Scariest movie you've ever seen.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

I tend to think Asian movies are far scarier than north american movies for some reason.

I remember seeing a movie about a man who didn't want his brother to die. So he went to a chinese temple and asked god that if it's possible, he'd like to give half his lifespan to his brother. Well, his brother got better and lived...and everything was good...right?

Wrong.

He started seeing visions of the dead and very creepy things. Turns out, when he gave half his lifespan away, technically, he should already be dead, since he was only suppose to live to 70, but he was in his 40s.

It was creepy as hell. There was one scene where he was visiting his brother at the hospital and he saw something floating in one of the patient's room. The patient was old and looked like he was about to die...Well, turns out, he saw some kind of spirit floating down and suffocating the patient. Damn, that scene gave me nightmares!

[JiriHrdina]

Jacob's Ladder is an under-rated "scare the pants off you" movie.

[Flashpoint]

1) Shining - where the kid is riding the BigWheel off and on the carpet - creeps the **** out of me to this day.

2) The Ring - I had no idea what was going to happen. When that girl came out of the TV I was sitting on the couch screaming in terror.

3) The Sixth Sense - when the kid was in the blanket fort, and the clothespins were being pulled out, I almost **** my pants.

Good call on the Unsolved Mysteries theme - very spooky when I was a kid (did you know Robert Stack was the original TV Elliot Ness from The Untouchables?)


I gotta say...

...some of you people are frightened by some really bad movies. Not scary, just bad.

Descent is out on Netflix. Lame, cheap garbage. I watched it last year. Horrible acting, bad presentation, not scary at all. They may as well have made a J. Cousteau film about cave diving, because this piece of junk sure wasn't a horror movie.

Blair Witch was so stupid I could hardly believe anyone thought it would be a good feature film. I guess if you thought it was real, it might be scary. Otherwise it was waste of time. The hand held camera made me slightly nasueous, that was sort of scary I guess. I didn't want to puke on my date. Some of the dialogue was pretty funny - not that it was meant to be.

Hostel was pretty sick (mostly thanks to the eyeball scene), but it wasn't scary, just gross. And really badly done (much like the director's other piece of ass movie "Cabin Fever"). Some fine acting in that puppy, let me tell you.

Ring 2 is a cheap attempt to capitalize on the first move, and not frightening in the slightest - you already know the deal with the ghost so the cat is out of the bag on that one.

Event Horizon was lame to the point where I regretted spending my dollar at the movies. I love sci fi, enjoy horror, and this abomination managed to screw up both. Plodding and predicatable.

Hellraiser? You gotta be f-ing kidding me, right?

[chris lindberg]

The Omen movies are pretty good.

One movie I'm sure a lot of you haven't seen is Ravenous.

It's based on an Indian Legend of people who become man eaters and get stronger the more human flesh they eat.

Imagine that, being chased around by a guy who just doesn't want to kill you , he wants to eat ya too!

[gordo67]

Children of the Corn
It
The Omen

They freaked me out when I was younger

Ian

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Originally Posted by chris lindberg

The Omen movies are pretty good.

One movie I'm sure a lot of you haven't seen is Ravenous.

It's based on an Indian Legend of people who become man eaters and get stronger the more human flesh they eat.

Imagine that, being chased around by a guy who just doesn't want to kill you , he wants to eat ya too!

Ravenous was massive!!!!

[chris lindberg]

Children of the Corn was pretty scary too, those kids.....


Another good one is the Entity...based on a true story of a woman who is constantly raped by demons.

[chris lindberg]

Just thought of another one... The Changling.......little boy gets drowned in bathtub.....his toy ball keeps coming back to the house, bouncing down the stairs, even after it is thrown into the river miles away.

[looooob]

my friend's mom took us to Jaws for his 8th birthday

two 8 year olds, a 7 year old, a 5 year old and one mom

this was almost 30 years ago when kids weren't immune to scary stuff either like I suspect they are now

two of us were hiding in the lobby by the popcorn machine for 15 minutes, one kid under a chair and the 4th kid hiding in her lap

I refused to go in a LAKE for the next 2 summers

great work!

[edn88]

I can watch most films and not be affected by them, but Blair Witch was impossible to watch, I had to keep flicking channels to a comedy to lower the adrenaline level. The final scenes with the camera on the floor and sounds coming from off camera freaked me out (and I know that it was not real).

[MoneyGuy]

I'm surprised no one has nominated the Oilers' SC run Game 7.

For me, The Exorcist. My girlfriend spend most of it in the washroom. Not sure what she was doing.

