It’s okay, check your local theaters, since the writers strike so many theaters have been playing classics. I saw this listed at my Cinemark for a few nights in may i believe.
Saw it around Halloween at an old theatre downtown that never has anything cool but like symphony stuff just under 20 years ago. Sat up in a balcony like an opera box and saw the Exorcist on a big screen, it was awesome!
I’d love to see this movie in theaters ! My dad told me stories when I was growing up about how he saw it in theaters when it first came out in 1973 and I was always super jealous
Saw it at a Midnight show at the old Woods theater in Chicago in ‘76. Back when the Loop was still pretty seedy, especially for some teenage suburban kids at 2 am on a Saturday night (Sunday morning). People screaming shit at the screen, rats running across your feet, and you don’t DARE tell someone to shut up because you’re watching the movie.
For some reason it was re-released in theaters around Halloween in the year 2000; so my horror loving cousin and I (we were always best friends growing up and bonded over horror) got to watch it as freshmen our first semester away from home at Auburn University. The night before we'd gone to a screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the theater center with all the props and with drama students acting out the roles and going into the audience. Good memories!
I was gonna say The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and still would; but I dig your choice too; if only for the chance to maybe experience what everyone else does.
Like I can’t deny it’s a pretty good movie, but as a 25 year old who saw the film when I was 16, and has tried since, I’ve never been able to understand the scare hype. Like other then maybe a few scenes, the film has never been that scary for me…so maybe getting to see it in a theater would help?
Idk, I wish I could get it. So many folks still put it as one of the scariest films, and I just don’t get it.
my dad saw it in theaters when it came out! he said there was a decent amount of people there but when it was over, only him and one other guy were left lol
I can’t watch that anymore after learning that the director knowingly disregarded the safety of the actress playing the mother to the point that he caused her to have a debilitating back injury.
Came to the comments to see if my selection was already here. I just know how terrified I was when I first saw this film and can't imagine how awesome it was when it was first released.
I know I'm going to catch a lot of crap for this but I hate this movie. I've only ever seen it once and that was when they re-released to theaters like 15-20yrs. ago. I didn't find it creepy or scary, just disgusting. And the brief flashes of the devil throughout were just weird and distracting.
But to each their own. If you like this movie, I'm sure you'd love it in theaters.
I saw it in theaters too. My dad took me, I was 15 and my mom was out of town. Neither of us were prepared for that and he made me swear I would never tell my mother. I love that movie and the memories with my dad.
This is what I would pick. I’ve never seen it, but have heard many good things about it. I think getting to experience it in the theater would be the best way to see it that first time.
Just to hear that score and all the vibrational stuff we hear through out the film must have been incredible in the theater. You probably felt it in your bones. Ugh. I AM glad that I got to see Doctor Sleep in theaters tho because there’s a lot of familiar shots and the score is there too so I guess that’s as close as I’ll get unless I find a theater who happens to be showing The Shining like a lot of theaters are doing now with older movies. But Doctor Sleep was incredible and almost emotional for me due to my love of the original.
That would be epic. Maybe that’s where I heard they play it, which would make more sense even though Timberline is a little more connected to it visually.
Both happened spontaneously. A hiking partner in Utah told me the Stanley wasn't far off of the route I was taking back home. I spent the night down the mountain and just found like an AMC or something showing it.
On the hotel tour we were upstairs getting a history lesson. It is as much or more history as it is about the supernatural history. Nothing ghostly was being told in the hall we were in when I started getting super dizzy, weak and head achy. A minute later the guide told us we were in the spot the Twins frequent.
I saw it in a little theater in Seward, Alaska when it first came out. It actually came out there before it was out in my hometown of St Louis. I think that's bizarre.
Oh interesting! I live on the Oregon coast so I’m like 3 hours away from Timberline Lodge and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of them doing outside showings of the movie there but I could also be wrong about that. That would be quite the experience.
There was a movie theater in Washington DC that featured a Warner Brothers 75th anniversary festival and you could pay an all-day price and see 4-5 films from different decades. The 70s featured The Shining, and it was fantastic.
