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freebfrost said:
Forgot about that one. Consider it seconded.
Truely Scarriest Horror Movies Ever?
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Forgot about that one. Consider it seconded.
Hijinks
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Event Horizon made me throw up. Of course, I was half-drunk. But still...
I vote for 28 Days Later. The jerky, fast zombies are tres creepy.
That one scene in Exorcist III where nurse is putzing around at the nurse's station. She goes into a room, comes back out, there's no music or anything. She putzes around some more, goes into a room, comes out. Nothing. You're getting really bored when she suddenly comes out of a room and this enormous figure in a grim reaper cloak and scythe (maybe? or a pointed weapon of some kind) is right behind, almost treading on her, and the music BLARES suddenly out of nowhere. GAAA!! Scared me to DEATH!!! I was a security guard at the time and was working in dark buildings at night. So sad *cries, remembering*
I vote for 28 Days Later. The jerky, fast zombies are tres creepy.
DarrenGMiller
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The original Children of the Corn really freaked me out.
The Shining
The Omen
The Exorcist
The first time I saw Pet Semetary it really spooked me, but the second time I laughed at it.
As for movies that aren't specifically horror, Hitchcock was a master of suspense and I love his movies. Same for Shyamalan. Also, Hellraiser and Dark City and movies of that genre wierd me out (in a good way).
DM
The Shining
The Omen
The Exorcist
The first time I saw Pet Semetary it really spooked me, but the second time I laughed at it.
As for movies that aren't specifically horror, Hitchcock was a master of suspense and I love his movies. Same for Shyamalan. Also, Hellraiser and Dark City and movies of that genre wierd me out (in a good way).
DM
It was a man covered by a sheet, with his arm reaching towards the nurse. It freaked me out too.
Same movie, different scene. When the old lady is crawling along the cieling. Brrrrrr, I hate old people that crawl on cielings.
The twins in the Shining, very scary.
Anything thats filmed in stop motion photography, gives me the chills.
The added scene in the re-released Excorcist, when the girl crawls down the stairs, bridge style. That scene had me looking warily at my stairway for a long time.
Wombat
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Alhazred said:
Yeah, both book and movie of The Haunting (of Hill House) are outstanding, though the remake was attrocious. Blair Witch Project was also great the first time around (and the second). I would also like to give a nod to The Omen, as much for its implications as anything else.
Ultimately for me horror is not about blood all around or even monsters; Poe taught me early on that the scariest monsters are those that lurk inside our own heads.
In the end, great horror relies on atmosphere, a sense of forboding, loss of control, a feeling of hopelessness. To me, for example, something like The Others is far scarier than Halloween.
Simplicity
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Let me think... I'm sure I know of some that haven't been listed. Maybe not the scariest ever, but all reasonably good horror movies:
"Night of the Living Dead" (Personally, I prefer the remake, but I must be the only one)
"Psycho"
"The Gate" is a reasonably classic movie about demon summoning...
"Tales from the Crypt" - The original movie... No crypt keeper puppet in this one, but it's REALLY hard to find. The monkey's paw story.... ugh... that still creeps me out. The main idea for the movie is a bit overplayed nowadays, but if you can't catch it, it's nice.
Speaking of which, "Tales from the Crypt: Demonknight" is a great D&D movie. Not really scary to me, but if you like D&D, it's hard not to like also.
"Trilogy of Terror" - The little african doll that comes to life for stabby stabby fun!
"The Stuff" - A odd, but kind of campy, creepy story about ... marshmellow cream?
"Saw" - I thought this was one of the better horror/suspense movies in recent memory.
"Seven" - Sick and twisted fun. If Sloth doesn't make you jump, you're dead already.
"Cabin Fever" - A cool horror movie about flesh eating bacteria.
"Night of the Living Dead" (Personally, I prefer the remake, but I must be the only one)
"Psycho"
"The Gate" is a reasonably classic movie about demon summoning...
"Tales from the Crypt" - The original movie... No crypt keeper puppet in this one, but it's REALLY hard to find. The monkey's paw story.... ugh... that still creeps me out. The main idea for the movie is a bit overplayed nowadays, but if you can't catch it, it's nice.
Speaking of which, "Tales from the Crypt: Demonknight" is a great D&D movie. Not really scary to me, but if you like D&D, it's hard not to like also.
"Trilogy of Terror" - The little african doll that comes to life for stabby stabby fun!
"The Stuff" - A odd, but kind of campy, creepy story about ... marshmellow cream?
"Saw" - I thought this was one of the better horror/suspense movies in recent memory.
"Seven" - Sick and twisted fun. If Sloth doesn't make you jump, you're dead already.
"Cabin Fever" - A cool horror movie about flesh eating bacteria.
I guess I'm a sissy. The Ring freaked me out. Not to the point of not being able to function, but suffice to say that when my wife called from theater rehearsal 2/3 of the way through the movie, the ringing phone made my heart beat a little faster.
(Note: Haven't seen the Japanese version. From what I've heard, I wouldn't like it. Not an objective statement meant to form some kind of absolute judgment -- but as a non-Japanese person who does not have the "white guy who loves Japanese culture even more than his own" thing going on, I pretty much suspect that the criticism I've heard "The American version takes out the Japanese-ness" next to "The Japanese version has lots of weird stuff that only makes sense if you're really versed in Japanese culture", it wouldn't be my thing.
Seriously, it's okay if it's your thing. Really. I am simply judging The Ring as an American horror movie, and by that standard, it had good writing and good ambience and spent enough time building up the end-monster that it successfully freaked me out when it appeared at the end.
I also liked "The Magnificent Seven" more than I liked "The Seven Samurai", although in that case, I really did like both a bunch.)
(Note: Haven't seen the Japanese version. From what I've heard, I wouldn't like it. Not an objective statement meant to form some kind of absolute judgment -- but as a non-Japanese person who does not have the "white guy who loves Japanese culture even more than his own" thing going on, I pretty much suspect that the criticism I've heard "The American version takes out the Japanese-ness" next to "The Japanese version has lots of weird stuff that only makes sense if you're really versed in Japanese culture", it wouldn't be my thing.
Seriously, it's okay if it's your thing. Really. I am simply judging The Ring as an American horror movie, and by that standard, it had good writing and good ambience and spent enough time building up the end-monster that it successfully freaked me out when it appeared at the end.
I also liked "The Magnificent Seven" more than I liked "The Seven Samurai", although in that case, I really did like both a bunch.)
DonTadow
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Oh wow forgot about Saw and Cabin Fever. Man my memories bad. I've been trying to think of and pick movies that recently scared me. I would say movies that scared me as a kid, but I've watched most of them as an adult and they do nothing for me, even when I really try to be kid.Simplicity said:
Do you think its because I've seen the scares already or they couldn't push the envelope like they do now
