What movie gave you the creeps?

[bobthedrummer]

Here's a list of creepy movies, you can add one to the list or vote for a favorite.

[Dookus]

1. Jaws

[Streetdoc270]

2. Showgirls

:evilgrin:

[saltpoint]

3. David Lynch's Mulholland Drive

8.5 on the Didion Dread Index.

[oxymoron]

4. The Haunting

Julie Harris and Claire Bloom. Scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid.

[Zookeeper]

22. That's a great movie..

...but my husband thinks it's hokey.

[oxymoron]

35. Well, it does have it's moments

But overall, I think it holds up pretty well.

[IconoclastIlene]

50. That was one of my favorites, too.

Claire Bloom and Julie Harris are great; don't make me like that anymore.

[bubblesby2002]

58. When the professor's wife sticks her head out of that porthole

or whatever it was, and she screamed, I though my heart would stop. And even though I know it's coming, it still creeps me out.:scared:

[oxymoron]

81. Oh, I know!

That get's me every time. Also, when Julie Harris' character is sleeping with her hand hanging over the side of the bed and something starts squeezing it. Lawdhammercy! I slept with my hands in the bed until I was 32.

[bubblesby2002]

121. I just read your post and you made me laugh out loud

but you're so right - that was the scariest movie.:scared:

[m-jean03]

74. THE scariest movie

IMO

[rfkrocks]

5. wow-the ring

the whole crawling out of the well thing-the hair down the face how did she kill those people?:scared:

[chicaloca]

32. the ring is one of only two movies that's ever scared me,

at least in the traditional sense. The other is Seven. For some reason I was never scared by the Exorcist or any other movies that most people are scared by...But then, most people I know aren't scared by Seven! :shrug:

However, I also find any movie with Arnold the Gropinator to be pretty creepy. And that includes Kindergarten Cop.

On edit: Hey, why isn't "Gropinator" included in the spell check? I tell ya....

[kevinam]

37. the ring got me...

near the end of the movie. When the little girl crawled out of the TV in front of the male lead. That just gave me the willies. I wouldn't say it terrified me, or scared me, it just send shivers up my spine. I am a horror movie fan, but rarely does a movie, or a scene literally give me the chills. It was great...Kevin.

[chicaloca]

43. american or japanese version?

I've only seen the American one, but my roommate says that in the Japanese version, the scene where she comes out of the TV is even more frightening than in the American one -- which is saying a lot, because that part scared the crap out of me, too! :scared:

[kevinam]

60. American version.

I have heard the Japanese version is very good, or better. It seems like something might be lost watching a very similar movie, except with subtitles or dubbed. It is one thing when it is a movie you are seeing for the first time, but when it is very similar movie, it would be wierd...Kevin.

[AndyP]

119. I thought that movie was

the stupidest movie in the whole world untill she crawled out of the TV, I nearly wet myself :) My girlfriend had to sleep with the lights on. (shhhh don't tell her I told you guys that)

[DuctapeFatwa]

6. What Women Want

Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt that was supposed to be a romantic comedy but the overwhelming message, leitmotif, whatever, was the tragedy of these people whose identities were so completely submerged by their jobs that it left you with this sort of dense feeling of sadness.

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Alien gave me nightmares

for a solid year and 1/2. Of course, I saw it alone, in the theater, at 14...

[Bertha Venation]

8. Dead Ringers

Oh. My. God. That movie was one long shudder. The end, where Beverly is looking for his brother, shuffling through the room, calling "Ellie.... Ellie...." and the camera pans past Elliot . . . :scared:

FREAKY film. No wonder Jeremy Irons got an Oscar. Sure, it was for a different movie, but by god he deserved it for "Dead Ringers."

[KT2000]

104. Dead Ringers here too

that was one of those creepy movies that stays with you - for years.

[flamingyouth]

9. Trilogy of Terror

The Zuni Doll!!!

Of course, I was six or so, but still ... :scared:

[bobthedrummer]

11. Yeah, and "Puppetmaster"!

Also "Killer Klowns from Outer Space"-puppets and clowns freak me out, especially clowns.

