View Full Version : Which horror movies did actually scare you?
When I was 10 someone had rented Alien. My mum had hidden the tape, but I had followed her and knew where it was hidden, so I waited till my parents went to bed, and watched the movie. Suffice to say I shouldn't have, it scared the crap out of me and I had nightmares.
Now I was 10, so it hits you harder, but there are a few movies that still get me, let's list a few.
Blair Witch Project, scary as hell. I nearly died when the kids started rocking that tent 'what the *bleep* is that' jezus.
The Shining, it's the enviroment that gets me, way too big and way too empty. The bathtub scene doesn't help.
Jacob's Ladder, I think I will just stay relatively sane, it's better that way.
The Others, old fashioned horror never loses it's edge, I love haunted victorian houses. Of all horror badies ghosts are the scariest, don't you think?
Gimme.
When I was 9-10 years old I watched Poltergeist (spelling?) II. Found it quite scary, especially that creepy man. Nowadays I kinda hate horror movies, they're kinda boring.
English assassin
09-01-2006, 11:03
The Exorcist. Maybe its an (ex) catholic thing. Come on though, Satan and eternal damnation are kind of scary.
Shaka_Khan
09-01-2006, 11:08
Alien and Evil Dead have scared me the most. I've seen other horror movies but they weren't as scary as Alien or Evil Dead. Unfortunately, I'm not scared of those two movies anymore, so I don't have as much fun as I used to. I don't even find the comedies to funny anymore because they're so clique. :no:
I forgot to add Hellraiser to my list.
doc_bean
09-01-2006, 11:52
Child's Play when I was 9ish is the first that comes to mind.
Pannonian
09-01-2006, 13:23
The ending to Ringu (Ring). The lift (elevator) scene in Jian Gui (The Eye).
How could I forget Ringu, the ending is seriously messed up, possibly the scariest scene I have ever watched.
http://images.google.nl/url?q=http://www.horrormagazine.it/imgbank/NEWS/ringu.jpg&sig=__uBEmj-YkBApGFBxeakTzB8uxqbs=
dunno it just looks wrong :hide:
Dutch_guy
09-01-2006, 14:01
How could I forget Ringu, the ending is seriously messed up, possibly the scariest scene I have ever watched.
http://images.google.nl/url?q=http://www.horrormagazine.it/imgbank/NEWS/ringu.jpg&sig=__uBEmj-YkBApGFBxeakTzB8uxqbs=
dunno it just looks wrong :hide:
The Link doesn't work Fragony, it gives a 403 error.
:balloon2:
doc_bean
09-01-2006, 14:02
Is Ringu much scarier than the Ring ? I thought that one was pretty boring, but it did have Naomi Watts :2thumbsup:
but it did have Naomi Watts :2thumbsup:
You! Go see Mulholland Drive (Lynch madness yay!), and watch her do stuff you like. Here is good review from the best moviesite ever.
http://www.kutsite.com/recensie/mulhollandddrive.html
On Ringu, it's somewhat calmer and it explains less, I think the original is superior but many disagree. Hard to recommend if you didn't like the remake, they are pretty similar.
The Link doesn't work Fragony, it gives a 403 error.
Told you it looks wrong.
doc_bean
09-01-2006, 15:11
You! Go see Mulholland Drive (Lynch madness yay!), and watch her do stuff you like.
I've seen that movie (twice or so) already. It's not my favourite lynch by far and I thought that scene was a bit over the top...:help: (Now I wouldn't change channels if I came across that scene of course)
Peasant Phill
09-01-2006, 15:27
The shining did really scare me alot. The twins, the "redrum" and the lady in the bathtub. I even jumped up from my seat when the screen showed "thursday", but that was because of the atmosphere of the movie and the excelent sound.
Another one that really scared me was IT. Maybe not the best movie ever made, but something about that clown just freaked me out.
