What's your favorite horror movie and what's the scariest movie scene you ever saw ?

[fredwise]

What's your favorite horror movie and what's the scariest movie scene you ever saw?

I just watched "the Others" last night and it creeped me out all the way. The buildup and the part with the photo album were strangely what made it so terrifying for me.
As for one of the creepiest scenes of the movies I've seen, I was ill-prepared for the suicide scene in "Master and Commander".

[Autumnlyn]

My favorite horror movie has got to be Texas Chainsaw Massicarr Two.
The scariest scene was where the girl was over a bucket at the table and they were hitting her on the head with hammers.

[Jojo87]

Halloween is my favorite horror movie and favorite scene is when Michael Myers is chasing his sister Laurie Stroide.

[Black Suit]

Halloween..

the scene where Laurie is crying on the floor and then we see The Shape do his infamous sit up in the background.. oh man, the chills that scene gave me!

[crazycrashink]

28 Days Later scares the crap out of me. It effected me more than any other movie. Well, besides Fallen which was pretty creepy in its own right. The scene from 28 days later that really gets me is the scene in the church AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH:eek2:

[aptpupil]

Hard to pinpoint my favorite horror movie, although if I stick to British movies, I really loved "The Descent", which came out a couple of years ago. I agree that "The Others" was also a superior psychological thriller/ghost story.

Best scene, for sheer heart-stopping fright, has to be the hand coming out of the grave at the end of "Carrie" although it was spoiled by being too well publicised before most people had the chance to see it.

[Katran]

Well, that's a tough one, but I guess I'd have to say Silent Hill. I just love the whole atmosphere and the creatures in that one.

The part where Pyramid Head first appears scared the heck out of me. I hadn't played the games before seeing the movie and really had no idea what the whole thing was about, so the movie was my introduction to him. My mom and I were watching it together and as soon as he appeared we both said, "What the hell is THAT?!" I know I wouldn't want to run into him, and I probably would have been screaming silly like Rose was.

[JayneH]

Not really a horror but loved the ending of Se7en with Brad Pit and Morgan Freeman. When they open the box and her head is inside

I dont really get scared of Horrors but still remember seeing Friday the 13th at the Drivein when I was about 13 and thought it was pretty lame until the end when the hand comes out of the lake

[demorgan]

THE DESCENT...,loved it. One of the best movies in years.

[OhmyGod!]

Yeah the descent! That was one uncomfortable sit at the cinema! Specially when they are standing in that 'bone-yard' with the nightvision camera on.

Also the end of [rec], also with the nightvision camera. With that horrible girl-creature with her long arms sweeping around.

[devious1]

i don't know... one of the most disturbing scenes i ever saw in a movie was the crucifix scene from The Exorcist... i don't know about scary but it definitely warped my little 11 year old mind when i saw it LOL :D

[Noelani]

I agree with everyone about The Descent, although it wouldn't be my scariest movie of all time. I would half to say, Halloween, closely followed by the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre tops the list for me. Those are still two of the very few horror films I can't watch alone in the dark. The beginning of Halloween is the most scariest scene ever made, followed by the first appearance of Leatherface.

I'd to say that for an 80's B movie, Dolls was pretty creepy. One of Stuart Gordon's most underrated best. I cannot handle movies with creepy porcelain dolls (Dolls) or Ventriloquist dummies (Magic). Those are some of the scariest things on earth.

[tillyn]

Not my favorite but the scariest was Chain-saw M. the original , just the fact that it was suppose to be based on real events. Ahhh

[Neil W]

i don't know... one of the most disturbing scenes i ever saw in a movie was the crucifix scene from The Exorcist... i don't know about scary but it definitely warped my little 11 year old mind when i saw it LOL :D

What on earth were you doing watching the Exorcist at age 11? Where were your parents? It scared the poo out of me when I watched it when it first came out when I was 19.

[blunthead]

My favorite horror movie is Dead of Night, an extremely weird and spooky, old black and white classic. I can't speak to my favorite scene without spoiling it for those of you who may want to check it out--and please do. My second favorite, which is not strictly horror, is The Innocents, which is based on The Turn of the Screw, a novella by Henry James. The Haunting is great, and worth mentioning are The Woman in Black, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, and The Blob (original).

