Scariest movie you've ever seen

[sheepsnot]

My favorite scary movie is the first Halloween movie, but the most scared I have been is when I was only ten and watched Night of the Living Dead in the theater. I had to leave before it was over and almost passed out from a lack of blood in my head. I was scared for many years after that whenever it was foggy outside. In recent history, The Ring has scared me more than anything else. Most movies just startle you over and over, but that one gave me the creeps each of the three times I watched it.
:frankenstein:

[elfworks]

i prefer the psychological thrillers to blood and guts kinds of movies

and at this moment i am having a gigantic brain fart and cant think of any scary movies i have seen!!

:D


xo

[sheepsnot]

Since this thread died an unnaturally early death, I take it most fans of Christmas are not also fans of scary movies? Too bad; you're missing out on a lot. It gets the blood pumping, which propels you right into Thanksgiving!

My scariest movie list, not exactly in order:
Night of the living dead (watched it in the theater when I was 10)
The Exorcist
The Ring
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (again, I watched it when I was very young)
Dracula (Bela Lugosi)
Willard (Again, very young. Became a temporary neat freak to avoid rats. Gave it up. Rather die from rats than from boredom.)
Halloween (1978)

[elfworks]

well, i am going to disagree with you there, snot. i think that all xmas fanatics have an intrinsic joie de vivre that extends to any and all reasons for fesivating. and as i said, i love scary movies and i even thought of 3 the other day then when i sat down here to officially answer, they poofed outta my head again.
i do have an excellent tale about THE EXORCIST (NOT APPROPRIATE for here will email)

on halloween i tend to go with the classics: hitchcock festival , rhps and young frankenstein!!

xo

[sheepsnot]

Don't know what them there french words are, but I got me a joy de gettin-the-bejeepers-scared-outa-me! And I did say "most," which means I knew that you and a few others also enjoyed it. Kinda dark though, dontcha think? ;-)

[elfworks]

<-------- snorting tea out my nose!!

xo

[sheepsnot]

Add this to the list of occasions that I'm glad you don't have a webcam.

[digbugsgirl]

I LOVE scary movies! I don't, however, like the really gory ones. I'm not a fan of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". I didn't want to watch "Saw" at first, but I ended up liking it because of the twist. I like "The Exorcist", "The Ring", "The Grudge" (which I actually had a nightmare after watching it!). I used to love the "Friday the 13th" and the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, but now when I look at them, they were kind of cheesy. I have always loved "The Amityville Horror". I haven't seen the remake yet.

[sheepsnot]

I was in my mid-teens when I read The Amityville Horror and thought, due to the fake news clippings in it, that it was real. It was really scary until I found out otherwise.

[dvdguy]

I thought amytiville was one of those "based on actual events" jobbies. like Mothman prophecies & gremlins

[sheepsnot]

You thought the Gremlins movie was based upon actual events?

[ReineV]

Sixth Sense!! Bar none!! I watched that movie in broad daylight with one of my best friends present, but I was still scared poopless!

[dvdguy]

just joking, but come on it could happen lol

[sheepsnot]

I have poured water on all my wife's stuffed bears and so far none have turned evil. One gave me the bird, but that's it.

[digbugsgirl]

The Amityville Horror is based on "reported" events. Nothing has ever been proven. Most think the family the movie was based on just wanted publicity. People that lived in that house afterwards never reported anything out of the ordinary.

[sheepsnot]

It would take guts to move in there after all those stories, whether or not you fully believed them. Most stories are based upon something real. I would have to give the house a pass. Maybe even the neighborhood. Actually, I think I could sit in a room full of ghosts and not even know they were there, especially if the TV was on. 8)

[MarthaK]

I never liked the bloody movies. I always get sick to my stomach and faint at the sight of blood. Those are scary AND gross.

However, I LOVED Rod Serling's Night Gallery when I was a kid. All the scary, none of the gross.

And when it comes to old time radio.... I love Vincent Price's Three Skeleton Key. A scary classic!

