Movies that have scared the heck outta yah...

Not a horror film by any means, but "On The Beach" was truly terrifying to anyone raised in the "duck and cover" era.
 
When I was a kid, Ghost Story scared the %&*# outa me. Recent movies....The Ring (and Ringu) and The Grudge have captured that same feeling.

Paul
 
Horror movies are like westerns - there's a ton of 'em. but very few are affective or believable. Slasher films are boring, predictable, and repetitive. The overused film gimmics like "jerk the camera and play a loud sound" can startle me, but it's not scary. The "it's not really dead yet" gimmic just plain sucks, especially in otherwise-believable films.

Some of the scariest films for me:
"Night of the Living Dead", the original.
"Dawn of the Dead", last year's remake. The first and last thirty minutes were absolutely terrifying - and disgusting, and distrubing... And between the beginning and the end was some of the best horror footage ever shown. It was "48 Days Later" on drugs.
"The Hitchhiker"
"Carnival of Souls" Anyone else seen it?
"Salem's Lot", a multi-night t.v. movie.

Not really scary, but "The Others", "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein", and "The Sixth Sense" were 'haunting' in a way that struck me for days.

The computer game, "From Dusk 'Til Dawn" scares the hell out of me every time!

Best Wishes,
Bob
 
Out of recent movies, I'd have to pick Gothika. Halle Berry did an excellent job playing Dr. Miranda Grey. I thought it was scary on many levels. The whole insanity thing freaked me out. She was an intelligent, respected psychiatrist one minute. The next minute no one believes anything she says to them, and she's locked up in this scary place where people are drugging her up. :eek: The idea of being locked in a cage where someone can come and hurt you and no one would believe you. SCARY. The repressed memories of the axe murder. :eek: I held my breath during the escape, but then she goes home of all places. :confused: I would never go back there. I'm too weak. :( Finally, her POS husband's rape/torture room. :eek:

I guess it's pretty obvious that I liked the movie. Her character was amazingly strong. I would have lost my mind after seeing the pictures from the house and the "Not Alone" on the walls matching my arm. :eek:
 
Goldtanker said:
As a kid I saw "The Thing from Another World", in 1951, with James Arness (Gunsmoke) as "the Thing". This was pre special effects so you never got a good look at "the Thing", making it all the more effective. An excellent movie, especially if you can find it to rent and compare to the movies of today. In those days your mind had to create the effects. Boy, did this one work on me. :eek: :D
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Me too.:eek: We lived in a trailer park in Hopkins Minnesota. My brother was living with us at the time and we shared the couch in the front room of the trailer.
He was 12 years older than me and was 6' 2" and about 200, no fat, and hairy. Everything just the opposite of me. I hardly slept at all for a couple of weeks after, every time he would move I would think it was the Thing going to get me. I was 11 - 12 at the time.
 
Deep Blue Sea

I have (had?) a shark phobia, and this film delivered shark attacks in large quantities.
 
I'm surprised "28 Days Later" hasn't made the list yet. Finally, violent Zombies with a little get-up-and-go. For lighter zombie fair, check out "Shaun of the Dead", very funny.
 
Jacob's ladder -- the only film I've actually turned off it was so disturbing!
 
maximus otter said:
Recently? Audition.

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I'd have to agree with Maximus Otter on the "Audition" vote...I watched this alone...big mistake...it's amazing what piano wire can do to a person.
:eek: I can take a lot of theatrical gore, but movies where people sneak into the house and you know they're there but the other guy in the film doesn't...freak me out!
 
As a kid, of all things, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" had this luminous green banshee scene that dropped me behind the car seat (drive-in theatre) for most of the remainder.
The flying monkeys were never my favorite.
I used to get a certain thrill from the rat/bat/spider creature in "The Angry Red Planet".
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Bob W said:
Horror movies are like westerns - there's a ton of 'em. but very few are affective or believable. Slasher films are boring, predictable, and repetitive. The overused film gimmics like "jerk the camera and play a loud sound" can startle me, but it's not scary. The "it's not really dead yet" gimmic just plain sucks, especially in otherwise-believable films.

