Scariest Horror Movies You've Ever Seen/Favorite Horror Films?

[biolumen]

Movies don't really scare me as an adult. Sure, some are creepy, but only as a child was I actually terrified of some of the movies I watched. The one that really sticks in my memory is "Quatermass and the Pit". Something about that movie just totally freaked me out.

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[Joe Von Zombie]

Idiocracy is probably the most terrifying movie I've ever seen. Horror films aren't scary, entertaining yes, but not scary. Global current events are more terrifying than anything Hollywood can cook up.

 

[TEDDY]

What do you think are the best horror films? Or what are your favorites?

My top 5 would be:

1. The Thing-There's like no part of this movie that doesn't freak me out!

2. Nightmare on Elm Street-That scene where Tina gets killed by Freddy still sends chills done my spine!

3. The Descent-I was so surprised how good this was: the first scare to the last was excellent. The claustophoic atmosphere still makes me uncomfortable.

4. The Sixth Sense-The most disturbing images mixed with a brilliant story=classic horror!

5. 1408-Also surprised by good this was. Not outright horrifying, but enough scares and twists to keep you on the edge of your seat.t:

Let's see... my top 5? In no particular order:


5. and 4. The Omen(original) and Poltergeist: Both movies were scary as hell. Both are now infamous for their "curses." (Don't belive the Poltergeist curse too much. However, if you watched the Curse featurette on the Omen dvd, you might there's more than coincidence going on with that.)

3. Cube: Back before Saw, Cube was the original logic-puzzle murder movie. Not only better than all the Saw movies, but does it without all the torture-gore. Scary on it's own, even scarier if you don't know math.

2. The Lost Boys: Excellent movie! Say what you will about Scheumaker ruining the Batman franchise, Lost Boys was awesome! While perhaps my favorite modern interpretation of monster mythos.

1. Frailty: Man this movie was good. Bill Pullman steps behind the camera for this horror-thriller about a man rehashing the story of his childhood, growing up with his little brother and raised by their widowed father. One day, the father has a vision that he and his sons had been chosen by God to slay demons here on earth... only thing is, these demons are disguide as humans, ya see. Awesome movie with a twist that is just shocking!



Honorable Mentions:

Gremlins and Monster House (Two kids movies that are both scary and age appropriate.)

Audition (Scary as hell! One of my fave foreign movies which would have made my list if it weren't for my love of the Lost Boys.)

American Werewolf in London and The Howling (Being more a fan of werewolves than vampires, these modern takes on the mythos are great and have awesome effects.)

And of course, none of us would even dress up for Halloween if it weren't for the classic Universal Monster Movies.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

The best horror movie I have seen is "Suspiria".
The scariest was probably "Hellraiser" or "The Exorcist".
Hellraiser due to it's imagery and The Exorcist due to the fact I watched a pirate copy when I was about 11 (I think it was banned over here at that time).

 

[Doctor Jones]

Halloween.

Nuff' said.

 

[Johnny Drama]

Halloween.

Nuff' said.

Truth...

 

[tecnowraith]

As a Kid Poltergeist scared me with the toy clown and man (boy)-eating tree scene. Also Serpent and the Rainbow scared me as well.

 

[rnewbz]

A Nightmare on Elm Street Street
The Strangers
Saw
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

 

[Balthus Dire]

I have yet to see a horror movie that scared me.

The only thing that has ever really freaked me out or stuck with me, is this scene from The Shining -

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I first saw it when I was in elementary school. People just staring blankly is one of the only things that freaks me out. (Though it's used pretty poorly in a lot of movies now-a-days)

I don't know if I'm losing my mind, but I've seen that movie countless times and I don't recall this scene whatsoever.

 

[DDS]

The scariest for me would have to be The Exorcist. By far.

 

[Mutagen]

The Ring and Jeepers Creepers are the movies that have scared me the most, while I enjoy watching Freddy Versus Jason the most.

 

[E-Man]

Man I'm such a huge horror fan, but nothing scares me. As a kid I already saw so much that I've never really been scared of much outside of Candyman and Hellraiser when I was little. I thought Candyman was going to be some happy movie about a guy that gives out candy. My daddy was laughing, because he was the one that asked me and my brother to go see it. lol Hellraiser scared me after I saw it, because I actually thought that people form hell looked like that. But since then I've only been mildly scared by two movies. Suspiria got me a little at the beginning with the theme song. I had the speakers up and everything. I started wondering if some guy was in my house singing. That theme song is something else. Check it out:


The other movie that got me a little was [REC]. I wasn't scared, but it was so intense that I was so into it. I haven't been into a horror film like that in awhile.

Anyways here are my top 5 favorite horror movies. I gotta throw my "list guy" mannerisms in here a bit.

1. The Original Dawn of the Dead
2. The Original Night of the Living Dead
3. Phantasm
4. Phantasm 2
5. Nightmare on Elm Street

 

[Carmine Falcone]

The Shining
For it's creepy imagery and music and especially for the fact that Jack is out to kill his own son. So grim.

Deliverance
Utterly disturbing. Suffocatingly intense.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Not really what you call an all-out horror movie, but disturbing as ****ing hell. The Man From Another Place scares the **** out of me, and Bob ofcourse. And damn, that ****ing David Bowie sequence is the weirdest **** I've ever seen.
The final episode of Twin Peaks season 2 deserves mention aswell. [BLACKOUT]I'm talking about the claustrophobic Black Lodge scene ofcourse.[/BLACKOUT]

Don't Look Now
I will never forget that dwarf. Never.

