Curious to know what is the scariest movie YOU have ever seen and why.

NOT THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER!!!

I don't want to see endless diatribes, rants, and arguments, so I worded it specifically this way.

What IS scary? Something that gave you nightmares or just scared the bejeezus out of you.

My picks:

Nightmare on Elm Street -->Saw it when I was just 14, new idea for death.
Terminator 2 -->The nuclear (not nuk-qular) holocaust still comes back in dreams sometimes.

SCARFACE: The scene with the chainsaw in the bathroom.....$hit it freak me out.....you don't see the the guy get cut up, but just put your self in that guys shoes. Seeing your friend get cut up right next to you, and knowing your next! Not only scary but a all time classic.

The Exorcist. I was 18 at the time and thought nothing could scare me. I'm not even a religious person, yet I couldn't sleep that night and every time I looked at the ceiling, I could see new cracks appearing. It took me months to feel comfortable sleeping at night.

EVIL DEAD scared the piss out of me when I was little. For pure horror tension though I have to say HALLOWEEN.

Original Halloween by far! Geatest scary movie ever. J.H.

It's too tough for me to choose, but it's definitely one of these four (maybe a four way tie.):

Halloween (the music for this use to really freak me out)
A Nightmare on Elm St.
Candyman
Pet Semetary

The Exorcist - I was around 15 at the time and it affected for a good month or two... felt uncomfortable in my house because I no longer felt safe.

E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial

I was way too young to have seen this, my parents are idiots. It scared the living hell out of me, the ugly rotten looking thing with its glowing heart almost falling out of its chest all the time - still gives me shivers to think of how I felt when it screamed!

I had a closet filled with stuffed animals and after that movie I could never sleep near it again, open or shut. Had to get rid of all my animals and move the damn bed. That movie terrified me.

Robert Wise's "The Haunting" is a film that scared the HELL out of me when I was a kid. The subtilties and reality of mental unbalance were portrayed in an everyday, real fashion.
See this film in a completely dark room (except for the TV, of course), all alone. The new version can't touch this one for real terror. And Claire Bloom's Theo is sexier than Catherine Zeta-Jones' Theo. And I think Catherine Zeta-Jones is very sexy. :p

Other than this film the scariest moment for me was when I was very little and home alone watching Twilight Zone's "Nightmare at 20,000 feet" (first-run). When William Shatner pulled back the airliner's window curtain to reveal that really god-awful, grotesque face planted against the window I thought I was going to s**t. I was probably about 11 years old and I was frozen with fear. That was a scary moment. :eek:

After seeing Jaws 30 years years ago...I still refuse to swim in the ocean or go too far out in a boat. :eek:

I will snorkel in shallow protected areas. Although, I always keep an eye open... just in case. ;)

Two movies:
1) The Exorcist - I saw it when I was around seven, and I still remember waking up with nightmares

2) High Tension - Very well made French move by Lion's Gate Films

I think when I was around 7 or 8 I saw a movie with my dad called "Grizzly", I was so freaked out we had to leave part way through.

Also Nightmare in Elm St was the only movie to give me nightmares... damn you Freddie!

"Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black (Part III - "Amelia").

"The Hitcher" - with Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

"The Night Gallery" pilot - 3 shorts - the episode with Roddy McDowell and Ossie Davis.

"The Hitcher" - with Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Good one ....I just caught again a couple of months ago and it definitely not as good as I remember.

Scariest one for me.....Jaws.

T

Aliens - the second movie in the series.

Once you have seen the first one and know what the Aliens can do, this movie just never stops. Everytime you think the Aliens have been defeated, they havent, and they keep coming, and you DON'T want them inside you!

The first movie was super scary too, walking thru that ship not knowing where the Alien is, they say that to heighten the effect they didnt always tell the cast exactly when the Alien would attack them or exactly where the Alien would be to get a more scared reaction.

This is one scary series, and a great blend of horror and sci-fi.

I don't get scared at a movie, but the last 30 seconds of The Blair Witch Project really creeped me out.

larry

"The Raft" from Creepshow 2. As far as I can remember, the nightmares lasted for months, and I certainly wasn't going swimming in a lake. Not to mention a majority of the lakes in South Dakota seem to have a slime layer.

Seriously, the most scared I've been watching a movie was in "Pulp Fiction" when they let the gimp out of his box. It took me a few months to get over that scene and be able to watch the movie again.

You guys are gonna laugh your heads off but for me it was the original Blair Witch! But you definitely had to be in the right mind set to find that spooky. I heard nothing about this movie until the day it hit theaters. And I totally fell for that "this is real footage" crap that was hyped. Everything happened within an hour or so... I found out about the movie... saw the trailer... believed the footage was real... headed to the theater... and was SCARED STIFF! I have to admit I was never so creeped out in my life. In fact, my wife even wanted to sleep with the lights on that night and I didn't complain!

Of course, when I found out it was all a hoax the "magic" vanished and now I just consider it a crappy movie like everyone else. Needless to say I didn't bother watching the sequel ;-) But in my original mindset that movie scared the crap out of me.

When I was younger, the scenes that messed me up the most...

The twin girls in the Shining (hallway scene)
The vampire brother scratching on the window (not the first floor) in the original Salem's Lot
The first scene of Freddy in the first Nightmare (the arm stretching across the street to scratch wall)

the original night of the living dead. i saw it at a drive in when i was like 7 or 8. I still don't care for dead people that rise from the grave. also alien was kinda scary at the time. and i thought toolbox murders was a little creepy.

Of course, when I found out it was all a hoax the "magic" vanished and now I just consider it a crappy movie like everyone else.

I don't care what other people think, I thought Blair Witch was not only a really scary flick, but I also thought it was a pretty damned good movie. I tend to immerse myself in a movie and imagine what it would be like to be the characters in their environment. I can honestly say that if I were out in the woods and that stuff happened, I would be totally freaked out.

As a child I remember Salem's Lot scared the hell out of me! I wouldn't go in the basement for weeks and was timid about doing so for longer than I'd like to admit. The funny thing is I bought this a few years back to show my 13-year old step-daughter since she loves scary movies and it turned out to be so NOT scary and quite boring. I couldn't believe it. Even she said it was boring and not scary. Go figure.

Oh, have to throw in a couple of alien flicks... recently Signs freaked me out. I found that very creepy. And there was an older flick that I have forgotten but it had one scene where an alien was peeking out from behind a bedroom dresser while the couple were sleeping. That image is burned into my mind to this day. Can't remember the movie, it might have been Communion?

The three films that scared me most as a kid was Hallowe'en, Alien and a nightmare on Elm Street.

Since then very few movies have freaked me out that much. I suppose the only film I've seen since being an adult that has made me lose sleep was the Hollywood remake of The Grudge.

Miracle Mile-- little seen thriller about an impending nuclear war.

There was this british horror movie which always freaked me out and even now i think its very scary if watching alone late at night..... its available on a pretty decent dvd and is called Blood on Satan's Claw...... very scary creepy little film.

The Haunting ( 63 version ) another film which is scary if watching alone late at night as is the original Exorcist.

I don't find any of the slasher movies of the late seventies and early eighties scary .... not one little bit. I can't remember the last time a modern film scared me which says a lot about modern moviemaking practices which show too much and thus don't let you use your imagination..... what you don't see is much scarier than some effects work.

I do think highly of a film called The Ninth Gate..... has some creepy moments but more atmospheric than scary and i did like the re-make of The Ring.

"Event Horizon" -- Maybe more creepy (gets under your skin) than scary

I would have to say the most scared I have ever been in a movie was when Jason came out of the water and grabbed the girl in the boat in the original Friday the 13th movie. I literally felt all the blood drain from my face and for a moment thought I would pass out. The movie makers really set us up on that one, all in all it was a really scary movie. As an 8 or 9 year old and watching an afternoon movie called Black Sabbath, a trilogy of stories, the "Drop of Water " story was the most scared and creeped out I had ever felt watching a movie, that one still gives me chills. I love scary movies, but my girlfriend will have no part of them.

Perhaps it is from watching far too many movies, or the fact that Hollywood never seems to tire of rewrapping tried and true formulas, or perhaps even having listened to a few too many Director's commentaries, breaking down the dry mechanics of filmmaking into tedious minutia, but variations on the monster movie or slasher-type fare just doesn't much do anything in terms of real potential to disquiet, let well alone, actually scare -- at least me.

I will say however, there was a movie I saw not that long ago which really got under my skin in an almost subliminal fashion. Totally creeped me out -- as I watched, I gathered up a sense of claustrophobic horror, a choking sense of deprivation from any vestige of humanity or warm receptive sentiment. Something almost panic-inducing, like a fit of emphysema, where one struggles to gulp in breaths of enriching oxygen, only to encounter the horror of air-starvation at the end of each increasingly fitful struggle to seize a wheeze of precious life.

The film was BAD BOYS II -- there is something very evil going on in there, something about the cuts, the edits, the dialog, the delivery, that just subliminally takes hold and puts you in the unsavory grip of these diabolical filmmakers, who are evidently devoid of common human traits -- their blood runs very very cold.

Don't know if anyone else might have had a similar experience with that one, or actually know if Michael Bay is an alien sent to spread a sense of unnerving malaise or subliminal disarming disquiet or fretfulness amongst the human population, but there you have my nomination for scariest film I've seen.

I remember Something Wicked This Way Comes was made by Disney, so I saw that when I was really young. Disney isn't supposed to be that scary, but I know there are other kids that got scared to death from watching it at such an early age.

Wow, somebody got a thesaurus for Christmas! ;)

The movie Stuff

Curious to know what is the scariest movie YOU have ever seen and why.

NOT THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER!!!

I don't want to see endless diatribes, rants, and arguments, so I worded it specifically this way.

