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When I was a kid.... Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

As an adult... the first "Halloween". It's kind of quaint now... but in context of the times it was the first real "slasher" flick and was very well done. I remember a moment in the film where the entire theater was on it's feet shouting at Jamie Lee Curtis to turn around... that's a well made flick.

I Am Legend deffo

Only scene that's really ever truly stayed with me was when in The Exorcism of Emily Rose there's the moment when her boyfriend wakes up and can't find her. Then when he turns around...

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The scene where the female vampire is running down the hall way scared the ever living gak out of me when I was a child.



Other Than that,the original Halloween and the Exorcist where both pretty scary when I was a kid.

Everything was scarier when I was a kid.

Horror doesn't really scare me now. I'm pretty much always aware that I'm watching a movie. I get startled, sure, but that's not nearly the same thing.

Alien and The Thing.

Horror movies are just torture porn nowadays.

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I agree. I hate Saw, Hostel and the plethora of others. They're just not good.

As for the scariest films, I always jump at alien, even though i know what's coming, but what truly scared me, was Drag me to hell, simply as it really was jumpy, and ofc dead silence, cos that had ventriloquist dummies in, and they are known to terrify everyone who moves.

Ringu (The Ring), Ju-on (The Grudge) and Dark Water are great examples of psychological horror, which the Japanese revived in the late 90s while Hollywood was resorting to messier and messier slasher flicks.

The human centipede.
P.S. not for the faint of heart.

Not scary, Garret - not even actually visually horrifying, it's just the images it plants in your mind and makes you imagine.

The film's not scary, though.
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The only horror movie I was unable to finish because of how scared I was is Pumkinhead. I was a lot younger but that movie is intense. Jaws did more permanent damage though, since even now I'm nervous in the ocean and I saw that film for the first time almost 25 years ago! For a few years when I was a lot younger I was pretty sure Jaws was going to kill me when I was in a pond, lake, or occasionally a swimming pool! Irrational, I know.

I haven't been genuinely scared by a movie in a long time. The 'Blink' episode of Doctor Who freaked me the hell out when I first watched it though.

The Human Centipede wasn't scary at all, just utterly repulsive (but lulz-worthy). I watched it with a couple of friends and we were laughing our arses off.

Hmmm thats a hard one as horror movies have yet to scare me at all , but good for excitement.

One movie i find sort of disturbing was House on Haunted Hill , but wasnt the ghost or death parts that scares me ,
its the flashback when the doctors were abusing the mental patience ( and they rebel shortly after )

I agree with KK psychological horror is the way to go but The Ring and The Grudge were buried too deep in the Japanese culture to translate to me that's why I nominate 'Hardcandy'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424136/

The only film that to this date I cannot finish watching. I'm 23 by the way. The Human Centipede thing just looks gross, like dookie fetish gross.

ComputerGeek01 wrote:'Hardcandy'

IMBD wrote: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.

Exactly what I would do...

The Thing, hands down.

I also enjoy The Fly . When it started going down hill for the main char and his attempt to cling on his last
remnant of humanity i really feel sorry for him.

Then he snaps... embraces the monster he turns into ( and melts off a guy's arm and leg with his corrosive barf )

Really powerful scene and scary

The Fly, cause I was like 6 or 7, and had snuck down to watch it. Never again. Inside out monkey(or was it a dog? can't remember) nearly made me hurl.

A long time ago...The ring.
That chit made me have serious delusions and paranoia. Not joking.

Also, there was a movie called "the darkness" or something that was scary as gak. Crazed mutant farmers in a dark house in the middle of the mountains attacking you by pooping out of the shadows. They were climbing all over the walls and stuff..AAAAAAHHHH!!


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LOLOLOLOLLOL the human centipede....OMg, I was seriously rofling

Soladrin wrote:The Fly, cause I was like 6 or 7, and had snuck down to watch it. Never again. Inside out monkey(or was it a dog? can't remember) nearly made me hurl.

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When i was little i saw Alien , but i never knew what i was watching so it wasnt really scary , but a few thing caught my interest and i wasnt able to find out what exactly i saw
till years later. I kept asking my parent if they know a movie where the walls are all plastic , and something melted the floor ( and they were all like wtf? )

There isnt really any movie that grosses me out , like you i was watching The Fly marathon on Halloween week , the barf part + the inside out dog ( his pet )
almost made me threw up ( because i was eating dessert tofu ) the color + texture + the coldness of it sort of turned my stomach simultaneously lol

Hardcandy was a pretty interesting film with some nice twist in it.

I almost felt sorry for the guy...almost.

The Fly...Now this is a great example of a well done remake,in many ways surpassing the original film.

It really allowed you to "get to know" the "monster" and even care about him.




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Monster Rain wrote:The only horror movie I was unable to finish because of how scared I was is Pumkinhead. I was a lot younger but that movie is intense. Jaws did more permanent damage though, since even now I'm nervous in the ocean and I saw that film for the first time almost 25 years ago! For a few years when I was a lot younger I was pretty sure Jaws was going to kill me when I was in a pond, lake, or occasionally a swimming pool! Irrational, I know.

I definitely understand where your coming from with JAWS ( or as I like to refer to it,"the best movie ever made about a couple of guys fishing")

I actually was scared to take a bath after I first saw JAWS( I was 5), and as far as entering a large body of water...not for years after seeing it.

Personally Ju-on was the one that did it for me. It was pretty scary watching it, but the after effect was what did it for me. Im a grown ass man, and for over a month I had to turn lights on before entering rooms, and for some incredibly LAME reason, anytime Id be showering, Id panic and grab the back of my head It wasnt even like OH MY GOD scary....but it just murdered my brain

KingCracker wrote:Personally Ju-on was the one that did it for me. It was pretty scary watching it, but the after effect was what did it for me. Im a grown ass man, and for over a month I had to turn lights on before entering rooms, and for some incredibly LAME reason, anytime Id be showering, Id panic and grab the back of my head It wasnt even like OH MY GOD scary....but it just murdered my brain

If you think about it though , IF ghost exists or w/e like in Ju-on , whats the worst that can happen? It'll kill you?
But does it really want to kill you though? what if you die and turn into a ghost that is scarier then them lol xD

The Thing, and to some extent, The Shining.

The Grudge was pretty scary. The scene where that door is open a crack and the ghost-thing's face is back there in the dark... Oh man that image stuck in my head something fierce!

Snikkyd wrote:The Thing, and to some extent, The Shining.

The Shining was a good suspence film,plus watching Jack Nicholson sink lower and lower,and get crazier and crazier as the film progressed,you could feel the tension building.

The first two Final Destination flicks are my pick. Just when you think it is going to go one way, they flip it on you.

EraserHead.
The Thing.
Alien.
Jacob's Ladder.

That is all.

Nothing beats the Exorcist!!! I saw that movie in the theater when I was just a little kid, and I'm sure it damaged my psyche something fierce. The last horror movies to actually affect me were the Blair Witch Project, and the original Asian version of Pulse, which starts out with a nearly overpowering tension and slides almost imperceptibly into overpowering hopelessness. Movies like the Final Destination series are pure comedy, like a live-action Bugs & Daffy. The second one is the best, near the end when that woman is saying that her son narrowly avoided death, then he walks over to the gas grill, and BOOOM!!!, he's blown to bits. Then his smoking, bloody arm falls on the table, right in front of mom. Priceless!!!