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#1 ·
I am a horror movie fan and was wandering what scary movies have scared you the most? Mine are The Excorcist, saw it during its original theater run, The Hitcher, Halloween, and have to admit I did a little squirming watching Hostel.:R
 
#34 · (Edited)
I am very surprised that nobody mentioned "THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE". IMO, this is by far the scariest movie I have ever seen:sweat:, and is really not for week hearts (I am very serious).
Moreover this movie has a very very dynamic sountrack with lots of deeeeeeep bass. The plot is great, and is not based on blood or vampire or so...
The first time I watched it, I was alone at home. I turned off the lights and played it at RL-5 db. It really scared the snot out of me:scared: I couldn't complete the movie until my wife came back home:no: but I did not tell her that: I only told here I was watching something else because men have to be brave and should never be scared :R...

Pls post your opinion on this movie!!
 
#35 ·
Blaser,

I definately concur about THE EXCORSISM OF EMILY ROSE! The bass during several passages is just insane, and adds to the overall feeling of dread. Several times during Emily's "halluciations" in the rain, and in her classroom, I just about dropped my drink!
 
#36 ·
Yes, I stopped the movie during the Classroom scene:sweat:
 
#40 ·
I haven't seen the Exorcism of Emily Rose, but it sounds like one I should pick up, if it has some good scares, and some good bass! I wanted to go see 30 Days of Night, but my cousin (who is the only person I get to see scary ones with, my gf and other friends are too scared) already saw it. Anyone catch that one?

I've been watching some old scary ones on AMC this month, but the Halloween movies aren't really scary, and Hellraiser was just downright confusing.
 
#41 ·
I just had my "Oh Duh" moment..

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

I'm pretty jaded with "scary movies" these days. I'll tense up and squirm occasionally, but I don't really get SCARED. This one was scary because it was so real. Filmed in a gritty/graining documentry style, it was so believable that it really disturbed me in a way that I haven't been in a REALLY long time. Especially effective for a movie with a budget of only $125k.

For a good review with spoilers, read this.

JCD
 
#42 ·
Scariest movie... Let's see. Twister.

Now, it doesn't sound like a real scary one, but when I saw it the first time was at a large outdoor amphitheater... at night... spitting rain... then lightening... then thunder... then right after the whole drive-in scene the city's storm sirens go off. So yeah, I was quite scared! :hide:
 
#44 ·
So the list from the first page is this copy and ad yours to this list:

Alien
An American Haunting
Audition
the boogeyman
Carnival of Souls(1961)
Carrie(1976)
Carnival of Souls
Candyman
Dead Silence
Dead Birds
Darkness Falls
Dead Ringers
Descent
Event Horizon (1997)
Excorcist
Evil Dead
Eraserhead
Final Destination 3
The Hitcher
Halloween
Hostel
The Hills Have Eyes
Jaws (1975)
Nightmare on Elm Street
Night of the Living Dead
Omen
Psycho (1960)
The Pulse
Pet Semetary
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
The Ring
Hellraiser
Silent Hill
The Shining
The Thing (1982)
Videodrome
What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath
Wolf Creek
 
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#45 ·
Anyone remember an old movie called "Corruption"? I remember turning that on one day when I was really little and it has haunted me ever since, something about a face lift doctor gone horribly, horribly wrong...:scared:
 
#46 ·
I went to see Signs in the theater by myself and was on the edge of my seat a few times. I wouldn't say I was scared, but the suspense had me going.

Most horror movies are just plain predictable and cheesy. I guess that's because I've seen quite a few of them so instinct tells me what's going to happen next. It's when an original one comes along that sets the spider sense tingling.
 
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#47 ·
Well you don't want bloody or shooting movies for them to watch, untill they think they are ready. Comedy and family Are the best type of movies. Drama, Action or anything other movies may have some things in that that might make them scared.
 
#49 ·
Funny to think about now,... but back in late '73,.....
This double feature was the (I believe) last double feature released by a major motion picture studio,...(until Grindhouse I suppose) when it hit the discount theater here, mom sent us off to get 4 hrs peace and quiet. :bigsmile:

Anyone know what that horror film double feature was???

Spoiler
Sssssss and The Boy Who Cried Werewolf.
 
#54 ·
Do you find it scarier than "the exorcism of Emily Rose?? :raped: :rubeyes:
 
#51 ·
The Shining

Whan Scatman Cruthers took an axe in the chest, I about lost it. I saw it at a midnight showing. We left the theater out the back door, and all during the walk thru the parking lot, I kept looking around every car to make sure no one was going to jump out from behind it and kill me.

:hide:


Tim
:drive:
 
#52 · (Edited)
This was a great thread to come back to. I've been trying to add to my scary movie section recently, and other than the usual basic stuff, it's nice to get some ideas from others, since you don't usually hear as much about horror. It's nice to see a few more obscure ones that I wouldn't think of, or older movies I'd forgotten about.
 
#53 ·
Definitely the Excorcist. I don't believe in Vampires, werewolves, mummies, zombies or anything like that... but the Devil and demons, that's scary stuff!

Another one I found frightening mainly because it was more real than shock value horror or gore fests was Cujo. Try to imagine yourself trapped in the car towards the end of the movie and it really takes on a whole new meaning of terror. For those of us that have kids, movies like this and in Pet Cemetary where the little boy gets hit by the Semi, they are particularly unnerving.
 
#55 ·
I've seen a couple mentions of The Hills Have Eyes.

I have both the original and the remake on DVD, and recently watched the new sequel. They were fun and I enjoyed them, but never was really scared at any point.

The Decent... that had a few really creepy scenes in it that actually came back in a couple of dreams, which woke me up scared! So I'd have to add the Decent on my list too.

Other than that, I rarely am scared by gore fests... most of the time I sit there thinking, wow that was a cool FX, wonder how they did it! What's really scary to me are movies that are more mental terror, you know the ones... where they don't always show and make your brain imagine what happened- and usually what we think up is way scarier than something they can put on film. Probably because our brain taps into our subconscious to pull out what really frightens you.

The Shining never really did anything for me, I don't know why, but I found it and the remake boring and almost funny instead of scary.
 
#57 ·
When I was a kid... The Invasion of the Body Snatchers... the one with Leonard Nimoy and Donald Sutherland.

I saw it at the theaters somehow and went home to bed. I was so scared I could barely sleep. Finally went to sleep and I half awoke in a cold sweat... I'll never forget the sheer terror I experienced that night.

I lay in my bed half awake hearing this mucousy clicking sound - it was obvious to me that this was the sound of a Pod producing a replicant of me next my bed. I tried to tell myself it wasn't so, the more awake I became the more positive that there was a body snatcher next to my bed.

It took a long time to work up the courage to flick the light on and look. Next to my bed my family dog had just delivered a full litter of 8 puppies.
 
#58 ·
blaser,

Of course but I am biased since I made it. It's for you to decide when it's released. I certainly
researched scary movies extensively and storyboarded the movie from the first frame to the last.
We have a great score by Andrew Nixon and Seth Wright, imaginative cinematography by
Tom Agnello and f/x by Brian Spears. We're currently having it negative matched now. Then
we must prepare for the mix. I'm creating a unique sound design for the 5.1 stereo format. Of
course we'll transfer the negative on a Spirt at 4K for both Blu-ray and standard DVD. I might have
them make a custom HD DVD for my own private use.


RWH
 
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