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Bostondevil
11-09-2009, 03:00 PM
I should have thought of this before Halloween, but, oh well. A recent LOST episode got me thinking about the movie that scared me the most - The Vanishing (the original French/Dutch movie, not the god awful Hollywood remake).
One other movie that scared the crap out of me was Halloween which I saw in the theater when it first came out. I was 13 or 14 and I saw it with a church youth group. Really. There is a reason such movies are rated R. I had trouble sleeping for about a month afterward. Same thing with The Vanishing, I literally couldn't sleep for worrying about that film for about a month.
I should note that I don't go see or even eventually watch on DVD torture porn/extreme gross out gory movies - think Hostel or Saw.
So, what's the scariest movie you've ever seen?
hc5duke
11-09-2009, 03:16 PM
I should have thought of this before Halloween, but, oh well. A recent LOST episode got me thinking about the movie that scared me the most - The Vanishing (the original French/Dutch movie, not the god awful Hollywood remake).
One other movie that scared the crap out of me was Halloween which I saw in the theater when it first came out. I was 13 or 14 and I saw it with a church youth group. Really. There is a reason such movies are rated R. I had trouble sleeping for about a month afterward. Same thing with The Vanishing, I literally couldn't sleep for worrying about that film for about a month.
I should note that I don't go see or even eventually watch on DVD torture porn/extreme gross out gory movies - think Hostel or Saw.
So, what's the scariest movie you've ever seen?
I actually thought the first Saw was fairly well made in terms of writing and the standard horror movie plot twist, though you're right that it's more torture porn than a true "scary" movie. I liked the 2nd one ok, but the 3rd one got really boring.
My vote goes to The Omen and Damien (Omen 2)
dukegirlinsc
11-09-2009, 03:37 PM
The original Halloween scared the crap outta me, as did Rob Zombie's version. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre version with Jessica Biel also scared me a good bit.
BlueDevilBaby
11-09-2009, 03:41 PM
Jaws - way too young when I saw it and still can't stay out in deep water for long. I went to sleep that night after seeing it and my foot involuntarily jerked down - a lot of screaming ensued.
Exorcist.
The Omen movies.
Rosemary's Baby also creeps me out.
Hmm. I seem to have issues with the Devil.:eek:
weezie
11-09-2009, 04:10 PM
Silence of the Lambs.
HaveFunExpectToWin
11-09-2009, 05:37 PM
My older sister let me see American Werewolf in London when I was in 4th or 5th grade. It's a very funny movie in parts, but I'm actually scared of werewolves to this day.
camion
11-09-2009, 05:43 PM
Not a movie. Science Fiction Theater when I was 6 or 7 had an episode with a radioactive basset hound. Nice friendly pup, and if you touch it you die.
moonpie23
11-09-2009, 05:56 PM
as a kid: Revenge of Frankenstein (started reading to fall asleep after that)
as a teen: 2,000 maniacs and Blood Feast (double bill at the drive in theater)
as a young adult : the Exorcist
adult: Alien
Older adult: C-span
rasputin
11-09-2009, 06:40 PM
I don't do gory stuff, so that limits me here. But the scariest movie I ever saw was the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. You see next to nothing of a graphic nature; the scary stuff is what you see in your mind.
Cavlaw
11-09-2009, 07:37 PM
Aliens. I was six.
Now, it is awesome.
CLT Devil
11-09-2009, 07:50 PM
If you can sit throught the whole thing without interruption...The Shining.
Also, Deliverance was pretty freaky...going on Project Wild I had a good time rattling the nerves of some fellow campers who had never slept in the woods.
Aliens as a kid was pretty dern scary too.
Pet Cemetary made me fear cats.
My question is; Are there any more good scary movies these days? It all seems so predictable. A really good takeoff/spoof of scary movies that I think is brilliant is Cabin Fever...if you like scary movies, this is a good one that pokes fun of the whole 'cabin in the woods' scenario.
moonpie23
11-09-2009, 08:16 PM
i thought both JEEPERS CREEPERS were pretty good...
the second one was more campy (monster gets after a bus load or high school kids) but they worked on the monster a lot more and he was dang creepy...
striker219
11-09-2009, 08:21 PM
I've never been spooked by ghosts or gore, but a movie about something that has really happened? That can be terrifying...
