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When that one chick gets hit by a bus in the first Final Destination... That was probably the most surprised I've ever been watching a film. I was absolutely blindsided.

Monster Rain wrote:When that one chick gets hit by a bus in the first Final Destination... That was probably the most surprised I've ever been watching a film. I was absolutely blindsided.

Really? I thought it was funny myself.

I though Final Destination was scary at first but some of the deaths are really just funny, for different reasons. Actually, alot of horror movies are actually more funny than scary. Ever seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?

IGLannister wrote:EraserHead.
The Thing.
Alien.
Jacob's Ladder.

That is all.

EraserHead makes me feel not good.

Jacob's Ladder...I heartily agree.

The man in the elevator scene in both the eye and it's hong kong predecessor...I live a huge nice apartment building like that in downtown seattle....I HATE getting on the elevators late at night...

Blaire Witch Project. scariest movie of all time...and not *surprise!* scary either....I just read a lot of the fluff they made up for the movie, and the legends that it is loosely based upon...and put myself in their shoes....eugh....the children outside the tent, and when the kids put their hands against the tent wall....god...


and the clacking sound....


....I hate camping...

The Clive Barker story turned movie The Midnight Meat Train.

The end terrified me, and the twistmade me feel so bad about Leon.

IG_urban wrote:....I hate camping...

There is a movie i forgot the name... bunch of campers with flesh eatind disease

Really gross , i was paranoid to even drink water after watching that

LunaHound wrote:

IG_urban wrote:....I hate camping...

There is a movie i forgot the name... bunch of campers with flesh eatind disease

Really gross , i was paranoid to even drink water after watching that

That's Cabin Fever. Crap movie.

I thought Cabin Fever was pretty good.

According to my family the first thing to ever scare me was a moment in one of the Puppet Master movies when a guy got burnt to death with a flamethrower, after that I went downhill until I was 6. Even the old B-movies scared me until I was 6.

I would have to say that The Thing was one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. Psychological horror, thy name is Stephen King. If he gets a movie properly made it would be amazing.

Me and the college friends rented a house on the bay in Stone Harbor, NJ. At around midnight we pushed a tv cart out to the dock and watched Jaws while sitting on floaties in the water. Most frightening moments of my life.

It always scared me when I was little, but I was already mildly unsettled by clowns.

Slasher films never bother me (I'm fairly certain that I can run for more than thirty feet before falling).

Aliens was one of my favorite films when I was a wee lad. I've never really thought of it as a scary movie. My brother was scared of it; he'd get incredibly upset whenever I watched it.

I watched a short video on youtube the other day about a women who cleaned up crime scenes. It kept me nervous for a week.

RustyKnight wrote:
Slasher films never bother me (I'm fairly certain that I can run for more than thirty feet before falling).

I think slasher films are great. You get to watch unlikable teenagers getting hacked to bits by nigh-unkillable psychopaths.

Event Horizon when I was far far too young to see it ( 11 ), though it still freaks me a bit now.

The Orphanage by Guillermo Del Toro is another big scarer, even though it is subtitled.

Edit: Slasher and gore films don't scare me at all, there is a very big difference between scared and disgusted.

I made a point about not watching anything to do with the human centipede. I only know the storyline vaguely, and im not gonna watch anything about it.

Slasher films are certainly a bore. They're only good if they are meant to be funny.

If anyones seen the cottage, well, thats funny, and stupidly violent. And it works.

That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.

Dude, I forgot about that doll. I was horrified of that thing!

Hmm.

I'd go:

The Shining
The Ring
Audition

I don't really get scared by most horror films anymore. For a while there I though J-horror was going to save the genre, but it's gotten a little repetitive and almost become a parody of itself.

IG_urban wrote:Blaire Witch Project. scariest movie of all time...and not *surprise!* scary either....I just read a lot of the fluff they made up for the movie, and the legends that it is loosely based upon...and put myself in their shoes....eugh....the children outside the tent, and when the kids put their hands against the tent wall....god...


and the clacking sound....

If you saw that movie on DVD in the comfort of your own home after all the hype had passed, it wouldn't be scary at all. If you saw it opening night in a theater when it was in full-on hoax mode and most of the audience thought what they were watching was *real*...well, it was a different experience.

The sound editing in that film is underrated, IMO.

A little known movie called 'The Changeling' starring George C. Scott from 1980. A psycological thriller about the ghost of a little boy in a wheelchair that was murdered. The image of that old-time wheelchair rolling around by itself still creeps me out everytime, as does the scene with the ball bouncing down the steps.

IG_urban wrote:EraserHead.
The Thing.
Alien.
Jacob's Ladder.

