Movies that have scared the heck outta yah...

[yuzuha]

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.

Don't think I've heard of that one. I remember one where they made tree zombies by burrying people standing up with a seed. "Invasion of the body Snatchers" and "Day of the Triffids" Wasn't an episode of the Outer Limits was it?

 

[spyken]

Ringu. (the original Japanese version of the Ring).

Let me explain - the long hair and white gown, and the black and white spectre juxtaposed on a colour-ed reality is exactly how the "pontianak" (local female vampire) looks like. plus that crawling out of a well. sheesh....when I was a kid, my dad warned me never to look into wells which were abandoned or in the middle of the jungle.

you guys may laugh, but many have actually seen it - I've smelt it (in the jungle....smell of frangipany flower) and my fellow-guide had actually seen one (she's pre-disposed to seeing such things). I have no reason to doubt her, cos we both experienced forest spirits whilst leading a group of schoolchildren on a hiking trip sometime in 2003 (I won't mention the actual place). btw, the military actually has some footage of a flying pontianak at the basic military training school, but has not publicly admitted it - obviously that would make parents of national servicemen very concerned.

 

[Bob W]

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 don't know if I've seen the remake or not. If I did, it was unmemorable. I did once see the colorized version of the original - what a waste.

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.

Absolutely!

And don't you mean 28 days later? not 48. This is also a great movie but it kind of falters towards the end.

Yep, it's 24. I liked the zombies obviously, but the movie also had a deeper philisophical level that was quite interesting.

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

Yep, that's the one.

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.

The original is incredibly haunting and it stuck with me for days after seeing it - I saw it for the first time this year. I haven't seen the new movie by the same name, but it's apparantly a rape-revenge movie with nothing in common with the original.

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.

Rosemary's Baby had the whole conspiracy thing going that some people find frightening - I didn't. The Shining was good, but empty and shallow compared to the book.

Plus i don't like Jack Nicholson.

I like Jack Nicholson, especially his older films. Many of his new movies are mass-produced Hollywood drivel and Nicholson seems like he's walking through the scenes on his way to lunch. The Crossing Guard is a recent film that really displays Jack Nicholson's talent. "As Good As it Gets" is a perfect example of him walking through a movie - what a POS!

Best Wishes,
Bob

 

[Centaur]

When was about 7 or 8 I saw "The Witch's Mirror" on TV, and it scared the hell out of me.

It's an early 1960's mexican made b&w horror movie about a Edward, a surgeon that kills his wife. Her mother, a witch, vows to avenge her. When he remarries, very strange things start happening. His first wife's ghost comes out of her old mirror. Edward throws an oil lamp at the mirror, but winds up badly burning his new wife. He is able to repair her body using cadaver skins, and prepares new hands for her, hands were taken from a female pianist. His ex wife's witch mother replaces the new hands with her daughter's. When healed, the new hands take on a life of their own, and eventually stab the doctor in the back with sewing scissors (that's the part that really frightened me!) The new wife's hands fall off, \her body returns back to it's badly burned state, and she dies.

Given it's time frame, it was quite advanced in special effects.

 

[Grim/Don]

Nobody has said Phantasm yet (I don't think, anyway) Just when you KNOW the main character is safe, the Tall Man jumps out and scares the CRAP outta ya!
I once had a job reading electric meters and ended up in a mauseleum once... If I would have heard ANYTHING like a high-pitched whine of a silver sphere flying though the air, they would have been about to follow the yellow trail all the way to my house!
I didn't know *what* the building was before I went in, but since it was right next to a cematary, I should have guessed. Heavy, HUGE bronze doors. Walked down some stairs and saw a vacuum cleaner plugged in, but not running. No one in sight. Then I saw the plaques on the walls and I knew... I almost left, but since we got a bonus for each meter red over a set amount, I had to try. Look all over and didn't see anyone (Tall Man had already grabbed the vacuum person!) Found a office/closet area with a fabic curtain hanging in the back... Which lead to the basement... Yes, I went down the stairs to the basement of a mauseleum. If ANY of the machines down there would have kicked on while I was there, yellow-trail time. Found the meters, HAD to be two!
I don't think I took a breath until I was safely outside, back in my truck!


Used to be scared of Godzilla when I was about 10 (didn't help that my mom knew it and would sneak out of the kitchen and grab me ever now and then.)

I used to be scared of the Bigfoot TV shows, more than movies. Kept the shade pulled all the time on my bedroom window, even though I was on the second floor.

Saw Friday 13th, part 3 (in 3d!) as a midnight movie... Stayed awake until the sun came up... just in case...

Books used to scare me more than movies. Finished Salem's Lot at 4:00 in the morning... I knew, KNEW there was a vampire standing next to the closet door. Finally passed out with the light next to my bed on (didn't DARE get out of bed to turn the big light on... He'd a got me!)

Rented 28 Days Later and it didn't scare me, but it did shock me a few times. LOVED Shaun of the Dead! Caught 13 Ghosts on Sci-Fi Sunday. Okay movie, but not scary. My son asked to watch it with me... After it was over, we had a talk about ghosts (he's 7). As I tucked him in, I told him he could come lay on our bedroom floor if he woke up scared. (he didn't)

 

[trane fan]

In no particular order or level of scariness:

Salem's Lot (Original)
The Exorcist
The Shining
Dracula (The first time I saw the original I was 5 and had nightmares for a week)
Seven (When the drug dealer's body sits up w/no warning )

 

[Will P.]

