What is the scariest "Terror" movie you've ever seen?

[shadowrider]

My favorite is "Communion" with Christopher Walken. My daughter, who loves horror, said she'd never watch it again. It just creeped her out. There is no blood and no guts.

Just terror.

What's yours?

[Bertha Venation]

1. I was terrified all the way through "The Silence of the Lambs"

God, what a movie.

[shadowrider]

3. That was a good one for sure nt

[hedgehog]

2. Arachnophobia

[fizzgig]

4. session 9 is damn creepy

no real blood, no guts, just creepiness. of course, it might have had something to do with us being higher than a couple hoot owls.

[pa28]

7. Another vote for Session 9.

Great psychological horror. Now I'm skeeered just thinking about it.

[RebelOne]

5. Psycho without a doubt. n/t

[shanti]

6. the pinhead/hellraiser movies

yikes, scared the shite out of me! i don't watch horror movies anymore

[loli phabay]

8. the exorcist and the descent.

[mrmpa]

9. Night Of The Hunter......not a "terror" movie, but......

it terrified me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. did you see it when it first came out?

I did, and it left a permanent goosbump on my young mind.

[mrmpa]

31. No, I wasn't quite in utero in 1955..........

when it first came out. Saw it at a retro film festival in the 1980's, when I was in my early 30's. Checked imdb.com and found that there was a remake of it in 1991, I didn't know that.

[Zorro]

10. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

That one will leave an impression on you.

[Jamastiene]

11. Texas Chainsaw Massacre II for me.

I was working in the school radio station doing what we called "The 3 To 5 Show." We got to go in and practice running the radio station during some afternoons. Most students did them once or twice, but then lost interest. I kept doing them several afternoons a week until graduation. Usually, my days were Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Being that time of year, it was starting to get dark at 5 or so and on Fridays I would stay until 6 and have a special show where I played obscure songs from demos and promos I had been collecting.

So, when I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, the one where the girl is in the radio station alone in the dark and Leatherface is after her....it really got to me.

Later in life, I met the late actor who played Leatherface in several of the movies. His name was Robbie (RIP) and he was a Blondie fan like me. We emailed back and forth about living in rural areas and how real those Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies feel. I sure miss him. So, I went from being terrified of Leatherface to emailing and becoming friends with one of the actors who played Leatherface. It was nice. I sure wish he hadn't died suddenly and left this world. He was truly a down to Earth nice guy.

[Jamastiene]

12. Texas chainsaw Massacre 2...see post above.

I explained in my post above my reasons. That movie scared the bejebus out of me.

[ohiosmith]

13. Original "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers"!

I didn't sleep for weeks!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

16. YUP!

Hands down for "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Sweet Jesus - had the same sleep problems, even being in the dark trying to go to sleep.

[William769]

14. Phantasm!

I had nightmares for a long time after watching that movie. Of course I was a teenager at the time.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. THIS ONE!

[Art_from_Ark]

18. I don't remember the name, but

One Japanese horror movie I saw that was pretty creepy was about a single mom and her daughter who were about the only ones left in a spooky apartment building that was haunted by the ghost of a little girl.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. This movie in the above video is

Called "Cursed". The one you refer to was called DARK WATER.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308379/

[Art_from_Ark]

42. Yes, that's the one

Dark Water/ Honogurai mizu no soko kara　仄暗い水の底から　　

[HopeHoops]

17. The original "Last House on the Left".

[LeftinOH]

20. "The Mist". I cannot, and will not watch it again. Still haven't recovered. n/t

[angel823]

40. me too

"The Mist" did me in - those freaken big spiders were too much.

Angel in Texas

[pipi_k]

21. The original

"When a Stranger Calls".



"We've traced the call...it's coming from inside the house..."

aughhhh!!! I get chills just thinking about it!

[Xyzse]

22. I Haven't been scared by a movie yet.

However, the only horror movie I went to where I found girls crying and hiding their face in their boyfriends laps was "Silent Hill" the first one.

It was based on an old game that was pretty scary due to its atmospherics. It was still in the first Playstation. I think it was the scariest game out there at the time.

The usage of the mists and the way the camera moved at the time was revolutionary for that type of game.

