The scariest movie OF ALL TIME!!!!!

[blakemaples_2010]

what is the scariest movie of all TIME.....in my opinion the scariest was the exorcist but the best horror movie of all time was "Rear Window" by the legend Alfred Hitchcock!!!!!


here is my list of top ten best scary movies

1-The Exorcist
2-Rosemary's Baby
3-Halloween
4-Rear Window
5-Dawn of The Dead
6-Fright Night lol
7-Scream
8-Halloween 5
9-Friday the 13th
10-The Birds

i know i probably left out some big ones like jason but i never could get into to jason i always thought the movies were retarded......anyway give me your thoughts

[xxsic4slipknotxx]

I still think The Exorcist was one of the top scariest movies I've seen.

[Bronner]

X - The Man with the X-RAY Eyes.

That movie kept me up for days. :eek2:

[XdrewX]

Hmm probably Halloween! That movie fucked me up for MONTHS when I first saw it. Oh yeah and Childs Play lmfao! I was like 4 when I first saw it and my step brother had a Buddy doll and it scared the shit out of me man!

[ASoron0424]

I think when it comes to making these lists, a lot of people feel obligated to list movies that they don't really think are scary, but are just told are unquestionably the scariest movies ever made. I don't think anyone on this board will watch any of the movies on that top ten list and actually get scared (incidentally you switched topics, this is a thread about the "scariest" movies of all time, you wrote about the "best scary movies" of all time: big difference).

I guess some people are just referring to what were the scariest movies of all time in regard to the audiences they scared. Night of the Living dead scared the shit out of audiences of the late sixties, but it really does nothing but amuse and entertain the audiences of the 20th century, so..

But then again, someone would be percieved as ignorant or pompous if they said like High Tension or House of 1000 Corpses was the scariest movie ever made, when in actuality it's just the only horror movie that's ever scared them.

So this is a tough question, Blake, and if you do get answers from people, they're likely to be the usual: Jaws, The Exorcist, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead. :shakehead

For some more contemporary suggestions, I would say High Tension, The Strangers, 28 Days Later, and Hellraiser.

[koolmike]

NOTLD '68 and The Exorcist

[Get Some]

i'd say exorcist

[K.I.N.G]

The Sixth Sense :shakes:

[myersgirl13]

The Sixth Sense :shakes:

Shut up!

Thats what I was gonna say!:2eyes:

[K.I.N.G]

:mhehe: You snooze you lose, the early bird gets the worm...you get my drift.

[myersgirl13]

Whatever:D

[K.I.N.G]

:axekill:

[myersgirl13]

:dsp:

[K.I.N.G]

:sadwalk:

[myersgirl13]

:poorguy:

[darkoverlord]

got to go with the exorcist.

[TheRedBengal11]

the shining

[Snuggle]

I saw the Exorcist when I was thirteen and just thought it was awesome, not so much scary. I'll be different and say that Ju-On The Grudge was pretty goddamn scary and so was [REC], the last fifteen minutes of [REC] is scary shit. I'm probably going to catch shit for this but The Ring scared me pretty good when I first saw it. I'm going to catch even more shit from KoolMike but the Blair Witch Project was scary when it came out as well. Even if you don't like it, its commercial success inspired [REC], Cloverfield, and all those Hand Cam movies.

[Jurgy25]

I think when it comes to making these lists, a lot of people feel obligated to list movies that they don't really think are scary, but are just told are unquestionably the scariest movies ever made. I don't think anyone on this board will watch any of the movies on that top ten list and actually get scared (incidentally you switched topics, this is a thread about the "scariest" movies of all time, you wrote about the "best scary movies" of all time: big difference).

I guess some people are just referring to what were the scariest movies of all time in regard to the audiences they scared. Night of the Living dead scared the shit out of audiences of the late sixties, but it really does nothing but amuse and entertain the audiences of the 20th century, so..

But then again, someone would be percieved as ignorant or pompous if they said like High Tension or House of 1000 Corpses was the scariest movie ever made, when in actuality it's just the only horror movie that's ever scared them.

So this is a tough question, Blake, and if you do get answers from people, they're likely to be the usual: Jaws, The Exorcist, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead. :shakehead

For some more contemporary suggestions, I would say High Tension, The Strangers, 28 Days Later, and Hellraiser.

