What's The Scariest Movie You Have Seen?
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: wayneyg
I love scary films but there's not been too much out recently that has been too scary. I remember shatting my pants during the Exorcist way back in the day.
Anyone know of any decent scary films?
Posted by: ssj4gogeta
I can't really think of the scariest film I have ever seen is but I do rember seeing the exocist and I really did not find it that scary.
Posted by: mr. nails
laugh if u will, but when i was 5 years old i saw the movie "Evil Dead". scared the fuck out of me! what made it worse is that i lived in the woods at the time.
Posted by: Suphix
yeah, i feel embarresed to say it now... but when bairwitch came out i was only like 12. scared the shit out of me
Posted by: mr. nails
when bairwitch came out...
pr0n edition?
Posted by: Suphix
Sorry, The Blair Witch Project*
Posted by: Gripper
In the mouth of madness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/),this one got me as it was one of the first films I watched when I got surrond sound.
None recently have scared me.
Posted by: dave859
alot of so called scary films make me laugh most of the time ie.. saw,cabinfever,friday13th, so i would have to say films like blairwitch and the others
Posted by: wayneyg
alot of so called scary films make me laugh most of the time ie.. saw,cabinfever,friday13th, so i would have to say films like blairwitch and the others
Films that make you think are great.
Amityville (not the remake) was another one that scared me as a kid
Posted by: wolfy1
i was 13 when i watched texas chain saw massacre in the early 80's
that shit me.
Posted by: Guyver
phantasm's as a kid, spooky shit...
Posted by: chewbs
Blair witch was a classic and the end scene of the guy in the corner still freaks me out, but i watched the ring with an X and it messed me up. Not only that, but that night I guess I passed out and woke up to my tv all fuzzy. I was freaking out almost tossed the cat at the tv ....if someone would have came out. lol
Posted by: sapling
The Ring really scared the crap out of me first time I watched (with one friend, in the dark, at about 1am).
Posted by: SomeIdiot
The Chucky movies used to scare the hell out of me when I was a little kid. I really could not sleep at all for months after seeing one of them.
Nowadays the Internet has desensitised me. Nothing phases me at all now.
Posted by: sportcars
well for me
the ring 1
i dont see movies that scared me
Posted by: peat moss
Black Christmas
Posted by: theonlyspoon
When I was about 11 "Carrie" was on the TV.
I watched it alone in my room with the volume down (So parent's woudn't kick my butt) at about 11 at night on my old black and white telly. This was around 1981.
SCARED THE CACK OUT OF ME...
To this day I still haven't sat through it again.:fear2:
Posted by: jimbo12345
children under the stairs or summat
And a film where all the kids had silver hair and terrorized a town...cant remember that name either.
Laugh as u will....six sense recently!
Posted by: dandanoorosan
texas chainsaw massacre
Posted by: Tmaster
Evil dead
Posted by: cno81
I've only ever seen one scary movie, 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' (1978).
Posted by: jenopop
Black Christmas
I'm about to see this one.:happy:
Posted by: ahmedbakeer
scary movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: TYPE R
my has 2 be .IT. NOW THAT WAS SOME SCARY SHIT
Posted by: quickcycles
my has 2 be .IT. NOW THAT WAS SOME SCARY SHIT
that used to scare me as a kid, but not anymore.
The Shining gets me, both Kubrick' version and Stephen King's own TV version.
Posted by: jafogrits
The Ring was pretty scary at times.
Posted by: david02
When I was a kid I found the remake of ''the thing '' scary. recently I do not get scared easily but ''saw'' just gave me a weird feeling.
Posted by: ram82082
It... saw it when i was like 11, scared the fuck outta me. i was scared of sinks n sewers 4 months
Posted by: 100%
Jesus camp
Posted by: grchl3
I'm gonna go with the Exorcist. Scared the crap outta me the first time I saw it. Wish the new horror movies were up to par with it.
Posted by: LaPadula
those Faces of Death things leave you sleepless... especially the one where they show you serial medical decapitations for autopsy purposes...
Posted by: ms2656
excorcist
Posted by: fbuko
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Toolbox Murders
Posted by: Ivanov
The Ring, especially the first part :]
Ils (Them) and The Jacket are good, too, but not so scary.
Posted by: Chrys
The Grudge 2
Posted by: 007™
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (The Remade one)
Posted by: dtrain1234
the village was scary for me. i watched that when i was 17. yeah, i know i don't watch too much scary ones, but one really freaked me out!
Posted by: ciderman
the mother in laws home video - had nightmares for weeks !!!
Posted by: cotopaxi
I found White Noise a bit scary. Blair Witch was too.
