Scariest Movie Ever

[BOSSHOG]

My wife and I were watching Alien v Predator last night and she said she thought it was pretty scary. I didn't think it was scary at all.
My pick for scariest movie would be the original Friday the 13th, especially the last three minutes. I'll also give a nod to Creature from the Black Lagoon, with the intense music and the Creature crawling up on the boat unbeknownst to the humans.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. The original Halloween.

Scared the bejesus out of me.

[MindPilot]

2. the first Exorcist -- no question

followed closely by The Ring.

The night I saw the Exorcist, I actually slept in my car. I couldn't stay in my apartment--as soon as I closed my eyes the dresser started to come at me. And then every radio station in the known universe played Tubular Bells constantly.

[redqueen]

5. Exorcist for me, too.

The Eye was pretty scary as well. As was the first Alien, when I first saw it. Now, not so much.

[barb162]

28. ditto; I wanted to find a church on the way out of the theater

[DIKB]

30. I watched it.

b/c of all the hype saying it was the scariest movie of all time. <YAWN> I don't see what all the fuss was about. It did nothing for me.

[Laughing Mirror]

35. You had to see it when it first came out

When it still had the subliminal imaging and noises, before they were taken out.

It was mass national hysteria for weeks. Tapes of "actual" exorcisms were being played everywhere, and as was posted, Tubular Bells was constantly played on air. It was a great national hoax.

I saw it a few years later on television, minus the subliminal stuff, and thought it was one of the campiest, funniest films I'd ever seen in my life.

[ronnykmarshall]

40. What subliminal stuff?

What did they put in it?

I didn't see it until 1979.

[driver8]

53. Without a doubt, the Exorcist!

The first one was bad enough, but then I saw the Director's cut that scene where Regan walks down the stairs backwards (like a crab) scared the sh*t out of me!!

When I first saw this movie I had dreams that my bed was shaking for about four nights in a row.

[Wickerman]

3. The Birds

always creeped me out.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. I still can't watch the original...

"Night of the Living Dead" all the way through.

Freaking zombie movies always scare the piss out of me, but that one's still the worst!

FSC

[redqueen]

7. Oh yes, forgot about that one.

I'm the same way with good zombie movies. They give me the creeps every time. :)

[Abelman]

6. AvP SUCKED

IMO. Not even hardly scary. The scariest movie I've ever seen? Most zombie movies scare the shit out of me. I always come home and start looking around my room wondering if I'd be okay in the event of zombie invasion.

[BOSSHOG]

17. I agree

It certainly wasn't scary and its ending did not evoke terror in me like the ending of Friday the 13th.

[elehhhhna]

8. When the Creature sneaks up on them on the boat...

my husband and kids laugh their heads off. The shot of his legs as he's walking, with all that water gushing off him, always induces a heckle of "oops, I wet my pants". Check the video--

[Kikosexy2]

9. The one and only....

true horror champ--THE EXORCIST (1973). When first see back in '73/74 couldn't sleep for days without the lights on. Next in line "Pyscho" 1960 and Night of the Living Dead 1968.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre...

ALL "unknown" actors.

Had the look of a home movie for added "realism."

Based on a true story (Ed Gein, who was also the basis for "Norman Bates" in Psycho and "Buffalo Bill" in Silence of the Lambs)...http://www.crimelibrary.com/gein/geinmain.htm

:toast:

[benny05]

60. Agree

I could not see it, and my siblings could only watch it stoned, not ebriated. I'm not a fan of horror or slasher films.

[TheDebbieDee]

11. Jon Carpenter's "Thing" - the gories, scariest movie I ever saw...

[RebelOne]

22. The original "The Thing" from the 1950s

beat the remake. No gore, but lots of scary scenes.

[thebeaglehaslanded]

48. Gotta agree with this...

I can still remember hiding as a young kid on the floor of the theater waiting for "The Thing" to end so my big brother could take me home. I was petrified. But then, I also was like that in "The Wizzard of Oz", especially in any scene with Margaret Hamilton's witch.

[ohiosmith]

12. The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[Speck Tater]

13. I agree. I saw it as a kid and didn't sleep for a month.

For what it's worth I thought the Firday the 13th movies were so over done I laughed my way through them.

[MemphisTiger]

14. Pet Cemetery and Original Nightmare on Elm Street

Elm street kept me up for almost a week when I was a kid

[On the Road]

15. Zombie Movies Don't Bother Me

Neither do monster or vampire movies.

What really gets to me are creepy haunted house movies. "The Grudge" absolutely terrified me.

[youspeakmylanguage]

16. The original Hellraiser...

The sequels were crap, but the original movied directed by Clive Barker is a creepy masterpiece. It is also one of the few horror movies I can think of that are still scary and creepy despite threadbare, dated special effects.

When Frank was pulled apart at the end of the movie, and he smiled and said, "Jesus....wept."....wow, it was mind-blowing.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. I concur.

It wasn't just gory, it was... EVIL.

The Cenobites were bad enough, but the humans easily surpassed them in perversion. That's one of the things I think made this movie great.

[BOSSHOG]

18. Has anybody seen

the last three minutes of the original Friday the 13th? Maybe not the most scariest movie, but the scariest three minutes?

[tuvor]

19. Blue Velvet

[Arkana]

20. Final Destination

Psychological warfare is often the worst kind.

