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{PFH}-Lake
10-27-2006, 06:18 PM
post your list
here gos
10.friday the 13th-when i saw this i didnt think it was the bad at first but then towards half way though the movie you see Jason killing people. And at the end of the movie Jason with out a mask was great.
9.Alien. Man who would have thought a sci-fi movie would scare people. It changed my mind on how sci-fi movies could be made.
8.Phantasm-tall man though balls into peoples heads and killing them, lord of the undead is a nice name also. The kid running from the old guy, and towards the end of the movie when all hell breaks lose gave me nightmares.
7.Ring-I went to see this the 1st day it came out, and there was no killing in the movie, no sex or anything like that. Just plain creepy sounds, who would have thought a killer video tape would be scary?
6.Grudge. When i saw this it was better then the ring, alot scary to. For one never go in to a home thats crused in japan ill tell you that.
4.twilight zone the movie-ok it wasnt really made to be scary i guess, but for some reason i cant watch this movie all thanks to that damn rabit with the wishing kid.
3.Exorcist-seeing this when your 13 is not a good thing. I can still see her running down the stairs backwards.
2.Jacobs ladder-theres parts in the movie that scared the hell out of me, damn demons.
1.Fire in the sky. Every damn time i watch this movie i have nightmares of aliens coming to get me. Maybe ill watch this movie one day again, but who knows.
Soundatron
10-27-2006, 06:22 PM
Jason was only in the end of Friday The 13th Part 1. His mother committed the murders.
AdverseSolutions
10-27-2006, 06:27 PM
cosign on the grudge and alien, jesus those movies fucked me up (at totally different ages).
Dios <-X->
10-27-2006, 06:29 PM
Texas Chainsaw Massacre the Original always scars my mind, nothing worse then being Alone in the house, at 2am, watching it at 8 years old on HBO with the volume high and the lights out, and after that fuckin creepy ending, then silence, with no light while the credits roll.....that shit nearly gave me a heart attack
Debaser
10-27-2006, 06:32 PM
The Evil Dead. Especially that part at the end when the possessed guy and girl decompose and arms are coming out of their stomachs and their skin is melting away. Creepiest use of claymation in in a movie by far.
Biolink
10-27-2006, 06:33 PM
The movie that still frightens me to this day is Event Horizon.About this ship with a mini blackhole at its core that allows it faster than speed of light space travel and the ability to jump through dimension's.
The crew goes to investigate a previous crew's dissapearence.They make minor mis-calculation errors and end up in this hellish middle dimension and everybody on the ship ends up going insane pretty much.
It wasn't a great movie by any means,but it sort of stuck with me because I watched it when I was very little.
RushedDown
10-27-2006, 06:41 PM
fire in the sky made me laugh
shit was like a clan of calista flockhearts
draggin that guy thru the halls with pencil arms sure.....
only movie that every scared me when i was little was the entity
Plutoburn
10-27-2006, 06:49 PM
The Shining
Vertigo
The Exorcist
Psycho
Carrie
Poltergeist
Alien
Holloween
Nightmare on Elm street
Friday the 13th
Jaldaboath
10-27-2006, 06:53 PM
Co-sign on Alien. That movie was the shit.
TCM is a horrifying movie. When Leatherface hits the guy in the head with the mallet, who then just goes straight into shock, drags him into a room, and SLAMS the door. And midway through the movie when Leatherface opens the freezer and the woman who jolts to life after the shock of light hits her, added to that noise is such a fucked up part.
tondashocka
10-27-2006, 07:14 PM
I don't know if I can make an entire top ten, but I'd put Night of the Living Dead (1990s version), Carrie, and Psycho somewhere on the list.
Nemesis00
10-27-2006, 07:18 PM
TCM is a horrifying movie. When Leatherface hits the guy in the head with the mallet, who then just goes straight into shock, drags him into a room, and SLAMS the door.
Qouted for truth, justice, and other pro-American propaganda!
Original TCM = Creepy and unsettling
TCM Remake = Pure brutality
On my list...
Alien
Jaws
The Shining
Night of the Living Dead (for comedy reasons)
white shadow
10-27-2006, 07:28 PM
Little Monsters
ugly duckling
10-27-2006, 07:39 PM
^^co sign, that and ernest scared stooopid
{PFH}-Lake
10-27-2006, 08:20 PM
fire in the sky made me laugh
shit was like a clan of calista flockhearts
draggin that guy thru the halls with pencil arms sure.....
only movie that every scared me when i was little was the entity they didnt really didnt explain in the movie , when people get abducted by aliens you cant move your body at all.
Lucretz
10-27-2006, 08:20 PM
Little Monsters was an awesome movie.
