i have to second the road with viggo that was one helluva movie… although i found his son really annoying…
The scariest movie I’ve seen was “Fire in the Sky”. It’s not a horror movie, but I saw it in the theaters when I was way too young. It’s about a guy who gets abducted by aliens, terrifying. I watched it again when I was older and was able to recognize that it’s not nearly as scary as I thought it was when I was younger, but it’s still a pretty scary movie.
The Descent: The concept is terrifying. Being trapped underground with some sort of creature.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original): Needs to explination
Sixth Sense: The concept wasn’t so scary as much as certain scenes really made me jump more than any other movie. Too bad all the other movies by the director were shit.
When I was a kid I saw The Godfather in an old theater with my dad. I think I was about 11 or 12. Do you guys remember the scene in the hospital when Michael is visiting his father and he’s realized that Vito is about to get hit? There’s a part where the tension is building (de-tuned pianos work every time for that shit) and Michael is in Vito’s room wondering what the fuck he’s going to do when all of a sudden the nurse walks in really quickly from out of nowhere. When I saw that the first time I jumped out of my seat!
The same thing happened the first time I saw Chinatown. The scene where Jake is at the fake Mrs. Mulwray’s home toward the end and he thinks he hears something in the pantry and its that fucking Lieutenant hiding in the pantry because they thought the killer had returned. When he comes out of the pantry that got to me a little bit too. Again, I was only about 12 when I saw it.
There was a goofy movie I saw getting out of basic training or maybe combat engineer training one evening, late 1980s, probably 86, maybe 87 — some kids cracked open a geoid (? rock with crystals inside) under a tree that had been struck by lightning, but it opened a gate to demons when one kid bled on it and then they were playing with witchcraft somehow.
All I remember are flashes:
There were moths that came before the demons, a bug zapper getting filled up and catching fire, and really, really creepy claymation demons.
Low budget, USA movie.
I also remember the kid reading Psalms at a demon and the demon torturing another kid in response.
I was kind of sleep deprived and overwhelmed when I saw it, probably had a couple beers in an empty stomach, and it scared me to death.
I am sure if I saw it with a good night sleep and ample food it would not be scary.
When I was in Pre school my teachers showed Gremlins on a movie day. Pretty sure I never recovered from that one… It’s funny now but when I was freakin 3 yrs old that sucked.
I actually used to be scared of the King Rat in the Nutcracker.
Arachnaphobia always gets me after the movie’s over as I start checking for spiders in my shower and bed sheets.
And lastly Jeeper’s Creepers
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
There was a goofy movie I saw getting out of basic training or maybe combat engineer training one evening, late 1980s, probably 86, maybe 87 — some kids cracked open a geoid (? rock with crystals inside) under a tree that had been struck by lightning, but it opened a gate to demons when one kid bled on it and then they were playing with witchcraft somehow.
All I remember are flashes:
There were moths that came before the demons, a bug zapper getting filled up and catching fire, and really, really creepy claymation demons.
Low budget, USA movie.
I also remember the kid reading Psalms at a demon and the demon torturing another kid in response.
I was kind of sleep deprived and overwhelmed when I saw it, probably had a couple beers in an empty stomach, and it scared me to death.
I am sure if I saw it with a good night sleep and ample food it would not be scary.[/quote]
Was it Ernest: Scared Stupid?
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
There was a goofy movie I saw getting out of basic training or maybe combat engineer training one evening, late 1980s, probably 86, maybe 87 — some kids cracked open a geoid (? rock with crystals inside) under a tree that had been struck by lightning, but it opened a gate to demons when one kid bled on it and then they were playing with witchcraft somehow.
All I remember are flashes:
There were moths that came before the demons, a bug zapper getting filled up and catching fire, and really, really creepy claymation demons.
Low budget, USA movie.
I also remember the kid reading Psalms at a demon and the demon torturing another kid in response.
I was kind of sleep deprived and overwhelmed when I saw it, probably had a couple beers in an empty stomach, and it scared me to death.
I am sure if I saw it with a good night sleep and ample food it would not be scary.[/quote]
The Gate?
A young Stephen Dorff was the boy in the movie.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
There was a goofy movie I saw getting out of basic training or maybe combat engineer training one evening, late 1980s, probably 86, maybe 87 — some kids cracked open a geoid (? rock with crystals inside) under a tree that had been struck by lightning, but it opened a gate to demons when one kid bled on it and then they were playing with witchcraft somehow.
