Scariest?
 

There really isnt any scary movies anymore. Directors and writers are going overboard with special effects etc. I think personally that the scariest movies are either Halloween (rob zombies remake is brillant! bring on number 2!) and Alfred Hitchcock movies. His movies may be old and outdated but they are still able to scare the shit out of people!!

Peace x

Jurassic Park (not really in the horror genre)

the first time i saw it I was in like 2nd grade and about everything scared me when i was little (which eventually turned into a love of the genre). i couldn't watch any of the night scenes, which are about 70% of the whole movie. to this day i have trouble watching that one scene where the fat guy, Denis, get's taunted and killed by that ink-spitting dinosaur. i know really lame :p but that's childhood for u...

i do really love this movie now and consider it a perfect example of really movies from the 90's that didn't need a sh!t ton of CG to make a good movie (but i am sure that has sparked a huge debate on this forum...probably everytime they ruin a good movie with it (star wars anyone?))

I have to agree about The Shining. The Twins, the Shower Lady, the Blood Elevator, the freaky costumed couple in that room, Jack Nicholson in the last act, all make for one scary film.

I also found Blair Witch disturbing by the sheer implication of it. I know many people don't like it because nothing is shown at all, but I found the characters to be realistic if unlikeable, and that ending with the incomprehensible hysterical screaming found me in a place of confusion and terror I haven't been to with any other movie.

Finally, Martyrs (2008) is the last film that left me totally wrecked. The fact that seemingly normal people are indeed capable of such monstrosities (there were a few similar cases in Europe last year), only makes the whole thing so terrifying.

Yeh feeling "wrecked" or somewhat sickened is strongest effect movies have on me these days.

The Exorcist is the queen mother of all horror films, as far as I'm concerned. Interestingly, I find the edited for TV version more frightening. Why? Because I felt like the profanity provided a sort of comedy relief. Without the hilarious "cocksucker" & "fuck me" lines, you're forced to take the movie much more seriously.

Halloween (the original, thank you very much) still makes me paranoid. I got to see it at the drive-in when it was released. I was 4 at the time, so my mother made me cover my eyes during certain scenes. LOL

The Shining is always creepy. There's just something about the whole mood of the film; the isolation aspect, the snow, the cinematography (bright red colors contrasting against bright whites; a common occurrence in Kubric films), the old woman in the bathtub, the blood pouring out of the elevators, etc.

Pumpkinhead had it's moments. Evil Dead (the first one) was certainly creepy.

I'm just glad I'm not as desensitized as so many other horror fans. I've been watching this stuff since I was a kid, but I still get creeped out. However, I've found that absolutely none of the new stuff (anything made after about 1989) scares me.

The Village.

The twist had me shaking in sheer fright.

I'm hard to please when it comes to being truly disturbed by a horror movie. I feel I need to do it myself, although I'm not sure I'll ever get close to making a movie.
Interestingly, one that creeped me out well enough was The Blair Witch project. It's because it was more "real" - so an independent movie with a more personal handheld feel might work.. it's being in the viewpoint of the character.

The part when they're in the tent and can hear Josh calling faintly in the distance.. that.... that was good.

LMAO

Oh the sarcasm.... gotta love it. :D

I'm jumping in late, but I'd highly recommend:

The Orphanage
Shutter (Thai version...2004)
The Devils Backbone (2001)

and the classics:
The Uninvited (1944)
The Haunting (1963)
The Innocents (1961)
Carnival of Souls (1962)

David Lynch is the only filmmaker to ever truly frighten me as an adult.

The worst of which was my first viewing of Inland Empire. I watched it in a dark basement at about 2 in the morning on a big TV with surround sound. I remember several scenes during which I felt a real, tangible sort of repulsion; a sensory assault that made me feel as if I should turn away or leave the room. How the man so perfectly and efficiently translates that indescribable nightmare fear and logic is so amazing to me.

Another scene I can think of is in Mulholland Dr., where the guy is describing his nightmare to his friend in the diner; about the man behind the diner. Ugh.

Scariest movies,

The thing
Quarantine
Dawn of the dead-remake
Leviathan
The Ring

Just a few that come to mind

Yep, that Mulholland Dr. scene is frightening, and there's a particular scene in Inland Empire- the one where that woman is just violently vomiting on the street- it made me feel sick. I saw it at the Music Box and just felt like I needed to get out. The scraping sounds of the retching, the claustrophobia of the streets- yech! It haunts me.

Though I did not care for the film, I must say, but that's beside the point.

I've been watching horror movies my entire life. I used to watch the Hammer films when they aired on channel 5, and when I was younger my favourites were The Wolfman and Abott & Costello meet Frankenstein. The first truly scary movie I ever attempted to watch was JAWS when it debuted on channel 4, when I was 7. I had no clue what a shark was because I didn't live by the ocean and back then you weren't really exposed to them unless you did. I thought it was a monster movie like Godzilla or something. Boy, was I fucking wrong. I got as far as the first victim's head disappearing below the surface and I ran out of the room. I didn't watch the movie in it's entirety until I was 14.