Blair Witch stayed with me for a while, mainly just the last scene in the house. That was pretty creepy to me.
Also, the scene where Kira eats her father and then stalks her mother with some blunt object in the basement of the original Night of the Living Dead.
Also: Audition, Alien, The Thing, Ring.
Dios <-X->
10-27-2006, 08:24 PM
Ya, blair witch wasnt really scary, but the final 5 minutes of the movie fuckin creeped me out
{PFH}-Lake
10-27-2006, 08:24 PM
The Evil Dead. Especially that part at the end when the possessed guy and girl decompose and arms are coming out of their stomachs and their skin is melting away. Creepiest use of claymation in in a movie by far. evil dead movies made me laugh. dont know why but i thought those movies were funny. Blair Witch i heard was really stupid, maybe ill watch it someday.
Million
10-27-2006, 08:33 PM
There is still nothing that tops The Shining for me. Psychological terror...disturbing visuals...these are much more potent in the scares department that anything a slasher film shows me, imo. Movies that may give you a masked killer/mutant/whatever jumping out of nowhere to slice a head off...that's like a jab, or a strong at most....the truly disturbing visuals like what you see in Shining...that's the Fierce Punch unblockable right there...it's the KO. Or to use another game analogy(heh, they're fun)...The Shining is like that critical hit that causes a continuing status ailment in an rpg. I haven't seen The Grudge 1 or 2 yet, but it looks to be along those lines of "disturbing visuals" tactics, rather than pure jumpscares.
Fire in the Sky was a strong one too...but those aliens weren't nearly as terrifying as the typical "greys" types with the large eyes.
*ah, and Nightmare on Elm St---this was actually a good mixture of the two types, imo. There were a couple of disturbing visuals mixed in with the jumpscares. I'm not sure if it was purely intentional as a crucial scary scene...but near the end, when that woman gets pulled through that tiny window space in the door....ehhhh yeah...nightmare fuel for me at the time. Something about that little scene was quite unsettling. There was also Freddy's flaming footsteps leading up to the bedroom, and the scene that followed that.
Debaser
10-27-2006, 08:33 PM
evil dead movies made me laugh. dont know why but i thought those movies were funny. Blair Witch i heard was really stupid, maybe ill watch it someday.
The first movie was an honest to God horror movie, and I believe is referred to as a classic of the genre. It doesn't have the scope that many other famous horror movies but it's still very creepy. In ED2 they kind of lampooned their own movie and gave Ash the sense of humor everyone knows and loves. They've also talked about doing an Eddie vs. Jason vs. Ash movie, but Bruce Campbell refuses to do it unless Ash is the winner. There might be an Evil Dead 4 on the horizon as well.
Lucretz
10-27-2006, 08:52 PM
Yeah the first Evil Dead was straight horror, but I still found it pretty humorous. Haha. 'The ulimate experience in grueling horror' is how it was billed I believe. Good stuff whether you laugh at it or otherwise.
The idea of an Evil Dead remake with Ashton Kutcher playing Ash pains me inside. : < I hadn't heard about an Evil Dead 4 though.
G.O.T
10-27-2006, 09:47 PM
10. Phantasm
9. Alien
8. Predator
7. Bad Moon
6. Demon Knight
5. Friday the 13th-The New Blood
4. Children of the Corn series
3. The Beast Within
2. It
1. The Howling 1, 2, 3
Debaser
10-27-2006, 09:54 PM
The idea of an Evil Dead remake with Ashton Kutcher
'Tis the greatest horror to ever grace the screen... the most brutal display of bad acting ever... Ashton Kutcher is Ash, and lo, it will suck h0rd...
Septimus Prime
10-27-2006, 09:56 PM
I'll tell you what wasn't scary: Rosemary's Baby. Shit just sucked.
horror is all about perception
like as an EXTREMELY clastrophobic person
the descent looks like the worst goddamn thing in the world to me :(
and the vanishing's ending tramatized me :(((((((((
Jaldaboath
10-27-2006, 10:16 PM
I hadn't heard about an Evil Dead 4 though.
Bruce said in the Evil Dead game for Xbox that if someone can convince Sam Raimi to stop doing spidey and go back to do Evil Dead we'd have another movie, but that we all now that ain't happening.
no american horror movie has creeped me out, as far as i can remember.
I've only found japanese horror to be creepy...probably because they don't really use much graphic, but more psychological horror.
Well, actually nvm, a few came to my head, like jacob's ladder., but asian horror still outweighs the american ones. I'm not like anti american or anything, it's just the way it is for me.
