SCARIEST Movies ever?

[Lookingglassman]

In the Spirit of Halloween, what do you think is the scariest movies ever made?

My two picks are The Excorcist (I refuse to watch this movie anymore) and The Blair Witch Project (I loved it. Never seeing witch and not knowing what was going on, yet feeling the evil. Great movie!)

What are your picks?

 

[Shurik]

Excorsist, The Ring (american version), original Night Of A Living Dead.

 

[Twilight]

The most terrified I've been by a film in recent memory is The Ring (American version, believe it or not - I find it scarier than Ringu).

The Exorcist of course, but that's an obvious choice.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The Exorcist. I still have not been able to sit thru that movie!

Okay that's it, I'm getting it on DVD. No chickening out and I'm watching every frame.

The Ring was pretty damn creepy but Blair Witch just make me seasick.

The Shining is also an outstanding example of sheer creepiness without needing to throw buckets of blood at the audience. Ditto for Psycho.

 

[JonathonWally]

The Shining is also an outstanding example of sheer creepiness without needing to throw buckets of blood at the audience.

No...but it did throw an elevator full at you

 

[butch101]

The Shining, Poltergeist and Alien.

Butch

 

[Aragorn]

The Ring should've been called Exposition: The Movie.

Other than the creepy girl coming out of the TV, there was nothing scary or memorable about it.

As for The Exorcist, remember when it was re-released into theaters a few years ago? Kids were laughing at the movie. There's a reason braindead torture porn is the popular form of so-called horror flicks now.

 

[TheRealNaveed]

The Innocents.

 

[Lookingglassman]

The Ring didnt scare me, especially when I found out it was some little girl coming out of a well to get them. I was like, "they are scared of some little chick? A baseball bat to the head would have solved the problem real quick."

As for the Excorcist I refuse to watch that movie again. The last time I saw it was back in 1989. I was at Ft Knox and my roomate wanted to rent a movie. He picked up this movie and I told him I didnt want to play it in my VCR because it was a devil movie. Well anyway we ended up playing this movie and I was scared too death and to top it all off, my VCR stopped working the minute the movie ended. No lie! I threw the VCR in the trash and took the movie back to the store and have refused to watch it since.

 

[Othello]

Jaws hand down. Scarred me for life. LOL Saw it when it came out in 1976 or 77 and I was 6 or 7 at the time. Have an irrational fear of swimming in the ocean now because of it.

 

[Zachary Smith]

"The Haunting" 1963 version.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/

 

[The Evil Dead]

[rec] (which was remade as Quarantine and released earlier this month) and Inside.

Inside especially, though it is not for the faint of heart.......or pregnant women. Not much phases me anymore since horror has been a genre I've loved since I first saw Child's Play 2 when I was in grade three. But when I saw Inside earlier this year I was uncomfortable just going upstairs to get a drink afterward. Inside is a French film, if you like gore (and I don't mean Evil Dead gore, I mean serious, painful looking, brutal gore) and want something a bit more adult in nature than the typical horror film, check it out.

I haven't seen Quarantine, but the last 15 minutes or so of [rec] is one of the best examples of rising tension I've ever seen in a film. You feel just as trapped as the characters. Great stuff.

 

[James Bond]

...and to top it all off, my VCR stopped working the minute the movie ended. No lie!.

Sorry, man, but that's fucking comedy.

 

[Surefire]

excorist
blair witch (on first viewing)

 

[Lookingglassman]

James Bond, I know. It is true, though. My roomate almost peed on himself from laughing when the VCR went out once the credits started to roll. He started blowing in it saying he was, "Blowing out the demons" I was mad as hell and couldnt get no tape to play in it after that stupid movie so out in the dumpster it went.

 

[FalTorPan]

The Changeling scared the crap out of me when I saw it on VHS as a kid.

 

[Kelso]

If I'm being honest... The Blair Witch Project freaked me out a bit as a teen.

Of course, we were living in a cabin in the middle of 500 acres of woods at the time (Dad was a boyscout ranger). That had something to do with it, I'm sure.

 

[Sheliak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2LBFafFDAI

 

[Fel]

Howard the Duck.

 

[Goliath]

I have never seen a movie that scared me as much as the video game Fatal Frame. Easily the scariest ghost story I have ever seen, read, or played.