Which movies REALLY scare you?

[trev]

I just watched The Descent last night - that is one good film! First horror movie Ive seen in ages that was actually scarey, and had some quite convincing characters.

(though it was blatently obvious the Northern Irish girl was gonna get it first ;))

So which movies scare you, and why? :jawdrop:

[Flake]

I found quite a few of the recent wave of Asian horror flicks quite creepy
Ring Trilogy
Eye 1 & 2
Audition

Not necessarily scary, but definitely creepy.
When I was a kid "Alien" and "Salems Lot" freaked me right out.

-Flake

[skullsquid]

Audition, the first Ring, Cube(made me feel like crap after seeing it).

[DavePalumbo]

not trying to be an asshole, but Fahrenheight 911 and Corporation scared me more than any horror movie I've seen since I was 12

[madplanet]

The last time I remembered actually being creeped out was when I saw Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer. Of course it was more psychologically scary because it was based on an actual killer, but it was disturbing. to top off the evening, the show was at a theater in downtown Detroit, it let out at 2:00am and we cut through an alley to get to the parking lot. That was bad enough, but when we got to the lot there was a drug deal going down right near my friends car and I'm talkin' white bags kind of drug deal. It was an interesting night.

[HugeHarHar]

Farenheit 911 didnt scare me at all. In fact it enraged me because how obvious the fucker twisted everything. I mean the fact that he was sued after making it by many of the people he interviewed just proves that he's full of shit.

Alien has to be the only movie to scare me.

[oracrest]

no movie has come close to scaring me more than Fire in the Sky.

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[Interceptor]

SIGNS scared me.. especially the footage of the birthday party. I think my heart stopped.

[skullsquid]

28 days is pretty gnarly, atmosphere-wise.

[Rascar Capac]

SIGNS scared me.. especially the footage of the birthday party. I think my heart stopped.

using that footage of the B-day party was genius - scares the shit out of me everytime i see it too...anything thats has that Home-movie quality does the job...just makes it more real -
For the same reason, another vote for Henry, Portrait of a serial killer... espeically with the home-invasion scene...and the original texas chainsaw...
I heard Irreversable was extremely disturbing and caused a big scene at Cannes...
oh and the VHS tape in the Ring was even more disturbing that the movie itself

[scumgrinder]

irreversible was pretty messed up. It has all the gore of other movies in one scene.

Some scenes from Jacob's Ladder.

[skullsquid]

Let's not forget the sick feeling Koroshiya Ichi left me, after watching it.

[jfwalls]

Ju-on and the Grudge were the only recent movies to actually creep me out. What was The Descent about?

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is an awesome movie!

[Aly Fell]

What was The Descent about?

The Descent is about a group of women who go caving, and are picked off by 'something' hidden in the caves... ooh er... It was made by the guy who made 'Dog Soldiers', Neil Marshall I think.

Link >>> THE DESCENT (http://www.thedescentthemovie.com/)

[Interceptor]

Dog Soldiers, I imported that film :D

[Flake]

Dog Soldiers is a cool little movie, well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

"Sausages!!"

[peterhurman]

the first alien film scared me when i was younger. the most disturbing was japanese films like the ring and the grudge.

i didnt think the descent was that bad but it gave my sister nightmares, and shes 22

[K-17]

Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call)
Ju-On & Ju-On:The grudge
Event Horizon
Ringu trilogy

Planning on seeing Kairo one of these days. Word is, that movie is friggin scary.

[asoir]

The Descent was predictable, I hated that movie!
I remember 6th Sense having a strange effect on me :/

[Scubasteve]

Salems Lot, Cujo, Jaws, The Shinning and The Grudge was pretty creepy as well.

Salems Lot is probably my all time favorite Horror flick. I recommend getting the extended version though. The condensed version cuts some really great scenes out.

[tullie]

Seven really scares me a little :S. Yeah, the Shinning is pretty ''scary'' at points, quite dark, but it wasn't horror scary.

[Aly Fell]

'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' really scared me. I used to have nightmares about Robert Helpmann as the Childcatcher... shiver....

[Carnifex]

alien.

and 6th sense at times.

[broken lizard]

the black cauldron. and yes, it's a disney film with a u certificate. it's just fundamentally scary. i can sit through all other films smiling. it's just this one that absolutely scares the craz out of me.