2 years ago, I was watching it with some friends and we were all somewhat under the influnce of herbal substances. The whole group got really scared with the climax when the wind blew the curtain in the room. It moved so slow that it was almost as if an arm was reaching inside. We ended up skipping the second half of the film.
Someone in the same building had the book and me and a friend copied the cover with the clown Pennywise on it several times and slid it under the door of a girl that had watched too. She was not amused (we were).
@doc
Loved it, especially that theater scene, very surreal. Still haven't figured out the monster man though and I won't ask you because I am smart.
what was it about?
doc_bean
09-01-2006, 15:33
what was it about?
I don't know either
macsen rufus
09-01-2006, 16:01
The Shining was pretty spooky, but then ain't old Jack always a bit spooky???
Blair Witch though, I'm afraid I found the characters so damned irritating I couldn't WAIT FOR THEM TO DIE. I was thinking "Whiny, self-obsessed, brats, someone KILL THEM NOW!!!" I don't think I've ever had less sympathy for a film character. Ever.
Banquo's Ghost
09-01-2006, 16:37
Not really a horror film, but the only nightmare I have ever had was provoked by watching 'Great Expectations (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038574/)' (1946).
That spooky old lady, Miss Havisham somehow caught the imagination of my 10-year old self, and I was terrified for days. Even now, I can't watch the film. Black and white film is far more atmospheric for ghost stories, I think.
More conventionally, I liked 'The Others' though I wasn't scared per se. 'The Wicker Man' (1975) is delightfully creepy for a country boy like me!
I saw John Carpenter's The Thing at a midnight showing in the middle of a severe blizzard. That was really fantastic. Walking out afterward into the darkness and the blinding snow ... good stuff.
As of "The Others" (last time I saw one) every horror movie that wasn't meant to be funny scared me. I'm usually always on edge/tense watching those movies.
I saw John Carpenter's The Thing at a midnight showing in the middle of a severe blizzard. That was really fantastic. Walking out afterward into the darkness and the blinding snow ... good stuff.
Did you ever read "Who Goes There?" by Don A. Stuart, the short story it (and the original The Thing from Another World) was based on? I would recommend it to anybody playing the Mafia games. :2thumbsup:
Did you ever read "Who Goes There?" by Don A. Stuart, the short story it (and the original The Thing from Another World) was based on? I would recommend it to anybody playing the Mafia games.
Dude, of course I read the novella. You're talking to the compulsively literate lemur here. I saw the Carpenter version, the '50s version, read the novella, and even attended a theater adaptation in Chicago. I've got big love for that classic story.
An even better novel that's never had a decent film adaptation -- H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. Fantastic book, as relevant now as it was a century ago, full of physical, mental and spiritual horror, and nobody's been able to make a decent film of it. I've seen three versions, and I think there might be a fourth. They all suck, although not equally.
Moreau is one of the best stories ever written. Someday someone will make it into an un-sucking film.
edyzmedieval
09-01-2006, 18:21
My own dreams. They really scare sometimes the **** out of me.
For somehow reason, my dreams are very vivid, and they often turn into nightmares. :help:
For some odd reason, Event Horizon. Dunno why.
Anyway, I've found out that horror movies are not as bad when you watch them at noon, in a well-lit room.
Samurai Waki
09-01-2006, 19:27
Event Horizon scared the bejeezus oughta me. And I wasn't like 9 or 10, I think I was about 12 when I watched it, about the age when things stop becoming scary.
yesdachi
09-01-2006, 19:32
I grew up on a farm in the boonies so anything that was scary and in a rural setting would give me the creeps. I remember pushing thru my fears and opening a barn door (for some reason I needed something that was in there) in the late evening and having a fricking rooster come flying out, it might as well have been an ax murder, my hart nearly exploded.
I hated Blare Witch, it was far more annoying than scary.
I find that I am not really scared of much anymore but I don’t really like blood and gore, it just turns my stomach, I would much rather see something with more suspense, like the 6th Sense.
