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The
Exorcist
Head-spinning
and projectile vomiting are just the beginning in a movie
that features some of the most disturbing religious perversions
on film. |
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The
Shining
Is anything
scarier than Jack Nicholson going out of his gourd? Oh yeah,
creepy twin girls and a hallway of blood. |
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Night of the Living Dead
Released
in 1968 this was a true low budget horror masterpiece that
most probably paved the way for all scary movies of its
time. |
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The
Changeling
Remember
those red, blue and white striped rubber balls? They'll
freak you out after seeing this movie! |
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The
Others
A prime
example of the fact that you don't need blood and guts to
make a movie scary as hell.
"You're
mad, i am your daughter!" (sorry, couldn't resist!) |
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The
Evil Dead
Low-budget
screams: Cult hero Bruce Campbell hacks up his buddies with
an ax and Sam Raimi scores first blood as director. "Dead
by Dawn!" |
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Rosemary's
Baby
Sex
with Satan? Mia Farrow unwittingly beds the beast in this
chilling fable. And yes, he's scarier than Woody Allen. |
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The
St. Francisville Experiment
Four
people - a psychic, a ghost-hunter, a filmmaker and a historian
- all trained in the paranormal and equipped with cameras,
fly to Louisiana to investigate a haunted house, plagued
by the spirits of slaves who endured the most grisly and
unspeakable tortures known to man. |
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Pet
Sematary
Sometimes
dead is better. Another utterly creepy tale from horror-meister
Stephen King. |
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Haunted
When
a man investigates an alleged haunting at a secluded mansion
in the country, he is horrified by strange occurences, shocked
by the mansion's dreadful history and entranced by the young
woman who resides in the menacing house. |
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The
Sixth Sense
Frightening
supernatural thriller involves psychologist encountering
child visited by the dead. The haunting visuals, twisting
plot, brooding tone will chill mainstream horror seekers,
while ample nail-biting tension satisfies suspense addicts.
I see dead people! |
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Halloween
Masked
psycho Michael Myers gives Jamie Lee Curtis one scary night
of baby-sitting in a groundbreaking flick that buries its
unworthy sequels. |
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Salem's
Lot
From
horror-meister Stephen King: The pint-sized bloodsuckers
summon the biggest scares in this vampire flick that doesn't
bite. |
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Carnival
of Souls
The
'60s "Sixth Sense"? Church organist sees dead
people, in a cult classic that proves black and white is
still scary. |
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Dawn
of the Dead
A crowd-free
shopping mall sounds like a dream, but brain-munching zombies
turn it into a gruesome nightmare. |
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The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
It's
common sense to avoid guys named Leatherface who own chainsaws,
a lesson this flick teaches with gory gusto. |
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Suspiria
It's
a bad time to be in ballet when fellow students are getting
stabbed, hanged and tortured. Watch this with the lights
out. |
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Nightmare
on Elm Street
If Nancy
doesnt wake up screaming she wont wake up at
all. |
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Friday
the 13th
Twenty
years earlier, Camp Crystal Lake was shut down after the
mysterious death of a young boy and a couple of counselors.
Now, one by one, camp counselors seem to drop dead as they
engage in acts of pre-martial sex, smoking dope, and drinking.
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Psycho
Another
reason to be scared of motel bathrooms. |
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Carrie
This
terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror
novel, primarily the climax in the school gym will linger
forever in your memory. |
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The
Blair Witch Project
See
if you ever feel like going into the woods alone again after
seeing this movie! |
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Book
of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
This
"fictional reenactment of real events" has tourists
flocking to Burkittsville, Maryland to see evidence of the
original film and its underlying mythology. |
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The
People Under the Stairs
A bookish
and poverty-stricken young boy becomes involved in a scheme
in order to pay for his mother's operation but is met with
unsuspecting horrors. |
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The
Omen
Lurid
chiller about ambassador who unwittingly adopts the son
of Satan. |
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Stigmata
When
a woman begins exhibiting the characteristics of Stigmata
(spontaneously bleeding from the wrists and forehead, speaking
in Aramaic), a Vatican envoy is deployed to investigate
whether the afflictions are demonic or divine. |
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Stir
of Echoes
Kevin Bacon
begins seeing the ghost of a neighborhood girl who was murdered
years before. |
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Cronos
A bizarre
take on vampirism, this Mexican horror-fantasy tells of
an alchemist who creates a scarab-like device that will
give its user eternal youth and even restore life to the
dead...but at a chilling price. Centuries later, an aging
antique store owner finds the device and falls under its
spell, but a dying millionaire wants it for himself. |
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Dragonfly
A man
believes that his deceased wife is trying to communicate
with him through the near-death experiences of her patients.
