Scariest films you've seen?

[Hotwire]

Nightmare on Elm Street in the 80s.

nothing terrified me after that. It was the ULTIMATE thing a bad guy who could kill you in your sleep. I was about 12 or 13.

I was 8!! Still can't believe my parents let me, my friend, and my cousin watch it!

Event Horizon disturbed me,
The Ring creeped me WAY out...
The first SAW really messed with my head.

but nothing has been scary.

All three very freaky movies!!

 

[Hotwire]

Yea that scene was brutal. I totally didn't expect to see something like that. I thought Pan's Labyrinth was supposed to be a dark children's film.

Proved you wrong real fast, didn't it?

 

[Secret Fawful]

I don't understand what you people's definition of scary is. To me you all list synonyms of the word and say it's not the same.

 

[Warhammer]

The greatest part about the chestburster scene in Alien is that the reactions from Ripley and company are genuine. Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver, and everyone else's reactions are legitimate. Ridley Scott, pure genius.

 

[Schlosser85]

The greatest part about the chestburster scene in Alien is that the reactions from Ripley and company are genuine. Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver, and everyone else's reactions are legitimate. Ridley Scott, pure genius.

Every time I watch that scene, I try to imagine how shocking it must have been to audiences in 1979 who had no idea what they were in for.

Didn't see that coming, did ya?

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

The Exorcist
Mulholland Dr.
The Shining
Lost Highway
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Not a movie, but the final episode of Twin Peaks...wow.

Did you ever catch the movie?

 

[The Morningstar]

The greatest part about the chestburster scene in Alien is that the reactions from Ripley and company are genuine. Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver, and everyone else's reactions are legitimate. Ridley Scott, pure genius.

haha yea i watched the making of Alien on youtube a few days ago. The way Scott got all the cast antsy and strung out was great. He'd basically ignore them, try to wind them up. The start rolling so they were all genuinely uptight and tense. He basically wound them all up, then let them ad lib and "survive" on their own.

 

[CashforStash]

Alien to me is a watch once a year kind of film, but that Vent scene is really uncomfortable to watch because it's really scary.

I recently watched The Human Centipede 2 with a buddy for ****s n giggles, but damn that movie was hard to watch near the ending.

I've seen a lot of gore and I don't mind it cause usually it looks really fake, but damn this movie was just....gross. I would never watch it again because it was THAT gross, but it was fun to watch with my buddy and be that terrified aha.

TBH, it's a good film when your with a friend or a group, hell even a party, but by your self it'd just be weird. Like one of those "why am I watching this" kind of films.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Alien to me is a watch once a year kind of film, but that Vent scene is really uncomfortable to watch because it's really scary.

That was the scene that really got me scared the first time i saw it, when i was a kid, but it is kind of ruined for me now, because of the terrible moment when the alien appears, it takes me completely out of the movie, because it is so obviously a guy in an outfit.
It's the only bad bit of effects in the film, but it is a doozy, and I am dumbfounded as to why they thought it was alright to keep in.

 

[The Morningstar]

Back in 79 that was probably considered great. To us now it looks like a guy in a costume, because we're used to that stuff. But back then? I bet it was dynamite.

Scariest scene in that film for me though is Brett's death, where he's looking for Jones the cat. Man the tension in that scene is just brilliant. There is a part where we explicitly see the alien, it's hiding in plain view. But because of the bio-mechanical design it's easily missed.

 

[Warhammer]

Watching it now, that vent scene is pretty funny. The alien's jazz hands gets me everytime.

 

[chamber-music]

When I see the chestbusting scene from Alien now I just think of Spaceballs parody of the scene with John Hurt saying not again t:

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[The Morningstar]

Watching it now, that vent scene is pretty funny. The alien's jazz hands gets me everytime.

haha they are! Ah man now i'll never get that out of my head.

When I see the chestbusting scene from Alien now I just think of Spaceballs parody of the scene with John Hurt saying not again t:

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Space Balls is the ****ing dogs bollocks!

 

[Bim]

That scene where the nurse keeps going back and forth between the rooms and at one point the crazy comes out with that huge hedge clipper weapon. That scene still gets me to this day because I always forget exactly when it happens.

lol my sister hates that scene. Also the one where the old lady crawls on the ceiling creeps her out.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KmJZs5I4r8


Personally, the only movie that has truly creeped me out ever was one i saw when i was younger called The Entity. Havent seen it since and dont ever plan to again. Why? Well it's supposedly based partially on a true story about a woman who is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon

 

[Mister H.]

Did you ever catch the movie?

Fire Walk With Me? Yeah, I did. It was solid, I like everything David Lynch is involved with, but it didn't make me ache for more the way Twin Peaks did/does.

 

[Spider-Gnome]

Every time I watch that scene, I try to imagine how shocking it must have been to audiences in 1979 who had no idea what they were in for.

That was me, opening weekend, 14 years old and my first R-rated film! You could almost hear the collective jaw drop of the audience as it just hung in the air after the chestburster left the room.

I was on edge the entire film!

 

[The Morningstar]

Here is the opening to The Hitcher. Rutgar Hauer is amazing in this movie. Almost has a supernatural element to him. One of the best screen villains ever.

 

[roach]

Saw the Grudge when I lived in Japan...didnt want to go home because I lived in a house that resembled the house in the movie

 

[Gianakin_]

Ringu 1 and 2, Jo-un The Grudge 1, The Shining, Excorsist DC.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Pans Labyrinth when the guy has his Nose smashed inwards with the bottom bit of a Glass bottle and he goes into shock before being shot in the head! Actually think it traumatized me because I wasn't expecting it!

That was pretty rough but if there was one scene in that movie that disturbed me, it was the Pale Man sequence. I love, looooove Pan's Labyrinth but I kinda wish that sequence had been stretched out into the entire movie. He was one scary dude.

 

[Destructus86]

The Phantom Menace

 

[Secret Fawful]

Here is the opening to The Hitcher. Rutgar Hauer is amazing in this movie. Almost has a supernatural element to him. One of the best screen villains ever.

That was amazing. It scared the hell out of me, and nothing violent or shocking happened at all.

 

[The Morningstar]

lol great isn't it? Hauer is the man. Have you seen the whole film or is that your first experience with The Hitcher?

 

[Sentinel X]

That was pretty rough but if there was one scene in that movie that disturbed me, it was the Pale Man sequence. I love, looooove Pan's Labyrinth but I kinda wish that sequence had been stretched out into the entire movie. He was one scary dude.

Pale man would make a horrifying horror film antagonist. I get the shivers when I see the enormous pile of children shoes left behind from little children he ate. I remember being genuinely disturbed just by looking at him, that was a great job done by the make up team.

 

[Matt Mortem]

The last movie to scare me was The Woman in Black. It definitely was an unsettling ghost story. I'm hardly ever scared by horror, being so desensitized to it, but The Woman in Black got me. The modern slew of torture porn horror that keeps getting churned out I don't bother with. It's neither scary nor worth watching.