[Zookeeper]

20. An old housemate of mine was one of the clowns..

But I can't tell which one when I watch it.

It was filmed in Santa Cruz. He was an aspiring actor and was disappointed by the experience. The costume was hot and he said it was very boring because they spent so much time just sitting around.

He died some years ago from AIDS.

[bobthedrummer]

25. Sorry to hear about your friend-that movie has it's moments for some.

Welcome to DU, Zookeeper!
:hi:

[Zookeeper]

30. Thanks!

[bigwillq]

10. Other: "Candyman" n/t

[truhavoc]

12. Stephen King's "Cat's Eye"

I saw this when I was about 6 or 7, and I haven't slept the same since. The little troll thing that sucks your breath, just scared me shitless. But it made me have more love for cats!

[FloridaPat]

13. The Exorcist - saw it as an adult. Creeped me out for months.

Another was Looking for Mr. Goodbar. I am still haunted by that one.

[khashka]

57. Yeah, Looking For Mr. Goodbar

seriously creeped me out.

I had managed to forget it, but now you've mentioned it, thanks for the nightmares, FloridaPat!

Khash.

[indigo32]

82. Damn Mr Goodbar did creep me out too

eom

[Zomby Woof]

14. Gigli

:scared: You don't even have to see it, it creeps out by mere mention...

[IronLionZion]

15. Ringu

[bhunt70]

76. I think it was creepier than its american counterpart.

[Gringo]

16. All those 80's Lovecraft movies.

So corrupt, so foul...

[snoochie]

17. I voted for Exorcist

A few of those I didn't recognize - thanks for the tips. :)

So many others come to mind: Suspiria, Zombie, Night of the Living Dead... I love this genre.

Some of them probably only got to me because I was so young: Tourist Trap, X-tro, other assorted bad direct-to-cable/video stuff.

[bobthedrummer]

19. How did I miss "Suspiria"! I love Dario Argento's stuff!

:dunce:

[khashka]

100. Oh Man, Yeah! Suspiria!

Especially the scene with the razor wire in the attic room! Sheesh, even thinking about it makes me cringe! And the soundtrack! Even in those bits where it wasn't that creepy, the soundtrack alone could freak me out. I'm gonna have to go rent that immediately.

A couple others:

The beginning of "Scream" where Drew Barrymore gets it. My boyfriend almost broke up with me over that. He couldn't understand why I thought it was funny and wasn't sure he wanted to spend his life with anyone who did.

And my sister did move out of our apartment after seeing "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover". I love that movie. She said either my videotape went or she did and I said "See ya later, Sis." (It's not like I made her watch it or anything!)

Khash.

[bobthedrummer]

18. Being a musician the themes in "Angelheart" earned my vote

but Caltiki was one of my childhood scares for years!

[On the Road]

21. "The Sixth Sense" Creeped the Shit out of Me

I don't know why, but it really got under my skin. All that M Night Shymalan atmosphere.

Strangely enough, "Stir of Echoes", which I saw a few days later, had the same effect. Not a horror movie, but a few well-done ghost scenes.

[camero]

23. Monster

That movie was just one long howl of pain.

[SEAburb]

24. "Phantasm" is the creepy-est movie I've seen

Robert Blake was creepy in Lost Highway.

[bobthedrummer]

27. "Lost Highway" is real creepy!

[rppper]

66. "you play a good game boy...."

...whew!!!! man that movie still scares the bejesus out of me, and the sequel was just as scarey...those friggin balls of death wizzing around drilling into people.....the tall man...AAAACK!!!

lost highway gets a nod as well...took 2 watchings to "get it"....robert loggia was creepy as well in that movie...

[NightTrain]

26. No contest: "The Exorcist."

That film is one of the few genuinely frightening horror films that I've ever seen. What made it scary was that the horror was mainly psychological, rather than featuring some yahoo in a hockey mask chasing scantily-clad teen-agers around with a chainsaw.

