Great thread! You asked for truly “chilling” movies, so let me add two movies that no one has mentioned thus far. This is “old school” horror from the 70’s:
Don’t Look Now: starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Great horror movie about how they lose their daughter to drowning, so they move to Venice to start over. Julie Christie starts seeing her daughter walking the streets of Venice. Chilling.
Bonus! This movie has what many film critics commonly consider the best, most natural sex scene ever filmed. Some people think Sutherland and Christie were really having sex during the scene, but they have never told the truth.
The Wicker Man: Starring Edward Woodward (from the 1980’s “The Equalizer”) and Christopher Lee (Count Dooku and Saruman in a much younger role!). Freaky freaky realistic movie about paganism and the clash with Western Christianity. The last 20 minutes are freaky. Don’t watch the Nick Cage remake, it was terrible. WARNING! This link is the last 6 minutes of the movie.
I can only think of a few movies that scared me pretty bad
Quarantine
Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Cell
Martyrs
The Ring
I saw the Cell and the Ring when I was in in like 6th grade and they scared the crap out of me lol, phone rang seriously like 30 seconds after The Ring ended and we all started screaming hahaha, ended up being my buddies mom, so we didn’t die thankfully
[quote]Rattler wrote:
I may be ridiculed for this one, but I really enjoyed The Mist. It shows how primal man can really be, and how influenced we are on everything. I also thought the ending was the most gut wrenching thing I’ve ever seen.[/quote]
Dude, The Mist was fucking brilliant. Know why? It was essentially a DIRECT adaptation of Stephen King’s short story. There was one big difference, though, which was the resolution; there wasn’t one. While the ambiguity is what drove me to love the ending of the short story, the movie was filmed and shot really well.
I liked the first The Howling. I thought that was pretty good.
Event Horizon was chilling
The original When A Stranger Calls
“IT” until you find out it is a giant space spider. Pennywise is a scary no good clown
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I remembering seeing IT when I was maybe 12 or 13. Taking my nightly shower freaked me out every night for about a month.
One of the neighbor kids watched it with us, and at one part in the movie got up and ran out of the house screaming. He didn’t even close the front door. Then I remember getting in trouble because he was so scared he had to sleep in his parents bed every night for awhile after.
…one great horror masterpiece is the 1975 film “Profundo Rosso” [Deep Red] by Dario Argento. The italians at that time were responsible for many weird and sick horror movies, but this one fuses mainstream cinematography and gore perfectly into a unsettling reality that leaves you bewildered and apprehensive…
I just watched Mr. Brooks last night. It was pretty cool, and surprisingly Dane Cook was awesome. I found everything quite believable, the writing was on, the acting was on. Just an all around, good movie… with killing and stuff.
“YOU WON’T NEED EYES WHERE WE’RE GOING!”
(or whatever the line is…)
Haha, the scene that made it for me and that I used to laugh about a lot with an old friend is -
(not word for word)
“I relistened to the transmissions… and I think I got the translation wrong… initially I thought it was ‘liberate ma’ - save me… but listen… plays creepy-ass tape. … it’s ‘liberate tuttema ex infernus’ - save yourselves…from hell…”
[ok so I don’t know Latin]
That shit is so creepy it’s funny haha
The one that wins the prize for me though is Ringu. The American remake was what got me started with it but then I saw Ringu 0, 1 and 2 and that shit… man, I had issues for literally a few months!
I had a broken ankle at the time, had my leg in a cast. At night time when I went up to bed I would have to turn the downstairs light off and then go up the stairs on my ass, backwards and ahhh! In my mind I would imagine her shambling round the corner - those was some seriously fucked up times for me, no joke.
IT had me laughing so hard through most of it, the acting, the SFX and that damn spider hahaha
Pennywise is even less scary that Freddy!
Still, with Stephen King in mind, IT wasn’t nearly as big a disappointment as The Stand (one of my favourite fiction books).
Oh and The Grudge, I nearly walked out of the cinema because that movie was so piss poor…
[quote]SSC wrote:
Rattler wrote:
I may be ridiculed for this one, but I really enjoyed The Mist. It shows how primal man can really be, and how influenced we are on everything. I also thought the ending was the most gut wrenching thing I’ve ever seen.
