Best Scary Movie?

[Optimistic]

My pick is 'IT'..... It freaks me out every time I watch it. eekk!

Justin

[structuredjen]

I can't call it the best, because I can't even bring myself to watch 2 or 3 or even now 4. 

But the scariest scary movie ever is- Saw.  I even own 2 and 3 and can't get through the first 10 minutes of 2. 

I know, I'm a wimp.   

[Iggy]

Halloween
Alien
Audition
Evil Dead
Jaws
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Suspiria
Gates of Hell
Demons
Psycho

to name a few that share the title

Modify to add: 

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.  I'm not sure it scared me so much as really disturbed me in a Last House on the Left sort of way.

[Queen Tokelove]

LOL@ IT...You must have a fear of clowns. I really don't consider Saw all that scary but more gory and it seems like each time a new one comes out, it is gorier than the previous one. I would have to say the 2 scariest movies for me were Halloween and The Exorcist with Nightmare on Elm St( the first one) running a close 3rd.

[PeteNYNJ]

I love Scary Movies - There arent a lot lately, more gory then scary

My favs
Halloween
Texas Chainsaw Masacre (original but didnt hate the remake)
The Howling
Jaws
Friday the 13th (orginal)
The Omen
Wolf Creek
Alien and Aliens
The Shinning
I,Madman
Silence of the Lambs

Tonight I have Hostel 2 coming from Netflix.  I am sure it will suck but I must watch scary movies especially around Halloween.

[MSPspud]

I think Wolf Creek was about the scariest and it takes A LOT for me.

[Queen Tokelove]

I didn't think Wolf Creek was scary at all. Just goes to show, we all have different scare levels.

[PeteNYNJ]

Wolf Creek scared me because it could happen.  I tend to get scared at any of those 'stuck in a situation alone and we can't get away' movies.  I love them!!!

Nightmare on Elm Street kinda made me laugh.  Freddy had some good oneliners.

[Iggy]

Nightmare on Elm Street kinda made me laugh.  Freddy had some good oneliners.

Horror that makes me laugh and is good:

Return of the Living Dead
Evil Dead

[structuredjen]

Wolf Creek scared me because it could happen. 

My sentiments exactly regarding Saw!  And I'll throw Hostel in right below that.  Although I did make it through that entire movie, I will never be staying at a hostel.  

[Queen Tokelove]

I gave my input on Hostel, if not here then I think in my movie thread. The first Nightmare on Elm St was scary to me because it focused on scare tactics. As more sequels came so did the comedy which made it lose it's edge to me as far as being scary. My favorite one liner from the sequels was "Welcome to prime time, bitch".

With Saw, yeah it could very well happen but I was given the impression he chose his victims according to how they lived their lives which most were not righteous. Kinda like Hannibal who liked eating those who were rude to him. Since I try to live my life most righteous, no worries there.

I thought Evil Dead 2 was funny as hell. Bruce Campbell was hilarious to me. I would never be in the situation that I was alone and isolated. I am not going to call anyone's name 5 times and wait to see what happens. I think Sci Fi's survival tips are funny as hell especially the one that said "You can't shoot what is already dead". My thoughts exactly....

[structuredjen]

Since I try to live my life most righteous, no worries there.

but what if the villain is Harry Anslinger?   




edited: to correct typo

[Queen Tokelove]

Is that the guy from Wolf Creek? After seeing what he did to the others, I think my need for survival would kick in. But then again, it's not like I would be in the Aussie outback anyways..Put it this way, unless they come to the hood, I am good.....

[Dan J.]

Hostel 1 & 2
Death Proof

[structuredjen]

Is that the guy from Wolf Creek? After seeing what he did to the others, I think my need for survival would kick in. But then again, it's not like I would be in the Aussie outback anyways..Put it this way, unless they come to the hood, I am good.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger 

and you call yourself a smoker!   

[Queen Tokelove]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger 

and you call yourself a smoker!   

LMAO, you got me there. How does he tie in to a thread like this one? But then if someone cut off my smoking, it could become quite horrific...

[thunter34]

Most of the ones I'd think of are already on here, but how about:

Wrong Turn


Cannabalistic inbreds have a pretty good creep factor.

[structuredjen]

LOL - if he were Jigsaw, from what I hear, you'd be number one on his list!

I can see it now, detaining you in the middle of a big 'ole pot field, pinning your eyelids open, and forcing you to watch it all burn to the ground.  Talk about horror! 

on second thought, you'd be high as hell and probably laugh yourself silly...till the buzz wore off.   

[Queen Tokelove]

 

[ImagineFL]

I love horror movies... unless there are clowns in it.  They scare me and freak me out!   

[Iggy]

I love horror movies... unless there are clowns in it.  They scare me and freak me out!   