I had nightmares about "The Exorcist" for the better part of a decade after I first saw it. Too bad the sequel was so horrendous!

[blackcat77]

29. I agree and by that standard...

...Blue Velvet -- another Lynch move -- is absolutely terrifying. Dennis Hopper is pure evil in that film.

(Edit -- nuts! this was supposed to be a reply to the Lost Highway message...)

[david_vincent]

103. Yeah, I'm with you there

My two nominees: Blue Velvet and The Innocents. Blue Velvet is the only movie that made me leave the theater, go out to the lobby, and play video games for awhile. I just couldn't take Dennis Hopper's character! It totally freaked me out. Later, I saw it all the way through on video.
The Innocents is a superbly chilling ghost story - psychological horror in B/W.
Another one that comes to mind is Girl In A Swing.

[Zookeeper]

28. Night of the Living Dead and Don't Look Now

Night of the Living Dead was probably the original "home movie" type horror movie, and was frightening for that reason. It has been pointed out that the zombies move very..slowwwwly, so why are they scary? But there IS an endless supply of them.

Don't Look Now was directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Julie Christie (if I remember correctly). It's a haunting movie, has one of the better sex scenes I've seen in a film, is set mostly in Venice and centers around a small figure in a red cape. I'm not going to give anymore away! Just rent it!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

34. Night of the living Dead still creeps me out

I've always had this thing about Zombie movies.. They give me nightmares, but I... can't... stop... renting... them... I ended up buying the darn thing. ;)

[Zookeeper]

36. So you must have seen...

28 Days Later? I saw the first version with, I guess, the happier ending. I loved it, but kept checking my watch to see how much longer I had to endure the tension.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

41. Saw it in the theater

Pretty good flick.

[blackcat77]

31. Videodrome

That movie gave me nightmares for a week.

[Zookeeper]

33. What year was that released?

[no_hypocrisy]

38. Dementia 13 by Francis Ford Coppola in 1965. I was 6 and was awed

especially by the last scene. I didn't realize that the axe went through a doll's head; I thought it was a real person. It was years later I saw the film and still found it unsettling.

[bobthedrummer]

39. "The Cat People" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

both kinda creep me out too.

[Sugarbleus]

40. I don't watch a lot of Movies but

When I saw the Exorcist.............I couldn't sleep lol

That one REALLY creeped me out more than any other I've ever seen.

[Faygo Kid]

42. Looking For Mr. Goodbar - Chilling. Creepy.

Didn't expect the ending, where Diane Keaton got offed (hey, it came out about 1980 - if I ruined the ending, you had plenty of time to see it). Still remember walking out of the theater, creeped out.

[NightTrain]

44. The original European version of "The Vanishing."

The ending of that film caused me to exit the theater dazed, and filled with pure, unadulterated dread. :scared:

[CanuckAmok]

55. Damn, you beat me to it.

Here's what's so creepy about it (and it's a concept that American film-makers just can't grasp):

The killer isn't a monster. He's not an evil super-genius, or overly charismatic, or wealthy, or in possession of super-human strength; he's (as far as owtward appearances go) just an average, everyday guy, with a job and a family, and good traits and bad traits. The only thing different is he has dozens of suffocated victyims buried beneath his farm. This is something which the writers of the Hannibal series forgot. As soon as Hannibal was able to flail people and suspend people in a matter of seconds using only a Bic pen, or castrate a pickpocket through his clotes as they pass eachother in the street, he becomes less realistic, therefore less scary.

That's what's creepy about The Vanishing. In fact, I saw it the first time in the theatre, and on the way out, I noticed that everyone leaving the film, including me, was muted and eying eachother with suspicion.

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

The Exorcist kind of scared me in a way no other movie did, but Henry actually freaked me out and creeped me out and almost made me physically ill.

It is the creepiest movie I've ever seen. Mostly owing to it's documentary-like nature, and incredible, emotion-less acting on the aprt of Henry when he's killing and talking about killing.