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810075642/info
:eek:
moonpie23
11-09-2009, 08:23 PM
i've never been spooked by ghosts or gore, but a movie about something that has really happened? That can be terrifying...
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810075642/info
:eek:
aaarrrrrrrrrggghhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!1
devildm
11-09-2009, 08:55 PM
I'll second Silence of the Lambs and Pet Cemetery, and raise you Poltergeist (granted, I saw all of those when I was younger, but I still remember the fear).
I also thought the Exorcist prequels (both of them) and the Exorcism of Emily Rose were all pretty scary as an adult.
Pretty much, if it has to do with scary little children or demons (especially possession), you have a decent shot of scaring me.
RainingThrees
11-09-2009, 08:55 PM
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is scary bad if that counts.
DukeUsul
11-09-2009, 11:10 PM
Aliens. I was six.
Now, it is awesome.
Game over, man! Game over!
DukeUsul
11-09-2009, 11:13 PM
I don't really do horror movies.
Poltergeist II would be it for me. I was a kid. I had braces. And the preacher man.... *shiver*
moonpie23
11-10-2009, 12:26 AM
Rosmary's baby was pretty scary too
DevilAlumna
11-10-2009, 01:41 AM
Poltergeist - mainly b/c I saw it when I was 7. The tree scene freaked me out, and to this day, I still dislike clowns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_clown).
snowdenscold
11-10-2009, 02:23 AM
I remember Event Horizon being pretty scary (middle school?)
dukebluelemur
11-10-2009, 05:56 AM
Maybe not the scariest movie ever, but one that has had a lasting impact... Fallen with Denzel Washinton.
I still can't hear that song without the tiniest little shiver.
davekay1971
11-10-2009, 09:21 AM
Saw Poltergeist in the theater when I was 11 and couldn't sleep for a week. I had a closet that looked too much like the kids' closet in the movie, and a half dead tree outside of my bedroom window. I spent several nights looking back and forth between the two :)
BlueDevilBaby
11-10-2009, 09:36 AM
I should add Psycho around age of 12. My mother warned me not to watch the shower scene but I did anyway. Stupidly nervous in the shower for months afterwards.
I watched Salem's Lot when I was too young, and I kept freaking out about the scene where the little brother is scratching on the older brother's window. I had a large window like that in my room and was terrified of it at night.
Sometime in the past few years, I rented The Ring by mistake, thought it was something else. Watched it alone. At night. Scared the crap out of me.
Saw Blair Witch Project at a matinee. Walking out of the theater, I thought it was lame. Later that day, I thought it was kind of scary. By the time I went to bed, it was the scariest movie I'd ever seen. The mind is a terrible thing!
Udaman
11-10-2009, 11:14 AM
My Top 10 are
10. Poltergeist. Just for the scene of the kid waking up and the clown sitting next to him in his bed. Saw it again a few years back and the special effects are just lame compared to today. They should remake it (exactly the same as it was) only with updated effects. Yikes.
9. The Thing. One of my top 50 best movies ever - don't even really think of it as a horror flick...just a great movie about people trying to survive. Plus Kurt Russell rocks in it.
8. Friday the 13th. It was kind of scary...but the end basically took the end of Carrie to the extreme. It set you up and then slammed you with Jason jumping up out of the water.
7. Nightmare on Elm Street. Creepy thought of having someone stalk you when you sleep. Loved the scene of the girl falling asleep in the tub, and the razors come up...then her mom knocks on the door and they fall down as she wakes up.
6. The Exorcist. Formally my top movie, but I saw it again last year (after refusing to see it for over 20 years) and it wasn't nearly as bad as I remember it.
5. Alien. Scary (and at the time new) monster stalking you in space on a ship, when you literally can't get away. Plus the whole busting out of the guy's stomach.
4. The Ring. Scariest movie I've seen recently. Watching the first half I kept wondering, "So what is it the people see that literally scares them to death?" and by the end I was like, "Yep, that would do it."
3. Blair Witch Project. I know, some people either hate it or love it. But the thought of being in the woods, unable to escape, and hearing the sounds all around you, really got to me. And the end was great.
