Movies That Scare The Crap Outta Ya

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[quote]Kuz wrote:
MytchBucanan wrote:
“The Shining”

Other scary movies for me were…

Alien

A Clockwork Orange

The Wicker Man (1973)

Jacob’s Ladder

Steven King’s “It” (tv movie)

My curiosity is piqued about the original Wicker Man since it’s been mentioned a few times here. However, A Clockwork Orange?

Having just watched that movie about 2 weeks ago (I do a movie club with some friends), I am missing the scare factor. I mean, it certainly has an incredibly creepy vibe and raises some disturbing issues about society, the penal system, etc… but it’s not the kind of scary I would think of.[/quote]

It isn’t scary at all…and some would argue just how watchable it is.

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[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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My teenage daughter is a horror movie fan and has her own collection of horror movie DVDs. About a year ago she had a sleepover with about 5-6 of her friends (all girls) and they were up late watching a string of horror movies in the living room, spread out on the couch, chairs and in sleeping bags.

I went upstairs in my room and pretty much left them alone. But when they started watching The Ring, I crept down the stairwell with my mobile phone and right after the main character got THE phone call, I called my home phone.

I damn near had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing out loud as I heard, “I’m not answering it, you answer it,” “There’s no way I’m answering it.”

Eventually my daughter looked at the caller ID, then yelled, “Dad!”

I think I qualify for membership in the sadistic SOB club.

As for movies that scared me, it’s not the supernatural horror that scares me as much as the scientific. The Fly (with Jeff Goldblum) and Lawnmower Man scared me.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
It isn’t scary at all…and some would argue just how watchable it is.[/quote]

Not a fan I take it? I actually liked the movie, although some of the slang dialogue made my head spin. Some Kubrick movies I can get into… others seem basically impenetrable to me (Eyes Wide Shut for one).

Clockwork is one of those movies that, at its time, I’m sure was more than a little shocking.

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[quote]Kuz wrote:
Professor X wrote:
It isn’t scary at all…and some would argue just how watchable it is.

Not a fan I take it? I actually liked the movie, although some of the slang dialogue made my head spin. Some Kubrick movies I can get into… others seem basically impenetrable to me (Eyes Wide Shut for one).

Clockwork is one of those movies that, at its time, I’m sure was more than a little shocking.[/quote]

It’s hard to describe what made it scary to me. I think it was the temporary belief that mankind is still just a primal beast. Only when we are “healthy” do we have the power to exercise destruction.

I don’t consider myself a pessimist, but that movie makes it all too real while you are watching it. That, coupled with the visual narration that Kubrick was known for made it hard to watch the first time.

It scared me because it was so heavy.

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Scariest movie scene ever: The last 5 minutes of Blair Witch Project, when the girl is walking into the basement alone. It is the only time I’ve ever literally leapt from my seat in fear. The camera comes around the corner, you see the dude standing facing the wall, then… … … camera drops to the ground. Holy f’n crap.

I will say, though, that except for the scene with the ghosts scratching at the tent, the rest of the movie leaves much to be desired.

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[quote]jacross wrote:
I just cannot comprehend how anybody could find the Grudge scary. That movie was hilarious about 2% of the time, and dead boring 98% of the time.

I can’t even blame it on it being a yank remake. I watched the Japanese version and as it turns out the US version is better…AND THE US VERSION IS SHIT.

The Ring was good for a few jumps but nothing lasting.

The without a doubt, all time, scariest movie I have ever seen is Communion starring Christopher Walken. Woowee seeing that at 7 or 8 was a bad idea. Bloody aliens.

Bullshit ghosts blah blah don’t really scare me. Whenever I watch horror movies it always annoys me that everyone gets scared. “It’s just a bitch with a twisted back. Beat that bitch like she owes you money”. They don’t even try. Like a previous poster said “A ghost with a grudge, who gives a shit”.

Real life and realistic situations are much scarier than ghosts and zombies. The terror of a spirit is nothing compared to the terror of a man who has something very wrong with his head. You can see that every day.

That and mental asylums, I hate mental asylums.[/quote]

Yeah, The Grudge… I kept waiting and waiting… The only thing that scared me was the first closet scene… but I was expecting it. The kid just didn’t get to me after that.

I keep hearing about a movie called ‘Session 9’, which is right up the ol’ psychological terror tip:

“Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.”

–from IMDB

Apparently one of the crew finds the tapes of these sessions between a patient and therapist, and the crewman listens to the tapes as he’s crawling in the walls, removing asbestos. The sessions keep getting worse… It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that number 9 is the bomb.

I’ve heard that if you were terrified by The Shining, then this is right there, but more plausible/realistic.

I just can’t find the damn movie in stock!

Anyone seen it?

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[quote]Jimmy Tango wrote:
jacross wrote:
I just cannot comprehend how anybody could find the Grudge scary. That movie was hilarious about 2% of the time, and dead boring 98% of the time.

I can’t even blame it on it being a yank remake. I watched the Japanese version and as it turns out the US version is better…AND THE US VERSION IS SHIT.

The Ring was good for a few jumps but nothing lasting.

