Top 3 Scariest Movies?

[Guest Undertow]

What are your top 3 horror movies.

 

On the scare-factor scale. I don't particularly care how good it is movie-wise (plot,etc.)

 

Cuz I haven't seen a movie that's scared me in a long time.

[Brocklock 0]

Jacob's Ladder

Candyman

Audition

[Guest Undertow]

Come on people, I know you've seen a bunch of scary movies. Share your opinions about them.

[NoCalMike 0]

Umm....Are we talking recently or just of all-time?

 

I mean Nightmare on Elm Street scared me when I first saw it.

[Vyce 0]

Jacob's Ladder

Candyman

Audition

I don't really feel Candyman is a *scary* horror flick, but if one has never seen it, I'd recommend it. Because scary or not, it's a GOOD horror flick. Very well done, with good acting and plenty of thrills.

 

I just saw Audition a few weeks back. Good flick, but again, not really scary. Disturbing at the end, there.

 

I'd have to pick "Ringu" (i.e. the original Japanese version of "The Ring"). That movie did it for me.

 

The original Shining as well; not so much so now, but when I was a kid, absolutely.

[Brocklock 0]

Jacob's Ladder

Candyman

Audition

I don't really feel Candyman is a *scary* horror flick, but if one has never seen it, I'd recommend it. Because scary or not, it's a GOOD horror flick. Very well done, with good acting and plenty of thrills.

 

I just saw Audition a few weeks back. Good flick, but again, not really scary. Disturbing at the end, there.

 

I'd have to pick "Ringu" (i.e. the original Japanese version of "The Ring"). That movie did it for me.

 

The original Shining as well; not so much so now, but when I was a kid, absolutely.

I went into Audition cold. I didn't want to know anything about it. I switched it when it was number 11 on Bravo's Movie Moments things. So, I watched it and I found that the love story was pretty engaging. Both characters were also likable then Wham. All this insane shit happens.

 

Candyman scared me for once again developing a really awesome character in Helen Lyle then forcing you to watch the disintegration of her thanks to Candyman. The way Helen would black out and all these disturbing and powerful images fly out at the screen also gets too me. Even the littler things like the painting of Candyman with his mouth open scares me too. I'm pretty uneasy when it comes to semi-religious imagery. The music also gave me the creeps and I happy that I own the score today.

 

 

Ringu really didn't scare me much at all. Mainly because I saw the remake before, but I really didn't like that or the remake. Decent story, but kind of dull. The eye is terrifying though.

 

Not many other Horror Movies scare me anymore. Haute Tension gave a couple of jolts. Movies like The Shining, ANOES, Evil Dead, The Exorcist, and lots of more used to frighten me as a child, but not any more.

 

Two more that do kind of creep me out

 

Stephen King's It (Used to terrify me, but still provides a couple of chills down my spine. Particularly the absolute beginning where Pennywise is hiding behind a piece of cloth and just gives out this terrifying hateful stare at this little girl. I'm not even afraid of Clowns, but something about Tim Curry in that make-up scares me)

 

Pet Semetary (Zelda = "Brrr")

[Lil' Bitch 0]

The Exorcist

The Grudge

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

[Vyce 0]

Stephen King's It (Used to terrify me, but still provides a couple of chills down my spine. Particularly the absolute beginning where Pennywise is hiding behind a piece of cloth and just gives out this terrifying hateful stare at this little girl. I'm not even afraid of Clowns, but something about Tim Curry in that make-up scares me)

 

"It" is great; it might be the scariest North American made-for-tv movie / miniseries ever. GREAT work by Curry as Pennywise. Tons of chilling moments in that series. "That's right, Ralphie. They float. And when you're down here with us, you'll float too."

 

I noticed Deon brought up the Exorcist, as I knew someone would. See, that film NEVER scared me. I know a lot of people view it as the scariest movie of all time, but it never really struck me as scary at all. Except in one regard: the deleted scene, which I suppose was restored for some special director's cut a little while back, that has Regan "spider-walking" down the stairs. THAT shit was off the fucking wall terrifying.

 

BTW, has anyone here (perhaps our British members) seen either "Ghostwatch" or "The Stone Tape"? I'm dying to get my hands on a copy of each on DVD.

[Guest Undertow]

Movies from any time, doesn't have to be recently.

 

And Deon, I respect your opinion and thank you for your input, but the American version of the Grudge had me laughing more than it had me scared.

[Kardo 0]

I always felt that the first 30 minutes of Lost Highway were spine chilling. Especially the scene in the corridor.

