Scariest movie you have seen:

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Poll question: Scariest movie you have seen:

Of course there's more than 10, so if your scariest isn't listed, please reply:

[Jamastiene]

1. I have three words for you. Texas. Chainsaw. Massacre.

Part two was scarier to me though part 1 was nothing to laugh about either.

:scared:
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7. Good suggestion - forgot about that (probably because I haven't seen it)

[Arkham House]

2. Jaws

...of course, I have a shark phobia...:-)...

[koneko]

3. Huge horror fan here

While many movies have freaked me out, the one that really hit home was Silence of the Lambs, because I found it very unsettling how charming Hannibal Lechter was. It struck me as terrifying that serial killers often succeed because of their ability to build a certain level of trust with their victims. It scared me that I could envision myself being charmed by one. . . :scared:

[Jamastiene]

5. IRL, Ted Bundy comes to mind.

They say he was charming like that. Also, Jeffrey Dahmer seemed almost likable if you didn't know about his strange crimes.

[Lautremont]

19. The Zuni Fetsih Warrior Doll in your avatar is my answer.

I saw that movie (Trilogy of Terror) when I was, believe it or not, three years old. I had an incredible Maurice Sendak-style nightmare about it that night and have never forgotten it.

[koneko]

23. I LOVE my Zuni Fetish Doll

the best skit in the trilogy, IMHO

[Lautremont]

31. Oh, easily.

And w/r/t your signature quote: I just watched The Thing (another very scary movie) last night. Quel coincidence.

[jus_the_facts]

83. That fucked me UP as a kid....total cheese now but when it was on TV.....

...back in the early '70's I WAS BEYOND HORRIFIED...my grandmother was pissed at my Dad for lettin' me watch it! :scared: :D

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Prince of Darkness.

[haf216]

6. I saw The Hills Have Eyes in 70's when I was young,

and it really stuck with me. Granted I was about 9 at the time so if I saw it today it would most likely be a different story.

[mtnester]

8. For some reason I have NEVER been able to get past the bed in

the woods dream from American Werewolves in London.

Cannot do it.

[azmouse]

9. I just saw The Exorcist for the first time in years....

It doesn't hold up very well for fright. I thought it was a bit laughable.

[dback]

10. Watch "Psycho" till 1 AM, then try to go upstairs in the dark

The switch for the top of the landing is AT the top of the landing. All you see above you is darkness.

Go on. Try it. (23 years, and still haven't forgotten that first time.)

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13. I'll have to try it with a long hallway. "Psycho" didn't really scare me

even the first time I saw it, (on TV, at about age 13 or 14) although I loved it and it's still one of my all-time favorite films, with the perfect cast, perfect acting, perfect editing, perfect background score, perfect atmosphere, perfect everything. But not hugely scary to me.

[RebelOne]

73. No, better yet, go take a shower. Betcha can't do it.

[KeepItReal]

11. Other: SNAKES ON A MUTHAF*CKIN PLANE!!

OK, seriously.... "Serpent and the Rainbow" was it for me.

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. Men Behind the Sun - but not scary, most disturbing

because unlike ALL of the others, Unit 731 was real, and only a fraction of the horror was captured in that film. See also Black Sun: the Nanking Massacre - same director, same uncompromising docudrama. I designed and wrote the extras package for the Unearthed Films release of Black Sun.

I spoke at length with T.F. Mou, the director during an interview. He is a wonderful, gentle guy and offered to fly here with two 35mm prints of his films so I could see them on the big screen.

Sadly I couldn't find a cinema to host them.

It's nice to see someone else has seen at least some of Mou's work.

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20. So did the cat die, for real? There has been a lot of speculation on the

various message boards whether the cat actually died during the filming, or that it was simply drugged and didn't die. It would be good to get the official word on this from someone who knows for sure.

[BigMcLargehuge]

25. in some interviews he's simply said "I won't talk about it"

because it tends to minimize the impact of the suffering that the Chinese endured uner Japanese rule in Manchuria, i.e. he's trying to illuminate the horrible deaths of tens of thousands, and people are worried about a cat?

I didn't ask.