What IS scary? Something that gave you nightmares or just scared the bejeezus out of you.

My picks:

Nightmare on Elm Street -->Saw it when I was just 14, new idea for death.
Terminator 2 -->The nuclear (not nuk-qular) holocaust still comes back in dreams sometimes.

Anything with Michael Moore!!! :D :D :D
Just kidding. :D


I have to say Texas Chainsaw massacre.
Halloween really gave me the creeps.
When I was growing up, my folks made the mistake of watching Trilogy of Terror with the little voodoo doll. I was about 8 or so and I wouldn't go into a dark room for months after that movie. :D


Craig

Wow, somebody got a thesaurus for Christmas! ;)

Psssst....He sleeps with one under his pillow. :)

How about "The Passion of Christ". A true showing of mans inhumanity to man!! I'm just glad it had a happy ending!!

The Babysitter. Movies like Friday the 13th or whatnot can scare on a superficial level. But I always know, "that can't really happen". But something like the Babysitter really could.

The Blob. I remember not being able to be around misshapen mounds of strange ooze for months after that.

Seriously,

The Exorcist, especially the first time I saw it

Halloween. easy to forget now how scary this was at the time because it was the first of its genre and looks relatively tame now and has been spoofed so much. I was in high school and saw it in a theater sitting between 2 female friends who didn't stop digging their nails into my arms all night. Very memorable experience.

Rosemary's Baby. This still gives me the chills.

The Spiral Staircase. An old black and white movie about a deaf-mute girl stuck in a old creepy house. I just remember it was one of the first truly scary movies I saw. I have not seen it in years to see if it still is scary.

The Shining. The hallway scenes, the mysterious room. A Kubrick masterpiece.

The Day After. With trigger finger RR at the helm, there was a very palpable feeling that this could happen, and I lived near where most of the story took place. Those of you born after 1970 probably cannot appreciate the real fear of nuclear war at the height of the Cold War.

Lost Highway. Trying to peer into those deep shadows in the house, and the Robert Blake character--Lynchian scary.

In Cold Blood. Something chilling about the true story of the Clutter family murders and the way this was shot.

Easy. Arachnophobia. Took about three or four showings to get through the whole thing. The last time a movie scared me that much I was three years old watching the Wizard of Oz on TV. Of course, at age 38 it felt a bit more stupid that I was sometimes hiding behind the couch. :)

When I was a kid

Alien: Saw it when I was 10; 'nuff said.

When I was a teen

Halloween/The Excorcist (tie): sufficiently addressed in the other posts.

Here and Now

The Ring/Grudge/Blair Witch Project: suffocating, mind-bending, horror.

Most Off-Beat Scares

Deep Red: Italian director Dario Argento's classic; the camerawork is masterful.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow: Scared the hell out of me when I was a youngin'.

All-Time Scariest Move for Me

The Grey Zone: A little-known movie about the Holocaust. Human evil portrayed for what it is without any embellishment. Scary because it happened. Out of all the movies I have seen this one left me feeling the most uneasy. More horror exists here than in most "horror" moves. If you found "Shindler's List" or "The Pianist" too much to handle don't even bother watching this movie.

Z

The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was a pre-teen and had creepy dreams where I slowly realized my parents weren't themselves and had been replaced.

"The Alien Factor". 1977. (I was 5)

The basement scene with a guy groping around in the dark, looking for the little pull string to turn on the basement light (which of course we had at our house) will stay with me forever. All i remember is that of course, the monster was there waiting, and it was hairy.

I'm quite positive this movie is a 100% turd, so I don't want to watch it again and ruin the memory! (Much like others have said about Salem's Lot - which scared the hell out of me as a youngster, but was a terrible yawner when I watched it again a couple of years ago.)

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All-Time Scariest Move for Me

The Grey Zone: A little-known movie about the Holocaust. Human evil portrayed for what it is without any embellishment. Scary because it happened. Out of all the movies I have seen this one left me feeling the most uneasy. More horror exists here than in most "horror" moves. If you found "Shindler's List" or "The Pianist" too much to handle don't even bother watching this movie.

Z
I am still suffering from PTSD from the woman engineer getting shot in the head in "Shindler's List" so I should probably avoid "The Grey Zone". On the other hand it may be that that scene triggers my memory of seeing the execution of the kneeling vietnamese soldier that I saw on TV (which I saw when I was a kid I think). What bothers me in movies are things that are likely to be close to something horrible that has really happened. I remember seeing some odd movie where they come upon an accident of a convertible with a dead guy and a dying woman that keeps saying that she forgot her purse and he needs to turn around so she can get it. That scene bothered me because it just seemed too realistic somehow. Mostly I don't like it when a movie assaults me with scenes like that; it really ruins the experience for me.

I am still suffering from PTSD from the woman engineer getting shot in the head in "Shindler's List" so I should probably avoid "The Grey Zone". On the other hand it may be that that scene triggers my memory of seeing the execution of the kneeling vietnamese soldier that I saw on TV (which I saw when I was a kid I think). What bothers me in movies are things that are likely to be close to something horrible that has really happened. I remember seeing some odd movie where they come upon an accident of a convertible with a dead guy and a dying woman that keeps saying that she forgot her purse and he needs to turn around so she can get it. That scene bothered me because it just seemed too realistic somehow. Mostly I don't like it when a movie assaults me with scenes like that; it really ruins the experience for me.

I don't think "The Grey Zone" had anything at all to do with entertainment. Movies like "Shindler's List" and "The Pianist" are great movies, but they didn't deliver the shock I remember when I first saw wartime clips of the the real concentration camps. Too much of a side story takes away some of that horror. But those movies weren't just about the Holocaust. They were mainly about how two people's lives were affected by the war.

As one of the most horrible human events in history this subject deserves no embellishment if it is to remain a horror of epic proportions. "The Grey Zone" is the closest thing to being there I would ever want to get. Just like the first fifteen minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" was the first time I saw it...raw, without apology, an assault on the senses and mind, and utterly effective. Leaves you exhausted, and emotionally drained. Those are some of things I remember about "The Grey Zone". More frightening than horror because it was reality; and that's scary.

Z

Good to see so many people got the point. There are things that are scary because of the "BOO" factor, things that frighten us because of the "creepiness" of it, and things that are disturbing or disconcerting because of the human attatchment and reality that atrocities of real life hit hard and close-to-home. The ones that really scare with me aren't the "BOO" films, but the ones that leave a spooky, creepy, uneasy feeling for years to come.

As an aside, anyone remember the name of the movie about a ventrilloquist that had a dummy that wanted to kill him (or was it his friends?) that came out around the late 1970s? I saw it as a kid and it reeeaaalllly messed with my head.

Was that movie MAGIC? -- early Anthony Hopkins.

Was that movie MAGIC? -- early Anthony Hopkins.

Hell, yes, it was! Thank you for remembering. That screwed me up BAD! About the time I let it go, I saw Poltergeist and that damn clown made me revert back to nightmares about MAGIC again. Now I gotta sleep with the light on this week!

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As an aside, anyone remember the name of the movie about a ventrilloquist that had a dummy that wanted to kill him (or was it his friends?) that came out around the late 1970s? I saw it as a kid and it reeeaaalllly messed with my head.

I don't think this is the movie you are thinking of, but it's along the same lines. And that is Child's Play... has Chucky in it.

But the one movie that still messes with my mind is The Exorcist. Yikes!

Jim

My memory would not have been that good perhaps, but was recently refreshed when the Golden Globes gave Hopkins their Cecille B. DeMille Award (was it?), for lifetime achievement. During the reprise of career highlights via clip montage, to my surprise they dug up MAGIC -- I just watched and fast forwarded through my tape of this last night. The Anthony Hopkins award was the one thing I watched all the way through.

What does everyone think of "Last House on the Left"? I saw the re-release DVD last year and was not impressed. Actually, I thought it was kinda stupid, to be honest, and not nearly as disturbing as is it's reputation. I believe Wes Craven directed...

Z

Good to see so many people got the point. There are things that are scary because of the "BOO" factor, things that frighten us because of the "creepiness" of it, and things that are disturbing or disconcerting because of the human attatchment and reality that atrocities of real life hit hard and close-to-home. The ones that really scare with me aren't the "BOO" films, but the ones that leave a spooky, creepy, uneasy feeling for years to come.


to that extent, this will generate many similar responses to my previous "weird" films thread, but that's alright, I know you are getting me back for bringing that Breakfast Club debate into one of your worst/greatest threads. ;)

.....And there was an older flick that I have forgotten but it had one scene where an alien was peeking out from behind a bedroom dresser while the couple were sleeping. That image is burned into my mind to this day. Can't remember the movie, it might have been Communion?

Yep! If your image is the same as mine, it is "Communion", and the alien is actually slowly opening the bedroom door and peeking out from behind it
while the couple (Christopher Walken) is sleeping. That scene alone still scares me to this day!

Miracle Mile-- little seen thriller about an impending nuclear war.


This is one of my favorite scary films, basically due to the subject matter and it's
chance for reality. I've watched this movie over a dozen times and have shown it
to others every chance I get. I especially like the ending (in a scary kinda way)

As for other nuclear war theme movies that scare me, how about:
Testament
The Day After
Threads

In order to be the scariest, it would have to be a movie I watched when I was a kid still living in a world full of monsters and imagination. The one movie that gave me nightmares and had me running to Dad in the middle of the night was: "The Giant Behemoth" (1959)

Having lived near the ocean, the idea of a dinosaur-type monster emerging from the surf on a fog-shrouded beach absolutely petrified me (and still does)

Miracle Mile - That's a good movie.

