Horror Movies/Hallowe'en.

Have to admit, there have been a few movies watched from behind the sofa

scary and hilarious at times is
The Thing (remake of the 1950s version) from John Carpenter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZkkIsLiNg

judging from the video these guys could cause a few heart palpitations

A great track from Mushroomhead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z9-eOQkMWE

Hi Howling, I must admit the Thing did frighten the life out of me while watching it, esp alone , it was quite shocking to watch, but being able to stay up late at weekend nights watching the classic hammer house of horrors or the old classic Dracula film with Peter Cushion, Vincent Prince who's the other one I forget his name now, they scared the wits out of me a few times.

a few more other horror films that used to & still does gives me the creeps while watching them.
The Shining, Salem's Lots & Silence of the Lambs

does anyone remember the Stephen King film " IT"?

scariest ever....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPwC7QRvFQ


And it's in my top 10 of horror movies...
Also...i just got the US import from The Exorcist on Blu Ray (and i do not even have a blu ray player)


Alltime favorite movie would be The Wicker Man (1973)...if you could call it a horror movie.
Other title highly recommended...and no remakes.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Dawn Of the Dead
Suspiria
The Beyond
Anything Hammer Horror.
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (scariest movie in the last 10 years or so)
Cannibal Holocaust
An American Werewolf in London
Videodrome
Hellraiser II - Hellbound
Witchfinder General
Aliens
etc....

The TV version from IT was great...but you know. The book was better. ;)

Loved the Exorcist, but I couldn't eat pea soup for months afterwards...

ha!ha! I know what you mean Howling, all of that green stuff, but I agree with you & Jake the Exorcist was a pretty damn scary movie to watch , it still freaks me out even watching it today. I like some of the ones that you listed on here Jake, one of the our tv channels BBC4 are playing some fo the old classic Hammer house of horrors here, with the likes of the brilliant Peter Cushion & more I know they're a bit lame or even funny now,but they're still great from something that was made about over 50 years ago.
Hellraiser II was brilliant, so was the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Just one thing here Jake, since you brought an imported US version of the Exorcist on blu ray will it play on European players?
I still love some of the old classics like Psycho (original version)
I remember seening Hitchcock's the Birds at early age, that freaked me out as well.
There's just so many great chillers out there & some pretty rubbish ones as well.

The Exorcim of Emily Rose sounds pretty good, I want a real nail biting horror for Hallowe'en, this one sounds good.

I think I'll treat myself to a good movie night in one of these days, I do have a dvd copy of the original Wicker Man.

After watching that trailer of the Exorcist even hearing that music gives me shivers here.

The US Blu Ray from The Exorcist is region free, so it will play on a standard European blu ray player.

Have fun.

I will bring you some great movies..

you've proably seen them , maybe not , but there's a must on some of them.

This is one of the freakiest movies I have ever seen but one of the best aswell.

"Martyrs"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNpDiQimK6U&feature=related

"The Omen 666"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv2CQ4ljvDM

You've proably seen "Paranormal Activity" ?
The 2nd one is comming soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074


"The troll hunter" some new movie but I think it will suck , but I'll see it later...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy2nAOdBUlw

"Orphan"
That's a movie you have to see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ywOPNNii9w

"The Children" another freaky movie hehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAgCHQCF9Jo

"The Echo" A remake of "Sigaw"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc_Mdg8XGAc&feature=related

"Silent Hill" awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mT5LhbRJw

I've seen the tv trailer of Paranormal Activity 2 & it looks really good, knowing me my popcorn would be flying everywhere & probably some of it would land on the girl on the front seat of mines sending her flying into the air,lol!

Here's something interesting that I found on some news pages here about some horror films, copy & paste here.

Real-life stories that have inspired Hollywood’s scariest films

When watching a horror movie that chills your bones, the immediate thought is to keep telling yourself ‘It’s only a movie, it’s only a movie’. But some horror films are more than just Hollywood imagination – some of them are based on real-life stories.

Psycho

Yup, Norman Bates existed. Kind of.



The notorious Ed Gein was arrested in 1957 after police searched his house following the murder of a local Wisconsin girl. What they found was a collection of human heads, furniture covered in skin, skulls on bedposts and evidence of many other sickening deeds.



Believed to have only killed two people, the mother-fixated Gein would dig up graves of recently killed woman who looked like his mother. Not only did Gein inspire Hitchcock’s most famous film, but he was also the inspiration for the killer in both ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’. The villain in the latter film shared Gein’s obsession with making a suit made out of several female skins.

Hostel

According to Hollywood, don’t go backpacking in Eastern Europe as you’re sure to find beautiful Euro babes seducing you and then taking you to a warehouse where rich evil types pay to torture gormless backpackers. But director Eli Roth claims that the story has a germ of truth to it.



While chatting to Aint It Cool News founder Harry Knowles about crazy stuff they had seen on the Internet, Knowles showed Roth a website for a venture in Thailand, which offered clients the chance to go into a room with a loaded gun and shoot an innocent man for the sum of a few thousand pounds. According to Roth, the site claimed that it was all perfectly legal as the victim agreed to it providing the company would financially support his poverty-stricken family.



Roth said, “The concept instantly made me nauseous. But it also felt real. People are sick. There are no limits to what they will do to another person for their own pleasure, and that’s the most horrifying thing of all. It’s what always stuck with me."



Deciding to abandon the initial idea of making a documentary after realising that his life could be in danger, Roth chose to use the base idea in ‘Hostel’.

The Exorcist

William Peter Batty was more famous for his comedy work when he stumbled on a story in a newspaper about an exorcism being performed on a young boy in the US.