To the guy who hasn't seen blair witch: yea it's fucking stupid, don't waste your time.
jae hoon
10-27-2006, 10:28 PM
No respect for Alfred Hitchcock in here, I remember watching that and Ray Bradbury theater when I was a kid.
Pit and the Pendulum is still one of the best horror movies ever as well.
I personally thought the Grudge, Ring, Saw sucked ass. Still want to see Tetsuo.
shinkibigami9
10-27-2006, 11:12 PM
Candyman destroyed me after I saw it and so did Pumpkinhead.
Riot Guard
10-28-2006, 05:27 PM
[QUOTE=Biolink;3420054]The movie that still frightens me to this day is Event Horizon.About this ship with a mini blackhole at its core that allows it faster than speed of light space travel and the ability to jump through dimension's.
QUOTE]
Good pick. I was surprised at how actually scary event horizon was. The dialogue and imagery were well down.
My picks.
The Blob
Ringu 0
Ring
Soundatron
10-28-2006, 06:19 PM
Candyman. When the little boy Jacob tells a story and we witness it. A lil' boy found in a bathroom, in a pool of blood, holding himself cause Candyman chopped off his future manhood
To the guy who hasn't seen blair witch: yea it's fucking stupid, don't waste your time.
blair witch was a tight movie...
the decent was pretty dope...
the shinning is rediculous...a true scary movie to me...
im outi
Roberth
The Exorcist comes on tonigt (8pm PST) on AMC.
I actually liked Blair Witch. It had it's moments (when whatever it was started scratching the tent. Fuck that shit).
The Ring, while a good movie, wasn't truly scary. Though the girl who first saw the tape wins the award for scariest corpse I've ever seen. Only truly scary part of The Ring was when Samara crawls out of the TV. Such a surreal moment. The way she moves is scary as shit.
Oh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3AyOMoUNHo
Btw..The Grudge sucked ass.
Even though it isn't a horror movie in the sense that there is no blood and guts, Open Water is beyond fucked up. I have a very bad fear of deep water so this movie unnerves me. Besides, being stranded IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING OCEAN can and has happened.
Will Gotti
10-28-2006, 08:04 PM
The Exorcist comes on tonigt (8pm PST) on AMC.
I actually liked Blair Witch. It had it's moments (when whatever it was started scratching the tent. Fuck that shit).
The Ring, while a good movie, wasn't truly scary. Though the girl who first saw the tape wins the award for scariest corpse I've ever seen. Only truly scary part of The Ring was when Samara crawls out of the TV. Such a surreal moment. The way she moves is scary as shit.
Oh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3AyOMoUNHo
Btw..The Grudge sucked ass.
Even though it isn't a horror movie in the sense that there is no blood and guts, Open Water is beyond fucked up. I have a very bad fear of deep water so this movie unnerves me. Besides, being stranded IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING OCEAN can and has happened.
I agree w/your entire post, damn.
I remember watching Blair Witch in the movie theater when it came out. I heard all the hype and when I started watching it thought it was gonna be a stupid student filmish horror movie. In the end I proved myself wrong and liked it.
Certain parts had me going "FUCK...this...SHIT!" Like the scratching of the tent part, the ending as they started closing in on the Blair Witch, when they ended up finding out they were going in a circle towards the middle of the movie, hearing creepy noises from afar during the day and night scenes and a couple of other small things. Fuck all that shit. I would not want to be in those situations.
As for the Grudge, it was not scary, was stupid and the only cool part I can think of was when the japanese ghost girl first appeared and her hair materializing on the wall.
I haven't been stranded in the middle of the ocean, but I have been stranded in the middle of a giant reservoir while going on a boating trip with one of my friends his family and a couple of other friends. At the middle, the reservoir was about 80-90ft deep. Five of us where on the boat and where ski dooing on those blowup ski doo things. Anyways me and my friend were on one of the bigger floating devices and the boat ran out of gas at one of the deepest points and was far from shore although we could see it.
We didn't know about the gas cause the meter wasn't showing it low IIRC. Panic and arguing ensued about what to do. Logic was overriden by stupidity until logic prevailed. After being out there for about a good 1/2 hour or so putting up with stupid shit, gas was finally considered an option..wtf. Some of the stupid asses wouldn't listen in the beginning.
{PFH}-Lake
10-28-2006, 09:38 PM
ya i found out fire in the sky was based off a true story.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/abduct068.html
http://www.castleofspirits.com/traviswalton.html
Lucretz
10-28-2006, 10:15 PM
99 Scariest Movie Moments was on Bravo again tonight. They've been showing that for the last three years I think. I don't agree with all the placings, but it's a good source for movies I hadn't heard of, or had forgotten about.