The movies that really scare me now are the ones with too much estrogen, Michael Moore or Al Gore in them. ~D
I prefer movies with lots of suspense and plot twists, so the usual slasher flicks don't do too much for me. Good acting is always important to relay the building tension, of course.
The Shining and Alien are among of my favorites. I liked Event Horizon when I first saw it, they could have done better with it but it was still decent. When I was young (10?) I saw Salem's Lot, which made an impression, although it seems pretty dated now.
Geezer57
09-01-2006, 21:01
As a child (age 6), my sister took me to see Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy - for several nights afterwards I couldn't sleep. When I'd wake up in the middle of the night and look down the hall, there seemed to be a mummy's leg coming round the corner at the top of the stairs. Spooky! :scared:
As an adult, the most intense movie experience ever was the original Alien. I enjoyed the first sequel (Aliens), but it was more of an action-adventure thriller than scary. Too bad the others in the series just sucked... :no:
IrishArmenian
09-02-2006, 03:39
My then 24 year old brother showed me The Shining. I was 8 and I was scared sh!tless. That was the last movie that reelly scared me. After you see some things, you get desensitized to gore and blood and brutal killers.
Justiciar
09-02-2006, 04:08
Horror films don't really get to me anymore, but I remember watching a few that were just bowel-blowing. The Brood and "It" were a pair that really got me, and I remember watching one of the Evil Dead films (first or second) when I was around 8-9 and not being able to sleep properly for about a fortnight. :laugh4:
Reverend Joe
09-02-2006, 04:37
"The Cell", of all movies, REALLY freaked me out. Horror movies do not scare me, but that one... did.
I still love it.
Kekvit Irae
09-02-2006, 04:55
To me, Event Horizon is how I base all scary movies on, using a scale of one (Barney & Friends) to ten (Event Horizon).
The airduct scene gave me nightmares :sadg:
Soulforged
09-02-2006, 05:12
Moreau is one of the best stories ever written. Someday someone will make it into an un-sucking film.
Couldn't agree more with you there... However it's pretty hard for me to be scared of movies. After watching hours and hours of filming I already know what's going to happen so I'm always pretty much prepared, even if only at a subconscient level. I've to admit though that the final scene on "The Ring" had me avoiding the screen in a subtle way...:embarassed:
"The Return of the Living Dead" is another one, is one of those movies wich gets the zombies phenomena to a whole new level of perfection (to me at least).
There's nothing more really, of course when I was younger every single moment of suspense followed by grotesque images, wounds or tons of blood scared me a lot...
The Blind King of Bohemia
09-02-2006, 19:18
The Exorcist and the Omen definetly had its moments. Some parts of the Changelling also. For modern films, the Exorcism of Emily Rose was a very well doen horror film, a rarity in these days with her possession being extremely well done. The women in black, made in 1989 on english television is very, very scary in some parts and i would advise watching it. A certain part, and you will know when you see it, it extremely scary and will give you a real shock.
For sickness and disturbing images that stay with you, cannibal holocaust is graphic and repulsive to some. The animal deaths are pretty horrendous. Some say Blair Witch is scary, i don't however. It is a good film but Last Broadcast is better.
Also the Innocents is a weird film more creepy than scary. For indivdual's in a film, the girl with spinal problems in Pet cementary called Zelda or something is really horrible and although the film is awful she use to scare the hell out of me when i was younger.
I've never been scared by a horror movie. Thry don't try to scare you. They go for disturb, revolt, shock, and surprise. In fact most rely on shock and surprise, to mimic fear. A fear response from a horror moive is something you have to bring with you. Like a fear of snakes. I know a guy for whom the scariest movie ever would be snakes on a plane. He's terrified of snakes.
