ok it's almost Halloween again so what do you think the scariest movies of all time are? pick 5 or more if you like

1. The Exorcist. The mood, music and Linda Blair are just plain spooky.

2. Halloween. Set the standard for the slash and cash flicks to follow.

3. Nightmare on Elm Street. Awesome.

4. The Omen.

5, The Shining. This one had it all, mood, music, pace, redrum. all work and no play make jack a dull boy.

Honorable mention.

Jaws. not so much a horror flick but still good. i saw this in the theater on the ocean city, nj boardwalk in the summer of 1975 and i'll never forget it.

Alien (yeah I know it's sci-fi). And how about Silence of the Lambs?

Oh, I forgot. Blair Witch Project. I didn't get the ending right away, and I was talking about the movie with my wife after we went to bed. Then I figured it out, and every hair on my body stood up. Never had a movie freak me out like that a half-hour after it was over!

Gotta add The Dentist. That will keep you brushing your teeth.

The Ring sort of freaked me out.

I agree with The Exorcist (the director's cut) kinda freaked me out ... the stairs scene ...

House on Haunted Hill was kinda scary ...

alex

Gigli

Others I would add to the list

Night of the Living Dead (still the greatest horror film ever)
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Ringu (the original)
Psycho
Event Horizon
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Bosferatu
Children of the Corn
Carrie
Rosemary's Baby
Seven
Poltergeist
The Others

fast and the furious would be Ike's favorite PORNO

Thanks for yet another high quality post Russell

Amityville Horror

When I was in 4th grade Nightmare on Elm Street 2 scared the heck out of me.

"It" still freaks me out, until you get to the part where the stupid thing is a giant crab. Then it loses something. But that clown....ick....

Originally posted by Toadman
Amityville Horror

Or the Eddie Murphy version. "What a Beautiful house . . . man what a great price . . . I love this place and I never want to leave" "GET OOOUUUTTTT" "Too bad we can't stay"

The Ring freaked me out for weeks . . . more than Carrie when I was a kid.

Originally posted by Haze
Or the Eddie Murphy version. "What a Beautiful house . . . man what a great price . . . I love this place and I never want to leave" "GET OOOUUUTTTT" "Too bad we can't stay"

The Ring freaked me out for weeks . . . more than Carrie when I was a kid.

i've heard alot about the ring. gonna have to rent it this weekend.

The Ring is definitely worth seeing. My wife and I both had the willies for a week.

The original Blair Witch Project was another movie that bugged me for a couple of days afterwards. Use to drive home past a house that looked just like the one in the movie. Pretty freaky.

The Exorcist did nothing for me. Nor did the Omen or Rosemary's Baby.

Kubrick's Shining bored me to tears the first time I saw it. I have a new appreciation for it, but I still don't think it's the end all be all.

I used to work at a movie theatre, and when we would close down at night, the last marquee light to get turned off was at the end of a long hallway. It looked a lot like the hallways in the Shining. Sometimes, when I was closing by myself, I would let my mind wander and would imagine the twins and the blood flowing from the walls. That always gave me a good chill.

I have to say though, the television version of the Shining (I thinkl it was on ABC a few years ago) skeeved me out a little when they got to Room 217. It was the makeup. Just freaky. I think that's what got me about The Ring too.

Gotta love horror movies.

I vote the ring

I didn't want to answer the phone after seeing that movie

I can't stand the suspense/gore type horror movies anymore... I saw the Texas Chainsaw Masacre recently and it was just gorey to the point of sickness. Now when I saw the Ring it actually freaked me out. It made me feel like I do when I wakeup from a nightmare. That was a horror movie. I have heard that the original Texas Chainsaw Masacre was more of the "freaky" type. I think I'll have to give it a watch.

-JiM

The ring didn't bother me at all because so much of it didn't make sense. The Japanese version was a little better(Ringu, for those of you who care), because it explained a bit more, but the effects weren't as good. I was kinda disappointed.

'Texas Chainsaw' brings to mind the worst Halloween movie ever....

I don't mean the scariest, just the WORST.

'Winter Kill'.......if you can find it, watch it.

Busload of cheerleaders break down near a cannibal farm.......