Oh wow, I watched Alien for the first time while being babysitted when my mums two friends let me stay up late with them as a secret, so I was too psyched to be frightened, but I still love it.

The thing scared me crapless when I first saw it which was around when I first saw Alive, and I put 2 and 2 together for a while and thought how lucky the people who survived in Alive were to not have been killed by the Thing too.

Jacobs ladder I saw when I was about 12 and need to watch it again, I remember it being really disturbing though, in the true nature of the word.

Gitkikka wrote:That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.

If your referring to the original Trilogy of Terror ( from the 70's),then I agree 100%,even more scary than the doll ,was the expresion on Karen Blacks face, right after she calls her Mother on the phone and tells her to come on over ...

Final destination is horror? I thought it was a comedy...

The thing also was damn scary.

Most scared I've ever been with a movie? Jurasic Park 1, when the tiny bugger barfs on the fat guy. I was 6ish.

FITZZ wrote:

Gitkikka wrote:That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.

If your referring to the original Trilogy of Terror ( from the 70's),then I agree 100%,even more scary than the doll ,was the expresion on Karen Blacks face, right after she calls her Mother on the phone and tells her to come on over ...

Saw it when I was about eight.

I had nightmares for two weeks.

Event horizon was one of the few thing that honestly scared me

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Gitkikka wrote:That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.

If your referring to the original Trilogy of Terror ( from the 70's),then I agree 100%,even more scary than the doll ,was the expresion on Karen Blacks face, right after she calls her Mother on the phone and tells her to come on over ...

Saw it when I was about eight.

I had nightmares for two weeks.

I was around 8 the first time I saw it as well,had about the same reaction to it that you did.

Showgirls......

Another thing that used to creep the feth out of me when I was a kid ,was the narratives Darren McGavin would do in his series " Kolchak: The Night Stalker (That's circa 1975 for you kids out there).

The narratives always went something like

" Tuesday,june 7th 1:45 am....Judy was rushing to get to the airport on time,her family had a big reunion planned for the weekend and she didn't want to be late...(GROWL ROAR)...Judy would be very late...the family did gather together,not for a reunion...but for a funeral."

I used to always imagine somewhere he was doing a narrative about me.

gorgon wrote:Hmm.

I'd go:

The Shining
The Ring
Audition

I don't really get scared by most horror films anymore. For a while there I though J-horror was going to save the genre, but it's gotten a little repetitive and almost become a parody of itself.

IG_urban wrote:Blaire Witch Project. scariest movie of all time...and not *surprise!* scary either....I just read a lot of the fluff they made up for the movie, and the legends that it is loosely based upon...and put myself in their shoes....eugh....the children outside the tent, and when the kids put their hands against the tent wall....god...


and the clacking sound....

If you saw that movie on DVD in the comfort of your own home after all the hype had passed, it wouldn't be scary at all. If you saw it opening night in a theater when it was in full-on hoax mode and most of the audience thought what they were watching was *real*...well, it was a different experience.

The sound editing in that film is underrated, IMO.

I agree about J horror....Suicide Club is one of my J favs. I also like Ichi the Killer, Ju On, and Ringu.....

but yes...its has become a stagnant market now...



and about BWP....I totally agree, I saw it on the way home from a camping trip the day after it opened...I own it, and I use it as a study/inspiration for my creative work when I need dread/suspense.....


once again...it's the scariest movie I have ever seen...

I agree, Event Horizon had some real moments...

Also, go play FEAR the game... That's a different level from any movie.

I startle pretty bad (or at least find it very unpleasant and annoying), and a lot of directors rely on that likea crutch, so I don't really enjoy horror as a result.

The Saw movies are just stupid and uninteresting.

Phryxis wrote:
Also, go play FEAR the game... That's a different level from any movie.

Yeah, FEAR was scary as hell, but the problem was that you had to be looking in a certain direction to get the scares. Sure, you'd still see bloody dripping down the walls, but no corpses jumping up and yelling at you.

FEAR suffered from horribly strict scripting, you could go through some points and miss startling events just by not stepping across the correct line.

Worst mistake I ever made when I was little was watching The Exorcist and Mimic in the same night, weird dream combining the two movies.

The original Nightmare on Elm Street - that was actually scary.

Saw (1) was also pretty good as a story.

FITZZ wrote:

Gitkikka wrote:That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.

If your referring to the original Trilogy of Terror ( from the 70's),then I agree 100%,even more scary than the doll ,was the expresion on Karen Blacks face, right after she calls her Mother on the phone and tells her to come on over ...

Well, huh - didn't even realize that a sequel was made; time to turn in my B-movie aficionado card in shame. What really hit me about that movie was that the first two stories really weren't all that scary - then BAM - the intensity flies off the meter.