2. Jaws. Saw it when I was 7. Like the other person said, I'm still unable to go out in the ocean when I can't touch (not that you should ever really do that).
1. Halloween. Brutal. Just brutal.
Sometime in the past few years, I rented The Ring by mistake, thought it was something else. Watched it alone. At night. Scared the crap out of me.
Me too! Stumbled upon it one night when I was home alone. At one point I remember saying to myself "Wow, I am really creeped out right now." There was just a heavy blanket of dread draped over the movie that really got to me. The scene with the horse was shocking. As an adult, that's the only movie that's ever really gotten to me; usually my ability to suspend disbelief/let go and just let myself be spooked is pretty weak, so I sit through "scary" movies picking apart plot inconsistencies and laughing. "The Ring" somehow sucked me in.
As a kid, on the other hand, "The Exorcist" was by far the most terrifying thing I saw. I watched it with a bunch of other kids on a ski trip. All the kids were in the top half of a big condo in Steamboat. Our parents had forbidden us to watch anything scary on TV, since the age range was about 7-14, but of course we ignored them. The ten of us so scared the crap out of ourselves that our parents found us sleeping scattered all over the floor in the same room the next morning. No one dared sleep alone.
whereinthehellami
11-10-2009, 12:30 PM
I'll go with the Exorcist. I saw that when I was 12 and had problems sleeping for 2 weeks, pretty sure the devil was upstairs (old house creaked alot). Still have no desire to watch it again.
4. The Ring. Scariest movie I've seen recently. Watching the first half I kept wondering, "So what is it the people see that literally scares them to death?" and by the end I was like, "Yep, that would do it."
What got me was that during the "rescue" scene at the well, I thought, oh, it's over. They found her, her soul can rest, blah blah blah. But then looked at the Netflix jacket and realized that the movie was 20 minutes longer . . . THEN it got bad!
As a kid, the Excorsist (which still scares me) and the end of Carrie (when the hand comes through the ground) kept me from sleeping a lot.
As an adult, I thought the Blair Witch Project was an excellent scary movie, particularly because I was literally the only one in the movie theater. I kept looking behind me.
91devil
11-10-2009, 02:19 PM
I'm dating myself a bit here, but I have to say 'Kingdom of the Spiders' (mid-70s) was the scariest for me.
On the other hand, it did star William Shatner in one of his unintentional comedy roles.
A-Tex Devil
11-10-2009, 03:14 PM
My mom made me watch Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin when I was like 7. While not a horror movie, it probably has one of the most jump out of your seat scares I've ever seen. If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. When I think of being scared in a movie, I think of that scene in particular.
That's actually a movie I'm surprised hasn't been remade.
hc5duke
11-10-2009, 03:16 PM
4. The Ring. Scariest movie I've seen recently. Watching the first half I kept wondering, "So what is it the people see that literally scares them to death?" and by the end I was like, "Yep, that would do it."
ooh, forgot about that. the japanese one was scary, the american one was meh.
murpho
11-10-2009, 05:10 PM
Hellraiser
soccerstud2210
11-10-2009, 05:20 PM
amityville horror did it for me. terrified
DukieInKansas
11-10-2009, 05:52 PM
I don't know the name of the movie. Saw it in 2nd grade at school as a warning to kids not to accept candy from strangers. It was shown to students and parents as the result of a car with a man and a "woman" stopping and offering candy to kids as they walked home from school. They stopped the movie and said kids could stay if parents wanted but the end was gruesome. My parents let/had me stay. I can still see the little girl's tennis shoe floating in the creek. I saw this movie over 40 years ago.
(I was one of the kids approached by the car that prompted the showing of the movie. That added to the fear factor.)
rasputin
11-10-2009, 05:58 PM
I don't know the name of the movie. Saw it in 2nd grade at school as a warning to kids not to accept candy from strangers. It was shown to students and parents as the result of a car with a man and a "woman" stopping and offering candy to kids as they walked home from school. They stopped the movie and said kids could stay if parents wanted but the end was gruesome. My parents let/had me stay. I can still see the little girl's tennis shoe floating in the creek. I saw this movie over 40 years ago.
(I was one of the kids approached by the car that prompted the showing of the movie. That added to the fear factor.)
