Greatest Ever Scary Movies (Merged)

[se7en45]

This is a special Halloween countdown on tomorrow:

Greatest Ever Scary Movies

21:00 - 23:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

Channel-5

Here's the publicity blurb:

Greatest Ever Scary Movies brings you 40 of the most macabre tales ever to hit our cinema screens, as voted for in an exclusive poll of Five's viewers and readers of The Times. Host Giles Coren takes us on a terrifying trip to the number one spot and along the way is joined by many famous faces who have been exclusively interviewed for the programme, including Kathy Bates, Robert Englund, Linda Blair, Tony Todd, Tippi Hedren, Matthew Lillard and James Brolin.

[zanner]

will watch this tonight, tho not expecting any surprises.

[christats]

Will have to watch and tape the Royal Family.Although if its the Jimmy Carr presented one,I think I saw most of it first time round.

[WaveCrest]

It's a different one. Completely shocked by where Halloween came (no.23). It should have come in the top 5.

[Mark Y]

Creep was higher than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre wasn't it? :confused:

And Sixth Sense is near the top as I type this. Curious.

[christats]

Yes it was a different one to the CH4 rundown,(I forgot.)I watched it all and decided to take notes.So everyone beware.
Nothing particulary suprising apart from what was included.It was the top 40 scary movies supposidly.
28 days later no.8:confused: Adequate film but not scary in the slightest.So failed what it set out to do.

Bone Collector,Hand that Rocks,Taxi Driver all fair films,but why in this list.
Iconic films such as Texas Chainsaw,Carrie,Halloween,Wickerman so low down.

Creep stood out as being an odd inclusion, a rip off from death line.Pointless.Why was it included when there are plenty of other recent horror films as good as or better.?
Who gave half wit page 3 models the right of an opinion,Michelle Marsh,Jakki Degg,Lucy Pinder.
Also halfwits from a goth reject show,Eamon and Marc and Anne.:confused:
Alien Top and the only thing I learnt was that Britt Eckland had a body double for her A*se in the Wickerman cause she went away pregnant for a while.
Emily Booth was there spouting on a night off from quiz night.
To think I missed Torchwood for this.

Edit...... to add,I have an issue with Sixth Sense and Blair Witch as I don't find whispering and snotty noses scary.

[bladesew]

as voted for in an exclusive poll of Five's viewers and readers of The Times

'nuff said! :p

[Dollarhyde]

Anybody see this last night?

50 scariest films as vote for by five viewers and The Times readers. An unlikely combination for sure. Anyway there were some glarring omissions, no sign of The Devils, Cannibal Holocaust, Flower of Flesh and Blood, Suspiria, Dont Look Now, Zombie, men behind the Sun and the Haunting. To be fair i wasnt expecting any of those films with the possible exception of Dont Look Now to crack the list, but still..

Scariest was Alien, with Silence of the Lambs at 2, Seven and the Exorcist were also high. the Birds was in the top 10 for some reason. Rosemarys Baby was way down on the list. Also included on the list was Candyman, how anybody finds this scary is beyond me, The bone Collector?, Scream ffs how is that film scary?,
American Psycho-give me a break, An American Werewolf in london which i always thought was tongue in cheek stuff apart from the disturbing scene with the mutant soilder type things,.

The funniest thing had to be them voting Hand That Rocks the cradel scarier than Rosemarys Baby.

Anybody else see it and have some thoughts? Film that should have made it but didnt?

[Someone Weird]

I'm not keen on these type of programmes. Who wants to hear the opinion of Jason Grimshaw from 'Coronation Street' anyway, or what ever z-grade celeb they have on there? I remember the top 100 horror moments, and beating the likes of 'Evil Dead' was Richard Hillman's rampage on, you guessed it, 'Coronation Street'. Ha ha!

Personally, I don't think The Devils, Cannibal Holocaust, Men Behind the Sun etc. count as being scary, so I'm not surprised they weren't there. If it were a 50 most disturbing movies then maybe...I'm assuming 'Amityville 2: The Possession' never made it. That scared me to death as a kid. 'The Hand That Rocked the Cradle' is a laughable choice. I'm glad I missed this.

[viva la gore]

It was the top 40 films, not 50.

[tall dude]

I take it the shining was in the top ten, as i taped the final ten. Have to get up early for work the next day!:(

[the dude]

This was a rubbish list. The greatest horror films that most of us all rate highly were very low on the list. As much as I enjoy Child's Play, I would never have put that in my top 10.

It's cheap Channel 5 nonsense. When they do the rundown of the films, they obviously copied DVD covers from Amazon for the film's posters. And there were a number of mistakes on the trivia bit. I don't know of Vincent Prince who starred in the 50's version of The Fly.

[christats]

Anybody else see it and have some thoughts? Film that should have made it but didnt?

I thought I was being harsh with my comments which were similar.I am also of the opinion that these types of programs are abit pointless.
Asking us to name films that should have made it is an impossible task.There were about 10 in the list that are musts.Whether a fan of such film or not.
I watched it hoping to be pleasantly suprised,which I wasn't.
The most scary thing about the program was asking 3 page 3 models to have an opinion on anything other than make up,boyfriends,cars and sunny holidays.
Were did they get the 3 goths covered in fake blood from.?:confused: Ms Booth is probably qualified to have an opinion of such films.
Someone from the church of Satan,a couple of Psychologists.Barry Norman who apparently hates horror films.Probably not most that were selected mind.