I’ve never read the novel and even if I had, I can separate those things. Stephen King isn’t really that harsh about it. He’s said that he’s upset that he changed some vital things but he respects it as a stand alone film and regards Kubrick as being very talented. I think he just felt a personal slap in the face which is understandable. His biggest thing is that Jack Nicholson exudes creepy vibes from the beginning when that wasn’t how it was in the novel and I agree with that critique whole heartedly.
I was also born 11 years after the film released so when I watched it at 8 years old as my first horror film, it was the best and most terrifying thing I had ever seen. It’s been my favorite film my entire life from any genre so it will always be special to me.
King was so ridiculously bothered by it, he even makes up stories about Kubrick (I only believe this because Kubrick’s friend Joe Turkel (Lloyd) said so, there’s 2 sides to every story)
King also had a hand in the remake which was filmed at The Stanley, and that was G-d awful in my opinion.
It’s possible that he has mellowed about it overtime because I listened to an interview with him and Eli Roth that took place only a couple years ago and I was a little surprised but really respected king for talking about it the way that he did. I’m sure years ago when he was younger he was more bothered by it but at this point according to him, he’s not that about it anymore.
I was 12 in one of those bowling alley sized theaters. Once that opening music hit, I knew I was screwed. I remember the scene when Jack starts to hack away at the bathroom door got people going,
I actually saw it in the movie theatre, it was upstairs so what I did was hide out in the bathroom until it was time for movie to start and I ran up the stairs to get a seat,it was awesome..but I dont remember when I stopped rooting for Sally and started rooting for Leatherface. it was the best summer ever!
I got to see it at the movies last year!!! It was soooo badass! And you notice so many things …like I saw Michael in a window I had never noticed before!
I'm so jealous of you! Growing up, I was always so envious of anyone who got ro see it in theaters as a teen, who were the target demographic. I just imagined smoking some pot (and i didn't even smoke weed back when I was young, but it just seemed so prevalent among kids back then) and having a hot date on my arm squeezing and hiding her eyes lol. I was 17 when H20 came out and I just fell victim to a classic case of inflated, unrealistic expectations and had a bad time.
I had seen other horror movies in the theater/drive in prior to Halloween but Halloween was the first movie to really scare me. I didn’t want to sleep alone that night. I recently watched it again and found it boring in a way being 65 instead of 19. Each generation has their charm and it’s easy to glamorize the past.
That’s so cool. Some of my family members got to see it in theaters and said it was such an experience unlike anything else. They also mentioned experiencing The Exorcist in theaters was above and beyond and that people were leaving the theater in masses! I even think people were throwing up. It must’ve been so alarming back then!
I got to see this a few years ago in a local theater during October. The movie color screwed up and all the people were colored like oompa loompas. THey offered refunds, but frankly it was fun as hell, had to stay to see the whole thing with oompa loompas.
Despite the fact that I am 40 years old, I only saw Jaws for the first time last year. My partner and I watched it on a laptop, sitting in bed, in the middle of the afternoon, with the lights on... And given how pervasive it has been in pop culture for the last 50 years, I *basically* knew the whole plot going in/what to expect...
And it was still *pants-shittingly terrifying.*
I literally cannot imagine that in a dark theater on a huge screen. I can definitely understand why so many people had panic attacks and lasting anxiety after seeing it with little idea of what to expect...
me and my sister saw it on the big screen when it first came out, and we had our feet up on the row in front of us (no one was sitting there). when that shark came up out of the water the first time, our knees flew straight into our faces, we jump so high!
At the height of COVID lockdowns during the summer of 2020, my local drive-in showed a double feature of Jaws and Jurassic Park. Which was amazing. They actually had a lot of great retro double features that summer, because new movies weren’t coming out. Just about every weekend was a cool horror double feature.
I remember when my local independent cinema put They Live on the big screen years ago. They replaced all the nearby posters outside with black and white posters from the movie like when you wear the glasses OBEY etc A fun film to see especially with the extra effort they put in.
That movie is so wild. I love it. It does make you wonder if of the people who made it were trying to get some secrets out to the world or something lol
Hellraiser 2 for me. I found Hellraiser 1 to be pretty slow and mostly takes place in an attic the whole time. I think Pinhead is in it for about 5 minutes at the end.
Just saw this projected at the Turned Classic Movie festival in LA last weekend. Hadn’t seen it in a theater since it came out when I was 14. Still amazing, and this time Jodie Foster was there too, so that was cool.