[sheepsnot]

When I came home from watching Night of The Living Dead I was, of course, scared out of my skull. My little sister was still a baby and was crying in the girls' room. (We had nine kids and 2½ bedrooms.) All of the sudden she stopped and I thought the dead folks had gotten to her, so I ran downstairs. (Yes, I know what a pitiful excuse for a brother I was!) I asked my folks if I could watch TV till I calmed down and they said I could. They were watching Night Gallery. I've never trusted them since.

[ReineV]

I have poured water on all my wife's stuffed bears and so far none have turned evil. One gave me the bird, but that's it.

I named my dog Gizmo because he looks like Gizmo from the gremlin movies....big ears and all! I've bathed him several times and he's never turned evil...or had little evil creatures pop out of his back, but hey....there's a first time for everything. I'll keep ya posted. :P

[dvdguy]

feed him after midnight. that should do it

[digbugsgirl]

My sister-in-law has a Chinese Crested (the hairless ones) that looks like the evil Gremlin (Strike or Stripe??) She has long black hair on the top of her head with a black stripe in the middle. It is so cool looking, yet so weird. I think these are pitiful looking dogs with no brains (they are very hard to house train, evidently).

[ReineV]

here's a picture of my little Gremlin Gizmo from when he was a baby:

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n177/Reine620/n33011390_30075777_8265.jpg

[digbugsgirl]

I definetly see the resemblence!

[sndgrdn]

Scariest movie...hmmmmm

Well, I guess the scariest was the first Halloween movie. I remember waking my parents up in the middle of the night because I thought I heard Mr. Myers in the house!! Now, I am a huge fan of all the Halloween movies. Got the DVD collection and have a Micheal Myers mask that I have worn on Halloween. Cant wait till Halloween 9 comes out!! Rob Zombie is one freaked out guy. The movie should be interesting to say the least.

[Ervserver]

The Thing and The Shining
are my top two scariest, 3rd would be Dawn of The Dead ( 1978 )

[Christy Carol]

One that I watched last year that freaked me out pretty good was The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Those kind of movies (ie: The Exorcism, Damien) always get to me more than slasher movies. When it comes to the devil and evil, well ya just never know.

[sheepsnot]

How about the bunny reenactment of The Exorcist? http://www.angryalien.com/0204/exorcistbunnies.html

[Ervserver]

Amazing, I wonder if they did RoseMary's Baby

[sheepsnot]

Or bunnies doing Night of The Living Dead: http://www.angryalien.com/0206/NOLDbuns.asp

[Ervserver]

here's a picture of my little Gremlin Gizmo from when he was a baby:
cute doggy

[mrshfromjersey]

When I was a kid, I couldn't watch The Blob. I don't know what it was about that movie, but it scared the poop out of me. I think that this movie has a lot to do with how I feel about Jello. I'm not a big fan.

The Sixth Sense was an awesome movie. I still get chills watching it, even though I know the ending. Unbreakable, while not a scary movie, was also cool.

Several years ago, I worked the 3 - 11 shift at a nursing home. While driving home one night, I found a radio station that played the old radio shows, you know - the scary ones. I would listen to them all the way home...and then I couldn't get to sleep. I think these were scarier because you used your imagination instead of seeing what other's imaginations thought things looked like.

[Ervserver]

Several years ago, I worked the 3 - 11 shift at a nursing home. While driving home one night, I found a radio station that played the old radio shows, you know - the scary ones. I would listen to them all the way home...and then I couldn't get to sleep. I think these were scarier because you used your imagination instead of seeing what other's imaginations thought things looked like.


this would be awesome, wish they did this around here

[mrshfromjersey]

If you have a Cracker Barrel restaurant near you, they sell the old radio shows on CD. I'll do some research to see if there are still some radio stations...maybe even online ones, that play these shows....and let you know.

[mrshfromjersey]

Try www.radiospirits.com

[mrshfromjersey]

Here's another good place for the old scary radio shows

http://www.live365.com/stations/ask_clyde

I'm listening now!

