I can't remember the name of the scariest book. Damn. But it was scary!
The scariest movie I ever saw probably isn't that scary to most people. It was Alien. They kill off the stereotypical hero right at the beginning, then in descending order of stereotype. Until all that is left is Sigourney in her underwear.
Mine was more a story: Shadow over Innsmouth by Lovecraft. I read it when I was probably 12 and it creeped me out.
The Scariest movie? I have four that compete. The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock - I saw it every year till I was about 10 and it terrified me every time. The Mark of the Devil, weird movie about Witch persecution, included lots and lots of Torture, really horrible stuff. Night of the Living Dead, I had nightmares all night that night. The Exorcist. I don't think I slept for a week when I saw that, I was only 12 and it terrified me.
I don't like scary. I don't remember the titles but back in high school my best friend was a huge steven king fan and persuaded me to read at least a couple of his books. They were really scary. That same friend persuaded me to go and see the first Alien movie, that was scary but I also was really scared by the terminator movie my dh took me to see in 1985 or 1986 when I was pregnant with son #1. I like it now that the only teenager left at home watches scary movies in his bedroom instead of in the living room.
Carrie the movie really made me jump out of my seat in the sequence where her friend goes to where her house had been and that bloody arm comes out of the ground... For sheer shock value, that nailed it.
Another movie I have always found very creepy, more because of the lighting, the monochrome photography and the camera angles than the subject matter, is Night of the Living Dead--the 1967 original. The other movies in that series are schlock.
One of the most frightening things I have ever read is the E. F. Benson story, The Room in the Tower. It builds up a mood, sustains it to eerie effect, and then delivers a punch. CREEPY.
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The scariest movie I ever saw probably isn't that scary to most people. It was Alien. They kill off the stereotypical hero right at the beginning, then in descending order of stereotype. Until all that is left is Sigourney in her underwear.
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The Scariest movie? I have four that compete.
The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock - I saw it every year till I was about 10 and it terrified me every time.
The Mark of the Devil, weird movie about Witch persecution, included lots and lots of Torture, really horrible stuff.
Night of the Living Dead, I had nightmares all night that night.
The Exorcist. I don't think I slept for a week when I saw that, I was only 12 and it terrified me.
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That same friend persuaded me to go and see the first Alien movie, that was scary but I also was really scared by the terminator movie my dh took me to see in 1985 or 1986 when I was pregnant with son #1.
I like it now that the only teenager left at home watches scary movies in his bedroom instead of in the living room.
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Another movie I have always found very creepy, more because of the lighting, the monochrome photography and the camera angles than the subject matter, is Night of the Living Dead--the 1967 original. The other movies in that series are schlock.
One of the most frightening things I have ever read is the E. F. Benson story, The Room in the Tower. It builds up a mood, sustains it to eerie effect, and then delivers a punch. CREEPY.
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