Scariest movie you've seen.

[RatRace123]

Simple topic, what's the scariest movie you've ever seen? What was the scariest part in the movie? Scariest part in any movie?
Even if you don't get scared by movies, some of them must have unnerved you more than others.

I'll start it off by saying The Exorcist is the scariest movie I've ever seen. Granted I haven't seen it in a while, but the general idea of the movie terrifies me. Not to mention Linda Blair in full possession makeup.
Still makes me shiver just thinking about it.

 

[Batfred]

The original Halloween film wasn't that scary. However 25 years ago when I first saw it, I was 8. Properly worried about that film and couldn't watch it in full till I was in my mid-20s.

The exact part I remember from begind the sofa was when she got in the car to escape the house and saw the breath on the windscreen.... parp!

 

[leedwashere]

I went to see 1408 in theaters with my girlfriend. She loved it, but by the end of it I had been clutching her so hard out of being scared that she had bruises on her arm for a week >.<

Also the first time I watched Rose Red I spent the majority of the second half hiding behind the couch and watching by peeking over.

I scare easily >.>

 

[Queen Michael]

Gremlins. I've been raised to be a devout Christian, so seeing that part where

Spoiler

that mean old lady opened her front door to chase away the carollers, and discovering that it was the gremlins but thinking they were demons come to take her to hell for the way she'd been treating her fellow humans

scared the living daylights out of me.

 

[azurawolf]

When I was younger, I was scared shitless by Child's Play.
I even had a dream that Chucky tried to kill me one time.
Just the thought of my toys coming alive and killing me....

 

[Mr. Grey]

I haven't been frightened by a movie in years.

The only one that comes to mind is the Ring, but that's pretty much because the DVD came with this special option in the Extras saying "Don't watch this..." and... well, I watched it and I immediately shut off the DVD Player because pressing stop wasn't fast enough.

The movie itself didn't frighten me -- not a moment was I terrified during the entire movie, but it sure as hell messed with my mind.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

When I was younger, I was scared shitless by Child's Play.
I even had a dream that Chucky tried to kill me one time.
Just the thought of my toys coming alive and killing me....

This.

I had a really crappy babysitter who had me watch it when I was really small. To this day, I hate dolls.

Somehow, a few years later, my grandma got it in her head that I liked porcelain dolls, and kept buying them for me. They're all currently in a plastic tub in my basement, duct taped shut so they can't claw my eyes out in the night...

 

[azurawolf]

When I was younger, I was scared shitless by Child's Play.
I even had a dream that Chucky tried to kill me one time.
Just the thought of my toys coming alive and killing me....

This.

I had a really crappy babysitter who had me watch it when I was really small. To this day, I hate dolls.

Somehow, a few years later, my grandma got it in her head that I liked porcelain dolls, and kept buying them for me. They're all currently in a plastic tub in my basement, duct taped shut so they can't claw my eyes out in the night...

I know the feeling. My older cousin was the reason I saw it.
I had to throw my dolls in the closet so that I could get some sleep because I could swear that her head was going to turn and look at me.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Simple topic, what's the scariest movie you've ever seen? What was the scariest part in the movie? Scariest part in any movie?
Even if you don't get scared by movies, some of them must have unnerved you more than others.

Scared? Not really. Unnerved? Oh hell yes.

Prize probably goes to Grave of the Fireflies.
Kind of gave me a bad feeling in my gut.
Same for first time I saw Old Boy, although not as bad.

For both movies, the most unnerving part was the ending.

 

[khaimera]

For me it was the shining. I was about thirteen when I watched it at night by myself. I loved that movie. I also found paranormal activity kind of scary, even though its not even close to the same league as the shining

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Well I'd say that there are two answers:

Scariest movie while you're watching it: I'll probably go with the second entry in John Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy, Prince of Darkness. Not because it was consistently scary all the way though, but because I feel like it has more genuinely frightening scenes than any other horror film I can think of. Runner up in this category is Session 9.

