Favorite SCARY movie?

[CeSoirNoir]

I've never seen a movie that truly scares me. I have to admit that I did enjoy the Blair Witch Project, and it was interesting to watch and was creepy. I liked The Ring as well. What is your favorite horror flick?

[CeSoirNoir]

19 views and no responses? what is going on? no one has a fave scary movie? oh well.

[snarled]

I thought The Ring was great.

Only one thing has ever scared me in movies. Damned face-huggers from Alien. *shudder* I think that stems from arachnophobia in general.

My favourite scary movie is Romero's Dawn of the Dead (see avatar). The original is cinematically superior to the recent remake (of course).

Fear of an oppressive horde of brainless/souless zombies aimlessly walking around a shopping mall is something a few INTP's might relate to...

[crule81]

19 views and no responses? what is going on? no one has a fave scary movie? oh well.

I'm not a big fan of horror or scary movies - probably the genre I watch the least.

[purple13]

My older brothers got me in to see the Exorcist when I was a teenager. Scared the bejesus out of me. Also the original Halloween was quite scary when I was younger. Not much scares me these days... save for reality.

[Division56]

The Ring


May - This movie had me shrieking the first time I saw it...

[Chall T. Dow]

I love scary movies. I'm always the guy in the back of the theater that's laughing at all the people who scream and jump. I guess my favorites are the Hellraiser movies, probably cause Pinhead is the best movie villian/monster there is. Pumpkinhead movies were ok too. Also liked all the Evil Dead movies though they're not really scary, the Halloween movies, Nightmare series, Friday the 13ths, uhm Texas Chainsaw Massacre was ok (the recent one, haven't gotten around to seein the original), The Ring was great, and I recently saw The Grudge and it sucked. Don't waste your money.

:devil: Chall T. Dow :devil:

[Birdsnest]

I vote for the really classic old movies, the very first Frankenstein, Werewolf, Dracula, and Mummy movies with Abbott & Costello. Also Alfred Hitchcock movies, any of them. The twilight zone freaked me out.

I am a light weight and can't stand the really scary ones, I don't enjoy those one bit.

[Spartan26]

It's amazing how some of these horror movies look cheesey now, but 20 years ago they'd make you wet the bed. By the time I saw Halloween it was on video, at a party, with a dozen other people who had already seen it fifteen times. No need to tell you there was no such thing as *spoilers alert* back then. So the whole experience had less fizz than week old Coke. But I was scared by the second one. At least initially. Can't remember but probably the whole way through. I think too often horror movies lose their chill after the first murder and never get it back.

I mentioned before in another post that Nattevagten, translated into Nightwatch (but not the remake done in English) was like the scariest thing ever to me. Although I have not seen The Ring.

I thought Blair Witch was scary, at first. I could remember camping up in the Rockies, it being pitch black, and the only thing to seperate you from the claws of a wild animal is a nylon tent. The more quiet it becomes the more scared you get. :ph34r:

So I like the first 1/2 hour of Blair Witch. Then I just felt yanked around. Plus, I thought they missed some excellent opportunities with things they set up in the beginning that they never paid off. It just went on & on. I don't think I'm a prude but the swearing was a little excessive. Did I miss something? Did they say Heather had Tourettes?

I should say I loved the premise "Three documentary filmmakers go off camping into the woods in search of a legend... One year later they find the tape." Who wouldn't want to go see that? I couldn't believe it only opened in two theaters and then I saw it and figured out why the staggered release. Anyway, props to Artisan for making it work.

I thought the premise of Nightmare on Elm St was brilliant - a killer who kills people in their sleep - because usually you have a hard time getting to sleep after seeing a scary movie but will feel safe once you do. Here they were just daring you to go to sleep. That's another film that was scary back in the day but if it's on cable now it's laughable. Maybe because I also know everything that's going to happen.

Never saw The Shining from beginning to end but my best friend got married at the infamous Stanley Hotel where the movie was shot. Five years and two kids later... I'd say he's got another 10 years for the nightmare to truly begin. Anyway, I liked the trailer for it. Drops of blood trickle slowly on a white floor. Suddenly elevator doors open up to a tidal wave of blood. :o

The one-sheet (poster) for The Exorcist has to be one of the best all time for any genre. Now that I've given all my individual awards...Well, I'd say Jamie Leigh Curtis is my favorite horror flick actress. Sarah Michelle just doesn't do it for me.