I gotta agree with you there. I know exactly what you mean. I have been trying to find the scariest movie of all time, and ones that the "lists" consider scariest, I don't think are all that scary. Sure The Exorcist and The Shining are great flicks, but I don't consider them the scariest. I watched the Changeling hearing it was so terrifying. ehh it had a moment or two, but not the scariest. (good movie though). I have never seen Ju-On but I can see that being one of the scariest. Also Strangers could be because of how it could (or has) actually happened. But I am still on the lookout for one of the scariest movies ever, (which I know would vary from people to people).

[Get Some]

scaeriest movie ever ..............house of the dead :D:die:


just kidding
uwe boll sucks!

[Shreds_of_Flesh]

Scariest movie ever.........

THERE IS NO SCARY MOVIE :bat:

:bigthumbup:

[dead breed]

what is the scariest movie of all TIME.....in my opinion the scariest was the exorcist but the best horror movie of all time was "Rear Window" by the legend Alfred Hitchcock!!!!!


here is my list of top ten best scary movies

1-The Exorcist
2-Rosemary's Baby
3-Halloween
4-Rear Window
5-Dawn of The Dead
6-Fright Night lol
7-Scream
8-Halloween 5
9-Friday the 13th
10-The Birds

i know i probably left out some big ones like jason but i never could get into to jason i always thought the movies were retarded......anyway give me your thoughts

:coolbeer:

[loki]

Jaws everytime i got in the ocean that music would be playing in my head.
Misery-was scary for me also for personal reasons:eek2:

[koolmike]

I'll add these to my list

The Thing
JAWS
A Nightmare on Elmstreet
Jacob's Ladder
Rosemary's Baby
Halloween
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[dead breed]

Jacob's Ladder is very disturbing if you let it get in your mind. It needs a second viewing so you can take it all in again and actually realize whats happening. I love it.

[realizm]

Jacob's Ladder is very disturbing if you let it get in your mind. It needs a second viewing so you can take it all in again and actually realize whats happening. I love it.

agreed Jacob's Ladder great movie :bigthumbup:

[Metapher]

Jaws will always be the scariest movie ever to me. The only nightmares I ever have are about sharks. Just looking at a shark in a magazine gives me chills. Still one of the best movies ever made though.

Silver Bullet. First horror movie I ever saw, still stands as one of the movies I react the most to.

Pet Sematary. Something that has stuck with me since childhood, just like the others.

Salem's Lot. Even though I haven't watched it since I was a kid. The kid outside of the window-thingy fucked me bad.

The Exorcist scares me more now than when I was a kid.

[ASoron0424]

...


just kidding
uwe boll sucks!

Blasphemy!

[ASoron0424]

I think a lot of people would probably say The Wizard of Oz. I was surprised in elementary school to hear how many people were terrified by that movie.

:coolbeer: to koolmike, The Thing is aces. :D

[koolmike]

I was going to put W of Oz down. Scariest witch in movie history.

[dead breed]

Next to the Blair Witch :D

[Crazy "Tbagz" Ralph]

ive always said that the only movie that ever scared me was The Blair Witch Project...but now that i think about it
Jaws has to be on my list...i have/will never sawm/swim in deep water in ocean..like water where i cant touch the bottom

but BWP still freaked the hell outa me when it first came out
:oogle:

[Wrathborne]

Same here, at the end of the film you realize its just a bad joke.

[Get Some]

yea man jaws made me not wanna get into the ocean when i was litttle :shakes:

[Cannibal]

I was going to put W of Oz down. Scariest witch in movie history.

If you're 5 years old maybe. Or if people wearing green makeup frighten you.
:ahheh:

[violent d]

The Exorcism of Emily Rose was the first movie in years to freak me out. Mainly because mental illness scares the shit out of me and thats how I interpreted that movie....a girl with a bad mental illness. Id rather be possessed by the devil.

[Dr. Awesome]

For me from the time I was little all the way up to now Halloween scares me. When I was younger Jason scared me mainly because I had a cheapo glow in the dark hockey mask the ones you get at wal-mart during halloween and my step dad would wear it and always hide behind doors and corners and pop out scaring the shit out of me all the time...fucking hated that mask

[Joker]

When I was a kid Salems Lot really messed me up,and not in a good way.

