Movies that have scared the heck outta yah...

I will tell you a movie that scared me and that was "Raising Cain" (1992), written and directed by Brian De Palma with John Lithgow, one of my favorite actors, as the villain, and Lolita Davidovitch, who played Blaze Starr in "Blaze" as his terrified wife and mother of his daughter. I had never seen Lithgow play a villain before or since and he was superb! And what can one say about Davidovitch but *WOW!*
 
I second FullerH on H.P. Lovecraft, though only the books as none of those made into movies were worthy.
 
FullerH said:
I will tell you a movie that scared me and that was "Raising Cain" (1992), written and directed by Brian De Palma with John Lithgow, one of my favorite actors, as the villain, and Lolita Davidovitch, who played Blaze Starr in "Blaze" as his terrified wife and mother of his daughter. I had never seen Lithgow play a villain before or since and he was superb! And what can one say about Davidovitch but *WOW!*
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Freakiest part of that movie was when the guys wife in a coma is suddenly wide eyed and staring at him while he was talking to the girlfriend/love interest.
Gives me the creeps everytime.
 
If no one has mentioned it yet: The Believers with Martin Sheen. About Santeria. Scared the crap out of me.
 
The origional NOLTD, gotta love the black and white all done in the right angles.

Exorcist (saw the re-release in the theater, hit a matene and was the only one in there) (espically with the sound system)

Dario Argento's "The Sthendal Syndrome" Oh yeah!

Oh and The Descent, in surround sound in the theater very claustrophobic, and intense.
 
Thinking back, another film that was pretty scary when it came out was Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", especially the shower scene with Janet Leigh and the final scene. :eek: :eek:

And, yes, I know about the chocolate syrup.
 
When I was 14, I saw the original The Howling in the theater. Those werewolves were the scariest movie monsters I've ever seen. Hardly anything scares me, but that movie really did it. The later sequels weren't even close.
 
tyr_shadowblade said:
When I was 14, I saw the original The Howling in the theater. Those werewolves were the scariest movie monsters I've ever seen. Hardly anything scares me, but that movie really did it. The later sequels weren't even close.
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Good point ! I forgot about that movie - you and I must be near the same age because I saw it in my early teens too I recall.
That is a pretty scary film , it gave me the feeling of being alone and surrounded by those who were not only very different but wanted to add me to thier nightly meal :eek:

This movie is one of the best horror films of all time IMO

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073600/
 
Ok, when I was just a wee lad, I saw an episode of "Tales from the darkside" where there was this little beast that lives in the crawlspace of an apartment. A lady moves in and, long story short, this thing ends up killing her.

Now the worst part was that my room had a crawlspace growing up, still get chills thinking about it.

But anyway, in the end, the freakiest part was that the guy who owned the rented apartment was standing at the base of the staircase, calling for this freakin thing and hugging it and stuff.
My mother thought she was slick and held a blanket up over my face, but it was a quilt full of holes, I saw the whole thing.

I still have nightmares.
 
The first Jaws made a hell of an impression on me. It really did about two weeks later when I had to do a night traing insertion swim onto the New Jersey coast from about three miles out. This was in the general area where Jaws was set and there I was in that dark water way out there. The swells were pretty high and I could only see some lights on shore when I bobbed up on a swell. I was swimming with all my gear in a float and it was slow going. Whenever the top of a swell would break a bit and make noise I about had a heart attack and I kept hearing that damned "boom--boom--boom" from the movie in my head. That was a bad night.
 
I generally don't watch scary movies but when I was quite young I stayed up late to watch "The Adromeda Strain" I was too scared to move off the couch.

