iamtheone

I want to start out by saying sorry if there is already a thread like this. BUT, I am a true horror buff and am very curious on what scares you!

So, gimme a top 3 maybe of what you think the scariest movie of all time is......


1. Exoricst. (by far the best out there)
2. Damn, nothing even comes close for me. Can they not make a good scary damn movie anymore?


What are your thoughts. Maybe you can point me to something I have yet to see.

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Redjake

event horizon

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Averett

Dark Night of the Scarecrow.

That movie freaked me out.

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Never heard of it, i will have to check it out. Children of the Corn rip off or something?

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kwoodmex

1. Exorcist. (just plain ole fuct up)
2. The Shining
3. Magic (ventriloquist dummies freak me out)

Mothman had me pretty freaked out, although I wouldn't call it scariest ever...

Stompy

I was bored by the Exorcist the *entire* time. It's the most overrated horror movie of all time, IMO.

Honestly, I've never ever been scared by a movie, but as a huge fan of the horror genre, I'd have to say either the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre or the Night of the Living Dead trilogy.

Kinda OT here, but if you're like me and are experiencing a lack of truly terrifying entertainment and you NEED something to really scare the hell out of you, I suggest checking out the Survival Horror genre of video games. Games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc. The Silent Hill series has to be the most terrifying and disturbing of them all.

I've given up on finding the "scariest" movie, and instead get my creeps from playing Survival Horror games, and they do a damn good job of scaring the hell out of me. If you're up at 2 AM looking for something to do, you'll think, "Well, I could play Silent Hill," and a part of you will actually not want to play it because it's so terrifying.

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Charlatan

The Ring (or Ringu)

Low on the jump in your seat scale but very high on the creepy scary meter.

Just thinking about it six months later still gives me the willies...

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Kadath

I know this is going to get the boos, but Blair Witch had me jumpy for a few weeks after. Of course, I had to walk down a wooded, unlit street at 5:00 AM every weekeday those weeks, but it was still scary.
It was pretty effective when I was younger.

But I agree with Stompy about Silent Hill. 3 was pretty tough to even watch my roommate play in the nighttime hours.

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Averett

I dunno, never saw that one. Doubt it.

Basically theres this retarded guy, and he's friends with this little girl. (It's been awhile since I saw it, forgive me...) I think the guy gets killed, but he really doesn't, he hides inside this scarecrow and goes and kills the guys who were mean to him.

Something like that.... Saw it years ago on TBS after a Braves game. Scared the hell outta me.

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iamtheone

Love the survival horror games. Love them. Walking down a dimly lit hallway only to have dogs jump through the window behind you. The 7.1 system is cranked and the lights are out! Yes.

OK, Night of the Living Dead and Texas Chainsaw? Man, those crack me up more than anything.

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iamtheone

there was a show on Discovery or TLC called "Haunting in Connectcut" - was very good. Family moved into a old funeral home, only to have their kids terroised by ghost. Check it out !

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gnort

Alien, aliens and the Exorcist really freaked me out....

of course I was a youngin' at the time.

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Stompy

Yeah, I crack up at 'em too There's still that certain something about 'em... the realism that makes them so terrifying. I don't see the dead coming to life anytime soon, but they way they portray that situation in the "Dead" movies (with the news broadcasts, etc) is just Grade A horror, IMO.

Actually, there is a movie that scared the hell out of me as a kid: Return of the Living Dead.

Now THAT movie is flat out comedy/horror and is meant to be funny, but even watching it today there's still that certain aspect of it that makes it creepy as hell.

I believe that if you took elements from Return of the Living Dead and mixed them with those of Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead, you'd have yourself one kick-ass zombie flick

iamtheone

Did you see the new Dawn of the Dead? Looks great!

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I also really liked Blair Witch. It seems to be the film everyone loves to hate. After seeing it my girlfriend at the time and I couldn't go to sleep, so we just got drunk so we wouldn't be so freaked out.

I enjoyed the Exorcist....it was a good movie, but I really didn't find it all that scary. I think it's a case of over-hype though. The first time I saw it was about a year ago. All I had ever heard was that it was the "scariest movie ever!" When I finally saw it I felt kind of let down. I'm sure if I had seen it back when it first came out I would have shit my pants.

Stompy

The DOTD remake was actually pretty good! Not as good as the original, of course, but very entertaining if you're a fan of zombie flicks.

I originally thought it was gonna be a cheesy remake with the way they it stood apart from Romero's original series and how they made the zombies more like those from 28 Days Later, but overall it was enjoyable. In fact, I think it was more enjoyable than 28 Days Later.

The beginning is jaw dropping. The amount of chaos and destruction they show in the city before they get to the mall is just amazing.

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kwoodmex

I agree, my exact reaction in the theater...." HOLY FUCKING SHIT!! "

I love when movies start out with chaos and carnage.

micah67

I don't like when scary movies take the cheap shot and have something jump out at you. Suspense or a mind-fuck is my requirement.

Exorcist is the top of my list. I know it's silly by today's standards but it still freaks me out.

