What was the last think that scared the crap out of you?

[Au Naturel.]

Um... last time was last night when playing Black Ops and I stepped on a claymore mine.

For some reason, that just freaked me out >>

Don't worry, I was once frightened by the headshot noise in Lost Planet 2.

Yume Nikki mentally disturbed me for a week or two, and I still want to play it. I was mentally and subconsciously projecting the landscapes and characters into reality.

Most recently, episode 2 of Neon Genesis Evangelion. For sci-fi fiction, it seemed oddly real to me. Shinji's voice actor really makes what's going on, what he sees and what he's doing when he's in EVA001, real. I imagined myself seeing what he was seeing and it was pretty disturbing.

 

[SimuLord]

A few months ago, had a girlfriend whose period came late. She went into the bathroom with the stick test and I had the most conflicted set of thoughts I've had in my life...equal parts "well, I did say I wanted to settle down and start a family, but PLEASE GODS NOT NOW."

Though that wasn't nearly as conflicted as I felt when she came back out, the test was negative, and she'd apparently had the same set of thoughts I did---she was crying, simultaneously disappointed and relieved.

That was...weird.

 

[sheogoraththemad]

I get scared every time at the slightest hint that my computer has a virus

.....Like what?

the usual malware adware trojan, my virus scanner always tell me when I am on a dangerous site and then blocks it.

 

[RGC360]

That scary thread thing just made me shit myself.
Prior to that in Fallout 3 when you were exploring that vault where you kept having hallucinations about your father and everything kept going blue..freaked me right the hell out.

 

[Timewave Zero]

Probably watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first time, which was some time ago. I have a pretty bad memory, anyway.

Downright evil. It's not really scary as it is hideous, so uncompromising - it shows you awful things (nothing vastly graphic though, that's all imagination) and doesn't relent.
And when Leatherface dances with the chainsaw at the end...Jesus, there's just something fundamentally freakish about that.

I'm a huge horror film fan and I'm not easily scared by many, more enthralled by the idea's and such, but TCM made me feel genuienly uneasy in many parts. It's what you'd get if you gave the love-child of Charles Manson and Francis Bacon LSD and a film crew.
FUCKING EVIL.
But really, really good. Fuck the remake.

 

[Lyx]

I'd say that was "The Mirror Lied".

The ironic thing is: It isn't even a horror game. It's an experimental mini-adventure (almost like a short-film), in a jrpg-shell. There's no splatter, no nightmarish monsters, no creepy people trying to kill you... nothing....

But there is lots of loneliness and mistrust in the environment. Helpless paranoia. Something is wrong - i cant figure out what - and the clock is ticking.

 

[Ruwrak]

the link to the trailer of Amnesia: The Dark Asylum.
I'm not that easily scared (Hardcore horror junkie *waves*)
But... Oh my that is one well setup scare. Worth of a hattip.

 

[sabbat]

Let me put it this way. Never EVER watch Paranormal Activity in the dark when you've had too much alcohol to remember that demon posession isn't real! If you're sober, on the other hand, enjoy. You might find Paranormal Activity about as scary as Bambi. Seriously, it makes The Blair Witch Project look like Hitchcock's wet dream!

Although, the Homunculus in Shadow Of Memories (AKA Shadow Of Destiny) was definitly shit-your-pants creepy, and I was playing that game only last night. Saying that, He/she is creepy simply because of the ambiguity of his/her gender. And you can see nothing but malice reflected in his/her eyes.

 

[alittlepepper]

The last time I got genuinely rattled was actually during a lightening storm. It was a really heavy and really violent one, lightening striking every few seconds and it seemed like it was sitting over my house like a particularly lazy Zeus. I was already up because of the constant loud thunder and high winds that were making the entire building creak, and looking out the window.
I saw a stroke of lightening hit a tree that is barely fifty yards away from the window, which awed me for the quarter of a second before a thundercrack hit. It sounded like the air force had just dumped a 2000 lb JDAM on my house, the entire building shuddered. I honestly couldn't hear for several seconds afterward and, try as I might, I didn't stop shaking for hours. And I was edgy as hell the entire next day.

 

[Shadowfaze]

Stupid scay thread. Jumped out at me while i attempted to read a story

 

[Cowabungaa]

Playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent last night in the dark with the volume up quite loud! Was in the sewers running away from the tougher zombie thing that kills you in one hit.. Thought i'd got away so I turned around just in time to see it about to smash my face in.. Oh joy!

I just bought and downloaded that game, played it for the first time half an hour ago and it too is the last thing that properly scared me. I've only just sighted my first monster and all, right before that I just randomly picked up something interesting only to have it explode in my hands. Worse is knowing it will only get worse...and worse...and worse...

The last time I got genuinely rattled was actually during a lightening storm. It was a really heavy and really violent one, lightening striking every few seconds and it seemed like it was sitting over my house like a particularly lazy Zeus. I was already up because of the constant loud thunder and high winds that were making the entire building creak, and looking out the window.
I saw a stroke of lightening hit a tree that is barely fifty yards away from the window, which awed me for the quarter of a second before a thundercrack hit. It sounded like the air force had just dumped a 2000 lb JDAM on my house, the entire building shuddered. I honestly couldn't hear for several seconds afterward and, try as I might, I didn't stop shaking for hours. And I was edgy as hell the entire next day.

The only thing that makes me think is "AWESOME!!!" Call me crazy, but I storms like that. Shame we barely have them.

 

[RatRace123]

In Dragon Age, I was just in Orzammar... those giant spiders give you no warning for when they're about to just pop out.

It was really just something that suddenly broke the silence and made me jump, but still.

 

[alittlepepper]

This thing freaked the hell out of me.

I've found David Firth's animations to be intensely creepy and unsettling, psychologically worrying and otherwise just weird, but at the same time, a lot of them have pretty interesting storylines and some of them...yeah, like another poster said, can be pretty heartwarming.
One of my favorite web animators. Katy Towell as well.

That one though...that one might just be bizarre o_o

 

[Lexxi64]

Nothing terrifying, but today I had to get a needle, and I was fucking scared. Terrified even. That was horrible, but yeah, not that scary!
I'm generally scared of life, living, having to be here, but that's a different story...

 

[[.redacted]]

THIS

Spoiler: Oh god... They're coming...

And I haven't even watched GitS.

 

[lacktheknack]

*thing

At any rate;
Penumbra, just Penumbra

This. Plus:

Amnesia. Just Amnesia.

 

[Harlemura]

The tunnel mission thingy part doodad in Black Ops.
After being jumped at five times, I was reloading and said "I bet this part's meant to be sca-". I didn't finish because for some reason, having two guys on me at the same time and not being able to fire gave me the heeby-jeebies.