My daughter's in it (cheerleader #3). That's her on the slab.

In one scene, the farmer tows the broken down bus with a tractor. There follows four full minutes of two sets of headlights going left-to-right across the screen!

Oy Vey!

S

Originally posted by mikeb
I vote the ring

I didn't want to answer the phone after seeing that movie

Me and my girlfriend watched it together about 2:00 in the morning, I used my cell phone to slyly call the house phone. It even freaked me out to hear it ring.

and the girl in the closet

pet cemetary...i'll never look at my pets the same.....:(

bamachemist -- that's a good one! I wasn't too scared with the pets/people coming alive but more so the scene w/ Zelda, the lady that lived in the attic because the family was ashamed (or scared of her) ...

ok ... time to watch something nice, like Charlie Brown's Halloween special.

alex

any show wif Jean Claude Van Dam.... :|

Originally posted by StealthTL


Busload of cheerleaders break down near a cannibal farm.......
S


They farm cannibals in Canada?

I don't want to be picky here, but if this is the sort of thing that you guys are farming up there, I really don't know what kind of market you are going to find for them. Down here in the US, we try to keep our cannibal populations low, but if you can find a market . . . more power to ya' that's what I say!

Of course you have a better chance selling those cannibals than that film I bet. Sounds like your daughter probably had a great time making it, better than you had watching it. I'll see if I can get it.

I looked it up . . . lower budget than a Troma film now that IS frightening. (Actually it sounds like good fun)

dream catcher


omg that shit was mad scary yo

SSDD

as a wanna-be hedonistic film watcher, i think the purely scariest film i've ever seen it Kubrick's "The Shining"... when you can look at a peice of film (no less based on a Steven King novel!!) as getting close to reality in its characters, behaviours, happenings, etc, and be SCARED, i think it's genius.

the second creepiest would definitely be the origional Ring (or said with the good ol' japanese accent, RLingoo, but the "oo" is very short, so they spell it with a "u")... watch that (understanding certain "givens" in japanese culture which will certainly confuse most westerners watching the movie if unaware), and THEN watch the American one... Sada (minus the cheesey evil eye shot... that was stupid) beats the crap out of Samantha or whatever her name was, just look at the writhing as she crawls out of the TV, versus Samantha's teleportation crap... but, i will give the American version a much cooler haunted video, and wicked special effects, but stupider deaths (but those both add little in the way of art to the film, other than of themselves exclusively), and the TOTALLY awful story was as expected from hollywood, borrowing ALL of its best moments from the Japanese film.

another scary movie... hmm... Event Horizon was weird and creepy (although not very good), and i'm a sci-fi fan.

Blair Witch is what ever indie film stretches to achieve: brilliance on a budget. legitimately scary.

hmmm... can't really think...
i love Gojira movies though :)

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman......AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Alien is on the top of my list, but you cant leave out a classic like Psycho. Of the more recent movies that I have seen I think The Ring was very good and HOUSE OF A 1000 CORPSES.....that movie was disturbing!!! I recommend that one!:D

13 Ghosts had very nice visuals as well as Final Destination 2, neither were very scary though. The book "The Shining" was much scarier than either version, and when I saw Poltergeist and Ghost Story when I was young, they both scared me. The 1st Evil Dead was pretty scary, at least it was once.

Originally posted by wakeech


another scary movie... hmm... Event Horizon was weird and creepy (although not very good), and i'm a sci-fi fan.



Ugh, forgot about Event Horizon- just the premise in that movie gave me the willies for a week. Ugh. Not the best acted, but the idea of it....I could only watch that once.

I thought "The Shining" was the best horror film I have ever seen, meaning the best film that could be classed in the Horror genre. I can't remember whether I was scared by it though, I just thought it was a magnificent film (like most if Kubrick's stuff).

By the way, the version distributed in the UK is a shortened version which misses or chops down a lot of the atmospheric, scene setting stuff in the first half. I have a US DVD of the full version and it is far better.

I kind of lost interest in Blair Witch about half way through, about the point where one of the characters admitted that he'd thrown their only map into the river "because it wasn't any good anyway". I thought they deserved all they got from then onwards.

