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jimmysgirl424
10-20-2007, 12:52 AM
In the spirit of Halloween; which movie(s) have really, truly frightened you? I've got a few that top my list:
Number one pick is from the 'B' movie list. Its called "The Gates To Hell". I saw it when I was around 12 or so and believe it or not, I still have nightmares about it today.
The original "Nightmare on Elm Street". I seriously did not sleep AT ALL the night after watching that one for the first time. I still think its the scariest of all of the Nightmare movies. The scene where Tina appears (in her body bag, no less) in Nancy's dream when she falls asleep during class is particularly disturbing to me. And also the scene where Nancy is running from Freddy and the stairs she is climbing turn into sticky mush.
"The Exorcist". I totally refuse to watch that one ever, ever again. I do NOT do movies that pertain to demonic possessions.
"The Ring". This movie not only scared me, but also my DH. I should note for the record that horror movies never, ever scare him. The last scene of the movie did him in though, he didn't want to go upstairs by himself that night after watching it. :p
Kristy
10-20-2007, 02:57 AM
I'm not really scared easily by movies. However that end scene of Carrie, where the girl is visiting the collapsed house and Carrie's hand jumps out from the rubble and tries to pull her in made me jump out of my seat lol!
Adaya
10-20-2007, 05:28 AM
Phantasm-that tall man scares the beejesus outta me. :eek:
Nightmare on Elm Street-Freddy was just too much for me.
Halloween-The scary music and that crazy looking white face of Michael Myers gets me everytime.
mmm0708
10-20-2007, 05:54 AM
I can handle the typical "scary" movies... but The Shining freaked me out! I watched it the first time ever when I was house sitting for my parents and I was alone. I was a wreck.
PookiePrincess
10-20-2007, 06:12 AM
I don't really get scared by movies, but the first time I watched Halloween it scared me because it was late at night and I was home alone and that music just freaked me out.
It annoys me because no one makes any good, scary movies anymore.
AHammer
10-20-2007, 06:55 AM
I can usually handle scary movies, but off the top of my head I remember the Exorcist really freaking me out (because I tried watching it alone. i didn't make it through until I convinced someone else to watch with me). Oh, and I haven't seen it in a while, but the first time I saw What Lies Beneath, I was definitely hesitant of the bathtub and foggy mirror for a few days!
As a side note, scary books always give me a better scare. I'm a huge stephen king fan, and I'm always disappointed by the fact that none (ok, very few) of his books translate well into scary movies. I'd love to see an actual scary movie version of It, or Salem's Lot, or Desperation. Why do they always attempt these as TV movies?!
jimmysgirl424
10-20-2007, 07:35 AM
As a side note, scary books always give me a better scare. I'm a huge stephen king fan, and I'm always disappointed by the fact that none (ok, very few) of his books translate well into scary movies. I'd love to see an actual scary movie version of It, or Salem's Lot, or Desperation. Why do they always attempt these as TV movies?!
They did a very good job with Pet Semetary, it was just as good as the book, IMO. And out of all of his books, I'd have to say that that one scared me the most. Well, that one and Geralds Game, which I hope they never make into a movie.
AHammer
10-20-2007, 07:51 AM
They did a very good job with Pet Semetary, it was just as good as the book, IMO. And out of all of his books, I'd have to say that that one scared me the most. Well, that one and Geralds Game, which I hope they never make into a movie.
Yeah, that's one of the few that I think made a pretty good movie (Misery and The Shining (Kubrick) being the other ones). But considering the large number of movies based off of his books, I'd say they're mostly disappointing, to me at least. Gerald's Game was definitely freaky!
akacharlotte
10-20-2007, 08:07 AM
Texas Chainsaw Massacre-not the remakes but the one done in 1974. I watched it when I was 16 and was completely freaked out. I have not watched the movie since nor any of the remakes!
ETA: I was also scared to death by Nightmare on Elm Street. As a vivid dreamer that movie hit too close to home. I also still have the occassional nightmare about that movie.
PinkMartini
10-20-2007, 08:08 AM
As embarassing as this is to admit, The Blair Witch Project had me up for a few nights. But, in my defense, I didn't know it was fake at the time...
Rosemary's Baby. I was young (maybe 12ish?) when I saw it, and it freaked the hell out of me.
akacharlotte
10-20-2007, 08:11 AM
It annoys me because no one makes any good, scary movies anymore.
I agree. They all seem to be more about gore than true make you jump moments. I watched Saw when it came out but refused to watch anymore just because I really cringe watching those types of movies.
solongtogo
10-20-2007, 08:36 AM
When I was a kid, Children of the Corn did me in.
apoppy
10-20-2007, 08:38 AM
I haven't been able to make it through The Others or Nightmare on Elm Street so those probably scared me the most.
For enjoyable scares, I liked Halloween, The Omen, and the first Scream.
I will agree with previous posters, most modern horror movies are just gore-fests. I don't find them particularly scary or fun. They are just gross.
