Poll: A movie or game that has genuinly scared you...

[Teachingaddict]

I'm actually quite hard to scare, however

Watching Event Horizon at the cinema (home watching doesnt do it justice)
The Descent - perhaps the only recent horror movie to do this
Jeepers Creepers gets a nod for the best ten - fifteen minutes of any horror film at the beginning (after that its just plain crap)
Doom 3 in pitch black with surround sound (my headset in this case)

and finally, the most scariest horror film for me

Arachnophobia - because I bloody hate spiders

 

[vampirekid.13]

silent hill one on ps1. that shit is scary.

 

[Britisheagle]

REmake has to be up there in my top 10 too. My God the people at Capcom sure as hell did know how to make you jump. Scariest part for me was the bit in the downstairs lab that is flooded and then... BAM ... I was eaten by a god damn shark. I actually just stood at the top of the stairs for like 10 minutes before psycing myself up to do that part again. Who said the Gamecube was for kids? (well least there were some half decent non-childish games)

I haven't seen half the films mentioned, got some good ideas for what dvds to buy now!

 

[messy]

Bioshock. You enter the room where the water is waist high. You feel very slow and feeble. You blasted the water with your Electrobolt right? Yeah there can't be anything wro....Click.....Lights out....Oh they are back on again that is better. Grab your tonic, search the body. Back through the water up the stairs RARRHH! crazy doctor in the cabinet coming to getcha! Also the begining where you climbed down into rapture was unsettling for the first time playing it.

This exact moment, doesn't help that before hand you can see the doctors shadow flicker first before the lights go off then disappears when the lights come back on.

Or the bit in the medical provisions, you go through a door and are blasted with anaesthetic so you screen goes all hazy. Turn round slowly and there's a surgeon brandishing a lead pipe who I swear waits until you turn round before he attacks (and he is right next to you as well)

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Thief Deadly Shadow: The Shalebridge Cradle

I have three moments from that mission that sit with me forever.

Spoiler: Here there be spoilers

1. The Door. I don't need to say anything else, do I? That deep thudding I could hear wherever I was in that entire building, and when I on that staircase and was just about to see the door, this frantic banging starts. I'm down the stairs in two seconds flat, cowering in the nearest shadow I can find, bow out and broadhead nocked, waiting for whatever horror that I KNEW was coming down to eat my face to show up. It was five minutes before I came back out of that shadow.

2. Puppet close encounter #1. In the White Hall, I had just picked open one of the cell doors and retreated into a shadowy corner while one of the Puppets (the patients) walked by. Now, I'd seen this one going by before, and I knew that he stood at the end of the hallway for about fifteen seconds or so, so one he'd passed I'd started moving forward. Well, he must've noticed the open door, because the instant he reached the end of his "patrol", he immediately turned around and went into low alert. I must've cracked one of Garrett's ribs shoving him back into that corner so quickly.

3. Puppet close encounter #2. This was somewhere near the Morgue, I think, with two hallways and one Puppet patrolling between them. I'm trying to get from one hallway to another when I realize that the Puppet is coming back, and I slam myself against the wall near the corner, thinking he'll just stroll on by. Instead, he walks over to the very corner I'm in, and just stands there, close enough so that I can see the eyeholes in his outfit, shaking frantically and breathing that terrible death-rattle.

When he walked away ten seconds later, I realized I'd been holding my breath the entire time.

 

[martin's a madman]

Bioshock. You enter the room where the water is waist high. You feel very slow and feeble. You blasted the water with your Electrobolt right? Yeah there can't be anything wro....Click.....Lights out....Oh they are back on again that is better. Grab your tonic, search the body. Back through the water up the stairs RARRHH! crazy doctor in the cabinet coming to getcha! Also the begining where you climbed down into rapture was unsettling for the first time playing it.

I agree but I still loved that game.

For movies though i would have to say the remake for the "Amityville Horror" was rather creepy just because I watched it at midnight. I also had trouble with the "Halloween" remake just because of the gore.

Yeah it was a brilliant game, best story of a game as far as I'm concerned and the game play was also excellent.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

Bioshock. You enter the room where the water is waist high. You feel very slow and feeble. You blasted the water with your Electrobolt right? Yeah there can't be anything wro....Click.....Lights out....Oh they are back on again that is better. Grab your tonic, search the body. Back through the water up the stairs RARRHH! crazy doctor in the cabinet coming to getcha! Also the begining where you climbed down into rapture was unsettling for the first time playing it.

I agree but I still loved that game.

For movies though i would have to say the remake for the "Amityville Horror" was rather creepy just because I watched it at midnight. I also had trouble with the "Halloween" remake just because of the gore.

Yeah it was a brilliant game, best story of a game as far as I'm concerned and the game play was also excellent.

Took the words out of my mouth. The one thing that could've been improved was making Andrew Ryan even more important (he's totally awesome).

 

[martin's a madman]

Bioshock. You enter the room where the water is waist high. You feel very slow and feeble. You blasted the water with your Electrobolt right? Yeah there can't be anything wro....Click.....Lights out....Oh they are back on again that is better. Grab your tonic, search the body. Back through the water up the stairs RARRHH! crazy doctor in the cabinet coming to getcha! Also the begining where you climbed down into rapture was unsettling for the first time playing it.

