Scariest Movie of All Time

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The only movie that really scared me is the Exorcist, not sure why I bought the DVD because I never want to put myself through watching it. I read an interview from Ridley, that I cant find, and this was also his top scary movie. I did find a post from forum member Shardy however "Ridley Scott said he specifically watched, and re-watched The Exorcist numerous times when he was in the preliminary stages of setting up the ALIEN film shoot, he said something to the affect that, THAT film above all others helped him with the fear factor he desired for ALIEN" I think Ridley pays homage to the Exorcist when Vickers says "If you go down there your going to die.", the delivery of this line and even her robotic like posture and very similar to the scene in Exorcist when Regan interrupts her mothers dinner party and says "You're going to die up there." and then pisses the rug. I can't remember other other 2 films he lists in this interview, maybe they were Chainsaw Massacre, and the Shining... Anyway... WHAT ARE YOUR SCARIEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME?

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dallas!dallas!April 15, 2012

very quickly off the top of my head 1. the Shining 2. the Exorcist (used to be #1 but the devil gets a little less scary as I get older and the WTF ghosts/time warp/reincarnation/just plain mad mindf*** of the Shining gets more and more frightening.) Now, everything else is a somewhat distant second. 3. Burnt Offerings (Karen Black and Oliver Reed!) 4. The Thing (Carpenter) 5. Night of the Living Dead 6. Don't Look Now 7. A Nightmare On Elm Street (the first was so damn good) 8. Targets 9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 10. Let's Scare Jessica to Death 11. Black Christmas (original) 12. The Omen 13. Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('79) 14. Picnic at Hanging Rock 15. Jaws 16. Halloween 17. The Brood 18. Psycho 19. The Haunting 20. The Birds 21. Alice, Sweet Alice 22. The Woman in Black (BBC version) 23. The Green Man 24. Ringu 25. Night of the Devils

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dallas!dallas!April 15, 2012

Hell House, Wolfen, Possession, The Evil Dead, the wurdulak from Black Sabbath, The Howling, Messiah of Evil!!!!, Rec., Dawn of the Dead, once I start i can't stop . . .

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LateApril 15, 2012

There is a flick called "The Changeling" with George C. Scott that was an obscure HBO gig that is worth digging out. Think the same dude who wrote "Ghost Story", Peter Straub , was responsible. Wheelchairs and crippled kid never seemed more frightening. Then again, Mariah Carey in "Glitter" shook me more to the core. That flick is like being raped in the face.

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Shilliam WatnerApril 15, 2012

'The Creature From Black Lake' shook me up years ago.

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dallas!dallas!April 15, 2012

Oh jesus, how could I forget Ghost Story. Yes, definitely Ghost Story, and the Changeling both. But gawd when Craig Wasson turns Alice Krige over in the hotel room. Or the end when they finally get the old car. Had me up for nights.

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PulserifleApril 15, 2012

As time goes by and we watch them more and more they lose that edge and directors/writers need to keep pushing the boundaries. Theres only a few films for me (sci fi wise) that i can remember that had that jump/fear factor and they were Alien The fourth Kind Event Horizon Aliens and Pitch Black to a point

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Jason8April 15, 2012

Some great scares Listed here. I would like to suggest "Silent Hill" was very disturbing. From what I understand the second Silent Hill film is in the can but for some reason its release is being delayed.

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Jason8April 15, 2012

Another favorite is "Jacob's Ladder"

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SpartacusApril 15, 2012

for me it isn't a contest My Top 3 Scariest Films Of All Time [b]#3-Bambi[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1bambimom.jpg[/img] [b]#2-The Exorcist TVYNS[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1exorcist.jpg[/img] [b]#1-28 Weeks Later {way way way scarier than anything else I have ever, ever seen}[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a128weeks.jpg[/img]

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Kane77April 15, 2012

- Exorcist - Texas , not very gory but scary..a piece of horror art - hellraiser - hills have eyes but most of all : - begotten --warning gory content-- [url=http://multi-film.blogspot.de/2012/01/begotten-1991.html]begotten[/url] Doom Metal Band electric lizard features begotten here: [url=http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3Dp4OawzSoxMM]http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3Dp4OawzSoxMM[/url]

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alteredstate.April 15, 2012

The charles manson story/ helter skelter because he's real. The original the crazies martin magic rabid Bug peeping tom last house on the left ...uncut necromantic the exterminator blue velvet Erazorhead 10 Rillington Place Hands of the ripper

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SpartacusApril 15, 2012

The 2010 Unrated Directors Cut Remake of"I spit on Your Grave" was pretty damn scary too !!! That would be #4 for me. [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1spit.jpg[/img]

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rynungerApril 15, 2012

Gremlins scared the buhjesus out if me as a kid and so did twilight zone .......THERE'S...........SOMETHING ON THE WING .....SOME ..THING!!!!!