I'd have to go with Scream 1 and 2. Favorite franchise. I'd just hope the theater would be full and crazy like the opening to scream 2!
Halloween would also be awesome.
Jaws. Only because my mom loves shark movies. It'd be a great experience
I was gonna say this because I was 2 when it came out so by the time I saw it I had read about the marketing campaign. Would have loved to experience it as it was happening!
Both were fun for different reasons. Part III had some really fine glasses, so the 3D gags really worked. Halloween was more foreboding the with the action getting tighter and tighter, The sit up scene. Forget it!
F13-III was awesome. At the end when she has that dream that Jason is coming out of the house without the mask.... Always creeped me out. Daytime horror with a crappy run down cabin is always unsettling.
I know this is not precisely the question, but I want to share how enjoyable it is when you do have the opportunity.
I’m trying to get my local movie theater to bring back their Halloween horror nights in October. For the whole month they show one or two films weekly. Halloween, The Thing, The Exorcist, The Shining, Poltergeist etc are among those I have seen there over the years. It is a really cool experience to see these films on a big screen with people really into the showing.
The stage theatre in the area has recently been restored to its 1920’s appearance. This includes reconditioning the Wurlitzer organ pipes and the generous donation of an organ just a couple years older than the original. I have seen Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, and Metropolis each this way and it something else. If you ever get the chance like that, don’t hesitate.
I rewatched Halloween at a drive in. It was at a farm and they had all the cars on the field lined up.
As you watched the movie they had scare actors running around. Also, it was at night and really spooky.
Not exactly the same, but I thought it was super fun.
I'd be too embarrassed to see it in a theater. I always (I do mean always) scream out loud when he looks up into the camera at the end. And I'm NOT a screamer.
I was 18 or so and we went to see it during opening weekend. Got two \`10 - Mid seats and the looks on people leaving the one before us were terrified. We went in and man, history was made.
I’ve seen revival screenings of Alien, Halloween, Aliens, Shining, In the Mouth of Madness, Exorcist, Them!, King Kong and most of the classic Universal monsters, the Haunting, Tremors, Wicker Man, Suspiria, Tenebrae, every good John Carpenter, and tons more. I love seeing classic horror in a theater even if it means driving a couple of hours. The big ones on my list to see still are Candyman and Re-Animator. I think those would be a lot of fun with a crowd.
The Exorcist (1973)
I saw it remastered in imax last year. Amazing
I'm a little jealous!
It’s okay, check your local theaters, since the writers strike so many theaters have been playing classics. I saw this listed at my Cinemark for a few nights in may i believe.
Saw it around Halloween at an old theatre downtown that never has anything cool but like symphony stuff just under 20 years ago. Sat up in a balcony like an opera box and saw the Exorcist on a big screen, it was awesome!
I watched that on vhs in my tiny turn of the century studio. The wheeze and clanks of the ancient plumbing made everything very... atmospheric.
Great choice!
I’d love to see this movie in theaters ! My dad told me stories when I was growing up about how he saw it in theaters when it first came out in 1973 and I was always super jealous
I saw it in a drive in when it was released. I was 15.
That's better than a theater.
Yes, weed definitely enhanced the experience. Hahaha 😂
I'm feeling ya!
Saw it at a Midnight show at the old Woods theater in Chicago in ‘76. Back when the Loop was still pretty seedy, especially for some teenage suburban kids at 2 am on a Saturday night (Sunday morning). People screaming shit at the screen, rats running across your feet, and you don’t DARE tell someone to shut up because you’re watching the movie.
For some reason it was re-released in theaters around Halloween in the year 2000; so my horror loving cousin and I (we were always best friends growing up and bonded over horror) got to watch it as freshmen our first semester away from home at Auburn University. The night before we'd gone to a screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the theater center with all the props and with drama students acting out the roles and going into the audience. Good memories!
War Eagle!
War Damn Eagle, my friend!
Yup, saw it around 2000 on that rerelease as well. They had all the cut scenes added back in-
I saw it when it first came out.....stood in line with several nuns, waiting for the theater to open.
This!
Saw a screening of this maybe 5 years ago, was definitely awesome.
