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MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 1:27 AMThe 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!
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 1:53 AMvery 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
dallas!dallas!
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 2:11 AMHell 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 . . .
Late
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 2:36 AMThere 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.
Shilliam Watner
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 2:43 AM'The Creature From Black Lake' shook me up years ago.
dallas!dallas!
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 2:51 AMOh 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.
Pulserifle
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 6:29 AMAs 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
Jason8
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 7:00 AMSome 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.
Spartacus
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 7:14 AMfor 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]
Kane77
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 7:15 AM- Exorcist
- Texas , not very gory but scary..a piece of horror art
- hellraiser
- hills have eyes
but most of all :
- begotten
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alteredstate.
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 7:17 AMThe 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
Spartacus
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 7:21 AMThe 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]
rynunger
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 7:27 AMGremlins scared the buhjesus out if me as a kid and so did twilight zone .......THERE'S...........SOMETHING ON THE WING .....SOME ..THING!!!!!
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 7:37 AMAnd yesterday i received in the post H. R. GIGER REVEALED documentary amazing scary and fascinating i recommend this to everyone here.
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 7:44 AM@ jason8 oh man a gem of a film choice there jacob's ladder great film.
Myrddin365
MemberFacehuggerApr-15-2012 7:48 AMMothman 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!
StarbeastEngineer0001
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 3:05 AM1) 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
Pikey
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 4:08 AMGotta be the Wizard Of OZ or The Sound Of Music for me i'm afraid...
WhyDontTheyFreezeHim
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 4:45 AMTexas 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
lilmatt
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 4:46 AMBorat...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.
AlienAge11
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 4:50 AMDefinitely:
[b]The Haunting[/b] (original b&w version)
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mlb127
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 5:24 AMAlien (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!
Cervantes
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 5:43 AMI 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'...
SaintsSinphony
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 8:46 AMMy 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)
Prom_queen
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 9:42 AMI'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.
red hood
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 10:08 AM1. 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)
ctomb
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 10:44 AMThe 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.
Cryo
MemberOvomorphApr-15-2012 4:02 PMI'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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