[NightTrain]

46. Good call! "Henry" was a truly disturbing film.

:thumbsup:

[CanuckAmok]

56. Brrr....that suitcase.

n/t

[CanuckAmok]

90. One of the most terrifying scenes ever shot:

The scene where Henry and Otis are videotaping their home invasion/killing of a middle-aged couple. The entire scene is shot on one angle, just as their video camera records the action. That's harrowing enough, but then the teenager comes home and tries to flee...and is captured by Henry...then Henry has to tell Otis not to molest the corpses...brrrr....

Man, that's the only movie scene that has given me bona-fide nightmares, since I was a little kid.

[Rabrrrrrr]

111. Puts all other horror movies to shame

That scene towards the end in the warehouse, too - it was soooo long and suspenseful, or at least felt like it after the previous creepiness.

Ewwww.

Brilliant movie.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

47. Aliens.....after that one.

I didnt want to see the first one. One of the creepier gross movies Ive seen.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

48. Star Maps

no horror or anything in it. The monsters where all human.

[Zookeeper]

78. Alien is almost an entirely different movie than Aliens..

Alien is creepier! It's much more of a psychological thriller and less of an action-type movie.

[CanuckAmok]

88. You know what sucks about all the Alien sequels?

One caveat, I like them all, but I LOVE the original.

Anyway, what sucks is the Aliens' 'acid blood of convenience', particularly in the first sequel. In the original movie, the blood was so acidic that it ate through several layers of steel bulkhead, nearly compromising the Nostromo's outer hull.

In Aliens, the Marines were cutting aliens in half left right and centre with machine-gun fire, and there was no consequence of the acid blood UNLESS a character needed to be specifically injured/incapacitated by it, story-wise.

Same thing in the second sequel, pretty much.

But in Alien Resurrection, the Alien blood is back to full acidity, desolving bulkheads and people with its original effectiveness.

I still like the franchise, but that's my little axe to grind about it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

92. Alien Was The Remake Of "It, The Terror From Beyond Space"

The 50's movie "It" was about a manned mission to Mars that comes back with a stowaway monster on board. The monster starts attacking the crew one-by-one and sucks their blood. Like Alien, the monster spends part of its time in the air ducts. The ending is also similar to Alien, in that the monster dies when the remaining crew puts on space suits and opens the outer hatch to let out all the air, suffocating it. Although "It" was very low-budget, it's still watchable even now.

[burrowowl]

49. Elmer Gantry

scared the hell out of me.

[IconoclastIlene]

51. El Topo

I saw it many years ago and never saw it around anyplace. Is it on DVD? It freaked me out totally.

[ScreamingMeemie]

52. Natural Born Killers...

:scared: It took me about a week to get it out of my head and changed my view of Woody Harrelson for life. Not in a bad way, just in a strange way. He's not Woody from Cheers anymore. ;)

[MrScorpio]

53. I saw Scanners, in theater when it first came out

Needless to say the exploding head freaked me out and had me on the edge of my seat for the rest of the movies.

Both John Carptenter's The Thing and Prince of Darkness had me jumpy too.

[Shanty Oilish]

54. Sunset Boulevard

Yes, Bill Holden and Gloria Swanson.
Honorable Mention: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (Bette Davis); On The Beach (Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner).

[FDRrocks]

59. Other: House of 1000 Corpses

I watched my first horror movie at age 8. Pet Cemetary. Over the years I became a horror movie addict. It tapered off in my teens years. Then a few months ago I rented House of 1000 Corpses.

The reason this movie chilled my to the bone is the idea of an undead doctor that keeps you alive only to perform horribly painful experiments on you. It is easily the scariest horror movie concept I've ever seen, my second is the killer who stalks you when you sleep, Freddy.

Damn you, Rob Zombie!

[AndyP]

120. That movie is the first to give me nightmares

I really didn't think it was that scary when i watched it. I just thought it as really messed up. It must of got to me though, I kept having dreams about being caught in that underground tunnel thingy.