[XdrewX]

The only movie now days that has frightened me is probably The Exorcism Of Emily Rose. Best acting of being possessed I've ever seen! Or what I'd imagine it being like. Movie made me truly believe possession and stuff. Fuck that man haha I couldn't sleep for like two days after that movie lawl

[Jungle_Julia]

I gotta agree with you there. I know exactly what you mean. I have been trying to find the scariest movie of all time, and ones that the "lists" consider scariest, I don't think are all that scary. Sure The Exorcist and The Shining are great flicks, but I don't consider them the scariest. I watched the Changeling hearing it was so terrifying. ehh it had a moment or two, but not the scariest. (good movie though). I have never seen Ju-On but I can see that being one of the scariest. Also Strangers could be because of how it could (or has) actually happened. But I am still on the lookout for one of the scariest movies ever, (which I know would vary from people to people).

Yep i hear you about that heard that the changeling was really scary watched and was like are you serious yea its a good movie but as for scares naw not even close same thing with suspiria ok movie but not scary in the least

[IKickAssForTheLord]

The most recently creepy movie I have seen is probably Noroi... and thats just recently....

I don't know the all time though.

[Jungle_Julia]

Till this day not matter how old i get michael myers will forever freak me out. I have dreams about him chasing me and wake up truely terrified lol. Recent horror movies that have scared me are inside and the strangers. I also agree about emily rose that one had certain scenes that got a jump out of me

[Joker]

I thought The Changeling was freaky.My iimagination has a tendency to run wild when I watch a good Ghost flick.

[dead breed]

The only movie that actually scared me was The Sixth Sense.

[ASoron0424]

BWP and What Lies Beneath are the only movies I've ever seen where I couldn't sleep afterward.

And yeah, if there's any exceptional merit to be attributed to Jaws, it would be that it's one of few movies from almost forty years ago that can still truly scare the shit out of its audiences - or at least change the way they look at the ocean for the rest of their lives.

[lordmlan]

The Return of the Living dead was the only movie that scared me and left me scared months later. I could not drive past a graveyard at night as a kid without closing my eyes. It had to be the fact that there was nothing anyone could do you kill them.

[JeNnYFuR]

To me, the scariest movie that I've seen (hands over eyes) is Dead Silence; but then Im an autonomatonophobic. I cried. Straight-up cried. I was inconsolable. It took 30 minutes to get past the intro credits.

Maybe I should reconsider and say that the short film "The Dummy" is the scariest of all time...because that's what triggered the fear.

[Get Some]

i kinda thought the descent was scary

[ASoron0424]

Im an autonomatonophobic.

Ah yes, autonomatonophobia...

[Jurgy25]

i kinda thought the descent was scary

Yea that had some jumpy parts, and scenes where that were pretty freaky. No one can deny being a little creeped when the crawler thing was stanging behind the chick through the video camera. I'd have to say that The Descent is up there for scariest.

[ASoron0424]

Yea that had some jumpy parts, and scenes where that were pretty freaky. No one can deny being a little creeped when the crawler thing was stanging behind the chick through the video camera. I'd have to say that The Descent is up there for scariest.

Alexandre Aja seems like a pretty promising new blood in horror.

[JerkyPuck]

I tend to be scared more by what I don't see rather than what I do.....so for me

The Blair Witch Project (love ya kool)
The Ring
Session 9 (one of the most cleverly crafted horror films in history)
Wait Until Dark


BUT, in my opinion the scariest movie of all time just due to its unrelenting violence and over the top psycho camera-work is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

[opterasis]

Blair Witch Project has been one of the only movies to ever really scare me. I must have been 16, overly tired, watching it at 2 in the morning. I damn near shat bricks.

[koolmike]

The Blair Witch Project (love ya kool)






:ah:

[koolmike]

Blair Witch Project has been one of the only movies to ever really scare me. I must have been 16, overly tired, watching it at 2 in the morning. I damn near shat bricks.

:ah:

[xjester]

Its kinda a tough question isn't it? Hmmm...

