minneapolisgenius said:

Did he order a banana split?

Lizzy7701 said:

THE EXORCIST!!

AND

JAWS

I can't even count the nights I stayed awake over those two!

For me it was Pet Cemetary. Some of the images from that movie still come to me when I'm walking in the dark to the bathroom, or whatever. The sister "Zelda" with the spinal meningitis who was kept in the back bedroom? HOLY CRAP

I haven't seen Shining in the last couple years but back then Nicholson's evil grin was way too much for me. Couldn't watch him in Batman either, since clowns are evil children-eater and I was cute and just their age.

the entity

Lizzy7701 said:

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superspaceboy said:

Yes....It was a good movie....Get it! or Rent it!

im already having nightmares about this one and i havent even seen it yet

Actually I always found psycological thrillers alot scarier than blood, guts and gore. Silence of the Lambs and this movie called Raising Cain made me cry in my bed I was so scared because I couldn't get those images out of my head.

KatSkrizzle said:

I saw this for the first time about a month ago. Barbara Hershey being repeatedly "raped" by a ghost. Campy at best and not really scary. They're remaking this.

Xagain said:

I felt the same way about the Blair Witch. It was the only scary movie I saw as a young adult that had me sitting on the edge of my seat. Other than that... as a kid the movies "The Amityville Horror" scared me. My father had 2 take me out of the theater when we went 2 see "Terror Train", and "Carrie" the ending when her hand popped up out of the grave made me jump right out of my seat in2 my mothers lap. I never saw the "Exorcist" when it came out but I saw the footage when people were passing out at the theaters and such. After seeing now I didn't see how it could be THAT scary.

The Exorcist. I can't even think of another movie that's scary.

Xagain said:

Funny movie. That particular story was written by Richard Matheson, and was also adapted years earlier into an episode of The Twilight Zone.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Are you serious? They're remaking it? That shit was bugged out!!! IT was the music when the thing raped her that bugged me out. It was also my first apartment and I had to sleep by myself after I watched it on my first little VCR. Dude I was a shook 19 year old.

RipHer2Shreds said:

On of my faves as well. I'm going to be sooooo pissed when some lame-o Hollywood suit decides to remake it.

It's hard to understand for many people growing up today how influencial Halloween was on the horror genre for the next several decades. I watch it every October, and there are still scenes that creep me out (Laurie finding Annie's body with Meyer's sister's headstone above her head is still one of the all time eeriest moments in movie history).

KatSkrizzle said:

That music was LOUD! And, yes, it's being remade by Hideo Nakata who directed the films Ringu, Ring 2 (the crap USA film) and the original Japanese version of Dark Water.

RipHer2Shreds said:

If it's as bad as the ring was I don't want to see it. But I'll be checking for it!

JediMaster said:

I don't doubt that a remake is far off. This one's coming out in just a few months:



Not that a remake of The Fog would be a terrible thing, but there have been rumors of remakes of both films for years now, and this one actually happened. The Web site is up and running.

RipHer2Shreds said:

yes

adrian barbow is very scary

shausler said:

Adrienne Barbeau. She was kinda hot back in the day. Known mostly for her...assets.

http://theexorcist.warner...plash.html
The scariest film ever ,the Directors cut is worse then the original.

Horror films as a whole dont really scare me.
Certain scenes from films have given me the creeps.

1.American Werewolf in London.
2.American Werewolf in Paris.
3.Nosferatu
4.Psycho
5,Exorcist
6.The Thing.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Thing is, I wouldn't mind a Fog remake so much. The original is great, but it could benefit from an updating, since the original is fairly dated. Unfortunately, Hollwood will probably just take out everything that made the original so good, and make it another Ring clone.

muirdo said:

OMG! I forgot about "Werewolf in London." When I was 10 I went with a buddy to see "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and snuck into "Werewolf" instead because it was rated R. We were the only 2 in the theater and we were curled up in our chairs afraid for our lives. Especially that scene in the woods that's all peaceful with him in his hospital bed, and then...remember? Damn!

suspira was freaky

there are tons of them that kinda scared me but Im not sure i ever really stayed up nights with any of them other than chucky, I was young and forced to watch it at a slumber party

Krystal666 said:

I'm with you Krystal, Silence of the Lambs was a freaky scarey! that one had me on the edge of my seat the whole movie.
another good scarey freaky psycological thriller is Cape Fear! Great movie, really kinda freaky!
aliens...that's a good one.
oh and I can't believe someone mentioned the entity and it's being re-made...the movie was ok but READ that book...very scarey and I think that's based on a true story too.
one that really scared me as a kid was CUJO!

To me, a 'scary' movie is one that does just that - scares.

Movies that are tense, gory, thrilling or shocking seldom scare and once you're out of the cinema/turned the DVD off the movie leaves you.

A genuinely scary movie should, in my opinion, haunt you long after the credits have rolled and it should stay with you when you put the lights out to go to bed.

Personally, my all-time scariest 'movie' wasn't a movie at all, but the BBC's Ghostwatch programme back in 1992. Shown as a 'mockumentary', it was easy to see through very early on during the broadcast but it didn't matter. It was perfect. Subtle images of the 'ghost' that are only apparent after multiple viewings, mysterious noises and the technology playing up all added to it's feeling of unease.
And anything that makes you hide under the bedclothes at the age of 22 must have something going for it.

Oh, and the Spanish short 'La Cabina' is also one of my most terrifying movie memories. I wish they'd show it on TV again.

http://www.wayney.pwp.blu...cabina.htm

minneapolisgenius said:

That's my shit!!

Nikki23 said:

ya know i'm so afraid of that movie that i've never even seen the directors cut? i'm afraid to open that link!

Enigmoid said:

in that case...my choice would be...
Edward Scissor Hands