What movie scared you the most?

[cynatnite]

For me...'The Shining'. The original one. Can't watch it to this day. Scares the crap out of me every time. That and Arachnaphobia. Won't watch either of them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "Prince of Darkness."

A cheesy horror movie but it seriously creeped me out. There's also "Eraserhead," another movie that I don't think I want to watch again.

[triguy46]

69. Prince of Space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDgs5b8PhQ

[stuntcat]

2. same one, Shining

I watch it every few months because when it's on tv I just have to, I can't turn away til it ends.
Blair Witch freaks me out so much I haven't watched it in years, but it might seem different now that I've watched so much horror. And Exorcist.. I watch it every Halloween. I looove horror/suspense but I've never seen Arachnophobia so I just ordered it :hi:

[cynatnite]

3. Here is why I won't watch Arachnaphobia...

I'm sitting in the recliner and husband is on the couch.
Spider creeps out and begins crossing the living room floor several feet away from me.
I bring my legs up and yell "KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT!"
Hubby kills it to shut me up.

Love Exorcist. It's our Halloween special around here.

[stuntcat]

7. actually maybe I better not watch it

Well I just ordered it at netflix so I will now. But we have some mammoth spiders around here, like so big. I trapped one in a tupperware and I'm feeding it little bugs, it's almost a "If I can't beat em.." thing I think.
I'm gonna get the shivers even worse lol!

[NewJeffCT]

40. was that while you were watching the movie?

Arachnophobia that the spider started crawling across your floor?

I ask because something similar to me happened with a Steven King book maybe 12-15 years ago. I was alone at home at night and it was a thunderstormy outside... I was reading Salem's Lot, and the main character was creeping up to the house where he suspected the vampires were living... at the very end of the chapter was a line something like, "and then he felt a hand on his shoulder" ... and at that very moment, the power went out in the house and everything turned pitch black.

Normally, I don't scare very easily from books or movies, but I'll admit to being scared that time.

[nytemare]

4. The Exorcist.

The Shining was pretty creepy, too.

[jobycom]

17. The previews scared me so bad I didn't see the movie for decades.

I was a Catholic kid when the movie came out, and I was terrified of the whole idea of possession already.

Weird thing happened one night to make it worse. I had seen a preview or heard someone talk about a scene where the girl's bed started shaking. I was laying in bed, literally thinking of that scene, when MY bed started shaking. I nearly fainted!

Damn cats. They could warn you before they do something like that. :)

[nytemare]

19. LOL!

The movie is creepier now that they include the scene with the spider walk. That is truly freaky.

Poltergeist was scary, as well.

[begin_within]

32. Same for me... and I still haven't seen it.

The whole hype around it and the idea of "possession" scared the living shit out of me (I was 13) and my Catholic family didn't really talk about it. My 17 year old sister did go to see it, and several neighbors and friends at school went to see it, and were freaked out by it. So I decided I wouldn't watch it and 34 years later I am still afraid to. I have watched bits and pieces of it (the most famous moments) on Youtube, but I still haven't sat down and watched the whole thing. Why put myself through that?

[Danger Mouse]

77. I didn't find it scary at all. In fact, I admit, I found it really funny.

I just can't take Linda Blair seriously, lol.

[Matariki]

97. My ex, who made his living publishing devil books -

went through a period where he played The Exorcist continuously as background noise. So I've probably seen it ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES. And it's true, IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT!

[Danger Mouse]

100. I've been meaning to ask you this but...

just what IS your avatar, anyway?

[Matariki]

105. Pen Pen!

From Neon Genesis. Misato's beer drinking, snack eating pet penguin.

All is clear now, yes?

[dolo amber]

111. Definitely The Exorcist

It probably didn't help that I was like 6 and my parents took me with them to the drive-in. I think they assumed I'd fall asleep like I usually did, but of course that particular night I was totally wired and saw the whole thing. :scared:

[rurallib]

5. "The Birds" in 3D at Disney World

Them damn things were dive bombing me. My kids had to help me off the floor.