[Ervserver]

awesome...thanks ! :D

[mrshfromjersey]

If you join Live365, you can listen to this station....

http://www.live365.com/stations/gruesomegertie

[Ervserver]

Joined today :D

[sheepsnot]

You can't help but get your money's worth out of Live365. I'm listening to that station right now, Mrs. Dvdguy. It's part 2 of Salem's Lot. Wish I had heard part 1, though I read the book and saw the movie. It's probably my favorite King book.
:fangs:

[Ervserver]

It certainly has variety and the sound quality is very good

[JanaBanana]

The Descent
Signs (w/ Mel Gibson)
Wrong Turn

Im sure there were more... but cant think of them right now..

[megarrick]

I LOVE scary and thriller movies but I CANNOT watch "The Grudge". There's just something about that little blue japanese kid that just wigs me out!

[JayIsh]

ALIEN!!!

I almost left the theater...

[Billy Battles]

When I was a kid I used to get scared by movies and such. Now I can't get scared cause I know its not real.


The scariest thing about most horror movies now is the acting.

[Merry Sage]

Scariest movie eh? Well, if you eliminate the slasher/blood 'n guts variety (which covers most of what's been released the last decade or more) and go strictly by suspense/thriller I'd have to say;

The Changeling with George C Scott.

John Carpenter's The Fog

Cape Fear, the original. Robert Mitchum played evil and menacing ace!

Cry of the Banshee from 1970. I was a kid still when I saw this. Scared me silly.

For absolute, total, hanging-onto-my-best-friend-at-the-movies-when-we- went-to-see-it-scary.......Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Some of the Japanese horror movies are excellent too. I know there's more, I was a huge horror fan when I was younger, but I can't think of them at the mo. :frankenstein:

[kgstyles]

I would have to say the exercism of emily rose freaked me out the most. Now when I wake up and see it's 3 am I always think about that movie. Signs scared the crap out of me because I was living in an old farmhouse that was built in the early 1800's(and was haunted) that was surrounded by nothing but cornfields for 6 miles each way and the closest house was 4 miles away.

[sugarplum fairy]

For me, the scariest was The Exorcist. It gives me the creeps just typing that name. I will not let that movie be watched in my house at all. It really, really scared me!!!

[Cedarfarm]

Oh yeah Jay, Alien. That was frightful. That's how I feel after I eat Mexican food, like something is alive in my stomach!! LOL. Scariest movie...um... It would have to be "The Shining" the original with Jack Nicholson. Those twins holding hands in their blue dresses at the end of the hallway will be forever etched in my mind like a weird Diane Arbus photograph. Creepy...and Merry Sage, you came up with some good ones...I remember that "Cry of the Banshee", ohhhh wow, good scary.

[Cedarfarm]

The Exorcist...yeah, quite the scary movie in it's day. I was an "Usherette" (yes, we still had to wear a burgandy monkey suit with cap...this was in the late 70s!) at a old movie theatre and they told me I was too young to watch it. I did sneak a peek once in awhile. I remember the people filing out of the theatre white as ghosts and horrified.

[Sunshine73]

That's a tough one because I'm not generally 'scared' by the typical slasher, blood and guts type movie. Give me a good old fashioned psychological thriller or ghost story and I'll be having nightmares for weeks. :cry:

Off the top of my head, the scariest movies I can remember seeing were:

The House on Haunted Hill (original)
Thirteen Ghosts (original)
The Lady in White
The Others

Also, for the "realistic, this could happen" factor:

Silence of the Lambs
Copycat

[xlizxfraserx]

Bram Stokers Dracula,Darkness,Children of the corn..they all scare me :s

[kidzrme]

I have to admit that I have a sick fascination with vampire movies...I love all of the Blade movies, Van Helsing, Dracula etc...The scariest movie for me was Nightmare on Elm Street. I watched it against my parents knowledge when I was younger, not a good idea...:coffin:

[Annette1990]

The Shining with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall...

[kidzrme]

The Shining...That was scary!

[Andrex]

That's a tough one because I'm not generally 'scared' by the typical slasher, blood and guts type movie. Give me a good old fashioned psychological thriller or ghost story and I'll be having nightmares for weeks.

