steve (Guest) on 10/05/2006 3:00 pm

I'd have to say The Ring ONLY for the reason that when the first time the movie inside the movie ended, my phone rang right as the movie phone rang. This happened TWICE!

James (Guest) on 10/05/2006 3:00 pm

I may be going out on a limb here. To the sci-fi horror genre. But the very first Alien movie was perhaps the scariest.

I was a child when I saw the chest burster scene after they brought the infected scientist onto the Nostromo. I screamed in terror and started to cry. It was not my parents fault, because I believe I snuck into the living room after my bedtime and my parents were watching the movie.

It was indeed a horrific scene, I still can't watch that scene with the sound on haha. I know I am a wuss. Sorry if it is not a true horror movie, but I found it horrific.

the boy (Guest) on 10/05/2006 3:03 pm

The scariest movie ever is obviously "Donnie Darko", because it's so fucking terrible that it just might possess the power to cause one to take their own life rather than endure the horrific torment.

nuffels (Guest) on 10/05/2006 3:11 pm

the scariest oever for me was, without a doubt, Gacy. i hate clowns more than anything else in the entire world.

Nicolyieq (Guest) on 10/05/2006 3:26 pm

Nosferatu. I don't know if there is more than one version, but in the one I saw there were a bunch of corpses in the beginning, and the camera pans down to their feet, and a little corpse had the same shoes as me. I saw this when I was about 6 of course, but damn.

Jose (Guest) on 10/05/2006 3:27 pm

I have to agree with james, I seen aliens when i was little, the part where dallas was in the vents and then he turns around and the alien was there, that scared the crap out of me :(

Andy (Guest) on 10/05/2006 4:46 pm

hands down, 28 days later

Oliver (Guest) on 10/05/2006 4:48 pm

I'm sad to say it was "The Blair witch" probably.
I relly can't tell 'cause I've seen so damn many!

Juan Valdez (Guest) on 10/05/2006 4:58 pm

i never really found movies to be properly frightening, but games (the perfect medium for horror) require me to get emersed in the setting, and so i have to say silent hill 2, with fatal frame to as a close second. if i had to choose and movie, probably woman in the dunes, but that scared me becasue of the constant dread and doom.

Juan Valdez (Guest) on 10/05/2006 5:00 pm

oh, or maybe eraserhead. the constant heavy, gargled brathing from the baby mutant was pretty creepy.

justin (Guest) on 10/05/2006 5:23 pm

The Amityville horror. something about it just disturbs me.

Ryan (Guest) on 10/05/2006 5:25 pm

For me, movies involving the supernatural, i.e. ghosts, demons, etc., usually got me because there's still alot of uncertainy whether or not they actually exsist. Anything involving gore or slashers were usually just entertaing to me and never actually frightening. New movies that got me were; The Ring (theatre only- when I saw it on a T.V. screen, it just wasn't that bad. When I saw it in the theatre, I was actually shell shocked afterwards.) and the Blair Witch Project ( I was one few that didn't learn it was a fake before I saw it.). But when I was a kid, the movie series that got me were the Poltergeists. Spooky!

El Guano (Guest) on 10/05/2006 5:43 pm

Hmm...probly Arachnaphobia i know its more of a Dark Comedy than a horror movie but it did make me afraid to crap on a toilet.By the way it awesome that you included Rick from Splatterhouse on top,glad someone appreciates the Greatness of Splatterhouse 2.

Jreed (Guest) on 10/05/2006 6:02 pm

Bh...28 days sucked...
For me, it would be two movies,

1.Jaws (of course)

2.The Shining, especially when you see Shelly Duval reads all of those papers that Johnny boy has working on book repteadly saying, " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Over...and over...and over...

Teeyay (Guest) on 10/05/2006 6:03 pm

There are probably a lot of horror movies that scared me that I have forgotten about over the years, but the one that sticks out in my memory and remains the only one I cannot watch from start to finish in a room by myself is The Shining (Stanley Kubrick directed version). What's scarier that Jack Nicholson slowly going out of his ever-lovin' mind? Also, the creepy twins "Come play with us, Danny. Forever...and ever...and ever and ever...", the blood, the hotel itself, the ghosts, the Jacksicle at the end, the picture at the end with the ghostly music playing, etc. Everytime I hear that weird "ga-lump blump" heartbeat sound start up I have to change the channel. *shivers*

JadeGecko (Guest) on 10/05/2006 6:11 pm

I'm not sure if you could call it horror or not, but my pick would have to be Session 9. Not so much in an "oh no he's gonna get me" sense, but in a psychologically disturbing sense.