Favorite all around horror flick I would say was the first Scream movie. Even the one sheet with the five characters standing in a veer changed a lot how movies were marketed during the 90's. Although I hate needless repetition.

I thought the opening scene was really tight and had a great mix of humor, music, lighting, suspense and reveals. The fact that there was parody on the slasher genre I think helped the flick but I especially loved the camera angles - Neve Cambell in the Bronco, she locks the door, then the passenger side door lock pops up - that part, and the dialog I thought was really clever. I'm not really into horror flicks but when I saw the trailer when Neve is talking to the altered voice on the phone and says, "Who are you?" And the voice says back, "The question is not 'WHO am I?', but, 'WHERE am I?' !" I knew it had to see it. And it definitely exceeded my expectations.

[Hypnos]

The Exorcist III

A crappy movie, but there were some nice touches that gave a restless night.

[int]

I'm not a fan on scary movies but The Ring was good.

[greenintp]

Just saw The Grudge... not bad
The Ring....had a number of nicely disturbing ideas
Blair Witch Project did nothing at all for me.... at the end of the movie I was still waiting to be startled.

Christine & The Omen are my long time favorites, but I can't really say they scare me.... I consider them mood movies. If I'm in a rotten mood I will be watching one of them at least.

So far there are no Scary movies that I couldn't watch home alone at 3 in the morning.

:devil: :devil: :devil:

[file cabinet]

I also enjoyed The Ring.. I want to see the original though(Ringu).

[cloakable]

I also enjoyed The Ring.. I want to see the original though(Ringu).

No, you don't. It's seriously disturbing. Then there's Ring 2, and Ring 0: Birthday. The Ring trilogy is seriously scary. Get the original (Japanese) versions, and you'll freak out whenever you see a TV. I did.

[MacGuffin]

Let's see (in general chronological order):

Psycho
The Haunting
The Birds
Rosemary's Baby
Night of the Living Dead
Deliverance
The Exorcist
Black Christmas
Jaws
The Omen
Halloween
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Alien
The Shining
Evil Dead
An American Werewolf in London
The Thing
Poltergeist
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Fly
April Fool's Day
Aliens
Evil Dead II
The Lost Boys
Spoorloos (The Vanishing)
Silence of the Lambs
Jacob's Ladder
Candyman
Child's Play
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Seven
Scream
The Sixth Sense
The Blair Witch Project
Sleepy Hollow
El Espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone)
Session 9
Frailty
The Ring
The Others


The Exorcist III

A crappy movie, but there were some nice touches that gave a restless night.

That is funny, I bought the DVD for $5 a while back. That scene with those giant scissors....

[pulp_paperback]

black christmas is my all-time favorite. ringu is a decent film but the american remake (the ring) sucked. the fly and the house of wax are good (vincent price kicks ass). the evil dead series is also excellent.

pulp_paperback

[mgb]

Firstly, I am a jumper.

I was scared at the Grudge. I am not ashamed to admit that.

Also, Session 9 was particularily scary.

[Arioch]

I also enjoyed The Ring.. I want to see the original though(Ringu).

No, you don't. It's seriously disturbing. Then there's Ring 2, and Ring 0: Birthday. The Ring trilogy is seriously scary. Get the original (Japanese) versions, and you'll freak out whenever you see a TV. I did.

I find life horrfying enough without spending my time watching horror. I might if I was bored enough thought and didn't have atrillian other things I should be doing.

Is not doing anything and being bored when you could be doing all these other things a activity? Or is it what I think, a lack of interest and nothing else?

[Sackanaka]

I dislike scary movies, even though some are particularly silly. I wonder if it has to do with the T vs P? The T tells me that ghosts/supernatural/unlikely don't exist in the real world, but the P doesn't rule out the possibility of it existing. Especially when I will never know what I haven't experienced physically. Or maybe I'm just bending things out of proportion again :P.

