For Halloween: The Scariest Movies We've Seen
ChampagneVal Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (documentary) (2007)Val Lewton movies (my favorites in bold, though all are good; can't remember which ones I mentioned on podcast):Cat People (1942)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
The Leopard Man (1943)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
The Ghost Ship (1943)
Curse of the Cat People (1944)Isle of the Dead (with Boris Karloff) (1945)
The Body Snatcher (with Boris Karloff AND Bela Lugosi!) (1945)Bedlam (1946)The Uninvited (1944)Dead of Night (1945)The House That Would Not Die (1970), based on the novel Ammie, Come Home by Barbara MichaelsHouse of Dark Shadows (1970)I neglected one movie that might merit mention, Curse of the Demon, also titled Night of the Demon (English movie from 1957; source of the line from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, "Dana Andrews said prunes / Gave him the runes")
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With apologies to "Troublemaker", an inveterate cat-lover,Scariest: Cat People (1942) AND Cat People (1982)
Scariest Classic: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - which spawned the best parody/homage movie ever made, Young Frankenstein (1974)Roger Corman / Vincent Price - The Poe Cycle. (my favs in bold)
House of Usher (1960)The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
The Premature Burial (1962)Tales of Terror (1962)
The Raven (1963)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Troublemaker
Dracula (Lugosi, 1930s)
The Blair Witch Project
Twilight
The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
And just about anything occult (like The Exorcist or The Omen).
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Consider also the Facebook page "Friends of Science" (Thank you, Jerytt Mon).
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