Was the narrator Troy McClure?
DukieInKansas
11-10-2009, 06:44 PM
Was the narrator Troy McClure?
Had to google him. If you mean the guy from The Simpson, no it wasn't him. I think, however, he is scarier than the movie. :D
DevilAlumna
11-11-2009, 12:38 AM
Poltergeist - mainly b/c I saw it when I was 7. The tree scene freaked me out, and to this day, I still dislike clowns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_clown).
Saw Poltergeist in the theater when I was 11 and couldn't sleep for a week. I had a closet that looked too much like the kids' closet in the movie, and a half dead tree outside of my bedroom window. I spent several nights looking back and forth between the two :)
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that until that I saw that movie, I had a clown nightlight. My mom had to take it out of my room before I would go to sleep that night.
weezie
11-11-2009, 11:53 AM
I had a clown nightlight.
Oh wow! That is too funny. I wish I could fine one to surprise my now grown son with. He would flip :D
Highlander
11-11-2009, 12:31 PM
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that until that I saw that movie, I had a clown nightlight. My mom had to take it out of my room before I would go to sleep that night.
I thought this was a much scarier clown...
http://www.dreampilot.net/images/pennylamp2.jpg
Tim Curry as "Pennywise" from Stephen King's It.
So, what's the scariest movie you've ever seen?
So, what's the scariest movie you've NEVER seen?
When I was a kid I heard about the plot of When A Stranger Calls, and saw some commercials which showed the phone ringing a bunch of times, a scary, whispering, threatening voice on the other end of the line, and the police officer saying the call was being traced to inside the house!!!, and I had to check my closet for years. Now, with kids of my own, I still have horrible thoughts about that idea. I've never seen the movie, but the idea of someone already in the house and calling you on the phone to mess with your head, and ready to pounce on you, bothers the crap out of me.
Cavlaw
11-11-2009, 02:50 PM
I thought this was a much scarier clown...
http://www.dreampilot.net/images/pennylamp2.jpg
Tim Curry as "Pennywise" from Stephen King's It.
Curry was pretty freaky in that. A shame most of the other actors were just plain terrible.
JasonEvans
11-11-2009, 02:50 PM
I thought this was a much scarier clown...
http://www.dreampilot.net/images/pennylamp2.jpg
Tim Curry as "Pennywise" from Stephen King's It.
Are you kidding me?!!?!? That movie/miniseries was horrible. I recall reading the book and, when I got to the ending where IT was an evil spider kinda thing from another dimension and I thought, "please let them not make a movie out of this-- it will suck."
I was right.
If you want a scary clown, how about Killer Klowns from Outter Space?
http://www.avclub.com/assets/images/articles/article/8716/killerklowns3.jpg
--Jason "Stephen King is good at lousy endings, IMO" Evans
--Jason "
BobbyFan
11-11-2009, 04:22 PM
If you can sit throught the whole thing without interruption...The Shining.
Surprised that there is only one mention of this. The isolated location, haunting music, and camera work were perfect.
elvis14
11-11-2009, 05:24 PM
I'll go with the Exorcist. I saw that when I was 12 and had problems sleeping for 2 weeks, pretty sure the devil was upstairs (old house creaked alot). Still have no desire to watch it again.
Same here, saw the Exorcist when I was too young to see it, couldn't sleep for 2 weeks, etc. Sounds like whereinthehellami and I had about same experience with that one.
Yes, the very end of Friday the 13th and the original Nightmare on Elm street were scary for the young elvis14 as well.
I don't really do scary now. My wife hates them and I don't like them enough to watch w/o her.
rasputin
11-11-2009, 05:39 PM
Surprised that there is only one mention of this. The isolated location, haunting music, and camera work were perfect.
I'm not a fan of the film genre, so I could be wrong, but I think they liberally used the fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (the movement was called Dream of a witch's Sabbath) in the score of The Shining. This is one of the real masterpieces of the symphonic repertoire.
As much as I loved Jack Nicholson (his Here's Johnny line and axe handling are classic) and the rest of the cast, the book was just so much better than the movie IMO that the movie never really did it for me. There were aspects of the book that made the story more dimensional than the screen would allow. In the book, the hotel was sort of a character on its own. It didn't come through that way in the movie.