[Sequoia]

56. OMG, that's super funny!

[rurallib]

76. My kids (early teens at the time) were in stitches

[Mad_Dem_X]

73. That scared me too

I had my eyes closed half the time. Damn birds!

[Lyric]

6. The first Halloween movie scared me the most, as a kid

although I love it now.

The movie to disturbed me the most, though, was "Hellraiser". Just...no. Ugh.

[Bjornsdotter]

8. Friends of God

...and Psycho. I still have a problem taking a shower in a hotel/motel.

Cheers

[BlueIris]

42. That's the only one on this list I don't know. Hmmm.

[lost-in-nj]

9. Any Freddie Kruger movie

I had an awake dream he was in my room

:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

lost

[Patiod]

57. I used to have night terrors, and kind of LIVED those movies

In my 20's, for a few months, I used to stay up until 2-3 in the morning, trying not to fall asleep.

Not fun. Thank god I sort of "outgrew" them - they're somehow related to sleep walking, and it's genetic (supposedly).

But when I saw the movies for the first time, I could totally relate!

[hyphenate]

10. Alien--without a doubt eom

[alittlelark]

11. The Omen.....

:scared: :nuke: :scared:

[last_texas_dem]

18. That one gets my vote, too

That scene at the very end where it focuses on Damien's evil grin may be the creepiest scene.

As for most disturbing horror movie, for me it would be the awful Wolf Creek from a couple of years ago.

[BlueIris]

12. I don't think I could watch "May" again.

I think I could even sit through "The Shining" once or twice more, but "May" scared the ever living whatever out of me.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Psycho.

The original, of course, not that crap remake.

[begin_within]

33. That's one of the best films ever made.

It's only mildly scary to me, perhaps because I knew what the scary parts were going to be before I watched it the first time. But I have watched it all the way through at least 15 times, possibly more, over the last 30 years. To me it is the finest example of the craft of filmmaking so far. All aspects - the script, the acting, the camera work, the editing, the background music - are perfectly executed and they all work together like in no other film that I can think of. And there are so many issues going on simultaneously - greed, sexuality, voyeruism, curiosity, violence, deception, revenge, boredom, paranoia - that it does stand up well to repeated viewings. Not the greatest film of all time, but the greatest example of the craft of filmmaking, in my opinion.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

46. Yep, excellent example of the craft.

[Aristus]

44. Me too. I saw the film in a revival house when I was a kid.

I couldn't sleep for a week afterward, and had nightmares for a long time after that. It's incredible to see years later how restrained a film it actually is. The moderate pacing and slow build-up make it far scarier than any torture-porn flick you could come up with.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

45. Exactly.

All these dumbass torture-porn movies nowadays just try to gross you out and assume that explicit violence = fear.

Hitchock was a pure craftsman who knew how to scare people.

[FloridaJudy]

71. I'll vote for Psycho

I saw I shortly after it first came out. I took baths instead of showers for years. I still get creeped out when I'm showering in an empty house and hear a noise (usually caused by the cat or the dog knocking something over).

That film is probably responsible for a lot of poor hygiene.

[SPKrazy]

14. Exorcist

totally

completely

freaked

me out

saw

it when i was 12 with a friend, we sneaked into the movie, we watched it and then we were so scared walking home.

:rofl:

I've seen it as an adult several times, it still gives me the willies

:scared:

[mzteris]

15. The first Texas Chain Saw Massacre

I saw it in 1976 - and I STILL have flashbacks. Creepiest damn movie I've ever seen.

[Red State Rebel]

38. Oh yeah! I could hardly breath for about an hour after that!

[jobycom]

16. Blair Witch Project, though it scared me more after it was over.

I have no idea why. I watched it and the "documentary" the same night, thought it was clever and creepy, but nothing mind altering.

