Recommendations for scary movies an adult AND a ten yr old could enjoy

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

please?

It seems all the scary ones *I* would love to watch are NOT suitable for her.

The ones suitable for her, either I don't care to watch (too silly, juvenile, etc) or we BOTH don't want to watch.

Surely there is a middle ground?

FYI: We watched the original "House on the Hill" or whatever it's called last Halloween and loved it. Should we be thinking older scary movies for lack of graphic violence?

[clydefrand]

1. Why do people watch scary movies?

I've never liked them and have always wondered why people do. No disrespect...just curious...to each his own is my way of looking at life.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

4. Because we like to watch scary movies

near Halloween, no biggie. Not scary as in enough to scare the piss out of an adult. Just scary movies.

[XanaDUer]

7. Because they're great!

Eom.

[XanaDUer]

2. "Turn of the Screw"?

B&W movie with Deborah Kerr. Based on "The Innocents" by James.

Creepy, not too scary (no Linda Blair puking pea soup stuff) with an interesting psychological theme for the adults.

PS-it's called "The Innocents", that version at least.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

6. Ooo thanks, I'll check that out, sounds good!

[JohnKleeb]

3. Does she prefer physical horror or psychological

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

5. Mmmm

personally we both find psychological horror to be scarier, so either one, just depends. "The House on the Hill" was pretty psychological, because you never really SAW anything. That was most of what made it so scary.

[XanaDUer]

8. Then you'll love "The Innocents"

and I recommend you read the book , as well, by Henry James.

Deborah Kerr gives the most perfect, neurotic performance-you really start to wonder what is going on-is it she, or are the kids really evil, and who is Quint?

[JohnKleeb]

9. The Others with Nicole Kidman I guess would be interesting

I think that was the name of it, you know she's a war widow with the two kids who have this disease where they can't leave the house. I prefer psychological horror too btw.

[XanaDUer]

12. "The Others"?

Yes-very intersting as well. There is a twist, but not a "the Sixth Sense" type of twist, at the end.

Night Shamylian (sp?) blew it with me after I wasted money on "Signs".

[JohnKleeb]

19. The 6th sense yes

Really, someone in my film class swore to me that they knew all along that Willis was dead, I didnt :shrug:. The Shining is one that creeped the hell out of me honestly.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

13. We started to watch that last week

and it creeped her out too much and we had to stop (I had seen it before). She was just too scared, and truth be told, you do find out she KILLED her two kids, so that may have been a good thing that we stopped it about fifteen minutes into it.

[JohnKleeb]

16. Oh you did

God the conclusion was disturbingly brilliant, that they were the ghosts all along, I love things like that.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

18. Oh yeah I loved it

along with The Sixth Sense. She can watch The Others when she is older and can handle it. That's a good one, though.

[JohnKleeb]

29. Yep

trying hard to think of some good ones since I got exposed to some horrror early on.

[XanaDUer]

26. A case of the dead being haunted by the living.

Eom.

[JohnKleeb]

28. ironic wasn't it

[XanaDUer]

30. I will never forget the night I watched that movie...

It was the exact same time that poor woman Linda Franklin, was shot by Muhammed and Malvo. When it ended, I turned on the news and she had just been murdered.


Way scary and somewhat malignant.

[DrWeird]

10. Poltergeist.

Awfully scary but none of the ridiculous "slasher" type violence.

I watched it when I was ten. (I was scared of my closet for awhile, but that kind of thing builds character.)

[fairfaxvadem]

14. Yeah, Poltergeist definitely

Love that movie....

[XanaDUer]

15. THE EVIL CLOWN IS COMING TO GET YOU!

I hate clowns. Lon Chaney said, there is nothing scarier than a clown after midnight.

[fairfaxvadem]

11. good question...

do they have to be "horror" movies or more "whodunnit"??

I always recommend "Gaslight" w/Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, I watch it all the time I see it on t.v., even though I know how it ends.

For vampire stuff, she might like "The Lost Boys" with Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric. She might like the plotline with the younger boys.

I also catch that one when it's on tv. It's not too gorey and a little campy, actually. Good soundtrack, teen-age appeal, etc.

Any of the ones from the 60s and 70s, didn't Roddy McDowell do a few? Was Vincent Price in the House of Usher?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

17. Good, writing these down

The Innocents, Gaslight and The Lost Boys. Going to go to Hollywood Video in a minute. Those are good. I haven't seen The Lost Boys in about 500 years, I forgot about it!