As far as more modern movies, I liked What Lies Beneath.

[DreamScape]

I have to say because of my age at the time (11 or 12) was the Amityville movies. I watched 1-3 plus the Exorcist during a HBO Halloween marathon. After that I had to watch comedy just to get myself back to my room....as I was heading to bed, my stepfather said "Hey don't fall into the well". Bah needless to say I didnt sleep that well that night, not to mention the attic panel was in my room at the time and my fears sent me into seeing things. I still think I saw that panel move! LOL
(My sister and I had to switch bedrooms the very next day).

[LostGraveRobber]

My most favorite horror movie has to be Poltergiest. I saw that movie when I was around eight years old, and it scared the crap out of me. There were many parts that freaked me out, but the one scene that stayed with me was the part with the clown doll that pulled Robbie under the bed, and tried to strangle him. I still make I run for my bed and jump in 'cause that part of the movie freaked me out. Wht was even more freaky was I found out recently that when they were shooting that scene the doll was actually tied around the actor neck so tight that it actually started to srangle to actor, and Speildberg had to rip the doll of him. If you want a good urban legend look up the Curse on Poltergiest, or drop me a message 'cause I know a lot about it. Thoes movies are cursed which add to my fear/love of them.

[Watahoot]

What on earth were you doing watching the Exorcist at age 11? Where were your parents? It scared the poo out of me when I watched it when it first came out when I was 19.

Ha, I'm in the same boat as devious1.

My list would be:

The Exorcist, the spider-walk down the stairs on the unedited edition freaked me out as a kid, along with many other scenes in that movie.

Halloween, really just about any scene with "the shape". I had recurring nightmares of Micheal Myers chasing me; and once or twice I experienced a vivid illusion of his face staring in my window (without blinds) on a dark night.

The Shining. Twins at the end of the hallway. To get to my bedroom, I walk down a medium-sized hallway, I would imagine them there every time I turned the corner late at night.

I watched all these movies when I was in 4th and 5th grades, and my mom was there watching them with me lol.

[mae_west]

I had nightmares for years after watching the original "Dawn of the dead". Not because it was such a scary movie to watch, but I just kept dreaming that they were after me and I was always on the run. I am such a fan of zombie movies now...

I don't know why, but the first Jeepers Creepers movie creeped me out but good. Most horror movies I can figure out what is going to happen before hand, and JC did not have a truly original story, but it did really creep me out.

And the original Alien movie. Saw it at a theater. Scared me!

[Bryan James]

I don't remember the name of it, but my Dad took me to a Chuck Norris film when I was a kid. I had recently won a Regional karate tournament and my parents exercised bad (good?) judgment in allowing me to see an 'R-rated' flick.

The bad guy had gotten some sort of injection that made him dang near invincible, and there was a scalpel scene...testing said badguy's regenerative powers. One slit, and he healed up. I had a few dreams about that.

I did like the part where a woman in a bar had beer poured on her breasts. She was enjoying the attention, otherwise I would have hated it. I distinctly remember thinking "I'm going to like beer and boobs one day soon." A few years later, and continuing thereafter, my premonition remains correct.

BJS

[Teddy Duchamp]

I found the Ring very disturbing - when she opened the cupboard door and the girl was inside who had died of fright I just didnt want her to open that door!

Plus I must have been the only person who didnt know that she came out of the television so that was a shocker, plus the way she walked after she got out of the well........it just got to me!

Another was the first "Nightmare on Elm Street" film. Just the fact that you can be attacked while thinking you are safely asleep. I think what made it all the more frightening for me is that I have very vivid nightmares and always have done - the fact that they might be "true" just freaks me out!:wow:

[Carri]

I saw (and read the adapted screenplay of) Alien when I was about 13....then I didn't sleep for 10 years. That was really the only movie that ever scared me. I still get an elevated heart rate when I watch it.

I thought Hellraiser was icky enough that I just said to myself, "Eeew, I don't think I want to ever see that again." But that was gross-out more than fear.