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alteredstate.April 15, 2012

And yesterday i received in the post H. R. GIGER REVEALED documentary amazing scary and fascinating i recommend this to everyone here.

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alteredstate.April 15, 2012

@ jason8 oh man a gem of a film choice there jacob's ladder great film.

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Myrddin365April 15, 2012

Mothman Prophecies- I read the book after I saw the movie and got freaked out nightmares for months. Devil's Advocate Event Horiizon Paranormal Activity 1 Devil's Rejects Halloween 2 ( Rob Zombie) 28 weeks later

Safe? Of course he isn't safe, but he's good!

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StarbeastEngineer0001April 15, 2012

1) The Thing 2) The Shining 3) Alien 4) The Exorcist 5) The Wicker Man 6) Halloween 7) The Mothman Prophecies 8) Jaws 9) The Wicker Man (1972) 10) The Birds

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PikeyApril 15, 2012

Gotta be the Wizard Of OZ or The Sound Of Music for me i'm afraid...

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GuestApril 15, 2012

A true story... after severe migraine headaches(as a child) I awake to find that my right eye was swollen shut, my mother immediately takes me to the pediatrician who says "we need antibiotics now"... jump to hospital. I am quickly put in bed were they try desperately to insert I.V, into my wrist. As they prick me with needles I turn away to ignore the pain, then look back to see a cloth covered in blood (they apparently had trouble finding my veins) . Finally the IV is in place and next they perform a CT-scan. (cat-scan) My chin was tapped down to prevent my head from moving, the sound from the CT scan is unforgettable, and identical to Regans trauma being put through this same machine.

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WhyDontTheyFreezeHimApril 15, 2012

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was definitely one of the films Ridley mentioned for Alien influences. A Nightmare on Elm Street(only the 1st one) Salem's Lot Alien Texas Chainsaw Massacre Exorcist

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lilmattApril 15, 2012

Borat...two naked grown men fighting for the right to, um, pleasure them selves over a picture of Pamela Anderson...truly terrifying. Otherwise, in no particular order; Carpenter's "The Thing" (blood, gore, paranoia) Scott's "Alien" (blood, gore, suspense) Kubrick's "The Shining" (suspense, suspense, silence) '79 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (I apologize to the director for not naming them...) (suspense, paranoia) Friedkin's "The Exorcist" (just plain fear of the unknown) All very scary movies on different levels.

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AlienAge11April 15, 2012

Definitely: [b]The Haunting[/b] (original b&w version) [url=http://alienage11.com]alienage11.com[/url]

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mlb127April 15, 2012

Alien (first R movie when I was 9),Exorcist,The Thing,Blair Witch,Halloween,Aliens,Them,Creature From the Black Lagoon(5 or 6 when I saw this),Seven,Saw and of course the one that started it all-Nosferatu. But these get over-shadowed because being a Chicago Cubs fan I am gauranteed svary shit every year!

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CervantesApril 15, 2012

I remember 'Susperia' being quite a scarefest in the cinema back in the day...especially with that hellishly discordant music by 'Goblin'... And I remember how the original japanese 'Ring' (also known as 'Ringu') scared the bejeezus out of me when I watched it alone one night... There's too many unsettling 'sudden jump' movie moments to recount, but 2 of the best and unexpected were the 'hand coming out of the grave' at the end of 'Carrie'...and the 'drowned head' that emerges from the sunken boat in 'Jaws'...

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kellicottiApril 15, 2012

Jesus Camp

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SaintsSinphonyApril 15, 2012

My scariest are because I saw these when I was way too young and I had nightmares. Now I don't get scared because I have had so many bad dreams about these films. 1. Jaws ( I loved it but hated it because it scared me so bad but I always liked watching it) 2. Alien (the chestburster scene made me straight up cry when I was 5) 3. Gremlins ( I had dreams those things killed my mom and dad, it was terrible) 4. Little Shop of Horrors (when I was little I didn't realize it was a comedy, I thought a plant really could kill people)

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Prom_queenApril 15, 2012

I'll take some flak for this, but [i]The Blair Witch Project[/i] scared the hell out of me (still does). Also, [i]Mothman Prophecies[/i] was pretty damn creepy, and I think it is underrated.

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red hoodApril 15, 2012

1. The Exorcist 2. Original Psycho 3. original Halloween 4. original Texas Chainsaw Massacre 5. The Birds (due to age when I saw it) 6. Alien 7. Hostel 8. Jaws 9. Helter Skelter (TV Movie) 10. The Night Stalker (tv Movie)

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ctombApril 15, 2012

The scariest for me far and away is "Spoorloos" or the original dutch film "The Vanishing". I still have nightmares about the ending of this film.

