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idonojacs · Joined: 07 Jun 2007

What's the scariest movie you have ever seen?

My vote goes for "Invaders from Mars."

http://imdb.com/title/tt0045917/

It's not a fancy production, but it strikes a primordial chord in the psyche, especially of a young child. When I saw it as a child, I had nightmares for weeks. The movie itself is filmed like a nightmare, full of imagery dredged up out of dark subconscious. And then, without giving away the plot, there is the great ending.

What got me thinking of this old movie was watching the extras disks from Gone with the Wind. It turns out William Cameron Menzies, the director, was the production designer for GWTW. I guess this helps explain the powerful use of visual imagery in Invaders.

I guess there are a lot of modern films with CGI effects that people like, but I wonder if they have the power to grip you like the old films, knowing that they are just CGI?

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

Old Boy.

It wasn't really scary, but more so disturbing. I felt sick to my stomach at the end of the movie.

tombirner · Joined: 19 Dec 2007

The Exorcist.

I almost never get scared by movies... I like horror movies, but more in a popcorn-movie sort of way... not in that closing-your-eyes-during certain-scenes way.

The Exorcist is terrifying. The first time I saw it I was on acid in high school, at about two am by myself in a dark basement, and I didn't even make it a half hour.

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject:

Deniro in Cape Fear ranks up there:

it's full of stars · Joined: 26 Dec 2007

Jacob's Ladder was pretty f@#ked up.

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

PBEnglish · Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Location: Shanghai

I know you asked for the scariest movie we've ever seen, but I can't limit it to just one. These are a few of the movies that have really done me in in the horror genre!

"Night of the Hunter" with Robert Mitchum. Not scary in a horror movie way, but in a noir-thriller way, it's creepy as hell. One scene in particular with Mitchum stalking two children along a riverbend still raises the hair on my neck. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/

"The Exorcist". Sure it's almost cliche to mention it now, but this movie was terrifying the first time I saw it. The overall atmosphere of the movie is just so unnerving. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/

More recently, I thought "The Descent" was a great shock horror flick. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/

Some other good titles:

"The Evil Dead" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/ (I think people tend to forget about this one because of Bruce Campbell becoming more of a B movie ham)
"Halloween" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/ (Screw the remake. This is a damned good thriller.)
"Night of the living dead" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/ (Awesome)

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

The Shining.

BreakfastInBed · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do

In my adult life, Funny Games got to me a little.

As a kid, I wanted nothing more than to see Footloose, instead, on vacation in Florida my dad took me to a drive-in to see City of the Walking Dead, a grade-Z splatter flick, from Italy I think. It scared the bejeezus out of me and gave me nightmares for years. Unexplained, meaningless, mindless, unstoppable slaughter. Terrifying. I sat with a newspaper in front of my face for most of the movie. My dad felt bad and we left before the second feature, Horror Planet. When we got home my mom laughed at me because the ink from the newspaper had rubbed off and I had a black dot on the end of my nose.

Around the same time I saw The Man Who Saw Tomorrow about Nostradamus, narrated by Orson Welles. In it, they predict WWIII and describe the nuclear holocaust. Freaked me out for a long time.

Kuros · Joined: 27 Apr 2004

The Ring.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Craven Moorehead · Joined: 14 Jan 2006

Within the last three years, I would have to say Ju-on. I saw it in the middle of the day in Montreal, and was really happy the sun was still out when I left. I'm not really sure why it struck such a chord with me in retrospect, but it was certainly creepy at times.

All time? I might have to say Whatever Happened to Baby Jane or The Exorcist. The original Evil Dead ranks as well, at least when I was a kid.

Jarome_Turner · Joined: 10 Sep 2004

I'd probably have to give my vote to Halloween (the original of course.... kcuf Rob Zombie).

I own a copy of the original Friday the 13th, another classic (altho slightly cheesy). My Korean girlfriend was scared sh1tless when we watched it together a few months ago. Even tho she loves horror/thriller movies, she wasn't at all familiar with the 80's American slasher genre. To her, it wasn't cheezy at all.
My favorite scene is when Kevin Bacon gets the arrow through his throat...

southern boy · Joined: 29 Sep 2007

The Eye, I had to turned it off the first 20 minutes.

Jessie · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Location: Seoul

The first movie which always comes to mind is Alien. I was very young, 3 or 4 if I remember correctly, and my Dad let me watch it with him and my older sisters. It scared the living shit out of me for months!

A few years later it was, The Shining, and that movie still freaks me out. I am 25 and I still have to cover my eyes when the scene in the bathtub comes up! Laughing