CarolinaGirl
10-20-2007, 08:58 AM
By far, the scariest movie I've ever seen is The Exorcist. I can handle the fake type horror movies, but that movie was supposedly based on a true story. I couldn't sleep for months after watching it (although I was 14 at the time). I don't even like thinking about it. Another movie that scared me was the one with the Chuckie doll - what was the name of it?
akacharlotte
10-20-2007, 09:13 AM
By far, the scariest movie I've ever seen is The Exorcist. I can handle the fake type horror movies, but that movie was supposedly based on a true story. I couldn't sleep for months after watching it (although I was 14 at the time). I don't even like thinking about it. Another movie that scared me was the one with the Chuckie doll - what was the name of it?
Child's Play?
LittleFredPunkinHead
10-20-2007, 11:21 AM
I'll second Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yikes!
HeatherFL
10-20-2007, 11:26 AM
Just Cause It is not even a horror movie, but I had to sleep with the lights on for three days after that!
The Shining parts of that can still freak me out!
LittleFredPunkinHead
10-20-2007, 11:28 AM
Oh yeah- speaking of non-horror movies that scare the heck out of you- Outbreak. I didn't want to be stuck in the enclosed atmosphere of an airplane for ages after that.
kemaji
10-20-2007, 11:46 AM
The Ring. I don't like watching scary movies and my friends dragged me to that one kicking and screaming. I didn't sleep for a week.
polarama
10-20-2007, 12:11 PM
Poltergeist--I was kind of young when I inadvertently watched it. It has freaked me out for years and even the stupid ABC Family commercials for it freak me out now.
BumbleB
10-20-2007, 12:18 PM
I don't watch scary movies - so that being said, I haven't seen many.
When I was a kid the scariest movie I ever saw was JAWS. Of Course I was watching it at a sleepover when I was about 7... so that may have had something to do with it. :eek:
mrschica
10-20-2007, 12:26 PM
Horror movies from Japan scare me, and not the American re-makes either, I mean the originals like Ju-On and Ringu.
As a kid I'd say The Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Gate were big ones. Ah, and Creepshow too.
AHammer
10-20-2007, 04:53 PM
Poltergeist--I was kind of young when I inadvertently watched it. It has freaked me out for years and even the stupid ABC Family commercials for it freak me out now.
Oh yeah! Same thing happened to me, I accidentally caught a few minutes of Poltergeist when I was young (I'd say less than 10) and was freaked out for days!
Rancid13
10-20-2007, 05:24 PM
It's hard for me to get scared by horror movies as I know they're not real. I quite enjoy them. Most can gross me out, but not necessarily scare me. Hostel and the Saw movies were nasty. Devil's Rejects was fun. I was brought up watching Poltergeist, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and I would honestly have to say that non-horror An Inconvenient Truth scared me the most that I can recall.
Thankful1
10-20-2007, 05:37 PM
I like scary movies but I can't handle Stephen King's IT. I have a fear of clowns. I didn't see the Japanese original (and don't think I want to) but The Grudge freaked me out. The dead girl's eyes and that sound she made messed me up for a few nights.
Niobe
10-20-2007, 06:23 PM
As embarassing as this is to admit, The Blair Witch Project had me up for a few nights. But, in my defense, I didn't know it was fake at the time...
Ditto. :o
The Ring scared the crap out of me (and my FH) when I saw it in the theaters. But Seven definitely freaked me out the most - Sloth in particular. Something about the idea of being tied to a bed for a year...
cr8zyforaf
10-20-2007, 06:27 PM
The Ring and the Shining (is that the one where that little boy says REDRUM over and over...oh gosh that was awful).
HeatherFL
10-20-2007, 06:35 PM
Yes, red rum! I can't get it out of my head today.
mmm0708
10-20-2007, 06:37 PM
The Ring and the Shining (is that the one where that little boy says REDRUM over and over...oh gosh that was awful).
Yes, that's The Shining! <insert whole body shudder here> LOL
After reading some of the other responses... I have to agree that today's scary movies don't even compare to the ones from way back!
Children of the Corn is a good one... I think it would freak me out NOW, now that I have kids.
I remember seeing Fright Night at the babysitter's house when I was in 2nd grade. Oh, my! I was freaked out by that movie.. but I was only 7! I've since watched it with no problems.
R_mageddon
10-20-2007, 10:50 PM
As embarassing as this is to admit, The Blair Witch Project had me up for a few nights. But, in my defense, I didn't know it was fake at the time...
DITTO!!!!
The Shining still creeps me out too.
Surprisingly, The Ring didn't do much for me....everyone went on about how scarey it was but for some reason I didn't find it scarey.
When I was a kid Poltergeist terrorized me. I was convinced that coffins were going to come crashing through the floorboards (that was poltergeist wasn't it?)
jimmysgirl424
10-21-2007, 12:14 AM
When I was a kid Poltergeist terrorized me. I was convinced that coffins were going to come crashing through the floorboards (that was poltergeist wasn't it?)