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Ghost
Alright,
so this one really isn't scary, but it is about a ghost
and who can resist watching Patrick Swaze and Demi Moore
molding clay to "Unchained Melody?" |
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The
Mothman Prophecies
A movie
based on the true events that happened in Point Pleasant,
West Virginia. |
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The
Amityville Horror
The
brutal murder of six people just one year previous causes
the new tenants some restless nights, to say the least!
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Child's
Play
I couldn't
look at my talking "Cricket" doll the same way
ever again after seeing this movie. |
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Poltergeist
"They're
here" |
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Lady
in White
A young
boy, after seeing the ghost of a little murdered girl, attempts
to find the killer, only to find that he is being stalked
by the murderer. |
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The
Birds
As with
most of Hichcocks films the tension is expertly built up
throughout the film. And to think, i'm still a bird watcher
after compiling this list! :) |
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Jeepers
Creepers
This
film gives a new and chilling meaning to the old song "Jeepers
Creepers". |
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The
Rocky Horror Picture Show
A musical
sci-fi satire about an alien transvestite named Frank-n-Furter
who is building the perfect man while playing sexual games
with his virginal visitors. |
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Children
of the Corn
Horror
film about a naive couple encountering a Nebraskan town
filled with demonic kids. |
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House
on Haunted Hill
Decades
after an insane asylum was closed down, five strangers are
invited to spend a night there. Their reward is a million
dollars each. All they have to do is stay alive. |
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The
Legend of Hell House
Exceptionally
tense tale of parapsychologists spending a week in haunted
mansion.
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Dead
of the Night
Dead
of Night is a classic horror anthology from 1946 that effectively
plays on those timeless fears. A man has been summoned to
a house with a group of strangers and begins to predict
certain events will happen as they do in his dreams including
tales of a possessed mirror, a sinister ventriloquist's
dummy, and an eerie premonition of death. |
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End
of Days
A chilling,
horrific thriller set at the cusp of the millennium. End
of Days tells the story of a man who finds himself pulled
into a web of supernatural intrigue when he discovers that
the fate of mankind rests with the safety of a woman who
is pursued by the ultimate evil. |
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The
Haunting
This
original movie from 1963 is arguably the best ghost movie
of its time, achieving great, chilling results with minimal
high-tech tricks. It definitely scared me! |
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Burnt
Offerings
A
family rents a huge old summer house only to find that its
spirit is in control of the estate. |
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The
Entity
Based
upon a drama that really happened in Los Angeles, this is
a story of a young woman who is regularly attacked by an
invisible 'entity'. |
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The
Innocents
Originally
promoted as the first truly "adult" chiller of
the big screen. |
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The
Uninvited
Spooky
ghost story from 1944 about young couple investigating their
haunted house. |
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Signs
Signs
is the story of a ordinary farmer who is blown into the
limelight when strange crop circles begin appearing on his
land. Definitely a scary movie that keeps you on the edge
of your seat waiting to find out what will happen next!
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Lost
Souls
A modern
thriller in which faith battles reason, a young woman becomes
aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the earth
in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince
a respected New York crime journalist, who is devoid of
faith, that he is in fact the target of the conspiracy.
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Ginger
Snaps
This
movie is incredibly creepy - and filmed locally too! In
this modern werewolf tale, sisters Ginger and Brigitte are
ostracized by their town because of their morbid inclinations.
Soon after being attacked by a wolf, Ginger begins to exhibit
strange nocturnal behavior. Now Brigitte must decide whether
to save herself or join Ginger in otherworldly doings. |
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The
Ring
It sounded
like just another urban legend -- a videotape filled with
nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling
the viewer's death in exactly seven days. Allowing her investigative
curiosity to get the better of her, a woman tracks down
the video and watches it. Now she has just seven days to
unravel the mystery of the Ring. |
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From
Hell
Based
upon the legendary serial killer "Jack The Ripper",
inspector Frederick Abberline (Johnny Depp) investigates
the mysterious murders of prostitutes within the Whitechapel
district of London. |
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Ghosts
A family
inherits a spectacular old house from an eccentric uncle
but there's just one problem, the house seems to have a
dangerous agenda all its own. Trapped in their new home
by strangely shifting walls, the family encounters powerful
and vengeful entities that threaten to annihilate anyone
in their path. |
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Hellraiser
In the
upper room of his ancestral house just outside London, Frank
Cotton is raising Hell...literally! In
his possession is a mysterious puzzle box. Legend has it
that if opened, spirits will come forth from the box and
give the ultimate insensual ecstacy. Frank opens the box
and quickly learns that the spirits bring not pleasure,
but insufferable pain. |
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Beetlejuice
How
do a couple of nice young homebody ghosts get rid of a pack
of pretentious, trend-setting human beings who have taken
over their house and threaten to make it unlivable -- even
for the dead? And what does the couple do when the wraith
they call on for assistance turns out to be demonic? |
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The
Nightmare Before Christmas
Despite
having recently presided over a very successful Halloween,
Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his
job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning.
Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides
to make the Yuletide his own. |
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Dracula
(1931)
A Transylvanian
vampire (Bela Lugosi) enslaves his real estate agent and
moves to London. There, he meets his match in a Jewish scientist. |
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Bram
Stoker's Dracula
Based
on the Victorian horror novel written by Bram Stoker in
1897, about the vampire Dracula, who is on a quest to be
eternally reunited with the one woman he ever loved. Dracula
travels from Transylvania to London to find the young woman
who is the double image of the love he lost centuries earlier. |
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The
Exorcism of Emily Rose
Tells
a riveting horror story while tackling substantial issues
of religious and spiritual belief. It's based on the true
story of Anneliese Michel, a German student who believed
she was possessed by demons, and whose death during an attempted
exorcism in 1976 led to the conviction of two priests on
charges of negligent manslaughter. |
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The
Village
The
population of a small, isolated countryside village believe
that their alliance with the mythical creatures that inhabit
the forest around them, is coming to an end. As with other
M. Night Shyamalan movies, you can expect a great twist
at the end! |
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The
Eye
One
of our favourite scary movies! We've seen it several times
and still get creeped out! FYI: You'll never want to be
in an evevator alone after this! |
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The
Grudge
By far
one of the scariest movies... especially the stairs scene!
And that breathy, clicking throat sound will live long in
horror history! |
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Ju-On
The
original Japanese version of The Grudge. What makes this
possibly even scarier than the remake is that no special
effects were used. Ghostly techniques were all with make-up! |
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Ju-Rei
(The Uncanny)
Another
creepy Japanese flick that kind of moves in "backwards
mode". Pretty creepy but the shots after something
scary happens is way too long. I mean, do we need to see
a woman scared in her hospital bed for like 5 minutes straight
before it moves to a different angle? |
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Wrong
Turn
I loved
this movie! Saw it several times. It was filmed locally
at the Webster's Falls and Spencer's Gorge area too! Plus,
i'm a huge Eliza Dushku fan (from the good ole' Buffy days!)
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Joyride
With
a group of adolescent teens running the show, i was iffy
on the possible scariness. Boy was i in for a treat. Not
only was it scary (candycane...!!), but Steve Zahn had me
in stitches several times too! |
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Saw
With
a dead body laying between them, two men (Whannell and Elwes)
wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been
nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his
unusual calling card. Refreshing to see such a unique thriller/horror
movie. And, boy, what an ending. A sequel is about to be
released now too! |
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Open
Water
Who
would have thought a movie shot almost entirely in the water
could be this scary! My heard was racing through the entire
thing! It felt like it was very "real" due to
the simple camera techniques. |
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Session
9
The
first time i watched this, i thought it was too slow. The
second time, i thoroughly enjoyed it! (and understood it
a bit better!) |
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The
Jacket
A military
veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can
foresee his death and is left with questions that could
save his life and those he loves. I loved this movie! I'm
a huge fan of Keira Knightley, although, Adrien Brody madet
his movie if you ask me! |
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28
Days Later
Such
an excellent zombie movie! At the time of release, barely
anybody knew about newcomer Cillian Murphy, but now you
can see him as the bad guy in Batman Begins and Red Eye! |
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Shaun
of the Dead
A man
decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back
his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his
mother and dealing with an entire community that has returned
from the dead to eat the living. Excellent movie! Loved
it to pieces! |
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The
Ninth Gate
Rare
book sleuth Dean Corso has been hired to find the two other
existing copies of the 17th century Book of the Nine Doors,
reputed to hold the key to conjuring Satan. Johnny Depp
in another scary movie! I love this one though. Any kind
of movie where very creepy research is involved always gets
my cranks turning!