[Countrygirl_sass]

I have always liked scary movies, but find it hard to watch those considered scary today. Grossoutgore doesn't scare me. It just grosses me out. I had a problem with Evil Dead when I was younger and I haven't had a chance to see it since. I would probably laugh I guess. I like scary movies that really could happen to me. Those are the movies that get me excited.

I had a friend who freaked out every time we went to the beach, she had obviously watched Jaws too many times.

[dsurrett]

The original Halloween is one of my favorite horror movies. It really didn't show a lot of violence but the music and settings made it scary. Too many movies resort to lots of blood when they have weak and overdone storylines.
The original Phantasm is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, and I saw it close to 30 years ago.
Horror sequels make money but usually don't live up to first episodes.

[Bryan James]

I have always liked scary movies, but find it hard to watch those considered scary today. Grossoutgore doesn't scare me. It just grosses me out. I had a problem with Evil Dead when I was younger and I haven't had a chance to see it since. I would probably laugh I guess.


DO watch the three Evil Dead movies again! All in a row if you can find the time. You will laugh, and you won't creep out.

Some parts are so bad that they're great! I think that was part of Raimi's point. (Not literally, there's something strange in my soup...)

BJS

[Katran]

Another was the first "Nightmare on Elm Street" film. Just the fact that you can be attacked while thinking you are safely asleep. I think what made it all the more frightening for me is that I have very vivid nightmares and always have done - the fact that they might be "true" just freaks me out!:wow:

Ditto that! You weren't safe even in your own bed anymore.

[Katran]

I agree with you that most "scary" movies out nowadays really aren't scary. Hacking up teenagers has gotten really old. The more gore the more scare? Not for me. I can see that on the news.

Movies like The Others and The Orphanage scared me because it was pretty much all psychological. If it can get into my head, then the movie has done it's job.

Rose Red scared the poachies out of me even before they got into the house. It was just all the build-up and suspense, the creepy shriveled dead people, etc. Move over Jason, April is here, lol.


And you probably would laugh at the Evil Dead movies, as they're supposed to be funny. Army of Darkness is my favorite of the three. Bruce Campbell and his BOOM STICK rock! :biggrin2:

[MartinEden]

I remember seeing THE DESCENT in the theater. The suspense in that film really had me on edge. If you haven't seen it,...RENT IT (and don't use the director's previous films as any indication of this film!).

[JRLauer]

My favorite horror movie is probably Alien. But the scariest scene for me was when the head popped out of the boat in Jaws.

[E Blitz]

Hands down my favorite horror film is Poltergeist. Even 25+ years since I first saw it in the theater, it never fails to give me the creeps. From the darn tree outside the kids window, to the clown and the mom's fall into the unfinished pool, it is a masterpiece of modern horror.

My second favorite is The Omen (the original). Another great film from my childhood that scares me to this day.

[Q'smum]

The only movie that scared me was a thriller and not a horror movie. It was the production of "A Turn of the Screw" with Richard Burton. I was just 6 years old when I saw it (wasn't supposed to be up, but you know...). Scared the bloody crap out of me. As an adult years later, it still scared me, I had to turn the lights on! Reading the book put it all in perspective, as did seeing the remake with Julian Sands about 20 years later. That original movie, the way it was filmed still gives me the creeps.

[karend3]

One of the scariest scenes I ever saw was in The 1980 movie the Changeling with George C. Scott. He is at a mans house and his friend comes to his house to find him and hears him shouting way in the back up in the attic. She climbs all the way up to the room where a little boy who had arthritis and was killed by his father. As she opens the door to the room an old fashioned wheel chair turns around and starts chasing her through the house and down the stairs barely missing her because she falls and it crashes into the front door, just then Scotts character comes home and they get the frig out of there.

[Luis]

LostGraveRobber:
I have too agree with you I saw the movie I was around 9 or 10 with my dad the darn clown under the bed scare the bejesus out of me.
Fright Night was one vampire movie that scare me and my syster so much that we when together to sleep that nigh :laugh:

[liseylandon]

Not really a horror but loved the ending of Se7en with Brad Pit and Morgan Freeman. When they open the box and her head is inside

I dont really get scared of Horrors but still remember seeing Friday the 13th at the Drivein when I was about 13 and thought it was pretty lame until the end when the hand comes out of the lake

OMG...that is where I saw Friday the 13th and I was about the same age...maybe a little younger. I dont know WHAT my aunt was thinking taking me there! LOL But it has lead to a long life of loving scary movies and books!

