What movie absolutely scared the shit out of you..kept you awake at night.....when you were younger and now!

I've never seen a scary movie that would scare me sleepless!

Name some!

The Exorcist

TMPletz said:

Really

I've seen it...didn't think it was scary scary...you know

You prolly mean when you were younger...right?

I was 8-years-old the first time I saw it. It was the first movie to scare the crap outta me, and it remains my all-time favorite horror movie. I hate that it gets lumped in with lesser movies of its kind. Great movie.

oh, poltergeist scared the crap out of me when i was a kid. it was mainly that freakin' clown under the bed - i used to have a HUGE fear of creatures under the bed, and that damn movie just made things worse!

Creepy as hell ...

Yeah. It would have to be the Exorcist for me.

The fact that it's inspired by a true story ... and many religious people believe possession by the devil and his evil minions are possible ... makes it seem so real and like it could happen to me ...

This movie can keep me up for days with no sleep ... the only way I overcome the fear is by trawling the Internet for rebuttals to the original news stories ... stories that suggest the boy who was supposedly possessed was a prankster who fooled people.

RipHer2Shreds said:

We have a Halloween mask.....have had some fun with that...at night when someones coming over...waiting outside for them...then....oh man you just had to have been there

Lizzy7701 said:

Nope...not just when I was younger.

crazyhorse said:

I didn't find that movie to be scary. Just...gross.

Lizzy7701 said:

The original William Shatner mold they used for the mask is long gone. Pitty, cuz there's still a market for that mask.

SAW

I still haven't seen this movie as it looks too terrifying.

ANyone sit through this one?

superspaceboy said:

no, but i saw the original japanese version of that one film about the house that's haunted by those creepy things that make marilyn manson noises and there's the little ghost kid and the grandma dies or her mouth gets full of flies or something. well, it wasn't scary.

Anxiety said:

Ju-On. Not scary at all! So not scary that I didn't even bother with the Buffy version. However, the original Japanese version of Dark Water is very good.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Ringu sucked as well. I was thinking that it's from Japan...it MUST be scarier than the US version. I waited MONTHS to see it. One BIG yawner!

Anxiety said:

Well that is all nice now...But I was more interested in SAW.

superspaceboy said:

oh. well, i never looked at that one.

Anxiety said:

superspaceboy said:

don't be mad! you should rent it, i think it's out on the DVD now!

Anxiety said:

not by myself.

superspaceboy said:

danny glover's in it, how scary could it be?

Faces Of Death

superspaceboy said:

It's not quite as scarey as you think. It's worth watching, but the acting is so bad that it keeps you from being drawn in enough to be scared. Carey Elwes is cute, but he's a lousy actor.

I have to say, it's stupid as hell now, but "The Blair Witch Project" scared the shit out of me. I couldn't get that final image of the guy standing in the corner out of my head for days. I think alot had to do with the faux documentary that aired on tv the night before I saw it, and so I went into the movie pretending it was real footage.
Watching it now though, it's dumb as balls.

Oh yeah, and there was this film I saw as a kid called "Trilogy of Terror" that had this little Indian doll running around trying to kill Karen Black ("Raiders of the Lost Ark"). I saw it was I was like 5 years old and I was scared shitless.

Oh yeah, and "Silence of the Lambs!" I didn't know shit about it going in, and it was awesome.

The Exorcist - I am 27 years old and still can't and refuse to watch it unless someone is watching it with me.

StaticDeth said:

Faces of Death just disgusted me. I'll never get that monkey in the restaurant scene out of my head.

minneapolisgenius said:

I used to be scared as shit of The Exorcist and Amityville Horror.
i won't watch any scary movies now. I think they'll just give me nightmares and I live alone with no one to check the bumps in the night.

Has to be this one, although the book was much scarier....



And as someone else already mentioned, Alien. Apparently H.R. Giger (the surreal artist and creator of the alien in the movie) had, or has the life-size model used in the first Alien movie right in his hallway in his house in Switzerland. He said he would be going to the bathroom at night to brush his teeth or something, and he'd see the reflection of the Alien in the hallway behind him. It would scare the crap out of him and it was his own creation.