Top Five Scary Movies
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This week, we share our top five movies that scared us the most.
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Watched Babadook this week. It creeped the Hell out of me, because it reminded me how plastic your mind was as a child, and how a suggestion of something could be manifested as something truly scary with the power of imagination (especially when that something is psychological and related to something so fundamental to you as your Mother).
It’s also made all the more scary having the boogieman be a physical manifestation of grief/despair/hate, something that can be all too real in life.
It.
I’ll love him forever for Frank-n-Furter, but goddamn that Tim Curry all the same. I uncovered a VHS tape (kids, ask your parents) of it at far, far too young an age – I would have been 10, judging from imdb – and as a result could barely bring myself to take a shower for *months* afterwards. Even after the worst of it had settled down, it stuck around. I’m a grown-ass man, 35-years old, and I still flinch a bit if that goddamn clown’s face suddenly pops up unexpectedly.
(Well, this obviously wasn’t meant as a reply. But the point stands.)
A couple of movies I would have added:
Exorcist (well done and creepy as hell; possessed children never a good thing)
Serpent and the Rainbow (creepiest buried in a coffin alive scenes I remember seeing)
In the Mouth of Madness (Cthulu based and saw it whe sick late at night and has a portion that is about how the act of watching the movie makes the things come more into our dimension…slight mind f there…then again I was sick at the time)
The 1978 John Carpenter’s Halloween – the reality of the crazy person breaking out of mental hospital to kill his sister and anyone/everyone else, the music and the breathing – all terrified me for years (can’t wait to watch it again)
28 Days Later – I grew up on the slow methodical zombies that most people could outrun…then this movie with zombie-sprint team (WTH?!?!)
My coworker has the best kid staring at you in the middle of the night story.
He woke up at 3am, and his son (age 5) is standing right by his bed, in a Batman costume. So after the jumps scare he whispers “what are you doing?” And his son replied in his little kid Batman voice “protecting you” so he whispered “ok” then went back to sleep.
That’s an awesome story, even more so if it really happened!
I can’t wait to listen to this episode in work tonight!
Without having listened, here are the top five scary movies that both scared and scarred me for life, mostly because I saw them when I was too young to be watching this stuff!
5. Salem’s Lot: The Nosferatu-style vampire and its creepy thralls gave me many sleepless nights.
4. Carrie: The scenes with the pig’s blood were somehow topped by the final scene with the sicko mother.
3. The Amityville Horror: Not too scary in retrospect, but I was under ten when I saw it. Bad move.
2. The Omen: The Anti-Christ is always scary, even more so when it’s a child.
1. The Exorcist: Between growing up Catholic, and being way to young to see it, I lived my childhood not in fear of IF someone in my family was going to become possessed by the devil, but WHEN. I love the movie now, but it still gives me chills to watch it, and will always be the scariest movie of ALL time!
I found Ghost Watch on youtube. Here is the link.
https://youtu.be/Yfy9UHAIwgQ
Here is a list of my favorite scary movies that I posted just earlier this week.
http://www.onceuponalongbox.com/2015/10/my-favorite-horror-movies.html
My father grew up in a a very old farmhouse in Chatham County, a small town called Snow Camp (so named because Cornwallis retreated and made camp there during a snowstorm). There’s been a farmhouse on that very spot since the 1700s. He and his sisters grew up basically knowing the house was haunted – their parents never talked about it due to their religious beliefs, but they constantly saw shadows and heard conversations in empty rooms. As much history has passed through the spot, residual energy is no shock. For a time about a decade ago, the house was totally empty, no food no water no people. My mom and dad went down there checking to make sure things were still locked. On one corner of the house, known to be the spot that weird shadows and cold spots and energy balls showed up, there was a mass of thousands upon thousands of flies. Keep in mind – no water, no food, no dead things, no nothing. They were even in between the window panes. An hour later – they had all disappeared – not even one fly left in between the panes. I am not a religious person, but I am telling you weird energies and forces exist that we do not get.
5. The Believers
4. Friday the 13th
3. Nightmare on Elm Street
2. Poltergeist
1. It’s Alive