As far as I am concerned, it appears to be a real cat eaten by real rats. But his editing is to good that it may not be. Though I tend to believe what I see on screen.

read my interview here

http://www.horrorview.com/Interview%20Files/TunFeiMouInterview.htm

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27. Thanks - I think few people can handle watching "Men Behind..." but it is

a story that needs to be told far and wide. What the Nazis did in the Holocaust has been exhaustively documented, to the point that I don't really want to hear any more. But what the Japanese did to the Chinese has been severely under-documented, in fact almost ignored, at least in the "western world." I don't think people have to sit through something like "Men Behind The Sun," but people should be educated as to what happened.

[BigMcLargehuge]

28. in my review I said "everyone should see this movie once"

[BigMcLargehuge]

29. link to review

http://www.horrorview.com/Men%20Behind%20the%20Sun.htm

[politicat]

14. The Bone Collector.

Five years later, and I still get nightmares about it.

[Corgigal]

15. The Entity

I'm not sure how many people remember that movie but I saw that as a teenager and then showed my own teenager that movie. It's still damn scary.

[koneko]

24. The Entity freaks me out

it was rather terrifying to watch. . . :scared:

[thedude]

16. A little made for TV movie called....

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

[Jade Fox]

18. Man, that scared the bejesus outta me.....

It stuck with for years after I saw it. Those little monsters were so creepy!

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21. Another scary made-for-TV movie was "How Awful About Alan"

which scared the daylights out of me when I was about 12.

[LaPera]

17. In The Company of Men...That monster who played games & deceived everyone

was the scariest fuck I've ever seen!

[dropkickpa]

22. My deep dark secret is...

The only movie that ever scared me or gave me nightmares was the animated Watership Down (snuck and watched it when I was about 5). Damn, I was terrified of rabbits for years after that, and I'm still not too terribly fond of the little fuckers, with their wee beady eyes and fuzzy tails, I just know they're waiting to attack. :scared:

[BigMcLargehuge]

26. if you don't do your chores, General Wardswart will get you

(there's a dog loose in the wood. There's a dog loose in the wood. There's a dog loose in the wood.)

[dropkickpa]

79. Why'd you have to do that!?!?!?!

:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

One of the cable channels has been playing it recently and I have been very carefully avoiding even accidentally flipping past that channel when it's on!!

[BlueIris]

55. The Secret of Nym is also hella scary to me, for similar reasons.

The animal characters in it just look so doomed, depressed and freakish.

[dropkickpa]

80. See, I love the Secret of NIMH

I read all the books (I think there's 3) when I was a kid.

The Plague Dogs is some disturbing stuff, done by the same guys that did Watership Down, but not quite as scary to me.

[Briarius]

30. Event Horizon

The whole scene with the bathtub suicide still gives me the willies thinking about it...:scared:

[Giant Robot]

38. Had to have therapy after seeing that movie

:scared:

Scared the bejeesus out of me!!

[jobycom]

32. The Blair Witch Project

It didn't scare me too much during the movie, but afterwards it flipped some switch in me. I went to bed without any problem, though I laid there thinking about the idea of an unseen force once human which could control its environs so completely that you were powerless. I woke up about two am, terrified. I was shaking and sweating. I was convinced something was under the bed, or in the closet. It took every bit of courage I had to turn on the light, to reach my hand over that void between the bed and the nightstand, knowing something would grab it.

And I was in my 30s. No other movie has ever done anything like that to me. The Silence of the Lambs made me stand behind my couch to watch it, the Exorcist gave me bad dreams as a kid and made me convinced I was going to be possessed for being so wicked (I was quite religious as a kid). But I've never been as terrified as I was after that movie. I slept with the light on, I got scared at work when I went in at night, I was even afraid in my car at night, convinced that if I looked in the mirror something would be there.

After about two weeks, the switch flipped back off, and I was fine. Weirdest thing.

[AmyDeLune]

47. Me too,

the night I saw it, I had to go down to the basement to put out the garbage and the recycling...Brrrr!!!!

[raccoon]

58. Me too. It totally creeped me out.

Something was there, but you couldn't see it, just the results of what it did. And hear things--the voices of the children in the night.

Much scarier, IMO, than gore galore.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

70. The movie didn't scare me much.

Mostly because the movie was packed, and the other movie-goers were acting rudely and I couldn't get into the movie much.