I saw The Exorcist in 1973 when I was 5 (37 now) at the drive-in, scared the crap outta me.

muncey

Carrie,

The hand coming out of the grave at the end nearly gave me a heart attack.

Miracle Mile - That's a good movie.

I saw The Exorcist in 1973 when I was 5 (37 now) at the drive-in, scared the crap outta me.

muncey
Your parents took you to The Exorcist at the age of 5? Wow.

As a kid: Salem's lot! Especially the scene (yeah you know it), where the brother is "floating" outiside the window and scratching the glass.

PF

For me it is The Exorcist. I saw it when i was like 7 or 8 and man was i scarred for life. I cant look at still shots from it for very long. To make it worse I saw it on CBS on a Sunday night, so you know it was edited to hell and back.

http://www.the-exorcist.co.uk/articles/exorfce2.jpg


I saw it again when i was 16 or so and after having been to church and having a better understanding of life in general was still horrified by this film. I havent seen anything truly horrifying since this movie.


http://www.the-exorcist.co.uk/pictures/pics/mask1.jpg


oh yeah and it had subliminal shots that got it banned and stuff.

lol thanks darthrsg - now I won't be sleeping tonite.

lol thanks darthrsg - now I won't be sleeping tonite.
sorry , i just recently found out about the hidden shots and looked them up yesterday, and today on AVS a scary movie thread. for what its worth i struggled for sleep last night.

For me, it's the shining. I started to watch it when I was 8 years old. About the time the rotting corpse woman came up out of the tub after Danny, my parents suddenly realized they had neglected to send me to bed. So, that was the last image I saw before I had to go to sleep.

Not only did I have nightmares for a week, I couldn't go into the bathroom if the the shower curtain was drawn. I thought for certain that woman was coming to get me at some point.

Later on, seeing the movie all the way through, the scene with the twins was very freaky. Even the part with Danny on the Hot Cycle was strange with no music and the alternating wood floor to the swishing of the carpet.

For second place, I'd choose one scene: it's from the original Salem's Lot. You know the one - the vampire kid scratching at the window, begging to be let in. The fingernails scritching, scratching on the glass, the demonic makeup and the young age of the actor all rolled together to make it very creepy. The remake used an older actor and I don't think it was as effective not having a child's voice behind the face of that terrible monster.

The Exorcist

Blair Witch

My wedding video....after I don't know how many viewings.....it still sends chills down my spine.

Now that was funnyRosana.J.H.

3 pages and no mention of The Omen :eek: ? As I mentioned in a similar post a few months ago, this is the only movie that I still refuse to watch again.

http://www.the-exorcist.co.uk/pictures/pics/mask1.jpg

Say Hello to Pazuzu (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226326/) played by a woman... so all you guys that are afraid of this image now know.

As for me the creepiest movie ever was Wolfen, saw it when I was 7 scared me so bad I had night terrors about it. I had such bad night terrors as a kid I was really limited on what I could watch. I remeber my mom telling me I had a night terror when I was 4 or 5 that was so bad it scared both her and my dad. Aparently I walked into their room while I was sleeping and screamed this blood curtling. The both jumped outta bed and when I saw them i began to shake interror so bad they thought i would die of fear. To this day I have no clue what I dreamt that night.

I will tell you I almost always have sore knucles and toes cause i can get so violent in my nightmares/terros that I will repeated punch or kick a wall (whatever is attacking me or I am attacking).


As far as recent movies go. The Japanese version of The Grudge as well as the American version. The woman that gets sucked into her bed. That scene really freaked me out. The other would be Hellraiser, I still have trouble going into a attic alone.


EDIT- BTW I love horror movies and about 47% of my dvd collection consists of it.
~Bob

the omen films are pretty good imho, but the exorcist to me is truly terrifying. i once saw at a drive in on a dark and stormy nighty a movie called "fear no evil" i hid behind the seat of the car for most of that one. of the newer movies "the grudge" is probably the scariest i have seen in a while.

I'm not a big horror film watcher, but two things come to mind.

The first time I saw Carrie (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074285/), the scene near the end at the grave made me jump about a foot out of my seat. The second time I saw it, many years later, the same scene still got me about half-a-foot out of my seat even though I knew it was coming.

When I was a kid, the scene near the beginning of Black Sunday (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0054067/) where they killed the witch with the mask gave me nightmares.

the omen films are pretty good imho, but the exorcist to me is truly terrifying. i once saw at a drive in on a dark and stormy nighty a movie called "fear no evil" i hid behind the seat of the car for most of that one. of the newer movies "the grudge" is probably the scariest i have seen in a while.

I was going to mention "The Exorcist" also, but I don't think I have ever watched the movie completely through. I can not consider it the scariest I have seen, because I haven't seen it ;)

The Japanese version of The Grudge as well as the American version. The woman that gets sucked into her bed. That scene really freaked me out. Yeah, I have to agree with you on that one, although for me only the American version gave me that feeling. I knew what was coming, but I still jumped and let out an actual gasp. I don't know if that's happened since I was a little kid, but that movie did it to me. My wife jumped too, not because of the movie, but because of my startled reaction to that woman in the bed.

I still get the creeps just thinking about it. I couldn't tell you why, but it certainly was effective.

Scott

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" - Bette Davis tormenting her wheelchair bound sister, Joan Crawford.

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Say Hello to Pazuzu (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226326/) played by a woman... so all you guys that are afraid of this image now know.



EDIT- BTW I love horror movies and about 47% of my dvd collection consists of it.
~Bob


so what if it is a woman, it is the context it is shown in. :D

i remember a couple of dreams when i woke up screaming with no sound but really trying to get it out.

The American version of The Grudge has a lot of "boo" scares, but for me it didn't have any sustained terror. I like a good "boo", like in a Jason picture or Scream, but I love the moments in other films that grab you and knot you up for a few minutes. Here's my favorite one:

Exorcist- When Mom opens the door and Regan is thrashing up and down on the bed. The terror for me started when Mom is running upstairs after hearing the commotion in Regan's room. The look on Mom's face, the thrashing, and Regan's crying add up to one of the scariest scenes ever. That stays in your head, man.

I recall being scared by "The Planet of the Vampires" as a kid, but I'd probably think it was silly today. "The Shining" also scared me a lot; it was probably the first real horror movie I saw.

In college, "Eyes of Fire" scared me more than anything else. It was not gory, but very creepy. I recall that my roomate and I ended up watching it alone, but at separate times. We later discovered that each of us had taken a break in the middle of the movie to hang our with other people because it had freaked us out so much.

The Shining and Alien are of course classics...

but the scariest recent movie I have seen is Wrong Turn (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295700/)

I still shiver when I think of it...

The Shining and Alien are of course classics...

but the scariest recent movie I have seen is Wrong Turn (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295700/)

I still shiver when I think of it...

if that is scary you gotta see

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/


deliverance > wrong turn

if that is scary you gotta see

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/


deliverance > wrong turn
I wouldn't call Deliverance scary. Unsettling perhaps. SQUUEEEAAAAAL!

Black Christmas

Blair Witch for me.

"Dead and Buried" You'll never look at a nurse with a needle the same way again.

Alien on opening day.
If your first view was in the last 15-18 years it wouldn't rate. Back then it was a rare thrill.

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Say Hello to Pazuzu played by a woman... so all you guys that are afraid of this image now know.

Thanks alot khellandros66, that picture made my heart jump as I'm in a dark room at about 2am in the morning. You *&%$)*

Phantasm still has me checking under the bed sometimes. It has one of the nastiest images burned in my head from when one of those silver balls went inside this guy and chewed his insides up and flung him around the room and when the camera came back to him they showed his face with the silver ball and its blades coming out of his face...Urghhhh. Sometimes when I close my eyes I see that image and it scares the crap out of me, something tells me I'm gonna have trouble sleeping tonight. I bet in the morning my wife is going to tell me I was all snuggled up on her last.

Even thoguh I know most people hated it for me

Sign's scared the **** out of me.

Also sixth sense. and those movies still freak me out today.

The movie IT. That damn clown scared the crap out of me!

My colonoscopy.

My colonoscopy.

I opted for the room where I couldn't watch that one. And no, I have no plans on getting the DVD either!

Any bonus features on either one?

Blair witch messed with me until i verified it was fake. As others have said the last 2 or so minutes of that film are hypnotic and terrifying.

Heather's apology was so intense that for the life of me i thought it was real. Then running into the house downstairs to the final scene will live with me forever.

I just watched it the other day and it still gives me the creeps.

Those who bash the film really underate the work done by those actors, they pulled me in as believable people under extreme conditions.


I enjoyed High Tension as well. and just recently the hostel gave me the creeps.

American Werewolf in London!!!! I saw it on HBS late one night when I was 12 and Didnt sleep for a month! The scene where he changed into the werewolf in the livingroom and his hands and face streched....*shivers*!

Any bonus features on either one?

Yes, but avoid the one labled "outtakes." :D

EEEEYYYYYEEEWWWW! Now, that IS creepy. Nicely put though.

Any bonus features on either one?

Mine came with a refreshing beverage I drank the night before the show began.

Mine came with a refreshing beverage I drank the night before the show began.

You drank that? Fleet is not a brand of soda! :D

Any sequels planned! :eek:

Sorry couldn't help myself!

Most horror movies don't really scare me anymore. I may jump a bit, especially when my wife grabs my arm and grabs a chunk of flesh, but those scares never really stay with you.

For the last couple of years the movies that really creap me out are the good Asian horror movies. Kiyoshi Kurosawa movies like Kairo (Pulse) and Cure. The KIM Jee-Woon, South Korean movie called The Tale of Two Sisters, and the Japanese Dark Water. They all have moments that make my skin crawl, and that feeling stays for a while.