I woke up about two that morning, trembling. I don't remember having a dream, but I was terrified. I knew something was in the closet. I knew it was under the bed. I was in my 30s, and was more frightened than I'd ever been as a kid. I kept dwelling on the central concept of the movie, of an evil, unseen force that wanted to kill, that could control the world around it to provide its victims.

My brain kept saying "You know there's nothing there, you know this is silly." But I couldn't stop it. I finally managed to turn the lamp on--it took every ounce of strength I had to reach my arm across the small chasm between the bed and the night stand. I was like a character in a Lovecraft story.

I slept with the light for about two weeks. Then it stopped, about as suddenly as it started.

[fizzgig]

28. same here

i was (mostly) fine in the theater but it scared the absolute hell out of me when i got home. i was 18 or 19 and my parents and sister were out of town for a long weekend when i saw it. i made my boyfriend stay with me until i fell asleep and i slept on the couch with the light on for the rest of the weekend

[Sequoia]

59. I was camping once and heard stuff outside the tent.

My husband said, "It's the Blair Witch", which scared me more than the movie. Finally I got brave and marched out into the darkness to see those racoon varmits who ate our baked potates I was saving for tomorrow's breakfast.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

128. that movie scared the bejesus out of me

After seeing the movie I went to a friend's house and the road he lived on was up a mountain in the woods and it was around 2am. Looked just like the road they drive in the movie. Not to mention the abandoned shacks that surrounded the back of his house. I ran inside and didn't leave till it got light out. :scared:

[NNadir]

20. The Silence of the Lambs.

[Left Is Write]

21. Rosemary's Baby and Halloween.

[BreweryYardRat]

22. The Descent.

Absolutely terrifying.

[Phillycat]

115. Fucking TERRIFYING.

I felt like I'd been beaten up for two hours after that movie. It was exhausting!

[JTG of the PRB]

23. I don't know if I've ever seen a move that has REALLY scared me...

I tend to stay away from horror movies in the theatres because I don't like being startled, and the whole thing about horror movies in the theatres is that they WANT to startle you - they WANT to make you jump and scream. I've seen plenty of those movies on video and the movies themselves aren't all that scary when the startle factor is removed.

Movies like The Shining and Halloween I loved watching with some friends. I laughed numerous times when I saw Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time, as well as with every Friday the 13th movie I've ever see. The Exorcist was a good movie I saw in theatres, and I still laughed at it a couple of times.

The closest any movie has ever come to REALLY scaring me was The Ring. That was a pretty freaky movie. I had to leave for another movie when we were watching it at my apartment before the end, and instead of watching the ending at 2am, I decided to hold off until the morning because I didn't want to go to bed freaked out.

Even now, though, whenever I see static on a television I have to look twice... Just to be sure.

[Silver Swan]

52. Most movies don't scare me either.

The only film that made me barricade my door when I got home was Roman Polanski's "Macbeth."

I think that was because it was so gory.

[Roon]

24. Blair Witch Project

I still get the creeps when I am in the woods alone.

[raccoon]

54. That one creeped me out big time too! nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. "Wait Until Dark"

My god.......truly scary.

They knew just what assumptions we would make at a critical moment in the movie...

And then they turned our assumptions inside out........Everybody, and I mean everybody, jumped...

:scared:

[JTG of the PRB]

26. I was in that play in high school.

I played the bad guy - Harry Roat. In that final scene, I heard a couple people in the audience gasp every show, and I could swear I saw a couple of them jump right out of their seats. :evilgrin:

[edbermac]

27. Saw a lot of cheesy 50's sci-fi flicks that scared me when growing up.

Stuff like Earth Vs The Flying Saucers and Beast From 20,000 Fathoms; of course nowadays I just laugh at them.

[Sequoia]

61. I loved the "Beast...." as a kid

Especially the part where the giant lizard ate the cop...too funny!
Then it tipped the train of people into its mouth like a bag of M&Ms. All without computer graphics too.

[last_texas_dem]

29. Some that scared me

I enjoy watching scary movies and rarely get very freaked out, but several have at least a scene or two that scared or disturbed me.