JadeGecko (Guest) on 10/05/2006 6:12 pm

Oh, and I hate to double post but I forgot to ask--what are those 'shapes' made of? White chocolate? Solid sugar, like sprinkles? Cast polystyrene? The word "shapes" leaves a lot to the imagination!

Vinnie (Guest) on 10/05/2006 6:21 pm

Watching Halloween as a kid was really scary. That has to be my favorite. Michael Myers not being there when he falls off the balcony at the end, still gives me the chills. Speaking of scary things, does anyone remember the Tales From the Crypt episode with Morton Downey Jr.? The one where he is a reporter checking out a haunted house. That episode gave me nightmares for awhile.

Jason Kane (Guest) on 10/05/2006 6:31 pm

The frighteners,Jaws (as a kid),Session 9,Freddy vs Jason..even though i saw kids in the audince when i saw that..hmm..

Jesse B (Guest) on 10/05/2006 6:32 pm

Lets see a return of Laugh Riot and Eyeballs Licker!

shannon (Guest) on 10/05/2006 6:34 pm

haha i made those cookies last year. they rock and i ate them ALL right after they came out of the oven. i think its def time to overindulge again.

JadeGecko- those shapes are like hard, flat sprinkles

when i was little It scared the shit out of me, and now Signs is th eonly movie that really scares me. i know monsters arent real, but my dads family lives in Roswell, new Mexico and i was always told aliens are real. so that movie really scares me.

Adam (Guest) on 10/05/2006 7:00 pm

Hands-down, the scariest movie I've ever seen was the original "Psycho." Psychological stuff like that does shit to you, man. I still have trouble taking showers. ::shudder::

Mickie (Guest) on 10/05/2006 7:47 pm

It may sound cliche at this point, but The Exorcist. Now only because of that black and white face that flashes half way through the movie – terrifying.

Owen (Guest) on 10/05/2006 8:13 pm

Definitely the Exorcist, first time i saw it was the directors cut and it had this part where Regan like crabwalked down the stairs really rapidly, that scared the hell outof me and after that i kept looking at my stairs expecting some shit to go down. That face is pretty creepy too.

Aks (Guest) on 10/05/2006 8:33 pm

I know I sound like a pansy but The Exorcisim of Emily Rose really scared the bejesus out of me. Especially since people say that it could be real. Man I was afraid of 3:00 am for like 2 days. Then it wore off.

Poo (Guest) on 10/05/2006 10:16 pm

Scariest movies.. Let's see how about SAW 1 & 2, Hannibal, The Grudge, Chucky :( that little doll is freaky!, Poltergeist or Exorcist (the one with the possessed girl), I can't remember any more because I try to black out scary movies however for some reason I still watch them every now and then..

Ghost Rider (Guest) on 10/05/2006 10:48 pm

For me, it would be the exorcist, the idea of possession always unnerves me.
However, the way the ghosts move and seem to bend the rules of physics and time in movies such as The Grudge, The Ring, and other Japanese ghost films always makes me uneasy.
I guess it is because devils and ghosts aren't corporeal beings, and if they exist, we would probably be helpless in those types of situations. Werewolves, vampires, and zombies are corporeal and we are able to at least defend ourselves (in a futile manner).
"if it bleeds, we can kill it" - from The Predator

Bob (Guest) on 10/05/2006 11:13 pm

Scariest movie? 'Herby: Fully Loaded'. Absolutely terrifying.

NotDavid (Guest) on 10/05/2006 11:43 pm

Event Horizon. Seriously. That movie creeped the hell out of me.

Shadow40000 (Guest) on 10/06/2006 4:43 am

Oh yeah! Event Horizon. Almost forgot about that one. That one scared the shit out of me too, NotDavid!

Lets see...

Pet Sematary. This one really scared me as a kid. (If you haven't seen it already, then I'd just be spoiling it for you.)

Also this one film I forgot the name of. It's where in the south-west some guy gets abducted by aliens and months later they find him again. The scene where he sees some maple surup and has flashbacks. Then the part where it shows his memories on the ship where just creepy. Can somebody help me out wiht the title?

firefox357 (Guest) on 10/06/2006 6:20 am

Shadow4000 the name of the movie you are thinking of is Fire in the Sky. I remember seeing that back in the day! Supposedly it was based on a real alien abduction...
The movie I most remember being scared of was Poltergeist but that's because it is burned into my memory as a little kid..."They're heeeerre." Spooky.

