Just watched 100 Scariest Moments in Movies on VH1...Jaws #1WTF??

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

Jaws the scariest???? Not even close in my book. I couldn't stay in the room the first time I watched The Exorcist. People actually had to have therapy after watching that movie. To me it the most powerful movie ever made. No movie ever effected me the way that one did. Jaws had its moments but its very mundane compared to The Exorcist.

[mediaman007]

1. I always thought that "Deliverance" was pretty intense...

"Squeal like a pig!"

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

3. Boy,you sure gotta puurrty mouth...LOL..rememberr that one...

who could forget right!!!

[Atlas Mugged]

2. The one and ONLY time...

...I was ever startled enough to actually get jolted was watching a Pee Wee Herman movie that had a character named Large Marge in it. Scared the crap out of me.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

4. I don't know what to make out of that??!?!? n/t

[charlie]

9. Have you seen Large Marge?

I have. Right in the middle of that goofy comedy is a *shock* scene, utterly unexpected. It uncorked a huge SCREEEEEAM in the theater and you couldn't hear the next 5 minutes of the movie for the tittering and gasping that followed. Reeeally cool.

On edit: It's in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, BTW.

[nookiemonster]

5. It seems like "JAWS"

always makes the top of the list. I don't understand it. It must be the music.

DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN

Yeah, that's gotta be it. :think:

[Devils Advocate NZ]

7. No, its the reality of it - at least the perceived reality that is...

Think about it - what are you more likely to see in your lifetime - a shark about to bite you, or your daughter possessed by the devil?

Really.

People may have needed therapy after seeing the Exorcist, but sharks have been hunted - and are still being hunted - almost to extinction because of the irrational fear that Jaws plays on.

That is why Jaws is far more powerful than the Exocist - because people believe it far more readily than they believe the Exorcist. Even the author of Jaws is now a campaigner for the conservation of sharks - he saw the damage that fear was doing, and he realised the power of his story in playing on those fears.

On edit - in fact, why do you think we STILL see "killer shark attack" headlines to this day? It sure wasn't because of the Exocist.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

8. Did you see both movies?

Yeah...you make some good arguments though none I haven't heard before. Tell me the truth,if you saw both,which scared you more. Sounds like to me you are wanting to display your "powers" of logic rather than answering truthfully. I've never heard anyone...other than VH1 say Jaws was the scariest movie they ever saw. Many people have told me the Exorcist was a mind blowing experience and was the scariest thing they've ever seen. Come on be truthful now.

[LWolf]

10. I saw both movies.

I think I was 13 when I saw the exorcist, 15 when i saw jaws.

The exorcist didn't scare me. I was disgusted by the green vomit, spinning head, etc., and I know my pulse raised a couple of times, but I wasn't terrified. I guess because I just don't/didn't believe in "the devil" or in demonic possession; so it was entirely fiction. I remember all of the hype, and I knew other people who had nightmares; my friends at the time were divided between those who were scared and those who were thrilled by all the graphic "grossness."

I saw "Jaws" at a drive-in with one friend from high school who had her driver's licence. She was so terrified that she had the windows rolled up and the door locked, and screamed when someone walked by the car. I think "Jaws" was scarier because it included an element of the real; there really are sharks, and they really do attack people sometimes. And, here in CA, we grew up swimming/splashing around on the beaches, in water we couldn't see through to see what might be swimming by. It was too easy to imagine.

[FunBobbyMucha]

17. I saw both.

I saw Jaws in the drive-in when I was 11 or 12. The head in the hull was scary, and the shark attacks were suspenseful. However...


I missed The Exorcist and wound up finally seeing it when I was about 35. And it was scary as hell, to an adult, versus Jaws to an 11-year-old.

There are also elements of The Shining (mostly the silent, slow stuff) and Evil Dead 2 (despite the slapstick, all the P.O.V. stuff in the woods is creepy as hell) that un-nerve me, but nothing like Exorcist.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

15. I would be biased...

I was born and raised in Syndey, Australia where shark attacks, including from Great Whites, were not uncommon. In fact I witnessed one once.

But the point still remains, What actually had a lasting emotianal impact? A movie about a demonic possession? Or a movie about shark attacks that is STILL refered to whenever a shark attack occurs?

I personally was a LOT more scared by Jaws at the time - I LIVED in the water, and such attacks were always a possibility. I NEVER saw anyone possessed though...

[yvr girl]

6. I gasped audibly when the evil Russian cats almost

got the protagonist in The American Tale. But then I actually shed a tear during a tire commercial. I'm an easy mark.

[Phillycat]

13. The tire commercial with the baby?

Yeah. Right there with ya.

[johnnie]

11. When Jaws came out

I think just about everyone was afraid to go in to the water. It had a huge impact on people.

[el_gato]

12. Rosemary's Baby was way better than the Exorcist

[Beer Snob-50]

14. Definatly Jaws

it was something that could actually happen and thus is more of a fear than devil possession or having the devil's baby. Although 59 years ago Babs Bush did have the devil's child.

[redqueen]

16. I'm with you

I saw that this weekend (but on Bravo I think?) and I was astounded that Jaws was #1. I couldn't even believe Alien topped The Exorcist. Just no comparison. I saw Jaws as a kid and thought it was :boring:

[DrWeird]

18. Exorcist wasn't that scary.

Kind of lame as far as the scary factor goes.

[Borgnine]

19. I agree.

I watched it on Bravo this weekend. Jaws never scared me because I don't view sharks as something to fear. I'm much more scared of the unnatural... something that takes your comfortable reality and destroys it. For example, take "Night of the Living Dead"... your neighbors and family becoming flesh-eating undead monsters. It probably wouldn't ever happen, but the thought of it is much more frightening to me.

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. JAWS????

My top five:
1. The Exorcist
2. The Ring
3. Poltergeist (not the movie itself, so much as the circumstances surrounding it)
4. Psycho
5. Night of the Living Dead (not scary, so to speak, but a horror classic)