Evidently they made another, 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments, which was kind of a waste. It didn't seem like they could even fill thirty more spots, since it was all just really recent movies, while the last countdown took from some recent, but mostly more classic films. It had like .. Grudge, and Dawn of the Dead (2002), Child's Play and Saw II on it. Saw II? Ugh.
I love that first one though, that list was epic.
Haha, yeah Fire in the Sky is supposeably a true story. Then again so was Return of the Living Dead. XD
ROTFLMAO!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98OJWuc2I5s
TrunksSS3
10-28-2006, 10:46 PM
To me i have to say the scariest is "The Exorcist "
PS:everyone knows they were scared of freddy when you were like 9 years old LOL
TehBooGiEMaN
10-28-2006, 10:46 PM
The Amityville Horror (2005)
^ Are you serious? That movie was dumb and noisy.
Lebowsk1
10-28-2006, 10:52 PM
I'm not a horror fan... and I know this thread mustnt turn into a video thread but, seeing as someone's already linked to youtube...
If you've seen The Shining, you need to see this (it's old so don't get mad about it).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf7h6o3I8yw
Anyway, call me a pussy if you will but I'd rather watch the full version of Shining than The Shining.
J-ride
10-28-2006, 10:57 PM
The crab walking scene in the exorcist is creepy as hell. When the wheelchair rolls down the stairs in the Changeling, thats scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
Fadedsun303
10-28-2006, 11:06 PM
I agree with Fire in The Sky being the #1 most scary movie. That movie scared the crap out of me when I was younger. Especially the scene where he's in the ship, and they're doing experiments on him.
TehBooGiEMaN
10-29-2006, 12:53 AM
^ Are you serious? That movie was dumb and noisy.
scared the shit outta me. that and the omen (2006)
Romie
10-29-2006, 06:28 AM
I'm suprised "IT" got no respect in this thread. That fucking movie horrified me when I was like 12. I think I cried during the middle.
I saw it again like a month ago, and it was disturbing when you're old enough to actually realize what's going on.
Fucking clowns.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk
gamingsage
10-29-2006, 11:47 AM
Scariest.
Omen remake
Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake
Event Horizon
Child's Play 2 (11 years old after eating shitload of candy)
Exorcist
Blair Witch (this did scare me in the theatres)
Phil McFly
10-29-2006, 12:07 PM
Hell Raiser I-III
I think it's on a different level for me because my cousins made me watch this shit at like 6 years old or something. Then they got an EXACT replica of the puzzlebox, threw me in a closet in the basement, threw the puzzlebox at me, locked the door and went upstairs after telling me to solve it. I'm now scarred for life & desensitized to everything else... it's great.
-McFly
P. Gorath
10-29-2006, 12:10 PM
the omen remake is the dumbest, most boring, pointless remake since de Palma's Psycho
dev1ant
10-29-2006, 12:22 PM
The scariest movie I've ever seen was The Exorcist hands down
I always found the sublimital frame of Captain Howdy's face frightening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Captain_howdy.jpg
The scariest movie I've ever seen was The Exorcist hands down
I always found the sublimital frame of Captain Howdy's face frightening.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Captain_howdy.jpg
Speaking of which, AMC is showing the exorcist tonight. I don't know how much will be edited but AMC is pretty good on horror movies.
Also, Spike TV is showing the Shining right after. I don't own it so I guess I have to settle for the commercials.
Higher-Jin
10-29-2006, 01:05 PM
Sometimes, the scariest things are the atrocities people are capable of when they ignore their concience for so long that they start deluding themselves into thinking whatever they do is right.
That's why a movie like Goodfellas, even though it's entertaining and not meant to be scary, plants the idea in your head that there actually was/are people like this in the world. It's based on real people, and the idea that your murderers come with smiles, that they come as your friends, really is rather freaky.
As far as conventional horror goes A Nightmare On Elm St. scared the shit out of me as a kid and then continued to scare me even later on. Freddy was unavoidable (you have to dream sometime), nearly unbeatable, and the scariest thing of all.... he took your soul.
Maybe I'm too abstract but the idea of losing your soul has always frightened me.
Nowadays, I'm not really afraid anymore, but even now seeing a picture of Freddy on the net gives me a slight chill I must admit. The worst thing about Freddy though is when you have a nightmare about Freddy after watching too many horror movies. Because even if you REALIZE it's just a dream... it doesn't really improve the situation.
Lebowsk1
10-29-2006, 01:14 PM
Higher Jin: If I ever play you at KOF I'll know to pick Choi then.