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The
Amityville Horror (remake)
Couldn't
wait to see this in theatres. Being a huge fan of Ryan Reynolds,
i was biting my lip wanting to burst out laughing just at
his facial expressions. Still some creepy moments (if you
have your speakers turned up really loud!) |
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Cabin
Fever
I couldn't
shave my legs for days after seeing this movie (lucky Dan!)
Watch the movie and you know what i mean! Oh, and good luck
trying to get a not-so-happy-camper to go into the woods
with you after seeing this! Excellent movie all-around (just
gross!) Remeniscent of Evil Dead. |
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Dawn
of the Dead 2004
This
movie was pretty cool (i like the mall setting). Be sure
to watch the "hidden" video footage of the boat
trying to leave! Creepy indeed. Oh, and i love Sarah Polley
(my Road to Avonlea days!) |
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Donnie
Darko
Remind
me never to buy any more stuffed bunnies. Cool movie that
has become a cult classic! And Jake Gyllenhaal is excellent! |
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Ringu
The
original Japanese movie to the now popular "The Ring". |
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Resident
Evil
If you're
into the whole video game to movie trend, and gooey, gorey
stuff, (or Mila Jovanovich) you'll like this. |
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The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Remake
of the original. Too freakish for my liking. |
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They
A movie
where your nightmares become reality! Pretty neat movie
with an even creepier "hand gluing together" scene.
Yuck! |
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Cursed
Not
just another werewolf movie! This one was actually kinda
cool... not really scary though... just... cool! Christina
Ricci is really good in it. |
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American
Gothic
A bunch
of teens get lost in the woods and find a freakish family
in the middle of nowhere. Very Deliverance-like! |
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Snow
White: A Tale of Terror
A creepy
spin on the classic tale of this fairy tale! I saw it ages
ago and just loved it! Sigourney Weaver is just fantastic
as the devilish stepmother. |
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Secret
Window
Meh.
This movie was boring if you ask me. The only thing that
made up for it was Johnny Depp being in the cast. Oh, and
John Turturro.. he's good too! |
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House
of Wax (2005)
Haven't
seen this remake yet, but you know it's going to be super
scary with Paris Hilton in it! Do you "loves it?" |
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Exorcist:
The Beginning
I suppose
i'm one of the rare few that actually liked this movie?
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What
Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Baby
Jane was a child star. When she grows up she is forgotten
by the public. Instead her sister Blanche gets famous as
a Hollywood actress. Blanche gets physically handicapped
after a mysterious car accident. She lives in a room and
Jane has to take care of Blanche. But Jane hates Blanche!
Such a creepy old movie with Bette Davis! |
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Scream
Trilogy
Had
to put this in here! All of these movies have become a cult
classic, and i admit, i got freaked out a bit while watching
them! |
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The
Skeleton Key
Set
largely in the dark backwoods just outside of New Orleans,
this movie stars Kate Hudson as Caroline, a live-in nurse
hired to care for an elderly woman's ailing husband in their
home. I liked the voodoo spin on this unique 'ghost' movie
and the ending was just so cool! |
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White
Noise
Here
i was excited to see a movie come out that completely explores
EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon). Such a disappointment
(could the end be any more cheesier?) I even saw an interview
of Michael Keaton practically making fun of the entire premise!
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Darkness
Seven
children, faceless people, a circle that must be completed.
This movie was semi-creepy. Very slow, but the scary parts
were good. |
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Hide
and Seek
This
movie leads you on, only to disappoint you in the end. |
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Boogeyman
And
you thought your closet was just for clothes!! We didn't
like this movie... it could have been done so much better
as the story is really cool. |
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When
a Stranger Calls
High
school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening
of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, "Have
you checked the children lately?" After notifying the
police, Jill is told that the calls are coming from inside
the house. Thank heavens i saw this AFTER i finished my
babysitting years! |
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Identity
Stranded
at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rainstorm, ten
strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize
that they're being killed off one by one. This one totally
freaked me out! Quite scary! |
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Sleepy
Hollow
I can't
believe i missed this one! I thought i had already put this
on the list years ago! Awesome movie based on the legend
of Constable Icabod Crane and the headless horseman! |
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The
Ring Two
The
sequel to the blockbuster hit The Ring. I didn't find this
movie scary one bit. I've seen enough of Samara in part
one, and the "Scary Movie" version! |
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American
Psycho
Not
so much a horror movie as it is a dramatic thriller. Not
for kids though! Too much sex, drugs and violence all rolled
up into one movie. Christian Bale is great at Patrick Bateman.
And i've caught myself in a "business card" moment
several times before seeing this movie, so now i feel like
a total geek! |