Scariest movie you've ever seen

[Guest Black Tiger]

Without a doubt, Stephen King's IT. I saw that movie when I was like 9 years old and IT scared the living shit out of me.

[Guest]

Unfortunately, I have a hard time being scared by movies, however, the movie The Dentist (with Corbin Bernsen) disturbed the fuck out of me and gave me nightmares for a week, cause Im afraid of going to the dentist anyway.

[Guest muzanisa]

The Reptile gave me nightmares for a few weeks.

The Wicker Man was extremely disturbing.

The ending of Halloween gave me a few sleepless nights.

The one that had me climbing the walls in terror was the bath scene in Les Diaboliques, it's been ripped off so much now, but when I saw that as a kid I totally freaked out.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Child's Play scared the shit out of me as a little kid, because I had a doll that looked JUST LIKE Chucky...

[Guest shlidgn90]

if you guys are scared of chucky and corbin berson, never watch the exorcist, you'll never get any sleep.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

Evil Dead

I saw Halloween when I was 5 and it scared the hell out of me then

Dawn of the Dead

Zombi (The theme with the drums and stuff freaked me out, as did the ending)

[Guest El Satanico]

There is only one movie that still freaks me out to this day. That movie is The Shining.

 

That scene with the twins riding bikes in the hallway...fuck i still can't watch that part after dark. The scene with the corpse in the bathtub is also pretty damn freaky still.

 

I had many movies that scared me alot as a child but two stick out. Me and all my friends were always scared by The Exorcist espiecally when she spun her head around, hell some of my friends STILL can't watch The Exorcist because of that scene.

 

Poltergiest also scared me alot as a child. I also had a big old tree outside my bedroom window so needless to say i had a few sleepless weeks.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Hey, shlidgn, what you fail to comprehend is that most of us saw this shit when we were very little. I didn't see the full unedited version of The Exorcist until last year...and needless to say, I thought it was really overrated as far as "scariest movie ever." Great story and an even better film, no doubt, but I didn't find it scary in the least.

[Guest]

IT and Poltergiest are the only ones. Not really scary anymore.

 

IT isn't very scary, but the clown is creepy as hell.

 

Poltergiest's music is really creepy. The part when the ghost comes down the stairs used to scare me.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

3 words..

 

Earnest

 

Scared

 

Stupid.

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

Ginger Snaps freaked me out. The Shining still gives me chills but by far, Evil Dead is the movie that freaks me out the most.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

watching it with Bruce Campbell commentary takes the edge off, but the first levetation, the song Linda sings, the part where Ash is alone in the house with his sister outside, and the ending is just...exactly

 

I never understood what was so scary about the clown from IT. Maybe it's because I knew it was Tim Curry beforehand, and once I knew it was Tim Curry I was like 'Oh, it's Tim Curry in makeup again', so that ruined any scariness of it. Some bits of it were pretty scary, but they weren't the clown parts.

 

I saw the Spider Walk part from the Exorcist and thought that was scarier than the head spinning.

 

the Sloth scene in Se7en scared the HELL out of me the first time I saw it...that movie was genous from start to finish...just saying...ya know...imo

 

 

Last thing, promise, I couldn't stand the ending to TCM1. From the time she got out of the house to the end I was on the edge of my seat, and then NOTHING! I liked how she was doing the hysterical laughter thing, and Leatherface's tantrum fit I guess, but it just ENDED! I hated that more than LOTR, cause at least LOTR had more to it. Sure, TCM had sequils, but I'd prefer not to think about part 2 and '4'

[Guest]

::Yawns::

 

Oh sorry, no movies have scared me, I have become desensitized.

[Guest HBK16]

IT scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Holy shit, I was scared shitless to take showers.

 

Night of the Living Dead was really scary to me too back then.  I watched it with my dad when I was like I think 6.

 

Mainly every clown or zombie movie was scary to me with a couple exceptions.

[Guest]

I also find the Exorcist over rated as the scariest movie ever, and I watched it when I was pretty young... probably what makes a movie scary is less the actual movie, and more your personal relation to it. like IT... lots of people dont like clowns in the first place, and me with the dentist... I always hated the dentist

[Guest]

Night of the living Dead scared me... but the one that got me the most was Phantasm.  That shit just messed me up.  Fucking flying death balls and the Tall Man were scary shit.