The Omen- (the original version) the scariest movie I've ever seen IMHO; several scenes involving deranged nannies, sinister black dogs, and that creepy devil-child smiling into the camera remain etched into my brain...

The Exorcism of Emily Rose- as much a legal drama as a horror movie; this one features a number of downright creepy scenes of the possessed Emily Rose and the visions she sees and the way she reacts. I also should note that I saw this movie the third or fourth night I was living alone in a new apartment; I think I ended up sleeping with the light on that night!

The Shining- a good horror movie, but it didn't scare me a whole lot overall. However, some scenes, particularly those creepy twin girls standing in the hallway stick in my mind...

The Ring- watching this one since it hasn't scared me nearly as much, but there is a lot of creepiness to absorb the first time. Seeing it in the theater made a difference as it seemed like "Samara" was coming right out of the screen at you at certain points.

The Guardian- I don't remember much about this movie (I believe it's by the director of The Exorcist) but I remember making the mistake of watching it while home alone at night for one of the first times as a teenager...

The Blair Witch Project- Yeah, a lot of people laugh about the big deal that was made about this movie in retrospect, but if you hadn't kept up with much of anything about it as I hadn't and you actually went into it thinking it was a "real" documentary (hey, I was a slightly gullible 16-year old at the time) it seemed pretty scary!

The Sixth Sense- I'm mainly thinking of that part where the kid walks into the room and thinks he's talking to his mom, and the woman turns around and is actually a pissed-off spirit of a mother... yeah, that particular scene gets to me!

Wolf Creek- Yeah, I've talked about this movie on here before, including in a post a few above this, but this is one of the only movies I've seen that really messed with my head. Others don't seem to be as effected by it as I was, so I dunno. But for me, it was just a very cold, dark, nasty film, with torture, implied rape, all kinds of blood, ugh...

Anyway, sorry for the length of this post. I should go to sleep but I can't, and sometimes I just start rambling...

[krispos42]

30. I think "Blair Witch", although I didn't have any PTSD from it.

However, on the way back to the car with my girlfriend, we moved pretty damn fast to get in and get driving.

We went into the movie cold. I had seen NONE of the advertising for it, but my gf wanted to see it. I didn't realize it was entirely fiction until a few days later.

The Shining, Alien, 1408, all have given me pretty good scares. Never got around to seeing the 'classics', though, like Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street. Maybe one day.

But, you know, The Screaming Skull, which I've seen a few times in the context of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, actually freaks me out, even with Mike, Tom, and Crow there with me.

Weird, huh?

[Zookeeper]

31. "Night of the Hunter" and the original "Cape Fear"

Maybe it was something about Robert Mitchum...Hmmm.

Also, "Suddenly Last Summer" really spooked me as a kid, in part because I didn't exactly understand why Elizabeth Taylor's cousin was murdered, but it sure sounded creepy and terrifying.

"Psycho" scared me as a kid. "The Exorcist" didn't scare me at all.

A '70's film called "Don't Look Now" (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) left me deeply disturbed for days.

Horror movies seldom really haunt me once I leave the theater.

[BurtWorm]

55. The original Cape Fear!

Now that is a creepy movie. Mitchum and Peck were perfect.

[Sequoia]

62. "Night of the Hunter"

I was trying to remember that title the other Sunday when Cape Fear came on AMC. Robert Mitchum is a hell of an actor and can really play those creepy human parts.

[baby_mouse]

34. Truthfully? I think it was Night of the Lepus. The one abut the Giant Bunnies.

I don't even know if I've got the title right, but there was a stupid movie I saw when I ws about 4 or 6 or something about giant bunnies doing terrifying things.

Well, they were terrifying to *me*.

[QMPMom]

35. The original "Alien". My sister and I had gone to see it at the

local theater, which was one of the big old-time theaters converted into a three-screen theater. The balcony had been split into 2 small theaters and "Alien" was showing in one of those. I had gone downstairs to get popcorn and drinks and had come back upstairs with everything just as that thing popped out of the stomach. It scared the shit out of me and the popcorn and drinks went flying. I flopped down in the nearest seat, well away from where my sister was seated, terrified, and didn't move for the rest of the movie.