Well, Jaws made me think twice about going into the ocean for years. Even now, and its been close to 25 years since I first saw the movie. The Ghoulies - had a hard time taking a dump after seeing a little green bastard climb out of the crapper. (insert your laughter here)

Pacific Heights really scared me. I read up on the movie, then read up on the local tenant/landlord laws and found that this could actually happen. :oogle: Then I watched the movie and was completely freaked about it.

Blair Witch. Holy hell. I saw this when it had a limited release to small independent film houses and it was played off as an actual documentary. Way too many questions were still surrounding the picture and it injected a bit of doubt into your mind if it was real or not. Part of me wanted to buy into the hype to increase the fear factor. I didn't know that by doing so it would increase the freak out factor by a power of 40 and I have yet to camp since.

There are tons of moments in movies that got me, but very few entire experiences that warrant being mentioned.

Oh, new to the boards and good to see a lot of cool people hanging around.

[slimeisacharacter]

One is only as good as the experiences they have amassed. Be it their personal experiences on what is "scary" or the number of films they have watched in their lifetime.

That said... Films that really scared me first time out, my top 5 list in no particular order:

Jaws, The Shining, Pet Cemetary, Jacob's Ladder, and Amityville Horror (original).

Take them as you will. :bigthumbup:

[JerkyPuck]

Blair Witch. Holy hell. I saw this when it had a limited release to small independent film houses and it was played off as an actual documentary. Way too many questions were still surrounding the picture and it injected a bit of doubt into your mind if it was real or not. Part of me wanted to buy into the hype to increase the fear factor. I didn't know that by doing so it would increase the freak out factor by a power of 40 and I have yet to camp since.


Oh, new to the boards and good to see a lot of cool people hanging around.

Same here. I saw it before ever knowing what it was. It was a special screening at a local theatre and I just went because I liked the title. So, for me, I had no clue what I was about to see and I have never been more afraid as I was when the credits rolled at the end.

[koolmike]

The Blair Witch Project is the biggest waste of film in horror history. I remember reading about how scary this film was way back in 1999 when it was a smash hit at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. It was compared to The Exorcist and Night of the Living Dead '68 - 2 of my all time favorite horror movies. I immediately got excited and couldn't wait for it to hit the States, especially being a big fan of evil witches like the one in The Wizard of Oz.

It came to my town a few months later...went to see it...sat in the theatre looking up at this complete disaster unfold before my eyes completely disappointed first, then by the time it ended became angry for being so let down. My head was killing me from the shaky camera work and my intelligence was insulted because I was lead to believe this was a horror movie, when in reality, IMO, was more like a badly wriiten comedy that never delivered. Basically, a joke with no punchline.

Scary? :lol: Hardly :dsp:

[JerkyPuck]

But that's your opinion. And it's certainly valid, but you can't call a movie "not scary" just because it wasn't scary for you. It just means you didn't find it scary. For me, it was astounding. Scared the piss outtta me. And I never get scared by movies ever. It just sent my imagination into a whirlwind and made me think like crazy. And I actually got invested into the characters. I however had no biases going in, because I had no clue what I was about to see, so that certainly could factor into why I am not a hater of this movie. THis movie above all movie tends to be either loved or hated.

[K.I.N.G]

I liked BWP, only the final shot was creepy, rest was kinda boring IMO.

[Crazy "Tbagz" Ralph]

everything about that movie was creepy, all teh BWP signs hanging fromt eh trees, the pile of rocks, the babies crying, when u can hear the dude with long hair screaming...holy shit, i have chils right now

[koolmike]

But that's your opinion. And it's certainly valid, but you can't call a movie "not scary" just because it wasn't scary for you. It just means you didn't find it scary.


What I say is the way it is :D (jk)

Of course I understand your point...I'm glad you enjoyed BWP.

I still say it's a waste of film :eek2:

[koolmike]

everything about that movie was creepy, all teh BWP signs hanging fromt eh trees, the pile of rocks,


Pile o' crap.

[Belcebu]

BWP was a joke, and anyone that truly enjoys this film or even think it was remotely scary should have no say in this poll.
BWP just pissed me off.

[xjester]

Blair Witch Project is definitely one of those rare movies where the opinions are extremely polarized. There are only 2 camps: Loved it or hated it.

Oh, about the BW signs...the damn indy theater I saw it at thought it would be funny to dim the lobby lights and hang about 200 of them from the ceiling and play some of the sound effects from the movie as we left the theater. Cool? Yeah, maybe in hindsight. Not then though.:shakehead

Did any of you see the faux documentary on SciFi channel prior to seeing the movie?