Off the top of my head, the scariest movies I can remember seeing were:

The House on Haunted Hill (original)
Thirteen Ghosts (original)
The Lady in White
The Others

Also, for the "realistic, this could happen" factor:

Silence of the Lambs
Copycat

House on Haunted Hill the remake is the scariest one for me. And luckily for me, there's a sequel coming out later this month. 8)

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/Aibou/Rthohh.jpg

The Ring is also up there. As much as I wanted it to, The Grudge didn't really scare me. And neither did the first Friday the Thirteenth, or the Nightmare on Elm Street Movies actually. I actually laughed pretty hard when Jason grabbed the girl at the end. :P

However, that seen in Jaws when the dead guy floats out from the crack in the boat scared me half to death.

[dvdguy]

Anybody see Ringu? Japanese movie they based the ring off of?
And keep a peek for 30 days of night, new VAMPIRE movie

[Andrex]

Anybody see Ringu? Japanese movie they based the ring off of?
And keep a peek for 30 days of night, new VAMPIRE movie

Yeah that looks interesting, if not redundant maybe. I wanted to see Ringu, but never got the chance..

[dvdguy]

well its a bit different since the movie takes place in an alaskan town, where night lasts 6 months

[Andrex]

well its a bit different since the movie takes place in an alaskan town, where night lasts 6 months

Yeah, I've seen the trailers. I'm a moderate comics fan by the way. cheesy

[dvdguy]

i never got to read the comic. I dont get to keep up with them much these days

[Andrex]

i never got to read the comic. I dont get to keep up with them much these days

Yeah, same. I just know its a comic movie, and being a comic fan, I have to know everything about it. x_x

[chanelsmile112298]

Im not sure if its scary its just really gross.
Those Saw movies.
Scared the yap outta me!

[kidzrme]

I will NEVER see any of those Saw movies. Same goes with Hostel and the hills have eyes....No Way!

[Billy Battles]

I will NEVER see any of those Saw movies. Same goes with Hostel and the hills have eyes....No Way!


I am not a fan of these type movies, however I actually liked the Saw movies. The other 2 movies you mentioned both are terrible.

[Jinglebelle]

Hostel! It scared me in ways I've never been scared before!! I'll NEVER watch something like that ever again! :-?

[Holiday]

The Amityville Horror is by far the scariest I have ever seen...but I was way too young to be watching it when I did, & I wouldn't sleep upstairs in my bed for what seemed like a year!! And then when I finally did start going back upstairs, every night before I would go to bed, I would peak out the blinds to make sure there were no eyes looking in at me & then I would pull the blinds shut super fast & fly into bed & cover up!!! Lol!!! :lol: Now...that has been a FEW (uh hum) years ago...I wonder if I would find it to be scary today....

The neighbors were telling me about Psycho the other weekend. They were saying that is so scary. I have never seen it before??

[kidzrme]

Oh, I almost forgot about Amityville Horror! Freaks me out!

[clarebear]

Eraserhead (1977) That's really freaky.

[pbrbullrider]

wow thats a good one humm might be "Fear" that was a good movie but kinda freaky

Jeff G. "bullrider"

[Annette1990]

The Shining

[auntieclaus]

Silence of the Lambs

[Iluvsantasandsnowpeople]

The Scariest movie I swa as a kid was the Spiral staircase in Black and white, I do not remember much other than it scared me. Then when I wasin my 20's my oldest was about 5 and he loved scary movies, again it was a black and white called the Hand. OH MY GOSH!! This was really scary!!
He stll remembers it.
Barbara:-?

[Maureen]

There's nothing scary about blood and gore (Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre etc.) they're just gratuitously violent and gross. Scary is when it messes with your head!

There's also nothing like a good old ghost story. One of my favourites was actually on last night (you probably missed itcheesy)

The Others. Really good story with a twist you never see coming

[sugarplum fairy]

The Others is a good movie. What a twist! I had to watch it again just because of the twist. If you haven't seen it, you need to.

[Rob]

The original '" When A Stranger Calls " When she thinks she is in bed with her husband, and it turns out to be the " Stranger "..
:rudolph:

[usafvet]

The Exorcist, hands down. While many other horror flicks I can view as "ah, that's fake"...that one is too close to spiritual warefare in correlation to my faith.