[Mole 0]

The Exorcist

The Grudge

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The Grudge scared you? I'm sorry...

 

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Old) is the only movie that comes to mind that scared me recently.

 

As a kid, I was scared by everything.

[Brocklock 0]

Stephen King's It (Used to terrify me, but still provides a couple of chills down my spine. Particularly the absolute beginning where Pennywise is hiding behind a piece of cloth and just gives out this terrifying hateful stare at this little girl. I'm not even afraid of Clowns, but something about Tim Curry in that make-up scares me)

 

"It" is great; it might be the scariest North American made-for-tv movie / miniseries ever. GREAT work by Curry as Pennywise. Tons of chilling moments in that series. "That's right, Ralphie. They float. And when you're down here with us, you'll float too."

 

I noticed Deon brought up the Exorcist, as I knew someone would. See, that film NEVER scared me. I know a lot of people view it as the scariest movie of all time, but it never really struck me as scary at all. Except in one regard: the deleted scene, which I suppose was restored for some special director's cut a little while back, that has Regan "spider-walking" down the stairs. THAT shit was off the fucking wall terrifying.

 

BTW, has anyone here (perhaps our British members) seen either "Ghostwatch" or "The Stone Tape"? I'm dying to get my hands on a copy of each on DVD.

I finally got to see the Spider Walk scene and I was giggling more than scared.

 

I was pretty disappointed in that scene.

 

Oh, and it's Georgie, not Ralphie.

 

And The Grudge is one of the least scariest movies I've ever seen. You could see everything coming from a mile away.

[Gary Floyd 0]

For me

 

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The Thing

The Evil Dead

[Guest JMA]

The Shining

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Halloween

[Downhome 0]

And Deon, I respect your opinion and thank you for your input, but the American version of the Grudge had me laughing more than it had me scared.

The American release of The Grudge is nothing more than a pile of horse shit. Flies wont even touch that shit in my mind, that's how little I think of that flick.

 

Here are three from me, off the top of my head:

 

Halloween (For some reason this film still makes me more paranoid than any other horror flick. Even after watching it a million times, it still makes me look over my shoulder after I finish watching it.)

 

NoES (I think this has to do with my seeing it when I was very young, but the same could be said about all three of these picks. Seeing that girl be dragged up the wall and onto the ceiling, I'll never forget that.)

 

TCM (The original, of course. Just the overall feel of this one does it to me. So gritty, so real. The debut of LF is one of the most disturbing scenes ever to me.)

 

Then I have to mention The Eye, which has the single scene/moment that sent shock/fear through me unlike any other.

[SinToxic 0]

This always makes me realize how much of what I've seen and used to find "scary" become um less scary with time, maybe I'm just useless with lists. I used to be terrified of Hellraiser I as a kid, now it's just popcorn fun at most.

 

Anyways, Audition had a great build up which made the few hardcore scenes even more valuable as I was waiting for something ugly to hit me.

 

I never found old cannibal films interesting but one that caught my attention was filmed with good acting and cinematography, Danny Lee's Human Meat Pies, same director who mixed gore with kung fu.

 

Another good one is Three... extremes, probably my most favorite horror-ish flick in years.

 

This guys keeps telling me that Saw is scary, can anyone comment?

[Special K 0]

#1 Eraserhead

 

Beyond that it's sort of an honorable mentions list:

 

Texas Chainsaw Massacres (original, ntach.)

Suspiria

Audition

Jacob's Ladder

Fulci's Gates of Hell

[iggymcfly 0]

Well, this is good timing, because I just saw "My Little Eye" and it's the first movie I've seen in a long time that was actually scary. If you do watch it though, I recommend that you don't read up on it or anything. Probably the main reason I thought it was scary is that when I started watching it, I thought it was just a light drama.

[nl5xsk1 0]

I'd go with ...

 

TCM (original, obviously ... although the second one made me laugh so hard that I was scared that I was going to piss myself ... does that count?)

Exorcist (has lost a lot of the scariness due to how many times I've seen it. Plus, the book is much creepier)

Deliverance (not technically a horror movie, but still scary as all fuck)

 

And for everyone that says The Grudge, just go see Ju-On instead. So much better & so much creepier.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

With absolutely zero resolution at the end. I don't know how it was changed in the american version, but that movie has one of the worst endings I've ever seen. Nothing but anticlimactic loose ends.

[Nighthawk 0]

This guys keeps telling me that Saw is scary, can anyone comment?

That's a good concept with bad acting. Like Strangeland, but it's a bit better better than that.

