Scariest movie you ever saw?

[mykpart]

Forgive me if someone has already done this. What movie scared you the most? For me it was the original "The Haunting" made circa 1961, with Claire Bloom and Julie Harris. Next would be "The Tingler" with Vincent Price.

[koopie57]

1. that is so easy

it is a home video of my in-laws.....martini drinkin republicans....who refered to me as .... "the ick"

[mykpart]

2. Are you still married

to the fruit of their loins?

[Tom Kitten]

3. I'd second the original Haunting...

gonna watch it again soon! (you know, Halloween)...the book is even scarier, I read it straight through and towards the end my cat scratched at the door...just about had a heart attack!

[Sequoia]

54. Yea, the book

is scary. (I posted this already) Especially the part about the slithering people locked up in those trunks and then they get out. Horror! It rates as the scariest book by the way.

[Red State Rebel]

81. I've had nightmares...

about that cat attack!!! Jeez, I hate to even think about it!

[Pow_Wow]

91. Shirley Jackson's Book

one of the best ever. Titled, "The Haunting of Hill House" btw.
The original movie was quite good. The re-make was one of the worst movies of all time, IMO.

[Cloud]

4. Movies don't seem to scare me for some reason

But I would have to say the movie IT by Stephen King was pretty scary.

The video game Silent Hill was easily more scary than any movie.

[Love Bug]

42. Are you talking about the miniseries with Tim Curry?

Yep--scared the bejeezus out of me, too! Except the spider-thingie was dumb. But the clown--yiyi!

[NuckinFutz]

47. Excellent, definitiely

'They ALL float down here.'

[populistmom]

5. The Shining

When I first saw it anyway. It was the edited for TV version and I was 12, but I was up all night. Scared the crap out of me at the time.

[HEyHEY]

12. Yeah ...the reason that movie scared me was the continued deja vu I had

While watching.

[Kamika]

38. Same

that movie was the only movie that ever really scared me

[BigDaddyLove]

77. The film was pretty scary..............

but the book was REALLY scary.....the first and only time I've ever been scared by a book; well, once in the library, 'Slander' was making me uncomfortable....I flung a Howard Zinn title at it and ran out of there as fast as I could. :)

[Red State Rebel]

82. REDRUM - still makes my daughter scream.....

[wtmusic]

6. The Day the Earth Stood Still

When I was six years old, that is.

[Sequoia]

51. I saw it at that age...loved it

I stayed up late and saw it with my dad. I was more scraed of the US Military than the robot dude. Funny how that movie really speaks to us today. It's one of my all time favorite; we could sure use him now!!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Blue Velvet

Scared me more than any horror movie I've seen.

[populistmom]

9. Ahhh!

Your avitar just scared me for a second.

[mykpart]

8. Dare I confess

that any movie about Dracula also scares the crap out of me. The scariest Dracula for my money was Louis Jourdan in a PBS miniseries. Very true to the Bram Stoker book.

[Nikia]

10. Saw Dracula when I was 7

I slept with my head under the covers until I was a teen out of fear of vampires.

[Cloud]

11. Haha

I remember when I used to sleep with the night light on. I forget why now but I must have been really scared.

[RuB]

13. Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte when I was a mere

lad. When that head was lopped off and rolled down the stairs I ran up the isle, to the entertainment of many in the theater. Jaws has kept me out of the ocean and some clear deep water lakes.

[jonnyblitz]

32. LOL...Bette Davis was great in that movie!

that is one of my all time favorites.

[BurtWorm]

14. The original Night of the Living Dead

which I saw when my father was dying of leukemia, which gave it a weird, right-to-the-bone resonance.

The Conversation, though of course not a horror movie--or even a particularly scary movie--had a similar effect on me, creeping me out for days after I watched it again during a period of some paranoia over the Bushists.

[mykpart]

15. Oh, man, I just thought of another one!

I think the name was "Curse of the Demon" with Dana Andrews. A British movie about modern witchcraft with a really scary demon at the end!