We also just watched The Devil's Backbone last night. That also had some pretty freaky moments, although I made sure that my wife didn't damage me in any way.

Any sequels planned! :eek:

Sorry couldn't help myself!

I saw this almost 5 years ago. I hear there's a remake that's going to be coming around soon.

(SPOILER ALERT)

At least the first one had a happy ending.

At least the first one had a happy ending.

No comment. :D

Any sequels planned! :eek:

Yes, apparently they're going to be as common as Bond movies. The next one is apparently an action film too!

http://www.gihealth.com/images/imgSoldiers.jpg

At least the first one had a happy ending.

Are you sure it wasn't a crappy ending? ;)

Hopefully it's not the "happy ending" that they refer to in Asian massage parlors that you're talking about! :eek:

Yes Blairwitch had me going. I agree it is underrated, yeah those actors did pull me in as well. I surely thought is was real, the frantic nature of many of those scenes I feel hold their own against any other horror movie. They totally out did many famous directors and actors and it left an impression on me right up there with the Exorcist, The Shining and so on. I'm not much into this stuff but that has to go down as a cult classic of the highest horror degree. I bet it you showed it to someone who didn't hear it was not real or whatever the case is, they would be terrified and absolutely hooked. Sometimes the fact that you know something is or isn't real kills your natural response to it.

Suspiria, Italian made B movie, but very creepy...Watch it, I dare you...

I agree with the fact that Blair Witch loses some of its impact when you know it's not real, but does anyone think that some of the other movies that scare us are? Does Jason truly walk around, gutting people in real life? The closer to reality it gets, the scarier it seems to be.

closer to reality it gets, the scarier it seems to be.

Which explains why no one has ever described as scary, the movie Fahrenheit 911. :D

Thanks alot khellandros66, that picture made my heart jump as I'm in a dark room at about 2am in the morning. You *&%$)*.

remember those pics are the subliminal ones, not actually seen in most later cuts of the exorcist. if you saw the first theatrical cut it was in that one and the later version youve never seen. it seems that shot resonates evil to this day....

You guys are gonna laugh your heads off but for me it was the original Blair Witch! But you definitely had to be in the right mind set to find that spooky. I heard nothing about this movie until the day it hit theaters. And I totally fell for that "this is real footage" crap that was hyped. Everything happened within an hour or so... I found out about the movie... saw the trailer... believed the footage was real... headed to the theater... and was SCARED STIFF! I have to admit I was never so creeped out in my life. In fact, my wife even wanted to sleep with the lights on that night and I didn't complain!

Of course, when I found out it was all a hoax the "magic" vanished and now I just consider it a crappy movie like everyone else. Needless to say I didn't bother watching the sequel ;-) But in my original mindset that movie scared the crap out of me.
i did the same thing. i watched that movie with my jaw in my lap. another movie that freaked me out was saw.

Picnic at hanging Rock. Check it out.

I agree with the fact that Blair Witch loses some of its impact when you know it's not real, but does anyone think that some of the other movies that scare us are? Does Jason truly walk around, gutting people in real life? The closer to reality it gets, the scarier it seems to be.

Although I agree with you. I knew going into it, that it was not real - and I saw it opening night, limited release (only 1 theater in our state showed it), midnight showing. I STILL had chills throughout the entire film, and the last scene felt like someone poured a bucket of water on me, when I realized what was going on (which I believe many people didn't/still don't).

BWP is a film that if you completely engross yourself into it, it is much more engaging. To be honest, nomatter how it was marketed, how can anybody believe that it was actually real?

The idea of walking in one direction, and ending up in the same place, is simply horrifying!!!!!!

it's still jaws for me, followed by the amityville horror

Picnic at hanging Rock. Check it out.

great movie !

I've never seen Picnic at Hanging Rock. I'll have to check it out.

larry

Although I agree with you. I knew going into it, that it was not real - and I saw it opening night, limited release (only 1 theater in our state showed it), midnight showing. I STILL had chills throughout the entire film, and the last scene felt like someone poured a bucket of water on me, when I realized what was going on (which I believe many people didn't/still don't).

BWP is a film that if you completely engross yourself into it, it is much more engaging. To be honest, nomatter how it was marketed, how can anybody believe that it was actually real?

The idea of walking in one direction, and ending up in the same place, is simply horrifying!!!!!!
Who thought the movie was real? All I heard about it was that it was a low budget movie shot on video that will scare your pants off. If you accept it for what it was, it worked, especially the last few minutes. I didn't think it was "real" when I watched it, and it did the trick for me. Those who criticize it because they thought they were watching something like a real documentary are just duping themselves.

No Exorcist III mentioned?

It is creeper than Exorcist I - and that is saying alot.

Not only was that face one of a women in the original, but the voice of Satan was Mecedes McCambridge (an old-time radio actress - died only last yr).

I don't know who did the voice for Satan in Exorcist III, but it was equally androgenous/creepy. and Brad Dourif is awesome in this one.

Don't bother with either Excorist 4's they are total turds.

there can be only one.....
http://www.the-exorcist.co.uk/pictures/pics/exorbl2.jpg :D

lol,

don't you just hate that dreaded "bed-head"

;-)

No Exorcist III mentioned?

It is creeper than Exorcist I - and that is saying alot.

Not only was that face one of a women in the original, but the voice of Satan was Mecedes McCambridge (an old-time radio actress - died only last yr).

I don't know who did the voice for Satan in Exorcist III, but it was equally androgenous/creepy. and Brad Dourif is awesome in this one.

Don't bother with either Excorist 4's they are total turds.

there's that scene in Exorcist 3 where a nurse is attacked by that figure in white. When I saw it in the theatre I think the audience collectively produced a poo brick, and skipped a heart beat. I think it had alot to do with the audio in that scene.

there's that scene in Exorcist 3 where a nurse is attacked by that figure in white. When I saw it in the theatre I think the audience collectively produced a poo brick, and skipped a heart beat. I think it had alot to do with the audio in that scene.
Curious almostgoth--what does it take to be fullygoth?

Curious almostgoth--what does it take to be fullygoth?

Paler skin :P

And a lot worse attiitude. I was goth once, but went on vacation to Hawaii and my tan made me lose all credibility. ;)

When I was younger, the scenes that messed me up the most...

The vampire brother scratching on the window (not the first floor) in the original Salem's Lot


Dude, that's exactly the scene I was thinking of when I saw this thread. I think I was like 7 or 8 when I saw the whole series, and it screwed with my head for a long time. I can't believe my idiot parents let me watch it.

I went back and watched it a few years ago, and it's pretty funny. Amazing what it takes to scare me now.

Actually another scary movie for me was the Ring. Only because I was watching it by myself at night, and right in the middle of the movie before one of the phone ringing scenes, my damn phone rung. I about jumped out of my chair. I was pleased to hear my wife on the other end of the phone, and she said nothing about 7 days.

Haha, I love crap like that. It's not too often a movie gets me.

Actually another scary movie for me was the Ring. Only because I was watching it by myself at night, and right in the middle of the movie before one of the phone ringing scenes, my damn phone rung. I about jumped out of my chair. I was pleased to hear my wife on the other end of the phone, and she said nothing about 7 days.
Why would she be calling you about a song by Sting?

;)

And a lot worse attiitude. I was goth once, but went on vacation to Hawaii and my tan made me lose all credibility. ;) I knew a girl a couple of years back that was goth. Her license plate said "CUREFAN" (naturally). She was pretty cute and very available, but I couldn't get passed that negative, pissed-off-at-the-whole-world look she always had on her face.

I couldn't get passed that negative, pissed-off-at-the-whole-world look she always had on her face.

That's the one thing about them that makes them sexier than all other girls!

Too many movies to mention have given me a scare or 2 but the only movie to really bother me was Irreversible and it's not even horror. It's a french drama from 2002, check it out if you think you can handle ANYTHING. There is a certain scene that made me want to cover my eyes or look away but curiosity made me watch it and I regretted it for months. You couldn't pay me to watch it again. The only movie I've seen that can even come close to the horror/shock of Irreversible would be another french film, High Tension. But even the extreme violence in that wasn't as jarring. Ugh.

When I was a kid the two scarriest movies were:

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane", and
"The Birds"

As I got older the two that really freaked me were:
"Night of the Living Dead" (it didn't help that I saw it with my buddies for the first time on acid); and "Jacobs Ladder".

I thought "The Mothman Prophecies" had a really creepy feel to it.

The part that always got to me was when Gere asks what he has in his hand to the caller, and the voice on the other end replies "Chap Stick" in a very creepy tone. This sounds idiotic as I'm typing it - but it really is creepy.

Glad to see that there are some creepy movies out there that I haven't seen. My college buddies and I are always up for a good scare.

The original Amittyville Horror and The Mothman Prophecies.

The scariest movie I've ever seen is also the last scary movie I've ever seen.

I saw Friday the 13th (first one) at a theater when I was 16. When the arrow came up through the guys neck while he was on the bunk, I almost had a heart attack. When the arm came out of the water at the end (when you thought the movie was over), I practically stroked out. I lived in a really rural area at the time and just walking from my buddies car to my front door after the movie had me freaking out. I had nightmares for weeks. I love suspense/thrillers, but that's the last true horror movie I've seen. I don't like them.

The original Halloween is the greatest horror flick. Every Halloween I pull out my dvd and watch it.

One of my scariest moments was when I went to see The Exorcist as a kid. My mother pulled a prank on me and put a crucifix in my bed that night. When I pulled back the covers to go to bed...... I nearly sh*t in my pants!!!!

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Poltergeist. To this day, I still hate clowns. I think this lead to my runner up scariest movie…Child’s Play. When he’s talking, and she flips him over to pull out the batteries, and there are none. Just enough of a pause for the audience to go ohhh, then his head spins around. Holy crap that was scary.

