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Scariest Films Ever?

I haven't really seen that many scary movies, I hate being scared so I've been a wuss. though my man is helping me get over my silliness about horror movies. I watch and hide my eyes less than 3 times, I get a 'present' ;) but here's mine:

*The Shining
*Exorcist
*The Stand (mostly the real possiblity of a super flu scared the living shit out of me)
*Darkness Falls
*Thirteen Ghosts (just too much gore and things jumping out at me :( )

~Shelly~

*does exotic belly dance*
 
Some very good replies there already. Here's another (unlike any other I've ever seen):

The Wicker Man.
 
^ agreed. one of my favourite movies. not a horror film in the classic sense but the sense of foreboding in the film is almost tangible and the payoff is horrifying.

alasdair
 
TopRocka said:
Event Horizon
Blair Witch.. when it FIRST came out, holy shit.
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Haha Blair witch made me laugh... It reminded me so much of hiking with friends... Losing the map, ending up walking through rivers... brang back so much memories...

Oh and that cigarettes comment, classic... Makes me wish I still smoked...
 
The Shining (Kubrick version)
Pet Sematary
Event Horizon
The Ring (haven't seen Ringu yet)
Silence of the Lambs (psychological horror)

Those movies all scared the bejesus out of me,.
 
The Shining (kubric)
Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Deliverance (squeel like a pig! you got a purty mouth etc etc)
 
TCM
Event Horizon
In the Mouth of Madness (Saw it when i was like 10, freaked me the fuck out 'It's Mommy's Day...play with me')
I'm definately gonna say Blair Witch...IF you saw it within the first week of it being released...such an amazing job they did with all the media hype.
The Ring freaked me out too...
28 Days (I hate zombies, the only thing about typical zombie flicks that didn' scare me...was they were so fuckin slow...but damnit, the speedy lil zombies in 28 days freaked the shit outta me).
 
Originally posted by EtherealBandit
Ill most likely catch a load of flak for this but : blair witch project


nah, like toprocka said, blair witch was fucking amazing when it first came out - i saw it before all the hype too, and it was fantastic. pet sematery (spl?) scared the shit out of me -when i was a kid- too, and i still haven't been able to watch it since! the exorcist, strangely, didn't scare me at all - i tried too...watched it at 1am by myself, with all the lights off. good movie, just not too scary... :)
 
Originally posted by Rollingrrl

*Darkness Falls


Please, please, PLEASE say you're kidding. Because that's the scariest thing I've ever heard. :(

Ever.
 
^^agreed. Darkness Falls was TERRIBLE.

I must say Event Horizon is an amazing movie...The original TCM, The Shining, and the first horror movie I ever watched fully was the original Sleepaway Camp when I was a kid...and I couldn't sleep for a few nights...heh... Silence of the Lambs was a damn good one from my pre-teen years also...
 
A tribute to all of you for recognizing Event Horizon. I saw it in the theater with my friend, who had no idea what the movie was about, and she was mad at me for a week for taking her to see it. My summary of the movie to her before we saw it was "This spaceship mysteriously disappears only to re-appear, so some people go to explore the ship an weird stuff happens." That wasn't misleading, was it? :D

I'll also agree with Ringu and Blair Witch...though those were not of the shocking horror variety, but rather the build up of a disturbing feeling over the course of time. I was also not down with hearing a child crying as I was trying to sleep after I had seen Blair Witch. The website was truly awesome too...great hype-builder!
 
Why does everyone keep listing Stanley Kubrick's version of the Shining? Is it because you all saw it as kids or something?

Because Kubrick totally murdered that story and took any suspense and scariness out of it around the time he cast that grumpy old bastard Jack Nicholson... I can't think of a worse actor to play that part. The character in the book is a generally nice guy prone to violence when drunk... The supense in the story is how the nice guy gets manipulated into being a total cunt... Jack Nicolson is a total cunt from the start which kills the suspense...

I found the TV miniseries directed by Stephen King to be about ten times as scary...

I'm also going to add the miniseries Rose Red as one of the scariest horror films I have seen in a while... I was still riveted after four hours and that says something about a movie...

^ Not to mention the special effects didn't include any crappy CGI which will always ruin a horror movie for me...
 
lostpunk5545 said:
Why does everyone keep listing Stanley Kubrick's version of the Shining?

Because Kubrick totally murdered that story...
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The Kubrick version of The Shining is scary for the way it was filmed. There's very little dialog, an enormous sense of isolationism, and the soundtrack is just plain haunting.

Yes, I agree the story was butchered, but in a good way. Sometimes less is more. Horror movies are scarier when the fear is psychological instead of completely visual. For instance, the thought of a child being hunted down by his father with an axe is much more frightening than the child being chased with a croquet mallet.

I saw the made for TV "Shining", and it did follow the novel more closely.
Unfortunately, the feel of the book was not there. It was more like watching the ABC After School Special of The Shining.

Maybe your problem isn't with the Kubrick version so much as just not liking crabby old Jack Nicholson.
 
I was a bit shocked by the day of the living dead, the b&w version, I was about 13 so it did scare me! LOL! The scariest, I think is the mothman prophecies, the foreshadowing is so strong, so.....you know!
 
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