Best TV Horror/Thriilers Of All Time

[FACTO2]

what's the name of that movie with Bette Davis in it, she's crazy as a loon..I think she lives with her sister..  I just remember bits and pieces of it, it seems like Bette Davis kills a couple of people in it...I also remember a dead rat being served on the dinner plate..  any idea??

Easy one.  "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" with Joan (no wire hangers) Crawford playing the sister.

[Unknown Primate]

Last night, I checked out "ABC Movie Of The Week" on YouTube.  Man, it really brought back some memories just seeing the titles and hearing the opening theme.  I mentioned SOMETHING EVIL, with Darren McGavin & directed by Spielberg, earlier in the thread, and lo & behold, it's on YouTube!  Plan to watch it tonight - hope it's as creepy as I remember!

Speaking of Bette Davis, just hearing her voice used to scare me!  After seeing HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE, THE NANNY & WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE as a pre-teen, Bette Davis haunted my nightmares more than a few times - awesome actress!

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

Every film mentioned on this thread is well worth seeking out, and as a long time fan of obscure horror cinema, I've seen 'em all. "The World Beyond" was the hardest to eventually track down. It took me years just to discover the title of the "mud monster" movie I'd seen as a kid.

Recently, I watched 3 made-for-TV 1970s films worth a mention, one in particular stands out.

That film was "When Michael Calls" (1972) a really creepy film staring an impossibly young Michael Douglas and Ben Gazzara. The main character keeps getting calls from a child who has been dead for 10 years that go something like this, "Auntie Helen, come get me. I'm lost. It's dark and I'm scared. Please, Auntie Helen." Then people around her start dying in strange ways. Is the caller a ghost from the grave or someone else?

Another I watched was "Daughters of Satan" (1972) with Tom Selleck who buys a vintage painting with three witches been burned at the stake, one of which looks exactly like his wife. Then I also watched "TheDevil Within Her"/ AKA "Sharon's Baby" (1975) with Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Donald Pleasence and Caroline Munro, which is an "Omen"/ devil baby type of picture that gets a little silly at times.

[Opera Ghost]

That film was "When Michael Calls" (1972) a really creepy film staring an impossibly young Michael Douglas and Ben Gazzara. The main character keeps getting calls from a child who has been dead for 10 years that go something like this, "Auntie Helen, come get me. I'm lost. It's dark and I'm scared. Please, Auntie Helen." Then people around her start dying in strange ways. Is the caller a ghost from the grave or someone else?

Loved this film. I even remember the TV trailer for it, and the voiceover.

[Radioactive Rod Whitenack]

Man, when that kid on the phone screams and says, "Auntie Helen, I'm dead aren't I?," I just about turned on all the lights and put in a Disney flick. Shivers!

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

Thanks Facto2....I knew someone would remember...

speaking of" When Michael Calls" (1972) , this is going to be on next week on FMC(fox movie channel)
Tuesday October 26th at 5pm central..

[Opera Ghost]

Thanks Facto2....I knew someone would remember...

speaking of" When Michael Calls" (1972) , this is going to be on next week on FMC(fox movie channel)
Tuesday October 26th at 5pm central..

Thanks Doc!

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

Thanks Doc!

not a problem, if it wasnt for the UMA..I would be alone in my horror world..
Family and friends are not Horror lovers, so it feels good to talk to others who feel the same as I do. 

Mother isnt a fan, but she watches some of the old classics, as long as they arent too scary(mainly Mysteries) 

[Opera Ghost]

not a problem, if it wasnt for the UMA..I would be alone in my horror world..
Family and friends are not Horror lovers, so it feels good to talk to others who feel the same as I do.  

/...I am lucky, mine is akin to the Addams Family

[Wicked Lester]

I remember the movie "When Michael Calls" was pretty creepy. These movies must have really had an impact on many of us if we can at least remember a "weird feeling" from a movie we haven't seen in at least 30+ years.

There is another movie I would love to find called "A Little Game"

A Little Game is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week that was first broadcast on October 30, 1971, starring Christopher Shea as a young boy who will anything to get what he wants. He is responsible for the deaths of fellow students at the military academy he attends, yet his mother (Diane Baker) refuses to believe that he is guilty of anything. His stepfather (Ed Nelson) begins to wonder if the boy wants to get rid of him.

I think that ABC should really consider releasing box sets of these lost gems. Prob not gonna happen but hey, we can dream right?

[Opera Ghost]

I remember the movie "When Michael Calls" was pretty creepy. These movies must have really had an impact on many of us if we can at least remember a "weird feeling" from a movie we haven't seen in at least 30+ years.

There is another movie I would love to find called "A Little Game"

A Little Game is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week that was first broadcast on October 30, 1971, starring Christopher Shea as a young boy who will anything to get what he wants. He is responsible for the deaths of fellow students at the military academy he attends, yet his mother (Diane Baker) refuses to believe that he is guilty of anything. His stepfather (Ed Nelson) begins to wonder if the boy wants to get rid of him.

I think that ABC should really consider releasing box sets of these lost gems. Prob not gonna happen but hey, we can dream right?

I believe that you meant Disney should...

[radrad]

 An episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour titled "An Unlocked Window" 1965.

[radrad]

The pilot film for Rod Serling's  NIGHT GALLERY  called "The Cemetary"

[Wicked Lester]

I believe that you meant Disney should...

Yea,ok,that works. Creepy 70's TV movies interspersed with Halloween episodes of Hannah Montana.
AAAAAAHHHHHHH!

[RICKH]

I thought that Vampire which aired on ABC in 1979 had some scary moments and was a good vampire flick.  It starred Richard Lynch as the vampire, Anton Voytek who is raised to life when a church is built over his tomb.  Jason Miller played the architect of the new church who is the target of Voytek's revenge.  E. G. Marshall played a cop who, I believe,  had encountered Voytek in the past.