What is the scariest horror film ever made?

[brentspeak]

The Exorcist:



Psycho:



Rosemary's Baby:



Alien:



A Nightmare On Elm Street



Night Of The Living Dead:



Halloween:



Dawn Of The Dead:



The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:

[sakabatou]

1. The Decent will be very scary

According to the screeners.

[Alleycat]

2. Desent?

Was this a book by James Rollins?

[sakabatou]

13. Helliphino.

[k_jerome]

25. been out on DVD since March (in UK)

Dog Soldiers by same director is excellent B-Horror and out in US now on DVD.

[Placebo]

3. 'The Blair Witch Project'

I didn't know it was fake when I went to see it.

I thought that was actual found footage!

Umm, needless to say, I couldn't sleep that night.

[NYdemocrat089]

9. The Blair Witch Project freaked me out too when I first saw it.

I also thought it was real footage.

[Placebo]

11. No one bothered to tell me it was fake!

Even the website made it seem totally real, so when I finally asked my friends if it was fake they were all like "Uhh, yeah!" and I was like "Well how the hell was I supposed to know!"

If I knew it wasn't real, it wouldn't have freaked me out like it had.

[jobycom]

15. That movie flipped a switch in me

I watched it alone on vcr, thought it was scary and creepy, but not bad, then went to bed. About 2 I woke up, shaking and terrified. I couldn't move, couldn't breath, I was afraid of the dark and I was afraid to turn on the light. I could sense an evil presence in the room, right under my bed or in the closet. Mind you, I was 37 or so!

I don't how it did it, but I literally had to sleep with a light on for about a week, then it went away. It wasn't even that I was afraid of anything--I was just terrified, of nothing, and couldn't do anything about it. Weirdest damn thing! So, needless to say, I LOVE that movie!

[Placebo]

18. It's true!

I don't know what I was so fucking scared of.

But like you said, it was just mindless terror for no specific reason.

Why, I'm scared just thinking about being scared. :scared:

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Pretty underrated film, in my books.

Really creative filmmaking and marketing. (And if I'm applauding the marketing, you KNOW it did something right.)

Having studied supernatural folklore helps my appreciation of it as well, I think.

[hyphenate]

47. I'm afraid Blair Witch

made me laugh and want to throw up at the same time. The stupid cinematography was making me so nauseous I almost walked out. After the film, I was near ready to ask for my money back.

[texanwitch]

49. Blair Witch , I can't believe I paid to see that stupid movie, even stood

in line.

At the theater I saw it at everybody there was making rude remarks about it, scary it was not.
The movie was stopped twice, until we shut up.


That movie should be renamed The Blair Witch Project, the Ripoff.

[raccoon]

52. It totally creeped me out too.

I knew it was fiction, but it still totally creeped me out.

The suspense, the horror, and you couldn't SEE it, just see the results of what it did--those weird things in the trees, the voices in the night, etc.

Most horror movies are overkill (pun intended) nowadays...each one has more gore than the last one did.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Other: Saw -nt

[Fox Mulder]

5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Prince of Darkness.

[LisaLynne]

7. I never realized how creepy Dawn of the Dead

was until I happened to flip by it the other night when I couldn't sleep. Got in right at the beginning and just had to watch the whole thing. I didn't think much of it until I decided it was time to go to bed, flipped off the light ... and then had to turn it back on. :)

[newcriminal]

8. Absolutely no question

the only movie to ever scare me was the Exorcist. Anybody that believes in God has to be scared of that movie. I watch it every once in a while and I still am scared.

[Placebo]

12. When they re-released it a few years back...

I went to see it in the theatre for the first time, and it freaked me out. :scared:

[jobycom]

16. When I was kid I was religious, practically fundie

And I know what you mean. I was afraid to sleep some nights. One night I was laying on my back, staring at the ceiling, thinking of the scene where the bed started shaking, just knowing I had lived a sinful life and I was going to be possessed at any moment, when suddenly my bed started shaking. I'm not sure how I lived through that moment! It was just my cat, pouncing on the mattress...

[barb162]

17. Yeah, the whole concept that there may be a devil. Yikes

[devilgrrl]

24. I'm not religious at all - I think Exorcist is just a great movie...

regardless. Great story, great writing, great acting (some from non-actors), sufficiently frightening and creepy - great movie.

I was so impressed by the re-release that it inspired me to create this:

Stare at it for a minute.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Where is "Silence of the Lambs"? (n/t)

[Cannikin]

32. I'd choose that one too.

[brentspeak]

38. I forgot about "Silence"

[LSK]

14. Amityville Horror

What is Nightmare on Elm Street doing there? :shrug:

[hyphenate]

48. I don't recall much anymore about

Amityville, which I saw many, many years ago. But lately, I've been infested with small flies (bigger than fruit flies, smaller than house flies) and all I keep seeing in my head are the scenes in Amityville where the flies are covering all the windows. Ugh.

[Jamastiene]

19. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, because I wouldn't put it past them.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre seems so plausible. I really honestly wouldn't put it past any of these red state crazy asses to do something just like that. There is only so much inbreeding that can happen before that sorta thing become common in an area out in the middle of nowhere. Seriously, just look at how many red staters voted for Bush. I rest my case.