[koolmike]

BWP just pissed me off.


Me too.

[LordofDarkness]

I think what scared most people about BWP was the fact they advertised the documentary as real. It wasn't revealed until later that it was fake. Most people didn't know this and believed what they were seeing really happened. Myself included. But let me paint this little picture for you, I was around 10 or 11 when I saw this, my bro rented it and my mom started watchin it with me one night. Well the entire time I was pretty bored. It got up to about the last 20 minutes, I look over and my mom fell asleep. I was like meh, she isnt missing much. So I'm alone, sitting in the dark watching this movie. But when they entered the house.... Well, I couldnt go to sleep that night. Because I thought what I had just seen was real, and the fact I really didn't see much made it that much scarier. Just had that image of the guy in the corner stuck in my head. Of course once everyone found out it was fake, the scare factor was gone. I could be wrong in saying nobody knew, but I sure as hell didn't. I know different things scare different people, but the ending is one of the creepiest to date IMO.

Halloween scared me as a child, the music obviously, and the mask. Would always stay away from dark places thinking Myers was lurking around in them.

And I just saw the Descent for the first time tonight. I'm usually not one to get scared or jumpy. But there's 2 scenes in that movie that kicked my ass. Claustrophobia and a camera, thats all that needs to be said.

Been hearing lots of good things about the Strangers, scary wise. Cant wait to see it.

[JerkyPuck]

I dunno. It's like they took all the things that I am scared of and put them into a film. The whole mythology of witches creeps me out. Then there's the woods....raw and alive in this film like no other....then the figurines in the trees...a story about a child killer.....the dread you feel throughout the movie knowing these people aren't going to survive. It really affected me.

My husband on the other hand hated it LOL! He just felt ripped off by it, which I totally understand.

[Joker]

The would have survived if they would have followed the river.
Just sayin.

[JerkyPuck]

The would have survived if they would have followed the river.
Just sayin.

They obviously weren't scouts. That creek had to lead somewhere. WEBLO 4-EVAH!

[Wrathborne]

anyone who said the exorcist was scary needs to be laughed at.:shakehead

[H78]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Wrathborne]

Didn't think much of TCM, however the final 10 minutes of the film were pretty intense which was very cool.

[XdrewX]

Didn't think much of TCM, however the final 10 minutes of the film were pretty intense which was very cool.

Yeah I didn't like it to much myself. I only have seen it once and I was pretty young and I remember the only part that made me almost shit my pants was when he jumped out of no where and chainsawed the HELL out of that dude in the wheel chair. but yeah I just remember being bored. I should rewatch now that I'm at an age where I can appreciate stuff a whole hell of a lot better and stuff.

[blakemaples_2010]

thanks for all the responses...i made this list just to get everyones basic ideas on scary movies.....i think that when i said "scariest movie" it was missintrpreted as actually scary but i was pushing more on the best scary movie ya know...along those lines but thanks anyway for your posts

[Misfit]

ju-on

[réÐþÁ†µ]

Gotta say I cant really think of any movies that are scary today. Sure when I was a kid alot of movies were but being so used to them today, its tough to have something grasp you the way it did when you were a kid. Today we're more concerned with analyzing and critiquing everything about a horror movie and in the end, the enjoyment is gone IMO.

[smokey]

Childs Play and IT were the films that scared me the most. It was when i was younger i have to admit.

[skybrick]

Movies dont scare me any more.

Exorcist I would say is the creepiest.

[toxicangel19]

up until i was about 12 the movie metamorphosis the alien factor gave me nightmares...i defeated this nightmare by watching it a second time this is when i got really into watching horror films. Now I'd have to say event horizon,hellrasier,the thing,the shinning and the exorcist are in my top horror movie scares.

[xjester]

I cant help but look up at some of the ages of posters when they say such and such movie isnt scary, or this or that was a joke. It seems that those in the era of the movie in question found it more scary and those that saw it in the post-release era. In fact, they found it lacking. Its really interesting. I thought the same thing about Rosemary's Baby. Not scary at all.