[BrotherBuzz]

16. Bambi

Big screen theater, fire scene...six years old. That was the first and last scary movie I have gone to. Today, I refuse to pay money to see a movie that will scare me.

[LSdemocrat]

17. When I was eight it was Temple of Doom

Now I think that movie is hilarious. I can't really say what my current scariest movie is, I'm not really into that genre.

[mykpart]

18. My brother was terrified

the first time he saw "The Wizard of Oz!" He hated the flying monkeys.

[qb]

45. Same here.

The witch never bothered me, but those monkeys - YIKES!

[geniph]

59. The trees scared me

The flying monkeys were scary, too, but those TREES - <shudder>!

[Journeyman]

19. Saw Hitchcock's "Psycho" when I was 5. . .

My Mom had no idea what she was sending us to, just wanted us out the house for the afternoon. Saw it in a twin-bill with Rosalind Russell and Karl Marlden in Gypsy. Quite an educational afternoon for a little tyke.

[E_Zapata]

24. Ha! And look where you are now?

a damned liberal!

Well, you have your Dr. Phil 'defining moment' mapped out!

[King_Crimson]

41. I'll second that...

about the original "Psycho".

[SPQR]

49. My mom dropped us off to see

A Man Called Flintstone, and instead we sat through Berserk! with Joan Crawford. Murder and mayhem in the circus...pretty gruesome stuff.

The last movie I recall clutching the person next to me during was Fright Night, which is odd because it was more of a comedy than a horror movie. But it was really scary.

And speaking of comedy/horror, my older brother was so spooked by The Ghost and Mr. Chicken when we were kids that he made me hold his hand when we walked past the big scary house down the street from us. Now, of course, he tells me that he did it for me.

[Cat Atomic]

20. Night of the Living Dead- the B&W version

It stills scares the living shit out of me.

[Punkingal]

21. The Omen.....

I thought it was a great movie, but scary.

[wyldwolf]

58. I second that...

..that damn nanny scared the crap out of me...

[E_Zapata]

22. Blair Witch Project

I was FREAKED for a few nights after that. Really freaked out.

[wyldwolf]

60. Chris Rock's take on Blair Witch...

"What the HELL was that... I've got videos of my birthday parties scarier than that!"

[ClownInvestor]

85. Haha, I slept through the Blair Witch Project

I will never understand why people thought this movie was scary.

[dawgman]

88. I saw that at an old theatre in Seattle's U-district when it was in

limited release (something like 30 theatres) and the papers ran stories about it being real footage. Scared the bejeezus out of me.

[Myra]

23. Wizard of Oz

No contest.
Makes me shudder just typing the title.

I'll never understand how anybody, esp kids,
can watch and enjoy that movie.

[mbartko]

34. I used to have nightmares

about those flying monkeys.

[Myra]

69. Yup

The flying monkeys.
Even worse than the wicked witch,
tho' she's plenty bad.

That movie is just one long hideous
nightmare. There's no doubt it's a
well made movie; clearly it is 'cause
it's so effective.

But *why* would anyone want to watch
that nightmare?
Oh god; I'm having an anxiety attack just
thinking about it.

[Throckmorton]

25. Jaws, I haven't even showered since 1975.

High School was a little tough, signed Throck 'Stinky' Morton

[joeybee12]

36. Yeah, saw that in the theaters and was afraid to go in the ocean all summe

Just saw it on DVD, though, and it really doesn't hold up over the years.

[Spirochete]

26. The one that scared me the most

was one I watched when I was a kid, called "Strait-jacket". It had Joan Crawford in it, who always looked scary to me anyway.

Psycho was also pretty scary. As was the first version of The Haunting.

[Rowdyboy]

27. "Last House on the Left"

Creeped me out for weeks...

[Loonman]

28. Aliens

Top notch.

[StopTheMorans]

29. IT, without a doubt

I mean, come on, the damn thing knows what you are afraid of, how scary is that:)

[oxymoron]

30. The Haunting

scared the hell out of me as a kid. It's a little dated, but still holds up pretty well...