 

I eventually got the ending of Ju-On. I didn't watch much of it, but it was one of the features on the dvd that explained it. I can't remember what it was. I think the extended ending with commentary. And something is telling me it wasn't a movie but a tv series? Anyway, it was all arranged very oddly.

[Downhome 0]

Well, this is good timing, because I just saw "My Little Eye" and it's the first movie I've seen in a long time that was actually scary. If you do watch it though, I recommend that you don't read up on it or anything. Probably the main reason I thought it was scary is that when I started watching it, I thought it was just a light drama.

It also has one of the best "final scene/shots" in recent memory. It wasn't really

"scary" to me, just more f'd up in my mind.

 

Get the two-disc R2 DVD set of the film, it's a great DVD set, and you can get it for around $8.

[Nighthawk 0]

Further commentary on Ju-On vs Grudge, I think I'll play devil's advocate and say that the Grudge wasn't much worse. In truth, I didn't like either of them all that much. They're both more affective as a series of individual scenes rather than a plot driven cohesive unit, and the individual scare moments I found to be much the same in either. Ju-On remains better, based on the fact that much of the best stuff was removed for the Grudge, but what remained was comparable, I think.

The best part of Ju-On was the sequence where the dude's sister gets it, and that one definitely came off worse in the American version. They took out the distorted woman on tv, that was my favorite part. I found that comic and unsettling at the same time (perhaps one as a result of the other).

 

Also, the part with the zombie schoolgirls reminded me of the "Something to Tide You Over" segment in Creepshow, only less scary. Yes, even though it was Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson, it was still scarier, that can't be a good sign for Ju-On's scare power.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

They took out the distorted woman on tv, that was my favorite part.

I wondered why they took that out of the Grudge, too.

 

Also that scene SPOILERS with the chick that gets sucked into the closet o' doom that the Grudge totally cut out.

 

Oh, yeah, also when that little kid ran behind the husband early on -- as close as he was to the guy gave me a shiver...

[NoCalMike 0]

The twin girls from The Shining. Even the part where they just show up and stare at Danny in the kitchen. Creepy as hell, with that music....EEEEEK.

[NoCalMike 0]

I think the Exorcist is a generational thing. THis generation is just not scared by it, yet my Dad who isn't typically "scared" by movies, had me turn off(well turn down) the Exorcist theme music I was playing on the computer a few years ago. First time I ever saw that look on his face......LOL.

[MooreMark 0]

I think the Exorcist is a generational thing. THis generation is just not scared by it, yet my Dad who isn't typically "scared" by movies, had me turn off(well turn down) the Exorcist theme music I was playing on the computer a few years ago. First time I ever saw that look on his face......LOL.

I totally agree. I got a little bit of scares from it but generally it wasn't scary. My mom is still scared to this day lol. Everytime it comes on TV and I watch it she just leaves. She saw it back in theatres when it first came out and always remembered the little girl crawling down the stairs.

[pochorenella 0]

The Exorcist for me. It even scared me when I watched it again on the re-release. That "spider-walk" down the stairs, now THAT shit is scary.

 

Stephen King's IT was really scary for me when I watched it all those years ago. Haven't watched it since, so I wonder what I'll feel now.

 

Alien scared the piss out of me when I was a kid. Even more so because my cousins insisted on always watching it with the lights out (we had it on Betamax back then.)

 

There was this movie I saw YEARS ago, I believe was called "The Fog" or something like that. I'm not sure if it was a TV movie or what, but damn, that was scary shit.

 

And of course, The Thing always scared me back in the days, even as I tried to pass as if it didn't in front of my friends.

[Nighthawk 0]

I think It is a generally shitty movie with an excellent performance from Tim Curry. It's the best example I know of one guy totally making an entire movie worthwhile.

I remember it was a big deal when it was new, there were bits on the news about whether you should let your kids watch it, and it was all we talked about at school the next day, even admitting to being scared shitless, which you know is not usually done. The part where It gets shot with a sling shot and does a triple flip before falling into the drain and becoming a squid was commonly held to be hilarious, however.

[nl5xsk1 0]

re: Ju On ... I dug the fact that there wasn't a real climax to it, or any simple resolution. I don't think a movie really needs something like that to be good.

 

re: The Exorcist ... it scared me growing up because it was something that could actually happen. Boogemen don't scare me, they don't really exist. But Satan - not to get all biblical - is a force that I believe in (but don't worship) so the idea that it could manifest itself on Earth was scarier to me than just a standard "undead is chasing the heroes" story.