Recommended Scary Movies
| Ju-on (The Grudge)
The
Grudge
Ringu
(1998)
The
Haunting (1963)
Jacob's
Ladder (1990)
Pyscho
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Death Wish (1974)
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| This controversial, 1974 drama exploits urban paranoia and presents vigilantism as cathartic release. But it is also a captivating, Everyman-ish story of a New Yorker who goes through a sea change after crime depletes his family, and who runs afoul of the law while taking it into his own hands. Charles Bronson stars as the vengeance-seeking urban warrior who goes on a punk-killing spree after his wife and daughter are attacked by intruders....
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The Thing - Collector's Edition (1982)
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| The Thing from Another World, and the result is a mixed blessing. It's got moments of highly effective terror and spine-tingling suspense, but it's mostly a showcase for some of the goriest and most horrifically grotesque makeup effects ever created for a movie. With such highlights as a dog that splits open and blossoms into something indescribably gruesome, this is the kind of movie for die-hard horror fans and anyone who slows down to stare at fatal traffic accidents...
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The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection (1999)
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| Predator 2 is slightly better than predator 1. You'll expect a new weapons from the razor-disc to the spear which turned out pretty cool to the movie. If you have watched predator 1, you should watch predator 2 too...
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Psycho - Collector's Edition (1960)
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| At last--a great American movie available on video for the first time in its original aspect ratio. For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character study in which director Alfred Hitchcock skillfully seduces you into identifying with the main characters...
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The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection (1999)
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| In the trinity of modern horror films, there's the father (Michael Myers of Halloween, the first masked maniac), the son (Jason of Friday the 13th fame, a knockoff), and the unholy spirit, Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare on Elm Street films. The spectral man who haunted the nightmares of unsuspecting teenagers with deadly consequences. The hallmarks of the Nightmare on Elm Street series were imaginatively gruesome suspense pieces, set in the overactive imaginations of the teen victims...
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
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| If you're looking for the real scary movie then this movie is just for you. Apparently, the movie "Night of the Living Dead" was based on a true story, and it was covered up by the US government. The bodies of the zombies were sealed in oil drums and dispersed. Two workers at a medical supplies warehouse find one of these drums, puncture it be accident, and unleash a gas that brings the nearby dead back to life...
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The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen) (1973)
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| This is the scariest movie that everyone is talking about. This shocking 1973 thriller set an intense and often-copied milestone for screen terror with its unflinching depiction of a young girl (Linda Blair) who is possessed by an evil spirit. Jason Miller and Max von Sydow are perfectly cast as the priests who risk their sanity and their lives to administer the rites of demonic exorcism, and Ellen Burstyn plays Blair's mother, who can only stand by in horror as her daughter's body is wracked by satanic disfiguration. One of the most frightening films ever made, The Exorcist was mysteriously plagued by troubles during production, and the years have not diminished its capacity to disturb even the most stoical viewers. The film is presented in letterbox format on digital video disc, with a soundtrack that's guaranteed to curdle your blood. Don't say you weren't warned!...
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The Others
| Nicole Kidman soars as Grace, the rigid and traditional mother of two, whose husband went off to fight in WWII and never came back. Grace's children, Anne and Nicholas, are deathly allergic to sunlight and as a result Grace rarely leaves her large, Victorian house and begins to feel confined if not trapped.
The creepiness begins when all the servants mysteriously disappear and Grace hires new ones, an older man and woman and a teenage girl who doesn't speak. Than, as in any horror movie, things start to happen. Voices belonging to unknown and unseen people are heard resounding through the big, dark rooms, doors which were closed and locked are found open, the beautiful piano in the living room plays in the middle of the night, Grace's children, particularly Anne, claim to have seen a family of four in the house claiming that it's theirs...
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