[Slider]

Bride of Frankenstein
Peeping Tom
The Innocents
The Bad Seed
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Cape Fear
The Manchurian Candidate
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Rear Window
Vertigo
The Wicker Man
The Exorcist
The Shining
Scream
The Sixth Sense
Signs
28 Days Later
Gothica

[jimkopelli]

I don't really watch anything out of this genre... but one that I really liked was The Village. I actually couldn't predict where it was going, for once, so I was actually suprised by the plot twists and the ending.

[synchronous]

I have several favorite scary movies, but, the one that had the biggest impact was "Wait Until Dark" I watched when I was young in the mid seventies.

[SheepDog]

I've never been moved by the slasher type scary movies. There have been a few psychological thrillers that I found mildly entertaining, but for the life of me I can't think of any.

[INTrPosr]

My older brothers got me in to see the Exorcist when I was a teenager. Scared the bejesus out of me. Also the original Halloween was quite scary when I was younger. Not much scares me these days... save for reality.

The Exorcist did not frighten me when it originally came out. Later, in college I actually watched it and was frightened. I saw the new version when she came down the stairs upside down. I turned off the movie.

The Ring messed me up, as would that new one out now. Can't recall the title.

[INTrPosr]

I vote for the really classic old movies, the very first Frankenstein, Werewolf, Dracula, and Mummy movies with Abbott & Costello. Also Alfred Hitchcock movies, any of them. The twilight zone freaked me out.


There you go! I remember never considering myself a nerd or geekish during high school or as a young person. Some time ago I read an article on what constitutes a nerd, with one of them being interested in SciFi. Thought I was immune until they defined these classics as Sci Fi. So........ I'm a geek. :(

[inignot]

I think the scariest movie I saw was The Abominable Dr. Phibes with Vincent Price. It may have been scary because I was like maybe 10 years old when I watched it. I rember it being scary, but not exactly why. Also the first couple of Nightmare on Elm Streets were scary. But later they were just dumb.

[cloakable]

The Exorcist did not frighten me when it originally came out. Later, in college I actually watched it and was frightened. I saw the new version when she came down the stairs upside down. I turned off the movie.

The Ring messed me up, as would that new one out now. Can't recall the title.
The Grudge. Me and a friend gave The Exorcist the MST3K treatment, and I can no longer watch it without laughing. The humor was very black and anti-Christian, though.

[Utopmk]

Gothica
Gothica was not scary.

[INTrPosr]

The Grudge. Me and a friend gave The Exorcist the MST3K treatment, and I can no longer watch it without laughing. The humor was very black and anti-Christian, though.

So Cloak, have you seen The Grudge? I rarely go to movies, I wait for them to come out on DVD.

[cloakable]

No, not yet. A friend of mine tells me it's not very good, but I want to see for myself.

[Slider]

Gothica was not scary.

is the sole judgement of a 'horror' movie based on its scare factor? if you think it is, well then I guess you look to cheap thrills where I just look for a good movie.

[prometheusdestroyed]

I thought The Ring was great.

My favourite scary movie is Romero's Dawn of the Dead (see avatar). The original is cinematically superior to the recent remake (of course).

Fear of an oppressive horde of brainless/souless zombies aimlessly walking around a shopping mall is something a few INTP's might relate to...

When I have nightmares it tends to involve shambling zombies in relentless pursuit :o .

I love the idea of a good frightener - American Werewolf in London is one of my favourite though not frightening now. First time I watched as a lad I had to stop it at the moors scene and take it back to the shop.

Found the Ring chilling and even the girl from the Ring in Scary Movie 3 chilling (very funny movie if you're a simpleton like me).

The Others made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Always worry that if I think about ghosts too much I will project one and then die of fright.

[indie]

At the time I saw it, The Blair Witch Project scared the living daylights out of me. After learning that it wasn't *real* and all about the sheer brilliance of their marketing scheme, I felt like a schmuck. :blush: Wait a minute. . . can females be "schmucks?"

[Durroch]

I merit a scary movie by it's after effects, because anyone can jump at a well put together climax... So, using this as a point of reference, nothing really scares me!