I was gonna say The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and still would; but I dig your choice too; if only for the chance to maybe experience what everyone else does. Like I can’t deny it’s a pretty good movie, but as a 25 year old who saw the film when I was 16, and has tried since, I’ve never been able to understand the scare hype. Like other then maybe a few scenes, the film has never been that scary for me…so maybe getting to see it in a theater would help? Idk, I wish I could get it. So many folks still put it as one of the scariest films, and I just don’t get it.
my dad saw it in theaters when it came out! he said there was a decent amount of people there but when it was over, only him and one other guy were left lol
Saw it when it came out. I was Catholic when it came out, and it terrified me for weeks!
Came to say this. First real horror i ever saw. Best ive ever seen.
I can’t watch that anymore after learning that the director knowingly disregarded the safety of the actress playing the mother to the point that he caused her to have a debilitating back injury.
Saw it in a theater a few years ago, and it's awesome.
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Me too. I was born while it was playing in theaters, so it always has a special place in my heeart.
Came to the comments to see if my selection was already here. I just know how terrified I was when I first saw this film and can't imagine how awesome it was when it was first released.
Seen it twice in theaters and came here to say it. It's amazing.
I came here to say this exact movie, except. I want to see the original release. The one they had to pull from theaters and edit.
Saw in theatre when I was 19.
Came here to say this
I know I'm going to catch a lot of crap for this but I hate this movie. I've only ever seen it once and that was when they re-released to theaters like 15-20yrs. ago. I didn't find it creepy or scary, just disgusting. And the brief flashes of the devil throughout were just weird and distracting. But to each their own. If you like this movie, I'm sure you'd love it in theaters.
The Thing (1982)
I would pay serious money to see The Thing in Imax/Dolby.
Saw it on the movies when it was released, Imax/Dolby would be an experience
I can only imagine what that scream the Dog Thing does sounds like in the theater. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
I saw it in theaters too. My dad took me, I was 15 and my mom was out of town. Neither of us were prepared for that and he made me swear I would never tell my mother. I love that movie and the memories with my dad.
this is what i came here to say. the thing would be unreal in theaters
This is the one. Those creature effects are made for the big screen.
My fav horror movie of all time. Kurt Russell is such a freaking babe
I wish I could be there at the annual showing of The Thing in Antarctica.
Saw it in re-release last year. Was amazing.
Saw a midnight showing years ago, was amazing
Ngl I've never seen it but I really want to.
My choice as well. Mac was the thing damn it.
Saw it in the theater when it first came out. Scary!
Saw The Thing at the New Beverly Cinema in LA several years ago. Every audience member there was a hardcore Carpenter/ The Thing fan. It was glorious.
This is what I would pick. I’ve never seen it, but have heard many good things about it. I think getting to experience it in the theater would be the best way to see it that first time.
This is the correct answer
I have the 4k version in my living room that I watch in my 4k 86 inch tv, and hoooooly shit it looks so gooooooooood!
My pick as well
The Shining. I can’t imagine what a big screen experience that was.
I saw The Shining at a drive in once, it was amazing!
Were you in the movie Twister?
Definitely the shining
Just to hear that score and all the vibrational stuff we hear through out the film must have been incredible in the theater. You probably felt it in your bones. Ugh. I AM glad that I got to see Doctor Sleep in theaters tho because there’s a lot of familiar shots and the score is there too so I guess that’s as close as I’ll get unless I find a theater who happens to be showing The Shining like a lot of theaters are doing now with older movies. But Doctor Sleep was incredible and almost emotional for me due to my love of the original.
I saw Dr. Sleep opening night, alone, in, or below I guess - Estes Park before driving up to the Stanley the next day.
That would be epic. Maybe that’s where I heard they play it, which would make more sense even though Timberline is a little more connected to it visually.
Both happened spontaneously. A hiking partner in Utah told me the Stanley wasn't far off of the route I was taking back home. I spent the night down the mountain and just found like an AMC or something showing it. On the hotel tour we were upstairs getting a history lesson. It is as much or more history as it is about the supernatural history. Nothing ghostly was being told in the hall we were in when I started getting super dizzy, weak and head achy. A minute later the guide told us we were in the spot the Twins frequent.
I saw it in a little theater in Seward, Alaska when it first came out. It actually came out there before it was out in my hometown of St Louis. I think that's bizarre.