There is an old black and white film called the Haunting (not the remake) which freaked me out a bit. That was more to do with the sound than anything on the screen.
I can't think of anything else recently that I found really scary.
Posted by: copit
feast is scary from the amount of blood n guts is in it ...
otherwise Scary movie 4 ;)
Posted by: mike7778
anything with Ben Affleck in it.
Posted by: midnight_angel2001uk
Film that really scared me when it came out all those years ago was The Exorcist......I still cant watch it....just something about it
Posted by: SkitzAnimator
Norbit.
Posted by: HlfORange
Alfred Hitchcock´s "The Birds". It´s old but really sinister.
And to a lesser extent "American Werewolf In London" has some good scary moments.
But the winner by a mile is "Jaws" still gets me every time.
Posted by: zx7r
"The Omen". That is the one that scared me as a kid and still freaks me out a bit. Not so much scary but more supernatural stuff.
When I was 8, "The Boogeyman scared me". Also "Amityville Horror" and "People Under The Stairs" was freaky.
I must admit "The Ring" was a bit creepy too.
Stephen Kings "Christine" was a good one too.
and who can forget " A Nigthmare on Elm Street" that was when I was like 14 and it got me good.
Posted by: Arczimodo
Ghost Ship :)
Posted by: milkman_dan
The first horror movie I ever watched was the remake of "The Blob" when I was ~7 years old. I had to sleep with the light on for almost 2 weeks because of that damn movie!
The most recent movie that scared the crap out of me was "Event Horizon" in the theaters. Nothing has REALLY creeped me out since...
Posted by: Eazil
The Sixth sense.
Posted by: phrenzy
I feel a little old , but Invasion of the body snatchers sometime in the mid 70's. I was 10. My parents got me to see it in the theater.. I jumped in bed w/ them for a week...Scared the shit out of me.. I just new there was a pod w/ me in it somewhere...yikes....
Posted by: Backslash
some "classic" horror movies are way overhyped. halloween is not, in the least bit, scary. texas chainsaw massacre just makes you frantic, but doesn't scare you that much. actual scary films are hard to come by.
Posted by: idan2901
i think saw 3
Posted by: davy2006
Saw movies :fear:
Posted by: Charmig_latino
The Boogey man
Posted by: leseven
The Ring
Coudln't sleep properly for 2 weeks!
Posted by: Travisbickle
The wizard of oz when I was A child.
The THING
Posted by: torrentslave
jaws
Posted by: khurios2000
the grudge
Posted by: zUFFm0ntAnA
the descent
Posted by: sempaii
Not really a scary movie per se, but I just watched 'Derailed' a couple of weeks ago. It has to be the most nerve-wrecking movie I've seen.
Posted by: asfarngay
The Ring part 1 .
Posted by: ram82082
im with Travis... i hated those dam monkeys in Oz.
but the only movies i remember being scared of as an adult wood be, IT(i was 12) and Darkness Falls(lol, slept under the blanket 4 a week).
that movie with the puppeteer lady looks like it might get 2 me.
Posted by: IceTee
Grudge (Japonese version)
Posted by: gossard25
Omen and silver bullet when I was a kid and probably grudge now
Posted by: Th3Duke
The Grudge & The Ring, also the final scene in Blair Witch freaked me out when I saw it..
Posted by: doinbox
nightmare on elm street 1 still scares me today. I think its the theme tune that does it.
Posted by: killuminati96
Pet Cemetary - a zombie baby & cat...creepy
&
Night of the Living Dead (Remake) - the zombie teen girl in the basement eating her own mother, the zombies in general, the music...all creepy
Posted by: THEWHO27
ring jap version
haute tension a french movie
Posted by: phantom_10
saw ...
Posted by: SkullForce
resident evil series
Posted by: caldus
Dracula
Posted by: suckit1
laugh if u will, but when i was 5 years old i saw the movie "Evil Dead". scared the fuck out of me! what made it worse is that i lived in the woods at the time.
Same here..... Could not see another one for a long time :sick:
Posted by: byneco
no maybe hostel
Posted by: DiveMasterQ8
any one before post shlould whatch Exorcist :)
Posted by: kilontek
When I was a kid nightmare on Elm Steet messed with my sleeping patterns without even seeing it, just my big sister winding me up was enough. Excorcist is probably the scariest and most disturbing srary film of all time for me though.
Posted by: bombi
Probably The Exorcist
Posted by: Fruktis
I think it is Hanibal Hoculust
Posted by: sc28
the grudge 1
Posted by: prisonbreak2
resedent evil
Posted by: Chrys
Blair witch 1 :-s
Posted by: eternalsin
Japanese horror flicks are damn scary!