LeftEyeNine
09-02-2006, 19:45
Well, I really can not forget Dead Birds (2004) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377749/). Three guys averaging 22-year-old were frightened of every moving thing that could reflect on window or somewhere else in the house afterwards. Brrrr, the atmosphere still gives me the creeps.
Oh and the chat about The exorcist and the likes reminded me of Stigmata (1999) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145531/). I had seen it when I was 16 and nightmares did not seem to end for a couple of days.
Mithrandir
09-02-2006, 20:12
Child's Play when I was 9ish is the first that comes to mind.
I liked it as well...
Can't leave out It though. Never liked clowns, that movie didn't do much to improve it.
Event horizon is a masterclass in screwing up a good idea. First half of the movie is great, the second half is beyond silly. Pity.
For sickness and disturbing images that stay with you, cannibal holocaust is graphic and repulsive to some. The animal deaths are pretty horrendous
hehe, I recently bought that one, can't pass up a title like that. Hated the animals deaths, lack the stomach for real violence.
Geoffrey S
09-04-2006, 10:41
The Exorcist was creepy, in a twisted kind of way.
Togakure
09-05-2006, 21:45
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre scared me good when I was younger. I used to enjoy going riding out into the boonies on my bike, sometimes alone, sometimes with a friend, and I'd explore broken down houses and buildings and such. I got a thrill out of it. After I saw that movie, exploring remote, run-down houses out in the middle of nowhere no longer appealed to me.
I actually fell asleep trying to watch the Blair Witch Project- bored the life outta me....'Event Horizon' was definitely a good one, imo. I'd also second 'Dead Birds'- pretty well done for being a low-budget flick.
What hasn't anyone mentioned In the Mouth of Madness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/)? I really loved that one the first few times I saw it- kinda messes with your head. :dizzy2:
More recently, I also liked "the Descent" and "Silent Hill". Sure, the plots were kinda weak- but I loved the atmosphere/suspense in both.
Sasaki Kojiro
09-05-2006, 22:29
Devil's advocate; scenes in horror movies with babies always scare me. *shrugs*
Geoffrey S
09-05-2006, 22:31
What hasn't anyone mentioned In the Mouth of Madness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/)? I really loved that one the first few times I saw it- kinda messes with your head. :dizzy2:
Oh ya, that was pretty twisted. Reminded me a lot of Eternal Darkness, same source I guess.
Pannonian
09-05-2006, 22:49
More recently, I also liked "the Descent" and "Silent Hill". Sure, the plots were kinda weak- but I loved the atmosphere/suspense in both.
Have you played Silent Hill?
Im actually playing Silent Hill 2 for the PC now. I dont own a PS2, so I didnt catch them when they were new- but after the movie I figured I'd spend a few bucks and get a discount copy.
Did I miss any huge plot points from part 1 that'll hurt my enjoyment of 2?
Im actually playing Silent Hill 2 for the PC now. I dont own a PS2, so I didnt catch them when they were new- but after the movie I figured I'd spend a few bucks and get a discount copy.
Did I miss any huge plot points from part 1 that'll hurt my enjoyment of 2?
You won't understand the plot of Silent Hill 2 anyway, it's a mess. Fun game though, some parts are pretty freaky.
Pannonian
09-06-2006, 10:06
Im actually playing Silent Hill 2 for the PC now. I dont own a PS2, so I didnt catch them when they were new- but after the movie I figured I'd spend a few bucks and get a discount copy.
Did I miss any huge plot points from part 1 that'll hurt my enjoyment of 2?
No, what I meant is that the atmosphere was even freakier in the game since you identify with the character more than in the film. The cutscene at the start with your daughter gone, your jogging into the fog trying to look for signs of her, turning past a creaky iron gate that you had heard, going into a dark alleyway, then the sirens...
Nothing like it had been made before, a videogame whose creepy atmosphere was palpable. There's a video on youtube which recorded a playthrough minus the cutscenes. It's around 200MB, so tell me if you want it and I'll give the link and instructions for download and viewing.
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