The Ring (Japanese version). It didn't scare me at first, but on the seventh day, I freaked out every time the phone rang. :P

I also LOVE The Shining (1980). It was positively brilliant and Jack Nicholson was extremely cool (and extremely scary).

Even though it wasn't listed, Cujo still scares me.   And can't go camping  in a tent or cabin without thinking about Jason & the 13th.

The Shining.  I must have seen that movie about 10 times and it still scares the life out of me.  Another one was Fear.com.  I found it while flipping through channels, and what I saw of it was pretty creepy.

"The Shining" from 1980 :o

I absolutely agree Mark, it's a brilliant film but unsettling. I saw it again recently...the part where Shelly Duvall is running around in a panic, pathetically waving a knife, and encounters the "ghosts" in an upstairs bedroom of the hotel, is genuinely scary. Also the two little girls.

I saw the Exorcist for the first time in the mid 90's.

I realise at the time it must have been scary but all I did was laugh most of the time  :-\\

One night, when I was about 12, a friend had a slumber party and we watched "Children of the Corn" and "The Shining" (right after the "Faces of Death" series).  Imagine 6 11-12 year old girls watching those at around midnight.  Her dad was none too happy with us ;D


I don't blame him, that's just wrong!  It turns out a lot of the "Faces of Death" footage was bogus, but that doesn't matter if you're convinced it's real!

Maddog wrote:
I absolutely agree Mark, it's a brilliant film but unsettling. I saw it again recently...the part where Shelly Duvall is running around in a panic, pathetically waving a knife, and encounters the "ghosts" in an upstairs bedroom of the hotel, is genuinely scary. Also the two little girls.
Ohhh, that's creepy, I get the chills just thinking about the scene with two ghosts.  I think one's in a bear costume and the other's in a lion costume, it's a flash from some twisted Halloween party in the past.  They're in the hotel room doing something kinky.
The two little girs saying "Come play with us, Danny, forever and ever and ever," as the blood floods the hallway, and the camera cuts to Danny in sheer terror, that's another unforgettable moment.
Delbert Grady:
"My girls didn't take to the hotel either.  One of them even stole a pack of matches and tried to burn it down,
but I co-rrrected them.  When my wife tried to interfere, I co-rrrected her too."

Hellraiser Series... 

Pinhead wasn't scary but the thought of hell was....yikes!!!!!!!!!! :o 8) :o

We have such sights to show you, Kirsty.

I saw the Exorcist for the first time in the mid 90's.

I realise at the time it must have been scary but all I did was laugh most of the time  :-\\
Did you see the ORIGINAL(read:uncut)version? TV waters down (edits all the really gross parts out)that movie A LOT!!

FACES OF DEATH freaked me out too,especially the execution scene,the one involving the ELECTRIC CHAIR!I know how inhumane it is now,and why now many guests on death row get the lethal injection. I'm not sure if capital punishment really deters future murderers from killing,most are too sociopathic :-X to care what happens!

Did you see the ORIGINAL(read:uncut)version? TV waters down (edits all the really gross parts out)that movie A LOT!!


Hi Tonyfan....

I dunno what I saw.  I know I saw it on TV, but our censorship restrictions are nowhere near as draconian as yours..... :)

Maybe I'll rent it out and have another laugh (or hide behind the couch, one or the other)  ;D

The Exorcist wins hands down! The movie creeped me out and I would still see images from it when I slept.

I thought Evil Dead was pretty scary the first time I saw it. And an obscure film called Scarecrows about some army deserters who steal a military payroll and parachute into a corn field. A really good edge-of-your-seat thriller.

The Excorist when it first came out.  I was quite young then so watching that movie at that age freaked me out.  Now of course there isn't a movie that has scared me...maybe grossed me out. 

Tough choices there.... But my top choces are:

Halloween. This film hs stood the test of time and still scares the crap out of me after seeing it some 50 billion times!  :o John Carpenter is a genious and Donald Pleasence was brilliant as Dr. Loomis. Michael Myers couldn't get any creepier than he was in this film. My other favorite Halloweens were H20, 4, 2, and the theatrical version of 6.

Nightmare on Elm Street. Elm Street is a pretty creepy film. It's hard to believe the nightmares started twenty years ago. Wes Craven has made some excellent horror movies that have stood the test of time. Freddy was really creepy in the original and in New Nightmare.

My only beef with the original Friday the 13th is that Jason was not the killer. But, I used to watch Part 1 before I went to bed and it really creeped me out. My favorites in the series are the ones with Jason with the hockey mask.

Poltergeist had me hiding behind my hands, the first time I saw it  :D

Even though it wasn't listed, Cujo still scares me.   And can't go camping  in a tent or cabin without thinking about Jason & the 13th.

I agree. Those two movies still scare me as well.

ROSEMARY'S BABY!! and THE OMEN!

ROSEMARY'S BABY!!

Good pick.  I'd forgotten about that one when I first posted.  If nothing else, the movie proves you can make a spine-tingler without special effects and drooling baddies.

Scariest movie ever?

I can't choose between these 5:

Gigli - w/ Jennifer Lopes
Crossroads - w/ Brittney Spears
Swept Away - w/ Madonna
Glitter - w/ Mariah Carrey
The Fighting Temptations – w/ Bouncy Knowles

They all give me the creeps every time I think of their existence, more so than any other movies I’ve known to exist. Horror movies make me laugh, but these are the most horrifying creations put on celluloid!

"The Thing" circa 1950s. I was about 8 or 9 and it scared me so much I couldn't go into a room alone for as year! :o

FACES OF DEATH!!I can't believe the halfway house I was in at the time actually let a resident rent THAT DISGUSTING MOVIE!!