I once had a job reading electric meters and ended up in a mauseleum once... If I would have heard ANYTHING like a high-pitched whine of a silver sphere flying though the air, they would have been about to follow the yellow trail all the way to my house!

Being heavily armed helps in this sort of situation.
But people look at you funny.

 

[Kampfjaeger]

When I was a kid, I saw a really cheesy movie called, "Let's Scare Jessica To Death." I don't know... THere was something really unsettling about it. It had my skin crawling in the middle of a Saturday afternoon while home alone. I'll never look at swimming in a lake the same way again.

The Shining was wonderful.
Ghost Story.
The Haunting of Hill House (B/W version)
Anything by M.R. James is engrossing and atmospheric.

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I think that Phantasm might've been the movie I was thinking of, was the Tall Man an alien in that one? Was he conducting experiments on people in the basement of the church?

 

[oz23]

A few folk have made positive mention of Salem's lot and I must say that I have to agree, that scene where the little vampire kid floats up and starts scratching at the window !
Stephen King's stuff usually dosn't make the jump to movies (remember Maximum overdrive :footinmou ?) Salem's Lot was his best book and Tobe Hooper's adaptation more or less hit the mark.

 

[oz23]

I think that Phantasm might've been the movie I was thinking of, was the Tall Man an alien in that one? Was he conducting experiments on people in the basement of the church?

It's years scince I saw it but if i'm remembering it right the Tall Man was turning the recently croaked into weird little guys that looked like the Jawas from Star Wars, then he was zapping them through this teleportation contraption to another planet/dimension(delete as appropriate).

 

[silenthunterstudios]

As for the two movies I described, I guess I'll never know . I read Salems Lot, and while the book scared me a little, and I enjoyed it, I didn't think the original TV adaptation nor the recent adaptation did anything scary. It was disgusting watching the vampires drinking the seagulls blood in the junk yard, but other than that, both movies were a waste of my time.

 

[Bobwhite]

Alien and all the sequals. H. R. Giger really nailed it with that monster design. That thing scares the piss out of me, it hits me on some kind of deep brain level that is not rational. I have nightmares for weeks if I watch any of those movies.

 

[Centaur]

Alien and all the sequals. H. R. Giger really nailed it with that monster design. That thing scares the piss out of me, it hits me on some kind of deep brain level that is not rational. I have nightmares for weeks if I watch any of those movies.

Giger is a talented, but twisted individual:

http://www.hrgiger.com/

The Alien is a compilation of many elements, each one hits many of us at some level of anxiety. It's part reptile, part insect, part shark, part humanoid. It's stronger, faster, tougher, and possibly more intelligent than us. It is of a singular mind, bent on survival and the domination of weaker, inferior species.

Add these factors to the claustrophobia from being aboard the ships / stations, and the permiating darkness.

Then you've got a severely creepy critter, and some scary movies.

 

[CapCase]

I liked the original 'Salem's Lot'. I didn't care much for the remake. The book was a great read. I used to really enjoy Stephen King's books but haven't touched one in nearly two decades.

 

[panella]

Have to vote with The Exorcist. It scared the crap out of me. I saw it in Seattle, didn't have a car at the time. Took the bus and had to walk part way home late at night. And it was windy.

I remember The Pit and the Pendulum being scary as a kid. There are lots of creepy scenes that come to mind but the most disturbing movie has to be Eraserhead especially the scene with the "thing" baby in the diaper. Brrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[Grim/Don]

Being heavily armed helps in this sort of situation.
But people look at you funny.

Dude... I could have had the mini-gun from the second Terminator movie, Captain America's Shield, and lightsaber with me and I still would have been fighting a king-sized case of the willies!

 

[Dragon_Man]

There is something about Eraserhead. Especially the baby and diaper scene. Real disturbing stuff, it left me with a sick kind of feeling.

 

[Slim to None]

Mothman Prophecies? anyone?

 

[maximus otter]

My father was born in Belfast in 1922. In 1935, aged 13, he went to see Bride of Frankenstein. You know, the Boris Karloff/Elsa Lanchester one:

He was working as an apprentice cloth marker in a suit factory, and most of his meagre wages went to his mum. He kept a few pence per week. It was enough to allow him to get the bus to the cinema and see a film. It wasn't enough for a return ticket. He had to walk home.

Picture the scene: You're 13. You've just seen the most sensational horror film ever released. (Think Alien; think The Exorcist; think Halloween).

You're walking home. It's night time. The dirty streets of Belfast are deserted and wreathed in sulphurous fog. Street lighting is absent or poor. The only sound you hear is the thumping of your terrified heart, and the clacking of your boot heels echoing off the high walls. You see home! You approach the high pillars flanking the path to your front door. You're safe!

As you walk between those pillars, the family cat jumps off one of them and lands on your shoulder...

Amazingly, he survived to father me!

maximus otter