Once my daughter (about age 16) and some friends tried to have the crap scared out of them so they rented several suitable candidates. Nothing scared them. They're unscarable.

[Dion]

Burnt Offerings

Burnt Offerings is a chilling, gothic, horror movie. Although set in heavy dramatic undertones, there is no way of becoming unglued by the masterful acting of Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith, and Eileen Heckart.

Having a movie memorize you with the fear of the unknown is what makes a horror movie more than just a visual frightener. Add to that the toppings of suspense and you have a classic formula for being scared out of your wits.

The story is about Ben ( Oliver Reed), Marian ( Karen Black), their son David ( Lee Montgomery) and Aunt Elizabeth ( Bette Davis), who rent for the summer a big beautiful old mansion for a killer of a bargain. The house is being rented out by an eccentric brother ( Burgess Meredith) and his sister Roz ( Eileen Heckart.) The only catch really is, that the siblings' mother, who is very old, needs to be looked after and have three meals sent to her room. Most of the time their mother will be sleeping and doesn't want to be disturbed for she likes her privacy.

All appears to be alarmingly perfect and happy for the family. But soon things start to happen.

The house starts to breath new life into it. In the green house where once lifeless plants were brittle and brown, they are now sprouting growth and blooming in an array of colors.

The house also starts to effect the family in new frightening and disturbing ways. Ben has begun to see a hideously scary man from his childhood, which he had tried to bury in his mind. He was the chauffeur (Anthony James), at his father's funeral and his image has haunted him from that day on.

Physical appearances in Ben, Marian, and Aunt Elizabeth change, moods become alarmingly destructive and death soon takes one of the members in a shockingly eerie manner.

The house soon starts remolding itself, getting ready to take on a whole new look and feel. The swimming pool becomes a trap and takes on the form of a wild storm almost killing David.

Ben and Marian know they must escape the house and never look back. But before that can happen Marian feels it is her duty to tell the old woman in the bedroom that they are leaving.

But why is it taking Marian so long to come back out?

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

1) Shining - where the kid is riding the BigWheel off and on the carpet - creeps the **** out of me to this day.

2) The Ring - I had no idea what was going to happen. When that girl came out of the TV I was sitting on the couch screaming in terror.

3) The Sixth Sense - when the kid was in the blanket fort, and the clothespins were being pulled out, I almost **** my pants.

Good call on the Unsolved Mysteries theme - very spooky when I was a kid (did you know Robert Stack was the original TV Elliot Ness from The Untouchables?)


I gotta say...

...some of you people are frightened by some really bad movies. Not scary, just bad.

Descent is out on Netflix. Lame, cheap garbage. I watched it last year. Horrible acting, bad presentation, not scary at all. They may as well have made a J. Cousteau film about cave diving, because this piece of junk sure wasn't a horror movie.

Blair Witch was so stupid I could hardly believe anyone thought it would be a good feature film. I guess if you thought it was real, it might be scary. Otherwise it was waste of time. The hand held camera made me slightly nasueous, that was sort of scary I guess. I didn't want to puke on my date. Some of the dialogue was pretty funny - not that it was meant to be.

Hostel was pretty sick (mostly thanks to the eyeball scene), but it wasn't scary, just gross. And really badly done (much like the director's other piece of ass movie "Cabin Fever"). Some fine acting in that puppy, let me tell you.

Ring 2 is a cheap attempt to capitalize on the first move, and not frightening in the slightest - you already know the deal with the ghost so the cat is out of the bag on that one.

Event Horizon was lame to the point where I regretted spending my dollar at the movies. I love sci fi, enjoy horror, and this abomination managed to screw up both. Plodding and predicatable.

Hellraiser? You gotta be f-ing kidding me, right?

I agree 100% on all of your comments...ESPECIALLY Blair Witch...what a horrible piece of over hyped trash that was. It wasnt the least bit scary and the hand held made me feel sick as well...so sick I left the theatre laughing at the stupidity of that film.

[azzarish]

'The Blair Witch Project' hands down.

Instead of relying on gore, slash and blood or even background sound gimmicks to make you jump it left everything to the imagination. That was the best part and what scared me, because you don't see anything. Hollywood will be hard pressed to make a film that actually scares me like Blair Witch did.

[Sittler]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Jacob's Ladder is an under-rated "scare the pants off you" movie.

Yup, the Ladder is a most excellent movie - although it seemed to build more of a paranoia/fear in me than just being straight "scary".

But, the king for me would have to be the original Amityville Horror. The scene of the son walking around his house shooting his family members - I was just a just a young kid and this scared the be-jebus outta me.

[J pold]

House on Haunted Hill freaked me out for some reason