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| Registered: October 19, 2008 |  Posts: 409 |
| | Posted: | | | | I liked A Haunting and The Stand. A Haunting never cameout on video, it is based on a real life story. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dohdohdoh: Quote:
You can always give the Tales From The Darkside Series a try. Although I didn't find it remotly scary, but cornballish, a 7 year old may find it fun. Just my little food for thought. Or Tales From The Crypt. @ Widescreen...has she progressed beyond Goosebumps level? I have an 8 and 10 year old and I would not think of letting them watch some of the films suggested...unless, of course, I wanted some company at night. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | she likes and enjoys ghost storys mostly animated TV fair , but also Casper -TV and Casper the Movie .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | It was freaky.
The Stand was great but not that scary to me.
The Zuni doll in Trilogy gave me nightmares, and still creeped me out when I revisited it around a year ago. The other stories didn't do much for me, but Zuni sure did and still does. So that wins IMO (unless I'm completely forgetting about something else). |
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| Registered: October 28, 2009 | | Posts: 35 |
| | Posted: | | | | POLTERGIEST may be perfect, however, it's not made-for-tv. FEAR THIS is one of the freakiest made-for-tv shows I ever saw, it was a short-lived series, simular to THE TWIGLIGHT ZONE, with each story directed by a master of horror. It's available on DVD. | | | "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am not familiar with Fear This... and I usually keep up with the horror tv series. Unless you are talking about Fear Itself?  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | When I was just a little older than my granddaughter is now a TV show that usually scared the pants off me and gave me minor nightmares.. was ONE STEP BEYOND ... They just don't make shows like this anymore ..  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | That is good to know Terry... I bought a cheap 50 episode set of One Step Beyond... but I haven't even started the set yet. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | look for the episode of the 'Eyeglasses' that were found in an old bookcase?,, or piano? ..
That was really scary at the final moments of the episode ... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Will do  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: April 2, 2007 | | Posts: 14 |
| | Posted: | | | | Trilogy of Terror also got me when I was young. You might also want to check out:
The Norliss Tapes (1973) With Angie Dickenson - Still remembered that one into my 30's then found dvd.
Gargoyles (1972) With Cornel Wilde another atmospheric Scarry.
SSSSSSS (1973) With Strother Martin
All were made for TV and all were available at Amazon the last time I looked that is where I got them from. |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,750 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not sure what it is rated, but "Rose Red" is a good one. | | | | Marty - Registered July 10, 2004, User since 2002. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Perhaps the right time and place to ask for help about a movie title, Sirs.
- production Seventies or Eighties, rather TV than cinema
- northern american town environment
- somehow scary ghost / haunting plot about a vanished child or woman
- the only specific element I remember is that in the end a car is pulled off a see
or river, with a corpse
- it's not Audrey Rose
Love, bb?bb | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: April 2, 2007 | | Posts: 14 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think the movie you are referring to is Ghost Story (1981) from Universal
Had quite a cast for a horror film - Fred Astaire, Melvin Douglas, John Housman, Douglas Fairbanks, JR.
Another very atmospheric and quite scary film. Although a little adult I think for the audience targeted in this thread. |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 |  Posts: 582 |
| | Posted: | | | | Bad Ronald is a fantastic (and creepy) movie. But it may be lost on kids (I don't really know, since kids is not exactly my specialty, but the movie is more scary through the story, than any actual direct scares). | | |  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) was scary when I was younger and saw it. Miramax was remaking it with Guillermo del Toro co-writing the screenplay, but who knows now...
The original still holds up pretty well. It's available from the Warner Archive Collection www.wbshop.com | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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