[Sammy]

I haven't seen any of these (i soon will), but was told to by a good friend that hunts down disturbing films that they're top-notch: -----

heard this one can be hard to stomach.
http://boubou69.free.fr/i/Irreversible.jpg

this one's supposed to be a classic (i've seen parts of the unrated) but extremely fucked up:
http://www.rcsnet.com/www_site/pix/products/caligulaunratededitiondvdlarge1.jpg

gorefest i think, but really good portrayal of slaughter:
http://boubou69.free.fr/h/Hamburger_Hill_dvd.jpg

supposed to have quite a jolly rape/mutilation scene:
http://www.angelfire.com/movies/waffle/lasthouseleftposter2.jpg

[Interceptor]

Monica Belluci's outlandish nipples in that picture frighten me.

[vigostar]

Wow, Audition scared people.. I thought it was gross, extremely disturbing, and twisted plot... for those who liked Audition should watch Visitor Q. Jacobs Ladder scared the willabees out of me...

Sammy- Ive seen Caligula.. My friends ex-girlfriend bought it for him for his birthday... Hamburger hill is one of my favorite war films ever.. Irreversible i heard was crazy... If you can watch a 7 minute hardcore anal rape scene then i hear its pretty good after that....

Evil disco- Ichi was awesome.. the best part of that flick I think was the end when the short dude in the jumpsuit comes out of that suit and you realize he's one diesel muther effer!! i thought that was hilarious... and the person face being sliced off and sliding down the wall was pretty cool too!!!

Theres this movie I saw called SESSION 9.. That movie freaked me out a bit... Probably the most since the Blair Witch before the Big production houses got a hold of it...

[Flake]

I've seen Caligula too, it's pretty bizarre. It's a 2.5 hour long historical epic with random violence, porn and silly dancing.

Heard bad things about Irreversible, decided not to watch it.

[trev]

Ive seen part of Irreversible, and it is incredibly disturbing, My flatmates were watching it last year and I walked in during the rape scene (which is horrific to begin with, then ends incredibly violently) 'WTF are you guys watching!?' lol

Dont think I could endure watching that movie again.

On a brighter note, I just watched Old Boy. It was quite engrossing to begin with, then turned into a bit of a mind bender - but in a good way if you buy into the twist at the end. Anyone else seen it?

Oh and 'IT' scared me alot when I was younger - the clown, not the daft spider like thing at the end ;) way ruin a perfectly good monster.

[Flake]

I absolutely loved "Old Boy", thought it was easily one of the best films I've seen this year.

[Icelandic Norm]

The Shining with Jack Nicholson.

The music and the lighting was great in setting the mood and Jack played a wonderful psycho opposite to Shelly Duvall. That movie left me scared for days.

[Chingwa]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Poltergeist yet. That movie seriously fucked me up.... Until the secondd one came out and that fucked me up worse than the first. That preacher dude... man I still see him behind my closed eyelids sometimes.

Never saw the third one, but I heard it sucked.

[WhizBang]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Poltergeist yet. That movie seriously fucked me up.... Until the secondd one came out and that fucked me up worse than the first. That preacher dude... man I still see him behind my closed eyelids sometimes.

Never saw the third one, but I heard it sucked.


Damn straight. That shrill voice in Poletergeist damn near made me pee myself it's so spooky. And as far as any of the sequels... fugettabout 'em.

[Skank]

the only movie that really creeped me out was The Exorcist...thats it.

i have an innate dislike of "scary movies" because they all end POORLY. i have yet to see one with a good ending..ruins any good parts they mightve had along the way. 6th sense had a cool ending..but it wasnt really scary.

[tullie]

I saw a bit of the texas chainsaw massacre, that actually scared me XD, which doesn't happen often.

[Sammy]

This seems like a good list of disturbing and sick films, but I haven't seen any.... have any of you seen any on this list??

http://horrorbrain.ign.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=909&Itemid=0&limit=1&limitstart=0

"Salo: 120 Days of Sodom" sounds interesting, and I've heard that "August Underground’s Mordum" seems like it's entirely real like footage out of someone's camera.

[S.C. Watson]

Movies that scared me...

Alien. I was 11 when I saw it.
It's Alive. Right about the same age. Oh. My. God. That movie totally fucked me up for a long time.
Jacob's Ladder. I wasn't right for at least three days after seeing that.
Signs freaked me a bit, but not badly. Dug the religious undertones to it.

