The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween

Catseye3 · wrote on 27 Oct 2021, 22:07

https://www.nylon.com/life/underrated-horror-movies-streaming

I've not seen any of these, but some of them look like really good bad movies!

Aqua Letifer · wrote on 27 Oct 2021, 22:16

Perfect Blue is awesome. Very creepy.
The VVitch is scary as shit, too, and a pretty good one.

I lay down the following challenge to any who dare, as this is how I saw it and it makes a huge difference: Watch "Audition" without reading up about it. Then report back.

George K · 27 Oct 2021, 22:29

"Scary" movies (note the scary quotes, LOL) seem to fall into one of two genres:

startle the hell out of you
gross the hell out of you with gore

I care for neither.

Give me good suspense, but don't try to startle me or gross me out.

Catseye3 · wrote on 27 Oct 2021, 22:29

@george-k said in The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween:

Scary" movies (note the scary quotes, LOL) seem to fall into one of two genres:

startle the hell out of you
gross the hell out of you with gore

One exception to your rule I can think of is Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.
One word of warning that you ignore at the peril of being lost through the entire movie: Watch it from the very first frame.

Aqua Letifer · 27 Oct 2021, 22:34

@george-k said in The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween:

"Scary" movies (note the scary quotes, LOL) seem to fall into one of two genres:

startle the hell out of you

gross the hell out of you with gore

I care for neither.

Give me good suspense, but don't try to startle me or gross me out.

You're watching the wrong ones. But yes, most are like that. Just not all.

Catseye3 · wrote on 27 Oct 2021, 22:34

@aqua-letifer said in The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween:

Give me good suspense,

Actually, Wait Until Dark is probably more suspense than horror, but with a smidgeon of horror.

George K · wrote on 27 Oct 2021, 22:38

@catseye3 said in The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween:

One exception to your rule I can think of is Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.
One word of warning that you ignore at the peril of being lost through the entire movie: Watch it from the very first frame.

I love, LOVE, that movie. But, it falls under suspense in my book.

When I was a kid, I begged my father to take me to see "House on Haunted Hill," which starred Vincent Price. Looking at it now, it was cheesy AF, but it gave me nightmares for months (especially the head in the suitcase scene).

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Don't scare me. Confuse me, and make me wonder what's going to happen next. Aside from @Aqua-s-Sister , I don't go for cheap thrills.

Klaus · 28 Oct 2021, 12:06

@george-k said in The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween:

"Scary" movies (note the scary quotes, LOL) seem to fall into one of two genres:

startle the hell out of you

gross the hell out of you with gore

I care for neither.

Give me good suspense, but don't try to startle me or gross me out.

I've always disliked horror movies, at least the less subtle ones. "The Shining" or "The Silence of the Lambs" would be exceptions.

Doctor Phibes · wrote on 28 Oct 2021, 12:03

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George K · 28 Oct 2021, 12:10

@klaus said in The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween:

"The Shining" or "The Silence of the Lambs"

I wouldn't consider "Silence of the Lambs" to be even close to a "horror movie." It's a suspense thriller.

"Shining" comes close, but again, it's more of a psychological thriller with supernatural overtones.

Perhaps my idea of "horror movie" is too narrow.

Klaus · wrote on 28 Oct 2021, 12:10

@george-k my appreciation for horror movies was destroyed forever when I was 10 or something and a well-meaning adolescent relative let me watch a VHS tape with "The Evil Dead".

Catseye3 · wrote on 28 Oct 2021, 12:53

@george-k said in The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween:

Perhaps my idea of "horror movie" is too narrow.

One of the most "horrible" movies I ever saw is one I've brought up to many people in my life, and no one seems to have heard of it: "What's the Matter With Helen?" It's horror, but not in the common vein. That's the only movie that ever seriously disturbed my sleep. Especially effective were the little unobtrusive director's touches; just chilling.

ETA: I was pretty young when I saw it. Possibly it wouldn't be that big a deal for me (or you) today.

Copper · wrote on 28 Oct 2021, 13:22

Required cast for true horror

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The Very Best Scary Movies to Stream This Halloween