Scariest movie ever.
 

I just saw the exorcist recently and it scared the shit out of me. Normally I don't care how many bloody figures I see or how many ghosts pop up but this movie was just plain wierd. Maybe the director/write was having an acid trip? Who knows.

great movie, scared me when i was a little kid, but not anymore, but my wife still wont watch it

Scary movies
 

My wife won't watch any scary movies. They give her nightmares.

I wanted to go to the Director's Cut of Alien, but no dice.

I'm not a huge fan of very scary movies either, but I did like Alien and I enjoyed the English language version of The Ring.

Yes, I nearly pooped myself in the cinema.

Mr Mephisto

PS - SnakeByt, your avatar is not exactly soothing on the nerves either. :-)

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was mighty scary in my younger years

Both exocist and alien scared the crap out of me when I was younger, now it's nothing. As an adult, I haven't been scared but a little. The only movie that had me tense was Flatliners. Something about the movie had my blood pressure up.

Red Dragon wasn't that scary, but I did feel that tense feeling you talked about throughout most of it. Very weird. I thought pet cemetary was pretty scary, it gets my pick.

For my 12th birthday I told my dad I wanted to see Aliens. For the next several weeks whenever I was trying to sleep and heard the duct-work cooling and making that faint 'popping' sound in the vent I soiled myself.:(

I have to say, there are some great picks here. The exorcist scared me so much when I was 10 that I didn't sleep for three days (hmmm...maybe that was the start of my insomnia.) Over all I think that Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the scariest movie I've ever seen as an adult (the original of course.)

Stylistically, Flatliners was a great movie too. Love that scene on the metro with the little girl cussing Kevin Bacon.

The part that scared me the most in Exorcist was when the mother just got home and the lights were out, and there, over the stove was the face of the demon staring at her through the blackness. That's exactly the kind of thing I felt was watching me when I was alone in the dark. I felt that way before I saw the movie and the after I saw it my fears were justified.

The Ring was the most scary movie I've seen actually. Who would've thought a little girl could be so goddamned scary?

The Exorcist was scary. And I thought the video and that creepy little girl from The Ring was pretty frightening.

I haven't seen a good scary movie in a while. The last one I remember scaring the bejeebus out of me was Children of the Corn. I seen it when I was fairly young and I remember it kept me up for a while.

At age 19, after seeing The Ring, it took me months to get to the point that I wouldn't have sudden panic or anxiety attacks while alone and in the dark. Just for comparison, seeing The Exorcist when I was 8 or 10 creeped me out for one night, maybe two.

I saw The Seven Samurais when I was 2, past midnight, with my parents sleeping. Didn't move me one bit ;)
I actually thought The Blair Witch Project was really scary. I had heard the rumours, but knew they were actors and it was only a movie. But it was just so well done, and I saw it with some friends at night in total darkness. It creeped me out, mainly because the mood was just right I guess.
That's gotta be one of the most perfect ways to market a movie, by the way. Pure brilliance.

the one where harvey keitel shows full frontal... ew...

I'd have to say that Jaws really did it for me... of course I saw it when I was quite young and impressionable...

after that I would say Karen Black's Trilogy of Terror. The was three short scary stories. The one with the Zuni Fetish Doll that comes to life and chases her around an apartment with a knife seriously freaked me out... again saw this as a kid.

More recently I'd have to say that The Ring wins for the creepiest film of all time. Not so much scary as a slow burn creepfest... still sticks with me.

The Shining. Jack Nicholson just gives an incredible performance, and creeps me out.

Also, I found some of the scenes (especially the first one) in 28 Days Later to be pretty scary. They dont phase me anymore, but when I first watched it, that movie freaked me out.

Snakebyt's avatar brings up "It"

i fucking hate clowns

Magic.

ventriloquist dolls are pure evil !!!

Pee Wee's Big Adventure. If that scene with Large Marge didn't scare you, nothing will.