 

[The Dark Defender]

1. Frailty: Man this movie was good. Bill Pullman steps behind the camera for this horror-thriller about a man rehashing the story of his childhood, growing up with his little brother and raised by their widowed father. One day, the father has a vision that he and his sons had been chosen by God to slay demons here on earth... only thing is, these demons are disguide as humans, ya see. Awesome movie with a twist that is just shocking!

I think you mean Bill Paxton, but yeah, Frailty is a great movie. My favorite spiritual themed horror film.

My favorite horror film of all time is The Descent.
I love all of the the SAW films, III being my favorite, more for the themes and the characters than anything else.

The Ring really effected me when I first seen it, and I love the first Jeepers Creepers film (the second one too, but it was more of an action film, both are ridiculously underrated).

My favorite long standing classic is the original TCM, that probably inspired/influenced more of my favorite films than any movie ever made.

 

[Pittman4Two]

Halloween.

Suspense, music, cinematography. Simply the scariest movie I have ever seen.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Halloween (1978) - freakin scary. Cinema Masterpeice
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th part 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, etc.
Hellraiser
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
All of George A. Romero's zombie films.
The Exorcist
Jeepers Creepers
Puppet Master
IT

and more.

 

[Sawyer]

FACT: The Excorcist is the scariest and most amazing film I have ever seen. I spent the first 17 years of my life scared to death of it and avoiding it like the plague. I was finally forced to watch it in my film class in high school and I was pleasantly intrigued by it. Still scared crapless, but intrigued. The performances were mindblowing (Jason Miller being one of my favorites), the scares, while a tad bit much, almost to the point of hilarity ("You're mother sucks ****s in hell, Karras"... come on, who would'nt laugh at that?), were still enough to stay with you. The atmosphere was positively chilling and the dialog was fantastic. And the ending... oh, that ending! Great film.

As for favorites... The Excorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist and Halloween all tie.

 

[Hobgoblin]

The Exorcist: Subliminal scares are my number one thing. The scene where the Mother comes home and goes through the house still scares me half to death.

Darn right. It still gives me the creeps. I want a good, suspenseful, thoughtful horror movie. None of this "gorgeous teenagers in Southern California have their way cool lives interrupted by some creepy old guy" BS. *pukes*

 

[Sawyer]

Darn right. It still gives me the creeps. I want a good, suspenseful, thoughtful horror movie. None of this "gorgeous teenagers in Southern California have their way cool lives interrupted by some creepy old guy" BS. *pukes*

Lol. The Excorcist is just the opposite. The semi-attractive teenager is the one terrorizing the old man.

 

[John Locke]

Pet Sematary

 

[LastSunrise1981]

It's been a while since I've been sincerely scared by a horror film.

Horror films today just don't have that same essence of what is truly scary and how to make the audience afraid. I've always felt that what you don't see or hear is scarier than what you do see and hear. Films today just flat out show the monster, show the gore, and leave nothing to the imagination anymore.

For example, take the original Amityville Horror. That film scared me so bad I slept with my lamp and television on for a week(true story). Why? Because it's concept of using various sounds, not showing anything, and atmosphere made it very uneasy to watch. Of course watching it in the dark before going to sleep didn't help my case either.

For me though the scariest horror film I've ever seen is as follows(In no order).

1. The Exorcist
2. Halloween
3. The Amityville Horror
4. The Omen
5. Rosemary's Baby
6. When A Stranger Calls(The original film and its introduction is by far the most terrifying fifteen minutes in cinema history).
7. Child's Play(As a little kid and having so many toys, especially some the size of Chucky you can see why I was afraid.)
8. Texas Chainsaw Massacre(Original)
9. Hellraiser(horrifying concept, cool visuals, and the Cenobites are awesome horror characters.)
10. Seven
11. Audition
12. Nightmare on Elm Street
13. Poltergeist
14. Cujo
15. Jaws
16. Pet Semetary

 

[SPIDER-MAN-ROX]

The NOES films
The FT13th films
The Evil Dead films
The Hellraiser films
The TCM films
The Halloween films
The ROTLD films
The Romero Zombie films
The Child's Play films
The Reanimater films
The Fright Night films
The Chud films
The Toxic Avenger films
The Leprachaun films
Nightbreed
The Blade films
The Gremlins films
The Critters films

& Many Many More.

After seeing TCM 2 for the first time as a child I sort of had second thoughts about eating chili without questioning or thinking about what they really put in it. LOL.

 

[Balthus Dire]

Maybe I'm on my own here but The Exorcist has never really scared me. Except maybe the crab walk scene; that was creepy.

 

[Hobgoblin]

The NOES films
The FT13th films
The Evil Dead films
The Hellraiser films
The TCM films
The Halloween films
The ROTLD films
The Romero Zombie films
The Child's Play films
The Reanimater films
The Fright Night films
The Chud films
The Toxic Avenger films
The Leprachaun films
Nightbreed
The Blade films
The Gremlins films
The Critters films

& Many Many More.

After seeing TCM 2 for the first time as a child I sort of had second thoughts about eating chili without questioning or thinking about what they really put in it. LOL.

The first movie scared the hell out of me as a kid. Jeez, that must have been nearly 20 years ago and I still remember how scared I was.I rented it years later and it still gave me the creeps.

 

[SuperFerret]

Darn right. It still gives me the creeps. I want a good, suspenseful, thoughtful horror movie. None of this "gorgeous teenagers in Southern California have their way cool lives interrupted by some creepy old guy" BS. *pukes*

Agreed. That scenario doesn't produce feelings of horror, it produces a desire to root for the creepy old guy.