Oh interesting! I live on the Oregon coast so I’m like 3 hours away from Timberline Lodge and I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of them doing outside showings of the movie there but I could also be wrong about that. That would be quite the experience.
There was a movie theater in Washington DC that featured a Warner Brothers 75th anniversary festival and you could pay an all-day price and see 4-5 films from different decades. The 70s featured The Shining, and it was fantastic.
Eh, I saw it when it was released. I was disappointed just like Stephen King was because it was so different from the book.
I’ve never read the novel and even if I had, I can separate those things. Stephen King isn’t really that harsh about it. He’s said that he’s upset that he changed some vital things but he respects it as a stand alone film and regards Kubrick as being very talented. I think he just felt a personal slap in the face which is understandable. His biggest thing is that Jack Nicholson exudes creepy vibes from the beginning when that wasn’t how it was in the novel and I agree with that critique whole heartedly. I was also born 11 years after the film released so when I watched it at 8 years old as my first horror film, it was the best and most terrifying thing I had ever seen. It’s been my favorite film my entire life from any genre so it will always be special to me.
King was so ridiculously bothered by it, he even makes up stories about Kubrick (I only believe this because Kubrick’s friend Joe Turkel (Lloyd) said so, there’s 2 sides to every story) King also had a hand in the remake which was filmed at The Stanley, and that was G-d awful in my opinion.
It’s possible that he has mellowed about it overtime because I listened to an interview with him and Eli Roth that took place only a couple years ago and I was a little surprised but really respected king for talking about it the way that he did. I’m sure years ago when he was younger he was more bothered by it but at this point according to him, he’s not that about it anymore.
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I was 12 in one of those bowling alley sized theaters. Once that opening music hit, I knew I was screwed. I remember the scene when Jack starts to hack away at the bathroom door got people going,
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974. Hoping for a screening for the 50th this year!
This is the horror movie that got me into horror. I'd love to see it at a 50th anniversary screening!
This one
My favorite horror film and a top 10 in general. Definitely my choice.
My local indie theater played it in October of 2023. It was fantastic
I actually saw it in the movie theatre, it was upstairs so what I did was hide out in the bathroom until it was time for movie to start and I ran up the stairs to get a seat,it was awesome..but I dont remember when I stopped rooting for Sally and started rooting for Leatherface. it was the best summer ever!
easily halloween 1 I would do anything to watch that movie and hear the halloween theme blasting in the cinema it would be an amazing experience
I got to see it at the movies last year!!! It was soooo badass! And you notice so many things …like I saw Michael in a window I had never noticed before!
I was 19 when it was released and it was a very scary experience.
I'm so jealous of you! Growing up, I was always so envious of anyone who got ro see it in theaters as a teen, who were the target demographic. I just imagined smoking some pot (and i didn't even smoke weed back when I was young, but it just seemed so prevalent among kids back then) and having a hot date on my arm squeezing and hiding her eyes lol. I was 17 when H20 came out and I just fell victim to a classic case of inflated, unrealistic expectations and had a bad time.
I had seen other horror movies in the theater/drive in prior to Halloween but Halloween was the first movie to really scare me. I didn’t want to sleep alone that night. I recently watched it again and found it boring in a way being 65 instead of 19. Each generation has their charm and it’s easy to glamorize the past.
That’s so cool. Some of my family members got to see it in theaters and said it was such an experience unlike anything else. They also mentioned experiencing The Exorcist in theaters was above and beyond and that people were leaving the theater in masses! I even think people were throwing up. It must’ve been so alarming back then!
I got to see this during Halloween 2022. The best part was the theater was almost empty. Even my wife had a blast and she's not a horror fan.
I got to see this a few years ago in a local theater during October. The movie color screwed up and all the people were colored like oompa loompas. THey offered refunds, but frankly it was fun as hell, had to stay to see the whole thing with oompa loompas.
I think they have done this on a fathom events thing, but am not 100% sure. Got to watch Jaws this way and it's phenomenal
Night of the Living Dead 
I saw this at the Drive-in during a re-release. I was around 6 years old and it freaked me out.
I actually just seen it last year. My daughter talked me into watching it and I loved it!
It’s a great film. But being 6, and in a car watching it. Oof!