[Guest Black Tiger]

My sister and I watched IT one night just for the hell of it, the next day we went to my cousin's birthday party and there was a clown there and she almost pissed herself.

 

What made Pennywise the clown so scary to me when I first saw IT was his voice and when he'd do the bit with his teeth. His only scary scene is when he's yelling "Don't you want it?" at the guys wife at the gas station.

 

The element that made IT so scary was the fact that you didn't really know was IT was. IT also had chatacters that all types of fans could relate to, Eddie was the geek, Richie was the smart ass, Ben was the fat one who was teased.

[Guest mesepher]

I forget if it is a Jason or Halloween movie... but in one of the two... a couple is lying bed and a knife breaks through the bed... that freaks me out once in awhile if I think about that before going to sleep.

[Guest J*ingus]

It's DAMN hard to scare me, and the only movies which have consistently had the power to do so are:

 

1. Alien

2. Aliens

3. Poltergeist

4. Blair Witch Project

5. Arachnaphobia (I HATE TARANTULAS)

[Guest Black Tiger]

I think that scene was in Friday the 13th Part 2, when Jason spears the two people having sex right through the bed.

[Guest]

5. Arachnaphobia (I HATE TARANTULAS)

 

Thanks for reminding me Jingus.  I'm scared shitless when I see insects or spiders.

[Guest]

The first time I watched The Evil Dead, I was 12. I watched it alone, in the basement, with the lights off. It scared me so badly that I couldn't make it past the first 20 minutes (after the first girl gets possessed). I rented it again when I was 15 and have seen it many times since.

 

Movies that have also given me the willies: Black Christmas, The Changeling, The Exorcist, Exorcist III, Pet Sematary, Poltergiest, Xtro.

[Guest Black Tiger]

I forgot about Arachtnaphobia. My mom took me to see it because she heard John Goodman was in it and she thought it was a comedy. I was only about seven years old and it scared the shit out of me. Almost as bad as IT.

[Guest TheDames7]

I would have to go with The Exorcist for me.  Other than that, a little known B-movie called The Great Spider Invasion which started my arachnaphobia, which I really do have.  

 

Dames - Closed His Eyes During the Bite Scene in Spidey

[Guest]

I love spiders. Let a tarantula crawl up and down your arm, you'll learn to love 'em too.

[Guest]

The first time I saw Night of the Living Dead in like, the first grade, I went into another room with my mom in the middle of the movie and read the Bible.  Now I love the movie.

[Guest J*ingus]

You're truly one sick fuck, C.H.U.D.  

 

Also, there are those movies which truly disturbed me, in a more existential sense.  Ya know, the kind of movies that you almost wish you hadn't seen afterwards, they fuckd with you so hard.  A few of them:

 

Taxi Driver

Being John Malkovich

Talented Mr. Ripley

Tokyo Fist

Blair Witch Project (yeah, I know I listed it before, it disturbed me that much)

Usual Suspects/Fight Club/Sixth Sense/The Others, all for similar reasons

[Guest Anorak]

I watched Halloween tucked up in bed with the lights off when i was about 11 and unlike most younger kids i wasn't allowed to watch 18 rated films at 7 years old so it scared me badly. A more excessively gory film may have been okay but Halloween just played on my mind, i always thought of Michael Myers when i was home alone.

 

The earliest film i had nightmares about when i was REALLY  young was Superman 3, the scene where the woman turns into that robot gave me almost as many sleepless nights as the family of giants from Fraggle Rock.

 

The clown from IT was also quite scary, everybody who's seen IT will always remember it. IT was a good story and lets face it, there's just something about clowns that's scary isn't there?

 

There's loads of other films that have scared or unsettled me but they escape my memory. I'll probably post more later.

[Guest ArkhamGlobe]

Arachnophobia, as an arachnophobic, was creepy as hell for me.

 

The Blair Witch Project freaked me out when I saw it (then again, dark woods tend to make me a bit paranoid, so it may have something to do with that).

 

The same applies to the first time I saw the Evil Dead. And for the Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

[Guest]

I'm really glad there are people who still respect some of my favorite horror flicks like Blair Witch 1 and Poltergeist 1, but my all time fave hasn't even been mentioned yet!  (Unless I missed it)  Please tell me that at least some of you have seen The Omen.  Not the lame sequels, the original fucking Omen.  I'll tell you what, I'm not even a religious person, and a movie about the Antichrist wouldn't normally affect me much.  But the Omen has always scared me more than any other movie.