Question: What was the scariest movie you ever saw???

jon s
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edited March 2012 in The Clubhouse
Someone asked me this, and the only movie I could think of was the Japanese horror movie "Ringu" :eek: which was remade into the Naomi Watts movie, "The Ring". And as I was thinking, it appears that Asian horror movies seem to be scarier than American ones.

Are there any movies that you can think of that scared the crap out of you? That made you not want to go to sleep that night?

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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited March 2012
    I remember as a kid the Faces Of Death flicks freaked me out.
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited March 2012
    Exorcist
    I got static in my head
    The reflected sound of everything
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited March 2012
    The Excorsist scared the you know what out of me I was 15 when I saw that could not sleep for quite a while.It was on channel 100
    back in the day parents left for the evening and warned me about it as soon as they left my friend came over and we watched it scary stuff back then. The first Evil Dead was pretty scary also me and the wife watched that one together when it was over we both looked at each other and said WTF:eek:
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited March 2012
    Excorcist
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited March 2012
    Demons from the 80's and dawn of the dead but now they aint so scary . 120 days of sodom was really terrifying too
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited March 2012
    Exorcist. Still gives me the willies.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2012
    I laughed my **** off when I saw "The Exorcist".
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited March 2012
    As a kid "The House On Haunted Hill"
    As an adult "The Blair Witch Project"
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited March 2012
    Fongolio wrote: »
    As an adult "The Blair Witch Project"

    Really? See I never understood what the draw was with that movie. To me it was an over hyped low budget waste of a movie. I didn't see a thing scary about that one.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited March 2012
    jon s wrote: »
    Someone asked me this, and the only movie I could think of was the Japanese horror movie "Ringu" :eek: which was remade into the Naomi Watts movie, "The Ring". [/URL]

    Normally, I do not watch these types of movies since I prefer Science Fiction. But, I have to admit The Ring did a good job of giving me the creeps. I tried to watch the second one, but my Netflix rental wouldn't play, and I took that as an omen to not watch it.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited March 2012
    The Exorcist on a mind altering substance.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited March 2012
    decal wrote: »
    The Exorcist on a mind altering substance.
    Wow couldnt even Imagine:eek:
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited March 2012
    It was 37 years ago and I still remember it,vividly !!!!!
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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited March 2012
    Event Horizon.

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited March 2012
    decal wrote: »
    The Exorcist on a mind altering substance.

    Eraserhead on mushrooms. :eek:
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,274
    edited March 2012
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Eraserhead on mushrooms. :eek:

    Excorcist when I was a kid....20ft broad jump from the door to the bed so he wouldn't get me...lol

    Coolest was Pet Sematary on shrooms when I was a teen...another lol
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2012
    "Alien" comes to mind.
    "The Thing" was pretty scary when it first came out also.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,223
    edited March 2012
    I was a kid when I saw Last House on the Left.. Freaked me out big time...
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited March 2012
    Exorcist is still a big one for me. Some of others were Candy Man, Hellraiser, Blair Witch, and a few others.
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited March 2012
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Eraserhead on mushrooms. :eek:

    And the strangest too. It's as if a paranoid schizophrenic dropped bad acid, then feel asleep, and had a gut-wrenching nightmare, and you are watching it.

    A good "date movie".
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  • PreCd
    PreCd Posts: 786
    edited March 2012
    The Changeling with George C. Scott and The Ring.

    The Ring freaked me out. I went to a midnight showing all alone because family did not want to see it. All the way home I checked the seat to make sure no one was there.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited March 2012
    A vampire move back in the 70's,during "bardo"
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited March 2012
    I'd have to say the Excorsist based on the time it came out, the age I was and the fact I believe, to a much lesser extent than the movie portrayed, possesion and ghosts do exist in some form. The premise of the movie still freaks me out today, but not as much as when I was a kid.

    Rumor has it Linda Blair had to undergo psychiatric treatment after filming because she was so young and the subject matter involved and the graphic depictions, etc.

    I also remember the Amityville Horror since I was a kid at that time as well. Not only the movie, but the headlines in the paper and the news accounts.

    Nighmare on Elmstreet was a big deal when I was younger (late teens) as well, the first one was so well done, it gave nightmares for a longtime :lol:

    Again, most of these references were back when I was a kid or in my teens and one gets scared and carried away much more when they are younger and you have friends also feeding into the ideas, etc.

    At my age now, not sure there is a scary Hollywood type movie that is nothing more than entertainment.

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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited March 2012
    Silence Of The Lambs, isn't scary per se, but it still freaks me out.

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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited March 2012
    I have to say, if you haven't seen Event Horizon, and you've got a kick-butt home theater system with a huge screen, rent that movie, turn out all the lights, and prepare to be scared. It's a sci-fi horror, and man is it good. Not only one of the scariest, one of the best IMO.

    I'd put The Grudge as a close second, but that's another one of those polarizing films like Blair Witch. Either you got into it and really loved it (and were scared by it) or you didn't. I also really liked Blair Witch.

    Movies that scared me when I was a kid were The Blob, Cujo and Poltergeist.

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  • civilian
    civilian Posts: 357
    edited March 2012
    Syndil wrote: »

    Movies that scared me when I was a kid were The Blob, Cujo and Poltergeist.
    I wish they would remake The Blob with modern CGI.
    Poltergeist freaked me out as a kid even though we watched some of it being filmed as it was a 5 minute bike ride from my house.
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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited March 2012
    I'm kind of meh on the CGI. I prefer puppets and miniatures. The old Star Wars is a million times better than any of the new Star Wars IMO. I think they did a fabulous job with The Blob considering it was made in 1958.

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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited March 2012
    Scariest movie, sober: "Kids" IIRC, it was never released in theaters, because it was THAT disturbing.
    Not sober: "Apocolypse Now" tripping on acid. NOT a good combination:eek:
    I had to take a wiz, and was so paranoid, I wouldn't use the restrooms. Walked out a fire exit, and I could voices off in the distance. I thought they were VC, and cowered in the shadows, next to my friends car, until they came out:redface:
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited March 2012
    obieone wrote: »
    Scariest movie, sober: "Kids" IIRC, it was never released in theaters, because it was THAT disturbing.
    Not sober: "Apocolypse Now" tripping on acid. NOT a good combination:eek:
    I had to take a wiz, and was so paranoid, I wouldn't use the restrooms. Walked out a fire exit, and I could voices off in the distance. I thought they were VC, and cowered in the shadows, next to my friends car, until they came out:redface:

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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,008
    edited March 2012
    The current state of the United States....although it isn't a movie yet.
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