I saw the Shining when I was 8. I disturbed the SHIT out of me. I don't do horror flicks.

weused2luvhim said:

The first halloween followed by The Blair Witch Project. Don't know why, but Blair Witch scared the hell out of me and my wife when I first saw it. Rented it a few years ago and thought it was just dumb as hell.

It got me, too. I watched it at an afternoon showing, then went and played golf. I remember standing on the teebox when it hit me what the handprints on the wall of that shack were.

Needless to say, I did not drive the ball well on that hole!

The exorcist scarred me for life!

the decent was pretty freaky too , also the grudge & the ring.

sonic said:

The exorcist scarred me for life!

the decent was pretty freaky too , also the grudge & the ring.

I thought the Grudge was AWFUL. The Ring was also stupid to me too. I wonder why it didn't scare me like it did most folks, being that I don't do horror.

Yeah, the movie itself was just so-so....but that friggin girl made the hair on my neck stand up. & that boy that screamed like a cat was freaky as hell.

sonic said:

Yeah, the movie itself was just so-so....but that friggin girl made the hair on my neck stand up. & that boy that screamed like a cat was freaky as hell.

Maybe it was because everyone told me about it before I saw it that made it not scary to me...

horror movies never really scare me....

but I saw a few seconds of some euro beastiality flick once...that was rough...

KatSkrizzle said:

sonic said:

The exorcist scarred me for life!

the decent was pretty freaky too , also the grudge & the ring.

I thought the Grudge was AWFUL. The Ring was also stupid to me too. I wonder why it didn't scare me like it did most folks, being that I don't do horror.

I thought the same about both. I also didn't like The Descent. Basically, toward the end, all the women survivors turn into professional fighters and start to wreck shit for a while...and that just didn't sit well with me.

And The Ring is ridiculously overrated to me. I wasn't the least bit scared by it.

I liked Jacob's Ladder like someone else mentioned. Also liked Event Horizon, though I know a lot of people hated it.

Susperia(Dario Argento) is a good horror/murder film, in fact alot of Argentos films are interesting and in the case of Susperia, its chilling largely because of the setting/lighting etc. A beautifully shot flick that everyone must see.

When i was younger like 7-8 years old, i shit you not my father let me rent anything i wanted. While kids of my age were pointing out films like ghostbusters etc, my index finger was never anywhere but the upper shelves where the 18's were. I love my dad for letting me watch anything i wanted. I watched Nightmare on Elm St when i was just 7 or so and that put the serious shits up me, i was scared to fuck. Today people would not really find it scary as Freddy is kind of depicted as a comic book character, but its always been one of my favourite horrors along with Exorcist. There are some really great scenes in the Exorcist, and William Friedkin put the cast through hell and back to get what he wanted, and he succeeded.

I have never been a massive fan of Blair witch until i watched it randomly again on a late showing, and the scene at the end with the guy standing staring into the corner was terrifying to me, i actually struggled to sleep after that, and that was recently. No horror film has done that to me for years. So i accept Blair Witch doesn't stand up to the likes of The Shining etc but, it certainly had me touching cloth.

My answer is SO GAY

What ever happened to Baby Jane, seriously, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in their late 50s covered in pancake makeup is enough to scare anyone senseless (Fortunately it was redeemed by some of the most convincing acting by both actresses ever seen).

Not the scariest, but def the "WTF" worthiest!

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i think it was called 13 ghosts

I loved that Japanese horror period. What is it they say? Make one thing wrong? It worked for me when she crawled from the telly.

The Shining, Carnival of Souls, The Ring... allso, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Insomnia. too many to list

I don't get scared watching any kind of horror films. My parents let me watch all kinds of horror films when I was young, and I don't remember ever being scared of a film.

Horror films are my favourite kind of film. Everytime.

The Shining, The Changeling,Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Mist, and Halloween, the first one.

The 2006 Remake of the hills, showing all those people with the deformed bodies and the radiation soaked 50s village they live in and also the part where that guy wakes up in the fridge full of human body parts like intestines and legs and shit.