[Brewman_Jax]

31. The Exorcist

for me, hands down. Saw it as a young teen. Nightmares for weeks afterwards.

[Skittles]

33. circa 1963???

absolutely f***ing creepy, with no blood or gore and very few special effects :thumbsup:

[RebelOne]

35. Definitely would be "Psycho."

The original "The Thing" made in the 1950s runs a close second.

[hussar]

37. Bush campaign documentary

[Aristus]

39. "Psycho" followed by "The Blair Witch Project"

Some people have scoffed at BWP. Not me. It understood that the best way to scare people was NOT to show you anything! What you imagine is far more scary than anything they could show you. As Stephen King has said: "You always see the zipper running down the monster's back." The final scene where you catch a glimpse of Mike or whoever in the killing room just before the fatal blow is wrenching.

"Psycho" kept me awake for DAYS!

[kodi]

40. aliens

just thinking about the scene where bill paxton lifts the ceiling tile and sees a dozen aliens crawling towards him gives me shivers.

aliens is my favorite sci-fi and action film

[chemenger]

43. The Blob

back when I was a kid and saw it in the theatre. More recently, John Carpenter's The Thing scared the f*** out of me. Still does.

[skypilot]

44. Black Christmas

It's tame by today's standards but I saw this in the late '70s when I was twelve and I almost swore off horror movies altogether. This movie actually paved the way for "Halloween" and all the subsequent "slasher flicks". It was also (as far as I know) the first of the "The killer is IN THE HOUSE!!!"-movies where a character finds out that the killer is not "out there" somewhere but has been lurking in the house the whole time. The killer also makes some very unsettling obscene phone calls which all by themselves will send a chill up your spine. Definitely check this one out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071222/

[Red State Rebel]

79. I remember that one!

I was wicked!!

[qb]

46. Westworld, when I was about 10

Yul Brynner visited my dreams like Freddy Kruger.

[NuckinFutz]

48. Failsafe

The plausible worst case scenario is always more frightening than some fictional monster.

I must admit, though, that I had problems sleeping and walking after dark, after I saw the first Halloween.

[absyntheNsugar]

50. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

LOL

[Khephra]

52. For the experience when I saw it

Evil Dead 1.

I didn't know what to expect, as I saw it on opening day.

[Sequoia]

53. The Vanishing

is really, really horrific. It's a French movie and I wish I had never seen it. It's not about creepy slimy things, or pretend monster. The most recent scray movie is with Nicole Kidman called "The Others". Very good scary story. "The Fly" with David Hedison was scary to me as a kid. Loved Bela in "Dracula" though. Never scared me and I felt sorry for Frankenstein, he tried to fit in and drank wine with the old guy and laughed until the Freeper neighbors came along and ruined everything!

[Loonman]

55. See Spot Run

When the hampsterdance came on, the acid kicked in and I almost clawed my face off.

[manderley]

56. The Abyss

I have no idea why, but something about it freak me out

[Guaranteed]

63. You're prolly claustrophobic

:)

[manderley]

66. Probably , at least you didn't ridicule my choice everyone I tell does

[Guaranteed]

67. Nah cuz

I know how you feel...I feel very uncomfortable watching movies like that...

[Dogmudgeon]

72. Why ridicule?

I found the movie pretty intense, myself. The restored edition where they showed the mile-high tsunami starting to break over the beach, and gave more of a story to the superintelligent jellyfish, is even better.

--bkl

[geniph]

57. Them

I was about five, and the giant-irradiated-ant movie was on Nightmare Theatre (now, what my mother was doing letting a five-year-old stay up late to watch scary movies alone is another question). Freaked the hell out of me.

The next one to really scare me was When a Stranger Calls, with Carol Kane. Horrifying idea.

Not many movies have genuinely frightened me, but those two did.

[Dogmudgeon]

71. Another one of THEM

The giant ant movie. It scared the hell out of me, too.