The without a doubt, all time, scariest movie I have ever seen is Communion starring Christopher Walken. Woowee seeing that at 7 or 8 was a bad idea. Bloody aliens.

Bullshit ghosts blah blah don’t really scare me. Whenever I watch horror movies it always annoys me that everyone gets scared. “It’s just a bitch with a twisted back. Beat that bitch like she owes you money”. They don’t even try. Like a previous poster said “A ghost with a grudge, who gives a shit”.

Real life and realistic situations are much scarier than ghosts and zombies. The terror of a spirit is nothing compared to the terror of a man who has something very wrong with his head. You can see that every day.

That and mental asylums, I hate mental asylums.

Yeah, The Grudge… I kept waiting and waiting… The only thing that scared me was the first closet scene… but I was expecting it. The kid just didn’t get to me after that.

I keep hearing about a movie called ‘Session 9’, which is right up the ol’ psychological terror tip:

“Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.”

–from IMDB

Apparently one of the crew finds the tapes of these sessions between a patient and therapist, and the crewman listens to the tapes as he’s crawling in the walls, removing asbestos. The sessions keep getting worse… It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that number 9 is the bomb.

I’ve heard that if you were terrified by The Shining, then this is right there, but more plausible/realistic.

I just can’t find the damn movie in stock!

Anyone seen it?
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I’ve seen it (as I like horror movies in majority) and while it was decent, it wasn’t THAT good and I don’t really have a desire to see it again. It isn’t an “Event Horizon” or even “Dawn of the Dead” in my opinion…both of which put many scary movies to shame in terms of the writing and the acting. I judge most movies based on whether I would ever want to sit through it again. That is why Superman Returns sucks to me.

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[quote]Mr. Mojangles wrote:
I saw the Japanese version of the Ring called Ringu before the American release and how my apartment was situated my bed perfectly placed to where if I were laying down I could see nothing but the living room t.v. Needless to say I didnt sleep much that first night.

Another one that got me was Event Horizon, I’ve never jumped so much in one movie in my life.

Poltergeist terrified me as a kid to the point that I hated sleeping in a room with closets that had mirror fronts.

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Event Horizon didn’t scare me, but it was one of my greatest moments ever scaring someone else. I was watching it with this girl, and she’s scared really easily. She’s also an artsy type, so she had a lot of paints lying around. So I go to the bathroom, use the red paint to make red lines on my face, snuck up behind her, and grabbed her shoulder. She freaked the fuck out. Gooooood times.

As far as ringu goes, honestly the Ring is far better. I just can’t take Japanese horror movies seriously, they’re too absurd. Also, the characters always have these backstories that they explain in the movie that have nothing to do with the rest of the movie and are just distracting.

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[quote]Colucci wrote:

Scariest movie scene ever: The last 5 minutes of Blair Witch Project, when the girl is walking into the basement alone. It is the only time I’ve ever literally leapt from my seat in fear. The camera comes around the corner, you see the dude standing facing the wall, then… … … camera drops to the ground. Holy f’n crap.

I will say, though, that except for the scene with the ghosts scratching at the tent, the rest of the movie leaves much to be desired.[/quote]

Maybe not the scariest scene ever but it scared the shit out of me.I thought the movie was real at the time.

Starting work at 6am in the dark on a winters morning was hard enough.but to make that long walk down to the garage in pitch black was very hard to do after watching blair witch :frowning:

The shining was a great movie.The scene where Jack walks into the room with the naked lady was great until she turned into the old laughing lady ewww that freaked me out.

Peace

King

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[quote]Jimmy Tango wrote:
jacross wrote:
I just cannot comprehend how anybody could find the Grudge scary. That movie was hilarious about 2% of the time, and dead boring 98% of the time.

I can’t even blame it on it being a yank remake. I watched the Japanese version and as it turns out the US version is better…AND THE US VERSION IS SHIT.

The Ring was good for a few jumps but nothing lasting.

The without a doubt, all time, scariest movie I have ever seen is Communion starring Christopher Walken. Woowee seeing that at 7 or 8 was a bad idea. Bloody aliens.

Bullshit ghosts blah blah don’t really scare me. Whenever I watch horror movies it always annoys me that everyone gets scared. “It’s just a bitch with a twisted back. Beat that bitch like she owes you money”. They don’t even try. Like a previous poster said “A ghost with a grudge, who gives a shit”.

Real life and realistic situations are much scarier than ghosts and zombies. The terror of a spirit is nothing compared to the terror of a man who has something very wrong with his head. You can see that every day.

That and mental asylums, I hate mental asylums.

Yeah, The Grudge… I kept waiting and waiting… The only thing that scared me was the first closet scene… but I was expecting it. The kid just didn’t get to me after that.

I keep hearing about a movie called ‘Session 9’, which is right up the ol’ psychological terror tip:

“Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.”

–from IMDB

Apparently one of the crew finds the tapes of these sessions between a patient and therapist, and the crewman listens to the tapes as he’s crawling in the walls, removing asbestos. The sessions keep getting worse… It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that number 9 is the bomb.

I’ve heard that if you were terrified by The Shining, then this is right there, but more plausible/realistic.