Flatliners was pretty scary for me it was the little boy in the hooded sweatshirt... also the omen I and II, after watching the kid falling through the ice... with him stuck under there and the people trying to break it to free him... i still can't go ice fishing for because of that damned movie...

and don't laugh but parts of watership down gave me nightmares for weeks... it was when the one bunny dies and afterwards you just see this black bunny silhouette hopping around... nightmare city

DB

Aliens. When the "rescue" crew comes upon the lady pasted to the wall, and she's alive, then the chest-popper comes out of here while she's still moving...then I believe they set her on fire to kill the chest-popper. Gave me nightmares for weeks. I was like 9 or 10 or something. I wasn't even watching it. I walked into a hotel lobby while the desk clerk was watching it.

And I'm sorry, I have to politely disagree with hu-man. Blair Witch was possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. But hey, to each his own. I'm glad someone liked it.

ET gave me nightmares

I think you all owe it to yourselves to watch Ju-On: The Grudge. Next to The Eye, it's the scariest movie I've seen. And there are a lot of scares in it.

Asian horror movies are still way better than western horror movies.

A lot of people say that the ring is the scariest movie in the world but I have yet to see it. Apparently the part in Willy Wonka where they take the boat ride into the tunnel was so scary that even Fox wouldn't air it. And this was meant to be a G-rated childrens movie. The part of the Exorcist I remember the most was when she ran down the stairs upside down and hands first and then shot blood everywhere. It was so quiet and then BAM. It also helps that people only go down the stairs like that by accident.

The Ring did it to me... upon the second viewing I realized that it was the audio tracks that did it to me. I'm very sensitive to sound.

Additionally, Event Horizon creeped me out big time.

Unfortunately I was trapped in a rehab/private school/concentration camp for the past few months and I missed 28 days, among other things...I'll have to rent it, I always hoped it would be Resident Evil done correctly.

Anyway, I would have to say that the scariest movie I've ever seen is Lynch's Mulholland Drive. It wasn't meant to be a scary film, but it had scenes where I was just totally confused and mindfucked, then out of nowhere something crazy would occur to scare the piss out of me.

The black screen and white face shot of pazazu (the demon) from the exorcist brings that film to a close second place, though.

If that movie freaked you out, you should definetely check out Lost Highway. my favorite Lynch flic.

I also have to say the Gremlins frightened the bejeebus out of me as a child. I had nightmares from like the age of 2 until I was about 12 or 13. Damn gremlins!

Rosemary's Baby is a pretty darn scary movie. Not crap your pants, jump out of your seat scary... but very mentally creepy.

Well done too. A must see for any movie lover.

~smeesh

This one did'nt cross my mind until I read it here.
That movie scared the crap out of me as a youngster!
I'm naming my kid Corky

The Ring, Hollywood version. (The Japanese version, which I saw later, is still scary but vaguely silly...I can't explain it.)
I was 27 when I saw it and I didn't sleep at all that night. I'm kind of ashamed to say that I had to get on to the film website the next morning and look up tons of information on it just to reasssure myself that it was just a movie.

I was scared by the common scary movies when I was younger (Alien, Exorcist, The Shining, etc.), but as an adult, the only movies that actually got a rise out of me were The Ring (American version), because I've always been afraid of water when I can't see the bottom, so that well scene at the end made me shit myself, and In The Mouth Of Madness, starring Sam Neil. In the beginning of that movie, Sam is sitting in a cafe with this woman discussing something. There's a large window right next to them, which gives you a nice view of the street and the people across it. Then, a guy with a trenchcoat stops on the other side, looks your way, then approaches the window. I never noticed him until he was right by the window, looking inside at Sam Neil, holding a fire ax. I don't know why, but that scared the fuck outta me.

The most recent scary movie I've seen is 28 Days Later. I was grateful that there were other people in the theatre...

I'll have to say that the only movie that has had me creeped out recently is The Shining. We watched it three times in a row on Halloween last year, and every fucking time it got me. I had never seen it before. I've seen The Ring since then, and it simply wasn't as scary as everyone says. My brother did tell me a few things about it, but he said it still should have been scary as hell. And it wasn't. :( I watched it at 9:00 PM in the dark as well!