TCM in its time was extremely scary. Random hippy road trips were the norm and something like this experience wasnt too far out of question. The Exorcist had people running out of theaters and caused some wide spread panic amongst movie-goers of its generation. I see some directors trying to take the same approach in todays world, like videogames, cell phones or the internet, but it just doesnt work.

Is it because the movies just are not that good, or are todays generations so desensitized to violence and horror that nothing really has an effect? Interesting to see someone do a study on such matters.

[smokey]

Oh yeah Candyman scared the crap out of me aswell.

[CrazySicilian]

The silent version of Nosferatu. Still the creepiest movie I've ever seen.

[ASoron0424]

Movies dont scare me any more.

Exorcist I would say is the creepiest.

I thought that for years but then screamed repeatedly in The Strangers -- which is ridiculous, it's not even terribly scary, but on opening night I think the atmosphere was such that everyone kinda gets scared together. Whether or not you can be scared by a movie has a lot to do with aspects the movie has no control over: culture, audience, audience setting, current events, personal experiences, etc. I think everyone still has the potential to be scared by a movie, it just has to strike the right personal/atmospheric chords, and for someone who's such a huge fan of the genre we pretty much develope an immunity to the usual fright tricks of movies, so at a certain point of experience in the genre, an experience level so high that even the most original horror movies seem at least a bit formulaic, we need to get personally involved in a movie to really feel an affect.

I saw The Strangers a second time two days later and was totally unfazed by it, which convinced me of the impression your surrounding audience can make on the experience.

[Joker]

Hell Night

[Misfit]

wanna read something scary read the bible......zombies,devils,witches,murder it has it all

[Wrathborne]

the bible? I dunno doesn't sound like my type of horror movie.

[Misfit]

:sure: i said read

[K.I.N.G]

:sure:

[Wrathborne]

ha ha, what I'm just making a smartass joke.

[LordofDarkness]

:sure:

Haha, I'm just kidding...

Seriously though...

:sure:

[whereistheMrPibb]

The Sixth Sense :shakes:

Haha, id have to agree. Well, that was for when i was younger anyway. When i first saw it, i didnt sleep for a few days.

but now, i dunno, a lot of people say that Penny Dreadful sucked, it kinda freaked me out. But it wasnt the concept really. It was just not knowing what the 'killer' looked like. id much rather see whats coming after me than not :lookarnd:

[Cellar Dweller]

When I was a child the two that scared me the most were A Nightmare on Elm St., and IT. I got older and the next flick to catch me off guard was Blair Witch. Which pissed me off because I knew it was fake, but the ending still got to me. But recently I watched Teeth, wasn't scared more disturbed during the first half of the flick, and pissed my girlfriend off afterward by telling her I wasn't having sex again.

[deathslasher666]

Hmm...I noticed I never posted in here.

Well, I'm going to say Jaws. Why? I don't get scared by movies really, but when I saw Jaws, there was no damn way I was going to the damn beach. :nod:

[LadyFrankenstein]

X - The Man with the X-RAY Eyes.

That movie kept me up for days. :eek2:

Did you ever hear about the original ending that they had to change because it was considered too intense?

[K.I.N.G]

Should probably add The Blob (not sure which one), that movie fucked me up as a kid..

[LadyFrankenstein]

It's sad to say, but I was terrified of Rawhead Rex. Sure he was rubbery and had those stupid blinking red eyes, but he always took on a realistic form when it was time to go to bed. It didn't help the situation either that my uncle looks exactly like the crazy priest that gets pissed on in the end.
My other choice would be Last House On The Left. I was 10 when I saw it, which was rented without any prior knowledge of it by a cousin who was watching me. And wouldn't you know...I happen to live in the last house on the left. Talk about nightmares!! :wideeye:

[Leanne_777]

The Exorcist is scary in too many ways for it to be anything else. Pet Semetery really disturbed me too, I had dreams about the ghost for a few years, it still freaks me out.

