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.

The Exorcist. Maybe its an (ex) catholic thing. Come on though, Satan and eternal damnation are kind of scary.

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.
I forgot to add Hellraiser to my list.

Child's Play when I was 9ish is the first that comes to mind.

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.



dunno it just looks wrong

Originally Posted by Fragony

How could I forget Ringu, the ending is seriously messed up, possibly the scariest scene I have ever watched.



dunno it just looks wrong

The Link doesn't work Fragony, it gives a 403 error.

Is Ringu much scarier than the Ring ? I thought that one was pretty boring, but it did have Naomi Watts

Originally Posted by doc_bean

but it did have Naomi Watts

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.

Originally Posted by Dutch_guy

The Link doesn't work Fragony, it gives a 403 error.

Told you it looks wrong.

Originally Posted by Fragony

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... (Now I wouldn't change channels if I came across that scene of course)

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?

Originally Posted by Fragony

what was it about?

I don't know either

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.

Not really a horror film, but the only nightmare I have ever had was provoked by watching 'Great Expectations' (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.

Originally Posted by Lemur

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.

Originally Posted by drone

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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...

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.

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.

"The Cell", of all movies, REALLY freaked me out. Horror movies do not scare me, but that one... did.

I still love it.

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