All time scariest movie

[just4fun618]

The Exorcist (1973)

 

[milagros317]

"Freaks" (1932) by MGM. Most scary because it was real freaks, not actors wearing make-up. 😱

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

"Last House on the Left"

"An Innocent Man" with Tom Selleck


I pick these two cause of the horrible realism in both.


Drew

 

[lk70]

The Exorcist (1973)

Absolutely right.

 

[AffectionateDan]

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964), Filmed in "Bloody-Vision", and "Hallucinogenic Hypnovision".

Seriously.

 

[MrMacphisto]

John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982)

 

[CitY of MicA]

as indecisive as a character in a horror film

Either 'Halloween' or 'The Shining.' I would have said 'Halloween' not so long ago- but all movies become less scary for me upon repeated viewings. I know all the shocks all too well, but it still has a scary atmosphere. 'Psycho' would be on my list, as well, and 'Dressed to Kill' has a final sequence that might be more terrifying than anything in the aforementioned films. Also noteworthy, although I haven't seen it ages and can no longer verify its scariness, is a film called 'The Tourist Trap.' Mannequins= terror .

 

[pfromptown]

"Freaks" (1932) by MGM. Most scary because it was real freaks, not actors wearing make-up. 😱

SUPERB call there. Although I haven't actually seen this film yet I've read lots about and just looking at some of those people made me shiver. I'll have to buy it now you've reminded me.

As for films I have seen, I've just explained in another thread that any evil-humans-in-wilderness flicks usually get me because there's that realism to them that no monster movie can ever create. So stuff like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, The Shining (IMO one of the best edited films ever), Deliverance, Straw Dogs, I Spit On Your Grave, Psycho etc. Some aren't even horror films, but the idea still scares me.

 

[Avenger314]

Scariest movies, eh?

Silence of the Lambs
Event Horizon.

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

The Exorcist (1973)

and Salem's Lot ( The Original )

 

[maniactickler]

Any movies involving satan.

 

[Saeria]

I really have several favorite scary movies, but this is keeping in mind that sometimes what i find the most frightening is having to think deeply and obsessively about serious things like society and mortality. So, you're not allowed to laugh:

Tommy (the rock opera) I watched this movie when i was 12 and it scared me so badly i wouldn't watch it again until i was almost 18. It gave me frightening insight about society, and people in general. And the whole idea of retreating inside of one's own mind to escape the madness of reality! It was deep, scary deep. The things i came away with from this movie were things my poor little 12 year old brain weren't ready to wrap around yet.

A Clockwork Orange
The fear effect in this one really was much more intense in the book, but the movie with its surreal music, characters, and visuals was pretty frightening too. The Ludivico (sp?) treatment that the protagonist, Alex gets, flashes of violence and death, at a point in the movie where the viewer in completely engrossed makes it feel as if one is in the chair forced to watch them as well.

Psycho: Yeah, the fear effect in this one was your classic horror storyline. Lots of psycological terror in this one.

Both Saw movies: yet another film with that strong element of psychological terror. It made me contemplate what i would do if i were in the same situations as the victims.

I don't know the name of this movie, and it would be a great help if anyone else could tell me. It might have even been a short. It was an animated film about this elderly couple in England right after a nuclear attack. They're completely naive about how to live and make every decision based on a book. But they get a few things wrong, don't have enough supplies, and eventually both succumb to radiation exposure and die. What made this movie so scary was all the horrible things that were happening to this jovial, cheerful, naive elderly couple. In all honesty though, anything pertaining to nuclear attack has always scared the shit out of me.

And those are my movies, so there, dumb as they may be.

 

[alchemy]

Any movie that scares you with the familiar.

Poltergeist - Did a great job of sucking you into the story with the familiar and then warping reality

A Nightmare on Elm Street - sleep/dreams were no longer a safe haven from evil. Also one of the first movies where the stalker actually chased you down. If you encountered Freddy, you're number was pretty much up.

Phantasm - another great movie that starts off fairly normal, but by the end has reality turned on it's head. Great villian as well.

Night of the Living Dead - Once again, starts with a fairly normal situation. What's scary about zombies is that they are not only relentless, but also not conciously evil.

 

[german]

Deliverance and Wolf Creek.....you never know what happens a few hours outside of a city.

Kust

 

[Tick L]

Those are all great choices, and one I have to say that wasn't mentioned yet was Wrong Turn. The mountain troll things scared the shit out of me. Another one would be Jeepers Creepers (The Original the seconds one sucked) because it had a element of mystery and suspense. They see a man dumping something unidentified down a pipe, and then when they get him on the CB and all that. Then near the end when he revealed he's this creepy big ass monster thing and sprouts wings that scared the shit out of me and I totally wasn't expecting it.

 

[ticklishscribe]

I don't watch scary movies... Life is scary enough at times.

 

[TheFactor]

1. Jacob's Ladder
2. Child's Play
3. Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen's: How the west was fun

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Actually, one of the all-time spooky classics would be "Carnival of Souls" from the early 60s. The eerieness factor is so intense.



Drew

 

[ThatPercussionGuy]

I have to go with 'Halloween'. For the budget it was made on the entire movie was true genius. I'm not real happy about Rob Zombie doing the remake, his first two movies were barely average.

Long live John Carpenter..


The Exorcist for me is 1a


Tckleguy

 

[BLUE_THUNDER]

there are tons of great ones, although not too many recently. my personal faves are the john carpenter remake of "the thing" (intense paranoia at its best) , the original " the howling " (the sequels all sucked) and the original "halloween" . those are like the holy (or unholy) trinity of horror movies in my book.

 

[hiltopoius]

never watching them again

The movie that scared me into covering my eyes a few times was called "house of 1000 corpses" it gave me nightmares afterwards which is the main reason why i wont watch another scary movie......lol