[IUSMPhD]

Way too many choices as I looooove horror movies! Jaws, if you consider it a horror movie, is unsurpassed. I also love Rosemary's Baby. As far as having me on the edge of my seat and jumping through the ceiling at the "gotcha" moments, the award would have to go to the first House movie. There were so many surprises and suspenseful moments in that one. For the more recently made horror movies, I'd go with either The Ring or Saw I as my favorite.

I'd have to think on what would be the most disturbing scene for me. The epic twist at the end of Skeleton Key was pretty disturbing when you realize what happened. I've also been pretty messed up psychologically by the steamroller scene in SK's own Maximum Overdrive for the sound effects alone, even though I wasn't a fan of the movie as a whole. The ending of The Mist adaptation disturbed me as well. I'd say anything that involves a kid getting killed in a somewhat realistic manner (I.E. not having bugs and snakes come out of their Halloween Mask during a TV commercial) disturbs me since I have a 1 and 3 year old.

[mikeyb462]

When I was a kid Poltergeist scared the holy hell out of me. The scene with the clown, when the clown attacked the kid......yeah, I was all done. The real kicker was......my mother collected clowns!!!! I STILL hate clowns!!!

[CaliRose]

Scariest movie scene I ever saw is the dream sequence near the end of "Carrie" where the hand comes out of the ground. That scene scared
the heck outta me.
I don't have one favorite horror movie. It, Christine, and Firestarter. I like the old Hammer Studio movies, Dracula (Universal, 1931), anything with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, or Boris Karloff.

[KeyboardSamurai]

One of my favorite horror movies is Nightmare On Elm Street. It's the first movie I've seen that was both gory and terrifying. My favorite scene in that movie is when Nancy goes into that clinic and grabs Freddy's hat out of her dream. It wasn't scary, it just really sucked you in.
The things that tend to scare me most in horror movies are mental asylums. I don't know why, they just give me a bad feeling.

[JustAfterReading]

Favourite? Kubrick's "The shining"

Scariest scene for me was probably the infamous TV scene near the end of the first "The Ring" movie.

[KeyboardSamurai]

Scariest scene for me was probably the infamous TV scene near the end of the first "The Ring" movie.

I love that scene. Unfortunately, I was told about it before viewing it, so I knew it was coming.

[blunthead]

My favorite horror movie may be Dead of Night, the scariest scene being the end sequence. If you haven't seen this flick, rent it.

[Mr. Jingles]

Not too many movies actually scare me, but I will admit (sheepishly) a few particular scenes in the (and don't laugh!!!) Blair Witch Project gave me chills. One is when they hear the guy screaming from afar, and they are calling him and calling him, he keeps answering, and you know he's in so much pain.....then the last scene when the dude is in the corner and the camera goes to the ground....creeped me right out. Being an outdoor person and loving camping, the whole concept of being lost in the woods was enough to terrify me.

[Insomniak]

The Shining -bathroom scene

[LongTallSally]

I don't know if I have a favourite horror movie, but the scariest scene I saw was in Candyman where the bees come out of the guys mouth. *shudder*

[gem collins]

What's your favorite horror movie and what's the scariest movie scene you ever saw?

I just watched "the Others" last night and it creeped me out all the way. The buildup and the part with the photo album were strangely what made it so terrifying for me.
As for one of the creepiest scenes of the movies I've seen, I was ill-prepared for the suicide scene in "Master and Commander".

The scariest film i ever saw is called "The Woman in Black", based on a novel by Susan Hill. Is classic gothic horror with all the ingredients needed - haunted house, ghostly lady, misty causeway, tragedy... an actress called Billie Whitelaw plays the part of the ghost, very scary. If you like suspense and the creep factor you'll like this.