[7th_Sephiroth]

47. house of 1,000 corpses

1 word: Hillbillies, don't forget perfect blue

[bigwillq]

21. Candyman

:scared:

[MemphisTiger]

24. That movie messed me up a little

It was interesting how almost the whole movie was set in the projects

[bigwillq]

32. Scared the shit out of me!

For real! I still can't say "Candyman" five times in the mirror.

[4_Legs_Good]

23. The Shining (Kubrick)

hands down.

Every Halloween my wife wants to watch it, so we put it on, and then she falls asleep while the car is still making its way up the mountainside, and I'm left there with the madness...

... and it seeps in... and I can't ever get it out...

david

[ghostsofgiants]

37. The Shining gets my vote as well

[Neshanic]

42. That's mine too. Makes the hairs on my neck stand up in some scenes.

There is an interesting story of Shelly's scene when she is suprised by Jack's writing "All work and no play"....

[4_Legs_Good]

46. What's the story?

Because that's one of the most terrifying scenes in the film. The stuff everyone normally thinks is scary (Jack chasing them down the hallway or smashing through the door, etc), is really not that horrific. The trully scary thing abou The Shining is the atmosphere, which Kubrick generated perfectly. It's like utter insanity from beginning to end.

david

[Neshanic]

50. Kubrick pushed Shelly to the edge for that scene...

He made her do it over and over again, and by the time she picked up the baseball bat, she wat at her wits end. That's why that scene plays so scary, Shelly is about to really loose it and is swinging a baseball bat and screaming.

Also it was shot with a camera that gives a floating dreamy feel, disconnected. Kubrick deliberately chose this.

[ghostsofgiants]

56. Kubrick did that a lot...

I think Jack Nicholson swore to never work with him again after it because of the way he pushed the cast.

[redwitch]

25. The Woman in Black

it was on tv years ago and i could not watch past a certain point. scared the bejeebers out of me- gothic horror about a haunted house in remote area of England- based on a novel by ????. Also, started to watch Jacob's Ladder and the hallucinations the main character was having made it difficult for me to even touch the tv to turn it off. I am however a total sissypants so maybe it's just me.

[redwitch]

26. self delete

double post. damn, I'm sooooooo dumb today.

[TlalocW]

27. Glitter starring Mariah Carey

eom

TlalocW

[BearClaws]

31. The Shining

The Twins.
The lady in the tub.
The bartender.
Get chills just typing this.

Is "The Ring" a good one?

[ghostsofgiants]

38. The Ring was pretty good

Above average for modern horror. Could have been better though.

[Twenty3]

33. Legend of Hell House

with Roddy McDowall.

:scared:

[silvermachine]

34. Suspiria

Get the DVD with the original director's cut.

[chickenscratching]

36. sleep away camp

such a b-movie horror film, but so awesome.
if you're into young transvestites and summer camp, check it out!

[Lerkfish]

39. The Ring, The exorcist, The Birds, the Haunting of Hell House (original),

Rosemary's baby,
the Omen (first one),
Poltergeist (first one),
The Entity,
Signs (despite some plot flaws),
Sixth Sense, Stir of Echoes,
16 ghosts,
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both the original and the Donald Sutherland version), Alien,
Fire in the Sky (about alien abduction, although only about 1/5 of the film is interesting)


that should do it.

[ksilvas]

41. "Exorcist" and that movie...

"Don't be afraid of the Dark" with the little light hating
goblins, that was totally freaky as a kid.

[Ian David]

43. Farenheit 9-11

[BearClaws]

Seven

That was another creepy one.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

44. Police Academy VI

....shiver....

[ImpeachBush]

45. Blair Witch Project?

Nah ... didn't scare me either.

[tigereye]

51. the orignal Psycho

Frenzy
Polanski's The Tenant ( still creeps me out)

[ghostsofgiants]

58. I thought it wasn't so much scary as it was creepy.

Really underrated too in my opinion. The hype definitely hurt it I think.

[carpetbagger]

61. It's truly scary if you know the people who made it.

My wife used to rent a room in the house where the director and the main photography guy lived. It's the house the actors are in at the beginning of the movie.

And, oh yeah, it was the landlord who invented the stick-people thing.

[Taverner]

49. Serpent and the Rainbow

Followed soon after by the Vanishing.

Being buried alive scares the shit out of me, even though its one of the more humane deaths. You pass out in the dark and never wake up. But damn if it doesnt seem scary.

[Maine-ah]

52. The Evil Dead

W/ Bruce Campbell. The scene in the woods when the woman is raped by the possessed forest.... that was fucking freaky man...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/

(edit to add another link)

http://www.twistednightmareweekend.com/index2.html

[corker]

55. evil dead freaked me out

I saw it in the theater scared the shit outta me...

[Orsino]

54. Ghost Story

Alice Krige is creepy as all heck.

[Deja Q]

57. Crossroads.

Had Brittney succeeded, who knows how much further down the toilet our society would sink.

:scared:

Now if that doesn't scare you, nothing will.

[Raiden]

59. The Original TCM

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I hate having to acknowledge the remake!)
Halloween
Suspiria
Freaks
The Exorcist
Alien
Night Of The Living Dead
The Omen
Don't Look Now (SHOCKING ENDING!!!)
Alice, Sweet Alice
Black Christmas
Carrie (after the prom scene, the ending came out of nowhere!)
The Evil Dead
The Shining




The original TCM just seemed so real and was so frighteningly apprehensive. Great acting, great villains, truly creepy and atmospheric, and interestingly not that gory...