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Scariest movie of all time?

ZenTickling

ZenTickling

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I'm all about horror movies, and Halloween is coming up. What movies scare you?

My favorites:
1. The Shining
2. Jacob's Ladder
3. The Thing
4. Suspiria
5. Rosemary's Baby
6. Hellraiser
 
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Nightmare on Elm Street (original)
 
The Haunting........original 1963 version
The Exorcist
The Grugde
 
the only movie thats ever made me jump is That Emily Rose movie ... the part where her and that guy are in the dorm and he wakes up and sees her all contorted and then she just screams
 
I think the only movie that has actually scared me is The Shining. Try watching it by yourself in the dark. The scenes in that movie aren't 'jump out of your seat' scary, they are just creepy, disturbing, and unsettling. I love it. 🙂
 
The Shining and The very first Nightmare on Elm Street.

-- both gave me nightmares. ><
 
I'm surprised noone has said Amityville Horror yet. That one got me bad because I first saw it when I was way too young for movies like that. I couldn't walk past a window at night without the shades closed without thinking I saw those eyes staring back at me for a long time. I did watch it again recently and it was kinda "meh" but the initial effect when I was a kid keeps it in my top 5.
 
I first saw The Exorcist when I was 7 years old. Scared the living fuck out of me!!! I swear, I didn't have a decent nights sleep for a week after that.

And yeah, Amityville Horror was another I saw when I was far too young. That creepy shit always got to me when I was a kid.

Nowadays, movies just aren't scary. Although there were a couple scenes in Silent Hill that kinda creeped me out.
 
Great post ZenTickling ... I can't answer your question outright, because I don't really think any movies are scary, but I will name my favorite scary movies.

In no particular order ...

1) Misery - Being the King buff that I am, I have always liked this movie. As it is, it was the first King book I read, and the first King adaptation I watched. Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes is absolutely terrifying. She mixes vicious (hobbling, gross) with an inability to curse (cockadoodie) and any author's worst nightmare ... an insane number one fan.

2) The Shining - This time it has nothing to do with King ... Kubrick/Nicholson make this one. I date you to name someone who could play a more perfect Jack Torrance. Not Stephen Weber, I assure you. One of the first times I saw bewbs was in this one, and then Kubrick turned those tits into gruesome decay and rot. Thanks Stanley.

3) Dawn of the Dead - I am not into the whole "if it came out first it's automatically better" thing. The Beatles may have set the standard, but there are plenty of bands that are better. With that said, I choose Dawn over Night. Maybe it's the amazing technicolor color, or the mall full of zombies. Maybe it's some blockhead getting the upper half of his head lopped off by a helicopter blade. Don't ask me to explain myself, this is a rad movie. Thanks for the great makeup work Tom Savini.

4) The Thing - This remake of The Thing From Another World is a real gem. Any time a movie starts with Norwegian scientists trying to kill a shape shifter assuming the form of a husky, you know it's gonna be a barn burner. Tension and isolation are the key to this film. The scene where they test the blood to find out who The Thing is ... perfectly spoofed in South Park ... is a favorite scene of mine.

5) Scream - Say what you want about this one, it's fucking classic. It's a slasher flick that simultaneously mocks other slasher movies, while still managing to remain hip (by 1996 standards) and scary (by 1996 standards). The background story is believable, the double killer/boyfriend back from the dead twist is brilliant, and the voice/mask combo is eerie as hell. Probably my favorite scary movie

6) High Tension - There are always haters, and this one brought out plenty. Either you'll like the twist or you'll hate it ... if you hate it, watch it again and understand how brilliant the twist is. I promise you it's worth it.

7) Halloween 2 - Yeah, I know, what about Halloween 1. It's absolutely a classic horror film. That's why I don't need to mention it. I love that Halloween 2 is a continuation of the first one. It's later in the night, Laurie is in a spooky hospital, and Michael is about ready to quadruple his kill count. He's ... pure ... e-vil.

8) The Lost Boys - Not really a straightforward horror film, but it's downright awesome. It's got hair-dos, it's got not one but two Coreys, it's got Jack Bauer as a slick and manipulative vampire. What more could one ask for.

9) The Hitcher - I'm just saying Rutger Hauer is really really ridiculously creepy. He puts fingers in french fries, he somehow shoots down helicopters with handguns, he butchers a police barracks without waking Ponyboy Curtis, and he ties Jennifer Jason Leigh between two 18 wheelers and ... well ... she doesn't quite make it to the end, that's for sure

10) 30 Days of Night - I personally thought this was a pretty rad movie. Vampires aren't as cool as zombies, but they are devastating. The premise is perfect in this film ... a town in Alaska where it's night for 30 days ... and there are vampires ... who can only come out in night ...
 
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Any movie involving both Kate Hudson AND Matthew McConaughey...