[satanocat]

It's sad to say, but I was terrified of Rawhead Rex. Sure he was rubbery and had those stupid blinking red eyes, but he always took on a realistic form when it was time to go to bed. It didn't help the situation either that my uncle looks exactly like the crazy priest that gets pissed on in the end.
My other choice would be Last House On The Left. I was 10 when I saw it, which was rented without any prior knowledge of it by a cousin who was watching me. And wouldn't you know...I happen to live in the last house on the left. Talk about nightmares!! :wideeye:

lmao! when i was a kid we lived in the first hose on the right, but if you drove dwon the block the other way we lived in the last house on the left. my mom used to say stuff about that to me when i was a kid and when i finally watched the movie i was kinda disappointed after all the hype my mom put into it.
the first time i ever say poletrgeist i would freak if i woke up and the tv was all fuzzy. i remember that happened and i turned over a rocking chair and slept under it because i was so scared that zelda rubenstien would get me. she used to freak me out. still kinda does

[slimeisacharacter]

The Exorcist is scary in too many ways for it to be anything else. Pet Semetery really disturbed me too, I had dreams about the ghost for a few years, it still freaks me out.

And who didn't twitch when the dead kid cut the ankles? :bigthumbup:

[skybrick]

Sex in the City, chick flicks like those.

EDIT: I never saw Sex in the City. The trailer was too scary.

[smokey]

Personally i would have to go with Salems Lot. That scard the shit out of me when i was a kid.

[skybrick]

:shakehead
ugggh I dont remember my last post up there at all.

[asteroid]

This is a pretty subjective topic so the films that scared me most are the ones I saw when I was young and unjaded by horror films, so i was terrified by ANOES, Friday 13th, Halloween, The Shining but probably most by Psycho, and I never saw TCM or The Exorcist when I was a kid but just hearing stories about them kept me awake at night.

[TheLastVampire]

The Grudge was pretty fucking scary.

[TheLastVampire]

The Grudge was pretty fucking scary.

[ripken]

For me it was Return of the Living Dead ... I saw the movie when I was 6 and it scared the shit out of me. Those damn zombies eating all those people's brain... I freak out and didn't sleep for a few weeks. Man... If only I can get that feeling back.

[Crazy "Tbagz" Ralph]

ONLY movie that EVER scared me was the blair witch project.. lol

and jaws, you coudlent pay me enough to swim in a ocean...fuck that yo

[MKOHLER]

Well these are all movies that scared/bugged/got to me the first time.
The Strangers
Halloween
Funny Games
The Exorcist
The Hills Have Eyes
High Tension
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Descent
House Of 1000 Corpses
The Devils Rejects
Nightmare On Elm Street
:freddy:

[dj_casinova]

Yeah, when i was younger Childs Play scared the hell out of me because i had a My Buddy doll for years. But the classics on the list, like Exorcist and Jaws, etc. never came close to scaring me.

Exorcist bores the hell out of me and the old Zombie movies i find to be straight entertainment. Fun, Blood, and more blood.

The only movie that i had nightmares about was the Blair Witch Project, because i saw it when it first came out and still thought it was real.

This is kind of wierd, but i did have nightmares for a few days after seeing the Black Dahlia. That mangled body laying in the grass near the end of the movie just got in my head somehow. fucking crazy.

oh and AJA kicks ass. Seeing Mirrors soon. For those whove seen it, Did jack bauer Kick Ass?

[dj_casinova]

And who didn't twitch when the dead kid cut the ankles? :bigthumbup:


BTW - "Life... 2 inches to the left." Classic 70's Show. Awesome!

[Scrilla]

Tales from the hood. The short tale about the miniature dolls from teh painting that like ate people and shit...I fucking hate dolls

[edkemper]

When I was a kid I watched John Carpenters The Prince of Darkness alone in my parents basement. When the movie went off I went upstairs and everybody had gone to bed being that it was the middle of the night. It freaked me out a bit, especially when I went to the bathroom and we had like four big mirrors on the walls. I just think the situation that you watch a movie can indeed make a movie scary that wouldn't normally be.

But I belive someone said if you liked the B W P your opinions don't count, so I guess mine don't count then.

[Beware]

Fuck it...I am not ashamed to admit it, Little Monsters...you know with Fred Savage of Wonder Years?

Yeah I know its a kids movie, but I saw it when I was like 2 and it freaked me out to the point that up until I was 10 I had my whole room light on and I ate no doritos (I fucking love those)

Because the monster couldn't live in light and he liked doritos lol. Howie Mandel was fucking freaky looking with horns and blue with dots.