I forgot about Candyman, the original was good

anyone seen "Shocker"

"IT" still scares the bajeebus outta me b/c I saw it as a kid and had vivid nightmares of that damn clown...
http://www.screamteam.com/newpage/clownlaugh.jpg
It took a lot of courage for me to post this pic... :-D

The Shining and IT books by Steven King and Candyman, (Farewell to the Flesh) by Clive Barker are much scarier than the movies. It came out when I was 15, I kept going to the window to look outside for clowns.

Oh, and don't forget Salem's Lot.

"The Hitcher" with Rutger Hauer scared the heck outta me. The scene where he has Jeniffer Jason Lee tied between a semi tractor and the trailer then rev's it up and dumps the clutch makes me shudder just to think about it and they didn't even show anything. Leaving the details to the viewers imagination is much more scary than any blood and guts special effect.

For some reason "Sixth Sense" really creeped me out when I watched it in the theater packed with people. Something about everyone screaming all at once. It was a movie without much special effects and it let my mind do all the scaring.


"28 Days Later" was another of my favorite. I love the post-Apocalyptic setting where civilization just ended and it just a handful of survivors and zombie-like creatures. That scene when the main character went into the church and saw all those bodies laid on top of another. He shout "Hello", then you see a bunch of zombie heads pop up, look at him, and started to charge after him. For some reason that scene stuck in my head.


I also have to vote for "Alien"



Magic8

Originally posted by tribal azn2
dream catcher


omg that shit was mad scary yo

SSDD

see i saw that a few weeks ago and it didnt scare me at all. the part when the dude is on the toilet was kinda cool but thats about it.

28 days later was tight but had a $#!T ending

Originally posted by Magic8
"28 Days Later" was another of my favorite. I love the post-Apocalyptic setting where civilization just ended and it just a handful of survivors and zombie-like creatures.


DAMN!! THAT was the one itching in my head... i knew i was forgetting one... yes, definitely a good call.

i didn't think it was scary at all: exciting in some parts, but i just thought it was a really good and cool movie, but not terrifying.

oops, double post!

Originally posted by klegg
Ahh, a post I can sink my teeth into.

I am something of a horror buff, maybe why I talk to Ike!
Really hard to do a list, due to the fact I usually look at horror in 3 stages, classic(pre 50s) Middle (50-70s) and modern (70s on)

slightly goofy now, but the classics like frank, drac and the like are real fun.

But dated.....

And lets face it, SHOWGIRLS really is the scariest movie ever!

Here is my list.

1) Exorcist. Intentionally the Scariest ever.

2) The evil dead (Sam Raimi's masterpiece, and gave us the best underrated actor of our time, Bruce Campbell. I urge everyone to check all three flicks in the serious. Best oneliners in horror movie history. "Ok you primates, this is my boom stick!!!!")

3) nousferatu (not the remake, the original silent flick. Trust me it does not get better then this! odd fact, bram's widow sued the film maker, and WON!)

4) The thing (john carpenters remake, a fine cast and rob bottin at the height of his craft.)

5) The shining (jack at his best)

6) Misery .....Just a fine movie, and it COULD HAPPEN!! (to me with some of the psychos on this sight!!)

7) Which brings me to... PSYCHO! A timeless classic, note that you are frightened by the shower scene, but the knife NEVER touches her body!!

8) Friday the 13, part one...THe great tom savini

9) Halloween 1...Filmed in NJ I think, And another classic now showing its age.

10) Alien..crosses the line between horror and sci fi, but scary as hell.

11) Witchfinder general a/k/a the conquerer worm....brilliant stuff, price at his best...

12) The fly ....the original or the remake....just wonderful..

I would also urge everyone to check out the two vincent price classics involving doctor phibes, trust me, they just do not get old

Shame you guys are not up in jersey, I would open the movie vault and have a showing.....

How about "The Sentinel"?

And the scene in Nightmare on Elm Street when one end of the body bag lifted itself up and was dragged away by an invisible force. That little scene gave me goosebumps.

Coppola's Dracula movie had some good moments too.

good list klegg. you know a recent movie that was a little unsettling for me was signs. it was kind of creepy. the fear of the unknown until the very end.