After watching Candyman (at around age 14) there's no way I could look in the mirror and say his name. Well, not on my own and in the dark anyway.
dereklearnslow
10-29-2006, 01:46 PM
Cosign on Stephen King's 'IT'.
That shit traumatized my whole 3rd grade year.
As far as conventional horror goes A Nightmare On Elm St. scared the shit out of me as a kid and then continued to scare me even later on. Freddy was unavoidable (you have to dream sometime), nearly unbeatable, and the scariest thing of all.... he took your soul.
Also, the fact that, in the movie, the victims didn't realize they were in a nightmare for some time. When I was a kid, I was always wondering if I was sleeping and in one of Freddie's nightmares.
Professor Jones
10-29-2006, 04:24 PM
The Shining is a brilliant film. What I would call an "intelligent" horror film... after viewing it I started searching for other horror films of the same quality but without success. The exorcist was quite good, but The Shining had a way more powerful impact on me.
One of the most disturbing moments of the movie for me was this one :
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/explodingkinetoscope/shining35.jpg
If you saw the movie, you know what I mean. Just looking at the pic gave me the chills :xeye:
"Darling! Light of my life! I'm not gonna hurt you. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash 'em right the fuck in....haha!"
Best line in the movie!
AdverseSolutions
10-29-2006, 06:15 PM
the fuck is going on in that picture?
^ You just need to watch it. That scene lasts for all of 2 seconds. But it's a awful scene.
AdverseSolutions
10-29-2006, 09:01 PM
dude, t he shining originated furries!!!
AdverseSolutions
10-30-2006, 08:06 AM
saw the shining today, brilliant. will edit this later with my thoughts.
Infested Jester
10-30-2006, 08:18 AM
In no particular order:
Halloween 1
The Exorcist
Dead of Night
The Dead Pit
Mothers Day - (ending only, but it makes up for everything else)
Jaws
Make Them Die Slowly
Salems Lot
Alice Sweet Alice
Don't Look Now
angryliberal
10-30-2006, 08:36 AM
the omen remake is the dumbest, most boring, pointless remake since de Palma's Psycho
holy fucking shit, me and pg agree 100% on something. i'd add the remake of tcm to that list also.
is this list scary movie for just people's fave horrors?
i'm not gonna make a list cuz i'm too tired to do that much work, but here are a few that lest me with sleepless nights at some point in my life:
jaws
poltergeist
blair witch(first time i saw it only)
nightmare on elm street
psycho
audition
the haunting(the original you remake watching fucktards)
it(first 2 hours only, the second sucked ass hole)
some that didn't "scare" me, but should never be left out of lists about scary movies
the shining
the omen(original...)
the exorcist(i don't know how i feel about the added scenes, but the og one is brilliant)
tcm(perhaps one of the greatest films ever made)
seven
carrie
thats all i can think of right now...
SOARINGWING
10-30-2006, 09:32 AM
It's not necessarily the images in the movies which are frightening you persay, it's the music. Jaws is nothing without the violins and cellos playing in the background.
angryliberal
10-30-2006, 10:44 AM
the shark wasn't scary in jaws at all, but the music and camera work from the shark's pov truly made the film...
RaishinX
10-30-2006, 11:03 AM
One of the most disturbing moments of the movie for me was this one :
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/explodingkinetoscope/shining35.jpg
If you saw the movie, you know what I mean. Just looking at the pic gave me the chills :xeye:
Oh yeah, that image is nothing short of horrifying. I'll never understand it, but I think it'd be funny if there was some dumb caption like "PWNED11" or something.
EDIT: Here we go
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NmOoekbK6YI
DropOff
10-30-2006, 08:12 PM
I'll tell you what wasn't scary: Rosemary's Baby. Shit just sucked.
It was kind of a good movie then it just falls apart at the end into bullshit
Hail satan!
EndLeSS8
10-31-2006, 07:47 AM
The movie that still frightens me to this day is Event Horizon.About this ship with a mini blackhole at its core that allows it faster than speed of light space travel and the ability to jump through dimension's.
The crew goes to investigate a previous crew's dissapearence.They make minor mis-calculation errors and end up in this hellish middle dimension and everybody on the ship ends up going insane pretty much.
It wasn't a great movie by any means,but it sort of stuck with me because I watched it when I was very little.
Quoted for the TRUTH
Shibuya
10-31-2006, 08:27 AM
I seen the grudge 2 yesterday with this chick......i was jumping more than the girl!!!!!! its kinda scary but it has more shock value than anything!!!
The exorist of emily rose.......i swear i woke up at 3am like a couple of days after that movie and i was freaking out!!!!
Airswish99
10-31-2006, 09:49 AM
worst. list. ever. The Ring? Scary?
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