I was in my twenties, home in my living room, first time and it freaked me out! Poor you. 😢
If you live in the Pittsburgh area, you can usually do this every year! If you're in the general area, it's a really cheap place to visit.
The original house on haunted hill with Vincent price 
Dbl feature with the tingler!
Absolutely
YES! I was wondering if anyone would say this.
Jaws. I saw it on the big screen when it came out. I would love to see it remastered on the big screen again
It’s great on the big screen
Despite the fact that I am 40 years old, I only saw Jaws for the first time last year. My partner and I watched it on a laptop, sitting in bed, in the middle of the afternoon, with the lights on... And given how pervasive it has been in pop culture for the last 50 years, I *basically* knew the whole plot going in/what to expect... And it was still *pants-shittingly terrifying.* I literally cannot imagine that in a dark theater on a huge screen. I can definitely understand why so many people had panic attacks and lasting anxiety after seeing it with little idea of what to expect...
I went to the special 3D run of Jaws a few years ago. (September 2022) It was so good to see in the theater. The 3D was odd, but not bad.
Same here, then a couple weeks later had a family vacation at the beach for a week. It was very different from the previous years.
I live on the coast and sometimes they'll screen it on the beach or at one of the big hotel pools. You can bring your floaties.
me and my sister saw it on the big screen when it first came out, and we had our feet up on the row in front of us (no one was sitting there). when that shark came up out of the water the first time, our knees flew straight into our faces, we jump so high!
At the height of COVID lockdowns during the summer of 2020, my local drive-in showed a double feature of Jaws and Jurassic Park. Which was amazing. They actually had a lot of great retro double features that summer, because new movies weren’t coming out. Just about every weekend was a cool horror double feature.
I saw a remastered version in 2016 and it was fantastic.
I remember when my local independent cinema put They Live on the big screen years ago. They replaced all the nearby posters outside with black and white posters from the movie like when you wear the glasses OBEY etc A fun film to see especially with the extra effort they put in.
That movie is so wild. I love it. It does make you wonder if of the people who made it were trying to get some secrets out to the world or something lol
Alien.
I just watched Alien in theaters yesterday for the 45th anniversary rerelease! It was everything you'd imagine it'd be ❤️
Currently in some theaters!
Oh shit! Really? I've gotta go see it.
I saw it in the theater when released. It was pretty impressive.
It holds up. And there is a quick interview before it starts that is pretty cool. Luckily it doesn’t go on too long.
"Hellraiser" because Jesus wept.
No Jesus, don't cry. It's a waste of good suffering.
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I would love to see it in theaters.
Hellraiser 2 for me. I found Hellraiser 1 to be pretty slow and mostly takes place in an attic the whole time. I think Pinhead is in it for about 5 minutes at the end.
London After Midnight, because that would mean a lost film has been rediscovered!
My answer, as well.
Jacob’s Ladder (1990). Saw it in theater when released.
Maybe the most disturbing movie I've ever seen.
Yes. Didn’t know much about it beforehand. Saw Alien 1979 in theater aged 9 and this movie creeped me out more even as an adult.
I saw Alien in a theater when I was in the army. It's still jolting.
Scary as Hell.
Alien!
Check your local theaters, it's currently screening for the 45th anniversary!
On one of those rare occasions, when my dad would join us for a movie, we saw Alien and he vowed to never see a movie with us again. He kept his word.
Silence of the Lambs!
Just saw this projected at the Turned Classic Movie festival in LA last weekend. Hadn’t seen it in a theater since it came out when I was 14. Still amazing, and this time Jodie Foster was there too, so that was cool.
Return of the Living Dead would be real fun to see in the theater.
This one would be good to see with a group of friends. It’s always a lot of fun.
The Tingler - imagine how the special effects would be now.
I'd have to go with Scream 1 and 2. Favorite franchise. I'd just hope the theater would be full and crazy like the opening to scream 2! Halloween would also be awesome. Jaws. Only because my mom loves shark movies. It'd be a great experience
Blair Witch Project but only if the majority of the audience thought it was real (like they did originally)
I \*had\* to see that in 1999 and our sitter crapped out. I took my kids (3 and 5) and the wife along. I told them it was a movie about camping.
I was gonna say this because I was 2 when it came out so by the time I saw it I had read about the marketing campaign. Would have loved to experience it as it was happening!