The Shining just had the whole "big mansion nobody here but ghosts and a psycho" thing going. Retro Crush's scariest movie moments of all time had the scariest part of The Shining: when the wife is running up the stairs of the mansion away from Jack, and she looks across the hall. You see a doorway, and inside the door is a man sitting on the couch with another man in a bear-suit kneeling down in front of him staring STRAIGHT at the camera. People who've seen this scene probably know what I'm talking about. Me and my 21 year old friend almost pissed our pants and had heart attacks simultaneously just because of that one scene. The "weird" parts of that movie were way scarier than the actual "scary" parts.

-Lasereth

Hell yeah, gotta agree, that scene was so incredibly unexpected and weird, definately one of the best frights in any movie.

First EVIL DEAD, SUSPERIA (actually any Argento film), Blair Witch, Gothic (no not teh recent Gothica - the one with Julian Sands), Picnic at Hanging Rock. All those are good for fright...

The Joy Luck Club

EVENT MOTHERFUCKIN HORIZON

The first time I watched it I thought Sam Neill was going to eat me while I slept. And I was 22.

the exorcist

Man, Event Horizon didn't scare me as much as make me dizzy and give me a headache. The tried a full assault on the viewers senses with that movie.


Exorcist is one of my picks. But it loses points for resorting, in my opinion, to cheap quick cuts and those kind of scares where something jumps out from the side of the screen.

The Original TCM was much more unsettling.

Then there's Nightmare on Elm Street which scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. But doesn't do much anymore. Although I still think it's kind of creepy.

The Ring is overrated IMO. I haven't yet seen The Eye but it looks promising.

The Shining is one of the all-time shityourpants scary films, both on cheap jump tactics and the psychological factor.

Though it doesn't get me as much anymore, Night of the Living Dead, the remake, creeped me out. Tony Dodd getting killed after becoming a zombie, just so damn unfair.

As of late, imagery and actual plot are what scare me. Hellraiser is downright mindfuckery (concept of a skewed heaven and hell.. for those who have seen it "jeeesus weept, hahahahaha")
Event Horizon would have been better had they gone to hell, but the scenes of abject perversion make it one of the betters. In the Mouth of Madness is one of the better films depicting Cthulu, though it didnt seem to have that realistic edge to it.. didnt really frighten me so much as fascinate. Plus Sam Neil is a spectacular actor.

As for 28 Days Later, thats more of a social commentary than anything else. Its a very eery film, seeing London deserted is surreal enough. Certainly the running infected give the zombie genre a shot in the arm :p

If anyone else has anything to recommend please make yourself known... im off to try to find copies of HR2/3 for an initial viewing... "well tear your soul apart"

The Blair Witch Project got me and my better half. But in all honesty, the Ring was one of the scariest movies I have seen.

I too have to say that honestly I wasn't to frightened by The Ring. In fact the end where the girl comes out of the tv to me was really just dumb.

I do remember watching Aliens a long time ago though and that truely scared me. I remember being very paranoid for a long time. Also, when you guys mentioned In the Mouth of Madness some of the imagery truely did scare the shat out of me.

Blair Witch was the scariest movie I've ever seen. I was watching it by myself at home at night. I actually had to turn the movie off until the next morning. I was like a frightened school girl!

I have no idea why it got to me like it did but it scared the piss out of me.

I was watching the shining in the middle of the day and I had to turn it off. I kinda knew what was going to happen so just seeing him on his big wheeler was scary. Oh the anticipation was horrible.

I can't think of any scary movies at the moment. Blair Witch was the opposite of scary for me. It pissed me off more than anything... I thought the characters were dumb and nothing about it scared me. Maybe it's because I grew up and lived in a secluded, wooded area?

It's not a scary movie, but Donnie Darko creeped me out the first time I saw it whenever Frank was on screen.... that's a scary costume.

The original Psycho.. and for one reason.

I was watching it one night and my dad snuck up on me where they are about the turn the chair around that the mom is sitting in and he grabbed my shoulders..

I have never jumped that high in my life from laying down on my chest. I guess it is the intensity and suspense instead of the horror / scary part.

Hah, i remember that. I saw that as a kid and it scared the crap out of me, but i saw it recently and couldn't help but laugh.