Roadblock (Guest) on 10/06/2006 11:04 am

Horror movies do not scare me. The one time I can say I was genuinely scared during a movie was in 2005 "War of the Worlds" (just close your eyes and pretend he's not Tom Cruise, when all those people come at the van. They're like zombies, but worse - and it was totally a scenario you could picture happening in real life. Not the aliens, I mean a bunch of idiots trying to hijack your van.

And Thriller may be awesome, but this is awesomer:
Indian Thriller

Steve (Guest) on 10/06/2006 1:15 pm

I saw this Chinese horror movie called "Dumplings" and while it wasn't the scariest per se, it certainly was the most grotesque. Check it out if you have the chance and a strong stomach.

Steve (Guest) on 10/06/2006 1:34 pm

I actually made a comic on my site recently about one of the scariest movies I've ever seen: "Bloodrayne"
Yup...Uwe Boll. I watched it. It's terrifying. Mainly because the entire way through you're worrying about exactly when you'll start bleeding from your ears and eyes from the sheer awfulness of the thing.
I suggest a Uwe Boll halloween marathon. It would be just like REAL torture! Because it IS!

...Oh and Killer Clowns From Outer Space scared the bejezus out of me as a little kid if you want a more realistic answer. Though now I just find the movie disturbingly hilarious.

Tempest (Guest) on 10/06/2006 4:29 pm

I'd have to say the most scared I ever was of a movie was durign the last half of The Blair Witch Project, but the thing was I thought it was at least semi-real when I watched it. Then I found out the kids were actors. And no one had ever been lost while making a documentary. And that there wasn't even a legend of the Blair Witch. Then I just felt stupid.

Nowadays the only thing that genuinley scares me (Other than a "shock" from someone jumping from the shadows real quickly) Are programs on real serial killers like Ed Gein, the guys who inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs. The fact that things like that really happened gets me freaks out, especially since those kinds of programs are alwasy on at like 1:30 AM.

I did get an invite from a friend to watch some Japanese horror movies. He says the original movie Ju-On: The Grudge puts it's American counterpart to shame, so who knows, maybe it'll take some J-Horror to finally get me afraid of real movies.

Doctor dumbass (Guest) on 10/06/2006 5:26 pm

stephen king's "IT" i still have nightmares about that fucking clown(maybe he's related to ronald?)

-RoG- (Guest) on 10/06/2006 7:20 pm

Hrm, I'd have to say the three scariest movies from my childhood were "Prince of Darkness," "The Thing" (both by John Carpenter) and "Jaws". I think Jaws was scary because I spent so much time at sea when I was younger. Then again, any movie dealing with creatures in the water is probably somewhat creepy to me... even something as cheesy as "Piranha". Hell, I wouldn't even trust those bubble creatures from "The Abyss".

Speaking of The Abyss; am I the only one who imagined that the pink liquid oxygen in the movie probably tasted like bubble gum? Tell me I'm not crazy.

JadeGecko, yeah they're basically like larger sprinkles. Just more sugar to go with your sugar heheh.

Jesse B, Laugh Riot and Eyeball Licker probably won't be back this season, but word on the street is that Count Pop has been lurking around California. I wonder what he could be up to. Hmm...

James (Guest) on 10/06/2006 7:39 pm

I would say the Abyss liquid oxygen tasted like bazooka joe. Except without the gritty after taste and rock solid texture.

richard (Guest) on 10/06/2006 7:50 pm

When i was 5 or 6, I watched stephen kings famous movie: IT. I was already morbidly afraid of clowns at the time ( I still am, fuck) And the stairs at my house were just planks of wood, so there was nothing between them, I got scared after a while and ran upstairs, and my brother grabbed my leg when i ran up the stairs, from between the stairs man. aww my god, i was pissing myself and crying. He was laughing his ass off. mean people :(I've never seen the ring or the grudge, but my friend says REDRUM all the time. In a crazy deep voice, deeper than you can imagine. So yeah, IT in my opinion still makes me shit myself.

Bobby (Guest) on 10/06/2006 8:41 pm

Im prolly never gonna live this down, but the movie Flatliners. The movie itself wasn't scary, but I spent the next like week terrified that the kid i made fun of in high school was gonna come after me with a sickle all possessed and evil

LoneWolf (Guest) on 10/06/2006 9:15 pm

I'm going to embarass myself, probably, but I don't care. The scariest movie moment for me was from Kill Bill Volume Two. You know, when The Bride gets buried alive. I was watching it at the morning and its just pitch black, and all you hear is the dirt hitting the coffin, then her clawing and hitting the top of the coffin with her flashlight. Freaked me out. Similar reaction to Halo, when we all get introduced to The Flood. Again, three or four in the morning, but this time with big bass headphones on too. I haven't seen much horror outside of the Nightmare series.