But the promo disturbed me. Terribly. There was this hour long promo for it on Sci-fi channel, I think. It was this clever mockumentary filling in the back story. They showed a bit from the film where the campers are walking in a straight line and end up in the same place by the river.

And while I was lying in bed trying to sleep and I was thinking about how this witch was so powerful that as these campers cross a river, walk in a straigh line, and end back up on the other side of the river without crossing it again...

Just creeped the hell out of me.

[jobycom]

72. I think I saw that

I saw it on video, and it came packaged with a documentary on the missing kids. That was as well done as, if not better than, the film itself.

And yeah, it was thinking about it afterwards that creeped me out the most, trying to get a grip on what was actually happening. The idea that the witch had been alive for so long, living in the woods, barely seen, controlling nature, and that she was such a completely evil force, with no human conscience, killing anyone who accidentally stumbled across her. It was like Hantzel and Gretel, set in terms we could understand. Very primal.

[maveric]

33. The Descent

I was surprised it scared me as much as it did.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

53. I was on the edge of my seat during that one

I had heard it was good, but I hadn't been genuinely SCARED while watching a movie for a loooong time.

Several of the scenes in that movie scared the hell out of me though.

[bridgit]

85. The Descent WAS spooky...

:scared:

[Broken_Hero]

34. Jaws...how can jaws not be on this poll?? nt

[deucemagnet]

35. Hellraiser (the first one)

The sequels got a bit silly, but those damn Cenobites gave me a fright on a primal level when that movie first came out.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. My dear bob_weaver!

Maybe none of you are old enough to remember this one......

Wait Until Dark.

Very scary......very realistic!

Even for my normally calm, phlegmatic husband, this is one movie we still talk about more than 30 years later.....

It was uncannily scary.......

I give it the highest possible recommendation!

Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin......

:scared:

[sakabatou]

42. The J-version of "The Grudge"

:scared:

[Telly Savalas]

37. Top Gun

Tom Cruise freaks me out.

[judaspriestess]

39. Deep Impact scared the crap out of me

I know that sounds weird, but it seemed so realistic and I could see that happening.

[bikebloke]

65. It was probably just Tea Leoni's acting.

Boy, was she bad. And still she couldn't ruin the film. An intense disaster flick. I watched it again over the weekend.

[philosophie_en_rose]

40. Showgirls

It was like Jaws and the Exorcist all rolled into one craptacular spectacle.

[samsingh]

41. ring and the shining

[CanuckAmok]

43. Alien, the Ring, Spoorloos.

:scared:

[pokerfan]

44. Showgirls

[Evoman]

45. Deliverence....bar none.

"Squealllll like a pig, boy"

[jpgray]

46. John Carpenter's the Thing when I was little

Seems more like a cool action flick with a monster to me now, but it was pretty terrifying at the time I originally saw it.

[jobycom]

74. I scared my boss's poor kid with that film...

I rented it on video back in the 80s. My girlfriend was babysitting for my boss's wife, so I went to see her, and we watched it when she put the kids to bed. We had just watched the part where the man's chest opens and rips the other guy's arms off, when we heard a wimper behind us. This poor kid, probably around seven, was standing in the doorway. "I don't like that movie," he said.

I felt so bad. She and I talked to him until he calmed down, but I'll bet he had nightmares for years over that.

Wonder what would have happened if we had been... Oh never mind.

[hyphenate]

48. I was with a whole shitload of people

when we went to the original Alien. The problem was, there were no seats for all of us in the theatre together, so we ended up being separated and often left in a single seat away from everyone else.

I happened to be one of the unlucky ones stuck by myself. It wasn't until the second half of the movie that I was getting scared. At times, I was sitting there trying to reassure myself it was only a movie, and then there were a few scenes that really did me in. On one, when Ripley hears the noise under the floor, I kept saying, over and over and over again, "It's gotta be the cat!" I guess I was trying to reassure myself more than anything else.

I have to this day refused to see it again, but I could probably tolerate it if there were others with me. I just will never watch it alone.


I remember when Exorcist came out. I was still in high school, and everyone was saying how scary it was. Well, I guess I read one too many reviews of it, because when I finally saw it, it didn't even bother me. All I could do was laugh at certain points because I knew the "vomit" was really pea soup, and wonder at the (then) excellent SFX of the head spinning.