It's one of the best of the genre, and is ripe for a re-make.

--bkl

[elfwitch]

61. The Shining

The scary didn't set in until the last 3 minutes where they zoom in on the photo from the 30's and see Jack in the picture.
It was the same guy!!! Spooky.

[MGKrebs]

65. The Shining for me too.

Those two creepy little girls popping up all over the place, and then the blood flooding out from the doors. Yikes!

[Guaranteed]

62. Texas Chainsaw Massacre- the first one.

This movie literally makes your heart pound for an hour straight. It is RELENTLESS and absolutely terrifying.
EASILY the scariest movie I've ever seen.

[Red State Rebel]

80. Absolutely!

I saw that when it came out in the 70's and I couldn't breath right for a couple of hours. It was a shocker in that day and age!

[MissMillie]

64. Bedtime for Bonzo (n/t)

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[arwalden]

68. Wizard Of Oz

Not that I think it's scary NOW... but at the time (and to this day) it ranks highest as the most frightening movie.

[Dogmudgeon]

70. Miracle Mile

A young man accidentally intercepts a phone call from a soldier in a missile silo who had been trying to contact his family to warn them of an immanent nuclear attack. The rest of the movie is about him trying to find his girlfriend and get out of the city (Los Angeles) and the ripple effects of the news.

Released around 1989. Directed by Steve DeJarnette, who also made Cherry 2000, another good movie, a satire.

--bkl

[benfranklin1776]

75. Yes the mob scenes at the end as panic spread were chilling.

Because you knew that's exactly how it would go down if the Dr. Stranglove's had their way.
Along those lines the Dead Zone featured a more chilling scene when Martin Sheen launched the nuclear missiles. The maniacal gleam in his eye when he said "the missiles are away gentlemen it is a glorious day" gives me chills just thinking about it.

[BigDaddyLove]

73. "Amityville Horror"

Hands down.

[last_texas_dem]

74. "The Ring"

I know a lot of people think this one isn't scary at all, but when I saw it last year I actually slept on the couch downstairs for a night! I also think "The Omen" had its moments (I saw it for the first time a month ago), but wasn't scared at all by "The Exorcist" (which I saw for the first time last week) at all, oddly enough.

When I was a kid Stephen King's "Cat's Eye" got to me a little, but I watched it over and over anyway... Also Disney's "The Watcher in the Woods" helped increase my fear of mirrors! I was fascinated w/ the concept of seeing scary movies when I was a kid but was too scared to actually sit through any! I wouldn't even watch "Poltergeist" simply b/c of the video's cover at the rental store. And I won't watch "Child's Play" to this day, b/c the concept scared me so much when I was a little kid- even though I've heard the movie is more stupid than anything else.

[Guaranteed]

78. Creepy as hell..

I don't like people looking at me out of TVs or pictures...one of the creepiest concepts ever.

[Briarius]

76. Event Horizon

ugh, makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.

The Ring was pretty scary too. I don't like the static on the TV from the VCR anymore...

[Skip Intro]

83. "Lets Scare Jessica To Death"

And

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte

then

Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead

Evil Dead

And Jaws was somewhere in there...

[ClownInvestor]

84. Susperia wins hands down

Just see the movie Susperia. The first time I saw it I almost had a heart attack. The suspense just keeps building and building. The part where the girl falls into a pit full of wire was totally bizzare. It is amazing how this movie is so scary, even without a lot of blood an gore. I highly recommend seeing it. Karl do you agree? 8-)

[TrogL]

86. 1984

with John Hurt

[tishaLA]

87. Yentl

[alwynsw]

89. ET

Imagine if a real ET contacted kids who hid it. I'd worry about its mission.

[VOX]

90. Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" made me feel sick and weird for days...

It's about a young woman in London who's losing her grasp on sanity, and growing ever more paranoid, to the point of murder. Horribly claustrophobic, dark, menacing, disturbing.

[Iverson]

92. The Sound of Music ...

... or possibly The Shining. Same thing.