All I remember are flashes:
There were moths that came before the demons, a bug zapper getting filled up and catching fire, and really, really creepy claymation demons.
Low budget, USA movie.
I also remember the kid reading Psalms at a demon and the demon torturing another kid in response.
I was kind of sleep deprived and overwhelmed when I saw it, probably had a couple beers in an empty stomach, and it scared me to death.
I am sure if I saw it with a good night sleep and ample food it would not be scary.[/quote]
The Gate?
A young Stephen Dorff was the boy in the movie.[/quote]
That’s the one.
“The Gate is a 1987 horror movie starring Stephen Dorff and directed by Tibor Takács. The movie utilizes stop motion, Harryhausen-esque creatures.”
Yea - sounds like The Gate.
[quote]barbarianlifter wrote:
Go see “Insidious”; then lie and say it didn’t scare you (or at least make you jump).[/quote]
Spoiler Alert!
Insidious was scary up until Darth Maul came in.
[quote]Bujo wrote:
The NeverEnding Story - G’mork freaked me the fuck out as a child. One of the few characters that ever gave me nightmares.
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That movie scared the crap out of me too. I was really young when I saw it and it was really scary for a kids movie.
The Ring.
Watched The Ring when I was 11-12 with my dad one drizzly, dark Sunday morning on pay-per-view. Messed…me…up.
Around the same time I watched the remake of the Machurian Canitate with Denzel Washington. Didn’t really scare me but really stuck in my head. All the pictures scribbled into the notebook and on the wall. And watching that soldier just sit in that chair and get suffocated with saran-wrap. Thinking about it even now makes me cringe.
I love the old slasher movies, not because they are scary/believable, just because I like watching them .I like all the Halloween movies, Friday the 13th, NoES. I like the remakes, too. Just not as much. I’m not a movie snob. But they are just fun to watch when I do happen to sit down for a movie.
Insidious had potential but pretty much everything in the second half of the movie killed it for me, except for the very end, when we find out the dad is possessed. I should have seen it coming a mile away, I mean, they put it in the title for pete sake, Insidious. But really, Darth Maul w/ hooves? Lol.
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
I found Rec rather disappointing, tbh - I expected it to be awesome but it turned into yet another virus/zombie movie. [/quote]
You should give REC 2 a fair shot. It explains the true cause of the “virus”, and the way the action plays out alongside the events in REC while leaving an opening for the third movie is really well handled.
Parts of Silent Hill were unsettling.
Not films, but:
Salem’s Lot
It
[quote]Bearcat97 wrote:
There was also a short story by Stephen King called “The Boogeyman” (it was in his collection of short stories called “The Night Shift”) about a monster that lived in the closet and killed the main character’s 3 kids. I read this in 7th grade and had trouble sleeping for months. I had to make sure my bedroom closet door was shut before I could even attempt to fall asleep. Even then, I’d keep one eye on the door.[/quote]
yea i read that shit too … that was a good fuckin’ story
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Creepshow I and II.
And it sounds silly saying it since it’s been so parodied and copied, but The Blair Witch Project was hands down one of the scariest pieces of film I had ever seen when it came out. I saw it in the theater and was home alone that night and for the first time in years I was genuinely scared to be in the house by myself. [/quote]
x2 for Blair Witch
Paranormal Activity was scary too.
But these kinds of movies are only really scary the first time around.
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Bingo. Blair With and Paranormal. I don’t go for blood-and-guts movies (although I thought The Host worked), but these two make everything happen IN YOUR MIND. When you’re a kid, it’s not that there are actually monsters in the closet or under the bed, it’s that you can’t see what’s there, so your imagination goes wild.
A lot of people consider these two movies lame, though.
Also, I think there should be a disease thread, where DJHT can lay out the awful truth.
Pet cemetary, why did u have to remind me that movie exists, scared the shit outta me as a kid. that and the original exorcist
Rob Lowe played a classic psychopath in the 1990 thriller ‘Bad Influence’. Good film I reckon.
When I was a kid we had a cockroach problem at our house. One day this 80s movie called “The Nest” came on TV about these mutant roaches that eat people. I think I stayed at a buddy’s house the next 2 weeks.