FACES OF DEATH!!I can't believe the halfway house I was in at the time actually let a resident rent THAT DISGUSTING MOVIE!!


Isn't that about people getting executed and stuff? I have heard horrible things about it. I have no intentions of watching such sickness.

Believe it or not, they came up with at least 4 Faces of Death movies. And their's another snuff film series from England that shows news footage of violent deaths of people that was censored from TV. Anyone with a phone and credit card could own it. :(
Here's another scary film that nobody knows about, "The Lift". It was a Dutch film about people being killed by an elevator lift that has a mind of it's own. It bogs down toward the end, but the last few frames leave you guessing. If you still have a VCR, rent it.


Isn't that about people getting executed and stuff? I have heard horrible things about it. I have no intentions of watching such sickness.

Believe it or not, they came up with at least 4 Faces of Death movies. And their's another snuff film series from England that shows news footage of violent deaths of people that was censored from TV. Anyone with a phone and credit card could own it. :(


I love horror films but snuff is an entirely different league of it's own. At least while watching a horror film, the disbelief knowing these people are acting something made up makes it more psychologically palatable. Watching a snuff movie knowing that this person has really died right before your eyes is something I couldn't watch intentionally.

Four films? Sheesh.

Fortunately for the world, the footage used in the "Faces" series is all fictitious, not real. It was purposely presented as real for underground marketing purposes. There are some videos out there of real life accidents and accidental deaths captured on film, but they do not fall under the "snuff' category. Snuff is a relatively small and alternative genre created to be presented as real by the underground industry for the morbid and morbidly curious. The intent is to shock, not entertain. Of course, it is illegal. Good thing too. That trash should be highly discouraged. :P

Back on topic -

Scariest movie? I know I didn't list any, but I think the original "Dawn of the Dead" was suspenseful because I remember I was at the edge of my seat at the theatre screaming at the screen to the characters "Run!" and wondering who would survive. The beginning is weird because it's unrealistic as heck, they got carried away with attempted "shock value"; and in retrospect, the effects left a lot to be desired. "Zombie 2" was much better effect-wise. "Evil Dead" is one of my faves and a classic as far as I'm concerned, along with "The Omen", "The Exorcist", "Amittyville Horror", "The Shining", "Trilogy of Terror", "Patrick", "The Others" (excellent ghost story), "The Sixth Sense" (ditto), and a quite a few old classics starring Vincent Price.

The scariest movie of all times:

Earnest Goes to Camp (or any other Earnest movie) AAAUUUUGGGGGHHHHH Frightning, frightning.




Cat

Nice choice, MaxwellSmart....it was a great movie, wasn't it :o


Hell yes! Not really scary to me, but one of the greatest films ever, and of course, it's Kubrick. SK was the man when it came to movies, that's why he's the master. I love "Clockwork Orange."

I am surprised no one has mentioned "House of 1000 Corpses" the Rob Zombie flick. Great piece of horror. Some of you might be interested to know that Rob is one of the main dudes affiliated with a new 24 hr cable channel dedicated to horror, which was supposed to go live on Halloween of this year. He also has a new movie coming out... can't wait for it. (RZ is a guy who has every horror film ever made, on DVD).

SCARY MOVIE

I could only select "The Exorcist" and "Halloween" from the list.  The others I either haven't seen, or consider silly more than scary.

My three would be:
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
The Blair Witch Project

Other scaries, non-ranking:
Rosemary's Baby
Midnight Express
Alien
Nosferatu
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Dracula (1932 original with Bela Lugosi)
Psycho (1958 original only)
Deliverance
Carrie
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Eraserhead
El Topo
Ghost Story (1981, Fred Astaire's last major motion picture)
Fargo

Although Deliverance and Midnight Express aren't technically in the horror genre, both films arouse anxiety.  A lot of people wouldn't think of Eraserhead or El Topo as "scary" per se, but they're soooo weird they send your mind to very alienating spaces.  I had to add Fargo even though it's billed more as a comedy.  Fargo is one of my all time favorites.  The scariness is in the psychopathology of the two bungling criminals and the way nobody in the film can do anything right and the situations grows more and more horrible throughout the story.

No matter how hard I try, I can't think of the Shining as scary. Really well-made movie though.
There's something about the original Psycho that made me never want to shower again.
Same thing with Stephen King's It.  :o

Lmao.. Deliverance (freakin scary)

The film i found scariest.. at least as a kid, and take in to account i used to watch loads of nasty's.. was Robo Cop. Because at that age i honestly thought that they would make Robo Cops and one would shoot me accidentally.. or like half a malfunction and kill me... morbid thoughts for an 9 year old.

The Amityville Horror was scary to me when I was a kid.  I didn't sleep all night just from watching the previews.  Later, it turned out to be Candyman that scared me while in college.  I also remember being terrified of Helter Skelter.  Today, the previews for The Grudge have caused me some sleeplessness.

As far as horror movies go, my all time faves are:

Scream
Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween H2O (I know it's a sequel, but it's not that bad)

I think that Saw looks as if it's going to be pretty good, too.

The Wizard of Oz, it's traumatizing to a young mind. The Exorcist should win because of the sacrey truth that evil spirits do try and steal our souls just not so graphic as the movie however but just as destructive. Last house on the Left was an eerie fim it's almost like a documentary of a killing spree. Blair Witch was a bummer -I got dizzy and felt ripped off. The rest these days don't scare me at all. Maybe we know too much about movie making now. Psycho for it's time was intense and as for Deliverance - I live 30 miles from where that movie was filmed and there are still some of those neanderthal type there who still make moonshine "likker" and will kill you in a heartbeat. Maybe some rappers tour bus could get lost there and that would be a good movie- or would that be a comedy?