Except aliens. Aliens... *shudder*

However, the only ones with aliens that scare me was that really crappy Roswell thing. Keeping in mind, I was probably about ten at the time, but yeah...

And Signs. That movie scared me... I still freak when people click at me... Something to be ashamed of I suppose!

[last_caress]

The Shining.

[cloakable]

I merit a scary movie by it's after effects, because anyone can jump at a well put together climax... So, using this as a point of reference, nothing really scares me!

Except aliens. Aliens... *shudder*

However, the only ones with aliens that scare me was that really crappy Roswell thing. Keeping in mind, I was probably about ten at the time, but yeah...

And Signs. That movie scared me... I still freak when people click at me... Something to be ashamed of I suppose!

For after affects, I cannot beat The Ring. After seeing the movie, I was scared by seeing my TV set. I don't know what I would have done if it had switched on to static. (or even worse, the well)

[MacGuffin]

For after affects, I cannot beat The Ring. After seeing the movie, I was scared by seeing my TV set. I don't know what I would have done if it had switched on to static. (or even worse, the well)

I knew someone (in his 30s too) that had his TV at the end of his bed. After seeing that movie, he slept out on the couch for a month.

[cloakable]

I'm not surprised. But in my case, my twisted logic NTP came into play, and the fear only lasted a week. I was in a state on the seventh day, though.

[Sackanaka]

I've noticed some people are scared of zombies and aliens. I am too, but I also love to dream about killing them >:] heh heh heh

[Biff_Loman]

Suspiria, directed by Dario Argento.

People: if you can rent this gem somewhere (not always easy to find), do yourself a favour and watch it.

Of course, the trick with any horror movie is to "buy into it." However, this is even more so with Suspiria. If you watch it without becoming at all invested, it'll seem silly. It's very dream-like, and you need to let Argento lure you into his world if the film is going to "work" for you. I recommend that you watch it alone, preferably with the lights off.

If you really want to know about this one, google up some reviews. Some critics consider it to be contender for scariest film ever made. Well, OK - whatever - but it's damn good.

Session 9 is also excellent. There are many other fine horror films out there - horror is my favourite genre - but you've likely heard of them.

[Dman]

I've never quite understood the whole zombie thing. It just seems cheesy to me, maybe I saw to many low-budget zombie movies when I was a kid.

I can't really think of a movie that actually scared me, except "The Omen" when I was about 6 years old (what were my parents thinking?) Books, on the other hand, have been known to keep me from falling to sleep right away...

For some reason I really did like "The Others", but it didn't scare me. I think I liked it because it wasn't full of totally out there fantasy but had a more realistic element to it.

[T.J.]

Suspiria, directed by Dario Argento.

People: if you can rent this gem somewhere (not always easy to find), do yourself a favour and watch it.

Of course, the trick with any horror movie is to "buy into it." However, this is even more so with Suspiria. If you watch it without becoming at all invested, it'll seem silly. It's very dream-like, and you need to let Argento lure you into his world if the film is going to "work" for you. I recommend that you watch it alone, preferably with the lights off.

If you really want to know about this one, google up some reviews. Some critics consider it to be contender for scariest film ever made. Well, OK - whatever - but it's damn good.

Browsing through old threads.....

Yes yes yes YES!!!! Suspiria is excellent. Creepy as all hell (the score!) but very dreamy and absolutely beautiful.

In the original script, all the girls were supposed to be adolescents, but Dario Argento's own father said that that was too much. He gave in, but he kept the script exactly the same (which is why some of the dialogue sounds rather childish) and furthermore altered the scenery in subtle ways (high door handles) to make the girls seem small in their environment.

I liked Inferno, too, more as a contrast to Suspiria. It also eerliy coincided with a story I was writing at the time.

Other than that, The Exorcist and Psycho and The Birds and a few episodes of the Twilight Zone are the scariest things I've ever seen. The Ring was creepy, but I got sick of the plot. American Werewolf in London is brilliantly funny. Cemetery Man is eerily funny. And... I liked The Forgotten as a tribute to The X-Files, which I liked back when it was good.

[Sir Isaac Lime]

The Exorcist [/i].

