What's Your Scariest Movie?

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"Frailty" is the scariest, creepiest and the "most likely to really happen" horror movie I've ever seen.

I truly believe there are people and places just like in that movie which only are occasionally exposed by discovery and investigation.

That's what made it so memorable to me.

I believe every thing that happened in that flick has happened in real life, much more often than we know.


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I also thought "Fallen" had a pretty chilling concept, but hopefully not as likely a scenario.

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And both George A. Romero's often copied "Night of the Living Dead" and Don Siegel's original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" are still very scary to watch and contemplate, but (as far as I know) only imaginary.

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"The Minus Man" is another fairly recent creepy flick.

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There are jump out and scare you movies and then there are make you think and scare you movies.

I find the thought provoking ones more lastingly scary.

Having seen a very large number of the many scary movies ever made, these were and are among the very scariest for me.

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They all got my attention and made me watch.

They made me uneasy.

They gave me chills.

They made me jump.

They made my skin crawl.

They made me a little ill.

They made me look over my shoulder.

They made me think.

And they still make me remember.

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As a kid the original Mummy movie messed me up. You know when you are falling asleep you can hear your heartbeat in your ear sort of faintly? To me they were the Mummy walking around outside in leaves as he came to get me. I could not convince myself otherwise. Therefore, I had to sleep on my back or stomach.

Kid rationale: Okay, the Mummy is coming to get me if I sleep on my side so I can keep him away by sleeping on my back!!! Brilliant.

Now I watch that movie and laugh at how cheesy it is. But back then, wow.

I am not a scary movie person but will check out the ones you list, esp. Frailty.
 
I am in total agreement about the original Mummy. I saw that when I was six and I knew he was coming for me. I still enjoy the old "monster movies"......Dracula, Wolfman, and Frankenstein. That includes the dozens turned out by the Hammer Studio in England. They might be a little corny, but I like them more than the Freddy/Jason stuff. What I refer to as the Dead Teenager Genre.

The Phantasm series of movies and Hellraiser all really creep me out.
 
Haven't seen it in a long time.
But when I was a kid, "The Boogeyman" scared the hell out of me.
 
I actually walked out of Event Horizon because I thought it was stupid.

That being said, I'm not really into the whole scary movie thing. Although, Signs made me think twice about hearing noise in my attic.
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The first 15 minutes of Scream, the middle 25 minutes of The Changling and the concept behind A Nightmare on Elm Street.
 
i found "The Thing" gory but not scary. I could rattle off the cliched, but true ones:

Exorcist
The Shining
Evil Dead
Psycho

I don't care what anyone says, The Exorcist is the scariest movie ever. The themes, the effects (spider walk), the music, the tone, etc. That movie still holds up today. Everyone remembers seeing it the first time and being affected by it.
 
for me, there has only been one movie scene that totally and completely made me lose my mind.

I dont watch "scarry" movies that often, I just cant get into them, and I can usually tell whats about to happen so the "scare" factor is low.

The movie wasnt that great, but the first scene in which a 16 year old girl dies from pure panic, and the look on her face made me just jump through my skin.


that movie?

The Ring, the american version. The big purple/green obviously dead eyes with the lolly-head falling over 16 year old girl in the closet scene.

I dont know why but that scene really got to me. Like I said, the rest of the movie was so/so but I have never reacted that strongly to a movie before or since.
 
great choice KC-97. I think I like the overall movie more than you, and I love horror movies, but that scene is BRRRRRUTAL. I have seen the movie probably 7 times and every time that is coming up, it is so hard to not look away. yeeeeesh. Also the end where she starts coming out of the TV and then does the flash movement i remember the first time just muttering oh **** oh no oh **** oh no.

Can't believe no one has mentioned Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet. Also agree on the first 15 minutes of Scream as a great great horror scene.
 
i know its sacrilige, but Texas Chainsaw Masacre doesn't do much for me. Other than the very intense scene where Leatherface is pulling Kirk into the slaughter den and then then SLAMS the door and all goes quiet, the movie kind left me bored.
 
When I was little, the movie Phantasm scared the hell out of me. The Tall Man and the flying silver ball was almost too much for me. Now when I watch it, unfortunately, I notice the bad acting, editing, continuity issues, etc. That said, it still holds up to me as a great 70s horror flick. Horror movies from the 70s seemed menacing to me due to the fact that several of them had to be trimmed to avoid the X rating and marketing campaigns touted how many countries had banned the movie (Phantasm, The House on the Left (early Craven), Zombi II (Lucio Fulci), Suspiria (Argento), and of course the notorious Faces of Death- I consider this a horror film since much of it is fake).
 
Just thought of few others that still get to me even when i think about them:

Omen - the original - the nanny hanging herself

Evil Dead - That scene where Cheryl transforms into a demon, while guessing the playing cards, and all the contortions, the voice, levitating, wheww..

Halloween - When Mike Myers in the background, rises from the bed and turns his head toward the camera. So simple, but just brilliantly executed.
 
Final Destination didn't so much as scare me while watching. It was everything else that I did after in my life that scared the hell out of me because of that damn movie.
 
Those 28 days/weeks movies were pretty ******* scary concept wise...I could imagine a virus like that decimating a population...
 
Slaughter of the Innocents. An ark like Noah drove, but made out of human remains and other creepy "loner/religious fanatic" type stuff. Total B Movie - straight to HBO type thing, but it was plain creepy to 13 year old me.
 
Halloween, the original, is still the scariest. I was young, and was always told as a kid (to keep me in line) about the "boogeyman". When the little kid asks JLK if Mike Myers was the boogeyman and she said yes, I was toast thereafter.

Saw it at age 8-10, and to this day, still makes the hair on my arms stand up... especially the music as Myers stalks. Creepy because it had all the stalker stuff (could be real) with the "boogeyman"/ can't kill him crap. Love to hate it.
 
In the Blair Witch Project, the scene at then end when you come down the stairs and the dude is standing in the corner is pretty creepy.
 
Blair Witch and The Shining are the only two that really messed me up.
I'm not into gore and slasher movies so that knocks out quite a few.

The Hong Kong version of "The Eye" (at least I think it was Hong Kong though it may have been Japanese) scared the bejeezus out of me. It also had a M. Nightesque twist at the end so it fulfulled two requirements for me.
 
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