Recommend Me Some Frightening movies.

[Geddy]

Could some of you could post a list of the horror movies that actually scared you and had a lasting effect on you, I'm going to pick some dvds up this weekend.

[fortunato]

i started a thread kind of like this a while ago, and got some pretty good responses:

http://www.horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31380&highlight=frightened

but definitely i'd say pick up audition if you don't have it yet.
maybe something by david lynch, too. inland empire, lost highway, eraserhead, and twin peaks: firewalk with me.

[Roderick Usher]

Feed
Begotten
Shivers
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Descent

[Geddy]

I've actually found begotten online and hope to watch it tonight, thanks for the other reccomendations.

[VampiricClown]

Dead Birds

[fortunato]

I've actually found begotten online and hope to watch it tonight, thanks for the other reccomendations.

oh goodness, please post a review or your thoughts or something when you do watch it.

you can't really be prepared for that film.

[alkytrio666]

Oh, Audition, for sure. Fucking horrifying. The Exorcist did it for me, too.

[paws the great]

Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door



It's not really horror, but it did have a disturbing effect on me!

[Yellow Jacket]

The only movie to have a horrifying, lasting impression on me was The Exorcist. Linda Blair in that make-up still haunts me in my dreams to this day.

[BH14]

Every horror fan has to have "The Shining". It is my favorite horror movie but here are a few other good horror movies in no particular order. Maybe wont have lasting effect but are just good movies!

Alien
American Psycho
29 Days Later/28 Weeks Later
Battle Royale
Cape Fear (1991)
Dawn of the Dead (1978+2004)
The Devil's Rejects
The Exorcist
Frailty
From Dusk Till Dawn
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
IT
Joyride
The Lost Boys
Misery
Seven
Stir of Echoes
The Thing
Wrong Turn

[the_real_linda]

anything with steven seagal

http://www.freewebs.com/enviroscam/17_steven_seagal_sensei.jpg


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[ChronoGrl]

Oooo. This is a good thread, even if I am jumping into it a bit late...


Movies that actually SCARED the hell out of me me (and stuck with me afterwards; sometimes keeping me up at night)...



Halloween (http://imdb.com/title/tt0077651/)

The Grudge (http://imdb.com/title/tt0391198/)

The Shining (http://imdb.com/title/tt0081505/)

Session 9 (http://imdb.com/title/tt0261983/)

The Blair Witch Project (http://imdb.com/title/tt0185937/)

Alien (http://imdb.com/title/tt0078748/)

Event Horizon (http://imdb.com/title/tt0119081/)

Crazy Eights (http://imdb.com/title/tt0470993/)

The Descent (http://imdb.com/title/tt0435625/)



Crazy Eights came out of this year's After Dark's film fest 8 Films To Die For... It was absolutely incredible. A combination of Session 9 (using the backdrop of an old abandoned hospital/house) and The Grudge (being a ghost story with Japanese-influenced direction). I honestly recommend it. It left me clutching my boyfriend's hand in the theater.

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Re: Audition. I REALLY liked Audition, but I found it more "horrifying" than, say, "hauntingly scary." It was delightfully grotesque, gross, cringe-worthy... But I wouldn't say that it scared me per say...

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Re: Lynch. I love him. But he doesn't scare me. Makes me uncomfortable, yes, but doesn't scare me... I would LOVE to see him do an all-out horror movie, though. I believe he would be quite successful at it.

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Also, I feel as though I am somehow doing my childhood (and my beloved father who LOVED showing me these movies) injustice if I omit the following:


Carnival of Souls (http://imdb.com/title/tt0055830/)

The Thing From Another World (http://imdb.com/title/tt0044121/)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (http://imdb.com/title/tt0049366/)


All three of those movies absolutely terrified me when I was younger and definitely stuck with me, kept me up at night. They don't necessarily pass the test of time with scariness per say, but I really have to give them a nostalgic nod.

[Doc Faustus]

Vampyr, Awakening of the Beast, Ju-On, Poltergeist when I was a kid, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Carnival of Souls

[fortunato]

Session 9 (http://imdb.com/title/tt0261983/)


great film.
definitely creepy.

[stenchofdeath]

A movie which i have trouble watching is Dawn Of the Dead (2004). It is a fast, angry and agressive movie. i can't really say any others, because i seem to be able to watch them eventually. this movie i tried to watch for the third time recently, and found that i could not watch it.

[Geddy]

Thanks for the recommendations.
I watched Begotten last night with a friend, I did'nt really get into it, I think I might watch it again by myself in the night time to get the full effect.