Another traumatising childhood movie was It. I had a room full of clowns, clown wallpaper and everything, and i had to sleep in my parent's room for two weeks while my room was redecorated.

I know I'm too old now but I really want to get a Frank the bunny costume and scare a bunch of little kids for halloween.

Anything relating to Zombie's.

Saw Blair Witch before it camem out to all the movie theatres. Saw the preview in San Diego. It was frickin frighting,

Exorist is creepy. Aliens.

Basicaly all the movies posted are scary. Now if we talk about gore. I have to say Ichi The Killer. That grosses me out.

But all good films.

28 days later and the exorcist there was too much wierd shit going on creeepy...

PUPPET MASTER scared the shit out of me when i was young

The Shining gets my vote too.

I didn't really find the Ring to be all that scary. Didn't strike me as a good movie at all.

We can't forget the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The first Halloween really got to me when I was younger.

The Ring, it's not that scary, you just don't know what to expect.

Scary is a subjective term imo... scary as in "oh my god i just jumped out of my seat and spilled my drink that startled (scared)me" or "dear god can you imagine if that was you, oh thats scary"

"The Ring" was a bit of both of the above

Poltergeist to me was scary for I saw it young and it haunted me for quite sometime...but movies today dont last past the exit sign outside.

I think that may be due to the fact that people already know about the cheap scare tactics. If you've never seen someone get stabbed to death in a movie then its scary but if you see it a million times over it loses it's effect. Thats probably why so many of these comments have been "It scared me when I was a kid".

i agree with 3zos...the shining is the scariest...
but i would say hands down...there isn't anything else!!!

I have to say Exorcist. It is the only movie I can think of that I found generally unsettling, there are a couple of moments watching it when you find youself thinking "um... this is pretty bad..."

I watched it at the cinema, and I never heard so many people talking in a film, which is prolly a sign they were getting spooked too!

Suspense is what really creates the horror. It's not just what you see that's scary -- it's what you're afraid that you're _about to_ see..... Hitchcock was really good at this. And your father is a sadist :-).

Scariest movie I ever saw had no blood or gore; it was the original 1963 "The Haunting" with Julie Christie. Almost made me wet my pants, and they did it all with sound effects, lighting, camera tricks -- and suspense. Highly, highly recommended.

Dr. Giggles I think is the name. It was a movie I saw on Cinemax when I was like 12 about a doctor who like to cut people up.

The Ring is probably the most scariest movie I've seen in the last 10 years. It just had all the right stuff to do me in. :)

When I was a kid, the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie scared the holy bejeesus out of me. Jason, or the Friday the 13th movies, never really scared me, but damn.... Freddy getting me in my dreams? Yeah. Scary.

when i was a kid- poltergeist- could not watch a snowy t.v. for i don't know how long- would freak out if one was left on till the stations went off the air,

now- I would have to vote for the exorcist- freaky, erie, whatever, it just sticks with you...NOTE, the demon is real, as in they have little statues of him - they are found often in mid eastern digs, and the local university in my town has one in the art and archaeology museum- finding that out freaked me out - had just seen the film for the first time and was at the museum on a whim with a friend who I had seen it with, and theres this little stone demon head in a glass case complete with label and a couple paragraph description... neat but scary. I am a natural skeptic, but no way would I put a REAL demon in my movie were I the director- not that i belive, but why take the chance....

as for blair witch- it was a great idea, great marketing, but shitty execution, fuck- by the end I was begging the damn witch to kill those moronic kids and get it over with- the fake documentary on sci fi was quite good though- have a copy and watch it more than the movie itself...

event horizon was loud, but not imho scary....

the trilogy of terror freaked me too, haven't seen it as an adult but need to- that zuni doll freaked me out something fierce...

Say what you wish about The Blair Witch Project, it's the only movie that ever truly chilled me to the bone. Of course, it didn't help that I watched it alone, in a dark room, after a couple bong hits.

Ju-On (the tv-movie, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330500/ , NOT Ju-On: The Grudge)

This is way waaay waaay more scarier than "The Ring", regardless if it's the japanese version or the american remake.