It has Sean Bean and Radha Mitchell. I'm not sure about the 2nd one since it looks like they are just capitalizing on the 3D rather than actually making it good.

[Downtown Hound]

23. The second movie is based on the third game

The little girl from the first movie/game has grown up, and her past catches up with her.

Didn't care much for the first Silent Hill movie myself, but the game remains one of the best horror games ever, and it often appears number one on many lists for the scariest games of all time.

[Xyzse]

30. Seems like

The 3rd game was far better than the 2nd one.
I haven't paid attention to the rest though.

[Downtown Hound]

33. Not really. The second game was awesome.

It just isn't related to the first game at all except that it takes place in Silent Hill. It's about a man looking for his dead wife, whom he recently got a letter from and told him that she would be waiting for him in Silent Hill. the third game is a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill, with the same characters reprising their roles 17 years later. That's why the movie went with that storyline.

[Xyzse]

36. I finished the 2nd game

Didn't think the ending was that great.
Also didn't scare me as much as the 2nd and 3rd one.

3rd one with the bloody bunnies was awesome.

[Downtown Hound]

37. I liked the third game a lot

But it's major downfall for me was the fact that you had to re-explore many areas that's you'd already explored to death in SH2. It almost felt like the game was rushed so they wouldn't have to spend time actually creating new areas for us to venture into. It got tiring spending all that time in the fucking hospital in BOTH games.

Still, I did like the third game a lot.

[geardaddy]

24. When I was younger...

Psycho and the remake of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.

[Downtown Hound]

25. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

"Come and play with us Danny. Forever...and ever...and ever."

Caught that movie one night when I was up late on HBO when I was twelve or thirteen. When the scene with the two girls in the hallway was over, I looked down to realize I had been clutching my blanket so hard it was starting to get torn. LOL.

Other good ones are Suspiria, The Woman in Black, Insidious, Carnival of Souls, The Haunting (1964), The Changeling, In the Mouth of Madness, and John Carpenter's The Thing.

[mrmpa]

32. Did you ever read The Shining?.......

If so you might have been as disappointed as me. In the book, the character played by Scatman Carothers is actually the hero and survives. In the movie he was killed off.

[Downtown Hound]

34. Yes, I've read it three times

It's a great book, but it's very different from Kubrick's movie. Kubrick took the essential elements of King's story and made his own movie about them. Although King has stated many times that while he begrudgingly likes Kubrick's movie, it wasn't really his book. And on that note he is absolutely correct. That's why he went back and made the mini-series in 1997.

The thing is, Kubrick's movie is WAY better than the mini-series ever was. The mini-series was boring and poorly directed. Kubrick's movie was downright terrifying.

King's book is a masterpiece. It deals with issues of alcoholism and a father's responsibility to his children, both of which are issues close to King's heart, as he was a hard core alcoholic when he wrote The Shining (now recovered and sober for more than twenty years) and who's father abandoned him and his family when he was only a child. Kubrick's movie is a masterpiece of claustrophobic terror and psychological disintegration, but it fails to address many of the themes and ideas in King's novel.

Ultimately they are very different from one another and go in completely different directions. Both of them stand very well on their own.

[mrmpa]

35. I've reread it several times also........

usually during the heat of summer days, when the descriptions of the cold in Colorado would chill me. I think that only 2 of King's books have been made well, they are Misery and Stand By Me. Both had the same director, Rob Reiner.

[phantom power]

26. The Black Swan

Not intended to be a 'horror' movie, but it has some of the creepiest scenes I've ever seen.

[ceile]

27. Insidious

I almost slept with the lights on after watching it...

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. Alien.

Creeped me out so much I could not bear watching the sequels.

[benld74]

38. 6th grade back in 1968 'The Vulture'

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3523255552/tt0062463

A mad scientist turns himself into a half-man, half-bird monster to avenge the death of his ancestor.

[Taverner]

39. Cabin Fever NT

[angel823]

41. Absentia

Saw this late one night on cable when I couldn't sleep - other than "The Mist" mentioned up thread, this was pretty scary.

Angel in Texas

[TheMightyFavog]

43. Jesus Camp.

Seriously. Scarier than any "horror" film on the market.

[kentauros]

44. The Haunting (1963)

[burrowowl]

45. Elmer Gantry

starring Burt Lancaster!