What movie scared you the most?

[Bossy Monkey]

I go by the ones where I dread the very idea of seeing them again. Those would be "The Shining" and "Aliens," with the former probably taking the taco.

And you?

[raccoon]

1. "The Blair Witch Project," no question about it.

Also "Shock Waves" really creeped me out.

[Tom Kitten]

63. I second the Blair Witch Project.

When I saw it with some friends I didn't feel much of a reaction except "ugh"...But it must have affected me subliminally, because the next nights I had nightmares about waking up in the middle of the night and having these "things" coming at me from the closet, bony fingers clutching at me through an open window, that kind of stuff.

Going back awhile, the original "The Haunting" was extremely creepy (book was scarier though, and Polanski's "Repulsion", about a woman (Catherine Deneuvre) who spends a weekend alone in an apartment going insane, was also rather upsetting and disturbing.

[Systematic Chaos]

65. Ditto - I nearly had a full-blown panic attack during that movie...

... and I was with two good friends for support, fer chrissakes!

I knew the damn thing was a fabrication, but I couldn't stop putting myself in the place of those guys/gals and "feeling" the fear and panic they were supposed to be feeling.

Some days it doesn't pay to be a Pisces. :rofl:

[Sidney J Mussburger]

74. On first viewing

it was scary, but for me it has no replay scare value.

[BarenakedLady]

2. It

But I may watch it again in it's entirety one day.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. that book was spooky

but the movie left a little to be desired (as most do)...i thought the portrayal of Pennywise was pretty good though...

"We all float..."

sP

[BarenakedLady]

6. Yes, the book was definitely scarier

As it usually is when left to the imagination.

But Tim Curry did such a terrifying Pennywise. :scared:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. maybe i'll scare the crap out of my young children

with a reading tonight!!! I think maybe the sink-drain part...that'll keep the girls from lingering in the bathroom...or maybe the storm-drain/paper boat scene...keep them from sticking their arms in places they don't belong!

sP

[1awake]

3. The first exorcist movie.. still freaks me out... n/t

[Mist]

4. "Poltergeist" and "The Exorcist." And I "watched" great chunks of them

through slitted fingers.

[nytemare]

68. I just watched Poltergeist on DVD the other night.

That really was a good, well-produced film. It still stands up to the test of time.

Go to the light, Carol Ann!

[distantearlywarning]

8. Everybody made fun of it

But honestly the Blair Witch Project really scared me. I'll probably lose whatever credibility I might have had here for saying that. Oh well...

Second on my list is The Exorcist.

[BarenakedLady]

12. It scared me too.

Especially the ending. :scared:

[redqueen]

26. It scared me too.

Still does... I'll watch it if it's on.

[MrCoffee]

29. The last two minutes freaked me all the way out

[RebelOne]

9. "Psycho" was by far the scariest movie ever.

Especially the shower scene. I was terrified every time I stepped into the shower for a long time.

[bigwillq]

10. Candyman

:scared:

[Sidney J Mussburger]

76. Tony Todd still gives me the willys

I saw him on some other show. He'll always be Candyman to me.

[Sidney J Mussburger]

77. OH shit, just looked him up

He was on Chuck, that's where I saw him. And He's going to be on 24 this season. FUck Yeah

[IndianaJones]

11. Exorcist. no other movie has ever come close. nt

[Inchworm]

14. Same

Now I watch it and wonder why :D

:hi:

[Rambis]

17. agree

anything involving the devil I am uncomfortable with even though I think organized religion is bollocks!

[redqueen]

27. It still scares me half to death.

But then I can hardly manage to watch any half-decent scary movie by myself anyway. :P

[Symarip]

21. The Exorcist is my number one

With The Entity as a close second.

[Auggie]

52. Same here. And I was 16. I kept seeing that face in the window all night.

It was one of the first movies I drove myself to see.

[charlie and algernon]

13. Puppet Master 3 freaked me out as a kid

especially the scene where the girl looks under the bed and a puppet charges at her and kills her. I spent the next month jumping into bed from a foot away, lol.

[DS1]

15. The Exorcist can be playing in another room and it'll freak me out

The noises coming from that movie, oy.

The Omen is a good creeper, too. The original, of course.


Monster movies typically don't do much for me, but I did enjoy "The Mist" enough to keep bringing it up.

[Shell Beau]

25. The ending to The Mist was a little disturbing!

What luck!

[IndianaJones]

28. they copped out on that ending. nt.

[Shell Beau]

41. I hear it was different than the book!

[IndianaJones]

42. totally. the book had a bleak ending, but there was....hope....and Hartford. nt.

[driver8]

59. I work at Warner Bros. as a sound editor and we were doing some

work on the Director's cut of The Exorcist.

I was working on this movie on a Saturday and I was the only one in the building -- I was scared shitless!!

[BOSSHOG]

16. The Original Friday the 13th

especially the last 20 seconds.