Yes..and also in the swimming pool. ;) I also recall a certain scene in that movie where a guy peeled off most of his own face. That movie gave me PLENTY of nightmares when I was a kid!!
Adaya
10-21-2007, 05:43 AM
DITTO!!!!
When I was a kid Poltergeist terrorized me.
The scene that gets me everytime is when the son is in his bed and he looks to see if that clown is still in his chair. Of course it's not. Then he looks under the bed and when he gets up that stupid clown is all scary and possessed-looking. I just about died when I saw that scene.
manda_kate
10-21-2007, 06:34 AM
It and The Shining. I have never seen the end of It, and I never will. Clowns are scary!
udsweetpea
10-21-2007, 07:09 AM
Fire in the Sky scared me the most out of any movie. Granted, I was at a sleepover when I was 14 or 15, and we were in a haunted house!
Blair Witch Project also scared me, but I also thought it was real for a few days.
Annette
10-21-2007, 07:39 AM
Definitely poltergeist since I watched it when I was about 10 and it scared the crap out of me.
The Birds was also really scary. I never actually watched the whole movie cause it was just too much.
SweetRed
10-21-2007, 08:17 AM
But Seven definitely freaked me out the most - Sloth in particular. Something about the idea of being tied to a bed for a year...
I LOVED this movie, and yeah, I'd consider it one of the few truly scary movies I've ever seen.
I couldn't make it all the way through Misery. The part with the board on his feet was the breaking point for me.
Goddess Tiff
10-21-2007, 08:44 AM
The Exorcist for me. I've seen it a ton of times so it doesn't freak me out anymore, but the first time I saw it - holy crap. Haha, holy.
WebDiva
10-21-2007, 08:57 AM
DH and I were just talking about this last night.
Aliens did it for both of us. I didn't sleep at all the night I saw it. I was about 8 or 9 when I saw it.
The Exorcist still scares me.
jimmysgirl424
10-21-2007, 09:39 AM
I couldn't make it all the way through Misery. The part with the board on his feet was the breaking point for me.
Have you happened to have read the book? Because what she does to him in the book was WAAAAY worse than what was done in the movie version!
MsPeachy
10-21-2007, 12:34 PM
The Ring
The Descent/The Cave - claustrophia terrifies me.
Dawn of the Dead
And the movie that traumatized me as a child, The Watcher in the Woods :eek:
The Rng
Scared the beejezus out of me!!!
Poltergeist
I had to keep all my stuffed animals in the closet throught the duration of my youth after seeing that damn clown scene!!!!
jenahdawn
10-21-2007, 03:26 PM
Only read half of the thread.
I will have to say that The Exorcist, the movie, does not bother me. The BOOK.....oh, now THAT'S creepy! (I think, until the last half hour of TE, the movie is pretty boring)
The Ring bothered me the first tie I saw it.
Tanya
10-21-2007, 04:24 PM
...
And the movie that traumatized me as a child, The Watcher in the Woods :eek:
I was just coming in to post that (and I wasn't even a child when I saw it:p). And it's a Disney movie, jeesh.
The Ring, definitely.
dana b
10-21-2007, 04:31 PM
the exorcist -- i can't even watch the tv commercial. my mom saw it at the theater when she was pg with me, it's all her fault!
curlyjr
10-21-2007, 09:19 PM
Watcher in the Woods scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
I was also scared of Candyman.
imagirliegirl
10-21-2007, 09:21 PM
Only two movies have scared me. One is What Lies Beneath. I do NOT watch ghost movies and that so troubled me. The other is Wolf Creek. That was just twisted and disturbing. Ick.
I also hated The Hills Have Eyes but that was more odd than scary I think.
udsweetpea
10-22-2007, 04:56 AM
Just watched Saw II and the newest Amittyville Horror last night, and I had the worst nightmares of my life. Those go down in my scariest movies list!
chefker
10-22-2007, 05:06 AM
Most of my favorites are old school. Scary movies nowadays just...aren't really scary to me. :)
The Changeling is by far the BEST haunted house movie I've ever seen. And When a Stranger Calls still freaks me the hell out. "Have you checked the children?" Heh.
Halloween (the first one), and 28 Days Later are a few others that scared me pretty badly - and I don't scare easily!
May27JnJ
10-22-2007, 05:12 AM
The Exorcist. Hearing that girls voice still makes me cry!
Standrea
10-22-2007, 05:47 AM
Definately Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'm a scardy cat to begin with, but then after the movie, I decided to research it and see if all of the facts were really true, and that's what put me over the edge.
Tara07
10-22-2007, 05:54 AM
Nightmare of Elm Street. Till this day I am still scared of that movie, I cannot look at Freddy Kruger without getting freaked out, and I am 25 years old.
Also I am scared of a lot of the Japanese moves like Premonition, The Eye, Ringu.
Missy2U
10-22-2007, 06:06 AM
Final Destination. I saw it for the first time this weekend.
