Vertigo58 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 In keeping with the season, can you just list some of the scariest films you ever saw either as a kid or adult. The kind of movie you just dont want to see by yourself. How about top 5? 1. Toby Hooper's - Texas Chainsaw Massacre (had nightmares for weeks) 2. The Tingler 3. Asylum 4. Frogs 5. The Exorcist bet I can think up more at 2:00AM in the morning. The movie posters still freak me out even 30 plus years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Well, "Poltergeist" for me I guess. I think we had a similar thread last year? I've mentioned this before as well, but there is one movie that is not a horror film, though the main plot is sort of macabre. It's not gruesome or scary or anything of that sort, but there is about a four second scene in this movie that is the most unsettling scene I've ever witnessed in a movie. I'm sure everyone would disagree, because it isn't that big of deal, but I avoid this movie like the plague because of that one scene. I think I've seen it twice. Once when I was about 10 and again when I was a teenager and that scene had the same effect on me each time. I will not watch it. And no, I won't name the movie because as soon as I do, sure enough someone will find a picture and post it here, and I'm serious about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I don’t suppose the shower scene from Psycho scared anybody, did it?There were some monster movies that were kinda scary for me as a kid. But there is one movie above all that made me want to jump out of my skin. It was just one scene from the whole movie, and it wasn’t so much as a scene as it was just the sight of someone’s face. The face belonged to Jessica Walter, and the movie was Play Misty for Me. Of course, it was only frightening the first time I saw the movie. I saw it again, and I knew what to expect, so it was no big deal. But that first time totally scared the shicaca out of me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Do the recent presidential debates count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Do the recent presidential debates count?Well, there were a few about 8 years ago that were pretty Gore-y! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Actually a tv show - Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 I don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanith27 Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 For me, it was The Shining. I was a kid when that came out and the first time I watched it was from behind a couch. Even to this day, almost 30 years later, I have not found its equal. The music....the twins....the elevators....the old lady in the bathroom....and of course, Jack. Although I know the movie by heart, it still elevates my blood pressure each time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonmacbro Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Well, "Poltergeist" for me I guess. I think we had a similar thread last year? I've mentioned this before as well, but there is one movie that is not a horror film, though the main plot is sort of macabre. It's not gruesome or scary or anything of that sort, but there is about a four second scene in this movie that is the most unsettling scene I've ever witnessed in a movie. I'm sure everyone would disagree, because it isn't that big of deal, but I avoid this movie like the plague because of that one scene. I think I've seen it twice. Once when I was about 10 and again when I was a teenager and that scene had the same effect on me each time. I will not watch it. And no, I won't name the movie because as soon as I do, sure enough someone will find a picture and post it here, and I'm serious about this.The Exocist andThat other movie with the funny little ball that would whiz through the house and hit you in the skull, drilling a hole in your head...Forget the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 To this day many people feel very uncomfortable watching the now classic "shower scene". I know I do. I know of many women who say they wouldn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 For me, it was The Shining. I was a kid when that came out and the first time I watched it was from behind a couch. That is hilarious! It seems that in the mid 70's when Chainsaw 1st shocked audiences there were numerous copy cat films that were equally scary. most in the B horror film genre. The Toolbox Murders Madhouse The House on the Hill Murders in the Rue Morgue I dismember Mama Heres a bizarre link but not dirty as it may imply. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_porn#Torture_porn Then after Halloween with (Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis) there were hundreds of more teen slasher films....too many to name. http://www.hollywoodteenmovies.com/TEEN%20...R%20FLICKS.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeats Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Although they aren't horror movies, there are two films I've seen that (1) I will never, ever, ever watch again and (2) scared the ever-living daylights out of me: Trainspotting Requiem for a Dream I felt dirty for literally weeks after watching Requiem for a Dream. I have nightmares about certain scenes in that movie to this day. *shudder* They scared me so badly that sometimes I think they should be mandatory viewing material in schools to scare kids away from drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 That other movie with the funny little ball that would whiz through the house and hit you in the skull, drilling a hole in your head...Forget the name.The Phantasm series? That was the one where the metal balls were in the dudes head.No idea why, but the part in Superman 3 where the big computer/machine pulls the old ugly lady in and turns her into a robot has always freaked me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I liked the science fiction horror of Alien and Aliens. The first time I saw the creature come out of the guys stomach just totally freaked me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 Although they aren't horror movies, there are two films I've seen that (1) I will never, ever, ever watch again and (2) scared the ever-living daylights out of me:Trainspotting Requiem for a Dream I felt dirty for literally weeks after watching Requiem for a Dream. I have nightmares about certain scenes in that movie to this day. *shudder* They scared me so badly that sometimes I think they should be mandatory viewing material in schools to scare kids away from drugs. I know there are movies that just "creep" you out opposed to scaring. I recall the flop film Sliver was very odd and weird. People peeping in windows and junk. Censors must have had a field day. It was really teetering on XXX. The one I never cared to see in full length was Silence of the Lambs. Just too bizarre and weird. I just lost in complete interest in the main actor forever after he made that one. Just creepy... Clarice Opps ! had to take out the Sliver clip on Youtube as it was very risque as I described above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 I liked the science fiction horror of Alien and Aliens. The first time I saw the creature come out of the guys stomach just totally freaked me out. Yeah! Those were quite freakish. I once got food poisoning and I thought that little creature was in me trying to bust out too! Many people thought the orginal JAWS was very scary. I know I was leery of swimming in the Gulf for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westguy76 Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 Halloween and Halloween 2 those were great and the musical score was great too. It was down hill after that for that series. As a kid, of course, Poltregeist and I think in the sequel, although I haven't seen it for years, there is this really creepy old guy dressed like a priest that scared the .