[enigmatic]

20. Audition

http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/audition.shtml

[Downtown Hound]

21. The Shining

Something about this movie just has the power to chill me deep in my bones. Maybe it's the agonizingly slow, calculated approach it takes. You just know something bad is going to happen, but it takes forever to manifest, and that in and of itself can heighten the terror. Every scene you are waiting for something to jump out, for some new horrible manifestation to occur, and then....nothing happens. And then...all of a sudden...WHAMMO!

For as long as I live, I will never forget the first time I saw those two little girls in the hallway, or the beautiful woman turn into a hideous corpse while making out with Jack Nicholson.

"COME AND PLAY WITH US DANNY! FOREVER...AND EVER....AND EVER."

:scared:

[MorningGlow]

33. Recent true story involving The Shining

Mr. MorningGlow, MorningGlow Jr., and I were hanging out in our living room one weekend afternoon. Jr. was making some random vocal noises the way toddlers do, and DH thought it was close enough to Danny's schtick that he would teach him "Redrum". DH cocked his index finger and said "Redrum" several times, to try to get Jr. to do it. Jr. thought it was funny but didn't join in. Two seconds later, DH turned on the TV, and even though we have hundreds of channels on satellite, it just HAPPENED to be on the very channel that was showing THE SHINING and...













wait for it...


















it was the EXACT MOMENT Danny said "Redrum..."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :scared:

The Shining's freakout factor continues.

(But I was even more freaked out by the book.)

[Broken_Hero]

22. other

Jaws, hands down, the scariest movie, I have ever seen...:( I cant' even swim in the ocean, creek, river, or swimming pool, without having Jaws pop into my mind, my soul...:(

[cobalt1999]

36. Jaws too.

Ruined all our teenage night time swimming, surfing, skiing, and (most importantly) skinny dipping. Never could convince a date to skinny dip with me if they'd ever seen that movie. Any night time fall while skiing was now an agonizing wait for the boat to return.

[devilgrrl]

23. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre scared the ____ out of me!

:scared:

However, I'm not longer frightened of it after seeing it played with the commentary by Tobe Hopper and Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface). Even so, I think it's one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, I can easily imagine something like this happening in reality. :scared:

[wildhorses]

26. for some reason The Ring scared the bejeebus outta me...

I am not a big fan of scary movies...but, I saw that one and could NOT sleep that night.:scared:

[outofbounds]

28. Jeepers Creepers

I don't know why but I was on the edge of my seat the whole movie.

[noonwitch]

37. I had bad dreams after seeing "The Ring"

I wasn't scared watching it, but I had dreams that night with images from the movie. I don't scare from movies easily, but I never want to see any images associated with that movie ever again!

[Phillycat]

54. Scared the SHIT out of me

I still wish to this day I had never seen The Ring, because some of the images will never leave my mind.

[Juffo Wup]

29. The Day After

n/t

[Deep13]

30. Evil Dead

[calico1]

31. I went to see "The Exorcist" with a group

of other kids that lived on my street. I was a teen at the time. You have to keep in mind that this was early seventies so there was not the technology that exists now in films. It was very powerful at the time. I remember I stepped out to the lobby with a neighbor girl because we were too freaked out to continue to sit in the theater. Then, after a few minutes one of the guys came out and told us we could go in because the really bad part was over. So we did. As soon as we sat down that was the scene where Regan's head starts spinning. Could have killed that guy!

[Puglover]

34. "The Haunting"

The original directed by Robert Wise.

[Crankie Avalon]

35. "Annie"

"Tomorrow, tommorow..." SCARED THE SHIT OUTTA ME.

[wildhorses]

41. Bwahahhahhhaaaa

:rofl:


the orphanage, Daddy Warbucks....yeah, I can see why:scared:

[smtpgirl]

39. The exorcisim of Emily Rose

[MiniMandaRuth]

40. Audition...

Don't watch when you're 12, alone in the dark, and eating anything wet.

[Benfea]

42. What? No Pauly Shore movies?

The utter lack of Pauly Shore movies or Adam Sandler movies invalidates your list.

[Taverner]

43. None of the above: Last House on the Left

If you have a strong stomach, go see this.

It's absolutely the most horrifying movie ever made.

[blm]

44. Audition, Reflecting Skin, Cigarette Burns

.

[MissMillie]

45. "C" Students from Yale

:shrug:

[Brigid]

46. Another vote for "The Shining."

I don't know what it was about that movie, but I was jumpier than a cat for days after I saw that one. :scared:

[kwolf68]

50. Exorcist all the way

But I must admit the Prequel (the right one, not the wrong one, there are two and one sucks).....was absolutely brilliant.

It wasn't quite as scary in totality as was the original, but it was a BETTER movie in my view with more of a plot than just some girl in Georgetown getting possessed.

Still, give me those two and I'm happy.

I also loved the Omen and Omen IV ... Omen 2 and 3 were not that good, but I loved Omen 1 and 4....Four was just loaded with religious imagry that freaks the mind.

[Shell Beau]

51. The Shining should clearly be on that list.

[JVS]

53. The Creature from Uranus