I still ain't right...
ajb524
10-22-2007, 06:09 AM
House on Haunted Hill-Scared me to death
cr8zyforaf
10-22-2007, 06:09 AM
Oh, I forgot Deep Blue Sea - where the couple gets left behind...OMG...we had gone on a snorkeling excursion a few weeks before I saw the movie in Belize and someone getting left behind could really happen. Had I seen the movie before that - I wouldn't have gone snorkeling.
SweetRed
10-22-2007, 06:10 AM
Have you happened to have read the book? Because what she does to him in the book was WAAAAY worse than what was done in the movie version!
OMG! I don't even think I want to know! (As I add the book to my never-ending list of books I should read soon...)
Dan's*Girl
10-22-2007, 06:52 AM
Anything with demonic posession, zombies, evil voices, all white or all black eyes or posessed kids.
Excorcist
Shining
28 days later
children of the corn
the omen
amityville horror
the ring
original nightmare on elm street
I don't really get scared by movies, but the first time I watched Halloween it scared me because it was late at night and I was home alone and that music just freaked me out.
It annoys me because no one makes any good, scary movies anymore.
Have you seen the new Rob Zombie Halloween movie? I personally thought it was really good.
jimmysgirl424
10-22-2007, 08:51 AM
Oh, I forgot Deep Blue Sea - where the couple gets left behind...OMG...we had gone on a snorkeling excursion a few weeks before I saw the movie in Belize and someone getting left behind could really happen. Had I seen the movie before that - I wouldn't have gone snorkeling.
Actually, the movie you are thinking about is Open Water. However, Deep Blue Sea is also a shark movie, just with a different plot. :)
Anna Low
10-22-2007, 09:02 AM
Salem's Lot. Not the most recent one, but the original with David Soul. (Yes, I'm showing my age here) When the kid's brother was scratching at the window.......after all these years, I still cannot bring myself to look out a window at night if I'm home alone.
phoenics
10-22-2007, 10:18 AM
The Thing. Saw it with some kids from down the street when I was like 8. My grandma took us, not realizing the nature of the movie - or thinking she was being cool or something. Ugh. Scared me to death. She paid for it though. I snuck into her bed that night and woke her up every 5 minutes with, "Grandma, are you real?" remembering how the dead people killed by the Thing would come back to life as spiders and other horrid things... like a severed head would grow six spider legs and go killing people.
Devi's Advocate That movie scared the bejeezus out of me. I was afraid to look at people, thinking their faces would go all demonic on me. *shudders*
Blade Until Buffy and Angel, I could NOT watch anything about vampires. My friends said it wouldn't be scary - but it was to me. The first few scenes where the vamps are teasing that poor guy that a female vamp had invited to their rave (as food, unbeknownst to him) when he freaks out as the sprinkler system rained blood just messed me up. I was in the theater going, "no, their TEASING him" *wail* ... I have a fear of vampires - of getting bitten and being turned... UGH!
The commercials for Feat.net scare me. Scary movie previews scare me. I found out about what I AM LEGEND is all about and now I can't go see it - but I am glad to know ahead of time - because I would be SO pissed.
longislandlolita
10-22-2007, 10:24 AM
And the movie that traumatized me as a child, The Watcher in the Woods :eek:
Yes! Yes! I saw this at a slumber party when I was about 10 (though I must have watched half of it with my hands over my eyes) and it scared the daylights out of me! I'll never forget it. Glad to know I wasn't the only "sissy" who got freaked out by a Disney movie! :o
ysolde
10-22-2007, 10:24 AM
The Stand All those bodies in the darkened Lincoln Tunnel.
The Exorcist My dad rented it when I was 12. What was he thinking?
Salem's Lot We rented it in college (the old one, with David Soul and Bonnie Bedelia). Scared the shit out of us. Still watch it every Halloween, though.
The Birds So, was it the end of the world? Did the birds attack everything, or just Bodega Bay?
Yvangeline
10-22-2007, 10:30 AM
The Shining and Session 9. I think both are kind of unconventionally, more psychologically scary.
msnicolea
10-22-2007, 10:31 AM
Seven.
still haven't recovered.
Yvangeline
10-22-2007, 10:32 AM
Seven.
still haven't recovered.
Heh - I was just coming back to add that to my list. I didn't really get freaked out until the end of Seven. Then I almost threw up.
msnicolea
10-22-2007, 10:34 AM
Me, too! HORRIFYING!
jmvan74
10-22-2007, 10:42 AM
The Shining! ahhh.
I used to love horror movies as a teen. I've seen so many Friday the 13th and Halloween movies.
Now I can't even stand to see a preview for a scary movie. I had nightmares after watching the "Scooby Doo" movie. LOL!
chefker
10-22-2007, 10:42 AM
Heh - I was just coming back to add that to my list. I didn't really get freaked out until the end of Seven. Then I almost threw up.
