Movies that have scared the heck outta yah...

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While watching "The Grudge"... just wondering what movies out there have just scared the ever loving poo outta yah :D

It' always fun to sneak up on others watching scary movies too...

So...
What's the scariest movie you've seen?
What's the funniest reaction you've seen from a scary movie?
 
When I was a youngster, The Wizard of Oz used to scare the livin' jesus out of me...The flying monkeys and the Wicked Witch...Damn, that was more than I could take without hiding behind the couch...:eek:.
 
When I was ten, Gremlins scared the hell out of me. Not while I was watching it, mind you, but later that night, as I tried to go to bed. :rolleyes:
 
When I was little, the early, B/W episodes of Doctor Who.

Nowadays, anything involving burial alive.

Andrew.
 
Psycho
Halloween (the first one)
Jaws
The Silence of the Lambs (first one)
The Shining
The Exorcist
Repulsion

These are my favorites. I'm always looking for "new scares" but there not many. Italian and japan slashers and goremovies can sometimes be good but not scary as Psucho.
 
Well, I think you'd have to go a long way to better Romero's "dead" movies,the central premise behind them whilst utterly fantastic is is a terrifying one, the movies themselves are relentlessly nihilistic in that there is no escape from what's happening, no happy ending.
Just before Christmas the BBC ran some short films based on the ghost stories of M.R. James, the one I saw, based on my favourite James story was called "Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You". If you get the chance to see it do so, unsettling. :eek: .
Honourable mentions;
The Wicker Man.
The Hills Have Eyes.
The Ringu films.
Erazer Head.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre(original!!)
The Exorcist.
 
Almost forgot; Really terrifying films? any thing starring Steve Guttenberg! :eek:
Ps, Glockman's right about the flying monkeys!! :eek:. I'll bet that they were all gay as well, someone should ask Ren... ;)
 
When I was about 14, "The Evil Dead" scared the crap out of me, my younger brother and some of my cousins. It was partly due to where we were watching it (dead of the night on a farm out in the middle of nowhere) and partly just group hysteria. All I know is that we ended up huddled together in the middle of the floor. When it was over, my brother was afraid to go to the bathroom by himself and my cousin wouldn't go into the basement alone to feed her Guinea pigs. The funny part was when we watched it the next morning when it was daylight outside, it was just funny instead of scary. Good times.
 
When I was 11 years old, my stepbrother (he was 13) talked me into watching Terminator, the uncut version. Damn, that was scary!
 
The most scared a movie ever made me was "Ernest Scared Stupid". I think I was 11. For some reason, those trolls really freaked the hell out of me and gave me nightmares for a week or so.

The freakiest movie I've seen that was actually scary was "Jacob's Ladder". A close second would be the REDRUM scene in "The Shining".
 
Not much since becoming an adult, but I admit that I found the original Exorcist rather creepy. (probably all that Catholic-school baggage)

As a kid in the 50s though, I would beg my mom to go see the latest giant-bug or radioactive monster film, then have nightmares about it.
"Them" was quite frightening, as was "The Creature from the Black Lagoon".

Just watched the latter on AMC last week or so, it's laughable now.

BTW, finally saw The Grudge, (big Sarah fan) and did not find it so much frightening as gloomy and depressing. Watching the little "making of" segment gave an interesting take on the Japanese notion of terror as opposed to how we do these things.
 
When I was 8 or 9, I nagged and nagged my father into taking me to see First Men in the Moon. The scene where the Selenites killed a giant caterpillar with ray guns scared me so much that we had to leave the cinema and go home. Dad was not pleased.

Recently? Audition.

maximus otter
 
As a whole - The Exorcist, but the scariest scene that made me jump up & yell was at the end of Carrie when the hand came out of the grave! :eek:
 
Mark of the Devil(I still have my unused vomit bag)
The Exorcist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(the original)
Jaws
Alien
Dawn of the Dead(the new one)
The Grudge
 
Star Wars. The whole series. I have this weird phobia of robots. Because of this, I'm also afraid of The Terminator (series) and Robocop. I have actually watched them all, but never again! Also, the "new" Planet of the Apes.

~ashes
 
oz23 said:
Just before Christmas the BBC ran some short films based on the ghost stories of M.R. James, the one I saw, based on my favourite James story was called "Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You". If you get the chance to see it do so, unsettling. :eek:
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If I remember right, that's the one where the sleeper awakens to see somebody sit up in what he knew to be an empty bed... that face of crumpled linen... It's one of my favorites too.

I'm a big fan of M.R. James' stories. I think one of the best moments in any of his stories is in "The Casting of the Runes" where the man puts his hand under the pillow in the middle of the night. Good Lord, no movie could possibly convey the experience.
 
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