[DoubleA]

When I was a youngster "IT" scared me for a looong time. The exorcist ranks up there now, I got a scare the 1st time I watched the Blair Witch and it was very late.

[Maureen]

Yep - how to put people off clowns in one simple lesson!!!!

Mind you, clowns ARE scary!!

[santababy2]

I don't like Gorey movies. So I'd say Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[clarebear]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was kinda gory though.

[yolie8174]

dawn of the dead and night of the living dead, yuck its just too scary when the dead come to life

[santashelperkobrin]

13 Ghost scared the crap out of me!!!

~Santas Helper Kobrin:rudolph:

[ReineV]

Movies that scare the jeepers out of me:

1) The Shining
2) 28 Days
3) The Sixth Sense
4) The Ring
5) The Grudge

[xmaslilly]

I don't think there are any "scarey movies" to me at least.
I couldn't pick one out
My favorites are the Vincent Price movies
I have always loved watching them..there are good ones out there and then the bad ones.
I mostly watch them for fun and to get ideas for Halloween now.
I used to tell my son ..it's only a movie..it's not real. He now collects horror films.

[Courtney]

Final Destination 2 and Return of the Living Dead 3. Both scared the snowballs out of me. :-?

[Mumof2]

The original Salem's Lot! scared the pants off me! Of course i was only 6 maybe 7..Darn sister..lol

[starflake]

The Ring. *shudders*

[kelly ann]

I must've been about seven or something when I walked into my cousin's house one day and they were watching Nightmare on Elm Street in the middle of the afternoon!! Well I never slept properly for years after that!!! lol Scared the heebie jeebies out of me!! So now Im not much of a fan of horror films...BUT I am quite partial to the odd vampire movies. And am looking forward to seeing the Lost Boys Two.....

[clarebear]

The Orphange (2008) That was a pretty freaky movie.

[Maureen]

Vampires are my "thing"!!!!! How did I miss there was a sequel to The Lost Boys????!!!

Mumof2 - you're right with the first 'Salems Lot!! The way Danny Glick floated outside that bedroom window made me rather uneasy, I must say!!!

I must've been about seven or something when I walked into my cousin's house one day and they were watching Nightmare on Elm Street in the middle of the afternoon!! Well I never slept properly for years after that!!! lol Scared the heebie jeebies out of me!! So now Im not much of a fan of horror films...BUT I am quite partial to the odd vampire movies. And am looking forward to seeing the Lost Boys Two.....

[irishsnow]

Don't find any of them scary but couldn't watch some of the bits in the last Saw movie. Hostel was pretty gruesome as well

[michellibell]

I love scary movies... and I agree - the psychologial thrillers are way better than blood and guts. I can't finish those movies.
"The Exorcist" scared me so much that I swore I'd never watch it again...that stuff is too real for me.
Loved "What Lies Beneath," "Halloween," "Amityville Horror," "Jaws."

But I love the Scream series... very well made movies!

[Ms_Speedy_Elf]

The 1980 version of Terror Train .Went all by myself :#

I don't like scary movies to begin with.

[misjordi]

The ring, I hate scarey movies and watched it all bymyself in a dark house! How brave of me, ya right!! LOL!!

[Mumof2]

Vampires are my "thing"!!!!! How did I miss there was a sequel to The Lost Boys????!!!

Mumof2 - you're right with the first 'Salems Lot!! The way Danny Glick floated outside that bedroom window made me rather uneasy, I must say!!!


Maureen OMG that was the part that made my heart drop and I swear It wigged me out for weeks!!!lol

[JollySteve]

Mumof2 - you're right with the first 'Salems Lot!! The way Danny Glick floated outside that bedroom window made me rather uneasy, I must say!!!

Now that you mention it, I can clearly see that scene in my head. He tapped on the window with his fingernails, with the fog getting heavier behind him. To this day, I cannot watch that movie with the lights off.

[BritneyBug]

Some of the scariest movies I have seen....keep in mind I don't watch heavy gore movies anymore. (Saw, Hostel, The Descent, etc)

Silence of the Lambs. so creepy. I won't ever be able to forget the dinner scene.<br>

Dawn of the Dead (2004) - I was expecting less active zombies, and I was freaked out by this movie for a good 2 weeks after I saw it.