That being said, and like I said I've been watching horror movies my whole life. I use this disclaimer so that you're aware that I've seen pretty much everything from The Haunting (original) and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, to pretty much every modern horror movie. To say I'm jaded would be an understatement. Gore isn't enough for me to like a movie, though it does help, no, what I need is a movie that's so well crafted that it terrifies me to my very soul. So imagine my surprise that when I was 30, I saw a movie that did just that. I went into the theatre unassuming and completely not expecting to be so scared that to this day the movie gives me chills. That movie is The Ring. Yes THAT Ring. What scares each person is 1000000% subjective and that movie scared ths shit out of me.

Sorry for the super long post.

yeah that was one of the most frightening scenes I've seen in years, along with the scene were the killer is discovered in the house in Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me.
The beginning of The Lost Highway was way creepy as well.

Oh geez, I forgot about that. That part is pretty terrifying.
There were many frightening scenes in the series, too. Like Cooper's and Ronette's dreams, and of course Bob!

Haha, I found this:

i've ever seen it before. Is this good!?

Twin Peaks is most certainly one of the best TV shows ever made. If you haven't seen it, make it a priority.

Man, that clip is awesome!
I've never seen the show, I should check it out. I read only 6 episodes were directed by Lynch though.

It's all weird though. Lynch is even in a couple of episodes.

Oh man, if you've never seen the show, then do yourself a favor and make some room in your schedule.

Lynch himself only directs a few episodes, but for the majority of the series he and co-creator Mark Frost hand-picked the creative staff, so the vision remains true to Lynch and Frost's original. Up until about halfway through the second season, it's completely brilliant. Then, due to network pressure and such, Lynch and Frost lost quite a bit of creative control, and for about 7 or 8 episodes the show gets pretty silly and unfocused. The real tragedy is that it starts to get great again right at the end (Lynch and Frost began to regain control), but right then it's over since it was canceled.

As a whole, though, it's truly a groundbreaking work of art. It's completely genre-less; at times absolutely horrifying, sometimes hilarious, and always engrossing. Personally, one of my top 5 favorite TV shows.

Hm. Nothing that's terribly scary for me right now lol, but for really, REALLY disturbing fucked up shit then i guess for me: Visions of Suffering, Philosophy of a Knife, Nails, or Salo: the 120 Days of Sodom. Again not scary, but batt shit crazy mind-fuck movies lol.

ground breaking stuff - esp first season, then for me it got out of control and lost any sense

Santa Sangre, Repulsion and Mickey Rooney in the Manipulator.

Here is a crude graph of Twin Peaks' quality over time (in my opinion):

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You're being too kind.

It was good for 12 episodes. THEN Lynch made more... probably because he couldn't come up with a good enough ending fitting with his opium infumed mind. :rolleyes:

i gave up after the big dip - but before that my friends and i would religiously get together and watch it

The organ playing in Carnival of Souls. I never knew how deeply affected I was by creepy music played on the organ. It's subliminal. It gets under my skin and takes hours to work its way out.

And the doctor that practices as a psychologist on the weekends, that scared me. Especially the way he grabs her and won't let go, "You've had a fright."

And the early 1960's small town America frightened me, the landlady and her extra baths, the bar scene, the minister, especially because they had a big ass abandoned carnival out on the outskirts of town. I mean what were they thinking ... that town was not full of characters that liked to enjoy themselves.

very creepy

Even though the quality unarguably dips/drops (this was definitely due to network pressure and a loss of creative control by Lynch and Frost, and the people left in charge had no idea what to do with the show with it being such a unique vision) after the Laura Palmer saga, I still think the world of Twin Peaks that was originally created is so interesting and enamoring that, despite those 8 or so bad episodes, it's still one of my top 5 favorite shows ever (I can forgive the bad episodes). I really think the quality returns big-time during those last three episodes, when Lynch and Frost were making their way back into the picture. You can see the mess that was made of the show slowly being crafted into something great, but by then it was too late. I bet that if the show hadn't been canceled, the third season would have been awesome.

did anyone here see the movie - i skipped it since i had lost interest in the series

Oh yeah. It's one of Lynch's best, in my opinion. A lot of people (especially fans of the show) didn't like because it's very, very different. Where the show was subtle and passive, the film is definitely aggressive. It also follows Lynch's nightmare logic storytelling much more than the program. I love it, though. I think it's an appropriate counterpoint to the show; the other side of the same coin. It's the story of Laura Palmer, and her story was so brutal, so steeped in darkness that this is really the only way to tell it.

I'll have to pick that one up again sometime. Damn cool film.

You know, Zero, you really should finish the series if you never did. Just work through those bad episodes because the last few of the show really pay off. It gives you a rounded view of the Twin Peaks world, and it even helps a little in appreciating those bad episodes (even though they are still a big mess).

Of course, be prepared for a real cliffhanger.

Definitely do it. It's one of my favorite of Lynch's films. Did you ever get into the show?

5. "The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen" (William Friedkin, 2000)
4. "The Ring" (Gore Verbinski, 2002)
3. "Ju-on" (Takashi Shimizu, 2002)
2. "Session 9" (Brad Anderson, 2001)
1. "The Blair Witch Project" (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, 1999)

Session 9 is the last thing to creep me out. However it was, in fact, 3 am with no lights on, home alone on a stormy night, blah blah. That last line really sticks to you though.

I here ya... Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks acting is horrifying.

Thank you for saying this so I didn't have to :p

So, pretty much every Halloween film scared you... huh. I didn't find these movies scary, just entertaining (sometimes funny even).

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