[vigostar]

sammy- I havent seen any of those films.. and from what Ive read I probably wont ever see any othe then irreversible.. If I can get passed the first 8 minutes... I have however seen four out of the honorable mentions list.. audition, Visitor Q, Hellraiser and deadalive. All four were bad but, visitor Q in my opinion takes the cake by far.. and i mean far... like jupiter far... I didnt think deadalive was so bad.... just really bad actually... Although I like twisted films theres definetely a borderline that I dont like to cross... I like watching films that are twisted on a mental level or that has a plot like Oldboy which leaves you saying "HOLY SHIT, thats fucked up"! all while chuckling at whats fucked up... most of those movies seem like their straight gore films... I can even even watch those operation shows on tv nontheless a hardcore gore film. Im curious but, not that curious. Especially the last one where they say that they had to stop the film numerous times... I cant even fathum whats going on there... anyways.. Another two twisted flix to watch would be the original Crash (where a bunch of people get off on getting into car crashes) and Lost highway in its own right is pretty wacked... anyways... I think this turned into a sick thread instead of a scarey thread... BTW- nice find on the article sammy'
Oh, wait... I saw Ichi the Killer.. I actually own that movie!

[tullie]

Jacob's Ladder. I wasn't right for at least three days after seeing that.

Yeah Jacob's Ladder is pretty twisted. Although I went to Jacobs Ladder in Summerset in the summer, and it was really pretty there ^^

[Sammy]

sammy- I havent seen any of those films.. and from what Ive read I probably wont ever see any othe then irreversible.. If I can get passed the first 8 minutes... I have however seen four out of the honorable mentions list.. audition, Visitor Q, Hellraiser and deadalive. All four were bad but, visitor Q in my opinion takes the cake by far.. and i mean far... like jupiter far... I didnt think deadalive was so bad.... just really bad actually... Although I like twisted films theres definetely a borderline that I dont like to cross... I like watching films that are twisted on a mental level or that has a plot like Oldboy which leaves you saying "HOLY SHIT, thats fucked up"! all while chuckling at whats fucked up... most of those movies seem like their straight gore films... I can even even watch those operation shows on tv nontheless a hardcore gore film. Im curious but, not that curious. Especially the last one where they say that they had to stop the film numerous times... I cant even fathum whats going on there... anyways.. Another two twisted flix to watch would be the original Crash (where a bunch of people get off on getting into car crashes) and Lost highway in its own right is pretty wacked... anyways... I think this turned into a sick thread instead of a scarey thread... BTW- nice find on the article sammy'
Oh, wait... I saw Ichi the Killer.. I actually own that movie!

Yea, most of the films on that list seem like pure exploitation-film ... so it may be a gamble if they're scary or not ---

I've looked into a few of them, and "Men behind the Sun" seems like it might be the most disturbing to see, since it's actual accounts of torture durring China's history.
Not only that, but "Men Behind the Sun" has an actual autopsy scene performed on a true cadavar --- a family donated their dead son to the director in interests of it being for the "revolution" -
Everywhere I've read explains that the boy is cut up, and his intestines are fondled.
Also, apparently the director was blacklisted for a scene in the film where a live cat is thrown into a pit of starving rats --- that scene's supposed to be real too.
I'm hearing that "men behind the sun" is mostly disturbing in how appathetic they portray the scientists "studying" the victoms.... I'm just gonna have to see it to find out (there's the scene where a man is put into a vaccum chamber and his intestines are sucked out of his rear)

but "mordum" looks crazy .... I've found a few stills of the film and damn.... That movie looks like it would be hard to stomach.... not so much the gore, but the events of torture and humiliation that go beyond any other film.

[CaptainInsano]

"It" scared the crap out of me, too. "Polturegiest" was another.

A game that *really* scares me is Resident Evil 0, and RE 1 (remake). I don't think I haven't even beaten them yet cause I'm too chicken to play it. RE4 was fun.

[armando]

Surprised no one has mentioned "Toys", starring Robin Williams. That was some scary shit, how about L.L.Cool J.