Part III would be my favorite, but it's horribly underrated due to how much part II sucked. The first hour is almost completly dialoge, but thats really what makes it good. One of the best villains too

"I like plays...the good ones. Titus Andronicus, it's so sweet"

[T.J.]

Part III would be my favorite, but it's horribly underrated due to how much part II sucked. The first hour is almost completly dialoge, but thats really what makes it good. One of the best villains too

"I like plays...the good ones. Titus Andronicus, it's so sweet"

I need to see that one. There was some other reason, aside from your excellent recommendation... ;)

I only saw the original a couple of years ago, when they re-released it. Midnight. Holloween. It was excellent. The first half especially, when, even though you knew what was going to happen, it was presented in such a way that she might have just been deranged. And the backwards down the stairs thing!!! AHHHHH!!!! Those rapid cuts. So creepy.

I was seeing the Devil in darkness for a week afterward - just a week, but still.

Oh, and the Others, too, was done very well, while not as frightening - the same idea of human horror, natural human hyperbolic fear in conjunction with the supernatural.

Oh, and how can I forget The Omen III!!!! Not that it's at all scary, but Sam Neill is just so charming... Sign me up for the anti-Christ's army!

[Sir Isaac Lime]

That is funny, I bought the DVD for $5 a while back. That scene with those giant scissors....

Both scissor scenes rocked, but in the hospital was the best.

Oh oh, I can't forget Amityville horror either.

[kuranes]

"The Haunting" ( original version. Not the updated version which gave me my first glimpse of Catherine Zeta Jones. ) "Jacob's Ladder" was a good choice I saw posted. Several versions of "The Fly" were excellent, including the new one with Jeff Goldblum. I was impressed that people had found "Session 9" as it was an obscure movie. ( Carson Daly doing soundtrack production!! ) Nicole Kidman was in a movie where she played a mom in a strange house. Was it called "The Others"? I think so. That was well done. LIke most of the original "The Thing" ( which "Alien" was partly based on ) and "The Blair Witch", it SUGGESTS horror rather than beating you over the head with it. Just saw the new Romero. Very political. Perhaps he always was, and I just didn't notice before? The movie that scared me the most as a kid ( "The Unearthly" ) had a very horrible premise, but wasn't that horrible in special effects/gore compared to today's horror. There was a movie hosted by Karloff called "Black Sabbath" or "Black Sunday", that was a three parter. Part One, about the woman getting the corpse of the old witch ready for a burial, was scary. I loved "The Ring" and thought "The Grudge" was terrible. Parts of "The Ring" reminded me of the "dream sections" of the movie about Sigmund Freud's life, which were always scary. The most effective part of "Suspiria" was the whispers and voices just beneath the regular soundtrack. H.R. Giger did the concept for much of "Alien" and the fact that he is a Lovecraft fan shows. "Psycho" and "Vertigo" were masterpieces. Bloch also did "The Night Walker" which was sweet. I will think more on this.

[T.J.]

And thinking of Suspiria makes me think of Phantom of the Paradise, which also has Jessica Harper... Not really scary, though it could be considered a horror movie. More glam outrageousness, a la Rocky Horror, and likewise hysterically absurd. ("Hi my name is Winslow!!!! :D ahahhahahha....)

And Phantom of the Paradise makes me think of Lisztomania, which features Wagner as nazi-frankenstein-vampire-iforgetwhatelse. Historically accurate!!!!! XD XD XD Sort of. ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES EVER. Not really for this thread, but ah well.

And then circle back to Lair of the White Worm, which is half horror, half absurdity. Highly recommended - if you're in the mood to be weirded out. And Hugh Grant's deadpan is priceless in a cheesy horror film. His talents are wasted on romantic comedies; I swear.

[Sir Isaac Lime]

I need to see that one. There was some other reason, aside from your excellent recommendation... ;)

I only saw the original a couple of years ago, when they re-released it. Midnight. Holloween. It was excellent. The first half especially, when, even though you knew what was going to happen, it was presented in such a way that she might have just been deranged. And the backwards down the stairs thing!!! AHHHHH!!!! Those rapid cuts. So creepy.

"fuck me jesus". Nothing else needs to be said in favor of this movie.

(it's after 10 and i'm drunk too!)