As for recent movies, I’d have to say the only one worth while was The Ring. I didn’t get The Grudge and Saw…For me the bad guy in a scary movie has to either be truly evil, or have a great back story where you can get where he’s coming from and there are rules that even the bad guy won’t break. For me, Saw and Grudge spend too much time on a poor, wishy washy back story and I just couldn’t empathize with them, but I guess the writer’s were just too afraid to make a cold, evil bad guy.

The original Halloween is the greatest horror flick. Every Halloween I pull out my dvd and watch it.

One of my scariest moments was when I went to see The Exorcist as a kid. My mother pulled a prank on me and put a crucifix in my bed that night. When I pulled back the covers to go to bed...... I nearly sh*t in my pants!!!!
How old were you when your parents let you see the Exorcist? It was a R rated movie. In some states that could constitute child abuse.

Boy, that sure borders on child abuse. That sounds like something my brother and I would have done to our younger siblings, but parents?

amityvilles are freaky, forgot those


< demonic voice>"GET OUT!"</demonic voice>

DAWN OF THE DEAD(new version).Had several nightmares after seeing that movie.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Poltergeist. To this day, I still hate clowns. I think this lead to my runner up scariest movie…Child’s Play. When he’s talking, and she flips him over to pull out the batteries, and there are none. Just enough of a pause for the audience to go ohhh, then his head spins around. Holy crap that was scary.

As for recent movies, I’d have to say the only one worth while was The Ring. I didn’t get The Grudge and Saw…For me the bad guy in a scary movie has to either be truly evil, or have a great back story where you can get where he’s coming from and there are rules that even the bad guy won’t break. For me, Saw and Grudge spend too much time on a poor, wishy washy back story and I just couldn’t empathize with them, but I guess the writer’s were just too afraid to make a cold, evil bad guy.

I'd agree with the clown from Poltergeist. That one messed with my head...of course, I was 6. Child's Play qualifies as likely one of the funniest movies I ever saw. I can't stop laughing at how silly he got in the sequels.

Didn't care for The Grudge wither, since I felt that the family's story wasn't explored enough and motives didn't match the actions (can't say more). But Saw, while not essentially "scary", was highly disturbing if you got immersed in the show and fully imagined yourself in any of those situations the victims were in. I think they did an excellent job of not giving you too much on the villan, which made him even more evil and ominous.

i also forgot to mention the first texas chainsaw masacre. what realy tripped me out was its based on a true story.

The Shining

i also forgot to mention the first texas chainsaw masacre. what realy tripped me out was its based on a true story.

Leatherface is only loosely based on a real guy, but the story itself isn't really based on any real events.

"Demy.. Why you do this to me Demy...." That part freaked me too. The scariest part of Exorcist was in the new Extended Cut she crabwalks upside down the stairs on all fours face first and spews a bunch of blood

PIC

http://www.horror-wood.com/EXORWALK.jpg

This part truly scared the bejesus out of me. And I love horror...

~Bob

Candyman-

I saw this movie with my girlfriend (my wife now) back in '92 on Christmas Eve. After the movie, I began to joke around by calling out 'Candyman' four or five times, I forget at what number he's supposed to appear. Well, this spooked my wife and I had a good laugh. Afterwards, we decided to stop at Walmart for last minute christmas shopping. Well, the store was packed! I had never seen anything like it. My wife and I got seperated and couldn't find each other for about an hour! It was unreal. Here's the part the scared the 'caca' out of me. I was in the men's department and out of nowhere, two women (Mother & daughter) made eye contact with me and started calling my name. 'Carlos?', 'Carlos??'. I'VE NEVER SEEN THESE PEOPLE IN MY LIFE AND HAD NO IDEA WHO THEY WERE. I ran out of the dept. and desperately began looking for my wife. We found each other after an hour of searching and left the store without buying anything. I told her the incident about the two women in the car and she starts to call out Candyman. AHHHHHHHH !!! To this day, I've never seen Candyman or it's sequels again.

Your wife likely played the biggest joke on you and to this day has never owned up to it. Women can keep a secret forever (if they want to).

Seriously, isn't it astounding how in a group of a milliion penguins, they can call out to each other and find thier mate/child somehow in that anarchy, yet we, as men, can't find our wives, children, or the remote in our own home (or even in a Walmart)?

...there's that scene in Exorcist 3 where a nurse is attacked by that figure in white. When I saw it in the theatre I think the audience collectively produced a poo brick...

LOL Almostgoth, that is the funniest (and most accurate) thing I've read here. My friend Mike, (big tough guy that nothing bothers and doesn't ever jump at scary movies) was over and he had never seen it. Knowing that scene was coming, I cranked the sound just b4 and he literally jumped up off the couch and wound up perched on the back. Was about the funniest thing I had ever seen, I was howling for 2 minutes straight afterwards and he needed another drink!

For me, ALIEN, THE SHINING, CANDYMAN, HELLRAISER and has anyone ever heard of "Let's Scare Jessica to Death"...? CREEPY!
Also, the original THE HAUNTING, HALLOWEEN, THE FOG, THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW, POLTERGEIST, BLAIR WITCH (method filmmaking, gotta love it! Apparently when they grabbed Heather down in the basement it took her 20 minutes in real life to calm down!) and recently THE INNOCENTS. The phantom appearing at the window in the dark froze my blood.

But something about THE SHINING to this day... maybe that's the one for me.
Oh and BTW, one reason that "The Twins" look so creepy is that they weren't. The actresses WERE sisters but a couple of years apart in age. One is noticeably bigger than the other. I think the very slight asymmetry makes it spookier.


GREAT thread!

Peace all!

Ring(Japanese one of course)
Ju-on(Sarah Michelle ruined the remake)

Those movies were unlike anything I had ever seen made in europe and north america. There was something more personal/real about them...and they just downright outclassed anything I thought was "creepy" at the time. Ring is the only horror movie that has made me turn all the lights on in the house half way though the movie.

And a more recent one that gave me a good scare or two from the UK:

"The Descent"

I had seen it through "other means" and it was so good I had to order the PAL R2 release from Amazon UK :D

Halloween. Said the same in another thread just like this one.

dark street corner of a dimly lit building...someone is standing there.

never left my curtains of my windows undrawn at night..never ever..somebody is standing outside of the window. Even if it was the second story.

some more recent horror flicks that i really liked was the grudge and white noise! very cool stuff. i think i will rent them tonight.

Original Texas Chainsaw Masacre. I was like 8 when I saw it. Sh!t I couldn't sleep without lights on for weeks.

As an adult movies don't really scare me. But the Blair Witch Project wins.
We go camping (in tents). And at the time we lived in the woods. Knew very little about the movie and watched it at home on video. Freaked us out!

For slow burn creepy/scary I actually was shifting in my seat for

"AUDITION"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/

Bought it, watched it, and decided once was enough. ^_^

Candy Man

Original Texas Chainsaw Masacre. I was like 8 when I saw it. Sh!t I couldn't sleep without lights on for weeks.

As an adult movies don't really scare me. But the Blair Witch Project wins.
We go camping (in tents). And at the time we lived in the woods. Knew very little about the movie and watched it at home on video. Freaked us out! I'm sorry people, but that's just one I'll never understand no matter what - ESPECIALLY being an adult.

re: Picnic at Hanging Rock

Scary?? I managed to sit through this whole movie. I must have dozed at a crucial point or scene because I didn't see anything the least bit scary. 3 people go missing. one girl is found after a few days. another girl commits suicide Ok. It's only scary if you think the Bermuda Triangle is scary. :)

larry

1) The Descent (R2 PAL tho)
2) Alien ( the 1st one)

In that order.
"The Descent" had my neck-hairs on end from credits to credits. :D

The Exorcist . Saw it when it came out at the theater when I was about 13. I'm a christian so I beleive this could really happen.

The Shining. My Favorite horror pic.

The silliest movie that scared me was a real low (I mean really low) budget Carnival of Souls.

The other one was It's Alive (The one with the killer baby). We had a siamese cat at the time I saw it, and the darned thing sounded too much like the monster baby, especially when it walked into our bedroom.

Jaws:
Jaws scared me so deeply in my DNA my future generations of offspring will most likely have a natural aversion to water that they can't explain.

The Thing:
This movie scared the hell out of me. It was filmed in like 1983 and it still scares the hell out of me. One of the first movies I saw on VHS. Lol. The part where they each have to give blood and stick the hot wire in it to find out who is the alien. Using the scalpel to cut themselves, ugh. It was very uncomfortable to watch. And that dude strapped in the chair with the alien, God.. The tension it builds with noone trusting anyone else along with the clausterphobia of being stuck in a research camp the arctic. Classic in my book.

Faces of Death:
Faces of Death pretty much changed my perception of reality and made me afraid to die. My brain was numb for days after seeing it.

Blair Witch:
Liked camping out in the woods alot before, afterwards not so much.
It made me experience the desperation of being lost in the woods along with the horror of fully understanding that something was very, very wrong with the characters situation, but having no idea what. And you never find out. Brilliant.

I have 3 --

The Gate -- an early Stephen Dorff film. The guy that lives in the wall scared the CRAP out of me

Troll -- The music from that still creeps me out

Gremlins -- DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR!!!!

That description of "The Gate" reminded me of "The People Under the Stairs".

That description of "The Gate" reminded me of "The People Under the Stairs".

That movie was 2 parts funny, 2 parts creepy, and 3 parts messed-up

The Exorcist . Saw it when it came out at the theater when I was about 13. I'm a christian so I beleive this could really happen.

The Shining. My Favorite horror pic.
The Exorcist is based on a real exorcism that took place in St Louis years ago. I don't know if the child's head twisted completely around though during the real one.