Posted by: Rats
The Descent was pretty fucking scary!
Posted by: macking
Anybody seen the Japanese version of the ring?
I heard it was absolutely terrifying
Posted by: Muzza
Anybody seen the Japanese version of the ring?
I heard it was absolutely terrifying
The Jap version of The Ring is superior to the US remake. Both their sequels however are not as good as the originals in my opinion!
Posted by: himo
virus
Posted by: TYPE R
4 me it was, IT the clown
Posted by: medo
Silent Hill (http://imdb.com/title/tt0384537/)
Posted by: St0ry
Jesus Camp
Posted by: S!X
probably Texas chainsaw massacre the beginning, I don't watch horror movies really.
Posted by: askj
Hostel, Saw.
Posted by: mavg
Texas massacre
Posted by: DonaDony
The Descent,Pulse
Posted by: snake561
the ring
Posted by: emsee
I dont like scary movies :(
but the best one its The Ring(the original) The Japanies vertion
Posted by: cougar
nobody mentioned Psycho so far, it was the first movie what scared me, I still remember. I was about 12 years old at that time. The exorcist I saw when I was about 17 and I had to laugh out loud a couple times, especially when her head started to rotate. lol
Posted by: PastTense
I think the scariest movies date from when you were very young--and they gave you nightmares for months. So for me this is Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Posted by: sergeigurov
I guess that depends on what scares you. Scary for some may be boring for others. For me, the scariest films are the ones where the villians or events are most likely to be real. I found Serum (2006) to be profoundly disturbing due to its fundamental realism. :pinch:
Posted by: SnipeR19
I Hate Scary Movies
Its Scary...LOl
Posted by: wishmaster2
i really like scary movies and i'm not usually scared..but that time when i was watching The ring alone in my house...when that bitch got out of the fucking tv i got reaaaally scared...!!:P i had that image in my mind for days...
Posted by: Shando
The Grudge 2
Posted by: ArchStanton
When I was a kid I remember the first story in the British version of Tales from the Crypt actually making me shake!
Films really don't scare me any more though, I still sometimes jump during a particular scene but I wouldn't describe the feeling as being frightened. It is more a reaction to a change in music or a sudden shift in action.
The last film to make me jump was The Descent. It was the scene where she was calmly looking out of the window and her head was suddenly impaled by some flying steel poles (it turned out OK guys she was dreaming).
Films like the remake of The Hills Have Eyes bore me.
Posted by: kuzzel540
I used to have nightmares about nightmare on elm street as a kid. Now, looking back, the movies are so cheesy, they actually make me laugh.
Posted by: IdolEyes787
The Exorcist.
I don't think that anyone who has ever seen this movie ever forgets it.
Not the jump out of your chair scariest movie,but one that leaves you feeling ill at ease long after it's over.
Posted by: ericab
+2 on Haute Tension
+3 The Descent
Posted by: EyezSS
Blair witch project! It is quite different from traditional horror movies as the narrative is presented as a documentry compiled from the amateur footage.
Posted by: Septimus
I think any of Saw serie
Posted by: VillageShaman
1) The Shining
2) Funny Games U.S.
Posted by: arvind_sampath
old: omen (part 1)
new: ring (part 1)
none of the others are worth talking about.
Posted by: MiniMalistic
1) The Shining
2) Funny Games U.S.
the shining is one of the stehen kings movie ?
Posted by: arvind_sampath
yes, it is.
Posted by: VillageShaman
No. The Shining is by Stanley Kubrick with actor Jack Nicholson. It's the scariest movie ever made IMO.
Check it out: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/
Posted by: arvind_sampath
it's a stephen king novel adapted for screen by kubrick...i thought that was implied...to me knowledge, stephen king doesn't make his own movies...:)
it's there on my top five list, too...and you've gotta love the amazingly eerie soundscapes; especially the pieces in there by penderecki, are real horror sound classics!
Posted by: trebor31
The Exorsist
Posted by: VillageShaman
not just that sampath, the whole atmosphere created in the movie.
the changes in tone, from when he's normal, to when he goes "Cu-ckoo!"
scary shit i tell you
Posted by: IdolEyes787
Spatter films though momentarily shocking act more as a release of tension than anything.If violence is commonplace it inevitably loses it's impact.
One brutal scene in an otherwise placid movie though that can get under your skin and scar you for years .
Like you said shaman it's the everyday transformed into the horrific that is the most disturbing.