[constantreader85]

I don't really get scared watching horror movies. but back in 1980's i wattched david soul in Salemn's lot the original and it scared the bejaysus out of me. hey i was 12 and i was on my own and there were no ligths on

[yog-sothoth]

Favorite Horror movie? Hmmmm

Can I have more than one?
The Shining (HEEEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!)
All Puppet Masters
All Hellraisers
And
Killer Klownz from Outer Space (tee hee)

[moonhoney2]

Scariest movie scene was "The Crate" in ...man, I forgot the name of the movie, but it was an SK movie I believe.

I saw that when I was 10 or 11 at the theater. At the time, my parents were storing boxes on the shelf in my closet. For weeks after, I had to sleep with the closet light on. LOL

I STILL can't watch that part of the movie. Or the last story with the roaches. *shudder* That whole movie is creepy beyond belief.

[karend3]

For some reason the Ring bored me, so did the Grudge. Poltergeist really scared me because there was a tree right outside my window and one year it got so windy the tree started banging on the roof, I was freaking out. It scared me, I found myself riding my bike on the bike path one day in Santa Monica, I wondered under the pier and you never saw anyone peddle faster.

[kennedy]

now dont laugh but mine is the scene from saloms lot where the young boy /vampire is floating outside his brothers room and scratching on the window . i know its a bit lame but i was only a kid and it scared the bloody life out of me !:down:

[constantreader1313]

I absolutely do not like the shaky movement of 'things' like in 'The Grudge' or 'The Ring', it just gives me the creeps. But the one scene in 'The Others' where the kids are in bed and the window keeps opening and the footsteps of someone else comes in the background. (did that make sense?) Ugh, very creepy.

[Space Hitler]

My favorites are either Night of the Living Dead (when Ben survives the night only to get shot...wow), the Birds (the scene with Mitchs' mother visiting the farm) or Showgirls (pretty much the whole thing).

[Travisisdead]

There's one movie that gave me the creeps and actually had me worried about my open closet door, and that movie is Gothika. I watched it probably 4 or 5 years ago, at home, on DVD. I have a small problem with scary men, so this movie really got me worried.
Zelda in Pet Sematary gave me the creeps.
There doesn't seem to be any truly scary movies. I want something to scare the socks off me!!

[Leighjavu]

Wolf Creek, bases in Australia. Very Sick!

[Jake Featherston]

I saw the original "Evil Dead" when I was in the theater at age 12 or 13, that scared me quite a bit (although not as much as I was scared by the original "Alien" at age 8, and at a sold-out theater where I was forced to sit by myself). But of the two, "Evil Dead" is scarier today.

[Matthew.Degnan]

my favourite horror film is probably Dawn of the Dead, its not scary, i just think its a brilliant film.

Scariest scene is the one out of The Ring, where the girl comes up out of the well and approaches the screen super fast. Thats wierd cos its really timelapsed and got that creepy music.

[constantreader85]

I figured halfway through the others they were what they were so i wasnt creeped. my favourte horror movie would be a mini-series V does anyone remember that. (showing my age) or the nightmare on elm street series. But the scariest scene i ever seen in a movie wasn't a horror it was the russian roulette scene in the deerhunter. If i am feeling brave i look at it. The tension and trauma is that scene is unreal. you are expecting them both to blow their brains out

[M-O-O-N SPELLS MY NAME]

Not that scary, but the scene in "Saw 2" when the guy picks up the girl and throws her in the pit of needles, and they show her with them sticking out all over....OMG!!! *more than shudders*

[Ma Kin]

What on earth were you doing watching the Exorcist at age 11? Where were your parents? It scared the poo out of me when I watched it when it first came out when I was 19.

I snuck the book The Exorcist home from the library when I was ten because my parents wouldnt let me see it. Scared the bejeebers out of me. It was great! Watched the movie a few years later and freaked out because of the voices. That is the scary part still. Those horrible voices.

[Nabila]

A lot of horror movies scare me. I watch a lot of horror films from Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia also. They have their own kind of scare factor which is mostly based on folklore. And they're scary!! Then there are those that just depend on scary make-up, costumes and scenery which would be scary while watching but it doesn't haunt you. Out of sight, out of mind.