I still cannot watch that movie.

Also, "The Wizard of Oz". I am 50 years old and those damn flying monkeys still terrify me. I have never let my kids watch that movie. It gets turned off immediately if we happen to land on a TV channel that is showing it.

[Greyskye]

67. Alien - w/ a funny story

I saw that in the theater when it opened, and came home to an empty house. I'd never been that creeped out before.

A buddy of mine and I took his (slightly) younger brother to go see it. We sat on either side of his bro, who hadn't seen it before. Although we hadn't planned it out, we acted in perfect unison during the chest burster scene. My bud gave his bro a hard open palmed slap on his chest at the same time that I grabbed the shoulder next to me.

Popcorn in his brothers lap flew 10 feet up in the air and rained down on everyone as his brother screamed. One of the scariest scenes in the movie, and the theater all around us was laughing hysterically. :evilgrin: Now that was fun!

[Hissyspit]

126. 'Alien' is my choice, too. n/t

[Orsino]

36. Ghost Story n/t

[JCMach1]

37. I don't creep out very easily, but "The Ring" did it

[NewJeffCT]

39. Fahrenheit 9/11

that George Bush is president still chills me down to my bones.

[Broken_Hero]

41. Jaws....

changed my life, forever....

[Mad_Dem_X]

75. Jaws and The Ring

I still watch Jaws whenever I come across it while channel surfing. The very beginning, when the girl gets pulled under, remains for me one of the scariest movie scenes of all time. And when the shark pops up for the first time: :scared: YIKES!

The Ring just plain scared the crap out of me.

[Broken_Hero]

101. A few parts in Jaws get me...

The beginning of course, when the kids gets it, while floating on the yellow float pad, and when Quinn gets it....as a matter of fact, most of the movie gets me!

[MrScorpio]

43. John Carpenter's The Thing didn't really scare me...

But it did make me sit up and take notice when a disembodied head sprouted legs and walked along the floor.


Then there was "The Blood Test"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Q-5VSqzEk

[RandomKoolzip]

47. "Pretty Woman."

Scared, as in, "Jesus, are you fuckin' kidding me?! America REALLY wants to watch this piece of shit?!: :scared:

[Sequoia]

64. I hated it so much I couldn't bear to watch it all.

I only began to watch it because I had worked at the hotel where it was filmed. I too don't understand all the hype.

[Skittles]

85. OMG!!!!!!!!!!

I could not BELIEVE the success of that garbage

[EstimatedProphet]

48. Alien

When it came out it completely blew me away. I had continual nightmares for over a year.

[Hissyspit]

125. Same here. n/t

[formerrepuke]

49. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.........and its all true.....n/t

[SoxFan]

50. Exorcist III

It's never really received the attention it deserves, largely because so many people were put off by the dreck of "Exorcist II". But daaaayuuummn, this movie gives me the creeps every time I watch it.

If the "nurses station" scene doesn't make you leap through the roof, then you're probably dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8ynu0jRvY

[BurtWorm]

51. The original Night of the Living Dead

got way under my skin, probably because my father was dying at the time. It wasn't necessarily a scare so much as an oppression.

[Zookeeper]

53. That is an extremely effective horror film....

Its low-budget quality made it feel very real (what does that say about my life?). "Oppression" is a good description. Those zombies weren't fast, but they were relentless and there was an never-ending supply. And then there is the tension between the characters and the knowledge that making the wrong choice means death. Finally, what happens to the main character after ALL that....

D'oh! I can't believe I forgot to add the film to my post, since it did frighten me.

[begin_within]

94. Brilliant film, that cost only $114,000 to make.

[Sequoia]

58. The French movie, "The Vanishing" .... Don't watch it.

and John Carpenter's "The Thing" about those guys in Alaska or the North Pole area. Creep city, and totally scary.