[Sidney J Mussburger]

75. Yes..

I was way too young when I first saw it. Saw that shit on beta, gave me nightmares for years. I blame my brother, he was a year and a half older than me and loved horror films growing up. I was born in 81 and loved the comedy's of the era. My brother loved the Horror movies of that era. My dad would take us to the video store every weekend and I'd have to watch the crap horror my brother would pick out every week. At the time, it scared the shit out of me. Looking back, most of those movies are so bad that it's funny. 80's comedys were funny but I gotta give it up to 80's horror flicks. When I was a pup they scared me to death but as I grew I found the comedy that is in most of 80's horror films.

[mentalsolstice]

18. The Birds nt

[Gormy Cuss]

70. Same here.

I still get shivers if I walk by an overhead wire with birds lined up on it.

[Stump]

19. Rob Zombie's Halloween...

It was pretty damn scary, although I was very high when I watched it...

[deutsey]

20. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," believe it or not

The movie's not a "horror" movie, per se, but after seeing the ending of it, I had trouble sleeping.

[tismyself]

83. I'll agree with you on this one -

wish I had never watched the damn thing!

[Shell Beau]

22. Definitely The Shining!!!

Also, now on Discovery they have a Haunting series. A Haunting in Connecticut was freaky! Supposedly true!

[Bossy Monkey]

31. We saw the second pilot, A Haunting in Georgia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A_Haunting_episodes
"Mr Gordy!"

My hair is still standing on end... Oh wait, it always does that.:)

[Shell Beau]

34. I saw that one too!! It was freaky as well! Not quite as

scary as the Connecticut one, but freaky nonetheless. I love them because there is that "it may be true" aspect of it.

The Connecticut one is very similar to the Exorcist. :scared:

[Bossy Monkey]

49. Haunting in Georgia is on right now. Gotta go hide under the bed! n/t

[NewJeffCT]

23. Fahrenheit 9/11

wow, that was a horror story. imagine if it were true.

[redqueen]

24. The Exorcist.

Hands down.

I think seeing it when I was little may have made it seem scarier. But it never has seemed any less scary. I can't look at that face and not get creeped out.

[driver8]

61. Have you seen the Director's Cut when Linda Blair comes down

the stairs like a crab...backwards?

Good Lord, that scared the crap out of me!!

[LSK]

30. Amityville Horror

Saw it when I was 8 or 9 and couldn't sleep for a few nights after that. Still can barely watch it to this day.

[Deep13]

32. When I was small: War of the Worlds.

I thought it was a documentary.

[kwassa]

33. the original film version of "War of the Worlds" gave me nightmares as a kid.

and it is still a much better movie than the Speilberg remake.

[TKolmsi]

35. Cloverfield

[HEyHEY]

36. Beverly Hills Chihuaha

[Felix Mala]

37. Night of the Living Dead

I was scared just to sit down in the auditorium.

[AlCzervik]

38. The Exorcist, i've seen about 30 times now and it still scares the green puke out of me.

[kentauros]

39. Alien

"Aliens" was an "action" movie and didn't have the same effect as the original. I had read a little lead-up in Heavy Metal before it came out, and they only said to be prepared for a "mind-blowing experience" :o

[Bossy Monkey]

51. At the time, it scared me to death, but the parody in "Spaceballs"

complete with John Hurt did such a good job of making the scariest scene in "Alien" seem silly in retrospect that I no longer dread seeing it again. Also SNL's Alienses: "We've all seen you in your underwear, Ripley!":)

[kentauros]

57. I haven't seen all the parodies...

I vaguely remember the Spaceballs one, or am I confusing that one with the Galaxina one ;)

To me it wasn't so much the chest-bursting scene as it was the sense of unknown and dread as the crew were picked off slowly and intelligently by something they really didn't understand, save for Ash.

And choosing H.R. Giger as the monster (and alien ship) designer was a brilliant decision. It's been nothing but copycats ever since.

[elifino]

40. The Thing

I do not remember the year, hey at 70 years old, I have an excuse.

[YankeyMCC]

43. The only movie to ever give me nightmares was

a Godzilla movie.

I can't tell you which one it was, he fought one of those flying alien monsters I think. But I was very young and my parents took us to the drive in to see, and I'm not sure I have this correct either, but I think it was "Gus" about a football playing Mule http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074599/combined

But the screen behind us was showing a Godzilla movie and I watched that instead without the sound of course.

[BlueIris]

44. I won't be watching the film "May" again anytime soon.

A singularly disturbing work.

[Kool Kitty]

79. That film freaked me out. One viewing was definitely enough.

But the Film that scared me the most was the original "Carnival of Souls".

[livetohike]

45. Tiebreaker from when I was young "Village of the Damned" and

"House on Haunted Hill" :scared:

I read "The Exorcist" before seeing the movie, so I was prepared.

[lizziegrace]

46. Poltergeist n/t

[BlueIris]

84. I (stupidly) watched "Poltergeist" again last night. To the end (I'd forgotten the end).

Then I had some really bad nightmares.

[KayLaw]

47. Evil Dead II.

Utterly terrifying! Exorcist, too. I don't watch those things anymore.

