What is the scariest movie you've watched?

"Licensed To Kill". Makes your blood run cold.

Exacerbated by the fact a straight couple followed me out of the theater whispering slurs under their breath ("faaag", etc.)

Session 9 is really scary.

The Conjuring was pretty good.

R1, where can I find the entire film of that? Youtube only has the trailer.

Here's a good one OP - The Final (Free on Prime)

He Knows Your Alone

It is also on Netflix streaming, the Final.

R4, you can see it on alluc.to.

Jeepers Creepers 2 -- super homoerotic; the first gay movie monster

The Haunting (1963 version), The Exorcist, and Psycho.

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The Final sucks. It got 1.8 stars out of 5.0 on Netflix and man---it has big story problems. I can handle actors who can't act (who gets their fingers cut off without tears), but cannot stand big holes in stories.

cant believe no one has mentioned MAME yet.......

The first Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. I got so freaked out I had to leave in the middle.

The Haunting (1963). Insidious was scary, too. At least PARTS of it.

The Mirror Has Two Faces

eden lake wolf creek The sound of my vcice( really great)except for the ending. High tension session 9 frailty joshua!!! ills the remake of maniac(disgusting but has some scenes that will stick with you for a while)

i wrote that as a list, I don't know why it formatted like that.

Thanks #8

[REC]. The original, not the awful remake.

Dawson's 50-Load Weekend

The ending of "Carrie" always gets me.

Easy, "Attack of the Mushroom People", aka "Matango".

A Japanese semi-classic from 1963, about a group of people stranded on an island who are starving enough to eat these mushrooms without knowing if they are poisonous or not....you won't believe what happens!

It's terrifying.

The original REC had one of the most disturbing monsters I've ever seen but I feel bad that the guy who plays it has some kind of genetic disorder that makes him look like that.

Candyman, Carnival of Souls, Sole Survivor, He Knows You're Alone, Insidious, Inside, Martyrs, A Tale of Two Sisters, REC, High Tension - minus that terrible ending, Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, Deadly Blessing, The People Under the Stairs, Curtains, Night Warning, Prince of Darkness, the last segment in Trilogy of Terror.

[quote] the last segment in Trilogy of Terror

scared the hell out of my sister and I as kids, now its just fun and kinda campy.

R8, How do I watch it without giving my fucking credit card.

Any movie with Tom Cruise in it!

Second vote for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Very traumatic. Followed by Cannibal Holocaust, but really, it's just disturbing, not scary.

The Omen, parts I - III.

This scene is really creepy: 'Look at me Damian, I did it all for you!'

The facts of life movie they showed us in grade five. It was sponsored by Kotex and they showed us a pink box that was the size of a house. Suspenders and fasteners were involved in attaching. Females were doomed to this purgatory, while guys had some happy, smiling, wriggling whales just wanting to escape their body to make new life with their married partner. Asexuality became an option.

R32, I had to read your post twice before I realized your film didn't involve Lisa Whelchel and Nancy McKeon.

"When a Stranger Calls". I screamed and flew off the couch at one point.

r1, why would homophobic, gaybashers go see a film like that? It'd be like grand wizards of the KKK lining up at the Color Purple.

I'm pretty jaded, but, 'Sinister', stayed with me for weeks. Quite disturbing.

"The Exorcism of Emily Rose" is pretty fucking creepy. Bonus of Laura Linney.

"Sinister" is until the last 10 minutes.

That one where the old woman played a weird serving man with bug eyes. Alfred Niblets or something.

It frightened me. Because it all made no sense, and the little man-woman had such enormous hips and was so ugly. Was it a mask?

The third Exorcist movie is not so much the most frightening movie I've ever seen but the one horror movie I can never watch again as it has what I think is the most frightening scene I've seen in any movie. It involves a hallway. And ir leaves you looking over your shoulder for months afterward.

Then again, my boyfriend and I watched the film a few tears ago (me for the second time, he the first) and he just went, "Eh" and shook his shoulders while I was traumatized for another three months.

The Strangers with Scott Speedman...scary as hell and so underrated

Pluto Nash

In theaters, the claustrophobia of THE DESCENT is gut wrenching even before the monsters show up.

Black Christmas (1974)

R27, go to the site. Pull up the movie you want to watch. Ignore all the stuff on the page. Do NOT download anything. Go to the video screen and click "close ad and continue as free user" or "watch as free user". An ad will come up. Get out of there by clicking on the X in the right top of the screen. You will be back on the page of the movie. Do NOT download anything. Ads may come up that say you need to download a player to see movie. Ignore them and click out of them. When all the ads are gone you can watch the film

R44, the only video that played when I tried to watch License to Kill was a video about the IFC show The Whitest Kids You Know....

