Both vote goes to the grudge & the ring. Both gave me the willies.
[quote]RABIDRHINO wrote:
1.) Fatal Attraction
2.) Don’t Look Now[/quote]
fatal attraction are you joking??
my vote goes to the ring. for sure.
The beginning of “Mothamn Prophecies” freaked me out a bit, but I thought it didn’t turn out very well.
I’ll take old-school X-files reruns over almost any horror movie nowadays, fear of the unknown always freaks me out more than hack and slash.
I remember seeing this really old black and white movie when i was a kid that just terrified me. I cant remember what it was called but in this one scene there was this creepy bald headed vampire staring through the window of this womans bedroom. For months after i would be terrified that the same vampier would be staring through my window when i pulled back the curtains at night.
Here is the scene Im talking about. Its probably laughable now but when i was a kid it scared the shit out of me. The movie is called, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror.
[quote]MODOK wrote:
Pumpkinhead[/quote]
One of my all time favorites.
The Shining
The Haunting “old BnW version”
Ghost Story
Jacob’s Ladder
SEVEN
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jaws I’m old enough to have seen this in the theatre. I had a hard time jumping in the pool after that.
Back in the mid-70’s there was a movie called “Sasquatch” - I was around 9 years old when it came out, and it was a documentary-like movie about Big Foot sightings.
I saw it in the theater, and it scared the crap out of me. I couldn’t sleep for a couple of nights after that - and then only with a light on. It really wasn’t that scary - but it played on my fears and made them real.
So with that in mind -
My daughter was 10 or so when The Grudge came out on DVD. She had been on this kick where all she wanted to watch was horror shows. She begged us to let her watch The Grudge. She was relentless. We told her that it was too scary for her. But that was like telling her she was a baby.
I made a deal with her. She could watch it - but there would be no head turning, or running out of the room. She was gong to have to watch the whole thing.
Good news is she has not begged to watch another horror film since. Bad news is - it’s been 2 years since I have slept through the night without having to get up and convince her that the movie was just pretend.
Yeah - I am a sadisitc SOB.
Jaws is always on the list, made 4 years in Hawaii hard too. And here’s the stupid one, The Blair Witch Project. I saw it at the movie theater when it came out and was under the impression that it was real, and that really freaked me out, I seriously couldn’t sleep for almost 2 days.
Recently I have to say The Grudge really got me, now I’m a huge Sarah Michelle Gellar fan since the Buffy days, and I won’t even pick up a copy of the movie or buy it. And don’t plan on it.
The final action scene in Silence of the Lambs has its moments of creepo.
“Erica Bimmel? Was that that great big fat person?”
After that gem of a line, it got at some pretty basic vulnerabilties we expose ourselves to every night by sleeping in the dark.
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
Yes! event horizon! that is the most scary movie I have EVER seen![/quote]
Event Horizon… hell, yeah! A hugely under-rated movie. I had no idea what it was about… and it freaked me the fuck out. Loved it!
I dont know about the scariest movie of all time, but I know the most shocking thing that I have ever seen in my life during a movie and that was the scene from Event Horizon where you are supposedly getting a glimpse of hell.
I dont know why that freaked me out so much but it was just creepy. Perhaps because I was brought up to believe that hell is real, and I do believe it is real. >END OF RELIGIOUS TALK IN THREAD< please do not start an arguement about heaven and hell lol those are my thoughts only.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
My favorite is Dawn of the Dead. The first time I saw it, it stayed on my mind for the rest of the night. Now, I’ve seen it at least 10 times since then.
The Grudge and The Ring would be next.
Others that are just fun for the sake of it being a “scary movie” but aren’t really scary…Wrong Turn, Resident Evil (the first one), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (for no other reason than to see Jessica Beil), and the first two Aliens movies (both of which are just classics and always will be).
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Yes indeed, Dawn of the Dead!