Some of the scariest films for me:
"Night of the Living Dead", the original.
"Dawn of the Dead", last year's remake. The first and last thirty minutes were absolutely terrifying - and disgusting, and distrubing... And between the beginning and the end was some of the best horror footage ever shown. It was "48 Days Later" on drugs.
"The Hitchhiker"
"Carnival of Souls" Anyone else seen it?
"Salem's Lot", a multi-night t.v. movie.

Best Wishes,
Bob
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Although Night of the Living Dead was one of the greatest horror movies i think that the 1990 remake actually surpasses it in many ways (thanks to Tom Savini). I also prefer the ending from the remake.

I agree with Dawn of the Dead. Too many people complain about the remake but if seen on its own without any knowledge of the original it is actually an excellent horror movie. Its got gore and suspense and everything you'd want from a horror movie. The first 30 minutes were just awesome.

And don't you mean 28 days later? not 48. This is also a great movie but it kind of falters towards the end. The London scene was just awesome. Having lived there for a few years it's just scary watching places that you've walked past being so empty and desolate.

And do you mean 'The Hitcher'? With rutger hauer?

I've not seen Carnival of Souls. I've seen bits of the B&W original and the ending was probably where The Sixth Sense got its ending from.

Salem's lot brings back lots of memories when i was a kid. They showed it on tv over a period of several days but my mom wouldn't let me stay up that late. So i only watched it fully like years later. Was alright...not that scary but very 80's.

To me, the only movie that still scares me even till today is The Exorcist. There is just something about kiddie ghosts that gets to me. I always imagine her standing at the edge of my bed in the middle of the night.

Some of the horror movies that i just didn't get was The Shining and Rosemary's Baby. I just couldn't understand how someone would be scared watching it. Plus i don't like Jack Nicholson.
 
I would have to say the Excorcist is the only movie that still scares me. What scared me as a child were two movies, one I must have seen when I was 8 or younger, my parents were asleep, and I decided to watch the overnight tv programs, and came upon a movie where a guy was either bitten by a plant, or swallowed a plant. Later, he started turning into some type of vegetable, his girlfriend/wife visited him, and he chased her away, he threw off his covers and he had vines for legs, she ran off. At the end, he was about 20 feet tall, and they had to burn him alive. BTW, this was not a Stephen King influenced short, I saw that one where a guy turns into a plant in his bathtub. At that age, it scared the crap outta me, now, thinking about it, I just have to laugh. The other one was a scifi movie, a woman escapes her husband/boyfriend, escapes alien cops, who is actually an alien, she gets out of some major city, and goes into the countryside, she comes across a guy who regales her with a tale of him stopping at a rural church, and in the basement of the church, aliens are conducting experiments on humans, the aliens find out he's spying on them, and they don't catch him, but they turn his wife and kids into screaming, moaning balls of energy. He becomes a ball of energy in the movie, also. That was when I was young, and it scared the crap out of me. In the end, the alien leader is on some type of hovercraft in a warehouse, and he looks like one of the guards in Jabbas palace in Return of the Jedi. I've tried to find out the names of both movies, if you have any ideas, please email me.
 
Ritt said:
I'm surprised "28 Days Later" hasn't made the list yet. Finally, violent Zombies with a little get-up-and-go. For lighter zombie fair, check out "Shaun of the Dead", very funny.
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The first half, yes. The second half transitions into less of a horror movie.
 
The Shining is the only movie that has REALLY put a fright in me. I also belive its the most believable horror movie as well. Cabin fever taking over like that seems very possible in those settings. That chick in the shower and those twins showing up still give me the chills :eek:
 
I don't usually scare easily when watching a movie but 'The Ring' really creeped me out.

I also found 'Carnival of Souls' to be creepy.
 
REDRUM, REDRUM, REDRUM!!!!

The Shining pretty much tripped me out.

Another honorable mention was Halloween 1. My brother was a cop, and told me and my family about a guy that was juiced up on PCP, and wouldn't go down. I was just a young pup, and after seeing that movie, it freaked me out.
 
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