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Lawrence French
22Jul11
What a fascinating list, and one I almost totally agree with, except for two exceptions: THE EXORCIST and THE ENTITY. What I find quite interesting is that Mr. Scorsese's choices are almost all within the sub-genre of the ghost story.
fleur de chair
15Mar11
I thought The Uninvited was painfully boring. The Shining, though the cinematography was brilliant, disappointed me. I'm glad, however, to see The Changeling and The Innocents on this list, two woefully underrated films that chill me to the bone.
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Jaspar Lamar Crabb
7Mar11
Great list..and glad to see THE ENTITY on it...I remember skipping school to go see that...a great, unheralded film ushering Barbara Hershey back into the mainstream...
Darvek
5Aug10
Interesting list! I must investigate 'The Uninvited' & 'Dead of Night', & I don't remember 'The Entity'. I'm not easily scared, "moving" or "disturbing" are often more relevant terms for me - THE INNOCENTS is a case in point - an excellent film though. Most horror films bore me. However, as a teenager seeing "The Exorcist' for the first time - I would say I was pretty pretty pretty scared (having had a "mescalito meeting" around that time wouldn't have helped). THE SHINING, for me, is the greatest horror film, followed by ROSEMARY'S BABY - unless one includes ERASERHEAD! I would've added ALIEN, SF horror at its most effective. Being "great" & being "scary" are not necessarily synonymous.
Daniel S.
30Jun10
This is an interesting list that allowed me to discover ISLE OF THE DEAD, a little masterpiece produced by Val Lewton as well as THE UNINVITED that presents one of the most impressive ghost scenes I ever seen on screen. On the other hand, I don't understand why THE ENTITY or THE CHANGELING appear in this list. Now one can note that six or seven (out of eleven) of these films are dealing with ghosts or haunted houses, a theme that seems to occupy a prominent place in Martin Scorsese's imagination.
Geng1s
18May10
While I can appreciate that these films were scary in their time and many still are today, I have to wonder when Mr Scorsese last watched a horror film? The likes of REC, Inside of Martyrs could be on this list. That being seing it is personal opinion so i wont judge the mans taste. Some people are just easliy scared :D
Samuel Clemens Long
21Apr10
Dead of night and uninvited are not available from netflix... make a sternly worded phone call over there and fix that marty.. if you have the time
Youli Seas
23Mar10
I've seen The Haunting when I was a kid, and I had nightmares for long... I've hardly remember the title of this film, and I've succeeded a few months ago. Now I'm waiting to see it again, but I'm not sure it's a good idea...
Youli Seas
23Mar10
I've seen The Haunting when I was a kid, and I had nightmares for long... I've hardly remember the title of this film, and I've succeeded a few months ago. Now I'm waiting to see it again, but I'm not sure it's a good idea...
Youli Seas
23Mar10
I've seen The Haunting when I was a kid, and I had nightmares for long... Growing up, I've hardly remember the title of this film, and I've succeeded a few months ago. Now I'm waiting to see it again, but I'm not sure it's a good idea...
Youli Seas
23Mar10
I've seen The Haunting when I was a kid, and I had nightmares for long... Growing up, I've hardly remember the title of this film, and I've succeeded a few months ago. Now I'm waiting to see it again, but I'm not sure it's a good idea...
KalebEdwardWilliams
4Mar10
Jaws and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom have some of the scariest imagery I have ever seen and those are adventure films!
soumen
19Dec09
I watch everybody is busy penning here their list of best scary movies. So, somebody has to list the worst ones. So, here is my list. 1. The Exorcist: Yes, of course, this excruciatingly nauseating & painful-to-watch movie undeniably bags the credit of being the stupidest stuff of all time with it’s all vulgar on screen portrayal & funny graphics, let alone the funniest sound effects & morbid rank bad acting. What that puking lollipop girl smeared with some blood stain was doing all the time. Actually the scariest thing about this sh**ingly funny movie is that a whole generation bragged it to be one of the scariest movies of all time, let alone that comment in many other blogs by many spin-head gore-champs that it has clearly stood the taste of time as the scariest one. Yes, of course it has... but as the dumbest, funniest & most nauseating movie of all time.Any doubt? Just slough off from the world of bigotry & ask the rest of the world who made films like Suspiria, Ringu, Ju-on, Monihara & so many else.I think this people, themselves need to be exorcised first and feel the scariest movie ever made for them should have been Casper...lol. Anyway, will anybody please come up and rename The Exorcist as Baby's Shit Out. 2. Halloween: What that funny guy, Mr. Myers, was doing all the time masqueraded & busy in meaningless weird activities that led to a stashed slasher for the dunderhead gore champs. An all time stuff of third class fun. Definitely, it needs a great polishing work by some another Carpenter. 3. Storm of the Century: Brainstorming of the century that why some people consider this never ending painful & pointless movie as the scariest. Better f**k up & see The Perfect Storm -a much better & much much more serious stuff. Anyway, sacrificing a child… see Sophie’s Choice & go, get what real life horror is. 4. House of 1000 Corpses: The name must have hinted to the fleapit that had arranged the premier show and some thousand spin-head gore champs who had devoured that shit in that show. Anyway, the name could easily have been 1000 corpses & one Zombie. Give me back my money & time. Anyway, the idea is not also an original, clearly stolen from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 5. The Evil Dead: The director dead, the actors dead, the spot boys dead, the cameraman dead, the light man dead and finally we, the ill fated audience dead. Dead & dead drunk with this soporific, pornographic monstrous movie. Omg, omg! It should have been a Rob Moron movie. 