1) The Descent (R2 PAL tho)
2) Alien ( the 1st one)

In that order.
"The Descent" had my neck-hairs on end from credits to credits. :D

What was The Decent about?

What was The Decent about?

:) Check it out here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A8NZ0O/qid=1139198600/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/026-5459131-2966006

That movie was 2 parts funny, 2 parts creepy, and 3 parts messed-upI know. It wasn't really scary. More goofy than anything else. I was just reminded of it.

"The Entity". Based on a true story. Nuff said.

JAWS when I saw the original in the movie theaters because as a child a number of years earlier I had swum many times on those exact same beaches, South Beach in Egartown and State Beach near Oak Bluffs

Jaws was only a statistical improbability, otherwise everything was real - and that made it very scary

JAWS when I saw the original in the movie theaters because as a child a number of years earlier I had swum many times on those exact same beaches, South Beach in Egartown and State Beach near Oak Bluffs

Jaws was only a statistical improbability, otherwise everything was real - and that made it very scary Except the shark.

The Exorcist is based on a real exorcism that took place in St Louis years ago. I don't know if the child's head twisted completely around though during the real one.

squonk..I don't want to offend u, but since I only occasionaly hang around here I'm not sure if u'r being serious.

Please tell me u had u'r tongue touching the inside of u'r cheek.

Cheers

Are there any manuals around for the Humor-impaired? There seems to be an epidemic around here lately.

1st rule of technology...'Never Read The #&*^%#@ Manual' :D

Are there any manuals around for the Humor-impaired? There seems to be an epidemic around here lately.

Sorry, I didn't realize u were so sophisticated. Obviously u'r correct in finding me worthy of contempt.

Unless of course, I've observed & studied more than u, examples of humans who wouldn't flinch if that statement was made in a serious discussion.

Cheers
Peter

Sorry, I didn't realize u were so sophisticated. Obviously u'r correct in finding me worthy of contempt.

Unless of course, I've observed & studied more than u, examples of humans who wouldn't flinch if that statement was made in a serious discussion.

Cheers
Peter
?????????

Yes, my comment was tongue in cheek. No, I don't really think a person's head spun completely around. Having to explain that kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it?

?????????

Yes, my comment was tongue in cheek. No, I don't really think a person's head spun completely around. Having to explain that kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it?
U mean, explain u'r purpose when a person who comes into a discussion w/o the benefit of being able to detect facial expressions, voice inflections, etc.....who then asks in a polite manner for calcification so he knows whether to chuckle or roll his eyes.

Maybe u'r used to the whole world thinking u'r the funniest guy on the planet...I for one have had to occasionally explain my jokes. If I do, I try not be feel superior...just maybe...my delivery wasn't up to par.

Cheers

U mean, explain u'r purpose when a person who comes into a discussion w/o the benefit of being able to detect facial expressions, voice inflections, etc.....who then asks in a polite manner for calcification so he knows whether to chuckle or roll his eyes.

Maybe u'r used to the whole world thinking u'r the funniest guy on the planet...I for one have had to occasionally explain my jokes. If I do, I try not be feel superior...just maybe...my delivery wasn't up to par.

Cheers


I'd love to continue this fascinating discussion, but I'm due back on the Planet Earth now.

:rolleyes: :cool: ;) :D :confused: :eek:

Race with the devil. Saw it as a young teenager and scared the crap out of me. The last scene when the 3-4 main characters are all in the bus at night and the devil worshipers who have surrounded them light their torches and start moving in.....

squonk..I don't want to offend u, but since I only occasionaly hang around here I'm not sure if u'r being serious.

Please tell me u had u'r tongue touching the inside of u'r cheek.

Cheers

I'm glad that comment wasn't directed at me and my scariest movie.

The Exorcist, the attic scene. Even the dvd cover gives me the creeps.

Its very refreshing to see Blair Witch getting some due credit. I remember downloading the trailer for this before the movie came out, on my 56K connection. I think it took 10 minutes to download, but it was worth it. Anything that can make a 30 year old man afraid to go to bed can't be all bad. The back story on that movie was equaly as creepy. The stories of the origin of the Blair Witch, encounters, etc... It was all great.

The Exorcist III is another movie that you don't hear much about but has some GREAT jump scenes. The mentioned "nurse scene" is a classic and has wound up on my demo dvd. A great movie that can be bought at Wal Mart for 5 bucks. Deffinately worth it.

Another movie that sat with me for some time was Seven (Se7en). Again, that feeling of dread, not knowing what was going to happen next. Not necessarily the scariest, but one of my top 3 favorites of all time.

Race with the devil. Saw it as a young teenager and scared the crap out of me. The last scene when the 3-4 main characters are all in the bus at night and the devil worshipers who have surrounded them light their torches and start moving in.....

I must agree here. I just saw it again about a year ago. Definitely not your typical horror film.

T

Castaway was on Tv tonight. I forgot about the deep pit I got in my stomach when they zoom out when Hanks is on the lifeboat. Truly frightening...not boo-factor, just harrowing to think of the desperate "smallness" one would feel in that situation.

Ring(Japanese one of course)
Ju-on(Sarah Michelle ruined the remake)


No she didn't. The horrific script and directing ruined that piece of junk.

Saw was there with best of them, saw 2 i have to wait the one who lent me the first to see the 2nd after he has watched it.

I sa this movie called MADMAN when I was in the 8th grade--dude! pissed all over myself, wait, did
I say that out loud? Fiday The 13th, Haolloween, lost sleep for months, months I tell you.. what was that?

scritch, scritch, scritch on your window!

Children of the Corn. I can handle blood and gut slasher flicks. But nothing gives me the willies like a movie about Satan or Satan Possession. I remember when the Exorcist was released, to this day I still refuse to watch it. The Omen Trilogy, the only one I was able to watch all the way through was "The Omen III - The Final Conflict". I didn't sleep for a month. It gives me the creeps just thinking about it.

Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn. If you can sit in your seat when the dude jumps out and grabs her by the ankle, you are on valium!

A french film called "Irreversible". A unique film that is played from the ending first in reverse and finishes with the begining. Yes I know it sounds bizzare, I bet you wil not have seen anything like this. WARNING it does contain a very violent and prolonged sexual attack, and I personaly found it so disturbing have only watched it once, also wouldnt recommend any females watching..You have been warned.

Children of the Corn. I can handle blood and gut slasher flicks. But nothing gives me the willies like a movie about Satan or Satan Possession. I remember when the Exorcist was released, to this day I still refuse to watch it. The Omen Trilogy, the only one I was able to watch all the way through was "The Omen III - The Final Conflict". I didn't sleep for a month. It gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
I think you hit on something there. The scarriest or most disturbing movies for me have mostly been those involving evil kids. For example:

Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
The Other
The Innocents
The Bad Seed
The Good Son
Pet Semetary (at least the portion with the son).

Kids are often seen as innocent, so to see them in an evil form has so much more impact than the same thing with an adult. That's why "Godsend" was such a disappointment for me. What could have been downright frightening was an aweful mess with no clear goal as to how it would end (note, they shot close to 6 endings on that dreadful project and none of them were good).

A french film called "Irreversible". A unique film that is played from the ending first in reverse and finishes with the begining. Yes I know it sounds bizzare.

Not that bizzare. Ever seen Momento?

I think you hit on something there. The scarriest or most disturbing movies for me have mostly been those involving evil kids. For example:

Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
The Other
The Innocents
The Bad Seed
The Good Son
Pet Semetary (at least the portion with the son).

Kids are often seen as innocent, so to see them in an evil form has so much more impact than the same thing with an adult. That's why "Godsend" was such a disappointment for me. What could have been downright frightening was an aweful mess with no clear goal as to how it would end (note, they shot close to 6 endings on that dreadful project and none of them were good).

I didn't realize my post involved movies about "Evil Children" until you mentioned it. LOL I was looking at them strictly from the Satanic point of view. But yes you are right, there is something about an evil or possessed kid that just seems to have more impact than an evil adult. The Shining is another one that comes to mind.

I'd have to say The Thing is pretty good.

Alien isn't bad. Aliens is good too. Leviathan is ok as well.

Two little gems not yet mentioned...

The Changeling (1980) - unquestionably the most frightening, chill-down-the-spine, hair-stand-on-end, hide-under-blankets movie I have ever seen. One memorable scene involves a creeeepy rubber ball........o h m y g a w d!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/

Black Sabbath (1963) - Or Tre volti della paura, an Itilian movie involving 3 short stories hosted by Boris Karloff. The first story called A Drop of Water, I was about 6 when I saw this and it effectively screwed me up for the rest of my life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057603/

You must see these!

Not that bizzare. Ever seen Momento?
...or the Seinfeld episode The Wedding?

The Changeling (1980) - unquestionably the most frightening, chill-down-the-spine, hair-stand-on-end, hide-under-blankets movie I have ever seen. One memorable scene involves a creeeepy rubber ball........o h m y g a w d!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/


You must see these!

You are correct! The Changeling is super creepy and has some excellent chilling moments. Hard to explain without spoiling the movie. Good story and acting too.

It scared my wife to death!

"The Entity". Based on a true story. Nuff said.

Agreed.

Audition, The Hills Have Eyes, and House of a Thousand Corpses by Rob Zombie. Not the scarriest movies, but I felt like I had to take a shower after watching them. Very disturbing.

What about The Attack of The Killer Tomatoes?


nah! ok I'm joking

Audition, The Hills Have Eyes, and House of a Thousand Corpses by Rob Zombie. Not the scarriest movies, but I felt like I had to take a shower after watching them. Very disturbing.
I kind of felt that way myself about those.