[vigostar]

Sammy- Good luck with the movies man... Post your comments on the film here when your done watching it... your a brave, brave man... Ive seen pretty gross tuff.. Like the early "Faces of Death series". that had those people bash the monkeys heads and eat their brains, or the crazy person that takes his interviewer and slics her throat open, or the Asian dude that gets his head blown away and you see his brains fly out of the side.... But, all that was hard to stomach. I do however see what your saying and why you would be interested in watching Man Behind the Sun. I never knew the Chinese Government was so brutal until I saw this documentary on on Tibet. the movie was called.. Cry of thye Snow Lion. If your interested in that sort of thing you should give this movie a view. Its not gross just informational. How the Chinese government basically just invaded Tibet and took total control of their land and how they destroyed all their artifacts and ancient documents and peoples accounts of toture.... anyways.... let me know how the movie goes..

[D.Labruyere]

http://www.fi-donc.nl/artwork/ajk/ajk0123alfredwinniehenkbrug.jpg

somehow I always thought this was terribly scary :^^;: never dared to watch to it :P

[Elwell]

somehow I always thought this was terribly scary :^^;: never dared to watch to it :P
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!:jawdrop:

[capt underoo]

-Alien
-Jacob's Ladder
-The Exorcist
-Ravenous
-Begotten (this is just completely disturbing, same guy who directed Shadow of the Vampire)
-Midget Transexual Hookers 15 (just kidding)

[DSillustration]

irreversible was pretty messed up.
THAT is an understatement!
"irreversible" is SERIOUSLY messed up.
i think that one caused permanent damage.

[koroshiya001]

Anything Miike touches is horror gold (Esp. Audition and exempting Full Metal Yakuza). I also recall being creeped out by the original Dawn of the Dead a couple years ago.

Wolf Creek on the other hand...its a far reach to say it was pure shit...but I definately left dissapointed and very unfrightened.

[WhizBang]

When I think about it, the original Willy Wonka was some pretty scary shit. Gene Wilder was cuckoo for cocoa puffs in that picture. And oompa loompas? Imagine getting attacked by those freaks. Ooooo...too scary!

[guggemmaneuver]

http://www.fi-donc.nl/artwork/ajk/ajk0123alfredwinniehenkbrug.jpg

somehow I always thought this was terribly scary :^^;: never dared to watch to it :P

Wow that duck with the braids is SOOOO hot. (once you go duck, you never go ... errr... cluck!) I HAVE noticed that the horror movies tend to have the TOKEN-HOT-BABES action... this one, though animated, tends to align with my theorem of Horror movie babeness!

seriously, i totally concur with the shining. This movie, for the time that it came out and the camera movement, too psychologically intense. In a horror movie like this, it's that amazing, palpable tension that's so scary... because the brief GORE / dead people scenes are really just meant to get a rise out of you i think. the old horror movies like that are really interesting to me. i've been wanting to check out some of those japanese horror films.

I love the concept that a place can be SOOO HAUNTED that people go UNSANE because of it....

just like my good old georgia hometown!

:) joel

[everyday grace]

When I saw Signs, I freaked out. I like thought I was seeing aliens everywhere. It scared me out of my mind. Like no one else I know thought it was scary though... jeez I'm such a wuss. I can't watch scary movies. :rolleyes:

[endregan]

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[HunterKiller_]

^lol.
The only scary movie i've seen (excluding random unscary movies seen as a child) is probably the Exorcist, even though i didn't think it was scary when i first watched it. I had a pretty disturbing nightmare the night after which i thought was connected to the movie...

[CaptainSwank]

I've never looked at clowns the same way since Stephen King's "IT." Bozo and Ronald McDonald still disturb me. But, I've never seen a horror flick that really scared me. Saw II is way up there on the freak out factor though.

[Art_Addict]

http://www.fi-donc.nl/artwork/ajk/ajk0123alfredwinniehenkbrug.jpg

somehow I always thought this was terribly scary :^^;: never dared to watch to it :P

lol! Alfred Judockus Kwak !

Anyway, about Irreversible. It actually is a fabulous movie if you look past the violence. Actually I went to see it in theater and when the 'corridor/tunnel' scene started i had to look down myself. Could not possibly watch it... but still it's a great movie ! I guess Belluci is a strong women for agreeing on doing a scene like that !

[masque]

OK, time to show my age. set the wayback machine for WAY back, Sherman...

