craig@think.ARPA (Craig Stanfill) (10/25/85)
I have two nominations for the scariest movies:
Alien (Ridley Scott)
Psycho(Hitchcock)marty@inmet.UUCP (10/28/85)
How about Clint Eastwood's "TightRope"?
flory@zaphod.UUCP (Trevor Flory) (10/29/85)
In article <3180@think.ARPA> craig@think.UUCP (Craig Stanfill) writes: >I have ... nominations for the scariest movies: > Alien (Ridley Scott) I'll second that. -- Trevor K. Flory UUCP: ...!ihnp4{!alberta}!sask!zaphod!flory Develcon Electronics Ltd. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA "... the play is the tragedy, `Man', And its hero the Conqueror Worm." Poe, c.1838
bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) (10/29/85)
> > I have two nominations for the scariest movies: > > Alien (Ridley Scott) > Psycho(Hitchcock) I agree with Psycho. I'm a big fan of Hitchcock. Who can't feel chills up and down their back as they watch the birds accumulate behind the lady (I forgot her name) as she sits on the bench in "The Birds". My definition of scary is not gory ie. Taxas chain........ but the ones that scare you because you know that it might happen. Semi related to that idea let us not forget "Amityville Horror and Poltergiest(sp).
mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/30/85)
> My nomination was a film from last year who's name I can't remember. It was > a low budget film about a man who works as a bartender, starts going out > with the bar-owners wife, and the bar owner hires a detective to kill them > both. Probably the best thriller I've ever seen. All took place in Texas- > the only problem I had with it was trying to understand the accents at the > beginning of the film. Best last line I've seen in a thriller. The name is "Blood Simple", and I second the nomination. An excellent movie. Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "Comment, Spock?" "Very bad poetry, sir."
absary@watmath.UUCP (Al Sary) (10/31/85)
In article <58100006@inmet.UUCP> marty@inmet.UUCP writes: > > > > >How about Clint Eastwood's "TightRope"? We are talking agout scary movies here; "TIGHTROPE" had a lot of suspense but you can't really compare it with real scary movies (even Jays was a lot scarier although I don't think it was a really scary movie; in my definition, the scariest movies are the ones after which you don't like to be in the dark alone (and such things like that) - I've seen a few of these, but I am not a scary movie fan, so I can't recall titles).
giw@allegra.UUCP (Jerry Weil) (11/02/85)
An interesting note - one of the brothers who made Blood Simple also worked on the Evil Dead. I haven't had a chance to see Blood Simple yet, but the one clip I saw had an amazing similarity in camera work to that of the Evil Dead. As far as my votes for Scariest movies, I can't pass up an opportunity to plug "Horror Hotel," a true classic bad/horror movie. A couple of good scary movies also include "The Exorcist", "The Omen," "Dawn of the Dead," and "Poltergeist." I also remember being scared as a kid by "The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake," but I can't say that would hold up today.