Is that the older (1980?) version with Carol Kane, R34? My friends and I tortured each other with prank calls and that notorious "Have you checked the children?" line for weeks. A bunch of us saw it on cable the same night, each of us alone when we did. We were all freaked over it and the calls were a way of confronting our "iggies", if you will. Kane's huge, expressive eyes helped to drive the terror along, too.

Good Times? (g)

Michael Winterbottom's "Butterfly Kiss", it's extremely weird and just plain creepy, just like most of his films.

Amanda Plummer is the lead character, she speaks with an English accent in this. She's a lesbian who goes on a killing spree, kind of like Aileen Wournos. This film was made in 1995.

Plummer's character then picks up a woman who was working at a rest stop convenience store, the killings continue. The women basically lure str8 men, then kill them.

Amanda Plummer is naked under her coat, except for a heavy bicycle chain.

This had to be one of the strangest movies I'd even seen. Plummer's character is also into S&M, in one scene she whips herself. This film is right up there with the original Strangers and High Tension.

R47 is right, Winterbottom makes wierd emotionless creepy films.

The last film that severely creeped me out ...Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Want to know how a paranoid psychopath views humanity? Check it out. I admit I was gripped in a horrified kinda way especially during the human sacrifice sequence. It's just horrendous and freakish, and goes on forever.

Same here, R39. That hallway scene with the nurse made me jump fifty feet in the air.

Also, I never saw the first Paranormal Activity in theatres, but I saw the second, and I couldn't sleep that night as I was waiting for a little girl to come stare at me sleeping all night.

This:

Scariest: "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" which I saw in my early teens.

"Alien" was not as scary, but I've never been as tense in a movie. Had a terrible headache when it was over.

R34, the original When a Stranger Calls is very scary, far scarier than Halloween. At least for me. The first 30 minutes of that movie can never be topped, ever.

The original "The Hills Have Eyes" was pretty scary, especially considering the fact that most of the horror occurs during daylight hours.

I didn't think "Sinister" was scary at all, I saw it the other day on cable, I kept falling asleep! Guess I have to try to watch it again.

I also can't stand when a movie is so dark, you can't actually see what's going on. I guess this technique is used in many low budget horror films because they can't afford the CGI or excellent makeup artists?

That said, the cable series "A Haunting" is quite scary, even with unknown actors and actresses and a low budget, the show is excellent.

The Shining with Jack Nicholson and Scatman Caruthers.

Sinister was discomfortingly evil and horrifying. Not a pleasant movie to watch.

The Legacy (1978) with Sam Elliott in it.

Nothing tops Don't Look Now.

r46, yes it was the older version of, "When a Stranger Calls".

Martyrs - scary not so much in the sense of abundant gore and guts but that it is really unsettling and will leave you in a very bleak and depressing place for days after seeing it.

Does anyone remember the name of a movie where a murderer is after a woman and at the end of the movie she is in bed with her husband and she wakes him up to say the murderer is in the closet and it turns out the murderer is in bed with her?

Any movie staring Revolta and Miss Tammy Cruise.

The movies that did me in worst when I first saw them were THE EXORCIST and ALIEN. I didn't know anything about either of them in advance, I was young, and both of them left me feeling like I was having a stroke.

THE EXORCIST bothered me for weeks. I felt like the fabric of existence had torn, and that something was going to slip through at any moment.

It sounds silly, and subsequent viewings didn't bother me. But at the time…

ALIEN set up that wonderfully elusive, malevolent and mysterious monster, with metallic jaws within jaws and acid spittle.

The EXORCIST III scene - moment, really - was amazingly effective. The rest of the movie was not good. But that one moment.

Now, as an older adult, I try to find scary movies, but they just don't reach me anymore. I can be startled, appalled, disgusted, I can cringe or turn away because of the violence or gore, but I'm not scared.

To echo R62, I like to think of Alien as the perfect horror film. Often miscategorized as sci-fi because it's outer space and deals with extraterrestrials, the original 1979 Alien is 100% horror. It lets you know right from the get-go what's in store for you with that chilling slow letter fade-in.

The opening main title theme perfectly captures the claustrophobic mood of deep-space isolation and of stumbling across something you shouldn't have.