How could I forget Seven! That was a horrifying, but really GOOD scary movie. I saw it in the theater, and immediately threw away the pine tree air freshener in my car afterward. *shudders*
I don't do scary movies, generally. I don't like the gore. And generally movies about ghosts and ghouls don't scare me. Though Poltergeist freaked me out as a child. That clown! Shudder.
So, believe it or not, for me the scariest movie I think I've ever seen in Scream -- because it's about a real killer, and not ghosts. It also probably didn't help that when I watched it, my roommate and I were sitting alone in the apartment we'd just moved into when the phone rang several times at scary moments, but the scariest part was right towards the end of the movie, there was a loud knock at our BACK door. I don't think I've jumped up and turned on every light in the house that fast ever again. It was a neighbor wanting to make sure that we weren't planning to move our car that evening, since he was blocking us in.
Rambina
10-22-2007, 10:45 AM
My dad let me watch Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 6 and I've never been the same since. To this day, I get shivers down my spine when I hear anything resmbling the "1, 2...Freddy's coming for you..." song that the little school girls sing. UGHHHHHHHHHH. Gut wrenching. As well as every other scene in that awful movie alogn with the entire series.
The Ring freaked me out and I had nightmares for a long time.
THe Shining was awful but I didn't have nightmares about it.
Can't remember the others right now.
Etoile
10-22-2007, 10:50 AM
I won't watch scary movies any more because I know I'm too sensitive. The turning point was Seven. To this day I sleep with a night light because of that movie. The two things I can't bear to watch are torture, and ghosts. The second scariest movie I've seen was The Sixth Sense. Followed by The Exorcist.
Non-horror movies that scared/disturbed me: Glory, where the guy had his leg amputated, and Cold Mountain, where they tortured Kathy Baker.
Oh,yeah. Seven was scary as all get out! The Shining also scares me.
chefker
10-22-2007, 10:58 AM
Just remembered another REALLY scary movie....this one was absolutely frightening:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/chefker/003_crossroads_doublesided.jpg
Couldn't resist....sorry! :D
ktdelsur
10-22-2007, 11:02 AM
I can't believe no one has mentioned this one...I guess it was kind of obscure:
Lady in White
It *still* creeps me out.
rene'
10-22-2007, 11:03 AM
Scary movies don't scare me that much. I would say that The Grudge is the most recent one that gave me a good scare.
However, I loved:
When A Stranger Calls (old and new versions)
The Shining
Halloween (the original)
The Exorcist
I love scary (not gorey movies. I watch them whenever they come on.
My 9 year old daughter is scared to death of Chucky. I think she caught a glimpse of him when she was 4 or 5 and she won't even walk down the aisle at Blockbuster that contains that movie. If we pass by Spencer's in the mall during Halloween, she walks on the other side with her head turned away. She is freaked out by that doll!
phoenics
10-22-2007, 11:10 AM
Ooooh I forgot about The Shining - scared me really bad... mostly because I didn't understand that he was cuckoo until years later when I was older.
cynder
10-22-2007, 11:14 AM
DH loves, loves, loves scary movies. I hate, hate, hate scary movies. Every year, I concede and watch one scary movie with him that he insists on watching with every light in the house turned off. The first one we did was The Shining and I still can't look at Big Wheels the same way.
chefker - That is scary but have you seen "From Justin to Kelly"? Horrifying!
That is scary but have you seen "From Justin to Kelly"? Horrifying!
Scarier than "Glitter"?
I love scarey movies! Actually Children of the Corn freaked me out. So did The Ring.
When my niece was young, her father let her watch the Child's Play and to this day (she is now 17) is terrified of ANY doll. When she was living with us for awhile, my daughter had to put all her dolls up (including Barbies) because she was so afraid of them.
curlyjr
10-22-2007, 12:03 PM
OMG I forgot about Lady in White! (have you ever seen a dream walking...)
LeslieR
10-22-2007, 12:16 PM
The Exorcist still scares me to this day. All the others (Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc.) might have scared me initially, but they're just so cheesy, it's hard to take them seriously anymore.
I saw The Sixth Sense in the theater and that movie scared the crap out of me. I couldn't sleep that night at all-had to check under the bed, the closet, etc.
JamBray
10-22-2007, 01:19 PM
When I was younger The Exorcist (I still can't watch it) and A Nightmare on Elm Street. More recently, The Grudge. I found that movie to be even more creepy and disturbing than The Ring, and it stuck with me for days.
Standrea
10-22-2007, 01:56 PM
OOOOOh...
The move White Noise or whatever it was called, taht was out 2 years ago. I never saw it, but the movie trailer and commercials scared the crap out of me. I still can't let the tv go to static!
Ribbit
10-22-2007, 04:18 PM
They did a very good job with Pet Semetary, it was just as good as the book, IMO. And out of all of his books, I'd have to say that that one scared me the most. Well, that one and Geralds Game, which I hope they never make into a movie.