Dude, The Mist was fucking brilliant. Know why? It was essentially a DIRECT adaptation of Stephen King’s short story. There was one big difference, though, which was the resolution; there wasn’t one. While the ambiguity is what drove me to love the ending of the short story, the movie was filmed and shot really well.
Plus, that giant monster at the end was awesome![/quote]
AW MAM I thought the Mist was the SHIT! and to top it all off they used a song by my favorite band: Dead Can Dance! W00t!
Good story, and yeah that giant beast at the end was awesome. It made Cloverfield look like some kind of gimp mini me lol
[quote]force of one wrote:
SSC wrote:
Rattler wrote:
I may be ridiculed for this one, but I really enjoyed The Mist. It shows how primal man can really be, and how influenced we are on everything. I also thought the ending was the most gut wrenching thing I’ve ever seen.
Dude, The Mist was fucking brilliant. Know why? It was essentially a DIRECT adaptation of Stephen King’s short story. There was one big difference, though, which was the resolution; there wasn’t one. While the ambiguity is what drove me to love the ending of the short story, the movie was filmed and shot really well.
Plus, that giant monster at the end was awesome!
AW MAM I thought the Mist was the SHIT! and to top it all off they used a song by my favorite band: Dead Can Dance! W00t!
Good story, and yeah that giant beast at the end was awesome. It made Cloverfield look like some kind of gimp mini me lol
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Called the “Ingens ridiculum…” Is supposedly 240-feet.
[quote]SSC wrote:
force of one wrote:
SSC wrote:
Rattler wrote:
I may be ridiculed for this one, but I really enjoyed The Mist. It shows how primal man can really be, and how influenced we are on everything. I also thought the ending was the most gut wrenching thing I’ve ever seen.
Dude, The Mist was fucking brilliant. Know why? It was essentially a DIRECT adaptation of Stephen King’s short story. There was one big difference, though, which was the resolution; there wasn’t one. While the ambiguity is what drove me to love the ending of the short story, the movie was filmed and shot really well.
Plus, that giant monster at the end was awesome!
AW MAM I thought the Mist was the SHIT! and to top it all off they used a song by my favorite band: Dead Can Dance! W00t!
Good story, and yeah that giant beast at the end was awesome. It made Cloverfield look like some kind of gimp mini me lol
Called the “Ingens ridiculum…” Is supposedly 240-feet.
Anything by Romero (the godfather of zombie)
All Evil Deads (to include Army of Darkness)
28 Days Later (My alltime favorite)
The Remake of Dawn of the Dead (well done IMHO)
and a recent British made film that I cannot recall the name of (sorry)
Has anyone seen the recent zombie flik involving Stephen Segall’s fat ass?
the mist was awesome. i loved 28 days later. i am partial to zombie flicks. i remember years ago when they showed the tv movie for stephen king’s It, i had nightmares about pennywise the clown and the sewer because it was given in two parts and my mind tried to finish the story when i went to sleep. that was odd because i read the book first and was still scared. my trick for scary movies when i was growing up and watched them late at night, which was when they always seemed to show them, was to watch a comedy afterwards; and never go to sleep right after.
[quote]SSC wrote:
Rattler wrote:
I may be ridiculed for this one, but I really enjoyed The Mist. It shows how primal man can really be, and how influenced we are on everything. I also thought the ending was the most gut wrenching thing I’ve ever seen.
Dude, The Mist was fucking brilliant. Know why? It was essentially a DIRECT adaptation of Stephen King’s short story. There was one big difference, though, which was the resolution; there wasn’t one. While the ambiguity is what drove me to love the ending of the short story, the movie was filmed and shot really well.
Plus, that giant monster at the end was awesome![/quote]
I’ve yet to read the story, but I liked the movie a lot. I’d have to say that I think I prefer the movie ending to the “non-resolution” of the story… while the latter is awfully depressing, the former is much, much more of a knife twist.
I know the movie wasn’t very good but when I was a kid I watched ‘Demonic Toys’. I don’t think I went near a Toys r us for about a year.
The Leprechaun was freaky to me when I first saw them, but then I actually listened to the dialogue and laughed my ass off. After the first one I quickly lost interest.