When a small space probe falls to earth in a remote village of New Mexico, all but two of the town's inhabitants--an infant and an old alcoholic--meet death as their blood turns to powder. After two reconnaissance pilots have also perished, a national state of emergency is declared. The two survivors and the recovered space probe are transported to a mammoth five-story underground laboratory, and a team of scientists--biologist Jeremy Stone (Arthur Hill), microbiologist Ruth Leavitt (Kate Reid), blood chemistry authority Mark Hall (James Olson), and pathologist Charles Dutton (David Wayne)--is swiftly brought to the lab to discover the nature of the deadly organism brought by the space probe. The team is subjected to grueling hours of precautionary decontamination measures--which are filmed with extraordinary art direction in stunning monochromatic sequences--and informed that the laboratory complex is equipped with an automatic self-destruct device that will be triggered should infection spread. Through exhaustive tests, the team learns that the minute organism, dubbed the ANDROMEDA STRAIN, is alien in nature, and the scientists must quickly find a cure before all of humanity is wiped out. Quietly thrilling, with superb pacing from director Robert Wise, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, based on the novel by Michael Crichton, is one of the most stylistically beautiful science fiction films ever made.
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The Omen
Mr. Frost
War of the Worlds (but only if you have your own THX...the sound of the ships....)
 
I'll also mention the original The Howling. I saw it in the theater when I was 18 and was blown away by that one full shape-shifting scene of the guy turning into a werewolf in front of the woman.

Carnival of Souls (1962) is a film that gave me the creeps when I saw it as a little kid on TV, and IMO it's still a pretty eerie watch-it-alone-late-at-night flick.

My favorite horror film is Suspiria (1977), directed by Dario Argento. It's a classic horror story that relies more on a nightmarish mood and superb cinematography than simple blood-n-guts. Although there is an extremely brutal murder early in the movie that, to this day, is still shockingly horrific. The story is about an American dance student who goes to Germany to attend an exclusive dance school that is run by witches.

As a teen, I loved the original Phantasm (1978). Time has softened the impact, but The Tall Man and his funeral home remain creepy.

A good Japanese horror film is Infection (2004), which has lots of eerie mood and good acting.

House by the Cemetery (1981) by Lucio Fulci also has a spooky atmosphere.

Other of my top horror list are: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Re-Animator (1985), and John Carpenter's The Thing.
Jim
 
"watership Down" when i was about 5 , its a cartoon and for the sake of me i cant get why someone would do something like that for kids. Seeing bunnies ripping eachother's ears off and blood spurting out its a scene i still remember clearly like if i saw it yesterday. It scared me to the point that i just froze didnt cry or anything and i ended seeing all to the end. At the exit of the movie theatre it was a mess of kids crying.
 
Lucio Fulci's Zombie scared me up until my late teens. Especially the scene with the underwater zombie. Zowie!! :eek:
 
Snoopy73 said:
"watership Down" when i was about 5 , its a cartoon and for the sake of me i cant get why someone would do something like that for kids. Seeing bunnies ripping eachother's ears off and blood spurting out its a scene i still remember clearly like if i saw it yesterday. It scared me to the point that i just froze didnt cry or anything and i ended seeing all to the end. At the exit of the movie theatre it was a mess of kids crying.
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Neither the book nor the film of Watership Down were intended as children's entertainment and any parent who took their small child to the film without checking it out first was an idiot. Its theatrical release in the USA was in November 1978, when my son was 5 years old and I checked it out before I decided not to take him. People assume that a cartoon film about bunnies just has to be cutsey and fun. Well guess what, folks? It ain't. THe same problem affected Jim Henson's great Dark Crystal which opened in 1982. My wife and I went to see it and there were all of these parents with kids expecting to see Kermit and Miss Piggy, for God's sake. Instead, they got a very dark fantasy and we heard kids crying and being taken out of the theater throughout the film.

BTW, here is the Amazon.com review of the film:
Much like Richard Adams's wonderful novel, this animated tale of wandering rabbits is not meant for small children. It is, however, rich storytelling, populated with very real individuals inhabiting a very real world. The animation is problematic, sometimes appearing out of proportion or just subpar; but it seems to stem from an attempt at realism, something distinguishing the film's characters from previous, cutesy, animated animals. A band of rabbits illegally leave their warren after a prophecy of doom from a runt named Fiver (Richard Briers). In search of a place safe from humans and predators, they face all kinds of dangers, including a warren that has made a sick bargain with humankind, and a warren that is basically a fascist state. Allegories aside, Down is engaging and satisfying, and pulls off the same amazing trick that the novel did--you'll forget that this is a story about rabbits. --Keith Simanton
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Children of the corn. I was six and snuck into the room while my babysitter watched it after she thought I went to sleep.

Cujo did too. I wasn't too scared from Jaws, but it was a great movie. My favorite scene is where they are comparing scars.
 
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