Something about zombies being able to run a 100m sprint in 10 sec seriously becomes a problem. For me that was the best feature of this film, in stead of sticking to the old stereotypes the bad boys in Dawn of the Dead are super fast giving them an extra edge. Limping, slow moving zombies are just not scary.
The idea that you can still run away easily steels the anxiety and fear of becoming someone’s Protein snack. I didn’t sleep to well that evening after watching the movie. I saw The Descent a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was pretty creepy, lots of gore and enough scares to keep you watching.
IT… But have only ever seen it when i was about 7.
When i was 11 I saw An American werewolf in london, Couldnt sleep for like a week. Then saw the Howling, Another week and I know there are probably not scary for you but I was at afternoon school and finish at 8 pm everyday and in order to go home i had to walk through this open field if i didnt walk round for like 15 more mins.
The village is good 'til u know were they are at.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
Back in the mid-70’s there was a movie called “Sasquatch” - I was around 9 years old when it came out, and it was a documentary-like movie about Big Foot sightings.
I saw it in the theater, and it scared the crap out of me. I couldn’t sleep for a couple of nights after that - and then only with a light on. It really wasn’t that scary - but it played on my fears and made them real.
So with that in mind -
My daughter was 10 or so when The Grudge came out on DVD. She had been on this kick where all she wanted to watch was horror shows. She begged us to let her watch The Grudge. She was relentless. We told her that it was too scary for her. But that was like telling her she was a baby.
I made a deal with her. She could watch it - but there would be no head turning, or running out of the room. She was gong to have to watch the whole thing.
Good news is she has not begged to watch another horror film since. Bad news is - it’s been 2 years since I have slept through the night without having to get up and convince her that the movie was just pretend.
Yeah - I am a sadisitc SOB.
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Ha ha. I remember ‘Sasquatch’ too…I was about 6 or so. It was one of the first movies I ever saw at the theater. In a two or three year period my father subjected me to Sasquatch, ‘Grizzly’ (a movie about people getting torn to pieces by a gigantic bear) , ‘Jaws’, and ‘Orca’, a ‘Jaws’ knock-off starring a vengeful killer whale.
My primary school nights were filled with nightmares.
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
Ha ha. I remember ‘Sasquatch’ too…I was about 6 or so. It was one of the first movies I ever saw at the theater. In a two or three year period my father subjected me to Sasquatch, ‘Grizzly’ (a movie about people getting torn to pieces by a gigantic bear) , ‘Jaws’, and ‘Orca’, a ‘Jaws’ knock-off starring a vengeful killer whale.
My primary school nights were filled with nightmares.
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I saw Grizzly as well. I think those two movies are the reason I hate mountains, and perfectly happy on flat wasteland of the Texas Panhandle.
[quote]ftothe3 wrote:
RABIDRHINO wrote:
1.) Fatal Attraction
2.) Don’t Look Now
fatal attraction are you joking??
my vote goes to the ring. for sure.
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Fatal Attraction is scary as hell bcause it is so realistic and possible.
Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the few horror movies I ever found remotely scary or even interesting.
I have struggled with sleep issues for a long time and that movie really touched a nerve.
Wes Craven was allegedly a prof at my college long before I went there and I lived on Elm Street my senior year.
I saw Halloween at a Saturday matinee when I was about 16. I remember breathing a big sigh of relief and unhunching my shoulders when I stepped back out into the sunlight.
Alien was another great one, especially when no one knew what it was going to be about.
I have to echo Plisskin on the werewolf flicks thing. The Howling – oh yeah. When Dee Wallace’s buddy is looking through those files and then that giant hairy hand calmly reaches out and takes the file from him — DUDE!
But the scariest part: Slim Pickens as a werewolf AAAAIIIIIII!!!
I saw John Water’s “Pink Flamingos” in 1973. The horror of these images twisted my young brain forever.
Anyone remember “The Legend of Boggy Creek”? It was a movie about sasquatch or something like it in the Bayou.