The scariest movie you've ever seen was...

[Axxess]

^I used to watch that scene from Fantasia over and over when I was a kid!

Earlier you made a thread about scary video games, now scary movies. Do you enjoy being horrified or something?

 

[treanir]

I haven't been scared by a horror movie in years, and I miss it!

The ones that scared me the most when I was younger:
- The Shining
- It
- Poltergeist
- Nightmare on Elm Street

 

[Corny]

Drag me to hell was really fun

I think "the descent" was really tense. I watched it in the right setting with the right people though. Imho this has a huge effect on how a horror movie affects you

 

[JohnJay201212]

Never seen one.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)

Event Horizon (1997)

 

[MissAnne]

Im not too scared of scary movies these days: Im more freaked out by some of the Celebrity Ghost Stories episodes.


I watched Tracey Nelson's Celebrity Ghost Story episode, I didn't sleep right for a week.
Chaka Khan's story wasn't anything to play with either.

It gives me the creeps to even think about it. EEK!

When I was a child I was terribly afraid of:

The Witches

When Anjelica Huston took off her mask, I was done. I have since finished it but it gave me horrible nightmares when I was 10.

Candyman

I can watch it now, but its still pretty fucked up.

Oh! and someone mentioned IT! AH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYW3NyAPuMI


"They All Float Down Here" Horrible. That was also very scary.

 

[hylas]

i nearly shat myself during blairwitch project. i was about 15 at the time, and had barely seen any horror movies before.

hardened as i am by now, i dont think any movie could scare me that much anymore. although they can make me feel nauseous or startle me... neither of which i enjoy, so im very selective about what horror movies i watch.

 

[Nishin]

A TV doc about human organs stolen from orphans and random kidnapped children in Colombia... gave me nightmares for months
Also a (hopefully faked?) snuff youtube movie with an eastern European solder sliting another soldier's throat

Hollywood movies? they make me lol

 

[cgymike]

"Sorry Wrong Number" ...gave me the creeps though not sure it's the scariest....but among Noir genre probably....sometimes the psychology makes it scariest. Showing people being blown away by a nuke is scary but in a different way.

But real life is THE original scary movie.....

 

[Phantas33]

gosh that is a good but hard question!! Also a bit of a horror buff here.

I remember Candyman scaring the crap out of me, and it still is a hauntingly captivating film.
Also found "The Mist" from Stephen King's hand to be quite unsettling, especially when watched alone late at night

More recently though, and not so much scariest, but I was truly gored out by Final Destination 5. Whatever one may think of the series, the "deaths" in these are really sick at times, especially in this last one.

I can't say though which movie managed to scare me recently as much as they used to do....

 

[Phantas33]

For me, it was Drag Me To Hell:

It definitely wasn't the best horror movie I've ever seen, but at a few points it scared me so badly that I had to turn it off (which I haven't had to do with a movie since I was 13).

What about you?

Actually thought this was one of the better horror movies that was released more recently. It reminded me of the good ones from the past, during the 70-80s and half of the 90s. After that it all became a bit more of the same. But DMTH had a good plot, for once.

 

[Phantas33]

I watched the Exorcist on video when I was in my early teens, I didn't so much find it scary as gross. Still I was a repressed catholic boy then and what that demon did with the crucifix brought tears to my eyes, that would have hurt.

The only horror film I've watched that still haunts me to this day is IT by Stephen King. I watched that when I was a kid and I've been terrified of clowns ever since, so much so I'm not even going to YouTube to get a clip. Clowns are evil.

I relate to the comment about IT!! I was aroudn 12 or 13 when I watched it on TV and I had to watch it through my hands at times LOL - that clown was FUCK scary. Honestly though, the parts involving the kids are WAY scarier than the parts involving the adults. Stephen King is good at describing kid fears!

 

[Vitamin]

Some of you are going to hate on it, but Paranormal Activity (the first one) is the one and only movie that made me sleep with the lights on after I saw it.

 

[Phantas33]

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)

Event Horizon (1997)

OMG How could I forget "Event Horizon" ?? That was one freaking scary film, damn it. Probably the scariest I've seen in terms of sci-fi like horror O.O

 

[BFizzle]

Sinister. I was literally screaming.

 

[zoltanspawn]

When I was a child I saw The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T on television. It gave me my first sense of the horrors of infinity. It is supposed to be a technicolor farce melding Dr. Seuss with live-action, but it induced in me a dread of wrong geometry, as you find in Lovecraft.

Martyrs scared and disturbed me big time. My idea of "scared" is less about seeing frightening visuals and more about things fucking me up psychologically. Hate that film.

Fucking the viewer up psychologically has become a genre unto itself with horror, especially the new euro-shock. I'm on the fence with them. Some, like High Tension , I think will stand the test of time. Others will degrade as Wes Craven's Last House on the Left did. I've got Inside in my queue right now, but haven't added Martyrs or Frontiers.

There's something to be said about the difference between scary movies, and upsetting ones.

 

[Croynan]

The Exorcist - i stupidly sat there and watched the entire film but i did not want to ruin things for the person i was with. Little did i know that the film was a key to his personality.

The Shinning - shame on Stanley Kubrick.

eM/

 

[bankside]

Oh, here we go! I had completely forgot about Jacob's Ladder.

 

[BFizzle]

^ Shit, Insidious is the one I meant. I haven't even seen Sinister.

 

[Phantas33]

Strangers is waaaaaay too slow for me. I tried sitting through it, but it couldn't capture me at all.