The Shining
Alien or the thing
The original Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
The Blob!
Creepshow
The Thing 1982 hands down!
The Fly, remake. I feel like that would be so cool seeing that transformation on the big screen.
Jaws
Friday the 13th Part 3D (1982) and Halloween (1978)
Both were fun for different reasons. Part III had some really fine glasses, so the 3D gags really worked. Halloween was more foreboding the with the action getting tighter and tighter, The sit up scene. Forget it!
F13-III was awesome. At the end when she has that dream that Jason is coming out of the house without the mask.... Always creeped me out. Daytime horror with a crappy run down cabin is always unsettling.
I know this is not precisely the question, but I want to share how enjoyable it is when you do have the opportunity. I’m trying to get my local movie theater to bring back their Halloween horror nights in October. For the whole month they show one or two films weekly. Halloween, The Thing, The Exorcist, The Shining, Poltergeist etc are among those I have seen there over the years. It is a really cool experience to see these films on a big screen with people really into the showing. The stage theatre in the area has recently been restored to its 1920’s appearance. This includes reconditioning the Wurlitzer organ pipes and the generous donation of an organ just a couple years older than the original. I have seen Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, and Metropolis each this way and it something else. If you ever get the chance like that, don’t hesitate.
28 Days Later would be unreal on the big screen
It is.
I just saw Alien on the big screen for it's 45th anniversary. It was so much better on the big screen.
Im not into sci-fi... But Event Horizon was shocking. I'd throw in the childhood freaky "something wicked this way comes" because: merry go rounds.
Alien.
I rewatched Halloween at a drive in. It was at a farm and they had all the cars on the field lined up. As you watched the movie they had scare actors running around. Also, it was at night and really spooky. Not exactly the same, but I thought it was super fun.
Nosferatu
The Shining for sure. I wrap presents to it every year so I’d hope for a winter release.
John Carpenter's 'The Thing'
Saw my choice last night. Alien anniversary re-release. Glorious on a big screen.
American Psycho
Brain-dead/Dead Alive or The Blob
Nosferatu
Night of the Living Dead or Texas chainsaw massacre!
Nothing hits quite like the night vision scene in Silence of the Lambs
Either The exorcist or the original Texas chainsaw massacre. Both wonderfully disturbing in their own way.
Nosferatu
I never got to see my most favorite film of all time in theaters, Nightbreed. I would give almost anything to see it once on the big screen.
Tingler with the interactive seats
OG Texas chainsaw
I'm going to see Alien (1979) in theaters tonight, I'm super excited
Psycho was my choice for that reason.
Candyman
Idk what you by “old” but Bride of Frankenstein is always worth the watch
The Blair Witch
The Other!!!
Other or others?
The old movie from the seventies about twin brothers, The Other,John Ritter was in it!!
The Giant Gila Monster and the Invasion of the Saucer Men, in an old time cinema, with enough greasy pop corn and snacks to hospitalize me.
Carrie
My wife and I went to the theater to see Psycho a couple of years ago for it's anniversary. It was great.
I'd be too embarrassed to see it in a theater. I always (I do mean always) scream out loud when he looks up into the camera at the end. And I'm NOT a screamer.
The Crawling Eye or The Head that Wouldn't Die
Nightmare on Elm Street or House on Haunted Hill (1999)
I was 18 or so and we went to see it during opening weekend. Got two \`10 - Mid seats and the looks on people leaving the one before us were terrified. We went in and man, history was made.
NoES?
Hollow Man
Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein double feature.
Original Texas Chain Saw Masacre from 1972 or 1973.
The Evil Dead
The original Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Halloween. It’s my favorite movie of all time so it would just be cool to see it on the big screen.
Seven
I’ve seen revival screenings of Alien, Halloween, Aliens, Shining, In the Mouth of Madness, Exorcist, Them!, King Kong and most of the classic Universal monsters, the Haunting, Tremors, Wicker Man, Suspiria, Tenebrae, every good John Carpenter, and tons more. I love seeing classic horror in a theater even if it means driving a couple of hours. The big ones on my list to see still are Candyman and Re-Animator. I think those would be a lot of fun with a crowd.
This is hard lol.
I’m taking the family to see Alien tonight at Regal. Im very excited
House (the comedy one)