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TheyCallMeBruce · 07-11-2006, 11:35 AM

I used to think the Exorcist was scary, but I think I have a new winner. Just saw Shutter last night and it is hands down the scariest.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440803/

Stupid movie gave me nightmares!

JiriHrdina · 07-11-2006, 11:37 AM

Jaws still is one scary ass movie because a Shark is more realistic than most horror movie subjects.

troutman · 07-11-2006, 11:41 AM

Poltergeist.

socalwingfan · 07-11-2006, 11:45 AM

Audition - Takashi Mike film. Creepy, creepy film

MolsonInBothHands · 07-11-2006, 11:46 AM

For my twelfth (sp?) birthday, my Ma took myself and my buddy to go see Poltergeist. We thought we were too cool to sit with her, so we sat a couple of rows in front of her. When the tree grabs the boy through the window, we were both sitting safely by Ma again. To this day, I don't look at clowns the same. Tim Curry as Pennywise in It didn't help much either.

As for recent movies, The Ring was pretty good, and Saw was alright. I liked Blair Witch when I first saw it because I didn't know a single thing about it, and it was different than the typical hack and slash.

Cheese · 07-11-2006, 11:47 AM

I think it depends on when you saw it....when I was a kid Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte scared the living bejeebers outta me....then in the 70s it was The Excorcist...not much since then..most of it is gore...but Saw and Saw 2 were great movies.

Sharpen 'Em · 07-11-2006, 11:56 AM

The Mothman Prophecies freaked me out.

habernac · 07-11-2006, 11:57 AM

not much of a horror movie guy, The Fog scared the **** out of me when I was a little kid.

if.away · 07-11-2006, 11:58 AM

There is a movie called "The Descent" which will appear in North American theaters in a short while. I saw this movie about a year ago and have to say the atmosphere and build up was insane especially if seen in a dark place.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/

ken0042 · 07-11-2006, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands

For my twelfth (sp?) birthday, my Ma took myself and my buddy to go see Poltergeist. We thought we were too cool to sit with her, so we sat a couple of rows in front of her. When the tree grabs the boy through the window, we were both sitting safely by Ma again. .

That's too funny. Exact same thing happened to me. I was 11 or 12, and went with my grandmother and aunt. I went to go sit in the front row, and right about at that part I moved back to safety.

VANFLAMESFAN · 07-11-2006, 12:09 PM

Movies like Saw and Hostel and stuff like that, they dont scare me, but I sure as hell enjoyed them, I in fact bought them. But in terms of an actual movie scaring me, probably the Excorcist is the only thing that had me creeped out after I left the theatre. Certain scenes in other movies creeped me out too, but I would have to say that either the Excorcist or the Shining are the only movies that I have been genuinely scared of. When the kid in the shining is riding is bike in the hotel, just the creppy sounds of the wheels going over the hardwood, then the carpet, then the hardwood, then carpet again. I dont know what it is, but that scene scared the hell out of me.

Also, another predictable, cliche scene that scared me was from IT, when the guy is looking at the photo of his dead brother, then all of a sudden the picture winks at him, I was in my basement watching that by myself in the dark when I was 10 years old, I have never run up the stairs so fast in my life.

Cheese · 07-11-2006, 12:14 PM

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I used to love horror movies, had a subscription to fangoria magazine.

I think the scene that freaked me out the most was in the Sixth Sense when the little girl ghost is in the fort and is puking foam. Than just freaked me out and I don't know why. Children freak me out and thats why I probably waited so long to have one. They can see into your soul, I swear.

Not to worry fotz...I dont think your kid will see much then!

MissTeeks · 07-11-2006, 12:15 PM

I saw "It" when I was in Grade 3 while at a sleepover (holy bad parents huh?) and the girl's room I was staying at had clowns everywhere. It was so traumatic that I had nightmares for 3 months! I now tend to avoid scary movies. Though I do watch the Scream trilogy, but that is more for the comedy aspects of them as opposed to the scary aspects.

DuffMan · 07-11-2006, 12:16 PM

Night of the Living Dead, when it first came out.
Jaws and Grizzly.

Oh yeah, I saw the first Halloween and Phantasm at a drive-in when I was chemically imbalanced. That was scary.

RedMan12 · 07-11-2006, 12:21 PM

I guess I would have to say Exorcist. I watched it at night in a big dark house and it scared me pretty good. Later I watched it during the day and it was not so scary.

I love The Shining. I noticed as I get older I dont get freaked out with scary movies. I still get a little scared but I enjoy the experience. I dont have nightmares or anything.

Buff · 07-11-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Jaws still is one scary ass movie because a Shark is more realistic than most horror movie subjects.

I'd have to agree with you on Jaws. How many people are scared of the water, or think twice about going into the ocean or even a swimming pool becuase of Jaws? It took me a long time to go into a swimming pool after I first saw Jaws at a young age, and still I'm very leary of the Ocean and what is in it that I cannot see. I likely wouldn't have this leariness if I hadn't seen Jaws.

PowerPlayoffs06 · 07-11-2006, 12:29 PM

When I was a wee kid, the campy horror film House kept me up for 3 nights straight. Couldn't sleep a wink. Troll had me scared to go into my neighbours basement and Pirannah made me leary of swimming pools and lakes. Just looking at the box cover of the movie Demons in the video store freaked me out.

I love horror films because I try and chase the irrational fear that movies like those gave me when I was young. Now it has to be more of a psychological thrill like Se7en or Hostle or Wolf Creek that leave me with that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

VANFLAMESFAN · 07-11-2006, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by RedMan12

I love The Shining. I noticed as I get older I dont get freaked out with scary movies. I still get a little scared but I enjoy the experience. I dont have nightmares or anything.

Yes, exactly what I wanted to say. I still enjoy the "scary" movies despite not getting scared. And in certain movies, scenes will freak me out for the moment that it happens, but after that, I wouldn't think of it again, or at least be scared of it again.

Also, I find some of the new horror movies just flat out funny. The Hills have Eyes was pretty bad, but I enjoyed it because it made me laugh, it was the director trying to find new and improved ways for people to die. I liked the Saw movies, because there was more to it than that, yes, there were scenes of the guy tryin to find new ways to torture people, but he did each one for a reason, and he had a reason as to why he chose each person for it. And let's face, the end of SAW was so ****ing awesome. Saw 2's ending was alright too, but you were anticipating a twist ending, so it kind of lost the edge that the first one had as you weren't expecting it.

PowerPlayoffs06 · 07-11-2006, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by RedMan12

I love The Shining. I noticed as I get older I dont get freaked out with scary movies. I still get a little scared but I enjoy the experience. I dont have nightmares or anything.

I've seen The Shining like four times and for the life of me, I cannot figure out the ending. Where it zooms in on the picture on the wall and Jack is in the photo. What does it mean?!

JBR · 07-11-2006, 12:32 PM

1) Serpent and the Rainbow
2) 2006 West Quarterfinal - Game 7