I still have nightmares and I'm afraid of sleeping alone now. :P

You can read about it here, and view a few pictures... I'm not going to the link myself, because the background picture gives me nightmares.

http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/juontv.htm

I would have to agree with Rodney that suspense hightens the overall scariness. "The Haunting" is a very good example of this.


As for my overall scariest movie ever....

3) The Ring: very good overall... but lacks the punch after multiple viewings

2) Blair Witch: As a young child, my sister and I would often spend entire days playing and exploring the massive forest behind our house. We even found a scary old cabin waaaay back away from everything. This movie brought back every single youthful worry, anxiety, and fear that I ever felt. Unfortunately, like the Ring, subsequent viewings don't stand up.

1) The Exorcist. Hands-down. The pacing, the characters, the mood, and the climax all are absolutely terrifing. Can be watched over and over again.... if you are sadistic.

o shit, i remeber Dr. Giggles, that one had me scared of Docs for a awhile


I read somewhere that Sarah Michelle Gellar is going to be part of the american remake of Ju-On

Ichi The Killer is definitely, hands down, one of the goriest movies I've ever seen. I've never viewed fight and torture scene quite like the ones in there. Plus, it's not just about gore, the fucking title of the film appears in a pool of semen, for fuck's sake! You have to hand it to those Japanese...

Oh, and I would very much like to have my very own Ichi The Killer costume. Then I could drop kick people right in half.

I am well-adjusted.

i would have to say the ring for the most recent film to give me a little bit of a scare and shivers but nothing else since.

the exorcist freaked me out a bit but i had heard about it all that i was sorta immune to being scared (if that is at all possible) but there is one movie that i watched recently that did freak me out and im surprised no one has mentioned it


THE OMEN

this was actually a fairly freaky movie for me. it may have been cause i was watching it in the middle of the night with no one home and the house making all sorts of weird noises....

there are a couple of others that make me jump a bit and stuff but nothing worth mentioning

I must admit that The Ring scared the SHIT out of me...especially the part at the end when the little girl crawls outta the TV. When I first saw that part in the theater, I sunk waay down into my seat I was so freaked out! A few people in the theater actually screamed quite a few times too!:eek:

Showgirls.

the ring was the scariest i saw in the last few years.

The Shining. Scatman Crothers creeped me out almost more than Shelly Duvalls horse teeth.

my vote goes to the ring... that movie literally had me wondering if i was gonna die in 7 days... It was great

The Ring scared me pretty good. Scream scared me also but I think it was because I was young and watched it by myself.

The Shining was (and still is) pretty damn scary. The other ones that scared the hell out of me the first time I saw them were John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, the first Nightmare on Elm Street, and the first two Hellraiser movies. Also, the granpappy of ALL slasher movies, Psycho, did a fair amount of psychological damage to me when I was a kid (God rest Alfred Hitchcock's soul).

Return to Oz - Those wheelers and the lady who changes heads gave me nightmares as a kid. The whole movie very messed up.

Watching Alice Throught the Looking Glass was also kind of scary as a kid. The Jabberwocky was very menacing.

the chucky movies when i was a kid
latest:event horizon
i have the shining on my table but havent watched it yet...

The Exorcist is probably one of my favorite scary movies of all time. I went to grade school in Georgetown so I used to hang out on the steps all the time.

Blair Witch was an interesting one tho.. creepiest part for me was the end.

For me perhaps the scariest ever was the Omen. Considering that when I saw it for the 1st time I was around 10 years old. But after that I was sleeping with the lights on for days. In the same range goes aswell the Shining, both versions, but I do like more the one directed by Kubrick, Nicholson gave his ultimate best on that movie.
The 28 days later was a truly refreshing film that gave me the heebie jeebies again for a long time.
This thread gave good hints. I guess I have to get the Event Horizon and Exorcist soon. If they really are as good as you folks claim...

Yeah, poltergeist freak the shit out of me as a kid, specifically, when that guy tears his face off. I was afraid to pick at scabs after that... but i got over it.