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Originally posted by klegg
Ahh, a post I can sink my teeth into.

2) The evil dead (Sam Raimi's masterpiece, and gave us the best underrated actor of our time, Bruce Campbell. I urge everyone to check all three flicks in the serious. Best oneliners in horror movie history. "Ok you primates, this is my boom stick!!!!")

A Classic!!! and I like the progression from serious horror film, to total cheeseball sequel retelling of the exact same story from the first film, to a total spoof of the entire horror genre in the third film. I believe that they are Sam Raimi's masterpiece series. Love 'em!

3) nousferatu (not the remake, the original silent flick. Trust me it does not get better then this! odd fact, bram's widow sued the film maker, and WON!)

I've seen this, and I agree that it is a great flick. I assume that the suit involved the failure of the movie company to license the work for film reproduction. Was this the first successful suit under this theory because if it were, I would be shocked that the film industry got that far without being sued before?


7) Which brings me to... PSYCHO! A timeless classic, note that you are frightened by the shower scene, but the knife NEVER touches her body!!

Certainly a great horror film made all the more scary that it's based on a true story that Hitchcock read in the paper. However, my favorite scene in the film is a small piece of horror comedy. It's when the car is sinking into the swamp with a look of semisatisfaction on Anthony Perkins face . . . then it stops half way down. There is a very slight look of total horror of Perkins's face as he realizes that he will never be able to fix it, and then the car continues to sink and relief washes over Perkins. It's a great scene in so many ways.

I would also urge everyone to check out the two vincent price classics involving doctor phibes, trust me, they just do not get old

Lord that stuff scared me when I was a kid. All of that Roger Corman horror film like the Pit and the Pendulum. Corman was a freaky guy, but I loved his Poe films. Especially, the Cask of Amontialdo, which is not the story itself, but actually a story of what the "offense" might have been, and it is funny as all get out.

Classic list. Not bad at all.

Yes the Evil Dead movies are some of my all time favorites. Im not a huge fan of the first one, as its mostly just a horror movie but the second two are HILARIOUS. I think the second one is the best but the third is great too

Another movie that has the same gore/comedy style thats excellend is Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (its called Braindead outside of the U.S.) Its also a cult classic. Ever seen Zombies have sex? Ever seen a zombiei give birth to a wierd lil crack baby? Imagine taking that baby to the park!
The last twenty minutes is the goriest most disgusting 20 minutes in film history.

The 1st one (Evil Dead), was filmed mostly in Morristown, TN, near Knoxville. My friend at the time's Dad co-produced it. I went out to the cabin, it's really creepy anyway, it's since been demolished.

Originally posted by RussellP
Yes the Evil Dead movies are some of my all time favorites. Im not a huge fan of the first one, as its mostly just a horror movie but the second two are HILARIOUS. I think the second one is the best but the third is great too

Another movie that has the same gore/comedy style thats excellend is Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (its called Braindead outside of the U.S.) Its also a cult classic. Ever seen Zombies have sex? Ever seen a zombiei give birth to a wierd lil crack baby? Imagine taking that baby to the park!
The last twenty minutes is the goriest most disgusting 20 minutes in film history.

Is this the same peter jackson movie that involved aliens eating vomit? And a group of alien hunters driving in a van with beatle cutouts in the window? Has a great line about "eating some 'chuke"? I think I have seen it under the title"bad taste"

Good call on this one, nobody remembers when jackson was making great fringe movies.

Originally posted by RX-GR8
good list klegg. you know a recent movie that was a little unsettling for me was signs. it was kind of creepy. the fear of the unknown until the very end.

I agree, Signs was a great flick, and did keep the fear going till the end. What I really enjoyed was the message about faith and coincidence...all the seemingly little events adding up in the end to one perfect scene...really a fine movie, on many levels.

I did not include it because it is sci fi, was trying to keep the list down in size. believe me, once I get started on this topic, I could go on forever....

If you are in the mood for some fring stuff, cheack out just about anything from dario argento, perhaps susperia, but creepers is good.

Of course, watching CNN is enough to make me wake up screaming anymore.........