[MaroonBells]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
The Shining (both movie and tv series)
American Werewolf in London
Evil Dead II

A class of its own is Funny Games, a German movie with a totally disturbing finale which will make you as uncomfortable as you can get. Nekromantik was the one toughest on the stomach while "I spit on your grave/ Day of the woman" was the only movie I ever walked out on out of disgust for the degradations displayed.

I've always been a fan of scary movies though I grew a little cold on horror over the recent years. Halloween was the first scary movie I ever saw and still holds a special place, Evil Dead II and Werewolf I both have seen more than 10 times, the Shining was the only book I ever read cover-to-cover without getting up and Texas is masterful and not nearly as gory as you would think.

Other great pieces are Aliens, The Thing, Suspiria, Inferno, Elm Street III, Spoorloos.

I never really liked the zombie ones except for Return of the Living Dead which was hilarious.

[INTrPosr]

I enjoy scary movies that make me think. I am not a fan of the no brainers, i.e. Halloween, Friday the 13th (although I enjoyed the series), Childs Play, etc. I saw the Ring once.....ONCE!

I did not consider it a scary movie, but Constantine is under labeled a horror movie. I viewed it on DVD today, which comes out Tuesday, July 19. I think it had a lot of interesting moments that made me watch it and then review certain scenes. Lucifer meeting with Constantine at the end was my favorite.

[Master O]

the first "Nightmare on Elm Street" scared the shit out of me - loved it!

just like chall t. dow, i love the "Hellraiser" movies - sometimes it seems like someone actually went to hell had a peek and somehow made it back here, then wrote about it.

another fav is the "Lord of Illusions - Director's Cut". that is a good, creepy movie.

still, i think my favorite scary movie is "Event Horizon" - i just love the concept and i think it is truly scary.

[SgtWalrus]

Just saw the new "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and it was creepy and disturbing.

Other than that; classic Italian horror directors like Argento (agree with others here about Suspiria, one of my faves) & Bava, Hitchcock, Kubrick's The Shining . . . A lot of the stuff now is lame ~ gore alone is a bore. Most things that really creep me out are disturbing movies like Takashi Miike's Audition, which I wouldn't recommend to anyone. The really scary stuff doesn't just shock but drills into your psyche to bother you later.

[Promethean]

I've never actually seen a horror flick I liked. So far they have all universally sucked and been too stupid to be entertaining. Some are worse than others though. It's not really like preference, but where they rate on the suck-o-meter.

The newest ones like the Ring and the one with that freeky japanese kid that mows like a cat are the worst of the breed. They are so mindless and unrealistic I just can't get into them. I don't have a suspend brain and just enjoy function like most people seem to have. If something doesn't grab my brain I'm just not interested. I don't even like to have sex if I havn't been mentally engaged. Yah, I'm a freak.

Numerous times I've had friends take me to see a new horror movie thinking that I would like this one because it's really scary or somehow different. They were always disapointed when we walked out with me shaking my head wondering why I just waisted another two hours I could have spent curdling milk or whatever thing I would have been doing.

Well that's me.

[moni]

killer klowns from outer space! i thought it was scary when i was a kid, but it's actually a comedy... isn't it?

scariest movie i like is Event Horizon. :)

[kuranes]

I'll have to look up this "Audition" flick.

[booyalab]

I really am not scared that easily, but The Exorcist did the job.
I agree that the Exorcist III was good, too. Never saw the second one.

[headfonez]

SAW

[elle]

The Shining
Night of the Demons--- interesting B movie
The Blair Witch Project, ever had an experience watching a movie like that before, probably never will
Being John Malkovich
Movies with zombies walking around..... gives me the creeps...
Pet Cemetary... really cheesy but effective

[ohnoaninfp]

Home Movies
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[Apostasius]

The Changeling

[jyakulis]

the thing....and some zombie movies by romero

[Tensore]

The Shining -- I'm scared for life because of that dead woman who gets outta the tub. I can never sit on the can with the bathtub curtains closed...

Tremors -- I was young when I saw this one, whats not scary about the very ground you walk on gobbling you up?

[shaytana]

Attack of the Freaks!