JBDuke
11-11-2009, 06:15 PM
As much as I loved Jack Nicholson (his Here's Johnny line and axe handling are classic) and the rest of the cast, the book was just so much better than the movie IMO that the movie never really did it for me. There were aspects of the book that made the story more dimensional than the screen would allow. In the book, the hotel was sort of a character on its own. It didn't come through that way in the movie.
If you saw the TV miniseries version of The Shining - the one with Rebecca DeMornay - I thought it did a much better job of capturing the spirit of the book. Ridley Scott's version never really scared me, but the TV version did, despite a lot less gore.
Ridley Scott's version never really scared me
Totally agree. I missed the TV series. Oh well. In general, though, I've found that Stephen King doesn't convert well to the screen. Movies based on his books just don't have the same impact, IMO.
Jarhead
11-12-2009, 01:26 AM
Scariest movie I've ever seen? When I was five years old. My grandmother took me to see a movie, but as soon as we sat down the MGM lion came on the screen. I went screaming up the aisle, and out of the theater. It took at least a year for me to return.
Bostondevil
11-12-2009, 09:00 AM
Scariest movie I've ever seen? When I was five years old. My grandmother took me to see a movie, but as soon as we sat down the MGM lion came on the screen. I went screaming up the aisle, and out of the theater. It took at least a year for me to return.
Aw, that's just too adorable.
JasonEvans
11-12-2009, 09:23 AM
Totally agree. I missed the TV series. Oh well. In general, though, I've found that Stephen King doesn't convert well to the screen. Movies based on his books just don't have the same impact, IMO.
We could have a whole thread on the (mostly failed) translation of Stephen King books and stories to the big and small screen. The guy is incredibly prolific as a writer and darn near everything he writes gets some kind of theatrical treatment.
On IMDB, there are 111 entries for screenplays based on the works of Stephen King. That's insane!! The vast majority fall into the mediocre to bad category but there are a few standouts.
Shawshank Redemption - Not your traditional King horror story. Turned into one of the finest movies of the past 20 years.
The Shining - both the movie and the TV miniseries are really scary. Easily the best translation of King's horror to the screen.
Carrie - Iconic film. Seems a bit cheesy at times when we look at it today, but was really great in its day.
Stand By Me - Again, when King does not do horror, it turns into a great movie.
Misery - I guess it is a horror story, but it has no supernatural aspect to it. So, like Shawshank and Stand By Me, it really works on the big screen. Katy Bates is amazing in this film.
The Green Mile - This is sorta Shawshank-lite. A great film. The supernatural stuff is almost an afterthought to the story of the relationship among the folks who work/live on The Green Mile.
Not quite in a league with the above but also worth mention are-- Firestarter, Children of the Corn, The Dead Zone, The Running Man, and Cujo.
--Jason "I know a lot of folks are excited because The Dark Tower is being made into a movie... well, I think the plan is to make it into a movie series" Evans
bluebear
11-12-2009, 10:42 AM
Are you kidding me?!!?!? That movie/miniseries was horrible. I recall reading the book and, when I got to the ending where IT was an evil spider kinda thing from another dimension and I thought, "please let them not make a movie out of this-- it will suck."
I was right.
If you want a scary clown, how about Killer Klowns from Outter Space?
http://www.avclub.com/assets/images/articles/article/8716/killerklowns3.jpg
--Jason "Stephen King is good at lousy endings, IMO" Evans
--Jason "
"It" was probably my favorite King book and I agree completely that the miniseries was terrible. I actually think it could be made into a very good movie especially if they minimize special effects around the "spider" and focus on the psychological fears of the kids/adults. The biggest challenge is the length of the book.
It's hard to find a clown that isn't scary...
"It" was probably my favorite King book and I agree completely that the miniseries was terrible. I actually think it could be made into a very good movie especially if they minimize special effects around the "spider" and focus on the psychological fears of the kids/adults. The biggest challenge is the length of the book.
It's hard to find a clown that isn't scary...
