Scariest movie you've seen.

[Ursus Buckler]

I usually laugh at the gorier efforts like Saw, and I usually find horror movies create the most irritating/ unlikeable characters ever to kill off. And the fact that you KNOW they're all going to get killed off makes most horror movies I see dull and predictable.

However, the most recent one that I can remember being scared by afterward was The Usual Suspects. I know it's not techincally a scary film, but the concept of Keyser Soze gave me chills. Especially when I didn't go to bed until 2am. And you know what it's like at 2am after watching something a bit unnerving and thought-provoking: either every pipe in the house decides to clunk loudly at some point in the night, or in my case, foxes decide to scream outside my window just as I'm beginning to calm down.

 

[tomtom94]

Locusts: The 8th Plague. LOOK AT THE TERRIFYING AND CONVINCINGLY-DRAWN LOCUSTS!

(If you're looking for a proper "so bad it's good" film, you need to see this. Especially see it with friends.)

In actuality, I've never seen a proper "horror" film. You may mock but I don't see the appeal of the adrenaline rush you're supposed to get. Scariest thing I've ever watched was the Doctor Who Empty Child episodes (it was a TV two-parter, that's roughly the same length as a film, hence it counts!).
[small]The guy who wrote it now writes the series. *cry*[/small]

EDIT: For films, I just got reminded of A Clockwork Orange. That was creepy as all hell.

 

[Ima842]

I think I'll agree with some people and say REC.
SHAME THEY NEVER MADE A SEQUEL TO IT.

they did
http://www.pochoclos.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/rec2.jpg

[sub]That was the joke. It's terrible, so I do not acknowledge its existence.[/sub]
NO THEY DIDN'T WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

[sub]i'll play along because i also think it was bad
OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T I WAS JUST JOKING, DID YOU LIKE THE POSTER I MADE IN PHOTOSHOP?!!

 

[hazabaza1]

I think I'll agree with some people and say REC.
SHAME THEY NEVER MADE A SEQUEL TO IT.

they did
http://www.pochoclos.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/rec2.jpg

[sub]That was the joke. It's terrible, so I do not acknowledge its existence.[/sub]
NO THEY DIDN'T WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

[sub]i'll play along because i also think it was bad
OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T I WAS JUST JOKING, DID YOU LIKE THE POSTER I MADE IN PHOTOSHOP?!!

[sub]Okay, cool, glad that's sorted[/sub]
IT'S GREAT. MAYBE YOU COULD GO TO THE STUDIO AND SEE IF YOU CAN SET UP A SEQUEL, JUST MAKE SURE THAT NO RETARDED RELIGIOUS SHIT IS INVOLVED, THAT WOULD BE SILLY!

 

[Shoqiyqa]

Martyrs. I'm really quite hardened when it comes to horror and gore, I've been watching scary movies for 20 years. That movie disturbed the ever living shit out of me.

*searches imdb*

*reads synopsis*

Jayzis.

I see mention of the derivation of the word "martyr" from the Greek word for "witness", which is rather interesting as the two are the same word in Arabic and that does make me wonder how far back the connection goes.

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Regarding "counting velociraptors" ... I don't know. Do you want to read it?

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There's a different kind of scary, but I think it belongs in the scary thread, not here.

 

[ShakyFiend]

I never actually saw 'It' but the cover scared the shit out of me for years, still does

Spoiler: Fucking clowns, jesus

 

[PinkiePyro]

Nightmare on elm street
the scene where the guy got blenderized by his own bed freaked me right the fuck out
ended up being so scared I slept with a (cosplay) sword in my bed for about a week just incase freddy was real...

I love horror movies but to this day I still refuse to watch anything classed as a "slasher" film

 

[wfpdk]

scariest movie of my childhood was pee wees big adventure

Spoiler

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Most films I find scary always fizzle out towards the end.

For example, I loved Jeepers Creepers up until the damn monster shows up unclothed and in full monster form at the end, then it devolves into a basic "monster is here, run that way" thing whereas before it had been awesome.

If pressed, I'd have to say EITHER "Haunting in Connecticut" or the remake of "Nightmare on Elm Street".

 

[Littaly]

I don't watch a lot of horror, so there's no real prestige in being "the scariest movie I've seen". Still, the one movie I've watched that kept me on the edge of my seat for it's entirety was The Machinist, it was brilliant but goddammit was it tense

 

[Lieju]

There was a kid's movie that scarred me for life. In it, someone tried to make a cheeseless cheese, but it turned into mold and exploded, and everyone who touched it turned into mold. Poeple would turn into mold-monsters, basically looking like sludge.

It was an animated movie, I think with cartoon animals. But I can't recall what it was called.

I became really paranoid about touching anything moldy for years, and for some reason got the idea that library books might have it...

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

The only horror movies that I ever see are those "here! a scary face accompanied with a loud sound! - haha, you jumped didn't you?" movies, and I hate those.

Any recommendations for movies with a scary athmosphere, which don't rely on cheap jump scares?

 

[Shoqiyqa]

The only horror movies that I ever see are those "here! a scary face accompanied with a loud sound! - haha, you jumped didn't you?" movies, and I hate those.

Any recommendations for movies with a scary athmosphere, which don't rely on cheap jump scares?

Again, The Thing. I don't recall anything jumping out suddenly. Pretty much all the horrifying faces had build-ups.

I don't think The Shining had much of that either, just increasing insanity.

 

[concrete89]

The only movie to make me lose sleep was "Mars Attacks."
It's a stupid comedy, in which aliens invade earth, kill people with rayguns turning them into pink and green skeletons, and are defeated by country music.
It shouldn't scare anyone.
Still, it terrifies me. I can't explain it.
Well, the ring gave me a fobia of tv's and black windows, but still...
Rayguns. My god.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

Possibly this.

 

[ZtH]

The scariest movie I've seen was probably Silence of the Lambs. I liked it because it's more creepy than overtly frightening.

Spoiler

Particularly the part where he wears the policemans face to escape the police

If we include shows as well as normal films Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. It's a very creepy show.

Spoiler

The part where Shion comes out from the under the hospital bed keeps me up some nights, and the needle in his food is extraordinarily creepy. The only thing I disliked was having everything explained in Kai. For some parts it makes it creepier, but in others the mystery holds more fright than the explanation.

 

[Abbyrose07]

In the Mouth of Madness...scared the ever living 10 year old shit out of me and the movie still scares me 15 years later....

 

[FamoFunk]

Pulse (2006)

About a group of young adults who get killed because of their use of technology. I found it scary because of the way they died and the fact that they were systematically being taken out and their friends would be right there with nothing they could do. A whole neighborhood was killed off in about a week and only one guy in a penthouse survived by destroying all his phones, computers, machines, internet, and only had his TV with static and lighting rocking back and forth to himself.

This has really interested me.

I've found two - the 2006 is the re-makes isn't it? As it was originally J-core?

(So says Play.com) is the re-make the one you're talking about, yus?

 

[INeedAName]

Eraserhead. My god is it disturbing!

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

The first Jeepers Creepers.

The thought that if something existed like that alone frightened the shit out of me.