6. Night of the Living Dead: Another all dead and all cock-a-hoop nonsense…a meaningless death orgy. Gosh! Is there nobody worth his salt, who can perish these movies for ever from the history of films & get my crush on him? 7. Carrie: Sissy, even Jim Carrey is scarier than that lunatic, outrageous, socially outcast poor girl. I feel pity for her. This is a mournful movie at its best, depicting how insane the society is to an individual with slightest weirdness that bars the social order. This is a good mediocre film, but describing it as a horror movie is by itself a horror story. 8. Poltergeist: It’s hard to believe that the same man, who gave us the gloom portrayal of Nazi Zeitgeist in Schindler’s List, also gave us this freak. This is absolutely a crow film…a crow film…and a crow film. The least u say the better. 9. The Thing: I Just saw this thing wondering why this thing, The Thing, should not be renamed as ‘A Huge Mound of Shit’. When that guy retires and rids us from his carpentry work. This freaky stuff can only attract E.T.s with nuts. Here I go better and read Who Goes There? 10. Candyman: A good Rosy stuff for the porcelain boys & candy perfume girls. Anyway, the idea behind the purported legend of chanting his name is totally copied from the Persian legend Aladdin. Being a film of zero originality, it shud be perished for one single reason…tampering with a beautiful story The Forbidden by Clive Barker. 11.Village of the Damned: A Blog shud be tagged as Blog of the Damned if such a silly stuff finds its place there. Dudes, make one point clear to me. Did all those little human looking creatures brush their eyes with toothpaste by mistake…otherwise how their eyeballs were shining so brightly…really a point to ponder? This might be wrong. Then certainly did they have lights fitted in those cavities…lol. At least they don’t need to use torch lights during load shedding. Can I have one of them & save some money? 12. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Massacre of history of film making, reel after reel relentlessly with its sub-standard bizarre graphic violence & meaningless carnage. If it’s truly based on the notorious Ed Gein, then I’d definitely see either Psycho or Silence of the Lambs… far more superior in all respects. 13. Friday the13th. It may rank the thirteenth, the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth…anywhere but shud never be missed out in any list of twenty worst scary movies of all time, a cliché of sex equaling carnage. 14. A Nightmare on Elm Street: Shit, A Nightmare on Elm…Shit! Being a shitting prototype of the worse Halloween, it seriously puts a question mark on the reputation of Michael Myers being the funniest character of all time… until the emergence of Fred Krueger. It’s a classic example of how a mediocre film maker can transform a superb social subtext for the adolescents into a nonsensical typo of slasher sub genre. 15.The Descent: Again stuff for the gore champs, with portrayal of grotesque humanoids in funny make-up, even make-up of Mountain of Cannibal God was far more superior. The only good thing about the film is that it proves that not only the Americans, but the British may also fall in the same manner, though fewer times. BTW: I really wonder how on earth these aforesaid movies can sit in the same league with The Shining, Salem’s Lot, Silence of Lambs, Ringu etc…gosh! Anyway, friends how about ranking Cast Away as the sixth best scariest one that really cast a spell on us, a psychological fear of loosing the beloved ones, a fear of getting doomed all of a sudden...a superlative treatment definitely.
soumen
19Dec09
Last evening I was standing for a while in the darkest corner of my balcony -dumbstruck with my eyes completely gouged out in fear. Just few minutes before, Se7en had ended on my personal 21" big screen. I was almost to give this superbly twisted creepy psychological slasher stuff the No. 1 spot, if there was not one The Ring.Few months back, I was almost on the verge of destroying the same TV set after that bizarre demon from the hell had been cast with all its Stygian gloom looming large on my blue screen. It was something more than scary. It was eerie to watch that demonic girl Samara Morgan popping out of the well...then coming towards the screen tiptoeing weirdly with that bizarre never-heard-before humming, that too on a TV screen , that means she was coming towards you actually...then crawled out of your set leering through her long black tresses...also that disturbing video tape careening ominously on the screen...down with Hideo Nakata for importing this completely outlandish alien idea of blurring the boundary between real life & reel life -life reeling after death in this new bizarre version of horror movie sub genre.Kubrick's Shining also comes very close to these two with its famous hallway scene and the twin sisters...ohh, all hell was let loose with that. Never see these movies and let The Tingler go down the spine...never Wait Until Dark. So, you get my list of five.
Hunter Duesing
18Nov09
I saw ISLE OF THE DEAD for the first time this year and I was surprised at how much it actually scared me. Given how many horror movies I see, I don't say that lightly. It's a great one to watch during a storm at night with all the lights out.
