Scariest Non-Horror Movie

[Guest Ozymandias]

Goddamnit, it should have read "Scariest Non-Horror Movies"

Anyway:

 

The Deer Hunter

Donnie Darko

Requiem For A Dream

The Virign Suicides (no, NOT because of Kirsten Dunst's teeth! )

 

Anyone else?

[Guest J*ingus]

Depends on if you'd count Alien as horror or sci-fi. If it's the latter, then it gets my vote.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Most sci-fi movies are too closely related to horror...Alien is pretty much a horror movie in space.

 

It's intention is to scare.

 

I say the Crying Game...guy's dressing as women scare the hell out of me

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Kazaam

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Kazaam

 

*YNA having flashbacks from Nam*

[Guest Incandenza]

Requiem for a Dream, certain parts of Happiness....

[Guest godthedog]

'deliverance'. the ending scared me more than any other movie in my life. i literally couldn't sleep afterwards.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

There was a part in LOTR that disturbed me when I saw it the first time.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

I've had a childhood fear of E.T.... think about it, for a "family" movie that's some freaky ish going on right there.

 

Also are we counting "thrilling intensity" as fear? Requiem for a Dream and Arlington Road kept me on the edge of my seat, and they're very intense movies, but I certainly wasn't afraid of them.

[Guest franchise632]

Event Horizon, I saw it in the theater and for some reason it just freaked me out.

[Guest DawnBTVS]

American History X...very realistic.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

ok, Don't Laugh...

 

Unico and the Island of Magic...

 

HEY! I SAID DON'T LAUGH! I was really little, and that puppet thing was pretty creepy, turning everybody into little stone puppets and all of that...

[Guest gwf0704]

Jaws.....

[Guest Youth N Asia]

But movies like Jaws and Event Horizen are meant to be scarey...that's their intent...E.H. is just as much horror as it is sci-fi...and Jaws is horror

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

E.T. scared the piss outta me too. ET moving through the field at the opening... Took me like 7 years to watch the whole thing after the opening...

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

I found parts of Close Encounters of the Third Kind kind of spooky as a child. Same with the ending to Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

I don't think Jacob's Ladder was a horror film per se...

 

so that gets my vote.

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

There was a part in LOTR that disturbed me when I saw it the first time.

 

Same with me, which scene are you referring to?

[Guest NoCalMike]

Requiem for a Dream definately......Arlington Road is another good candidate.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

As for LOTR...I was creeped out by Cate Blanchett

 

I don't know about anyone else...but she freaked me out.

[Guest J*ingus]

You know what's funny? The glowing super powerful mighty morphin' computerized demoness Galadriel didn't frighten me half as much as just plain ol' Cate Blanchett.

 

I just saw Signs today... don't know if you'd call it "horror", but it was fucking creepy.

[Guest converge241]

Requiem just makes you feel damn dirty afterwards

 

Kids

[Guest franchise632]

But movies like Jaws and Event Horizen are meant to be scarey...that's their intent...E.H. is just as much horror as it is sci-fi

well excuse the shit outta me!

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Whoa whoa whoa...take it easy man

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Wow, someone sure is sensitive.

[Guest godthedog]

the whole photography of 'gummo' and how it looked in general also freaked the hell out of me. the whole time i was going, "augh! look at that kid's head! augh! it's a retarded girl, & she's shaving her eyebrows! augh! it's another retarded girl, and she's alone in a hospital holding balloons! augh! what the hell is in that bathwater?" just a movie that really gets under your skin, especially visually.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Thirteen Days. Movies about the Cold War frighten me the most, as some of them are actual true stories. Frightening fare.

 

2001: A Space Odyssey was scary as shit too. I can't watch it at night, because then I'm afraid if I lay in bed, a monolith will appear at its foot and I'll turn into a space fetus.

 

That's all I can think of for now.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

2001 was more of a comedy...same with Titanic

[Guest Coffin Surfer]

Pee Wee's Big Adventure. From the creepy soundtrack to the surreal imagery, and Pee Wee himself. Scary Shit for a children's film.