"The Fly", with David Headson was the scary film of childhood. All was well until the spider scene at the end....."Help Me, Help Me."

[ghostsofgiants]

90. The Vanishing is Dutch actually, not French.

And I highly recommend it. Creepy as hell, and one of the best endings ever.

[Sequoia]

113. Oh, thanks...Dutch.

Yes, the ending...god that movie gave me nightmares for nights on end...daytime too. I had to watch cartoons to get my mind off of it.

[Patiod]

60. Books scare me more than movies

My own mind comes up with some awful stuff.

Pet Semetary, The Shining (the scene in the topiary garden), and the Stand (where everyone in the tunnel is dead and he has to get out, then wakes up next to the dead girl) are the worst. King knows what he's doing.

But the scariest book EVER is "The Stranger Beside Me", written by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy's killing spree, including the time the author spendt hanging out with him before she realized he was a killer. Seriously scary stuff, and worse because it really happened.

One of my friends made the mistake of reading it while she was alone at a beach house, and she spent the rest of the week (until her friends came down Friday night) with all the doors and windows locked tight.

[judaspriestess]

63. Deep Impact really freaked me out

it was way scary and realistic to me.

[triguy46]

65. The original "Haunting of Hill House"

[Zookeeper]

66. Yes! I've always found that one really creepy....

and it was done without gore or heavy-handed plot developments.

Shirley Jackson was a wonderful writer!

[triguy46]

68. Yep. Just the loud pounding, the house breathing...

:wow:

[Skittles]

83. oooooh

[Poiuyt]

87. That scene just about killed me

The Haunting is my favorite.

[rhiannon55]

70. When I was a kid, House on Haunted Hill

scared the bejesus out of me!

[Auggie]

119. Same here

[RebelOne]

72. The original "The Thing."

It kept you on the edge of your seat as you never knew were James Arness (the alien) was going to pop up next.

[Kali]

81. this is mine too

I was about 5 or 6 years old and saw it on an old black and white tv. I don't remember anything about the movie except the cheesy rubber hand moving and the scientists talking about green blood. Intellectually I knew it was fake but somehow it scared the crap out of me. Scared me for years and years - I really ought to find it and watch it.:rofl:

[Clintonista2]

74. jaws

There's one scene in particular, you see an overhead view of a swimmer, and below him you see the shape of the shark swimming under him. It scares the hell out of me.

[Release The Hounds]

78. Event Horizon

Mainly the blood squirting from the eyes.

[Danger Mouse]

82. That one is fucking CREEPY...till like the last half hour...

Sam Neill croaking 'You won't need eyes where YOU'RE going!!' is not scary. It's fucking funny.

[BulletproofLandshark]

102. "Hell is only a word...

The reality is much, much worse"

Yeah, that movie pretty well creeped me out too.

[THUNDER HANDS]

79. Child's Play....when I was like, 10

god...i still get creeped out by that movie sometimes, even though it because cartoony as the series went on.

[Danger Mouse]

80. No contest. 'Jacob's Ladder.' Creeps the SHIT out of me.

Most scary/disturbing movie I've ever seen, and I've seen a whole crapload of horror movies.
Unfortunately, the great clip from the scariest/most disturbing scene in the movie is no longer available on YouTube. Let me put it this way...watch the movie, you will never look at a hospital the same way again. Ever.
Also, it was a huge influence on the silent hill series of games, for fans of the series.
Incidentally, 'Silent Hill 2' I found to be far more creepy than almost any movie I've ever seen.

Some choice clips:
Eddie, perhaps my favorite video game character ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvqycfsmnY0

Eddie's rant about killing people...classic scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PlP0UF7ZeE

and of course, Pyramid Head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vprETGvyShM

[ghostsofgiants]

89. Good call on Jacob's Ladder AND SH2!

The whole Silent Hill series is heavily influenced bu Jacob's Ladder.

