Poltergeist vs Amityville Horror

[Mikey]

First thing,
Forget about all their crappy sequels .....
Imagine the sequels never existed .....

Which was scarier ?
Poltergeist vs Amityville Horror

I gotta give this one to Amityville...

[toysrus]

Yeah Amityville Horror was scarier for me also. But both were great movies. I didnt care much for the sequels.

I'm still hoping to oneday see a special edition Poltergeist DVD though.




First thing,
Forget about all their crappy sequels .....
Image the sequels never existed .....

Which was scarier ?
Poltergeist vs Amityville Horror

I gotta give this one to Amityville...

[toys2cool]

Both use to scare the crap out of me when I was a kid,but I gotta go with Amityville Horror just cause I grew up hearing it was a true story

[kingdom warrior]

Yeah Amityville was scarier!...but both were good movies....Plus I always liked a young Margot Kidder

[Goblin19]

I'd go with Poltergeist easily. Amityville doesn't hold up for me as an adult.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I saw both in theaters when I was a kid, and wasn't scared by either. I'd go with Poltergeist though; it had some weird monsters and a team of researchers trying to stop them. Amityville had a psycho guy with an axe, and a bunch of flies. *yawn*

Don C.

[autofiend50]

Actually I think the psycho guy with an axe would be much scarier since it's something that could actually happen.

Amtyville Horror wins in my eyes. Plus, when I read the book when I was younger, my room was dark when I was reading the part where a pig's red eyes flashed from the top window of the house, and right at that same moment the red tailights of a car reflected through my mirror. Scared the living heck out of me. I'll never forget that.

[Mikey]

Guilty Pleasure ALERT ......

I actually like Amityville 3-D as much as the original :grin:

Meg Ryan was really young in that.

[monkey tennis]

Poltergeist
It had that whole scene with the Clown from Hell.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/reverseshot/archives/pol04.jpg
"Can't sleep, Clown'll eat me..."

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I remember Mum coming home from the movies and telling me about Amityville when I was young...of course my imagination was worse than the real thing, but I'd still have to go with that one.

[toys2cool]

I hated that clown scene,he looks so freakin' scary :smiley1:

[Bo8a_Fett]

Poltergiest for me ...the creepiest thing about Ammnitiville was the theme.