Just so long as it wasn't a cold shower you had to take, we're probably all OK. :)

I just watched a 2001 Japanese movie called Pulse. Definitely one of the most creepy movies I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. The pace is slow, but it's so creepy I kept looking over my shoulder. This is one to watch alone in a dark room late at night.

Another vote for American Werewolf in London. Exorcist was a close second. Fake IDed my way into that one. Felt good about that until about 15 minutes into the move :eek: . Blair Witch did nothing for me. The only thing that kept me watching was hoping the obnoxious girl would get killed quick.

Phantasm...the original. But I must admit that I was 14 at the time.

Curious to know what is the scariest movie YOU have ever seen and why.


Scariest: Natural Child Birth on PBS.
Why: self explanatory.

-T

:D

Childbirth once seen, an image you will never forget, LOL

-Exorcist (esp. earlier scene when they first investigate the rustling sound in the attic, mainly because it looks like everyones' house)
-Halloween (he doesn't even need to run)
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland version)
-Amityville Horror (refuse to finish it)
-Blairwitch (last scene)

I would have to say the most scared I have ever been in a movie was when Jason came out of the water and grabbed the girl in the boat in the original Friday the 13th movie. I literally felt all the blood drain from my face and for a moment thought I would pass out. The movie makers really set us up on that one, all in all it was a really scary movie. As an 8 or 9 year old and watching an afternoon movie called Black Sabbath, a trilogy of stories, the "Drop of Water " story was the most scared and creeped out I had ever felt watching a movie, that one still gives me chills. I love scary movies, but my girlfriend will have no part of them.

I was beginning to wonder if I was gonna make it to the end of the thread before someone mentioned Friday the 13th. I saw it on the original realease of Friday the 13th (I believe it was Oct. of 1979) & I had bunkbeads at that time. My mother still has the pictures of me sleeping on the floor (with my Superman blanket:)) the room lights, my closet light & Tv on & my dog sleeping on my bed. I did that for like two months. LOL!

"Jacob's Ladder"

"Jacob's Ladder"

The "bobblehead" shot did kinda freak me out. :eek:

You guys are gonna laugh your heads off but for me it was the original Blair Witch! But you definitely had to be in the right mind set to find that spooky. I heard nothing about this movie until the day it hit theaters. And I totally fell for that "this is real footage" crap that was hyped. Everything happened within an hour or so... I found out about the movie... saw the trailer... believed the footage was real... headed to the theater... and was SCARED STIFF! I have to admit I was never so creeped out in my life. In fact, my wife even wanted to sleep with the lights on that night and I didn't complain!

Of course, when I found out it was all a hoax the "magic" vanished and now I just consider it a crappy movie like everyone else. Needless to say I didn't bother watching the sequel ;-) But in my original mindset that movie scared the crap out of me.


Totally agree, I saw it too with some friends the day it came out and we all thought it was real going into it. When you watched that in a dark theatre with all the surround sound and you "knew" it was real, it just really got to me at that moment. Kudos to the makers for the great idea, I used to play alone in the woods as a kid and now at 30 I won't go near them even though I know it was all fake .... just like Jaws, I don't go past my chins!

Thanks Hollywood for making me neurotic :D

Those are true scary movies. none of this jumping out at you b.s., but things that truly haunt you for the next month because you think it could really happen... let's just all pray that Dawn of the Dead stays a movie, I still think about that one. :eek:

.... just like Jaws, I don't go past my chins!

... let's just all pray that Dawn of the Dead stays a movie, I still think about that one. :eek:

How many chins do you have? ;)

Actually, if something like Dawn of the Dead ever happens, at least you'd get to blow away any and all the people you didn't like when they were alive and never get prosecuted for it! Come to think of it, you could just pretty much kill them even if they hadn't turned into zombies yet and get away with it...just claim they were "dead-ish" when you shot them. :)

How many chins do you have? ;)

Actually I have 2 since I have been eating alot this winter and spending too much time on AVS forum.

Give me any movie coming true just don't give me that one (Dawn of the Dead) whew! It's scary when you do the research into things like Armageddon, Revelations, and google 2012, check out all the stuff there including ancient Calendars and the Egyptian Pyramid built to predict the future. If somoene can forget that this movie is fiction and really indulge themselves in it while watching it, it makes you realize how petty things like buying that new BMW or hot tub or 50" Panny 8uk plasma ;) can really be. Imagine never being able to go to sleep ever again.

I just wet myself .... again. :(

At 30 years old I've just watched my scariest movie ever. The exorcism of Emily Rose.
Man that freaked me out. I haven't been that freaked out since I was a young teenager.
Honorable mention to "In the Mouth of Madness".

Gotta say... The Exorcist.

I saw this when it first came out, in the best of circumstances. I was 18, my sister was 16. She managed to get in to see it with her boyfriend (who was 18 and a good friend of mine...until he started to date my sister, but I digress). They came home about an hour nad a half after leaving saying they couldn't sit through the whole movie. My sister had nightmares for a week! All her boyfriend could talk about was "the CROSS...Oh my GOD THE CROSS."

I HAD to see it. Then about week later, we had a snow day from school. By afternoon the roads were clear and my mother, of all people, says, "Let's go to the movies. You drive, I'll buy." She didn't have a license. So of course I'm in. We go to one of those old style theaters. One screen, balcony, big red velvet curtain. We go in and the place is packed, and just buzzing. Then the lights go down, and the curtain opens to that black screen, the creepy theme starts and then the big red letters... "the Exorcist." No commercials, no comming attractions, nothing. Just the movie starting. I clearly remember the anticipation, thinking, "come on baby, SCARE me!" I was not disappointed.

I thought the worst of it was when they were doing all of that stuff to her in the hospital. Sticking the thing in her neck and the blood spurting out. MAN! That stuff really happens.

Anyway, a year later I'm at college in a little town and the Exorcist FINALLY comes to town. All these kids that hadn't seen it wanted to go. So we go and they're showing comming attractions of BLAZING SADDLES. Talk about killing the mood.

Then, a few years after that, I'm teaching at a private boarding school, and I have to live in a dorm with a bunch a 14/15/16 yr old boys. The Exorcist was comming on TV and they all wanted to watch, but they weren't allowed TVs in their rooms, so I said, OK. BUT...all homework has to be done beforehand, once it starts nobody leaves until commercial break, and no screwing around. I started out with about 10 kids, and in an hour was down to two!

I gotta go with this one.

Tom

Prince of Darkness.

It was a long time ago, but I remember being pretty freaked out after that one.

Prince of Darkness = creepy to the bone.

The Japanese original Ju-on.
Ju-on still gives me the cold sweats just thinking about it. D@mn it was scary. I like to watch movies in total darkness, Ju-on was the only horror movie since I been an adult that has made me turn all the lights on in the house half way though the movie.

If you love movies check out Ju-on......... But don't watch it alone in the dark :eek:

I would have to say my top three are:

1. The Exorsist. Saw it as a kid when my parents were not home. Near 20 years later and it's still a bit creepy.

2. The Entity. Freaks the crap out of me. The fact that this woman is being raped by the demon/ghost of her dead hubby. AND that is was suposed to be from a true story...

3. The Exorsism of Emily Rose. I saw this 2006 Years Eve with my wife, and it's been creeping me out from time to time every since. Again suposed to be a true story...

I'm a huge horror movie buff, but the ones that are suposed to be true, kinda get to me. Too bad the question of "What was the Best Horror flick ever." Children of the Corn makes me laugh every time!!! Hahahaha.

American Werewolf in London - I saw it when I was in 1st grade. My parents left it the VCR and I pressed play. I still have not seen the entire movie

The scene in the beginning where you heard the damn thing howling while the guys are walking through the swamps. Here's a link (http://www.houseofhorrors.com/awwhowl.wav) to it

I still wakeup screaming "Wolf!!!". My wife hates it.

I have been permenently psycholgically damaged from that.

One more - Thing (John Carpenter) The first time you get a good look at that alien when it's coming out of that dog. WHOA!!! And then you can hear the siren going off in the background. Totally scary and again I was in 2nd grade for that one. Thanks Mom.

"Event Horizon" -- Maybe more creepy (gets under your skin) than scary

Oh man, creepiest villian at the end.....ever. I obviously can't name the villain.

I'd say the movie that actually creeped me out (okay terrified!) me the most is the Ring......when she came out of the TV that totally caught me off guard and sent chills down my spine.....also the girl in the closet.

Oh man, creepiest villian at the end.....ever. I obviously can't name the villain.

Very good movie, and FYI, the special edition dvd comes out April 18th.

Ahh ...last scene in the Ring!! Pure classic!

I remember saying...oh here we go..now the cops come and they fix everything...like thats it? its over???

Then...BANG!!! I have chills right now while I type this...

Personally...

Tale of Two Sisters, Dark Water, Ju-On The Grudge, The Ring, and Ring 2
(ONLY the Original Asian versions though...the americanized versions were decent but couldn't hold a candle to the originals (aside of The Grudge, which I REFUSE to see....grrrrr bastardization at its worst :mad: )

But all 5 of those scared me senseless...

Also, someone mentioned the Salem's Lot window scene! :eek: that still haunts me to this day and its been probably 20 years since I saw that movie!!!!

Black Sabbath (1963) - Or Tre volti della paura, an Itilian movie involving 3 short stories hosted by Boris Karloff. The first story called A Drop of Water, I was about 6 when I saw this and it effectively screwed me up for the rest of my life.


That thing scared the beejesus outta me as a kid.. The one with that lady that stole the ring off that dead woman's finger .........................

That thing scared the beejesus outta me as a kid.. The one with that lady that stole the ring off that dead woman's finger .........................

Yep, that's the one called A Drop of Water. Messed you up too, huh?

Actually I have 2 since I have been eating alot this winter and spending too much time on AVS forum.