He said, “Like so many Catholics, I've had so many little battles of wavering faith over the course of my life. And I was going through one at that time. And when I heard about this case and read the details, that seemed so compelling. I thought, my God, if someone were to investigate this and authenticate it, what a tremendous boost to faith it would be.



“I thought, someday I would like to see that happen. You know, I would like to do it.”



He used the real-life tale for his novel ‘The Exorcist’, which would of course be made into one of the scariest movies of all time. Known only as Roland Doe (his identity has never been revealed), the boy has no memory of being possessed. However, the priest and those who witnessed the events wrote about what they saw – including Roland speaking in a foreign language, furniture moving around and the word Hell appearing in his skin.



All witnesses to the event signed testimonial statements, which are kept under lock and key by the Catholic Church.

Burke & Hare, I know this film is more of comedy here, but in real life you couldn't turn you back on there, or make sure that you beloved one was resting in peace before these Edinburgh grave robbers/murders came along was wanting something from you, but however enjoy this funnier side to these two here, I can't wait to see this in the cinemas soon.

BURKE & HARE is a comedic take on the true story of the 1828 Edinburgh body-snatchers William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis). These two Irish entrepreneurs, spurred on by a chance meeting with a gorgeous actress (Isla Fisher), discover that a dead body can fetch a hefty price when the demands of the leading medical professors Dr. Knox (Tom Wilkinson) and Dr. Monroe (Tim Curry) reach beyond that of the local supply.
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Theres a lot of these movies on TV this week, The Thing is on tonight, the Grudge 3 (on Syfy)

the sections of Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield were well used in the Exorsist, did a great job of adding to the atmsosphere

Not yet seen the Exorcism of Emily Rose, its on my to-do list (along with a thousand other great movies)

I've seen Silent Hill, its a great movie, plenty of thrills and chills...

here's my latest additive here to this subject here not about movies but some scary places around the world.
The spookiest locations in the world

Horror films aren't the only way to produce spine-tingling chills - actually visiting an eerie location or spooky destination rates high on some travellers’ lists. So, if you are keen to be a supernatural traveller and find out about locations that are shrouded in myths of the undead, read on for seven of the world’s spookiest locations…

Catacombs of the Capuchins – Palermo, Sicily
Now, Paris is famed for its Catacombs or the Empire of the Dead - where, due to overcrowding and disease in cemeteries in the late 1770s, bodies were transferred to the subterranean tunnels of the city. Skeletons were stacked along the walls and labelled with the year they died. But the Catacombs of the Capuchins really beat Paris on the creepy scale - imagine 8,000 mummified bodies, fully dressed and arranged in poses. And this is no medieval practice - the last addition to the macabre display was in 1920.

Salem – Massachusetts, USA
This American East Coast city has a bewitching history, being the site of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. During the trials 19 men and women were convicted of witchcraft and taken to Gallows Hill for hanging. Gallows Hill might be the spookiest of Salem''s locations but the original witches’ hanging tree does not exist anymore, and the deep crevasse where the dead bodies were thrown has closed in upon itself. But you can still satisfy your spine-tingling search in the Salem Witch Museum, the Witch Dungeon Museum and a Wax Museum of Witches and Seafarers.

Mary King''s Close – Edinburgh, Scotland
Mary King''s Close is located underneath the City Chambers on the Royal Mile and is one of the least visited and eeriest areas of Scotland''s capital. The close is actually a narrow cobbled street which was sealed off in a bid to stop the spread of the plague in 1645. And we really are talking sealed off - some families are thought to have been bricked up in their homes and left to starve to death. The area was re-opened but you can imagine it wasn''t a location that was top of people’s places-to-live list. There have been numerous spooky occurrences thought to be related to the souls of the trapped victims.

Centralia Town – Pennsylvania, USA
Centralia is a real ''modern'' ghost town with its population dwindling from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to a mere seven in 2010. It's all due to the fact that the town was abandoned after a fire started burning right under it. The local authorities ignited a landfill just atop an unsealed coal-mine and thus the fire spread underground. Now Centralia is one of America''s most popular ghost towns, complete with smoking cracks in the roads, the occasional explosions and disturbing silence. Just what you''d expect a town to look like after a nuclear attack.

Church of Bones - Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
From outside, the Sedlec Ossuary or Church of Bones is not a spectacularly spooky site; to the passerby it perhaps would be seen as just another medieval gothic church. But it''s what lies within that ups its scary stakes; on entering you'll see the Sedlec Ossuary is artistically decorated by more than 40,000 human skeletons. One of the most fascinating artistic works is the big chandelier of bones in the centre.

Bhangarh Fort – Rajasthan, India
Famed as the most haunted place in India, Bhangarh Fort sports an after-sunset curfew with the Indian Government strictly prohibiting people from staying in the area after dark. The story goes that a black magic tantrik cursed the fort by proclaiming that anyone who died there would be trapped in the palace without the possibility of rebirth. It is said that nobody returns from this place after dark. Many locals and visitors claim that they have witnessed paranormal activities - like sounds of music and dancing and weird colour spots in photographs of chambers.

Manila Film

… - like sounds of music and dancing and weird colour spots in photographs of chambers.

Manila Film Centre – Manilla, Philippines
Another modern-day spooky site, the eerie history of the Manila Film Centre goes back just to the 1980s. The story goes that construction teams were under pressure to complete the building in time for a film festival. Tragically, an untimely accident claimed the lives of several construction workers. However, rather than halting the work to give the workers a proper burial, the contractors allegedly poured concrete over the remains in order to keep on schedule. Since then, visitors have reported hearing strange voices throughout the Film Centre.