JessieJ said:

Oooh, thankies.

KidaDynamite said:

See how terrifying it is for a little kid? Even the happy parts scare the shit outta me...now.

Fucking creepy silent movies.

blackguitaristz said:

That´s a great little story

I also watched it when I was a kid, maybe ten or eleven, and found it quite disturbing back then.

When I was around eight or nine, a young couple with kids visited my parents for dinner and the guy was really into movies so he brought us a bunch of betamax videotapes including the Exorcist...so, he nonchalantly mentions that this was a great film he had watched not too long ago, puts it into the vcr and while we´re all sitting in front of the tv eating chips and drinking juice the film starts, and , wow...that "family evening! was quite a weird experience.
My parents didn´t really like that movie. but we all watched it nevertheless.
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when i was little i watched nightmare on elm street.i couldnt sleep for a week!

I can't say THE scariest one I've ever seen, but this is certainly one of them...

"Something Wicked This Way Comes"

..this just made me laugh, but there was nothing funny about this when i 1st saw this... Karen Black running from this little doll

Flowerz said:

i think that was the first time i experienced what i would later learn was "campy". i saw trilogy of terror for the first time when i was just a kid, and i laughed and laughed and laughed, and i had no idea at the time why i thought it was so funny. i just knew it was.

The original

KoolEaze said:

Yeah, Dawn of the Dead wasn't a good picture to see if u were a kid. And all the people in the theatre didn't help matters. It sounded like people were there fighting and shit. It was totally out of control. People were screaming at the screen, just acting wild as hell. THAT combined with what was going on in the film, ...I was fucked up. The Exorcist has my total respect. That movie is off the hook. I've seen it several times. I have every version that has been released on dvd. I have a special dealing with the frenzy that went on because of that film. It literally scared the fuck out of GROWN folks. People were crying and passing out and shit. They would STILL be sitting in the theatre even AFTER the house lights came on. They were so fucked up..they couldn't even stand up to leave. I had heard so much about The Exorcist that by the time I actually seen it, I was 13, it wasn't as bad as I had heard. Actually, parts of the film is funny. The part when the priest ask Regan "Did You do that?" And then Regan goes "aaahaaahhhhh". Or "I'm not Regan" The voices were off the hook. I can see, in 1973, WHY it freaked people out. They had never seen ANYTHING like that before in a film. Heads spinning, levitating off the bed,...that shit looked real as hell. The special effects in that film were slamming for 1973. The cursing from a little girl, the scene where she was stabbing herself with the cross...And then the shit she was saying while she was doing it...I can't even type that. Even still today, that's way out. I think they crossed the line with that scene...They went past shock value. But other than that, the double images in Regan's face, the quick subliminal shots, all of it was an attack on your senses. People were just upset by the film. They couldn't believe it. No horror film for the rest of our time here on this earth will ever match the type of hysteria caused by The Exorcist.

Anxiety said:

i just sat here laughing a whole lot just now over this .. this really is funny im trying to find a good funny clip too of Evil Dead

JustErin said:

this reminds me of a kids detective series that was showing here when I was a kid. One episode, one of the characters had turned into a vampire and bit everybody in the neck to turn them into vampires too. Since then I sleep with one corner of the covers under my ear so my neck is covered.

To protect me from vampire bites when I sleep I still do it.

BlueZebra said:

Awesome.

Habits are hard to break.

BlueZebra said:

I do that too.

The end of Carrie. Shit, shit, and double shit!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yJe0iVo8y3A
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Dayclear said:

the end or the END end? the end was scary but it was SUCH a money shot. it's every downtrodden high school geek's ultimate fantasy. the END end, on the other hand - when amy irving (that's who it was, right?) goes to the rubble of the house and the hand pops up...THAT was some scary shit.

Either "Jaws" or "Halloween".

I grew up on a bayou and waterskied every day. I'll never forget the feeling of anxiety the first time I went skiing after seeing "Jaws". As I slowly dropped into the water, I just KNEW a Great White Shark had somehow swam through Galveston Bay and up Cedar Bayou, and was going to bite me in half. It was FREAKY.

Anxiety said:

True! I expect it every time I watch it and I still get startled when it happens

Anxiety said:

That scene traumatized me for life when I saw it as a child! I still feel uneasy about placing flowers at gravestones on Memorial Day.

well, aside from the usual like The Shining, and The Omen, which scared me as a child, I thought The Talented Mr Ripley was one of the scarier movies i've seen as an adult. just the twisted quality of the main character chilled me.

blair witch 1 and 2 gets point for creepiest movies in the last ten years though

Natisse said:

Man, Mr. Dark was THE MAN back in the day! I loved that movie!!!

*"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes..."*

That movie Nosferatu is hard to follow.
My brother and I was like " " the whole time!

Christopher said:

that was pretty scary at the time.

By the way what happened to my cannibal holocaust pics????

I haven't had a movie scare me in ages...at most, there are a few scenes that scare me, but the overall movie rarely does. I tend to like the more psychological terror movies like Funny Games and Session 9. And they don't necessarily scare me as much as they are tense from beginning to end...

The Exorcist was probably the last movie to really scare me.

muse87 said:

that's a good one. Also the original Wickerman has a strong ending....

I used to be terrified of Freddy, Jason, and Chucky, but after all those sequels, I can't watch the originals without having "Freddy vs Jason" and "Bride of Chucky" popping into my head. They played them out so I don't find them all that scary anymore.

Many movies are classified as horror, but than u watch it and it's just gory and gross. I didn't close my eyes on scenes in "Saw" and "Hostel" because they were scary. I closed my eyes because I really don't need to see some dude burning out some chick's eye or someone being hacked to death. It's just messy and disgusting more than scary to me.

The scariest movies that I think are just as scary now as they were when I first watched them are:

(1) "Poltergeist"...I believe in poltergeist, so this movie still freaks me out to this day and the fact that in real life bad things happened to many of the actors doesn't help either.

(2) "Stephen King's IT"...because of this creepy muthafucka right here:



If you didn't hate or have a strong dislike for clowns before this film, than you probably did afterwards.

(3) "The Birds"...I didn't like birds before this movie and after watching it I had a reason why. I've seen birds attacking cats and squirrels...it's only a matter of time before they start going after people.

(4) "Psycho"...this movie is still the reason that if I have the shower curtain closed, the bathroom door has to be locked. I won't shower with the bathroom door open and the shower curtain closed ever because of this film, nor will I ever stay in some middle of nowhere motel. It could be free and have 1000 cable channels with a jacuzzi tub in the bathroom, but if it's in the middle of nowhere, I ain't staying there. What's even creepier is that it's actually loosely based off of a real guy...same guy that "Silence of the Lambs" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" are loosely based off of.

These 4 still give me nightmares after I watch them.