What was/ is your favorite scary movie to watch on Halloween night?

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[arkielib]

1. Psycho

I'm not a big fan of scary movies, but I do like Hitchcock's. The Birds is another good one. My aunt took me to see The Birds when I was 5 years old. (She didn't know what it was - she just wanted to go to a movie.) It was MANY years before I would watch it again.

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2. Thank you arkielib. I understand. Psycho is mine too.

[WhiteTara]

3. I don't need scary movies, I watch

the news.

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5. White Tara. Watching the news is like watching a creepy movie.

[Emile]

4. "The Exorcist"

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6. Thank you Emile . I read the book when it came out. I saw the movie when it came out. Never saw it again. I was

so scared

[rurallib]

7. "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

So stark

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9. Thank you ruralib.

[area51]

8. The Lost Boys.

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10. Thank you area51

[Polly Hennessey]

11. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (sp?).

That’s about as scary as I can handle.

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12. Thank you Polly Hennessey. I watch Charlie Brown's Halloween Show. It's a tradition in our house.

[Niagara]

13. I have an entire movie rotation that starts in the month of October

Just a few movies that I watch every October:

What Lies Beneath, An American Werewolf in London, The entire Halloween franchise...sometimes I watch Halloween 3 as it really has nothing to do with Michael Myers, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Psycho franchise, Christine, Prom Night, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Lost Boys.


Some perhaps non-frightening movies for other people: Death Becomes Her, The Innkeepers, Clue, The Addams Family, The Witches of Eastwick, Ghostbusters.

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14. Thank you Niagara. You have a large selection I will go with Ghostbusters. What can I say I get frightened easily,

[surrealAmerican]

15. Night of the Living Dead

There was a MST3K version.

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16. Thank you .surrealAmerican. I live in western PA where Carpenter shot the film. I was a zombie.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. Nightmare on Elm Street and Child's Play

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22. Thank you Elessar Zappa.

[nocoincidences]

18. the Changeling

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I also love Ghost Story. I can't find a clean copy of it for free.

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20. Thank you nocoincidences. I will have to look for it as I have never seen it before.

[justaprogressive]

19. The Blob followed

by either The Thing 1951 (From Another World) or The Day The Earth Stood Still

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21. Thank you justaprogressive.

[wishstar]

23. Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp

Especially enjoyable since I am descended from a sister of the original Katrina Van Tassel (whose gravestone in Sleepy Hollow NY cemetery allegedly inspired Washington Irving to name the character after the real Katrina. Van Tassel descendants have not only Dutch ancestry but native ancestry since the first Van Tassel in America fathered a son with a native woman from Long Island NY and the mixed parentage of the son is documented by Dutch court records)

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24. Thank you for your post wishstar. It is very interesting.

[wnylib]

41. Interesting family history. I did not know that

there really was a Katrina Van Tassel.

I don't like the version with Johnny Depp because it veers so far from the book that it's not the same story. I prefer the original film that follows the book closely, but it's hard to find.

The grade school that I went to was named Irving. Next to the school was a park named Washington.

Our grade school teachers read us the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

[Prairie_Seagull]

25. TNOTLD. To lazy to type.

Come on that should have it's own letter thingy. haha

My first scary movie at a drive in. I was the oldest and peaked between the seats.
Double feature along with the Gruesome Twosome. They are coming to get you deborah.

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28. Oh you. What the heck is that-- The Night of the Living Dead. I was one of Carpenter;s zombies in the film. Thank you

Prairie_Seagull

[OldBaldy1701E]

26. We usually have a marathon these days.

My all time scary movie is 'Alien'.

Not sure what we will choose this go around. I like the classics. The original ones.

Godzilla
Phantasm
Night Of The Living Dead
The Exorcist
Jaws
Last House On The Left
The Hills Have Eyes
Halloween
Friday The 13th
Evil Dead 1&2
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Poltergeist
Jacob's Ladder
The Thing (I like both of them... the original 'Thing From Another World' and the remake in 1982, simply called 'The Thing'.)
Salem's Lot

The list goes on, but those are some of them.

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31. thank you for the list, OldBaldy1701E. You have some great ones there. I played a zombie in Carpenters Night of the

Living Dead. All of his films were made in western PA. One was at the Monroeville Mall. Only the first one was I in.

[AllaN01Bear]

27. them.

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32. Thank you AllaN01Bear.

[Marigold]

29. Psycho

And it still is my very favorite. It never gets old.

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33. Agree. Thank you Marigold

[DinahMoeHum]

30. Tales From The Crypt (1972)

starring Peter Cushing.

The episode "Poetic Justice" is my favorite.

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34. I remember that show. Thank you DinahMoeHum

[johnp3907]

35. The Blob

Best theme song ever!

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37. Thank you johnp3907. I saw it once but didn;t remember the song. I like it . Kind of funky.

[Wiz Imp]

36. The only one I've chosen to watch this year is "They Live"

Not really a "scary" movie but it's generally classified as Sci-Fi/Horror/Action. Was a movie way ahead of it's time and even more relevant today than it was when it was released almost 40 years ago.

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum"

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38. Thank you Wiz Imp.

[Rigpa108]

39. The Addams Family

Not scary, but then I'm a Raul Julia fan. I thought he did a great Gomez and Angelica Huston did a great Morticia.
Now let's all dance the Mamushka!

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40. Thank you Rigpa108