Yeah, something about the first movie to scare you, even if you watch it much later in life, you still kinda cringe even if it isn't scary.

DON'T JUDGE ME.

[bloodrunsbitter]

oh and AJA kicks ass. Seeing Mirrors soon. For those whove seen it, Did jack bauer Kick Ass?
He did up until the last 10 minutes of the movie. I was so pissed I wanted to punch an infant. I love Aja and I don't know what he was smoking but that ending was whack. Everything until then was good though. :ahheh:

The movie that scared me the most was Ju-On. And A Tale of Two Sisters, too, those really got under my skin. The Red Shoes wigged me out too.

[bloodrunsbitter]

Also, that French film "Them (Ils)" scared the holy hell out of me. I nearly peed my pants. I watched it on a dark stormy night in my house alone. Fucking movie.

[steelba]

The Exorcist

[FreddyFreakChica17]

The two movies that effected me the most were "Pet Semetary" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street". When I was little I saw a preview for a Child's Play film and I couldn't sleep for days...Chucky scared the crap out of me - but now I'm older and find him histerical. As for children's movies that scared me - Ms Trunchbull in "Matilda" scared the hell out of me. Still kinda does...:straightface2:

[dj_casinova]

He did up until the last 10 minutes of the movie. I was so pissed I wanted to punch an infant. I love Aja and I don't know what he was smoking but that ending was whack. Everything until then was good though. :ahheh:

The movie that scared me the most was Ju-On. And A Tale of Two Sisters, too, those really got under my skin. The Red Shoes wigged me out too.



...Awesome... Im seeing that today. Aja Rocks. Watching the Unrated Saw commentary right now.

[woodenheart]

The opening scene in The Night Of The Living Day 1968...til this day freaks me out...yeah simple scene but the atmosphere and the black and white does it for me. Also when I was a kid my brothers and I watched The Texas Chainsaw Masscre. I handled it ok...went to bed...then they went to the shed and got our chainsaw and went under my window and started it up......needed new bed sheets!

[dissident]

I thought that for years but then screamed repeatedly in The Strangers -- which is ridiculous, it's not even terribly scary, but on opening night I think the atmosphere was such that everyone kinda gets scared together. Whether or not you can be scared by a movie has a lot to do with aspects the movie has no control over: culture, audience, audience setting, current events, personal experiences, etc. I think everyone still has the potential to be scared by a movie, it just has to strike the right personal/atmospheric chords, and for someone who's such a huge fan of the genre we pretty much develope an immunity to the usual fright tricks of movies, so at a certain point of experience in the genre, an experience level so high that even the most original horror movies seem at least a bit formulaic, we need to get personally involved in a movie to really feel an affect.

I saw The Strangers a second time two days later and was totally unfazed by it, which convinced me of the impression your surrounding audience can make on the experience.

Anyone else not like The Strangers or am I alone in this one? I watched it last night and was bored most of the way through. I know I should have enjoyed it, as it is just the kind of movie I usually look for but I just couldn't connect with it in any way. The lengths of tension and dread were lost on me because I didn't feel for the characters and was just hoping one of them would die soon.

If I was watching it in the cinema though I probably would have got more involved and found the experience much scarier. The whole mass hysteria effect while watching a horror movie in the cinema is such a buzz.

My List
Older Movies:
Nightmare on Elm Street
Candyman (not scary in itself but the whole premise freaked me out as a child)
The People Under the Stairs
Poltergeist 3 (scary things with mirrors freak me out)
Childs Play (mainly because my sister had a life sized doll at the time which I had nightmares about practically every night for 4 years till she got rid of it)
The Exorcist
Pet Semetary
Evil Dead 2(my fave film of all time. The bit where linda is sitting there laughing and saying "we're gonna get you" creeps me out so much)
The Vanishing/Spoorloos

Newer Movies:
Event Horizon
Thirteen Ghosts (not a great film but the ghosts were original and scary)
High Tension
Ju On: The Grudge
The Descent
Them/Ils

Haven't found many recent films that genuinely scare me, most newer ones seem more about the shock factor and dishing out buckets of gore than genuinely building up a terrifying tension and atmosphere.

I think part of the reason the older movies are so much scarier to us is the sense of nostalgia they carry, which brings us back to all our childhood fears.. when we really were scared of monsters in the closet.