**qualifier -- movies that scared me when i first saw 'em.** some are just interesting now.

The Haunting ('63) -- based on The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. one of the first movies to really give me the creeps, with superb noir cinematography and OK to excellent acting. No gore, no monsters (other than those within), but i still see faces in plaster textures, wallpaper patterns, etc. Probably seems tame today, but at the time, intense. not to be confused with the POS remake of late last century. this film made me a horror fan the way Harryhausen flics made me a fantasy addict.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('56) -- my parents became pod people!
Rosemary's Baby ('68 )
A Clockwork Orange ('71) -- ultraviolence had not yet become part of the cultural norm.
progressively more recent: The Exorcist, Jaws, Carrie (guess you had to be there, kind cheesy nowadays), Alien, Jacob's Ladder, Silence of the Lambs (Hopkins' Lecter still gives goosebumps), Charlize Theron in The Devil's Advocate (all others not so hot, heh, heh), The Ring

[ElvisMcVegas]

Dead/Alive was just shitty gore effects, I bought it and me and bluemech and some other dudes came over and watched it.
And Sammy-- I'm pretty sure that any person who's fucked up enough to be able to make a movie like August Underground’s Mordum, Is certainly secretly into that shit. Anyways, Dead/Alive isnt scary or disturbing at all, its like watching someone take a joke too far. I mean, the blood is the same color as the blood from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Plus his mom in the end looks so fake, you can see the dents and past marks in the Paper Mache'.

[nordmark]

I have seen some horror movies, but one that really made me shit my pants was the american version of The Grudge. I haven't seen the japanese one but i don't know if I have the balls to see it. Truly terrifying movie in my opinion.

[Mort]

nothing scares me anymore. thats so boring . the new japaneese flicks with disturbed chicks in the bed and shower ..dude. i be one happy guy i i found a chick under my sheet .
and the new movies is more based on splatter effects and the characters looks to good.
they cant scare anymore. the new women are toughf and mean films are just crap.
the really scary shit is the low budget movies from way back then , when it was more important to scare then to look good.
splatter and gore doesnt do it for me. after a while you just get numb.
the movie with the scary woman in the woods and the campers that dies one by one was a deasent attempt. but then again i whould drop kick the bitch, so logical the witch wasnt scary.
the path to scary is to make it look real. documentry or flickering homemade filming is one way to go. make it look like its for real basicly.

devils, monsters and other creatures is more fun to watch then scary.
and the movies that makes the high pitch sound when your supposed to be scared isnt working either.

they need a new genre of scary shit .

the faces of death and the torture flicks are just not scary either. it doesnt hit that nerve, it just makes you either numb or bit sick in the stomace.

and anything sex related like rape or whatnot isnt doing it either. thats just like sex.

still looking tho.

[Kian]

"Threads", a UK movie from 1984 (i think) It was a darker, grittier, more realistic (by a long way) rendition of the US's "The Day After". They are both basically faux documentaries of the effects of nuclear war. As is usually the case, possible realities scare me far greater than any piece of fiction can.

But the closest ficticious story that scared me when I first watched it was "The Fly". Just the way Jeff Goldblum transforms freaked the hell out of me. Esp, pulling off his fingernails :S

[blacky]

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[Advocate of Fate]

too many to list, but the shining especially because i stayed in that very hotel. its in mohunk, NY.

[corky13]

I wonder why nobody mentioned the BlairWitchProject ? Ok not THAT scary but very innovative back when they filmed it :) BWP2 sucks tho`-,-

[Mort]

I wonder why nobody mentioned the BlairWitchProject ? Ok not THAT scary but very innovative back when they filmed it :) BWP2 sucks tho`-,-

thats the name of the witch movie i wrote about. forgot the damn name.

[PugnaciousTurtle]

I dont know if any remembers this one, but Event Horizon was actually pretty freaky...Had every single member of my family sleeping in my moms bed that night...Yeah. Forget that last part, hm?

[Serrat]

Oh man. "Tale of Two Sisters (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365376/)" has atmosphere and dread coming out of its ears!

Most movies don't really register as scary to me because they bypass the exposition stage and go right into a resolute threat to combat. I rented it to watch on my own, and even though nothing was really on the screen except slow panning shots of a household, I was calling my voicemail to hear my boyfriend's voice for comfort. @_o

Five words for you: Black. Thing. Crawling. On. Floor. GAAAAH!