Posted by: arvind_sampath
@VillageShaman: Yes, i absolutely agree with you when it comes to The Shining. Kubrick is a true master, and like most of the best, his range is unbelievable...it's why movie goers who enjoy startlingly different genres, and who wouldn't otherwise have anything in common, all share a common awe towards him. Movies like The Shining, A Clockwork Orange and 2001, all from the same person...that's something.
IdolEyes787:
One brutal scene in an otherwise placid movie though that can get under your skin and scar you for years .
That's so true. Now this has reminded me of another great director i'd like to recommend here. Do not be misled, he does not make "horror" films; actually attempts at trying to pin his movies down, with any sort of genre classification or analysis, prove useless. David Lynch. And even as i read what you'd written, it immediately connected with a scene from "The Lost Highway", which i just can't describe(where the hero meets his ghost-faced stalker at a party), but it impregnates you, and comes back in the most unusual of times. All his movies are mindbenders, and the supernatural, otherworldly, dreamscapes he leads you into, will linger inside you for a long time.
Posted by: VillageShaman
yes I enjoyed the twisted scheme that composed "Mullholand Dr."
Very intense. Totally dreamworld/trippy/meshing into the real world. It's not so much scary as it is unpredictable, though, which is also the reason why it is a bit eerie.
Posted by: soulreaper
Quite frankly monster/ghost stories don't scare me mainly because I disassociate from them.If anything,I find them to be humorous.
I'd have to say the first 80 minutes(before the plot twist is revealed) of a french film called Haute Tension was one of the most exhilirating horror films i've ever seen.
Now if I only it had a better ending,damnit.
On a sidenote,I've always found Silence of the lambs to be chilling and it gets even more chilling with every viewing.
Posted by: IdolEyes787
I just saw Silence of the Lambs on television the other day.
I had forgotten how great Sir Anthony was before before he became a bit of a caricature of himself.
And soulreaper couldn't agree more about Haute Tension, the ending spoiled the whole movie for me.Kind of made the rest of the movie seem pointless.
Posted by: lolapa
American Pie!, i dont watch scary movies -.-'
Posted by: zyduuu666
"The eye of the snake" or something like that from 80`s :)
Posted by: formos
nightmare on elm street but it was when i was a child,now the scary movies doesnt exist
Posted by: markupmaster
I never watched too many scary movies but one that I remember was "The Grudge"...
:P
Posted by: mera
To this date, I can still remember The Ring (Japanese version). It was the first Asian horror movie I had seen and that ending......well, it gave me the creeps for a few days.
Posted by: yoco
I don't know how old I was when I watched Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 0:00 am. alone :)
Posted by: Septimus
In my childhood It was really scaring
Posted by: IdolEyes787
In my childhood It was really scaring
I loved the book(recommend it but it's a biggie over 1200 pages) but can't really remember anything of the movie except the clown with shark's teeth.
Posted by: neo24
The Exorsist
Posted by: clocker
Looking back, the two films that still have the greatest impact on me are Night of the Living Dead and Alien.
N.O.T.L.D. was grim, depressing and totally lacking in artifice...and in the end everyone dies.
Alien not only featured the classic "chestburst" scene but very cannily keeps the actual alien unseen for the rest of the film so you really have no idea what to expect.
Plus, there is the art of H.R. Giger and Siguerney Weaver in panties...what more can you ask for?
Posted by: IdolEyes787
Alien not only featured the classic "chestburst" scene but very cannily keeps the actual alien unseen for the rest of the film so you really have no idea what to expect.
Plus, there is the art of H.R. Giger and Siguerney Weaver in panties...what more can you ask for?
Ridley Scott (the director) apparently didn't tell the actors what was going to happen in the "chestburst" scene so that their reactions would be more believable.Their looks of shock and disgust are genuine.
No panties?:naughty:
Posted by: clocker
Ridley Scott (the director) apparently didn't tell the actors what was going to happen in the "chestburst" scene so that their reactions would be more believable.Their looks of shock and disgust are genuine.
I've read that too...interview with Veronica Car***ight, IIRC.
I was a bartender in D.C. when that film came out.
Up the street was a grand old theater and we used to comp drinks to the staff in exchange for invites to prescreenings.
They would hold midnight shows for the staff before the movies opened and it was always a great time...lots of alcohol and other stimulants- your basic drunken, stoned party in a big theater.
Alien scared the fuck out of the 50 or so people that were there...we stumbled out into the early morning in shock.
Ah, good times.
Edit: why is the board editing out her name?
Posted by: IdolEyes787
I was a bartender in D.C. when that film came out.
Up the street was a grand old theater and we used to comp drinks to the staff in exchange for invites to prescreenings.