JAWS

My parents let me watch it and some Stephen King movies in the 80s when they aired on TV. I was a wee thing, but they were tired of me watching South Pacific and Oklahoma over and over. I guess adult horror movies were a fresh breeze.

After watching Jaws, I was afraid of taking a bath.

r60 we know which movie you're talking about and we won't tell you, just to teach you not to spoil it for others.

Another vote for the first "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" film. When I first saw it as a teenager, I had my hands over my eyes, peeking through my fingers, for nearly half of the film. No other film has ever made me react that way.

The original Halloween.

The Japanese "Grudge" and its sequel ("Ju-On") are vastly better than their horrible American remakes. The American version of "Ringu" ("The Ring") is, however, just as good as the original. The contents of the haunted videotape are way better than the remake.

28 Days Later

Anything with Barbra, Liza, or that shitty Joan Crawford.

I just saw "Mama" on cable. It wasn't very scary at all.

It was one of those movies where the acting transcended the bad script. Everyone's acting was excellent, but there were few real scares.

The monster/ghost or whatever the that silly thing was supposed to be, was laughable, very bad special effects.

The scenes up to the scares were scarier than the actual reveal to who/what "mama" was! There was no background as to why the father brought his kids to that particular house in the woods, if there was I missed it.

Was it his house? It appeared he wanted to kill his kids, but would a wealthy man own such a rundown cabin? It was a stupid plot device.

"Mama" was also another one of those typical horror movies where the characters are always in the dark. Always in the dark, even during the day, the damn house was dark! I don't find darkness very scary because it's been done to death.

I don't know many people who sit in their living rooms reading or watching TV in complete darkness, so I don't want to see it in a movie, even a horror movie. Whatever lights we did see, seemed to glow less than a nightlight!

I've always thought it's actually scarier to see horror in brighter atmospheres, because the horror is not expected in daylight or regular lighting.

"Salem's Lot." Freakin' movie still gives me the chills. ***SPOILER ALERTS***The scene in the basement with the wooden box ka-thumping against the door is nightmare-inducing. Flying zombies. And James Mason at his menacing best.

"Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn. Not THE scariest, but a very well done thriller.

Stephen King's IT has forever traumatized me. I still can't walk by a storm drain, without flinching. In my head, I hear Pennywise the clown saying, "We all float down here."

R72...LOVED Salem's Lot! Talk about a movie that should be re-made...Also, "Needful Things". Book was terrifying, the movie was terrible, so I'd love to see that one re-made as well.

Another vote for "The Conjuring." Also, "The Others" was pretty creepy.

Truth or Dare--never has a woman resembled a monstrosity as much as Madonna did in her prime (despite what MTV/other media would have you believe).

Poltergeist 3. That movie scared the crap out of me! Too much! Couldn't sleep for days!

Beyoncé: Life is But a Dream

Some good picks here, but I'd go with Wolf Creek.

Obama's swearing in ceremony

Mamma Mia

"Cruising", seriously. Leave it to William Friedkin to make it stark and creepy.

"South Pacific" with Glenn Close. Terrifying!!

The Hills Have Eyes was quite disturbing for me. It's the only horror movie I could not sit through.

R71 I agree Mama is not scary. However the scene where the girls are found did make me jump.

Wolf Creek. High Tension.

[quote]Now, as an older adult, I try to find scary movies, but they just don't reach me anymore. I can be startled, appalled, disgusted, I can cringe or turn away because of the violence or gore, but I'm not scared.

This is me these days, exactly the same. I tend to watch horrors now just like they're dramas. I can enjoy them or not, but they don't really have any lasting effect on me anymore. There also haven't been any true "oh my god, this is revolutionary" horror films for ages, probably not since The Blair Witch Project or Scream. I feel that the next time that happens the film will be horror in a completely different way than we've seen before, maybe not even recognisable as what we think of as a horror film.

Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Strangers, Requiem for a Dream, Suspiria (both the original and underrated though disgustingly blood curdling remake), The Exorcist, Get Out

The Last 4 Years with Trump.

Not even a mention of "Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer?"

The original Evil Dead

Funny Lady

This thread was started 7 years ago !

I don't know that it was because I found it scary as such, but that Goodnight Mommy movie was the most recent that I walked away from towards the end. I was thinking it was going to be a more arty, suspenseful and atmospheric European movie, and it was for awhile but it was horrible at the end and I'm glad I don't know exactly what happened. Me and one of my friends went into another room and left the third to watch it.