Actually "Bad Taste" is an earlier Peter Jackson movie. Its his first movie and its far more low-budget. Its good, but i much prefer dead alive. You should check it out.

Originally posted by klegg
Is this the same peter jackson movie that involved aliens eating vomit? And a group of alien hunters driving in a van with beatle cutouts in the window? Has a great line about "eating some 'chuke"? I think I have seen it under the title"bad taste"

Good call on this one, nobody remembers when jackson was making great fringe movies.

No, evil dead was about a group of young adults that go to a cabin in Tennessee, then go into the basement and find the necronomicon (book of the dead invented by H.P. Lovecraft), and also a reel to reel tape that had this professor's translation. Like typical movie dumbasses they play the tape, next thing you know, everyone starts getting possessed, and then all ensuing horror.

Originally posted by ninedeep
Alien is on the top of my list, but you cant leave out a classic like Psycho. Of the more recent movies that I have seen I think The Ring was very good and HOUSE OF A 1000 CORPSES.....that movie was disturbing!!! I recommend that one!:D

i had never heard of house of 1000 corpses before but sure enough today i saw it on sale in a best buy circular.

Originally posted by RX-GR8
i had never heard of house of 1000 corpses

Rob Zombie's debut.

How 'bout "Seven" ? I guess I'm not into gore-scary, but this film really gave me the heebeegeebees.

Or maybe Eraserhead? Not scary in the classical way, but sick-to-your-stomach creepy.

heh bump

I just saw "The Grudge" and although it is new IMHO it definitely deserves a place on this list! I agree with what everyone else is naming up to this point!

yea i've seen the trailers for the grudge and it looks scary!

Any movie that gets the kind of audience responses this one got is pretty good. There were people laughing at themselves and friends for jumping at times. There were also a few female screams and some "don't go in theres"! At one point I could feel the hairs on top of my head stand up.

The Exorcist? never heard of it....

I didn't think any of the movies listed were scary.

i don't think anyone's mentioned Poltergeist, Children of the Corn, or Stir of Echoes yet...

Stir of Echoes came in the wake of The Sixth Sense and was sleeper hit...i found it to be more frightening than The Sixth Sense...The Sixth Sense just has that "Gotcha!" ending like Se7en

I don't see how people thought Ringu was scarey..... wasnt as freaky as the remake at all.... you see the "victims"?? they had this "surprised" look on their face... sorry but it just wasnt "working"... Further, there wasnt enough build up of anticipation which always helps a horror movie.

Nothing against Ringu... it was entertaining in its own way too... but definitely not scarey. The only thing Ringu had on the remake was a better story developement.

I'm very interested in seeing The Grude

1) The Ring (I haven't seen the Jap version). It was a bit unsettling watching it but it didn't hit me until that night where it creeped the hell out of me. The scare only lasted one night though.

2) Blair Witch Project. This is a hit or miss movie. It creeped the shit out of me, though most of my friends didn't get it. They were all "Umm... so what happened at the end?" It didn't scare me as much as the Ring but whenever I thought of the ending it gave me the creeps for the rest of the week.

3) Ju-on (the Japanese Grudge). It gives you and unsettling feeling that when you're walking through your dark house you might see a white face looking back at you. It wasn't really scary scary but it creeps you out since having people looking at you when you're not looking is just a creepy idea.

4) IT. Yep, clowns creep me out.

5) House on Haunted Hill (remake) was pretty creepy for the first part. Then the second half is laughable.

6) The Shining. I didn't find this that scary honestly. Probably because it was hyped up so much to me. Some parts were pretty creepy though.

7) Candyman. Freaky.

8) Hellraiser. Very good until you start hitting the cheesy effects at the end. The short story was better though IMO.

And the one that utterly creeped the hell out of me... it wasn't actually a movie. It was part of "Amazing Stories" which I think was shown on TV. But the episode was called "Mirror, Mirror". OMG did that scare the shit out of me. Basically it was about this writer who while looking in the mirror notices this pale skinned guy outside of his window. He turns around and... no one is there. So he goes back to doing what he's doing and then he notices the frickin guy is at his window and looking in. So he whirls around again and no one is there. He checks the mirror again and he sees the guy climbing through the window. So he whirls around and sees nobody and his window is closed. Needless to say each time he looks in the mirror the figure is closer and closer to him. Man, I couldn't look in a mirror or any shiny reflective surface for the rest of the night.