In fact, I might watch Jacob's Ladder tonight.

[Danger Mouse]

92. Gah, Have fun with that. 'Jacob's Ladder' and 'Tonight' are words I don't put together...

if i plan on sleeping!

[ghostsofgiants]

93. I love scary movies.

Hell, I even enjoy most nightmares. (I'm a weird kid, haha.)

[suzbaby]

84. "It"

[Neoma]

86. Chucky.

Need I say more?

[ghostsofgiants]

88. Lost Highway.

Creeped the hell out of me the first few times I watched it. I couldn't even watch it in a dark room for a long time.

[Fleshdancer]

91. Supersize Me

I can't stop thinking about his liver ever time I drive past a McDonald's :scared:

[Inchworm]

95. The Omen

I saw it too young and was still being forced into church, so I thought that crap was real! :scared:

:hi:

[enigmatic]

96. Audition (1999)

The most disturbing, horrific film I've ever seen:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/

[Art_from_Ark]

98. Some "B" horror flick from the '60s

I didn't even see the movie-- just a preview showing some green-slime human-like form (a zombie?) trudging down the stairs of some house in search of a victim. Must have been around '66 or '67. I have no idea what the name of the movie was, but the preview scared the crap out of me.

[deucemagnet]

99. Cheesy movie, but when I was a kid Phantasm scared the hell outta me.

The Tall Man is way creepy.

[LibertyLover]

103. The Day After Tomorrow

I still have nightmares sometimes.

[DarkTirade]

107. Yeah, those horrible visual effects scared me too... :)

[Mad_Dem_X]

114. LOL, yeah but

Jake Gyllenhaal looked gorgeous in it. That's the only reason I watch that movie, anyway.

[DarkTirade]

118. Heh. Yeah, I can't watch that movie without seeing the scenes where you can see the COLD coming!

And I just can't help but laugh. Which kinda ruins it for me, since those are supposed to be the serious and dramatic bits.

[BeyondGeography]

104. The ending of "Carrie" first time I saw it

Wasn't expecting it...brought me out of my seat.

[Eurobabe]

106. Original Alien from 1979

I couldn't sleep without the light on for 2 weeks and I am not the easily frightened type. :scared:

That thing that popped out of John Hurt's stomach almost made me barf.

:puke:

[Javaman]

108. Jacobs Ladder. Saw it in the theaters, still can't watch it to this day. nt

[Danger Mouse]

116. Creepiest. Movie. Ever.

:scared:

[Uncle Joe]

109. The ending to "Carrie" caught me the most off guard. n/t

[hunter]

110. The Big Chill

"A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a posh South Carolina winter house after the funeral of one of their friends."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244

I still have nightmares about it.

I'd rather be carried off by flying monkeys to the wicked witch's castle than find myself staying in a posh South Carolina winter house with those people.

:scared:

[Critters2]

112. LOL!!! The humanity!! nt

[AlCzervik]

117. Shadow of the vampire and The Exorcist.

[Vidar]

120. Tossup between The Exorcist & Psycho.

[TZ]

121. Poltergeist

Yes, my sister and I were pretty young when we watched it. We were spending the summer with my Dad, 500 miles away from home. We ran out of the house we were so scared. And then, that night we had to share a bedroom with a TV not far in front of the bed...neither of us slept well that night. I still have a hard time watching that movie....:scared:

[Karenina]

122. As a teenie, "Wait Until Dark"

as a kid, "Bambi."

[Hand]

123. "Los Olvidados" (Luis Bunuel)

There's a dream sequence in that film that's gotta be the most chilling three minutes in the cinema. No violence, no gore... just REALLY chilling. :scared:

[Blue_In_AK]

124. Original Night of the Living Dead

also Psycho.

[InvisibleTouch]

127. "The Manitou"

I saw it as a late-night TV movie when I was 11 or 12. Freaked me out for weeks afterwards.

Now it's on DVD and I'm bizarrely tempted. Wonder if I'd still have the same reaction to it today?