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Demon Seed really scared me as a child. It's a great film by the way. If you like late seventies/early eighties horror/sci-fi check it out. :)
the wicker man
the wicker man
I do hope you're referring to the Christopher Lee original, rather than the "Revenge of the Queen Bee" remake?
the wicker manI do hope you're referring to the Christopher Lee original, rather than the "Revenge of the Queen Bee" remake?
Children of Men freaked me out.
You should read the 'Y the Last Man' comics! :)
I do hope you're referring to the Christopher Lee original, rather than the "Revenge of the Queen Bee" remake?Lol!
I think I enjoyed that clip more than the movie.
I think I enjoyed that clip more than the movie.I do hope you're referring to the Christopher Lee original, rather than the "Revenge of the Queen Bee" remake?Lol!
Well, of course! ;)
He'd straighten them pagans out but good.
Conan is a pagan. He'd whup the bees, though.
the Exorcist is certainly up there. However the scariest for me were:
Prince of Darkness
Event Horizon
The Thing
I watched "Last King of Scotland" yesterday. It did a good job of evoking the fear that comes with being close to a genocidal madman like Idi Amin. Even though Amin's crimes are well documented the film created a sense of dread in that no one had any security in Uganda during his rule.
That was a good movie. I thought Forrest Whitaker richly deserved the handful of awards he walked away from it with.
The EVIL DEAD freaked me out when I first saw it.
Wolf Creek is definitely the most disturbing moving I have ever seen. It takes quite a bit for a movie to scare me, but I can honestly say I would never watch that movie again.
With most slasher type movies (Hostel, Saw, NOE, Halloween, F13th etc.) there is a certain popcorn quality to the violence. WC sticks to realism and actually makes you feel bad that you watched the movie.
Anyone looking for a great horror read pick up "The Ruins" by Scott Smith, probably one of the top 5 horror books I have ever read. (And no doubt will get ruined by a crappy movie sometime next year.)
Scariest movie ever?
Look Who's Talking 2 or Battlefield Earth. Take your pick.
I was looking though this thread and trying to remember the scariest movie moments that I'd ever seen when drunken_nomad's post of 8th August reminded me that nothing has ever been as scary as the British Public Information films from the 1970s. Honestly, these are generally as nasty a collection of horrors as you could ever encounter (and they're all available on YouTube too). drunken_nomad's links to the "Apaches" film should start you off very well. There was obviously a great deal of effort put in to making a smoothly-flowing plot with believable children's play and discourse (which makes it all the more horrific), but by the end of it, you'll be asking yourself "Why didn't anyone keep those kids away from that f*****g farm? And why didn't they learn from experience?". The most horrible thing about it though, is at the very end, where it gives a list (heartbreakingly, with names and ages) of all the children who died in farm accidents whilst the film was being made.
They used to show us these at school. We would all be gathered together into a big room or hall and a television would be wheeled in, whereupon (through the magic of Betamax) all of us 5-6 year olds would be reduced to a state of absolute terror. I particularly remember one film called "Robbie", in which a boy got both of his feet cut off by a train. There weren't even any railway lines near where I lived, but I was still terrified of going outside after watching that.
The very worst example though, was an absolutely appalling film called "The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water". This used to be shown in the commercial breaks of children's television programmes on a Saturday morning (so you'd watch your favourite show, sit through the adverts for toys and games, suddenly be scared s**tless and have your childhood ruined from that point on). To be fair, I haven't yet been killed by farm machinery, drowned in grain or slurry, dismembered by trains or motor vehicles, or asphyxiated in a lonely quarry, so perhaps these films did their job, but they can still evoke nightmares in people of my generation today ("The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water" recently came near the top in a UK poll of the scariest television moments ever). To be honest, he'd make a superb D&D villain, if you were running a fairly dark campaign, but I'm not sure that I could handle it myself, even after a quarter-century or so.
My list has changed over the years, but I'd say these are top three:
The 80's - Poltergeist. If you're a kid (which I was) I can't think of any movie more designed to mess you up.
The 90's - John Carpenter's The Thing - Maybe it was just the fact that I had to regularly take care of a husky that lived next door, often in the depths of winter, but this movie was always what I would think of when I had to consider what would scared me the most... At least until:
The 2000's - Ju-On - I saw the Grudge in the theaters, and walked away entertained, but not scared, at least not the way I'd been freaked out by the American remake of The Ring some years earlier. Then I decided to see if the orignal movie was any better... I'll say it once, and I'll say it again, don't watch this movie alone, in the middle of the night. Just don't, okay? I didn't think I could be scared silly the way this movie did when I watched it: AND I ALREADY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
2010's - Who knows? Maybe they'll put out another horrible Dungeons and Dragons film.
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I tend not to be a brave fellow with scary flicks, although I do get some useful finger examining done. That said, I have to say that one of the scariest flicks I have seen is the "Blair Witch Project." If ever you've been lost in the woods ... or messed with ... you'd understand. It was a REAL scary, not a bogus scary.