[Trinityjae]

Poltergiest 1 & 2. Couldn't sleep for weeks!

[trackrebel]

The Ring...it just totally terrified me...but was a very well done and thought thru movie...

The Saw scared me even more...but I didn´t like the movies...none of the Saw Series...to brutal...to crazy....

The Ring was the best too me....the second part was alright, too...but not as good as the first one.....I even watched the original Japanese Movies...but never really understood them, because they were relying a lot on Myths from over there...and I didn´t know them.

[snowytree]

I don't watch scary movies...Im a scaredy cat.:scarykitty:

[trackrebel]

I loved to watch them...but don´t do it anymore since my daughter was born...for whatever reason...they just scare me tooo much

[rodmonster]

For me it has always been The Exorcist. I have always been a holiday junkie of all kinds...
So at Halloween i enjoy the scariest things i could find and watch as a kid. Loved Dracula, Frankenstein, WolfMan, Freddy, Jason, Micheal, LeatherFace, Etc...
In the End The Exorcist scared the ba-gee-bers outta me! Still gives me a chill when the neck goes around... and on top of that the new scenes of her coming down the stairs upside down like a crab...rreeeaallly freaky.
This pic as a kid used to scare the snot outta me...........
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_siSdRISb4Ai8.jzbkF/SIG=126h4q4s9/EXP=1221958306/**http%3A//www.yourposterworld.com/images/Exorcist.jpg

[trackrebel]

oh yeah....that scene when she comes down the stairs....freaky...for real

[Faithmom6]

I don't do "scary" movies. Can't handle them nor stand them!
I guess the scariest movie I ever watched was "Fried Green Tomatoes"!!!

[MerryChristmasLydio]

My favorite scary movie is the first Halloween movie, but the most scared I have been is when I was only ten and watched Night of the Living Dead in the theater. I had to leave before it was over and almost passed out from a lack of blood in my head. I was scared for many years after that whenever it was foggy outside. In recent history, The Ring has scared me more than anything else. Most movies just startle you over and over, but that one gave me the creeps each of the three times I watched it.
:frankenstein:

Cannot think of one. I have seen a LOT of scarey movies. But I never get scared.:scarykitty:

[MerryChristmasLydio]

I don't do "scary" movies. Can't handle them nor stand them!
I guess the scariest movie I ever watched was "Fried Green Tomatoes"!!!


Yeah they say that Buddy still walks those tracks trying to find his shoe that caused him to get hit.:ghost::zombie:

[trackrebel]

my favorite villain out of scary movies are

1. Michael Myers....Halloween....this guy is sooooo scary....it totally freaks me out

2. Samara - Ring.......back in the year the movie came, that girl who played Samara won "best Vilain" at the MTV Movie Awards....when she received her award, people went crazy....she looked real cute then she bowed over the microphone....put her hair into face and then she went on whisperin in a Samarish way. "Everyone will Suffer"...which was the sentence Samara would say through the phone after people watched the video.....Peoples went crazy

[yolie8174]

my favorite villain out of scary movies are

1. Michael Myers....Halloween....this guy is sooooo scary....it totally freaks me out

2. Samara - Ring.......back in the year the movie came, that girl who played Samara won "best Vilain" at the MTV Movie Awards....when she received her award, people went crazy....she looked real cute then she bowed over the microphone....put her hair into face and then she went on whisperin in a Samarish way. "Everyone will Suffer"...which was the sentence Samara would say through the phone after people watched the video.....Peoples went crazy


She's a very cute girl

[trackrebel]

she is...but Samara is soooo friggin scary when she comes outta that TV-set

[MerryChristmasLydio]

I laugh at those monsters on TV and say, " NO ONE IS SCARIER THAN MEEEEEEEE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!"

[clarebear]

:-?I don't do "scary" movies. Can't handle them nor stand them!
I guess the scariest movie I ever watched was "Fried Green Tomatoes"!!!

Oh I love that movie with respect, it is cool, I love Kathy Bates, It is scary :)

[steven-and-angela]

the year without a Santa Claus :(