Did I ever mention that I get hot with Zombie Clowns?  hot...H-A-W-T...hot

[komnaes]

What? No one has mentioned "The Shining" yet?

The creepiest movie ever made, period.

.. all works and no play makes Jack a dull boy...

Shaun

[thunter34]

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sorry.  couldn't resist.

[StrongGuy]

The Shining rocks....nothing like seeing Shelley Duvall flailing around with a knife.

Loved when she saw the guy in the bear gettup about to the give the other guy a blowjob.

Reminds me it's time to plan a Shining viewing party...

Love that movie.

[Jeffreyj]

Seeing George Bush on TV is frightning to me.

[Optimistic]

LOL@ IT...You must have a fear of clowns.

Clowns are just way too scawwy. I'm totally getting the chills just thinking about it.

Justin

[BB]

Alien is head and tails above the rest.

[Queen Tokelove]

Wow, Aliens? Really? I never looked at it that way. I thought it was more of an action/suspense movie. I liked Ripley but also liked the way the aliens were taking people out. Just watched Alien Resurrection last night.

[thunter34]

I still like John Carpenter's The Thing.

[Miss Philicia]

The Omen

DAMIEN!

*love* this one

[Hard Times]

strange land
house of a thousand courpes
the devel's rejects
1001 maniacs
& who could forget FREDDY CRUGER !

[pozattitude]

I watched The Exorcist when I was 10yrs old and it fucked me up.  I was the scariest movie I saw.
Nowadays I just turning on the TV and watching Bush and Co. in the White House scares the living hell out of me....


Rich

[Queen Tokelove]

strange land
house of a thousand courpes
the devel's rejects
1001 maniacs
& who could forget FREDDY CRUGER !

I see someone else likes Rob Zombie too. Strange land was Dee Snyder wasn't it? And I think you meant to say 2001 maniacs. I didn't think The Devil's Rejects was scary at all just a twisted view of a family of killers but liked the movie and the song FreeBird in it...

[Queen Tokelove]

I watched The Exorcist when I was 10yrs old and it fucked me up.  I was the scariest movie I saw.
Nowadays I just turning on the TV and watching Bush and Co. in the White House scares the living hell out of me....


Rich

Now I know Bush is a scary person but he belongs over there in one of the political threads. Next thing you know Jack will be over here talking political stuff....

[Just John]

Most of the good ones have already been mentioned, Halloween (what else tonight?), Friday the 13th, The Omen (original and remake), The Exorcist and The Shining were all good movies Oh and not forgetting Salems Lot or for that matter anything based on Stephen King's books.

I've got to say though that the only movie which really freaked me out since I was a kid is The Blair Witch Project.

I watched it at the cinema and came away thinking WTF was that all about; after reading all the hype I was expecting to be scared shitless, but, NOPE!!

THEN

About a month later I was coming home from work late; miles from anywhere I needed a pee, the road was really quiet and being out in the wilds was unlit, I pulled over at the side of the road and was midstream when there was a sudden breeze, I don't know why but all the hair on the back of my neck stood on end. The wind blew the car door shut and at that point I really started to freak, peeing half way down my leg in my panic to get into the car, I got in and slammed the door shut, locking it as I started the engine, checking over the back seat to make sure there was nothing there. I burned some rubber getting away from that place - to hell with the speed limits, the panic didn't subside until I reached the town.

I laugh about it now but it was just blind panic at the time and it was also quite a long time before I ever felt really at ease again driving along that stretch of road.

John

[Catman]

 Funny, but Blair Witch didn't scare me at the movies. I rented it one night and watched it alone at about 11:00pm and it scared the crap out of me. I never watched it again.
  All time favorite movie is "Aliens" but I consider that more science fiction horror.
 The movie that really freaked me out was "Hellraiser 2"! The Cenobites were so painfully horrible, cruel and scary that I was totally involved in the movie and the dimension it took place in. Pinhead is the coolest horror character and his sadomasochistic Gothic look is spectacular!



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[Miss Philicia]

I can't believe there's no mention of Karen Black and the infamously frightening Zuni Fetish Doll in Trilogy of Terror.

[Iggy]

I can't believe there's no mention of Karen Black and the infamously frightening Zuni Fetish Doll in Trilogy of Terror.

I thought it was to list scary movies and not scary performances?

[poz1970]

My pick is 'IT'..... It freaks me out every time I watch it. eekk!

Justin

Read the book, its 10000x scarier than the movie... I spent nearly 4 months sleeping with the lights on when I first read that when I was a little one.

J

[Mouse]

Please don't laugh at me, because I am hopelessly afraid of zombies. Every really scary nightmare I've ever had has been about zombies. I'm terrified at the thought because if a zombie invasion were to ever really happy I would probably just sit down and die. I don't think I have what it takes to hold out fighting off and escaping zombies. I'm too much of a wuss.