Oh and we LOVE whodunits!

[XanaDUer]

23. Look for the Agatha Christie movies with Peter Ustinov as Poirot

there are three:

Death on the Nile (the best-one bloody scene where a character gets shot, though)

Evil Under the Sun

Cannot remember the third one
but Murder on the Orient Express with that other English actor whose name excapes me as POirot-???

[fairfaxvadem]

27. The B&W of Gaslight I think makes it even better

I'm glad it's not redone in color. And the costumes and that house are just perfect.

And Ingrid Bergman is in her absolute prime, such a beautiful woman.

[DrWeird]

20. Hell House- Roddy McDowell

Good movie, just watched it. Very brief sexuality though.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

22. Ok got that one on the list too

Brief, tasteful sexuality is just fine, she's 10 and knows all about the birds and the beets. People getting their heads blown off is not so kosher in this house.

Thanks!

[DrWeird]

24. You didn't like the Poltergeist idea?

Too scary?

Dare I suggest "The Ring?"

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

31. No not too scary

she saw Poltergeist recently and laughed at most of it. Didn't scare her a bit.

Ack, The Ring creeped ME out. No way for her! LOL!

[DrWeird]

25. Whoops. Sorry. That's "The Legend of Hell House."

"Hell House" was the original book.

[politicat]

21. Try Alfred Hitchcock.

I was about 10 when I saw North by Northwest and thought it was cool; I think I saw it on one of the late, late shows on one of the Phoenix stations that used to play movies on Sat night with only three commercial interruptions.... (Ah, those heady, pre-cable days! I'm too young to feel this old....)

I've now seen almost all of the Hitchcock catalogue, and I would not mind watching them with a child, but the 39 Steps, Spellbound, Notorious, Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, and Rear Window are all very, very well done. I also love The Trouble With Harry, but that one's barely scary... it is funny, though.

You might try some of the old horror movies, like Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff; if she's a scary movie fan, it's a good idea to have a grounding in the prior art and who built the archetypes.

Rosemary's Baby is not gory, not juvenile, and while the themes are a little adult, I seem to remember seeing this one around the same time that I saw North By Northwest. (Mom and I had a standing agreement that as long as I got my weekend chores done on Saturday and went to Saturday night Mass, I could stay up REALLY late and watch TV unsupervised.) I also think I saw the Stepford Wives (original) around that time and the idea of feminism really clicked in my head.

Hope this helps....

Pcat

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

32. We've been on a Hitchcock kick actually

She's seen North by Northwest and Rear Window now. Oh and Vertigo, which I LOVED and she fell asleep during! LOL!

I think she's a bit burned out on Hitchcock right now, but I am going to get back to his stuff next weekend. I have only seen the three I listed above! Eek! I know, I am bad!

[Ivan Sputnik]

33. Hitchcock's "The Birds"

I took some kids to see it on the big screen at a local film revival house. A good time was had by all.

[childslibrarian]

34. The Lady in White

Lucas Haas--an older movie but very good.

[Rowdyboy]

35. Here's a GREAT one...1972 starring Uta Thurman "The Other"

"Two twins in 1935 Connecticut just do not seem to fit in with the peaceful landscape of Depression era America in this odd and somewhat disturbing movie from director Robert Mulligan. One twin is good, of course, while the other is quietly deviant. He seems to have an evil inside of him that comes out at calculated times. When evil arises, he starts to murder others who might have wronged him within the sleepy town..."

Check out these reviews-its a fabulous, THINKING movie, frightening, without unnecessary goriness.

http://www.scifilm.org/reviews2/theother.html

http://home.hamptonroads.com/poll/question.cfm?poll=3401

[NightTrain]

36. The Night Stalker

The original 1971 made-for-TV movie stars Darren McGavin as journalist Carl Kolchak, whose investigation of a series of gruesome murders in Las Vegas leads him to an actual vampire.

Also worth checking out is the 1972 sequel, THE NIGHT STRANGLER, which takes Kolchak to Seattle. Another series of murders leads him to a 144-year-old scientist who lives in Seattle's underground city, and who has been working for a century on an eternal-youth formula, which requires the blood of the newly-dead as its primary ingredient.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

37. Wait Until Dark

Not supernatural, but it's plenty suspenseful, and there 's one segment that invariably makes audiences scream.

[CanuckAmok]

38. Phantasm