[VermontDem2004]

61. Finding Nemo

[FDRrocks]

62. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Qanisqineq]

63. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

the original, has always given me nightmares
:scared:

[Zorro]

72. God yes

There is non creepier than the original.

[maveric]

64. Isle of Lost Souls. 1930 - Bela Lugosi and Charles Laughton

A couple of remakes were titled "The Island of Dr. Moreau".
B&W, dreadfully dark and disturbing.

[lazarus]

65. Eraserhead

Just seriously creepy, instead of being a grossout or anything.

[sendero]

116. Eraserhead...

... is the only movie I can remember simply not being able to handle. I watched the first 30-40 minutes (on videotape) and then informed my wife "I've seen enough of this".

I'm really a David Lynch fan, loved "Blue Velvet", "Lost Highway" and especially "Mulholland Drive" but Eraserhead was too much for me.

I last tried to watch it in 1980, maybe I could deal with it now. :)

[MoonGod]

67. The Shining

Am I alone here?

[Kamika]

73. not alone..

Shining is the only movie that gave me the creeps.


Tw trailers from two japanese movies scared the bejeesus out of me too but since it was only their trailers I cant count them.

[indigo32]

83. Another one is "Rosemarys Baby"

woah

[TN al]

68. prince of darkness

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

69. Other... The Others.

Great gothic ghost story.

[Seldona]

70. The Exorcist.

I saw that when I was young, and omg I didn't sleep for a week.

Not well anyway.

I also had this crazy christian mother who layed it on thick about how possesion can happen to bad children.

Friggen child abuse imo. Certainly something I would never do to my children.

It was like Bart Simpson. 'Can't sleep, demon girl will eat me.'

lol

[NoPasaran]

71. The Wizard of Oz

Flying monkees <shudder>

[bhunt70]

75. Holy Crap, not many people I can think of that know El Topo.

Good flick but not creepy to me.

[bhunt70]

77. Session 9 was pretty creepy.

[Donkeyboy75]

79. Gigli

n/t

[buddhamama]

80. The Talented Mr.Ripley

plain old every day human behavior creeps me out.

[Minstrel Boy]

84. "Tetsuo: Iron Man"

"A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation."
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/tetsuo.html
:scared:

[CanuckAmok]

85. "Seconds" with Rock Hudson

Creepy AND uncomfortable; a duet of pleasures!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

86. Carnival Of Souls

Made circa 1962, this is in my opinion the creepiest black-and-white movie ever made. It's about a girl whose car crashes into the water and she apparently saves herself. Little by little, the world around her gets stranger and stranger until all those around her turn into evil-looking creatures. We find out at the end that she actually died without realizing it. Some of the black-and-white shots of ghouls that chase her are quite disturbing. This is an even better movie than Night Of The Living Dead and supposedly was a big influence on George Romero's film which was made about 6 years later.

[CanuckAmok]

89. That was a Herc Harvey film...

Yes, it's really creepy. I wonder what ever happened to that lead woman, Candace Hilligoss...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

99. Yes Candace Hilligoss Was Something Else

She was extremely beautiful and not a bad actress. I believe that Carnival Of Souls was her last film. That film was made for a total of $30,000, of which she probably saw little.

[CanuckAmok]

101. I have a friend who is a dead-ringer for her...pardon the expression

Right down to the ever-so-slightly wonky eye. Everytime I see my friend, I think "Carnival of Souls"

[Zookeeper]

110. Yes, yes yes!

I was trying to decide whether or not to add Carnival of Souls to my post.

I stumbled upon that film late one night on TV. I don't think it was widely released when it was made. My husband and I taped it and showed it to friends, but no one found it quite as creepy as we did.

Almost all organ music reminds me of that movie!

[VOX]

87. Roman Polanski's "Repulsion."

About a young French woman (Catherine Deneuve) living in London; she is gradually losing touch with reality. Very claustrophobic, very unsettling and disturbing.

"Repulsion" is one of the most frightening studies of madness ever filmed.

[mac56]

91. Barton Fink

nm

[alfredo]

93. Yes! an excellent movie, visually stunning.

Every scene was perfect.