Although I suppose we can't really know unless it happens. I prefer to not know.


Strangely though I watch every zombie movie I can get my hands on.


George A. Romero is one of my personal Jesus... es (if you excuse me while I channel Depeche Mode for a second). I went to a Chiller Theatre convention a few years ago and got him to sign my Dawn of the Dead dvd. He shook my hand and took a picture with me and I was in nerdy boy heaven. I also got to see Savini and the three girls from Evil Dead.


I fully intend on seeing Bruce Campbell one day. I adore him. Army Of Darkness is one of the funniest most entertaining movies ever I think.



As far as being truly afraid, The Ring and The Grudge and Uzumaki (Spiral) scared the motherfucking shit out of me. I really suggest everyone watch Uzumaki. They have the entire thing up in parts on YouTube and it's a really trippy movie. I watched it at 3 in the morning one night and didn't sleep until the next night. People turn into snails and shit. It's fucked.


I am incapable of being afraid of IT because all I can think of when I see Tim Curry is Rocky Horror. And then I laugh.

[Iggy]

George A. Romero is one of my personal Jesus...

From someone who anxiously awaits Diary of the Dead: Amen!

[Queen Tokelove]

Ooooh, I love movies by George Romero...But then I am a gamer and loves Resident Evil. Hellraiser was scary but then as each sequel came out it got less scarier to me. I just watched Hellraiser: Hellworld the other night. I did see the Grudge but wasn't very moved by it, still has to check out part 2.

I did indeed read IT by Stephen King and still nothing, sorry. I thought Tim Curry was more funny than anything and has never seen the Rocky Horror Picture show. I am hoping that his new one, The Mist will be better.

Mouse, if you liked Army of Darkness then you should definitely like the Evil Dead 2. Diary of the Dead? Is this the next installment of his zombie movies? I think Iggy mentioned Zombies on a Plane but that just doesn't seem realistic enough for me and I think anyone who would be in that position is pretty much fucked, it's either jump or get eaten...Hmmm, let me think.....

[Funkengruven]

For me, the scariest movie is Arachnophobia.  Tiny little harbingers of death that look like ordinary house spiders and kill with one bite ... ick!

[Hard Times]

I see someone else likes Rob Zombie too. Strange land was Dee Snyder wasn't it? And I think you meant to say 2001 maniacs. I didn't think The Devil's Rejects was scary at all just a twisted view of a family of killers but liked the movie and the song FreeBird in it...

Dee Snyder was right,  B-movie Queen, isn't she great ?   what's a thousand or so extra maniacs, here & there,  (mostly here)  LOL+  .  (i see you noticed my dicklexic problem) LOL,LOL,LOL
have a good one .                                    TOMMY

[Just John]

For me, the scariest movie is Arachnophobia.

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HeHeHe

I got my Mother to watch Arachnophobia and told her that it was a documentary

John

[Catman]

I can't believe there's no mention of Karen Black and the infamously frightening Zuni Fetish Doll in Trilogy of Terror.

  That was a good one Philly. I remember it was the last tale in the movie Trilogy of Terror! That ugly voodoo/witchdoctor/warrior/whatever doll was one mean sob, and it was scary. My mom is a fan of Karen Black's old movies. I think she came out in another one of my old favorite scary movies titled "The Manitou"! She has a lump on her back and it turns out to be that it is not a lump but an embryo! She gives birth horribly and the thing just comes out of her back! Totally gross but great! I grew up watching all those horror flicks in the 70's! I miss those movies...

[Queen Tokelove]

Tommy actually I thought you were going to correct me. I thought I missed something. It took someone telling me that A House of a 1000 Corpses was the prequel to the Devil's Rejects. Now I have been trying to catch Corpses on the movie channel. It was on IFC like a week ago but I missed it....

[Winiroo]

"Scary" movies amuse me more than anything. I think the psychological suspense ones get to me more than the gory ones.
Love, love, love zombie movies. They crack me up.
No clue why, it wasn't especially scary but I really like The Stand.
Heck I like most Stephen King films.

All of the Saw flicks where good and 28 days later scared me when the car alarm went off.
I could go for days but I'll leave it at that....

Wendy

[Queen Tokelove]

Yeah, The Stand was good. 28 days seemed kinda slow to me and to me I didn't have the fear factor so much because they were in a rage and not really zombies. I haven't seen 28 weeks later but I hope it is better than 28 days. Funny zombie movie was Shaun of the Dead....

[Winiroo]

28 weeks later wasnt as slow but its still slow. If you liked the first one you'll like the second.
Shaun of the dead LMAO stupid funny.
Loved it!