[Dollarhyde]

I thought I was being harsh with my comments which were similar.I am also of the opinion that these types of programs are abit pointless.
Asking us to name films that should have made it is an impossible task.There were about 10 in the list that are musts.Whether a fan of such film or not.
I watched it hoping to be pleasantly suprised,which I wasn't.
The most scary thing about the program was asking 3 page 3 models to have an opinion on anything other than make up,boyfriends,cars and sunny holidays.
Were did they get the 3 goths covered in fake blood from.?:confused: Ms Booth is probably qualified to have an opinion of such films.
Someone from the church of Satan,a couple of Psychologists.Barry Norman who apparently hates horror films.Probably not most that were selected mind.

Why is asking you to name films you think should have been included an impossible task? Simply put foward the films that you consider scary or scarier than those that are in the list. Ones you think they have missed that you would put in there. Thats all there is to it.

[christats]

Curse/Night of The Demon.1958 Dracula.The Howling.Dead of Night.City of The Dead.Village of The Damned.Brides of Dracula.The Innocents.Masque of The Red Death.Repulsion.Dr Phibes,both films.Corruption.Blood on Satan's Claw.Hands of The Ripper.Vampire Circus.Deathline.Theatre of Blood.Vampyres.House of Whipcord.Frightmare.
Was Hellraiser there,can't remember.?

Thats just off the top of my head.There was too much missing for it to be a definitive list.
Then again if it was votes from CH5 viewers and Times readers,what do we expect.
Its subjective.

[the dude]

I would have hoped to see:

Freaks
Nosferatu (1919)
The Bad Seed
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Hellraiser
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Thing (1982)
The Haunting (1963)
The Descent rather than Creep

[christats]

Creep seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in that list.Maybe because it was one of the newest,and a fair to middling example of the new crop.
There didn't seem to be many films apart from American and British.
I noticed that it tended to be remakes of Japanese,if they were included.
No Italian films.
Seven was tense rather than scary.American Psycho was too much of a black comedy to be scary.
Taxi Driver is a fine film but a tense one,not scary.

A lack of a Romero film was glaring.The Thing as well.I was right then,no Hellraiser.?
It seems people have short memories.

[Mojo]

Apart from a handful of titles, this was really disappointing. Mainly mainstream American kak. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle ?? And A Clockwork Orange? Great film, but not scary. The absence of Hellraiser was bizarre, too.

And, scariest of all, Barry Norman. I thought he hated horror films. Or has he changed his mind, seeing as they were voted for by readers of The Times.

A Top 40 voted for by actual horror fans would be really interesting.

Anyway, for me, I would have included

Carnival Of Souls
The Haunting
The Eye
Night Of The Living Dead
Suspiria

and others that I can't think of at the minute etc

[se7en45]

On a similar theme, Channel-4 will tonight explore how the biggest names in the Horror industry employ tricks and psychological ploys to make film-goers jump in terror:

THE PERFECT SCARY MOVIE

12:05am - 2:05am

[tall dude]

I taped the perfect scary movie last night, sounds interesting.
Im in agreement with you folks on most of the films omitted from this so called top forty scariest movies..... no hellraiser, the haunting(glaring by its absence) Or even one of the scariest movies ever...the woman in black!
The hand that rocks the cradle???? They would have been as well putting single white female in there too, and be done with it!:mad:

[zanner]

i agree, quite a lot of the films i wouldn't even class as horror.

[Rich]

I thought this was a load of crap,where was Black Christmas,Night of the Living Dead,and Carpenter's The Thing? I couldn't argue with Alien being at the top spot though,one of my favourites.

[Vaughan]

--I taped the perfect scary movie last night, sounds interesting.--

Sadly I tuned out of this after fifteen minutes. Maybe it should have carried a subtitle of: Stating the Bleeding Obvious. Also a lot of annoying editing. No thanks.

[zanner]

I thought this was a load of crap,where was Black Christmas,Night of the Living Dead,and Carpenter's The Thing? I couldn't argue with Alien being at the top spot though,one of my favourites.

yeah, and where was 'cannibal holocaust'...:eek: ...bloody channel 5 viewers know nowt.

[se7en45]

The ghosts of London Underground are explored on Channel-5 tonight.

[christats]

I taped the perfect scary movie last night, sounds interesting.
Im in agreement with you folks on most of the films omitted from this so called top forty scariest movies..... no hellraiser, the haunting(glaring by its absence) Or even one of the scariest movies ever...the woman in black!
The hand that rocks the cradle???? They would have been as well putting single white female in there too, and be done with it!:mad:

I do agree that The Woman in Black,particulary when I first saw it,on its second TV showing sh*t me up.It was on twice unless memory plays tricks.Repeated a year or too after its original 1989 showing.I've watched it recently and while still good,I have become a bit desensitized.
Like Salem's lot,it was a TV movie in a couple of parts,so dosn't exactly qualify.
Hand that Rocks the cradle,my a*se.They might as well have put Dumbo in for the elephants on parade sequence.