Scary Movies

[crazycanuck]

I can't avoid Halloween stuff here so i'll ask this. I know you're probably going to have some party with scary films & would like to know the scariest film you've ever seen???

I'd have to say "The Exorcist" was the freakiest film i've ever seen! WOW, great film but a bit too much for me!!!

Another film that scared the kapoopies out of me was "The Proposition". It's not a horror film but it was frightening to watch!! Nick Cave is a bit too dark in his writing sometimes!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421238/

One that I won't watch is "Wolf Creek" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416315/

[gingerale]

The 1979 movie "When a Stranger Calls." That one scared me for years. We watched it at a Halloween slumber party when I was about 13 or 14, I think, and that did me in for babysitting for a long time. lol

[lph]

I hate scary movies I have trouble getting the bad scenes out of my head.

So I've only seen very very few. "Halloween" scared the bejasus out of me when I was a young teenager, saw it at a birthday party and had to walk home through a dark forest afterwards

And I can very vividly remember seeing "Blair Witch Project" a few years ago. That final scene.. *shudder*

But then, I have such a vivid imagination that it still bothers me that I picked up "American Psycho" in a bookstore and happened to flip to and read some of the nasty sections, several years ago.

Urk, to me this isn't fun scary, just queasy awful scary.

edited to add:

I love sci fi, fantasy, will happily read stuff about magic and evil spirits and aliens and whatnot, but it's the violence in a lot of scary movies that gets me. Can't read Stephen King at all.

[Kalidurga]

I've never seen The Exorcist because the book scared me too much.

And I wasn't scared by Blair Witch until that very last scene. It was filmed near where I live, so I spent the majority of the movie looking to see if I recognized places where I go hiking (I did, and now that adds an edge to tramping through those areas ).

I think the most scared I've been by a movie was watching the obscure flick Suspiria way back when I was a kid and cable tv was first introduced. Freaked me the heck out.

But, of course, most of the time the books are better. The Haunting of Hill House and The Shining are just two examples of the book scaring me sleepless, and the movie(s) being just ho-hum.

[OakLeaf]

I started watching the original "Night of the Living Dead" at least three times before I was finally able to make it through the first 20 minutes.

(Which is pretty much the scariest part IMO, once I managed to watch the whole thing.)

Of course I was a kid then, babysitting, watching the movie on late-night TV after the kids had gone to sleep, so basically young and all alone...

[bmccasland]

Flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz did me in, I still can't watch that.

Got to admit I don't do horror, gratutious blood and such - so I've never seen the Halloween series, Texas Chainsaw, Scream, or any of that genre.

I like suspense, but cutting up humans.. no thanks. Had to look away last night on one of the TV shows when they were about to do brain surgery, head shaved, starting the incision - Eyes closed.

I'm a wuss. And to think I was almost a paramedic.

[snapdragen]

The only part of the Exorcist that scared me was the scenes where Regan was going through all the diagnostic testing.

I don't do "slasher" films, blood and gore do not a good movie make.

The film that scared me the most was Seven. The first time I saw it I was horrified. (For those who have not seen it, it is about a serial killer, each victim reflects one of the 7 deadly sins) I haven't been able to watch it a second time.

[Flur]

The Changeling (1980) with George C. Scott does it for me. It scared me when I was a kid and can still scare me now.

I also thought "I am Legend" was terrifying, but I was scared for the dog, not Will Smith or myself.

I'm also a big fan of anything Stephen King or Hitchcock.

[redrhodie]

I love all of Polanski's horror films, like "Repulsion" and "The Tenant". "Rosemary's Baby" is my all time favorite scary movie.

[JaneE]

"The Haunting" (1963 version) is one of the scariest movies you'll ever see that has no gore, no violence...and is in black and white. Still gives me the creeps and I've seen it many times (and will be watching it again this weekend).

"The Haunting" (1999 version) is one of the dumbest and most unintentionally funny movies you'll ever see. None of the charm and suspense of the original, imo.

"Psycho" is also a good, no-blood, REALLY scary movie (I'm talking the 1960 original...NOT the 1998 remake).

[Eden]

One of my favorite scary movies is the original Japanese version of The Ring. They hardly show you anything, but it is super creepy through what they aren't showing. I haven't seen the American remake - I suppose I should, it was filmed right here in downtown Seattle.

[Kimmyt]

Japanese horror flicks are some sort of creepy. Audition remains one of the freakiest movies I have ever seen. I don't like horror movies, and I would hazard a guess that my eyes were actually open for only about 1/4 of the actual movie.

[crazycanuck]

The original Psycho was just plan odd & never expected the ending!! I love anything by Hitchcock!!! Vertigo, North By Northwest etc etc. Well, anything with Jimmy Stewart in it is ok with me

I can't bear to watch horror films....

[Bruno28]

I'm not a big horror movie fan - I usually find them ridiculous.

But The Shining scared the bejeezus out of me.

[Kalidurga]

"The Haunting" (1963 version) is one of the scariest movies you'll ever see that has no gore, no violence...and is in black and white. Still gives me the creeps and I've seen it many times (and will be watching it again this weekend).

"The Haunting" (1999 version) is one of the dumbest and most unintentionally funny movies you'll ever see. None of the charm and suspense of the original, imo.

See my reference above to Shirley Jackson's novel, The Haunting of Hill House, upon which both "The Haunting" movies are based. The '99 version is just as you described-- laughable. But even the '63 version, as effective as it is, is nowhere near as frightening as the novel. Jackson doesn't explain things anywhere near as neatly as the film, and really leaves you wondering what the h e l l is going on. If you get the chance to read it, do so.