Give me any movie coming true just don't give me that one (Dawn of the Dead) whew! It's scary when you do the research into things like Armageddon, Revelations, and google 2012, check out all the stuff there including ancient Calendars and the Egyptian Pyramid built to predict the future. If somoene can forget that this movie is fiction and really indulge themselves in it while watching it, it makes you realize how petty things like buying that new BMW or hot tub or 50" Panny 8uk plasma ;) can really be. Imagine never being able to go to sleep ever again.

I just wet myself .... again. :(

good not to be alone
except for the wetting oneself bit. :)

I think both the original and the recent remaking of "War of the Worlds" were very scary. I saw the original when I was 5 and it scared the hell out of me. I am too old to get scared by movies now, but if I were vulnerable the Spielberg version really got the creepiness of the original. I saw the original "Pshyco" when I was 11 and that also scared the crap out of me. The remakes of "Psycho" have all been a waste of film, in my opinion. I think you have to be young to get scared at movies and when you get older most folks don't go to horror movies anymore because you become scare proof with age and your more interested in romantic themes. I have never seen "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" but that is a movie from another generation of viewers. I was too old to get scared by "Dawn of the Dead," so I think age is the key.

IB

A couple for me that stick out.
One was a made for TV movie called "Trilogy Of Terror". It was 3 stories...and the one I rememeber starred Karen Black, and a little voodoo doll that came to life and hunted her in her apartment. Scary...

And..the one that scared the bejeezes outta me and my friends was "Five Million Years to Earth", made in 1967. Something is discovered whilst digging a new tunnel for the London Underground system. Brrrrrr......scary stuff.

And..the one that scared the bejeezes outta me and my friends was "Five Million Years to Earth", made in 1967. Something is discovered whilst digging a new tunnel for the London Underground system. Brrrrrr......scary stuff.

Five Million Years to Earth is known as Quatermass and the Pit over here...... i agree thats got some spooky moments and is an enjoyable film and was actually based on a BBC television series which scared the whole of the UK back in the fifties.

What Lies Beneath

I'll say in no particular order:

Halloween
Magic
Session 9 (a psycological masterpiece!!)

Ah, another mention of Magic. This one is really old, but creepy as hell.

When Hopkins won the Oscar for "Lambs", he said he didn't think he (or the movie) was all that great compared to some other things he'd done. When asked to single out something specific, he mentioned "Magic" as being what he thought was his best film performance. You sure wouldn't get any argument from me on that.

The Grudge is one that freaked me out recently. Some creepy stuff in there that made me a bit uneasy when i watched it, but it was worse the next day:

I was tweaking my projector in the dark (convergence and such) and was playing the movie again for some reason as i was doing it. Probably to verify the results, since the DVD picture actually was pretty good quality.

Anyway... When the lights are off in my theater room and you're standing by the screen with the projector beaming light at you, you can't see a thing in the rest of the room. Of course the creepy sound of the "thing" in the movie is happening at that point, and with my surround setup it sounded a bit too creepy for comfort.

I had to turn on the lights! Of course the remote was all the way halfway down the room. I can't believe the movie scared me like it did! :)

As for movies that scared me in the past... American Werewolf in London.. the scene in the beginning when they're walking along in the dark... that scared me a good bit when i saw it when i was little... along with the transformation scene and the stuff happening after it.

Oh, and "thanks" to whomever posted all those creepy pics! :mad: :p It's 2AM and i was about to go to bed... now i'll be looking over my shoulder as i turn off all the lights and head upstrairs demmit!

When I was a kid, I think most horror movies scared me to some extent, but the ones that seem to stand out are The Howling and Shocker. I'm not even sure why.

I have to agree with several other posts for Blair Witch. There is just something about actors showing REAL fear. The bottom line is, if there are people dying/disappearing all around you, you are going to lose your f***in mind. Most horror movies flat out refuse to portray what a real natural human reaction would be.

More recently:
-House of 1000 Corpses
-The Ring
-The Exorcism of Emily Rose

But I think my scariest of all time HAS to be The Exorcist 3. Most people that I have mentioned this movie to, have never even seen it. What a damn shame. The nurse in the hallway scene completely freaked me out. Not to mention the man in the cell when he speaks in different voices and sings in the voice of a 12 year old choir girl. A classic in my opinion.

Speaking of "Magic" anyone have any idea when this film will get out on DVD? WTF?

Speaking of "Magic" anyone have any idea when this film will get out on DVD? WTF?


It will be on dvd (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CR76U8/ref=imdbpov_dvd_0/104-0390898-1051956?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130) on April 25th.

Man, that's weird. Film gets made in 1978, and just now is coming to DVD? What the hell?

It will be on dvd (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CR76U8/ref=imdbpov_dvd_0/104-0390898-1051956?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130) on April 25th.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanx

for me the creepiest are The Exorcist and The Shining and one that nobody meantioned so far is Freaks.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0022913/

Old movie but somehow this movie just freaks me out. :)

there are alot of popular movies that are only on VHS.

"Death be not proud" is another.....................

I beleive the entire "Mission Impossible" series is still not out on DVD.

- BlueRay shall remain useless to me for another 10yrs. the time it takes to get all the obscure movies released, the time it take for cheap recordable media to arrive, the time it takes to crack the DRMs.

- hell I only got a DVD-player/burner a year ago! (when all the above finally arrived).

Movies have lost their power to scare me, but when I was a kid, some things really got to me. One was an episode of the Twilight Zone. Another was that gimmicky old William Castle movie 13 Ghosts. The last time I was really scared in a movie theater was watching the original Alien.

Yeah, some of those Twilight Zone episodes scared the pants off me when I was real young too. How about the one with the old lady who keeps getting the phone calls with someone moaning and they trace the calls to a downed wire laying on top of her ex-fiance's grave? There were a couple handfuls of Night Gallery episodes that were pretty hairy too. The first one from the pilot with Roddy McDowell and Ossie Davis with the changing painting on the wall leading up the stairway was a real classic. Or the third episode of the same pilot with Richard Kiley and Sam Jaffe, which had a former Nazi war criminal (Kiley) hiding in South America who ends up in the painting of Christ nailed to the cross in agony in the museum? And there was another one with Richard Kiley tied to the bed after a rare earwig entered his head through one ear and could only work it's way out the other ear after it had to burrow through his brain. That one was gruesome as hell.

There is only one

The Omen

I don't watch scary movies, I happened to see snippets of The Omen years and years ago. I too am not incredibly religious, but to this day the concepts contemplated in this movie bother me - even, for instance, in a couple of months, it will be June and I get worried about it -- the sixth day, of the sixth month, of the sixth year, hmmm and the sixth hour of that day!?!!...it all just creeps me out. I would even refuse a license plate if it had triple sixes on it, i think I would just get back in line for a different one!

Funny thats when my wife's obstetrician says my son's due.

all makes sense now

for me the creepiest are The Exorcist and The Shining and one that nobody meantioned so far is Freaks.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0022913/

Old movie but somehow this movie just freaks me out. :)

Can't believe someone has seen Freaks besides me. I completely forgot all about that movie. My friends and I watched it countless times in junior high. We thought it was absolutely hilarious though. Seriously, we laughed until we cried. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

Lots of people have seen that movie. Tons and tons. It's an all-time classic cult film. The only thing that's stopped more people from seeing it is that they very rarely show it on TV (and maybe because it's so old, a lot of people assume it's not that good - especially younger folk). If anyone hasn't seen it - well, they should. Gabba Gabba!

Rammintinski saidith:
"And there was another one with Richard Kiley tied to the bed after a rare earwig entered his head through one ear and could only work it's way out the other ear after it had to burrow through his brain. That one was gruesome as hell."

That was "Caterfiller" based upon Micheal McCabe's South African Horror Radioplay Beyond Midnight - episode entitled "Something on his Mind" - dated to the late 60's. Great show........can be listened to and downloaded via the long link provided below!




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more info about the show "Beyond Midnight"


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Something on His Mind

Genre: Horror
Episode: 39
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A love triangle in the jungle leads to a murder plot which goes awry.


Reviews:
After hearing the end of the tale, the listener will appreciate the irony
of the story's title! The same story was featured on the U.S. TV series
Rod Serling's Night Gallery and aired on 1st March 1972 under the title "
The Caterpillar." - Anonymous

Not too many movies really scare me. 2001 scared me a lot as a kid- the ending is pretty freaky. And I think that Twin Peaks, both the show and Fire Walk With Me, have some of the most chilling scenes of evil and murder ever put on film. The Exorcist scared me a lot when I was younger. The Shining is pretty intense, for sure.

And I've seen Freaks. :D Love it, but not scary.

Didn't realized Freaks was so popular. We just used to go to the video store and rent the movies that looked the most ridiculous. Haven't even thought about Freaks for about 18 years so it was funny to be reminded.

Well, since Freaks is well known, I seem to be remembering another one we used to rent. Anyone seen Dr. Tarr's Torture Chamber (at least I think thats what it's called)?

Curious to know what is the scariest movie YOU have ever seen and why.


My picks:

Nightmare on Elm Street -->Saw it when I was just 14, new idea for death.
Terminator 2 -->The nuclear (not nuk-qular) holocaust still comes back in dreams sometimes.

14 ?!!!!!
Shouldn't this series be R rated :p
I agree with that pick , these NES movies freaked me out , this Freddy character had haunted my dreams for years.

Oh, I saw many R-rated movies before that. My parents were pretty open to letting me see nearly anything because I always understood it was just a movie. I let my 7-year old son watch Aliens with me and he wasn't bothered until the end, but I did explain how Bishop gets torn in half near the end from a film-making standpoint. After that, he was totally OK with it.

Alien was pretty scary for me.