Angryhydralisk (Guest) on 10/06/2006 11:07 pm

Scariest movie I ever seen? THE DRILLER KILLER! Made me feel really traumatized to be an artist. Plus the movie had some disturbingly realistic deaths (all by a pow-pow-powuh drill!) and allk inds of silly shit!

Best two bucks I ever spent in my life.

Colin (Guest) on 10/07/2006 12:07 am

Audition. "Kiri kiri kiri kiri..." Need I say more?

adam (Guest) on 10/07/2006 10:26 am

"The Thing" was probably the only gruesome movie that actually scared me. Just the way that alien mangles people makes me shudder (Or it might've been the stomach spider).
"The Ring" was probably scariest for me only becuase I accidently leaned on the power button for my DVD remote while watching, which cause the screen to make all the balck and white lines and the KKKCHHK sound to appear. Scared the crap outta me.

Iain (Guest) on 10/07/2006 1:09 pm

The Descent is the scariest movie in recent memory for sure!

Jenne (Guest) on 10/07/2006 2:30 pm

I don't know if you've heard about this, but I couldn't bear the thought of you not knowing. Bollywood Thriller! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osXgzAlQIoQ&eurl=

Jesse B (Guest) on 10/07/2006 2:48 pm

Count Pop in California?

Will we see a new Pop friend? Will he become a shell of his former self without Franken Pop? Will he take on the Governator and become the new governer of California?

I CAN'T WAIT! ARGGGG! **Jumps off cliff... wait, there are no cliffs in Alameda. Uhhh... jump in SF Bay**

Chris (Guest) on 10/07/2006 3:48 pm

Its unfortunate, I never have been really scared by a movie. There was a split second where, perhaps, in Hostel, I was a bit anerved by the imminant removal of a toe, however they didn't show it as usual, and so the rest of the movie was rather the same as the rest. I'm entertained by the movies, but not frightened. I am occasionally anxious when playing certain video games, especially when you're about to die in the games and you didn't save for a while and you only have 37 health while all sorts of scary forshadowings and script events are occuring.

ColdFusion (Guest) on 10/08/2006 2:23 pm

Lol, that is one jolly vampire. He looks like Emeril's "Count Legasse" persona.
Scariest movie? Easily "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes" Doesn't sound too scary by today's standards, but how many other movies end with a super-religious tent-church urging you to pluck your own eyes out, then you DO it?

Jenny (Guest) on 10/08/2006 3:49 pm

Deffinately The Shinning, or Dawn of the Dead.

actually zombie movie really, I love me some zombies.

Jenny (Guest) on 10/08/2006 3:56 pm

i meant *actualy ANY zombie movie*

Poo (Guest) on 10/08/2006 6:14 pm

Did any of you even see SAW I or II? I'm wondering because noone mentioned it and it was huge in my area. I guess it wasn't on at theatres and probably not advertised now that I think about it.
Skeleton Key (starring Kirsten Dunst) is definitely a good movie to see if you haven't yet. It's not just a "scary movie," it has a purpose. All of the ones I mentioned do but I will not suggest seeing Hannibal because I hated that movie.

geoffish (Guest) on 10/09/2006 4:22 am

Two words.........."The Thing" Only movie I had nightmares about.

John (Guest) on 10/09/2006 5:10 am

Scariest movie I ever saw?? It would have to be nightmare on elm street. I saw it when i was 5 years old and it really fuckin disturbed me. Still get the chills when i think about it...

Shadow40000 (Guest) on 10/09/2006 7:27 am

The Thing is probably my favorite horror movie of all time... but it just never really scared me.

3Ply_Stagliano (Guest) on 10/09/2006 8:22 am

Just like John, Nightmare On Elm Street scared the cruds out of me when I was a little boy. I couldn't sleep for the next couple of nights as, being a gullible child, I thought I might get killed in my sleep. Then again, I also used to think Santa would kill me if I ever saw him, in order to keep his existence a secret (Somehow I seem to recall having this theory because people always seemed to get killed when they knew Streethawk's identity and, obviously, that would also apply to Santa of course). Therefore, I might not be the best person to comment.

JadeGecko (Guest) on 10/09/2006 6:22 pm

Shannon, RoG, thanks for enlightening me!

What you guys are mentioning reminds me of a particular spook I got while watching Ringu (the Japanese film that preceded the Ring). The only reason that scared me is that when I was about halfway through it (in the middle of the night), I paused it and sat down on my bed. The bed made exactly the same creaking noise as on the tape (when you saw the guy with the towel over his head). I jumped about a foot.

