Scariest movies you've seen as an adult, and why they were so scary? [View All]

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Here's mine:

-- THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/

-- SHOCK WAVES (1977) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076704/

-- THE THING (1982) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

-- THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT(1999) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185937/


What do these movies have in common? (Other than the fact that they’re all horror movies).

--Isolation of the main character(s); nobody’s available to help.

--A nonhuman element (zombies, vampires, extraterrestrial life form, witch) threatens the character(s).

--All main characters die or lose their minds (SHOCK WAVES), or else it’s implied that they’re going to die (THE THING, LAST MAN ON EARTH).


To me, scariest of all was THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, because you never SAW what was threatening them.