I fear if I ever watch one of those movies that I WILL have to kill myself halfway through.
 
Scariest horror scene of all time (The Shining):

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Another one that freaked me out (Jacob's Ladder):

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I own a copy of "Suspiria" not bad, kinda creepy. But when I saw the original trailer for the movie back in 1977 at 5am when I was 12 years.....THAT scared the piss out of me!!

The ending of the original "Carrie" freaked me out.


But the one that REALLY bothered me was "The Last House on the Left".(I hear they're remaking it) This movie was too real and disturbing......no zombies, supernatural crap, no hulking ogres in hockey masks, or fried child-stalkers. Yet I never want to watch "Last House" ever again. Same with the original "Funny Games".

So I guess we now get into what's really scary and what's really disturbing.


Drew
 
The scene near the end of Suspiria is definitely creepy.

Last House on the Left was pretty bad, but not as bad as I was expecting. I wouldn't buy it though. It's kind of like Cannibal Holocaust in that once you see it, you really don't need to see it again.
 
Not the entire movie, but the ending to "Sleepaway Camp" freaks me the hell out to this day. Angela's stare and the music behind it is fucking bone-chilling.
 
Snuck in underage to the movies with a friend to Fri 13th part III I think it was.
(Yeah I'm showing my age lol)
We were walking home to his house when his older brother jumped out at us with the hood thing.
I swear to god we never ran so fast in our whole lives. lol
Thought I was seriously gonna die!!! :shake:
 
Blood can run cold in black and white...

Great thread, Zen!<p> I certainly second the films cited, particularly by Zen and Nuke. <br> (I must confess, tho', that I think THE SHINING is almost too visually stunning to be scary, as if Kubrick became obsessed with depicting the beauty of evil at the price of narrative sense or thematic clarity. Two images that stay in my mind's eye: the lobby flowing with blood and the bird's eye view of the snowbound maze.<br> I think that the scariest scene in a Kubrick film [spoiler warning] comes from 2001, when the psychotic supercomputer HAL directs the pod to attack the spacewalking Poole, murders the sleeping astronauts, and then evenly tells Bowman, who has gone out to recover Poole's body, that he's not going to let him back aboard the Discovery, and isn't even going to discuss the matter further, so there...)<p>Since most of the films cited are relatively recent ones, I'm going to be typically perverse and ballyhoo 5 vintage classics that, even tho they're shot in black and white, cause a viewer's blood to run cold:<p> THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951)<br> Make no mistake: I think John Carpenter's 1982 version is a chilling masterpiece, but I've been jolted out of my seat at numerous points in Howard Hawks' cleverly paced, staged and acted original. This is despite the fact that the alien isn't the creepy shape shifter of the original sf story or Carpenter's version, but rather an--Ahem!--intellectual carrot. <br>Top scare: [spoiler warning] When the search party opens the door to the greenhouse, guess who is standing on the other side?<p>DEAD OF NIGHT (1945) <br> This British gem is the granddaddy of anthology horror films like TALES FROM THE CRYPT and CREEPSHOW. Most of its episodes are eerie and richly atmospheric, but it saves the best for last: Michael Redgrave as a neurotic ventriloquist whose dummy seems to have a malicious mind of its own.<p>THE LEOPARD MAN (1943) <br>This wee little B-chiller will stop your heart in its opening reel:[spoiler warning] a teenage girl, sent out by her stern mother on a night time errand despite her fear of an escaped leopard, encounters a pair of glowing eyes in the darkness...<p>CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957) <br>This beautifully acted and shadow drenched British horror--despite the blunder of showing its title demon near the beginning--scares one with the ticklish notion that one can't be sure if the supernatural is all in the mind--or real. Scariest scenes: Professor Holden's misty walk in the dark, and the hypnotized Hobart's desperation not to be the demon's next victim...<p>NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968 original) <br>As much as PSYCHO did at the start of the '60's, this movie irrevocably changed the American horror movie. Its very cheapness, ordinary settings, and low-key acting actually work to make its nightmarish plot more scarily effective. Favorite scare: mother and child. <p> So, there you have it! Further proof that I need to get out more... 😉
 
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The Ring...It mortified me! I couldn't sleep for weeks. So scary!
 
After reading TeeHee's post on older scary movies, I had to respond again.


"Horror Hotel" from 1963.....this one scared the shit out of me when I was 10 or 11 years old. But much like getting back on a roller coaster, I would watch it again and again whenever it showed up on "Creature Features" on Saturday afternoons.

It was basically a witch movie, but so atmospheric and creepy.


Drew
 
Best Horror movie scenes!!!

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street

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2. Poltergeist

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3. The Thing

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4. Phantasm

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5. Halloween

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6. Ju-On

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7. Ringu

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8. The Exorcist

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9. Hellraiser

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10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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