General Chat / Scariest Film Ever?!?

i hate slasher flicks.

Invasion of the body snatchers scared the shit out of me. I couldn't sleep for weeks.

That film where the fat guy is dancing around with a light saber.

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there was a Top 100 hundred scariest films program on channel 4 (england) and shining was No.1 followed by the exorcist and Alien i think


for me it would have to be CANDYMAN hasn't anybody seen that? It is one hell of a creeper and a fucking nightmare 'producer'

The Candyman makes me think of the blade movies for reason nowadays..... oh well. The Candyman reminds me of Blade.... Strange.

i hate slasher flicks.

Raven's the expert on slasher movies, so he may have a different opinion, but I think the way to watch slasher movies is to see them as comedies. The fun is in seeing how they follow the conventions and how the characters always do the stupidest thing imaginable. I don't even think they're meant to be scary sometimes. Gory certainly, but being gory and scary are not the same thing. A good example is Peter Jackson's movie Dead Alive.

I really would like to see a scary movie some time because I have a tough time recalling a time when I was ever scared in a movie. Scary movies usually have that 'jump' moment where they play a chord and have something fly out from behind something at the same time. Some people associate this type of thing with being scary (ie The Ring) but I think it's just a physical reaction not a psychological one. Anybody would jump if they play a loud noise. That's not really scary though, it's more annoying. The psychological element comes from the suspense before the jump moment. A movie has to have suspense to be scary, to generate a kind of anxiety in the viewer. It also has to have atmosphere. It has to suck you in enough so the suspense even makes you feel like you're in danger, not in the safety of a movie theater. This is very hard to do and some people are harder to scare in this way. So umm, yeah, that's my theory about scary movies. It's just another word for suspense thriller actually, though typically there are elements of horror as well and high-contrast lighting (lots of shadows - cause what you don't see is scarier than what you do see).

When I was like 8, I saw "Outbreak" and I couldn't sleep for like 2 weeks.

Don't ask me why, but tiny extreme fever infecting monkeys just freak me out.

Yeah and everything was scary when you were younger than that. Well it was for me anyway. As you get older it gets harder to be scared. It also gets harder to find something you like. I remember thinking the Ninja Turtles movie was the greatest movie ever (and when I was 8 it was), but now I don't even find it good anymore. It's kinda sad. Maybe the desire to be scared is in some way a desire to relive that period of childhood when you could be scared.

the ring

scariest. fucking. movie. evar.

its fucks around with your mind...

Yeah and everything was scary when you were younger than that. Well it was for me anyway. As you get older it gets harder to be scared. It also gets harder to find something you like. I remember thinking the Ninja Turtles movie was the greatest movie ever (and when I was 8 it was), but now I don't even find it good anymore. It's kinda sad. Maybe the desire to be scared is in some way a desire to relive that period of childhood when you could be scared.

You just have to go and ruin everything, don't ya.

If understanding something ruins it, than yes I have to. Just like . But tell me, do you think you are better off understanding the truth of something or believing in the fantasy? The fantasy still has meaning when you know that it's fantasy. You just have to accept that the importance of the fantasy lies in what it symbolizes, not in the fantasy itself. I've made it my goal to understand the symbols of myth but if you just want to accept the myth as it is, than that's okay too. That makes you a better citizen than me because the myths of a society are what hold it together.

Wow, that was extremley complex, but I think I actually see what you are trying to say, I have actually thought about that before. There are plenty of 'fantasies' I once believed in but now that I know they are fantasies, I just cannot believe in them or even what they symbolize. Even still, sometimes I wish I could return to my young ignorant bliss...

me talk good

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Creepiest shit to come out of Hollywood. Ever.

The first time I saw the original Nightmare on Elm Street (before it became a parody of itself), it scared the living hell out of me. The way Freddy used to act (menacing without the cartoony attitude) was genuinely freaky, and the way that he killed that girl Tina was one of the scariest death scenes in film history.

Yeah i couldnt sleep a whole fuking night because of that film.


~nemesis chris~

Stephen King's IT (the movie) scared me for years from the ages of 9-13. Now I just think it's cheesy. But there were sooo many freaky scenes in that movie. The scariest was probably seeing Pennywise pop out of the sewer in the first scene. <---this smilie is even called IT!

But nooow.. I'd have to say The Sixth Sense. It's also one of the best movies I've seen. The way it's filmed is very scary..

Other movies that were scary were the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.. and The Exorcist (uncut).. with the spider walk - THAT was the scariest scene. :::

I watched the Exorcist last night. Why was it banned before? It isn't scary it all. Either that or I'm just a cold bastard who displays no emotion!

I watched the Exorcist last night. Why was it banned before? It isn't scary it all. Either that or I'm just a cold bastard who displays no emotion!

Your a cold bastard who displays no emotion.


~nemesis chris~

The Exocist? I thought it was a comedy

It sucked anyhow. And was it scary? Was it fuck!

The Exocist? I thought it was a comedy 

It sucked anyhow. And was it scary? Was it fuck!

Its scary that simelar stuff happened to a boy because if you
didnt no The Exorcist is based on a true story.

~nemesis chris~

Alien, no competition.

I guess would fall into the group who honestly don't find many movies scary, must have something to do with watching that shit when you're young.

Oh yeah, and The Exorcist was totally fucking weak, people from the 70's were pussies.