Reading IT scared the crap out of me. I was like Joey when he had to hide Little Women in the freezer. I'd get to a scary part, like with the giant bird with the pom-poms on his tongue, and I'd have to shut the book and walk away. And I was out of college when I read it.
jacone21
11-12-2009, 11:47 AM
As a kid - Friday the 13th. I had just turned 13 when I saw that movie and it totally freaked me out. No way a 13 year old should have watched that film! I had never seen anything like it, and had trouble sleeping for a week or so. When I would go to bed at night, I was sure I was going to get the Kevin Bacon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9npoiU8CVw) treatment at any moment.
As an adult - The Ring. The dark, foreboding tone and the execution of the story were very well done. When that girl came out of the TV, I remember getting a serious case of the willies. Can't remember too many films doing that to me as an adult.
Mulholland Drive kinda got to me too. It didn't really scare me... just kinda weirded me out. Anyone seen that? Strange, strange movie.
Reddevil
11-12-2009, 12:25 PM
Of course what makes a movie truly terrifying is the age and life experience of the viewer, the content, and the setting (of the viewer). The Exorcist got me because I was 14 when it came on HBO. It was summertime and my parents went out for dinner. I guess it was about 8:00 when it came on because it was still light enough not to need the lights on. Of course it got dark during the movie, and I was too afraid to even turn on the lamp that was right behind me. I couldn't move (didn't want the devil to know I was there). Thank goodness my trusty Irish Setter (Duke Reddevil) was with me!
Another one that got me was a movie where Duke was in the National Championship game against Kentucky. A character named Jack Givens.....that was a movie right?;)
budwom
11-12-2009, 12:49 PM
Midnight Express is several orders of magnitude scarier than almost of all these head-swiveling, special effects pieces. It's true story/reality-based scary.
allenmurray
11-12-2009, 02:16 PM
Scariest movie I've ever seen? When I was five years old. My grandmother took me to see a movie, but as soon as we sat down the MGM lion came on the screen. I went screaming up the aisle, and out of the theater. It took at least a year for me to return.
Little known trivia fact: Nate James does the voice of the MGM Lion.
DukieInKansas
11-12-2009, 02:35 PM
Scariest movie I've ever seen? When I was five years old. My grandmother took me to see a movie, but as soon as we sat down the MGM lion came on the screen. I went screaming up the aisle, and out of the theater. It took at least a year for me to return.
Little known trivia fact: Nate James does the voice of the MGM Lion.
Was Patrick Davidson taking a break that day?
moonpie23
11-15-2009, 01:08 AM
Mulholland Drive
not only did i want my rental fee back, i wanted my two hours back.....2nd only to TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME as maybe the worst movie ever...
ahem....imho
jhoagland
11-16-2009, 02:10 PM
1. Psycho...I was 14 and hiding behind the seats throughout,
2. House on Haunted Hill...basically anything with Vincent Price; but
3. I agree that the scariest scene was from Wait Until Dark...my wife and I must have jumped about 30 feet in the air...was just not expecting THAT!
Since then, haven't been to any "horror" flicks.
Johnboy
11-16-2009, 07:18 PM
As a little kid I saw an allegedly true movie about Bigfoot that kept me scared for years about being out in the dark in any kind of rural place. No idea what it was called, but it was made in a documentary style. Might have been Bigfoot: Man or Beast? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207338/)
Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist wigged me out a great deal as a young adult. Silence of the Lambs was pretty affecting. Surprised no one mentioned Angel Heart (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1000959-angel_heart/). That one got to me a little bit.
The Omen movies are pretty scary, too.
For some reason, Jaws, teen slasher movies and most of the other movies listed by others didn't get to me so much.
Johnboy
11-17-2009, 11:55 AM
As a little kid I saw an allegedly true movie about Bigfoot that kept me scared for years about being out in the dark in any kind of rural place. No idea what it was called, but it was made in a documentary style. Might have been Bigfoot: Man or Beast? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207338/)
Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist wigged me out a great deal as a young adult. Silence of the Lambs was pretty affecting. Surprised no one mentioned Angel Heart (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1000959-angel_heart/). That one got to me a little bit.
The Omen movies are pretty scary, too.
For some reason, Jaws, teen slasher movies and most of the other movies listed by others didn't get to me so much.