I totally agree with both of these statements (heh...and I know the kid who played Gage in Pet Semetary...he's not at all creepy in real life). I read Gerald's Game when I first went to college and lived alone...I couldn't turn off the lights for a week, for fear that I'd wake up with a freaky guy in the corner! I hope they never make it into a movie, either.
The Ring was probably one of the scariest movies for me...I had to dissect all the problems with the movie, and visualize the creepy girl falling out of a wall mounted flat screen (all comical and Scary Movie like) before I could be alone in a room with a television. :D
ETA - Watcher in the Woods was one of my favorite movies growing up...I was always the annoying girl that had it at her slumber party, along with Logan's Run (not really a scary movie). I guess I've always liked the weird/scary films. It's the gross/scary films I don't like and generally refuse to watch.
jenjunum
10-22-2007, 04:55 PM
I watched quite a few scary movies at slumber parties when I was a preteen/teen. The scariest for me was Pet Cemetery. That really freaked me out. Probably because I had a lot of pets growing up and who doesn't want their pet to come back after they die?
The Exorcist, Child's Play, Halloween, Leprechaun, etc weren't that scary to me. There's another Stephen King movie with a cat named Clovis in it, I remember I wanted to name my cat that for a long time. I can't remember the name of the movie now though. I think I only saw one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. That was really young (like 9?) and I don't think I watched the whole thing. I never really watched that series with friends.
I don't really watch scary movies now though.
Ribbit
10-22-2007, 05:10 PM
There's another Stephen King movie with a cat named Clovis in it, I remember I wanted to name my cat that for a long time. I can't remember the name of the movie now though.
Sleepwalkers! Ugh...all the dead cats in that movie (I mean, I know they weren't real, but so sad!) Fortunately that movie was so bad I've mostly blocked it from my memory.
msnicolea
10-22-2007, 05:11 PM
When I was little, it was Jaws.
I still can't watch it.
udsweetpea
10-22-2007, 05:33 PM
OOOOOh...
The move White Noise or whatever it was called, taht was out 2 years ago. I never saw it, but the movie trailer and commercials scared the crap out of me. I still can't let the tv go to static!
I watched that movie recently, and the scariest part of that movie was the end when it said something about the statistics of how many people are visited by "white noise".
Sal03
10-22-2007, 05:55 PM
The Shining. that movie TERRIFIED me
I don't voluntarily watch scary movies since Poltergeist and Watcher in the Woods gave me terrible nightmares when I was little. I read American Psycho in high school and couldn't sleep for two weeks
Ilovemygeek
10-22-2007, 10:26 PM
Stephen King's It. I am getting jumpy just thinking about it.
KiKi'sMommy
10-22-2007, 11:02 PM
"The Ring". This movie not only scared me, but also my DH. I should note for the record that horror movies never, ever scare him. The last scene of the movie did him in though, he didn't want to go upstairs by himself that night after watching it. :p
This is so funny because my DH and I watched this movie one night laying in bed. After the movie, he got up to go to the kitchen and pretty soon I hear him running down the hallway. He runs into our room, slams the door and jumps into bed. I started laughing at him and he admitted that the movie scared the crap out of him. He is also one that NEVER gets scared by movies.
sublime311
10-22-2007, 11:58 PM
As embarassing as this is to admit, The Blair Witch Project had me up for a few nights. But, in my defense, I didn't know it was fake at the time...
Well, I knew it was fake and it STILL scared me to no end. It wasn't scary at the time, but about 30 minutes later, after I had time to think about it, it messed with my head. That end scene where the camera falls and it shows that guy in the corner. OH MY GOD. I had to sleep with the lights on for at least two weeks.
Before that, it was the Shining. The scene where "Dick" Hallorann was axed as he came around that corner.... :eek:
jimmysgirl424
10-23-2007, 12:26 AM
Before that, it was the Shining. The scene where "Dick" Hallorann was axed as he came around that corner.... :eek:
The two little girls that Danny kept seeing did a number on me...
or all the blood coming out of the elevators...
JamBray
10-23-2007, 09:51 AM
The worst to me is that beautiful woman in whatever room number (217?) turning into an old, rotting woman. :eek:
LaughAtlantis
10-24-2007, 07:14 AM
My first date ever - at age fourteen - was to go see the movie Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. These kids were in a psychiatric facility and Freddie would come and visit them in their dreams... and the psychiatrists kept forcing them to go to sleep. That kept me up at night, big time. Evil monsters working in conjunction with your doctors!
ETA: I didn't date that guy again.
ginadc
10-24-2007, 07:17 AM
Salem's Lot. Both the book and the movie--not the more recent one with Rob Lowe, but the late-70s version with David Soul. (God, whatever happened to that guy?) James Mason as Straker creeped the hell out of me.
JenniferEC
10-24-2007, 10:34 AM
Psycho, Halloween and Friday the 13th.
I remember seeing one of the Friday the 13th movies and there was a scene where a couple got stabbed from under the bed. I slept on the floor for a long time after that!
am_81
10-24-2007, 11:24 AM
Seven freaked me the eff out the first time I saw it; I've seen it at least a dozen times over the years and I still get a chill every time. Halloween (the first one) is also another good one. Its scary, but in a way I can handle.