Now on TV, Salems Lot did me in. That boy floating at the window sent me over. I was scared to sleep in my room, my parents wouldn't let me sleep with them, so I snuck in their bedroom and slept on the floor next to the bed. They said I couldn't see the 2nd part of the show, but I pursuaded them, and was promplty freaked out again.

i really didn't think the ring was that scary.. i dont see how everyone did the only part that got me in the whole movie was when she came out of the tv and maybe when they went to the well

I would also say the movie "IT". Clowns scare the crap out of me.

well chucky did scare the crap out of me when i was young, i was praticaly scared of dolls for like 2 weeks

but for now i would say "the ring" (american version) sure did made me piss my pants

right on, creepy flick. Watched it at night after it came out on video. Almost lost it. That rarely happens anymore. What a rush!

the night of the living dead (1968)

the Mothman Prophecies. not so much scary, but thoroughly creepy. especially since I had been through the Point Pleasant, WV area on a number of occasions.

The Ring hands down, the song was running through my head for days and I was totally tripping while on the computer or watching TV, a friend told me he slept with all the lights on. Still haven't watched it a second time.

I don't know why so many of you find Aliens scary though, I was like 6 when I first saw it and it's always been one of my favorite movies.

i'd have to say Event Horizon or The Shining.

I agree, Event Horizon and The Ring both had that scary, freaky, creepy mood going on. They were both so odd and just bizarre so you had no idea what would happen next.

The scariest movie I have ever seen is Wes Craven's New Nightmare. It blurs the line between movies and reality kind of like the Ring, but also different. When they start to make it seem like Freddy is real, that is scary.

I agree on Event Horizon. That was a scary movie!
I can also recommend... argh, what was it called! On a remote planet, robots in the ground with buzzsaws, which reproduced and repaired themselves... the freaky kid... one of my favourite movies, and now I can't remember the damn name...

I only saw about 15 minutes of Event Horizon, and Sam Neill scared me so bad I turned it.

And The Ring isn't that damn scary. Creepy at best. Watch it the second time and the movie is funny!

I think you are talking about Screamers.

Exactly! That's one creepy movie. To those of you who don't know it, it's sort-of sci-fi, but with more suspense and dread than your average sci-fi movie... it's really good!

Exorcist isnt that scary compared to The Ring, that movie just killed me

i did a double header of both movies not long ago

I have yet to see the Exorcist but really need to. The Ring is the only movie that really had me jumping a little bit, that scene when they zoom in on the first girl that died was really unexpected and pretty damn creepy, probably not really scary, but surely creepy. Blair Witch was scarier when I thought it was based on true crime scene evidence.

One of the most scared I remember being was when I watched the bloody scene of Summer School when I was about 5 or so. I grew up to realize it's a comedy...how depressing! Same thing for Gremlins ;)

OK, well I just wanna say that I too am of the opinion that The Ring was vastly overrated. I mean it was by no means a bad movie, but it was not that scary. Now The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, THAT movie is fuckin scary. The reason it scares me so bad is that it seems totally real to me. Instead of the lead characters doing the stupid scary movie cliche shit, they actually, for the most part, do exactly what people would do.

And now I'm going to say something that may discredit my opinion to you guys.

Jeepers Creepers scared the holy hell out of me. The way they played out scary things happening in the background of scenes was hellacious. I thought Jeepers Creepers was leagues scarier than The Ring.

I haven't seen the Ring yet...guess I'll have to rent it. I really didn't find the Exorcist scary, just really, really gross (well, I guess I found it a little scary--I won't touch Ouija boards because of it...hmmm...)

The House on Haunted Hill. The criminally insane scare the absolute shit out of me. And that twitchy doctor ghost thing? *shudders*

I also had nightmares after watching Hellraiser 2...

Jack Nicholson was scary in the Shining, but Shelley Duvall's acting was even scarier :p The book, now...that had me sleeping with the lights on for a few nights.

I'd agree that Event Horizon was pretty damn scarry, but for me the scarriest movie would have to be the 2nd Harry Potter movie. I hate, HATE, spiders, and damn there are a lot of those in that.

Requiem for a Dream, not so much that it scared me, but left me feeling disturbed and depressed. Good movie though.