Scariest movie that will eat at you long after the credits have played forcing you to try and answer its questions, that honor goes to my personal favorite film of all time Only Interstellar Pinball Lives Forever. Interestingly enough, OIPLF isn't a horror movie at all, instead it is a discussion of mortality phrased as a surreal absurdist discussion between a man and a vision of himself as a child played by a refurbished bible school puppet. It's not scary because it has frightening monsters, but because the theme itself, "how do you face mortality if you have no belief in an afterlife?" is one of the most difficult and terrifying questions you can ever try to answer, and OIPLF will shove it in your face. Maybe you can forget about it afterwards, but if you're like me, you won't be able to, it'll grind away at you forcing you to face it again and again.

 

[bioshockedcriticjrr]

a two way tie between seeing gremlins as a kid, but then again, back then the scooby doo movies scared. a much more recent example has to go to The Fly or Black swan. Body horror seems to get to me especially for some reason. That bit at the end of the fly where jeff bridges jaw and the rest of his skin fell off, leaving a completely transformed brundlefly, sent shivers down my spine and bile up my throut. also that bit in black swan where she thinks that she PULLS OFF HER OWN SKIN was definitely very cringworthy.

 

[ninjaman 420]

Do you really want a movie to TERRIFY you and make you fear for your life? RENT a movie called the last horror movie...

 

[TheComedown]

AvPR... it was before I got the AvP game and the wole chestburster thing freaked me out. I watched the first 11 minutes of it with my friend on a roadtrip, then we decided to watch the Godzilla remake.

Wow really, the newest AvP that only came out like a few years ago? It was a shit movie sure, but not even scary in the slightest, the closest thing to scary in the whole of the AvP movies would have been the first Alien movie, even then wasn't really that bad. You must scare real easy.

Can't say I watch scary movies, don't like any of the average horror gore-fest shit at all really.

 

[Marowit]

Alien, when I was 9-ish was probably the most I remember being scared during/after a movie.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

John Carpenter's The Thing [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thing-DVD-Kurt-Russell/dp/B00004D07X/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1302886934&sr=1-1], easily.

I think Alien and Jaws get the honourable mentions, and not necessarily in that order. Jaws would have been shite, but the rubber shark kept breaking down so all the cheesy underwater footage of a rubber shark they'd been planning to use had to be replaced with shark's-eye-view approaches and footage of open, seemingly empty, ocean, and that was scary.

Just my opinion, although I hope I'm far from alone in it: the films made of IT and Christine have both utterly sucked, and neither of them was even slightly scary or entertaining compared to the books. It might be possible to convey the idea that IT is chasing you and you don't know how clsoe to you IT is but are sure you don't have time to turn around and look, using cunning camera angles, tracking shots, zoom and so on. It might be possible to get the idea of IT having no shape at all as it came up the tube until Riched said it was the werewolf, without it looking cheesy. It might even be possible to come up with a genuinely terrifying Pennywise and some convincing deadlights. Likewise, given an adequate supply of the '58 Plymouth Fury and the autumn red and ivory white paints, it might be possible to do the self-repair thing, the scene where she squeezes her way up an alley and so on, and I'm sure someone could merge modern (well, late '80s) town into late '50s town, and it wouldn't be that hard to have an old-fashioned radio that played any of a number of (simulated) circa-1960 radio stations, possibly even from original recordings of real New England stations. Somehow, though, I doubt it would happen. The history of IT and the way it haunted people would be too much like Doing It Right for cinema, and the long, slow build-up as Roland D leBay's nature and Christine's nature became more apparent would take too long for the 112-minutes-or-under world of cinema. I think the films made of those stories sucked beside the films that could, theoretically, have been made the way Stalingrad sucked beside the miniseries Das Boot.

 

[Jon Shannow]

Teeth, just the concept terrifies me

 

[Tharwen]

I saw What Lies Beneath when I was 11, so I found it absolutely terrifying (and I remember genuinely screaming like a little girl ). It came on again when I was staying in a hotel recently, and it was awful. Not scary, not good, only slightly redeemable because it has Harrison Ford in it.