Another one was Nightmare on Elm Street. Robert Englund had just finished working on the TV series, V, and his character was one of the aliens, but a good guy, not evil like Diana. So seeing Nightmare on Elm Street was just so polar from his V character that we couldn't even take the film seriously at all.

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66. The head spinning was just a model, not the real girl. There are pictures

of it at the makeup artist's site, www.dicksmithmake-up.com

[Jed Dilligan]

49. Miracle Mile

[BlueIris]

50. I've never seen "Revulsion."

Hmmmm. Perhaps a trip to Hollywood Video is in order tomorrow night.

[CBGLuthier]

51. Homicidal

William Castle's knockoff of Psycho.

Saw it when I was about ten or so and it freaked me out good. Especially when the old lady's head came tumbling down the stairs.

Saw it again ten years ago. Not so scary and the secret of the film was kind of obvious if you took a good look at the "actor" playing Warren.

For more modern stuff, LifeForce was a pretty good romp.

[LynneSin]

52. Other: Fahrenheit 9/11

I can't believe we allow this idiot to run our country. Fucking scares the bejesus out of me because it's REAL!

[mvd]

63. Good choice

I picked An Inconvenient Truth because it had more stuff I didn't know about, though.

Scariest actual horror movie IMO: Poltergeist.

[LSK]

54. Amityville Horror - the original

Maybe because I saw it when I was 8.

[RetroLounge]

56. Spice World

Just saying...

RL

[Raiden]

57. Black Christmas

Scary pre-Halloween slasher...Before Michael Myers, there was Billy. This is such a scary movie!

[suzbaby]

59. The Ring

:scared:

[elperromagico]

60. Voted for "Nosferatu."

I was going to vote for The Shining, but when I saw Nosferatu I couldn't resist.

Oh, that scene where Hutter looks out of his room and sees Nosferatu just standing across the room, staring at him... that is scary as hell. He shuts the door and hides in his bed. Then the door flings open and in walks Nosferatu.



And that scene on the boat, where the mate is hacking away at a coffin filled with rats... suddenly the coffin opens and Nosferatu rises up.



Christ... gives me chills just thinking about it.

[Bridget Burke]

76. Have you seen "Shadow of the Vampire"

It tells the "true" story of the making of Nosferatu.

Murnau (John Malkovitch) hires a real vampire (Willem Dafoe) for the lead role. Then, cast & crew members begin to disappear. Sort of funny, in a sick way.

[Karenca]

61. BODY DOUBLE

The only movie that ever scared me.

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:-nczVzVJ_PgJ:www.briandepalma.net/body/body.htm+body+double+film&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4

[mvd]

62. The one that's not made yet

about the Bush years.

Other than that, An Inconvenient Truth was scarier than any horror movie I've seen.

[anarch]

64. "Look Who's Talking"

Dear God! How are those babies saying those things??!!?!!1!

It's just not right.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

67. Where is the original "The Omen"?

That one really freaked me out! Also "The Exorcist" and to a lesser extent "The Silence of the Lambs." Of course, as a child I was scared to death that "The Blob" would come into my room and get me!

[tjwmason]

81. Another vote for "The Omen"

Not so much the two sequels - but the original one for sure.

[MsKandice01]

68. Jacob's Ladder wins hands down

That had some of the freakiest scenes I've ever seen. I was TERRIFIED by it even though I didn't understand a lot of it. Weird people walking on the ceiling with their arms and legs cut off? Eeeesh!

[johnnie]

69. Helter Skelter

That movie scared the crap out of me when it first came on TV. Because of my age and the fact that it really happened, I was hoping that no one would ever come to my house and slice us up like that. No other movie has ever affected me as bad.

[ronnykmarshall]

75. The '76 version was good.

The newer one sucked.

[johnnie]

77. I only seen bits of the new one

Yeah, the one in 76 was the one that freaked me out. Even now it is still worth watching.

[ronnykmarshall]

78. The actor that played Manson was great.

As was the one that played Susan Atkins.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

71. The Ring.

Very clever. Filmed in many locations near my home.

And a surprise ending. I thought it was going end up being another The Changeling.

Yeah, surprise endings are cliche. But they handled it well.

[Inspired]

82. Last House on the Left

[bridgit]

84. The Grudge...

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