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3bogs said:

I was scared too man, but it's crack funny when you hear about other folks bricking their pants about the same thing

1. The Omen
2. The Omen II
3. A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 ( that was the first one in the series I saw as a wee nipper )
4. Evil Dead
5. Michael Jackson's Thriller ( also seen as a kid )

EVIL DEAD THAT MOVIE SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!
FRIDAY THE 13TH (1ST ONE)
HALLOWEEN (1ST ONE)
JEEPERS CREEPERS (1ST ONE)
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1ST ONE)

1. The Swarm (Septugenarians Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson and Fred MacMuray in a 3-way love triangle whilst THE KILLER BEES attack! Michael Caine yells a lot.)
2. The Lonely Lady (Pia Zadora's bracing epic about a screenwriter who "fucks her way to the top". Change "screenwriter" to "actress" and you have a Pia biopic. Memorable scene: Pia gets raped with a garden hose on the front lawn by Ray Liotta; later, her impotent husband picks up the hose and asks, "or is THIS more your thing?")
3. Showgirls (Joe Esterhas gives us everything but the lesbian incestuous kitten-eating kitchen sink. Elizabeth Berkley acts "angry" by squeezing a ketchup bottle really hard. Also flip-flops like a dolphin during orgasm.)
4. Moment By Moment (Lily Tomlin and John Travolta, sharing the same haircut, make out a lot. Includes the memorable repeated line "Oh, Strip!" - which is, of course, Travolta's character's name. Lily gets nekkid, Travolta doesn't. There is a reason this isn't available on VHS.)
5. Gigli (J.Lo and B.Affle kidnap the retarded son of some public figure, and try to keep things on the down-low by parading him around town in a convertible. Pacino and Walken embarrass themselves in shrieking cameos. Turkey time ensues. Ben and Jen don't die at the end - is it too late for a rewrite?)
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Poltergeist scared the crap out of me when I was little. And the Dark Crystal was super scary to me. But Poltergeist was the only scary "horror" movie I think I ever watched until I was about 16 or so. I got really, really scared by scary movies. I was the kid at slumber parties who had to sit upstairs with the mom while everyone was watching scary movies in the basement. I seriously couldn't take it. My parents used to have this Halloween sound effects record that had a scary ghost story on one side and all the sound effects on the other. I would get so scared when they'd put it on I'd run from the room crying and screaming.
That said, movies tend not to scare me too much anymore. I watched the Ring one night home alone and didn't really think much of it (though I've never seen the original.) And I have a friend who's a horror film nut so I get dragged along to see Freddy vs. Jason and Halloween Resurrection and the like, and none of those are scary to me.
But weird things will creep me out sometimes. There was once some eel movie on cable that freaked me out and I made my dad change the channel. And I really can't take zombie movies. I was even a little freaked after seeing Shaun of the Dead alone the other day. And that's a comedy!

The Island of Dr Moreau









You know it had to be a Brando one...

and basically any other four scary movies. I'm a scaredy cat

the first nightmare on elm street
the excorcist
psycho
rearview window.

Friday the 13th -- 1st & 2nd (great timing and use of music)
Fear No Evil (i was 10 when i saw it)
Entity (all too real for me)
Rosemary's Baby (interesting guest star)
Amityville Horror (based on true story?)

Psycho
Evil Dead 1
Nightmare on Elm St 1
Exorcist
The Omen

All of the above picked because they scared the shit out of me as a youngster.

I seriously find that i dont get "scared" by movies anymore. There can be sudden "frights" and "suspense" but not fear.

"Halloween"
"The Exorcist"
"Jeepers Creepers 2"
"Poltergeist"
"Blair Witch Project"


btw,I've never seen the first "Jeepers Creepers" movie,but the sequel scared the hell out of me

when i was little my uncle used to rent the scary movies and have my cousin and i watch them , i think we were 8 and 6 years old

1. texas chainsaw massacre
2. nightmare on elm street freddy still scares me no matter how dumb the movies are
3. the shining
4. the omen
5. I forget the name but its the one where the clown attacks the kid

DavidEye said:

are you serious?

AnckSuNamun said:

Ah,come on....you know you were on the edge of your seat when you first saw it


How is the first film? I'm now dying to see it.
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I don't really get scared much at all by horror movies, so I'll go for uneasy, dreading, nervous feeling:

The Last Starfighter

Alien

Seven

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the first one)

Any Faces of Death movie for the sheer cheese factor.

DavidEye said:

Dreadful and corny

In no order:

"Silence of the Lambs"
"The Birds"
"The Ring"
"Poltergiest" (which I've seen 14 times... )
"Prince of Darkness"

In no random order....

"Jacob's Ladder"

"In the Company of Men" (yes, this movie counts as a horror film, in my book)

"The Exorcist"

"Duel" (a VERY frightening film. Sadly neglected.)

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

subhuman09 said:

doctormcmeekle said:

(The missing face thingy.)

AnckSuNamun said:

until you actually see the "creature", the first film's very good.

then it spirals badly. really badly.

I prefer films that start with:

subhuman09 said:

The Exorcist - saw it when I was 11. I will NEVER watch it again. It's the only movie I've ever seen that scared me like that.

These other four were "fun" scary:

2. Poltergeist
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the re-make)
4. The Entity
5. Halloween II - something about that hospital

What Lies Beneath

Sixth Sense

Sphere

Elmo in Grouchland

Mulan





(the last two really freak me out!!! )

fantasyislander said:

TheFrog said:

Jeepers Creepers sucked badly.....it's almost as god awful as Cabin fever.

I'm amazed at how many people cite Pet Semetary. That was one of the WORST horror films I've ever sat through. Not even slightly scary. Amazing, really, because it was one of King's BEST books. Oh well, to each his own.

For my tastes, I find films that are a tad bit realistic to be more frightening. The Silence Of The Lambs disturbed me, primarily because it could happen. I don't know if you call it a horror film, so I won't include it in my list though.

My favorite horror films are probably these:

Halloween Carpenter's masterpiece! Still creepy to this day, and utterly ripped-off time and again. Michael Myers was an incredibly creepy figure, and it still gives me chills when Laurie finds her friends bodies in the house (especially the shot with the tombstone on the bed).

Alien "In space, no one can hear you scream"!! Ridley Scott managed to make a true sci-fi AND horror classic all at once.

A Nightmare On Elm Street Remember when Freddy was actually scary? Sure, the acting is pretty bad, and the flick was low budget, but DAMN! It still managed to be creepy and suspenseful.

Suspiria Classic Argento, all the way!

Evil Dead Considering this was made with no budget, by a bunch of folks who'd never worked on a movie, its an incredible film

I also have to give props to Kubrick's The Shining. As an adaptation, its terrible. It deviates incredibly from the book, and I understand why King wasn't too thrilled with it. That having been said, Kubrick does well with the screenplay he had to work with. The hotel seems vast, empty and threatening. The music is incredibly nerve-wracking and the cinematography is utterly disturbing. A truly scary flick.
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