But I would say Session 9. There are no startles, no stupid characters, and it doesn't rely on darkness or blood to have an effect. It just has this atmosphere of dread and madness. It was shot in a real insane asylum, now decaying and abandoned, and they said that everyone involved in the film had some kind of weird, unexplainable, horrifying experience while they were shooting in the building.

As far as scares when I was little? I got up to watch Moontrap when I was about six. It scared the bejeezus out of me. My parents said it was just lamer than a duck with both legs broke, but for me, as a little kid, it was the spookiest thing ever. Makes me want to watch it again, if only for a laugh...

peety (Guest) on 10/10/2006 3:40 pm

Am i the only one who practicly wet themtelves in the shining?

Annie (Guest) on 10/10/2006 7:02 pm

It.
I saw it when I was like 7 or something. I DID wet the bed.
I hate clowns so much.

Teh-Suxx0r (Guest) on 10/11/2006 2:18 am

The Descent was quite jumpy for me the first time around. Now its just disturbing.

Fiona (Guest) on 10/11/2006 3:21 am

My brother has always been more of a horror movie buff than I. So I saw The Thing and Alien at age 8-10 and they scared the living shit out of me. Especially the part in The Thing with the dog. That made me cry. And there was also this terribly cheesy horror movie about killer bees I saw when I was seven that made me keep my pet rabbit inside for like a month.

Colleen (Guest) on 10/11/2006 1:06 pm

I also saw Nightmare on Elm street when I was five and woke up screaming for a week (love those movies now). And I thought the Exhorcist was really creepy.

nuffels (Guest) on 10/11/2006 7:23 pm

quite a few people are saying "the shining." i love that movie more than any other. everyone says the best line is "HERE's JOHNNY!" but i strongly disagree. the best lines in the movie are when he hacks through the bedroom door, unlocks it, and calmly says "wendy, i'm home." CLASSIC. i also love when he's chasing danny out in the snow and getting more and more frozen, and he's yelling for danny to come to him, but by the end he's just saying something along the lines of "dabby! dabby! wah ah you, dabby? cum eeh!".

i didn't find it very scary, but my litle brother damn near pissed himself at the part with the lady in the bathtub.

Keith (Guest) on 10/12/2006 3:27 am

some good suggestions here-I am glad few like the recent trend of "stupidely gory but not at all scary" trend epitomized by Saw. I always thought the first two Aliens are good at making one jump- but has anyone the airplane scene in the Twilight Zone movie with John Lithgow? I swear to this day I don't like closing the little plastic cover on the airplane windows.

Argucide (Guest) on 10/14/2006 11:05 pm

Movies like The Blair Witch Project and Rings kept me awake after I watched them my freshman year of college. For some reason they just really appealed to my imagination. I had a mirror on the back of my dorm room door, and every shadow that moved on it freaked me out.

When I was a kid, the movie that scared me the most (to the point that I refused to watch it again until I was in my teens) was Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. I kid you not. Billy Zane absolutely terrified me.

Mister Cark (Guest) on 10/17/2006 3:38 am

Child's Play kicked my sorry arse. Not even the movie, though--a commercial for it. I was in 6th grade and hanging out at a friend's house. The commercial came on, I saw a blurred glimpse of that little horror dashing behind a couch... I'm honestly a little creeped out just writing about it.

See, the thing about it that gets me all goosebumpy is that my cousin had the My Buddy and Kid Sister dolls when we were smaller than they are, and I'd always thought that they looked rather menacing. Then, to see my horror thrown up on the television in front of me that way--well, I honestly did not sleep for four days.

I gotta stop thinking about this. I really can't sleep now. Dammit.

Kael (Guest) on 10/23/2006 8:57 am

This is a bit of a delayed response, but when i watched Pet Semetary i was more terrified than i have ever been in my life.

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zach (Guest) on 10/05/2007 12:54 am

hey i have been looking for a movie the problem is i can't remember it but i am sure it is made by tales from the crypt. in the beginning of the movie some guy is playing chicken and the guy in the other car is the devil, anyways the devil ends up walking away from the wreck and then comes to some hotel where the other guy is hiding and they get some kind of vile of blood that if they put in door ways they can block out demons that the devil spawns by spilling his blood on the ground, but throughout the entire movie the devil is totally messing with the peoples heads that are in the hotel. anyways if you could help me out with the name of that movie it would be awesome becuase i have not seen it since childhood and i would like to find a place to buy it

-RoG- (Guest) on 10/05/2007 3:14 am

Zach, the movie you're speaking of is none other than Tales From The Crypt: Demon Night.