to spend the night in an Amusement Parks Haunted House, and it was a nightmare, but it ended with the alleged survivor driving away in the day time and this twisted la la lala la la laaa music

OMG - I remember this movie. "they wiggle and they dance".

ah that's it. Thanks

I like movies like this that the 'boogieman' isn't really evil, just misunderstood. He was sympathetic and just wanted Love & Sex.

But it was scary

https://www.youtube.com/w...eb0r_wdLyc
Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/w...0Q8dz6dIT0

THE FUNHOUSE 1981 (Extra footage from the TV version)
Extra scenes from the TV version that aren't in the theatrical cut. There are also several alternate scenes and some scenes have been shortened for the tv version (due to nudity or violence) and I included some of those but not all of them. The extra scenes (all of those are included) aren't mind blowing but I'm sure fans of this classic would like to see them.

kpowers said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

the last hope of humanity being wiped out. That was a troubling movie. Lots of suspense.

There were a few movies that ended with that bright daytime hopefulness - Friday the 13th, Carrie, and there was this movie about teens/young adults who decided to spend the night in an Amusement Parks Haunted House, and it was a nightmare, but it ended with the alleged survivor driving away in the day time and this twisted la la lala la la laaa music

Just about anything by John Carpenter (not Zombie) is a good fright flick


Even if it's not intended, Escape From New York, has a horror movie affect

https://www.youtube.com/w...kvDo2JHB7o

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Ridley Scott's Blade Runner(1981) takes on that vibe as well

Poltergeist (1982) watched it last month and it still scares me

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