The scariest film I ever saw mainly due to the fact of when I saw it being only 8 years old at a friends house was the then band Hell of the living dead. Looking back on it now its a hilarious film with terrible acting the trailers below so check it out. More recently though the film that has scared me the most was a film called the last broadcast kind of like blair witch but pre dates it. Very much psychological horror.




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The DEMONS trilogy but when I was a little girl Susperia was the scariest.

Invasion of The Body Snatchers, strangely, also at age 8.

HamsterHuey said:

jami0mckay said:

I found it scarier than The Omen.

HamsterHuey said:

definitely. I saw it when I was younger (8-10 I think) too, I think there was a season of classic scary films on and my dad let me stay up and watch them, that and the original Haunting film (the black and white one) were the best. I love the bleak ending of bodysnatchers too.

The reason it was so scary was I was only 8 or 9 when I saw it.
By the time I started to watch other 'scarier' films, I was already a teenager and they just weren't as scary to me by then.

In general, I don't get frightened by scary movies. It's not a genre I'm fond of. Although GORE movies disturb me--mostly because the audience seems to delight in the depictions of the victim's demise.



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The scariest movie I've seen was the original Halloween.

Halloween still freaks me out.

But I think the scariest thing I saw was a TV movie, Dark Night of the Scarecrow. I had nightmares after seeing that as a kid.



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The Entity

By FAR it's The Exorcist.
Put that on and i'm outta there.

LOL
"The Entity"? Lots of nekkidness in that one.

Pluto Nash. Just kidding.

Films that were scary as in they stayed with me for days after I'd watched them...

Requiem For A Dream

The Orphanage (not just the creepy masks and scary noises, but (don't want to reveal any spoilers), very sad

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre - perhaps it got dumb and campy, but the first bit that I saw (could't bring myself to finish it) scared me something awful!

Oh, man, what's the name of that French movie (I think it has a one-word title, but I could be wrong) in which two girls go to the cabin to study? THAT was scary!!! (My memory is utter shite!!)

Funny Games (didn't see the American version)

Odishon (when that burlap bag moved - I screamed out loud. Embarassed, but terrified)

Waco: Rules of Engagement (I'm not trying to take sides or anything, and I'm not going to place blame - but to hear courtroom accounts of how some of the Branch Davidians died (they actually showed photos of the childrens' corpses) - it was horrifying

For some reason, the Jack Nicholson movie The Pledge really got to me. I was creeped out for days.

the only one that really ever fucked me up was Blair Witch. i don't know why, really. probably the lighting on that last scene of the guy standing in the corner of the basement.




okay, a small revision. Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween both fucked me up a little bit.
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ButterscotchPimp said:[quote]By FAR it's The Exorcist.
Put that on and i'm outta there.

i'm right with you there.
that scene with the crucifix haunted me for ages.

Ciske De Rat

BlueZebra said:

The 50s version, or the newer version (80s, perhaps)? I've wanted to see this film for a while now.

I would have to say The Evil Dead....This Movie made a couple of my homies run out of the theatre

FuNkeNsteiN said:

The token entry of scary movie threads.

My answer is The Exorcist.

At the time...


CREEPSHOW

That thing in the box that was eatin' folks gave me some REALLY bad nightmares... I was only 11...

When I was a kid it was The Shining, now? No one's made a scary movie lately

eVeRsOlEsA said:

I TOTALLY agree with that. For example, I was creeped out by The Grudge TV ads and went to see it and all I kept thinking during the flick was "Man, I'd beat that creepy bitches wet ass, gimme a chair or somethin'!"

Jaws. I became a pool swimmer after that.

RenHoek said:

yep

superspaceboy said:

I'm having nightmares right now about that scarecrow's Jethro Clampet rope belt.

I liked the horror movies that they used to make from the 70's to the early 90's. They tried to fuck with your head and really SCARE you. Now most of the horror movies are geared for the ADDHD set who want to see a video game screen instead of a movie.

mdiver said:

BlueZebra said:

What's so scary about this one? I loved it as a kid. GREAT movie.

HamsterHuey said:

It's not really scary but my memories of him cutting his moms neck artery and the blood are so vivid. I think I was a little too young to watch it, I remember it as the scariest movie EVER.