@#% out of me. The Shining (for the reasons mentioned above) Also, Salems Lot is a great one, very creepy. and for a newer movie The Ring was done pretty well. To this day, I enjoy even the worst low budget movies as long as it's horror. It's all worth the cheap thrill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 For several years around Halloween, some friends & I dressed up as the victims in the 62 Hitchcock film The Birds, but with fake birds we bought at garden ridge. Strapped to our bodies and ripped the shirts/pants all over with that real looking theatrical thick blood and would go to contests at clubs and other parties and it freaked out everyone each time. My all time fav get up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 That scene from "The Birds" with the guy's eyes pecked out was pretty grusome for its time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 Ok, this is I am talking about. and some people want to live in the country? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3uJmRR6Dk8...feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 Actually any film that has someone being chased after is frightening when ya think about it. Even by little dolls (as in Puma's other topic). I guess younger viewers freaked on the Chuckster! They actually sold these once, I should have bough one! "Give me the power! I beg of you"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Videodrome, with Debbie Harry.I think this is the movie which contains a scene where a guy sees a sore on his face in the mirror. He starts picking at it and it gets larger and larger. Pretty soon he's clawing chunks of his face off, and they fall, splat!, into the sink. Ewww!Reservoir Dogs went over the edge. It is the only movie I could not watch through to the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 Videodrome, with Debbie Harry.I think this is the movie which contains a scene where a guy sees a sore on his face in the mirror. He starts picking at it and it gets larger and larger. Pretty soon he's clawing chunks of his face off, and they fall, splat!, into the sink. Ewww! Reservoir Dogs went over the edge. It is the only movie I could not watch through to the end. Videodrome was good, however you described the scene from Poltergeist when the ghost buster group was trying to videotape the ghosts within the house. It was getting to the twilight hour and one off the tech guys gets hungry and gets the drum stick out of the frig and it spurts maggots, he then tries to wash his mouth out and starts ripping away. PS, I loved the scenes where Jobeth Williams is tossed around the room like in a big washing machine. I want a house like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Videodrome, with Debbie Harry.I think this is the movie which contains a scene where a guy sees a sore on his face in the mirror. He starts picking at it and it gets larger and larger. Pretty soon he's clawing chunks of his face off, and they fall, splat!, into the sink. Ewww!Is that a Cronenberg film? This is weird, but I occasionally have dreams like that, where the growing sore on my head bigger and bigger and starts coming apart. I never sorted out whether those dreams are a result of permanent emotional scarring from that movie, or other issues......... Marathon Man. Now there's a torture scene I absolutely cannot watch. Ugh.Ugh, ugh, ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Videodrome was good, however you described the scene from PoltergeistYou're right! I stand corrected - thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 Now here is one that is bound to bring back pleasant memories. They used to always show these good old movies..what happened cable? This is the days when all the woman would do is scream to scare off the monster. The men always ended up eaten or having gooey alien junk splattered on them. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/213777/day_of_the_triffids/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 The characters Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and other horror films were created from the real life story of Ed Gein. Gein was portrayed in the movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memebag Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Scary movies haven't scared me since I was about 12. I love some really disturbing films (lots of Cronenberg, and "Anguish" comes to mind), and I enjoy the humor in a lot of modern horror films ("Shaun of the Dead", "Brain Dead", "Evil Dead", etc.), but the most frightened I've ever been in a theater wasn't at a horror film. In the early 80s, Hitchcock's "Rear Window" was re-released to theaters.!!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!!!!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!!!!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!!!!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!!I saw it at UT in a packed house. When Grace Kelly is in Raymond Burr's apartment and Jimmy Stewart can see ol' Ironsides coming home, you could feel everyone in the theater freaking out. It was a pure experience of cinema. Everything in the film up to that point had led us to believe that she was in terrible danger, but we were unable to communicate with her. We weren't just empathizing with Jimmy Stewart, we were in the same situation he was in. We couldn't communicate with her. We could only watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted October 30, 2008 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 The Brit's have an equally great list of film shocker's. We saw this as kid's on regular TV and it was freakish. 1960's Village of the Damned! I'll never forget that evil kid "Leave us alone". Maybe this is where they got the idea for Omen? Hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanith27 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 I will add another one, that didn't so much scare me as it was quite a mindf---. Angel Heart. Robert DeNiro, Mickey Rourke, and one naughty Cosby girl. Very disturbing movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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