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Disney Vault
08-31-2004, 05:59 PM
What is the scariest movie you have ever seen and the scariest movie that still scares you today. I have beem looking for a really scary movie but havent been able to find one that totally freaks me out.
The Exorcist. The Ring. Jaws (the original one, when it first came out). Poltergeist.
Brrrr. Scary!!
The Exorcist is still scary, but The Ring is so disturbing I don't wanna see it again!
squuggy
08-31-2004, 06:19 PM
Hands down for me it is "House of 1000 Corpses" :eek:
Wfoxx
08-31-2004, 06:44 PM
The orginal Alien. I still jump on certain parts of that movie. I also agree about the Exorcist. I slept with the lights on for about a year.
Disney Vault
08-31-2004, 06:57 PM
My jumpiest movie was what lies beneath but it didnt scare me once the movie was over and it isnt scary the second time you see it at all.
Disney Vault
08-31-2004, 06:58 PM
Hands down for me it is "House of 1000 Corpses" :eek:
But is it a good movie too? I heard it is just disturbing and not scary?
mjformenotyou
08-31-2004, 07:14 PM
But is it a good movie too? I heard it is just disturbing and not scary?
I thought of House of 1000 Corpses as one, long, dramatic music video. Lots of montages. I liked it however, because fat Chris Hardwick was in it.
The scariest movie I can think of for me is the ever-typical, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (um, they were both equally scary to me). Being a young kid, this was the kind of movie that definetily made me rethink any roadtrip through the South.
Now whenever my friends and I stop places in CA and we're somewhere kind of deserted, I always say if we don't leave soon we'll end up on a meat hook.
scaeagles
08-31-2004, 07:28 PM
I take a slightly different look at "scary". Horror movies I have never found to be scary. Movies that scare me are the ones that have an certain amount of believability that it could happen.
That being said, the scariest movie to me is "Enemy of the State". I love my country, but I fear my government.
squuggy
08-31-2004, 07:31 PM
attn: DisneysBiggestFan.
I thought it was an excellent movie. Creepy through and through. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. And isn't that the mark of a good horror film?
Scamp
08-31-2004, 11:05 PM
Poltergeist and The Others.
stitchvelvet
09-01-2004, 01:29 PM
Prince of Darkness - a very old movie. I still rush up the stairs at night when I remember one clip when a lady, taken over by the devil, points out her friend who is hiding and lets out this ungodly wail....why do I always remember this half way up the stairs!
Also, the 13 ghosts although not totally scary gave me a few jumps.
And how about The Titanic - ok, ok not scary as such but sooo long with that oh so predictable ending (!) surely thats scary enough!! :D
Bill Catherall
09-01-2004, 01:40 PM
Les Diaboliques (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046911/) (The 1955 original French version, not the 1996 US remake.) Suspense, chills, jump scenes...it's got it all. Scariest movie I've ever seen and loved every second of it. Gory horror isn't necessary to make something scary, IMO. Gore is usually so over the top and cliche that I end up laughing instead.
Sheila
09-01-2004, 02:24 PM
My choices to add to the list would be the original The Haunting with Claire Bloom and Julie Harris from the early 1960s. I saw it as a little girl and refused to sleep with my hands outside the covers for years after!
I'd also have to add Jaws -- I've never felt safe again swimming in the ocean. Brrr...
Sheila
Disneyphile
09-01-2004, 02:42 PM
For me, the 80's remake of "Night of the Living Dead" (probably because I saw it way too young), "The Ring" (I swear I didn't even want to look at my TV for days after this one), and the remake of "On the Beach" (especially because it could actually happen).
AliciasMom
09-01-2004, 04:21 PM
Showgirls is the scariest movie ever made ;)
mzloolue
09-01-2004, 04:26 PM
My choices to add to the list would be the original The Haunting with Claire Bloom and Julie Harris from the early 1960s. I saw it as a little girl and refused to sleep with my hands outside the covers for years after!
I'd also have to add Jaws -- I've never felt safe again swimming in the ocean. Brrr...
Sheila
I agree with these two and want to add The Amityville Horror, which scared me later more than it did while I was watching it. It bothered me for years.
Opus1guy
09-01-2004, 04:32 PM
Squanto.
SallySkellington
09-01-2004, 06:47 PM
I've never been really scared by a whole movie (mainly because my mom has warned me about movies like The Exorcist and Jaws). The last part of a movie that scared me was the Pirates of the Caribbean coda. I developed an irrational fear of zombie monkeys after that.
newhdplayer
09-01-2004, 07:30 PM
Fahrenheit 911 :rolleyes:
sdfilmcritic
09-01-2004, 11:55 PM
Prince of Darkness - a very old movie. I still rush up the stairs at night when I remember one clip when a lady, taken over by the devil, points out her friend who is hiding and lets out this ungodly wail....why do I always remember this half way up the stairs!
Also, the 13 ghosts although not totally scary gave me a few jumps.
And how about The Titanic - ok, ok not scary as such but sooo long with that oh so predictable ending (!) surely thats scary enough!! :D
From the film Identity: When I was going up the stairs, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away.