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MarcoBot1234April 15, 2012

E.T. scared the poop outta me when I was a kid

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CryoApril 15, 2012

I'll try to be faithful to the title of the thread, some of these great films all of you guys mention are enjoyable for many reasons and they'll always be considered all time classics or "cult classics " or even "guilty pleasures". But the reality of the question here appoints to a film that even if it was made a long time ago or is a recent release, if watch it today still gets you chills on your spine and makes you want to close your eyes; or think twice of watching it alone at night. I'll give my vote to the classics : SHINING .- just for the opening titles, the music is creepy as hell. EXORCIST.- the white face appearing from nowhere when they are examining Regan. there is another film if oyu guys can help remember, about a family that picks up a guy in a yellow raincoat in a road, then they crash and somehow the husband gets confused with the stranger

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alteredstate.April 15, 2012

@cryo.....That film your talking about is a hammer house of horror tv series where a guy runs down another identical person in a yellow raincoat who happens to be a psychopath but a dead ringer for the guy he eventually kills and steals his identity. ITS CALLED THE TWO FACES OF EVIL. do you remember the house that dripped blood.?

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kayApril 15, 2012

Salems Lot....scared me fucked me up for life...

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CryoApril 16, 2012

thanks altered state. I just rewatched at you tube. This is exactly what I'm talking about child memories, I was 6 at the time and I remember it scared me so much that I didn't finish the episode. Now believe me or not the character that scared me now were the nurses from the hospital Anyway is still entertaining and the show was great, actually I think it is a great idea for a full length movie. Salem's lot is another example, they have made 2 sequels or remakes but none matches the 70's version ( ur was it 80's already )

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shardyApril 16, 2012

@refugee: i saw when Scott said he studied The Exorcist for its tone and stark fear factor, he said this on the ALIEN Deluxe Laser Disc Set and now that you mention it, Charlize Theron (asVickers) pretty much channels Linda Blair's deadpan demeanor when she tells the astronaut of his fate great observation. Yikeys...!

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LateApril 16, 2012

@Dallas! Dallas! Holy hell, you got it! Pretty intense on the revisit, right? Read still holds up, and the flick is amazing! @AlienAge - Best gig of all time! Love the slow burn of Julie Harris going to pieces in this. If there could be a Criterion restoration of this on blu-ray, from the WB DVD issued awhile back, it would be worth gold! Still wish Ray Milland's "Lost Weekend" would get the same chance, a horror movie of a different kind, dealing with alcoholism. Real life horror does the gig between where we are now throwing great movies back and forth. Super psyched now, off to the media to have a moment with what I forgot about. Thanks!

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FamishedApril 16, 2012

My taste will always lean back to The Shining, and, of course, The Exorcist, which is one of the few films I have trouble with because of the way it manages to put doubt into the brain. It can happen to a sweet little girl, so what hope can anyone have? Very unsettling. Occasionally something will come by and truly shock me, or raise a moment of the truly horrific. Recent films that really got to me on that gut wrenched level of horror, were [i]Eden Lake[/i] and [i]High Tension[/i]. With regard to Eden Lake, the scare comes from that social gulf of understanding that creases through every class society, how that exists and gets handed down through generations. It's a very unsettling film in that regard. High Tension is really owed a lot to amazing photography and sound design. There are terrifying sequences in HT, and every bit of it is worth the ending which, I dunno, it is what it is.

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LateApril 16, 2012

Not sure why post didn't go through, but man... AlienAge nailed it with "The Haunting". Julie Harris is beyond creepy in that flick, shot in black and white, and the sound fx in that alone are enough to keep you on your toes. There is an amazing scene in a stairwell that will definitely rock your world. Sadly, no blu-ray from Warner yet, but the DVD reissue from awhile back is a solid transfer with cool extras. Seriously, if you haven't seen it, AlienAge there nailed it. Dallas!Dallas!, that is king you mentioned "Ghost Story". Peter Strauss is one sick brother, and that mention of that sequence brought up great memories of sleepless nights as a kid. Also for consideration are "An American Werewolf In London", simply for the attack scene and Rick Baker work on the transformation. Moments of "Event Horizon" and even "Ninth Gate" (Christopher Lee, anyone?) have a sinister touch to them simply for atmosphere. Psyched to see some solid responses on this!

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star_beastApril 16, 2012

Yea, Jason8, Jacob's ladder flipped me out the first time I saw it. And the ending! Only second to the ending in inception. J.L. very underrated movie

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