There's scary as in suspenseful, and there's scary as in disturbing. By my choices above, I mean to say that disturbing is scarier to me than suspenseful - it's the movies that stick with me and continue to make me afraid/creeped out after the movie ends that I find the scariest.
moonpie23
11-17-2009, 12:32 PM
agreed....the original omen and the follow up left me that way....so did the ring. THE BOYS OF BRAZIL left me pretty creeped out too...
i did not EVEN want to watch the strangers...
rskale7
11-17-2009, 02:17 PM
To me the new movie Paranormal Activity is the scariest thing I have ever seen! And I have seen White Noise and Ring 1 & 2.
missfinch
11-18-2009, 12:22 PM
Have to go with Rosemary's Baby as creepy and disturbing. Two tv movies I remember watching as a kid that I thought were really scary at the time were Duel and one called Crowhaven Farm. Duel is well known, but I have no idea whether Crowhaven Farm would even seem scary at all to me now. I seem to recall there were some issues similar to Rosemary's Baby where the lead character doesn't know who to trust. Does anyone remember that one?
Dark Night of the Scarecrow? I remember watching it as a late movie when I was either late elementary- or junior high-aged. Really creeped me out. Charles Durning played the mailman. Guarantee you'll never look at a scarecrow the same way again!
bluebear
11-18-2009, 01:29 PM
Dark Night of the Scarecrow? I remember watching it as a late movie when I was either late elementary- or junior high-aged. Really creeped me out. Charles Durning played the mailman. Guarantee you'll never look at a scarecrow the same way again!
I remember this one...
Speaking of made for tv horror..There was a movie called "Don't go to sleep" that terrified me for years as a kid..I recently watch it on youtube and it was not so scary after all..
05dukie
11-19-2009, 10:59 AM
The creepiest movie I've ever watched was called Profondo Rosso (Deep Red). I had to watch it for Italian class at Duke and I remember walking back to my dorm in a state of shock.
The effects were campy and unreal but the music was sooo very scary.
Kimist
11-23-2009, 02:04 AM
My mom made me watch Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin when I was like 7. While not a horror movie, it probably has one of the most jump out of your seat scares I've ever seen. If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. When I think of being scared in a movie, I think of that scene in particular.
That's actually a movie I'm surprised hasn't been remade.
I'm glad someone else mentioned this (old) one.
Actually I saw the movie in chapel heel - OK, there was a reason - and "the scene" was exactly as you described. Everyone in the theater rose several inches out of their seat, almost as if someone flipped a switch.
Personally, I much prefer the "you don't know what's coming next" films to the "let's see how much gore and/or computerized stuff we can throw at the audience" types.
Oh yes: I think "Play Misty for Me" should be in the list!
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2535Miles
12-02-2009, 09:31 AM
If you can sit throught the whole thing without interruption...The Shining.
Also, Deliverance was pretty freaky...going on Project Wild I had a good time rattling the nerves of some fellow campers who had never slept in the woods.
Aliens as a kid was pretty dern scary too.
Pet Cemetary made me fear cats.
My question is; Are there any more good scary movies these days? It all seems so predictable. A really good takeoff/spoof of scary movies that I think is brilliant is Cabin Fever...if you like scary movies, this is a good one that pokes fun of the whole 'cabin in the woods' scenario.
There aren't many good scary movies coming out of Hollywood these days. Lots of good stuff coming out of Japan, and poorly remade in America. Think: The Ring, Grudge, Shutter, Dark Water and plenty more.
Quarantine was a remake of the Spanish film rec. Both worth seeing though purists should lean towards the original.
davekay1971
12-02-2009, 10:07 AM
Army of Darkness ;)
Not at all scary of course, but a cult fan-fave in which Bruce Campbell delivers some of the best one-liners ever...
"It's a trick...get an axe."
"This...is my BOOMSTICK!"
"That's just what we call pillow talk, baby."
"You're not leading but two things right now, Jack and s***. And Jack left town."
2535Miles
12-02-2009, 10:33 AM
Army of Darkness ;)
Not at all scary of course, but a cult fan-fave in which Bruce Campbell delivers some of the best one-liners ever...
"It's a trick...get an axe."
"This...is my BOOMSTICK!"
"That's just what we call pillow talk, baby."
"You're not leading but two things right now, Jack and s***. And Jack left town."
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