I agree but I still loved that game.

For movies though i would have to say the remake for the "Amityville Horror" was rather creepy just because I watched it at midnight. I also had trouble with the "Halloween" remake just because of the gore.

Yeah it was a brilliant game, best story of a game as far as I'm concerned and the game play was also excellent.

Took the words out of my mouth. The one thing that could've been improved was making Andrew Ryan even more important (he's totally awesome).

Yeah, I loved his objectivist outlook and the voice actor who played him did an incredible job. Also, his character on the whole was just superbly written and delivered, a shame he won't be in the second.

 

[Melon Hunter]

I was creeped out by the Dunwich Building and Vault 106 in Fallout 3. Those places were really quite scary and atmospheric.

 

[Britisheagle]

Bioshock. You enter the room where the water is waist high. You feel very slow and feeble. You blasted the water with your Electrobolt right? Yeah there can't be anything wro....Click.....Lights out....Oh they are back on again that is better. Grab your tonic, search the body. Back through the water up the stairs RARRHH! crazy doctor in the cabinet coming to getcha! Also the begining where you climbed down into rapture was unsettling for the first time playing it.

I agree but I still loved that game.

For movies though i would have to say the remake for the "Amityville Horror" was rather creepy just because I watched it at midnight. I also had trouble with the "Halloween" remake just because of the gore.

Yeah it was a brilliant game, best story of a game as far as I'm concerned and the game play was also excellent.

Took the words out of my mouth. The one thing that could've been improved was making Andrew Ryan even more important (he's totally awesome).

Yeah, I loved his objectivist outlook and the voice actor who played him did an incredible job. Also, his character on the whole was just superbly written and delivered, a shame he won't be in the second.

Well I don't think you can survive that kind of physical trauma. But if anyone can, it's Andrew Ryan!

 

[martin's a madman]

Bioshock. You enter the room where the water is waist high. You feel very slow and feeble. You blasted the water with your Electrobolt right? Yeah there can't be anything wro....Click.....Lights out....Oh they are back on again that is better. Grab your tonic, search the body. Back through the water up the stairs RARRHH! crazy doctor in the cabinet coming to getcha! Also the begining where you climbed down into rapture was unsettling for the first time playing it.

I agree but I still loved that game.

For movies though i would have to say the remake for the "Amityville Horror" was rather creepy just because I watched it at midnight. I also had trouble with the "Halloween" remake just because of the gore.

Yeah it was a brilliant game, best story of a game as far as I'm concerned and the game play was also excellent.

Took the words out of my mouth. The one thing that could've been improved was making Andrew Ryan even more important (he's totally awesome).

Yeah, I loved his objectivist outlook and the voice actor who played him did an incredible job. Also, his character on the whole was just superbly written and delivered, a shame he won't be in the second.

Well I don't think you can survive that kind of physical trauma. But if anyone can, it's Andrew Ryan!

And if not....the Vita-chambers were tuned to his DNA. Hmm...

 

[jdog345]

Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy) scared me. Still, the book was amazing.

Also, the part from Catch-22 with Kid Sampson and McWatt's plane. As soon as I read the beginning of the paragraph, I knew what was going to happen, and my heart skipped.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

First thing that comes to mind is in BioShock. First time one of those "dead" guys jumped up at me I nearly crapped myself.

 

[Broady Brio]

The first Condemned for Xbox360 seriously it is piss-your-pants scary. (Trousers, sorry I'm English) I think Yahtzee's Oblivion review summed it up very well

Oh and Dead Space for the first 10 mins, then it kept repeating itself with their "Yeah the monster is dead, walk towards it so you can lose half your genetils as they magically revive and munch on them"

 

[Mondo_Generator]

Alien vs Predator for the Atari Jaguar scared the living crap outta me when I was younger.


Also, I remember watching "The X-Files" when I about 6 or 7 and there was scene where a elevator breaks down and it plummets to the ground, killing everyone inside it. That scared the hell out of me, it also made me develop claustrophobia.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Or the bit in the medical provisions, you go through a door and are blasted with anaesthetic so you screen goes all hazy. Turn round slowly and there's a surgeon brandishing a lead pipe who I swear waits until you turn round before he attacks (and he is right next to you as well)

That freaked the hell out me the first time. Yeah he does wait for you to turn around before attacking. Good thing I had the shotgun out.

 

[TheDoctor455]

For me, it was Silent Hill 2. Really, that is the only work from any form of media that has managed to scare the crap out of me. And this is from someone who thinks that sadistic clown doll from Saw, Freddy Kreuger and Jason Vorhees are all stupid. Yes, I've seen The Ring, and while it was a little more imaginative than most, it still wasn't that scary for me.

 

[MrDutch]

Dead Space startled me a lot. But once you understand that for every enemy you kill, you have to turn 180 degrees for the one that's trying to surprise you in the back. It gets kinda predictable.

 

[ICantBelieveItGoesBoom]

A certain part near the beginning of Condemned 2 involving mannequins and paint on walls. . .