My list has changed over the years, but I'd say these are top three:
The 80's - Poltergeist. If you're a kid (which I was) I can't think of any movie more designed to mess you up.
The 90's - John Carpenter's The Thing - Maybe it was just the fact that I had to regularly take care of a husky that lived next door, often in the depths of winter, but this movie was always what I would think of when I had to consider what would scared me the most... At least until:
The 2000's - Ju-On - I saw the Grudge in the theaters, and walked away entertained, but not scared, at least not the way I'd been freaked out by the American remake of The Ring some years earlier. Then I decided to see if the orignal movie was any better... I'll say it once, and I'll say it again, don't watch this movie alone, in the middle of the night. Just don't, okay? I didn't think I could be scared silly the way this movie did when I watched it: AND I ALREADY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
2010's - Who knows? Maybe they'll put out another horrible Dungeons and Dragons film.
Your post makes perfect sense.
Nothing new:
- Alien (nothing scared me more as a child)
- The haunting ('63 version), scared me to death without blood, dead people, ghost or monsters. Only the sounds (not the music)and the acting. A lesson... I purchased the DVD as soon as it was published. The magic is still there.
- The Blair Witch Project (those guys were fans of The haunting and delivered their Lovecraftian tribute to this monument...)
- The Shining
- The exorcist
- Psycho
- Jaws
Did not see many of the recent production.
The two movies I found scary were The Exorcist and Silence of the Lambs.
In an attempt to create a ranking system, I went through this thread and counted each time a movie was mentioned.
If the poster said or implied they were scared at the movie I counted it. If they said the movie was great, but they were not scared, I did not count it.
I also did not include 'torture' movies, as it was implied these are not scary just intense; nor TV shows and games.
Note: ties are listed in alphabetical order.
- COUNT, TITLE
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- 13 , The Shining
- 11 , The Exorcist
- 10 , Jaws
- 10 , The Ring
- 9 , Event Horizon
- 8 , Alien
- 8 , Blair Witch Project
- 6 , Changling
- 6 , The Exorcist III
- 5 , Halloween
- 5 , John Carpenter's The Thing
- 5 , Night of Living Dead
- 4 , The Audition
- 4 , Evil Dead
- 4 , Fire in the Sky
- 4 , The Haunting (not remake)
- 4 , Poltergeist
- 4 , Texas Chainsaw Massacre (not remake)
- 3 , American Werewolf in London
- 3 , Black Christmas
- 3 , Candyman
- 3 , The Grudge
- 3 , Nightmare on Elm Street
- 3 , Omen
- 3 , Phantasm
- 3 , Prince of Darkness
- 3 , Se7en
- 3 , Serpent and Rainbow
- 3 , Silence of Lambs
- 3 , Watership Down
- 3 , Wicker Man
- 2 , 1408
- 2 , 28 Day's Later
- 2 , Amnityville Horror
- 2 , Burnt Offerings
- 2 , The Dark
- 2 , The Fog (original)
- 2 , Hellraiser
- 2 , In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter)
- 2 , It
- 2 , Jacob's Ladder
- 2 , Killer Clowns From Outer Space
- 2 , Last House on Left
- 2 , Lets Scare Jessica to Death
- 2 , Mothman Prophecies
- 2 , Prophecy
- 2 , Psycho
- 2 , Riget I & II
- 2 , Salem's Lot
- 2 , Wizard of Oz
- 1 , 28 Weeks Later
- 1 , Angel Heart
- 1 , Apt Pupil
- 1 , Arlington Road
- 1 , Bad Seed
- 1 , Below
- 1 , Children of Corn
- 1 , Child's Play
- 1 , Cold Blood
- 1 , Creepshow
- 1 , The Cube
- 1 , Dagon
- 1 , Dawn of Dead (original and remake)
- 1 , Dead Ringers
- 1 , Dead Zone
- 1 , Demon Seed
- 1 , The Descent
- 1 , Devil's Backbone
- 1 , Don't Look Now
- 1 , Dracula 3000
- 1 , Dressed To Kill
- 1 , The Duel
- 1 , Ernest Goes to Camp
- 1 , Ernest Goes to Jail
- 1 , The Eye
- 1 , The Fly (remake)
- 1 , Friday the 13th
- 1 , Galaxy of Terror
- 1 , The Gate
- 1 , Ghost Story
- 1 , Gothika
- 1 , Gremlins
- 1 , Guyana Tragedy: Story of Jim Jones
- 1 , Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- 1 , Indiana Jones
- 1 , Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
- 1 , Invasion of the Saucer Men
- 1 , Jeepers Creepers 2
- 1 , Kids
- 1 , Legend of Boggy Creek
- 1 , Mordum
- 1 , Mosferatu (Herzog version)
- 1 , Night of the Hunter
- 1 , People Under the Stairs
- 1 , Pet Cemetary
- 1 , Play Misty for Me
- 1 , Rosemary's Baby
- 1 , The Screaming Skull
- 1 , Signs
- 1 , Silent Scream
- 1 , Sixth Sense
- 1 , Spell, The
- 1 , Stepfather
- 1 , Strange Invaders
- 1 , Suspiria
- 1 , Terminator 2
- 1 , Trilogy of Terror
- 1 , Uzumaki
- 1 , Vanishing (not remake)
- 1 , Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
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You can keep your demons, zombies, monsters, possessed little girls, mutant psycho killers, regular psycho killers, all that stuff.