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Lotronex

Battle Royale-Not horror scary, but the whole plot device of the goverment abducting middle schoolers and having them fight to the death just sacres me to fuck.
Signs-Scary as fuck until you get a clear shot of the aliens. Seriously great suspense that is missing in alot of horror movies, demons don't scare me if you see them every 5 minutes. When you only see a pale leg or hear a creepy voice, that is scary, M. Night Shamalon(sp?) fucked up a movie with great potential

Ov3rKiLL

i would have to agree wiht a few people on this thread and say the exorcist, i have never seen the old one but i saw the last one that came out in the theaters and it was scary.

noahfor

i've only ever been scared by two movies, the first one was witches, a comedy, but i was very young, and the second was event horizon, that movie freaked me out for a week, i felt terrible for a week i was so scared, but i was young then too, honorable mentions go to the exorcist, and the new texas chainsaw massacre, dishonorable mentions go to blair witch, which i thought was funny, and the old texas chainsaw massacre for being popular, because it was just a joke to me, leatherface has like an afro

iamtheone

Event Horizon? What is this about.

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Event Horizon creeped me out only because Spoiler: The quick flashbacks of the crew mutilating themselves was fucking disturbing. Surprised it wasn't NC-17 because of it

I'll put in a vote for Poltergeist. Shouldn't have watched that when I was only 8 years old.

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kwoodmex

One of those future spaceship can go faster than the speed of light through some hyperdrive (or whatever you wanna call it) movies. Only it vanishes on it's maiden voyage and then reappears with the entire crew gone. The ship comes back posessed because as it used the hyperdrive it transported to another hell-like dimension. A crew is sent to investigate the ship and find out its whereabouts during the time it was gone. Needless to say all hell, literally, breaks loose.

It might not sound that good, but it's friggin badass, definitely check it out.

Redjake

I only saw about 15 minutes of Event Horizon, didn't know anything about the plot, and it was enough to make me turn it. And I don't "turn" movies.

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Kadath

Event Horizon sucked the ass. I'll admit, it was disturbing; the group had to watch Aladdin afterward to feel better, but the movie was not good. See also In The Mouth of Madness with Sam Neill. The man sucks at horror.

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The Changeling

To this day, the movie that still freaks me out when I see it.

Booray

I still think the first Halloween is a great horror movie. Very creepy.

I agree that Signs was really good/creepy up until near the end of the movie. Shyamalan's got a new movie coming soon called The Village that looks like it's got potential to be pretty good. You can see the trailer here:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchs...age/large.html

I remember seeing that same Dark Night of the Scarecrow too when I was a kid (probably on TBS too). Haven't seen it since then, but still remember how creepy it is. Looked on Amazon and it's not out on DVD and the VHS is out of print. They have some used ones for sale. I'd love to see it again.

I think Jacob's Ladder, while not exactly a horror film, was a pretty freaky movie.

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Stompy

Jacob's Ladder was sweet. Ditto on that, wasn't really "horror", but it reminded me a lot of Silent Hill in that it was just... odd (The rapid head shaking left and right)

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Final Destination

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Jaws

mattevil

Man none of these films have scared me, Entertaining? yes. Scary? no. I can't think of anything except maybe NOES but I saw that when I was three and it was only the idea of a guy in my dreams haunting me rather than the actual movie.

teph

The Omen freaked me the fuck out. I had to take a break in the middle and turn the lights back on. Granted, I was 13 at the time, but my roommate couldn't stand it, either, and he saw it last year

Roark

Only movie which really scarred me when I was little was Witchboard. Haven't seen it in awhile. For me now it has to be more psycological than gore to get under my skin & I haven't seen a movie in awhile do that. Although i'm told the Original Ringu series is very good if you can stand the subtitles.

iamtheone

Session 9 was pretty good. More psychological than anything, if ya have not seen it, it is worth the rent. Blair Witch was good when I downloaded the shitty version off the net and before anyone knew what it was..... I did not get into the Ring that much. I bought the Japanese versions before I seen the American cut. Cabin Fever was pretty cool, a different spin on things. That Darkness Falls was not too bad either. What can I say, I watch all the horror flicks...
The Gates of Hell. Good for a classic horror flick. Salem's Lot was great, the lost boys... But still, Linda Blair growling tops it for me. Truely a masterpiece!

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Charlatan

I saw this at a drive in theatre when I was 11 or so... very creepy movie.

George C. Scott is a great actor.

Stompy

I hated the Ring. Way overhyped. Everyone's all: "It's scary! You should go see it!!" But... I noticed that it was PG-13. Something was amiss there.

I saw it... wasn't scared. Didn't find one second of it to be remotely terrifying. It was entertaining, sure, but the overwhelming disappointment from the fact that it was overhyped and marketed to be the "scariest film in years" will forever ruin that movie for me.

Sorry, but I don't think any PG-13 movie can be remotely considered scary

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I have to agree that Event Horizon was a freaky movie. The Ring was also a very creepy movie, as was Mothman Prophecies. That damn movie had me freaked out for days. I got to doing some research on the net about it afterwards, and that just made it worse.. /quietly locks those memories back into the vault.../tosses key. Another movie that had me jumping was The Others. It wasn't scary at all, it was just one of those BOOOM make you jump kind of movies in places.


I've never been a huge fan of the genre. Particularly the "hack and slash" freddy/jason style movies, so I can't give much comment on those.

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kwoodmex

Those slasher flicks are never scary, just good clean fun if you enjoy gorefests

On a side note, Mothman phenomena has been reported in a small town in Texas within the past few months. I don't remember where exactly, I just remember reading about it briefly, I'm curious as to what might have resulted because of it, hrm, I might have to do some research.

Booray

Thanks for the mentions of The Changeling. Looked good enough that I added it to my Netflix queue and it'll be coming in a day or two.

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