They would hold midnight shows for the staff before the movies opened and it was always a great time...lots of alcohol and other stimulants- your basic drunken, stoned party in a big theater.
Alien scared the fuck out of the 50 or so people that were there...we stumbled out into the early morning in shock.
Washington back in the day must have been a very interesting place to live indeed.
Nice to know something about you clocker.
When I first arrived here, I'm ashamed to admit that in my ignorance, I made some assumptions about you not based on any facts.Nothing too bad just a knee-jerk reaction to authority.
I think that might be the scariest thing of all.
Plus of course at the very end of "Carrie" when...... well you know.
Best jump out of your seat moment if not really the scariest.
Posted by: clocker
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Eric_Cartman_Chickenlover.jpeg
Posted by: IdolEyes787
http://www.gamerevolution.com/images/misc/Image/girl_scared_and_wet.jpg
Posted by: devilsadvocate
In making my nomination the criteria is that the movie not only had to make the audience "jump", but also affected them afterwards.
My choice is IMO a masterpiece of cinematography because it had the lamest special effects and still had people jumping out of their seats and covering their eyes. Seeing this film really did make people nervous about "going in the water".
I nominate "JAWS"
If it were released today I doubt it would have a fraction of the impact but in it's day it truly was the definition of scary.
Posted by: kaffeine
In my childhood It was really scaring
I was 6 when I first watched IT and it scared the shit out of me.
Posted by: ligerpt
Shutter (not the remake).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440803/
That ending...OMFG!
Don´t miss.
Posted by: polemic
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Posted by: killuminati96
Night of the Living Dead (Remake)
I don't know why but this movie is so creepy to me I never watch it. (got it on tape)
edit: i wanna add "Event Horizon"..very good movie..creepy and has gore
Posted by: lebeer
Shutter(the original one) scared the hell out of me:D
Posted by: kp666
not the scariest but the goriest was the movie called INSide
Posted by: kp666
[REC] was also ok
Posted by: 0riGiNaLBoX
the last watched horror movie is THE EYE because i hate horror because i am fearful :(
Posted by: armandox
Halloween is very very Horror I can't see it again:cry:
Posted by: JLegacy
Pyscho, good movie.
Alien, yes, one of my favourite movies.
Posted by: jurdepur
Rec, haven't seen it but should be good
Posted by: n1lfeom
Encounters of the third kind..
Posted by: caranthonio
the eye
Posted by: morbius
The Exorcist: couldn't sleep for 2 nights after seeing this thing.
Posted by: j2k4
Looking back, the two films that still have the greatest impact on me are Night of the Living Dead and Alien....
I was weaned on horror flicks, and I remember attending Night of the Living Dead in hopeful anticipation of something that would make me jump out of my seat; no such thing happened, alas, and I remember thinking (with a bit of youthful pride) that I was probably the only person in the theater who hadn't made an ass of himself at some point during the film.
At the point I tried to rise in order to leave the movie house, however, I realized my hands wouldn't release the arm-rests of my seat...:ermm:
Posted by: sale
The Eye, god it's scary, i couldn't sleep next few days...:(
Posted by: clocker
Yeah, Jessica Alba will do that to you.
Posted by: kuracat
Dead End
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308152/
It scared the shit out of me :D
Posted by: Express
The Blair Witch Project is great watch it and enjoy
Posted by: mebaali
Henry the portrait of serial killer(not a pure horror genre but a very disturbing Psychopath story)
Salo or 120 Days of Sodom(another disturbing film this is an italian old classic with all possible exploitation in it)
The Thing(one of the best Sci-Fi horror i ever seen)
Mouth of Madness(an underrated surrealistic classic from Director of The Thing)
Posted by: zoom2zoom
The Shining
Posted by: mebaali
u r right zoom2zoom
i dont know how i missed it
one of the best atmospheric horror of last 30 years- The Shining
Posted by: deadalive1
Saw the Exorcist when I was 10 at the drive in, the other half was Jaws. Needless to say I didn't swim that summer and avoided priests like the plague. Absolutely nothing at all since then has been scary, gory yes, scary no.
Posted by: OTO
Saw
Posted by: ronaldo0o8
the ring 1
Posted by: Ramus
Saw
Posted by: eram
that is for sure [REC]!
Posted by: lostdemon
The excorcist
I remember as a little kid being forced to watch that crap.
All other scary movies especially these new ones aren't scary at all.
Posted by: GXice
When I was young it was Freddy Krueger haunting my dreams.
Recently I saw a Japanese film called Dark Water. Scared the sh*t out of me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Water_(2002_film)
Posted by: snx
check out a spanish movie called "the orphanage"