[Beer Snob-50]

48. the original holloween with jamie lee curtis

i went out to the car with my corkscrew ready to impale any mike's out there.

[driver8]

62. I would have to go with this movie, as well.

I remember the first time I saw it I was in 7th grade and it was on HBO. I was the only one at home and I made my dog sit right next to me!

I love this movie!!

[motely36]

50. Gigli

Sorry, someone had to say it!

:P

[nomorenomore08]

53. "Jacob's Ladder," probably, but it depends on what you mean by "scary."

Freaky and frightening vs. disturbing and horrifying. "Jacob" takes the gold for the former, while the latter would have to be something like "Last House on the Left" or "Cannibal Holocaust." Or even the unrated cut of "Hostel 2," which honestly surprised me with how far it went, especially the ending.

[elocs]

54. The original 13 Ghosts with the glasses that allowed you to see the ghosts.

I was maybe 7 and we lived in a 100 year old house that had long white curtains that blew in the breeze. I was too afraid to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom with predictable results.

[DeepBlueC]

55. The Shining

for sure.

[stewartcolbert08]

56. 30 Days of Night

I know there are no such thing as vampires and all but it scared the shit out of me because if there WERE in fact vampires then then end is probably EXACTLY how they would cover it up!! Awesome movie by the way LOL

[enigmatic]

58. "Audition"

No contest.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

60. Prince of Darkness.

:scared:

[eauclaireliberal]

64. Enemy of the State

...as for horror movies, none. To me most of those films have predictable, cheesy screenplays.

Then again, there was Coma...but for that to scare you, one has to understand the reality involved. It may have been from the 70's, but the implications last far longer than today.

[kittykatkoffeekup]

66. Enjoyable flesh and dark comedy

Ravenous.

[pokerfan]

67. Showgirls

has become my standard answer for all movie polls. But I would say that the torture scene in Marathon Man was the scariest.


"Is it safe?"

[faithfulcitizen]

69. I don't why exactly, but Amityville Horror always scared me to death.

I think it's because I heard it was true. :shrug:

[onager]

80. Relax! Amityville was a total hoax.

Here's one good site about it, there are many more if you Google "amityville+hoax:"

http://chatanuga.org/Amityville.html

The house is not abandoned. It is still standing (contrary to the movie Amityville 3-D), and a family is living there now. Nobody has experienced anything out of the ordinary, although according to Anson's story, anybody connected with the making of the books or movies were cursed...

One person who's written to me about my webpages was from the Amityville area. He said that he's been to the real house in Amityville. Unlike the movie, the house is on a small lot. Had anything like what the Lutzes described in the book actually occurred, neighbors would have noticed.

There was a "horror story" about that house in Amityville, all right. But it was the same horror story many Americans are currently living. The Lutz family just bought a house they couldn't afford.

[ACTION BASTARD]

71. John Carpenter's "The Thing" is the greatest remake

EVER! It was gory, creepy, spectacular SFX and the paranoia kept me on my seat.

[Mudoria]

72. The Changeling with George C Scott

Great ghost story

[QMPMom]

73. The original Alien and The Wizard Of Oz....

My sis and I went to see Alien when it first came out many moons ago. It was showing in an old converted theatre where the balcony had been split into 2 smaller theatres and we were in one of the smaller balcony theatres where you were practically sitting on top of the screen. I was dispatched for popcorn in the middle of the movie.....

I had the popcorn boxes in my hands and was just reaching the top of the stairs (and staring straight into the screen) when the damn Alien popped out of that guy's stomach....

Well, both boxes of popcorn went flying, I screamed and flopped down into the nearest seat by some guy I had never seen before and refused to move for the rest of the movie, scared shitless.

I haven't been able to watch that movie since then nor any of the sequels.

Of course, then there is my continuing fear of The Wizard Of Oz. Damn flying monkeys. I have never let my kids watch it. They are 22 and 21 now and I refuse to have it playing on any TV in our house if I am home. It still scares the ever-loving crap out of me.

[VenusRising]

78. The Exorcist.

I didn't live with my mother growing up. I lived with my grandparents after my parents divorced and my mother would come and visit every few months for a month at a time. She would share my room with me when she was visiting. One night, when I was in the 6th or 7th grade, I woke up at like 3 in the morning and my mother wasn't in bed yet. So I went downstairs to see what was going on, and she was watching The Exorcist. I heard Linda Blair growl one good time, and I slept with the light on and the radio on into college. I finally got to the point where I couldn't stand sleeping with the light on, but I still have to have some kind of white noise at least. The funniest thing about that night was that I was trembling so badly the bed was shaking and I was sure that I was going to be possessed at any moment.

I don't have any problems watching that movie anymore. I finally watched it when I turned 21 all the way through, and I actually like it.

[VOX]

81. "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" makes me feel physically ill every time I look at it.

It's grim and dark and there's no hope, no hope at all.

[tismyself]

82. 1959 House on Haunted Hill n/t