I watch a lot of horror movies, and getting scared by a movie is just something I generally don't do. I mean, its fake.
1 movie has held the honor of scaring me though, and its an odd one.
Outbreak.
Plague carrying monkeys make me shiver.
The Exorcist scared the crap out of me too as a youngster.
Anyone find that as they get older they get more grossed out by intense horror style violence? I mean I'm OK with gunfights, swords, action movie vioence. But movies like Saw and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the stuff I used to laugh at as a teenager just doesn't seem funny any more and I have no desire to watch it.
Oh no, I think I grew some empathy!
Yeah, I felt really bad about having spent money to see Saw 2 at the theatre and to have rented Saw 3, Hostel, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning... I don't think the psychopaths of the world need this kind of additional "inspiration" for their deeds...
Getting old? Nah... just gaining maturity and perspective...
Was mildly disappointed by 1408- King's reading of the story in the Blood and Smoke CD pretty much spoilt adaptation that could have come out. Seriously recommend that version- at one point I got such a fright I literally threw my headphones across the room- King is at the top of his game both as writer and storyteller.
Has any watched the BBC remake of Jekyll- for a TV show it's pretty much pitch perfect- takes a while to get going, but James Nesbitt's Mr Hyde is a revelation- I read the book and watched the movie, but I finally got it in this version.
Wicker Man and The Haunting for me, like I said before- two great movies that don't scare, rather they leave you with a crawling horror that stays with you for a long time.
Hail the Queen of The May!!
Whichever one has Nic Cage burning alive...dude needs to stop 'acting'. Raising Arizona is him at the top of his form for me.
Tensor; you rock; that is a great list; your my hero of the day, Kudos.
well, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets scared the crud out of lots of kid's mine included as so some other Potter films; kids love em but we gotta skip parts.
Gargoyles, the live movie not the cartoon; scared the crud out of me as a kid; the fact that the setting was very close to where I lived and the lines the leader type gave about his Gargoyles being stronger faster and breed much faster and are full grown in weeks as compared to people; yep that movie did it for me; saw it a few years ago and laughed.
Seriously though, The Wizard of Oz scares the crap out of a lot of kids; a whole lot of kids; there is certainly a cut off in age appropriatness for this film and I wouldnt show it to someone say less than maybe 9 years old.
so I guess it is target audience; all kinds of movies scare kids; several movies scare teens; not much scares adults; were just to old and bitter I guess, jaded by life and lost our purity. Scary movies for adults are hard to think of; several of my freinds said Dagon disturbed them on many levels even as a B grade movie; so I have to watch it for gaming source material.
my sorta wife was really distrubed by Falling Down; she hates that movie as way to close to home and could happen; scared the bejeezus out of her. Is more suspense/drama I guess, but she can't watch it.
I love Falling Down. When I first saw it, I thought it was hilarious. Now, with maturity, I no longer find it funny, but I do find it very sad and moving (and I put it in the "could happen" category, too).
ok; it has been bugging me for 5 hours now so I gotta post; are you the minster of what is pronounced like that red condiment we put on fries and hot dogs? lol, I do wanna know how to check gender (like your profile, look forward to the rest) I just dont want to do it.
looks like catsup or ketchup depending on where you are to me.
Manos: The Hands of Fate
I weep for all mankind.
2nd place footage of wwii, more folks died in brutal, pointless agony in half an hour back then then in every horror film ever made.
...British Public Information films ...
I still recall with terror the day our 8th grade english teacher (who sat in a rocking chair with a ruler to hit you with when you got a spelling question wrong) stopped yelling at us to show a film that depicted some young hoodlums who throw a cinderblock off an overpass into the front windshield of a car causing a horribly bloody scene of multi car carnage. I think I can honestly say that I had not considered such an act up until that point.
And to this day as I approach an overpass I wonder: is this the one with my name on it? Or at least some comically dumb kids?
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...British Public Information films ...I still recall with terror the day our 8th grade english teacher (who sat in a rocking chair with a ruler to hit you with when you got a spelling question wrong) stopped yelling at us to show a film that depicted some young hoodlums who throw a cinderblock off an overpass into the front windshield of a car causing a horribly bloody scene of multi car carnage. I think I can honestly say that I had not considered such an act up until that point.
And to this day as I approach an overpass I wonder: is this the one with my name on it? Or at least some comically dumb kids?
Ha! Try Iraq, where the cinderblock is filled with explosives!!
I love Falling Down.
Hands down my favorite movie. People won't watch it with me though because by the end they are always, "Dude, that's you!"
Scary movies for adults tend to be more of the "status quo" changers.