The Wax Museum (I think from the mid 2000s) is also scary, but ios let down by some dreadful ass acting. I'm excited by any type of gore, even Bones with all those decomposed and dissected corpses they work with. Where do they fine that shit - honestly

The one that left me disturbed for days on end was Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It is not fantastically gory, though there are a few explicit moments. Mostly, it's chillingly believable due to intense, understated performances that really do feel like nihilism unchained. Freaked me the hell out.

I'm not sure it would still have the same impact today - back in 1990 or whenever, it was rare to see horror portrayed so realistically. At one point the killers steal a video camera and you see their home-recorded snuff film... seeing it was like a punch in the stomach.

bobzilla77 said:

The one that left me disturbed for days on end was Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It is not fantastically gory, though there are a few explicit moments. Mostly, it's chillingly believable due to intense, understated performances that really do feel like nihilism unchained. Freaked me the hell out.

I'm not sure it would still have the same impact today - back in 1990 or whenever, it was rare to see horror portrayed so realistically. At one point the killers steal a video camera and you see their home-recorded snuff film... seeing it was like a punch in the stomach.

I saw that in the cinema.

My mom took us to see The Shining, I must have been about 8 years old.

I have not watched this movie since then, even though I love Nicholson and Kubrick, I remember almost every second of it and still resent my mother for letting us sit through the whole thing.

We had to sleep on her floor that night, the visions of chopped up children & rotting nude women were lingering in my brain.

KatSkrizzle said:

I saw the Shining when I was 8. I disturbed the SHIT out of me. I don't do horror flicks.

I just wrote pretty much the same thing. No 8 year old should be watching that movie!!

[Edited 7/20/10 16:33pm]

NDRU said:

My mom took us to see The Shining, I must have been about 8 years old.

I have not watched this movie since then, even though I love Nicholson and Kubrick, I remember almost every second of it and still resent my mother for letting us sit through the whole thing.

We had to sleep on her floor that night, the visions of chopped up children & rotting nude women were lingering in my brain.

OMG!!!! I don't even let my 10 year old watch Harry Potter!!!

ZombieKitten said:

NDRU said:

My mom took us to see The Shining, I must have been about 8 years old.

I have not watched this movie since then, even though I love Nicholson and Kubrick, I remember almost every second of it and still resent my mother for letting us sit through the whole thing.

We had to sleep on her floor that night, the visions of chopped up children & rotting nude women were lingering in my brain.

OMG!!!! I don't even let my 10 year old watch Harry Potter!!!

it was some pretty irresponsible parenting. And she had read the book, she knew what to expect!

NDRU said:

ZombieKitten said:

OMG!!!! I don't even let my 10 year old watch Harry Potter!!!

it was some pretty irresponsible parenting. And she had read the book, she knew what to expect!

Trust me, the book is even more threatening to the nerve system than the movie

I thought I was a ballsy girl before reading this mess, MAN was I wrong

When I was a little kid, THIS bother the hell out of me:

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Rosemary's Baby

Last nite i watched "The eye 2"....Freaked me out a bit....i needed a shot of shnapps to get to sleep after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJGAJW-vUgg

JellyBean said:

The Shining, The Changeling,Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Mist, and Halloween, the first one.

Great list. Have to add Salem's Lot, The Exorcist, & Jaws

As a child "Texas Chainsaw" and "Halloween" (I was 6 ). They're probably the only films (or at least among the very few) that retain a certain scare-factor for me today.

I also remember being scared during the original release of "Evil Dead" (I was 9).

I saw all of these in the theater at very early age, maybe that has something to do with why I find it so difficult to be scared by movies today.

The closest to a truly scary movie today I would probably say "Inside".

This movie was released twice 78 & 79, my mother I saw it in 78 along with 6 other (unknown) guys at River Oaks theaters, scared the shit out of us all. On the strong recommendation of Roger Edbert and the late Gene Siskel; "Halloween" was given a second chance and rereleased again in '79. One of the few films I went to the theater to see twice.