I accidentally watched part of The Exorcist when I was a kid and didnt sleep with my bedroom door closed until I was 14 or 15. It was also a particularly scary one, considering I was probably only 10 at the time. And Child's Play of course. My friend had a doll like Chuckie and when I spent the night at her house I would make her put it away.
ETA -- The first time I watched American Psycho I couldnt make it through to the end. I sat there and watched 2/3 of the movie (most of it from behind my hands) and I had just had enough. Its one of my DH's fave movies so every time he sees it on cable he has to watch at least 15 minutes of it. After seeing bits and pieces so many times its become bearable, but I still havent watched it the whole way through.
3442dave
10-24-2007, 12:24 PM
Have to agree with When a Stranger Calls (old version). Absolutely chilling. After we watcher, my friend made me sleep on the floor next to her closet. Nice.
Daisy
10-24-2007, 02:16 PM
Seven and the Bone Collector
zhannushka
10-25-2007, 06:38 AM
White Noise. It took me a while until I was able to listen to the radio again on my long drives home from school late at night! :o
HeatherFL
10-25-2007, 11:50 AM
Here's an article (http://movies.aol.com/movie-photo/celebrity-favorite-horror-movies) recently featured on AOL/HP on celebrities' favorite scary movies.
~H.
kd 9.21.02
10-25-2007, 12:44 PM
I came in here thinking no one else would have seen Lady in White. :p That movie still scares the bejeezus out of me. I've always loved the idea of the ending though -- when the mother & daughter are reunited and they get some revenge/closure. And can you believe that was Mona from "Who's the Boss" as the aunt/sister?
gayle
10-25-2007, 01:25 PM
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho remains to this day, the scariest movie EVER.
Lydia
10-25-2007, 02:53 PM
SAW scared the bejeezus out of me. All three of them. Can't wait for IV!
Rosemary's Baby and Trilogy of Terror - the Zuni doll in ToT still scares me!
wendalah
10-25-2007, 03:26 PM
The Sentinel (1977)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076683/plotsummary
This is a freaking freaky movie and it scared the living crap out of me.
From Wikipedia:
The film became controversial when it was revealed the director used actual disfigured people to represent demons during the climax.
This film was #46 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
lauren f s
10-26-2007, 08:50 PM
The House on Haunted Hill
I can't even think about it too much or I'll get scared right now. Anything dealing with people being mistreated in insane asylums scares me. Certain scenes in that terrified me and I still can't think about it.
But I'm a wimp. Just about anything scares me :o.
permanentvacay
10-28-2007, 03:25 PM
ok - i'm a huge fraidy-cat - i still have not seen the orignal exorcist (with linda blair) all the way through... i just get too creeped out
GlamaGal
04-15-2008, 06:44 PM
I was just wondering if there was a thread out there about this! Of course there is.
Poltergeist- the scene when the little boy is dragged under the bed by a doll clown. To this day, I will not let even my pinky toe over the edge of the mattress, due to that irrational fear! And, I am really afraid of clowns (especially the sad looking ones). REALLY afraid. IT didn't help too much in that regard.
OOOOH, Return of the Living Dead. Brains, brains, brains! Those people would rather kill themselves than be eaten by the dead people!
tandt
04-15-2008, 07:08 PM
I can't remember if I posted to this way back....
Blair Witch Project
The last few seconds of that movie when they're yelling and running to the basement of that house-- with the bloody handprints on the walls-- and then you see one of the guys facing the corner. Especially since that's what the 'witch' does-- she makes you face the corner.
We watched that around midnight and I could not go to sleep-- that freaked me out!
TracyDP
04-15-2008, 10:44 PM
As a kid Poltergeist scared the crap out of me! After going to see it I went to spend the night at my friends house. She had a huge tree outside her bedroom window and it was a windy night. Nuff said. I called my Mom at 3am to come get me because I was freaking out.
As an adult the movie The Ring scared me so bad I almost made DH turn it off. I wouldn't go sit outside in the hot tub after watching it and I had a hard time sleeping.
mkredhead
04-16-2008, 06:11 AM
Chalk one up for Halloween. I've seen it a million times and it is still terrifying!
Daisy
04-16-2008, 11:50 AM
Seven and The Bone Collector.
littlebear
04-16-2008, 01:05 PM
It, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, When A Stranger Calls, and The Ring all freak me out. The Steven King mini-series Storm of the Century kept me up for a while too.
sandt8704
04-17-2008, 11:25 AM
Flowers is the Attic. Yikes!
AlisonCO
04-17-2008, 01:08 PM
The Ring
Silence of the Lambs
PinkMartini
04-17-2008, 01:22 PM
The Steven King mini-series Storm of the Century kept me up for a while too.