I just can’t find the damn movie in stock!

Anyone seen it?
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I have seen it. It wasn’t nearly as scary as The Shining, but it had its moments. I thought it was alright but not great.

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[quote]pookie wrote:
The scene in “Hannibal” where Hannibal Lector is feeding Ray Liotta’s character his own brain really creeps me out.[/quote]

Same thing here. Guys like Hannibal, that could very well be my next door neighbor, scare me far more than any supernatural slashers like Jason and Freddy.

A couple of scenes in Irreversible got me feeling really bad. In both cases the setup was so credible that I was thinking Oh my God he’s really going to do it!. The first one is where the guy threatens to cut the transexual’s private parts (never did it). The other is when the guy gets his face smashed in by a fire extinguisher.

I closed my eyes halfway, until the final crunch. I kept wishing the guy would stop, but he never did. Not to mention the sounds during the whole process. A little bit too realistic for my entertainment tastes.

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[quote]Colucci wrote:

Scariest movie scene ever: The last 5 minutes of Blair Witch Project, when the girl is walking into the basement alone. It is the only time I’ve ever literally leapt from my seat in fear. The camera comes around the corner, you see the dude standing facing the wall, then… … … camera drops to the ground. Holy f’n crap.
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Totally agree. That movie freaked the hell outa me. The Exorcist and The Omen are up there too. The zombie movies just make me laugh. Best/funniest zombie movie ever? Shaun of the Dead

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[quote]Midwest_Man wrote:
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.

My teenage daughter is a horror movie fan and has her own collection of horror movie DVDs. About a year ago she had a sleepover with about 5-6 of her friends (all girls) and they were up late watching a string of horror movies in the living room, spread out on the couch, chairs and in sleeping bags.

I went upstairs in my room and pretty much left them alone. But when they started watching The Ring, I crept down the stairwell with my mobile phone and right after the main character got THE phone call, I called my home phone.

I damn near had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing out loud as I heard, “I’m not answering it, you answer it,” “There’s no way I’m answering it.”

Eventually my daughter looked at the caller ID, then yelled, “Dad!”

I think I qualify for membership in the sadistic SOB club.

As for movies that scared me, it’s not the supernatural horror that scares me as much as the scientific. The Fly (with Jeff Goldblum) and Lawnmower Man scared me.

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Too funny! That was a good one! I’ll have to remember that one!

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I don’t know about about being scared necessarily, but a bunch of us went to see John Carpenter’s The Thing in a drive in in Phoenix when it was first released.

A handful of shrooms, a few joints and some 151 rum are a bad combination for watching a guy’s head drip off the end of a table with it’s popping, spurting innards after which it’s 6 foot tongue flies across the room, wraps around a table leg, pulls itself over while flipping upside down and then sprouts spider legs and starts crawling across the floor.

Great movie BTW. I’ve seen it 20 times since.

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Hostel shook me up. It wasnt so much scary as sick. And the fact that it was based on a true story…

I left half way through, leaving my younger brother in their. Needless to say he ripped me for that.

I just couldn’t watch!:frowning:

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[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
I don’t know about about being scared necessarily, but a bunch of us went to see John Carpenter’s The Thing in a drive in in Phoenix when it was first released.

A handful of shrooms, a few joints and some 151 rum are a bad combination for watching a guy’s head drip off the end of a table with it’s popping, spurting innards after which it’s 6 foot tongue flies across the room, wraps around a table leg, pulls itself over while flipping upside down and then sprouts spider legs and starts crawling across the floor.

Great movie BTW. I’ve seen it 20 times since.[/quote]

That is one movie I have always waited for a sequel to (the special effects used for that time were pretty damn impressive still)…but don’t want them to even try it unless they truly ‘get it’. Seeing as how it was done, they could wait 30 years and still make a sequel to it that would be relevant.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
That is one movie I have always waited for a sequel to (the special effects used for that time were pretty damn impressive still)…but don’t want them to even try it unless they truly ‘get it’. Seeing as how it was done, they could wait 30 years and still make a sequel to it that would be relevant.[/quote]

One of the classic sci/fi horror flix of all time IMO. It was reviewed horribly at the time. I agree the effects were first rate at the time and still carry it well. The claustrophobic setting was one of the best aspects.

Also this was Kurt Russell’s first truly adult role. A sequel done right would definitely be a treat. They left a very open ending that begged for one.

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If you wanna see a weird scary movie…take a look at The Audition.

It’s a Japanese flick, and i happened to catch the last 30 minutes when i was channel surfing one late night. Totally messed up…

Most horror movies dont really do it for me these days but i do remember being pretty damn scared at the end of Blair Witch, but i was a lot younger and caught up in the hype i guess.

The Shining is an awesome movies and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a good one.

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Eyes of Laura Mars! that was good with Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones, very scary.

Dog Soldiers, The Howling (the scene with the reporter in the Dr’s office)

Alien

IT (except for the ending)

Duel with Dennis Weaver

When A Stranger Calls (the original)

The Grudge

The Ring

I prefer less gore and more of the suspense.

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Snakes on a Plane!