I wonder how many really understood what was going on.

[sendero]

117. Barton Fink...

... didn't so much creep me out as confound me. I still have no freaking idea what was going on :)

[alfredo]

94. "Seconds" starring Rock Hudson.

John Frankenheimer did good. It is worth seeing. No blood, no gory, just good story telling.

[Tripper11]

95. For me, The Excorist...

saw it once, and only once,....when I did see it I slept in my brothers room that night :scared::scared::scared::scared:

Once was more then enough for me.

[mobuto]

96. Lawrence of Arabia

Very creepy movie.

[CanuckAmok]

105. Huh? In what sense?

:shrug: I am Curious Canuck.

[mobuto]

114. Why?

Because Peter O'Toole, as T.E Lawrence, is one of the most disturbing film characters ever.

[Twillig]

97. The Other

creepadelic!


Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, John Ritter(!), Victor French(!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069050/

[HydroAddict]

98. Kubrick's stuff always freaked me

The Shining and Clockwork Orange...saw them both at 13, freaked out for weeks.

[Cottonball]

102. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,

and all Barney movies!:bounce:

[montana_hazeleyes]

106. Saw the Blob

as a kid in the 50's and it haunted me 'til I was a teenager. Every night I had to look under the bed and in the closet to make sure it wasn't there.

[jokerman93]

107. personal list of my favorite creepy movies

Rosemary's Baby
Ninth Gate
Eyes Wide Open
Hellraiser
Exorcist
Exorcist III


As far as scariest moments though. Hands Down Winner goes to Exorcist III the suspenseful scene in the isolated hospital ward where after what seems like minutes of silence and false surprises (you know it has to come, but when it does) -- BAM -- that demon walking in full rapid stride wrapped in linen bandages like a risen corpse, arms extended in the occult sign of the enterer...

Now, this is a true story. A visiting Hindu yogi who had spent years in the Himalayas and was currently visiting America, was staying with the Indian family I was living with at the time. We all decided to go out to the movies. He and I voted to see Exorcist III.

Well there I was in a darkened theater sitting next to I highly trained yogic bikkhu from India, watching a scary movie. It was so classic. Well that scene comes along and everyone in the theater is dead silent. The suspense builds and builds and suddenly the demon emerges out of the adjacent hallway and that great scary-movie shock-sound blasts out of the speakers.

Well I don't remember anybody else, but the good Swami and I both just about jump out of our seats! What a scare!

And then he instantly turns to me, his eyes all blazing with an astonished grin on his face and he says (really loudly):

"HA! THAT WAS GREAT!"

[SiobhanClancy]

108. Carrie.....

when that bloody hand comes out of the ground....nothing has ever creeped me out in a movie as much as that.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

109. Voted Alien, but Invasion of the Body Snatchers should be there too.

Specifically, the version with Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy.

[Carolina]

112. Psycho

saw a double feature of Psycho and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane at age 8! Don't ask about the relative who took my cousin and me to those combined nightmares, but to this day (more than 40 years later) I am a bath taker only!

[Zookeeper]

113. DUers certainly have great taste in movies!

[King_Crimson]

115. Halloween...

"The Night HE Came Home". The original directed and written by John Carpenter. The flick that made Jamie Lee Curtis.

[KeepItReal]

118. Serpent and the Rainbow...

Now *that* is scary!

Salem's Lot messed me up pretty bad as a kid, though.

[neoteric lefty]

122. stephen king's "It"

I was young and I still hate clowns.

[CanuckAmok]

123. AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! PENNYWISE!!!!!

Yes, that was sca-a-a-a-ry!

[Mz Pip]

124. Cape Fear

the original with Gregory Peck. That movie gave me nightmares. Never did see the remake.

MzPip
:dem:

[snoochie]

125. What about The Hills Have Eyes?

I just remembered this one scene in particular, a single shot in a trailer. Close up, simple, gory, and for some reason it seemed a little too realistic. Maybe it was just me, but it really did creep me out.