OMGoodness, I totally forgot about that one! Scared me pretty well as well!
udsweetpea
04-17-2008, 01:29 PM
Fire in the Sky for me. I watched it at a sleepover while playing Ouija, so that didn't help.
Surftraitor
04-17-2008, 01:33 PM
The Ring, Nightmare on Elm Street 1, Amityville Horror,
quest
04-17-2008, 06:32 PM
The Exorcist, Prince of Darkness, The Thing...I know there are others, but for the past several years I refuse to watch any movie that doesn't have a 'happy ending' so my mind is drawing a blank...
Holy crap, I just went back to read some of the thread and completely forgot about Trilogy of Terror...that last story with the doll was awful!
penybryn
04-18-2008, 12:34 PM
The Wizard of Oz - those flying monkeys freaked me out when I was kid. I had to let the dog sleep with me.
hdewey
04-19-2008, 07:15 AM
Resident Evil, gave me nightmares. I am 35 years old, and i had a nightmare.
It's wierd
K-L-U
04-20-2008, 01:41 PM
I saw 30 days of night last weekend and I was scared to death.
IT.
watched it when i was in 8th grade or something on tv... don't like the ending tho!
jimmysgirl424
04-21-2008, 09:03 AM
I saw 30 days of night last weekend and I was scared to death.
OMG..me too! I still can't keep the image of those vampires out of my head. They were SO evil!
Dizzy
04-21-2008, 09:47 AM
I saw Cloverfield over the weekend and that scared the crap out of me!
abbymac
04-21-2008, 01:28 PM
Anything I watched when I was little ... I watched Salem's Lot when my babysitter was asleep. Whoa.
manda_kate
04-24-2008, 04:08 PM
I am a wuss, so I have to say Stephen King's "IT." Damn clowns. I swear he wrote this just to ruin my dreams!! Also, a more recent scary one, 30 Days of Night.
phoenics
04-24-2008, 04:20 PM
OMG..me too! I still can't keep the image of those vampires out of my head. They were SO evil!
See? I don't mess with vampire stuff. Except Buffy or Angel and even that scared me something fierce at first. The comedy was the only saving grace.
I just don't watch horror flicks anymore. The Village (don't laugh) scared me. The movie built up the fear angle the whole time and even though I figured out both twists before they were revealed, I was STILL seeing red shadows at home at night and I freaked myself out. I'm so lame. :rolleyes:
jimmysgirl424
04-25-2008, 07:16 AM
See? I don't mess with vampire stuff. Except Buffy or Angel and even that scared me something fierce at first. The comedy was the only saving grace. I'm so lame. :rolleyes:
I'm that way about any movies that deal with demonic possession. I can't sit through them, they scare me to death every time. I'm usually okay with most vampire movies...except the neck crunching scenes..I have to cover my ears! :o But 30 Days of Night was very scary as vampire movies go.
Heidi9771
05-05-2008, 01:12 PM
I Am Legend was pretty good. I saw Cloverfield last night, and while I thought it was good, I thought the ending kind of stunk...too anticlimatic, and they could have done so much more with it.
DarkHorse
05-05-2008, 07:49 PM
One of the movies that freaked me out the most was Signs. It comes from the fact that it plays on all my fears. You look out the window and see a shadowy figure looking at you through the window, or the creature running around in the dark and you can't see them. That movie made me sleep with the lights on and I couldn't watch the whole thing for almost a year after the first time I saw it.
I have to say that movies with a lot of gore stop scaring me and just start to gross me out. They lose their fear factor when people start getting showered in blood...
Jaeschelle
05-05-2008, 08:17 PM
I Am Legend was FANTASTIC but it scared the crap out of me! I was scared of Dark Seekers (or Night Seekers or whatever they're called) for weeks after I saw that movie!
TX Sweetheart
05-06-2008, 12:41 PM
I saw Stephen King's IT when I was a kid and it scarred me for life. I was already scared of clowns because my mom and aunt always took me and my cousin to the circus every year (he's scared of clowns too LOL) but IT just sent me over the edge.
And like somebody else said before, The Wizard of Oz... it's funny, I can watch other versions of it, like The Wiz and DH & I went to see Wicked... and they're great... but I absolutely cannot bring myself to watch The Wizard of Oz ever again. Unfortunately, it's one of DH's favorite movies LOL
Scooter
05-06-2008, 09:12 PM
This might be a longshot, but did anyone see that TV movie Electric Grandmother in the early 80s? That scared the CRAP out of me. The father isn't around much so he buys an android grandmother to raise his kids, and she has to plug herself in and stuff. It was really creepy and frightening to me.
I just remembered it tonight and clicked on a You Tube clip of it. Couldn't get through more than 5 seconds of her rocking in her chair before I had to turn it off! I'm going to have nightmares tonight, I swear! :o
Julss05
05-08-2008, 04:07 PM
Fright Night :o I was still in elementary school when I first saw it and it freaked me out. Love it now, it's a classic! That movie got me liking others such as Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Tales from the Crypt.
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