I just saw a chunk of Dead Alive on Saturday night. It really is one of the goriest movies I've ever seen. But the gore is so comedic and relatively bad that it really doesn't make it hard to stomach. I mean when someone's zombie intestines come s out to attack people and later tries pleading for it's life... c'mon. I missed the sex scene that everyone talks about though.

Heh was talking about this at lunch. I figured I would revive it 2 months early ;)

anything to add to the list?

I was a a cow last year with udders on the belly. I was a fat cow. :D

Signs, most recently. Especially where Shamalyan (sp)? chops of the finger. I liked the tinfoil helmets too :)

Marathon Man really creeped me out with Olivier as the Nazi "dentist" even though it wasn't a horror flick. Just a little too close to the real world -- you lost that insulating blanket of un-reality that comes with a typical horror movie but the horror was still there.

The remake of of The Fly, the man/dog "Timex" at the end got me in the gut.

Some of my worst nightmares came from a TV show - The Twilight Zone. The episode where the supposedly magnanimous aliens are taking countless earthlings to a paradise planet. They're trying to crack the language of the book that the aliens carry around. At first they can only get capital letters. The title of the book is "HOW TO SERVE MAN". Right as our protagonist is boarding they yell to him that they cracked the code..... "It's a cookbook!!!!" :eek:. I guess I was just old enough to "get it", and I kind of freaked out for a couple days.

Most disturbing movie I've ever seen:

Last house on the Left

Followed closely by:

Irreversable.

Favorite Horror Flick:

The Haunting

Most recently watched cool Horror Flick:

The Village (much better than most people think)

Cool thread. Here are my picks for scariest movies:
Ones already mentioned: Exorcist, Jaws, Hellraiser (I agree with Spork about the cheesy effects that mar the ending), John Carpenter's The Thing, Alien and Aliens.
Also, The Haunting (original 1963 version)

Some you might not have seen:
Suspiria and Deep Red: The Hatchet Murders. (Two films by Italian Dario Argento.)
Eyes Without a Face (French)
Frailty (underrated Bill Paxton movie, more creepy than scary)
Peeping Tom. (better than Psycho, imho.)

When I was 8, the Phantasm scared the crap out of me. :eek:

the tauren shaman in WoW scares me.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/MMPH/243671.jpg

freeeeeeky

^^^ The scene where the clowns are wheeling away his bike on the stretcher?!?! That STILL freaks me out!

Ok, let's add Rob Zombie's flicks to the list
House of 1,000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects,
Kind of like the type of horror going on I'd see on some of the older Friday night flicks in the 70's when I was a kid. Maybe not the scariest, but very creepy.

Most recently watched cool Horror Flick:

The Village (much better than most people think)

No. No. No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I hated the Village. The writing was weak at parts, the "twist" didn't shock me. I didn't see it coming but when it was revealed I was like "yeah, whatever". Probably because I was already annoyed that it wasn't scary. The other people I went with said they figured it out like 1/4 of the way through the movie. If it wasn't billed as a scary type of movie, I might've found it decent. But since it was... I hated it.

Suspiria and Deep Red: The Hatchet Murders. (Two films by Italian Dario Argento.)
Frailty (underrated Bill Paxton movie, more creepy than scary)
Suspiria I actually own. Never seen it though. I haven't had the time and I have a bunch of other crap I should watch first.

Fraility I own and saw. Great movie until the end. I didn't like the end. Some movies are better left when you don't really know what's going on. When they kind of force you to see one view it kind of ruins it for me. The same with Donnie Darko. I hear in the director's cut he leaves out any ambiguity. :(

I found Donnie Darko (original version) to be overrated.

By all means, check out Suspiria. Beware that it somewhat excessive -- for instance, a maggot scene that has little to do with the plot -- but otherwise a very scary and stylish flick. Nice musical score by Goblin, too.