So I think Sk's IT is the scariest horror movie, so far, for me. For a non-horror movie, Fatal Attraction scared me the most. The character of Glenn Close was truly scary!! I mean, imagine if a woman or even a man like that were after your spouse.:eek2:

[DaveN]

i couldnt pick just one horror movie,

alien-just an unreal amazingly scary movie

jaws-probably my favorite movie of all time. such good tension!

A Nightmare On Elm St.- i know this series is pretty cheesy, but the thought of a burnt child killer than can kill you in your dreams scared the crap out of me!

Silence of the lambs-not an out and out 'horror' movie but it does have one of my favorite scary scenes of all time-when clarece is in the house with Jame Gumm and he shuts the light off and and you see through his night vision goggles! Gets me every time!

More Recently [REC] had alot of great scary moments, the whole last 5 minutes of that movie i couldnt move!

[jacobtlong]

The original Halloween scared me when I was ten or so. It scared me BAD. I wouldn't sleep at night and I kept thinking that Michael Myers was standing in my closet (my closet didn't have a door and any sign of a white shirt made me think of Michael's mask and I'd have to work up my courage to turn a light on to prove to myself that Michael wasn't in my closet). I got over my fear after I watched Halloween again and again until it wasn't scary.

The scene that scared me and freaked me out the most was definitely the closet scene when Michael was trying to break into the closet where Laurie was hiding. Scared the HELL out of me.

My second favorite horror movie is Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween. It was a welcome break from all of those horrible sequels IMO.

[jacobtlong]

The original Halloween scared me when I was ten or so. It scared me BAD. I wouldn't sleep at night and I kept thinking that Michael Myers was standing in my closet (my closet didn't have a door and any sign of a white shirt made me think of Michael's mask and I'd have to work up my courage to turn a light on to prove to myself that Michael wasn't in my closet). I got over my fear after I watched Halloween again and again until it wasn't scary.

The scene that scared me and freaked me out the most was definitely the closet scene when Michael was trying to break into the closet where Laurie was hiding. Scared the HELL out of me.

My second favorite horror movie is Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween. It was a welcome break from all of those horrible sequels IMO.

[DaveN]

the first sequel wasnt so bad.

IMHO the remake was rubbish! The most frightening part of the original was there was no rhyme nor reason to Meyers' evil..He just was. Plain and simple. And Zombie had to make a sob story out of him, he was picked on and bullied at school,had a disabled drunk dad,slutty mean sister,stripper mom. It took away from everything that made the first Halloween and Meyers so scary!

[Natjen26]

My favourite horror flick would be The Hills Have Eyes (the remake of a couple of years ago)

And the scariest scene I remember, which made the most impact at the age I was then, was from Pet Semetary, aprox the last 15 minutes.. Cage cutting the old man's tendons and the house set on fire at the end. Not so scary now, but it made quite an impact then. :)

[Neil W]

The original Halloween was a good "watch once" horror movie, where the relentlessness of this impassive killer almost became a character on its own, similar to Schwarzenegger in the first Terminator movie.

On second and subsequent viewings I found I started going "Hang on - that would have killed him. There's no way he should be getting up and having another go after that." The only way his survival works on anything other than a first viewing is if there is a supernatural explanation, and no explanataion is ever offered. Fine for "watch once," not so good for repeated viewings.

[doowopgirl]

Scariest movie I ever saw. Hmmmm, a couple come to mind, but none of them are new. the original Haunting of Hill House with Claire Bloom. Black and white, creepy statues that move when you look away, the 1933 version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi never been equalled for atmosphere and the original Night of the Living Dead. Maybe I'm getting old

[AtomicAgeEthan]

Jaws. Hands down one of the best movies I have ever seen. I saw it as a kid and it captivated me. The scenes on the Orca with Brody, Quint and Hooper are some of the best ever filmed IMHO.

However, Some of the scariest movie scenes for me involve; the Excorcist, The Shining (Kubricks version where Jack is bellowing as he's asleep and the music is creepy freaks me out everytime), Paranormal activity was scary as heck especially with all the screaming at the end and even though it isnt as scary as those mentioned before; the Deadites in Evil Dead are so gleefully and happily evil and the way the makeup was done makes for some very scary antagonists indeed.

[BRB]

Halloween, the original by far!!! It keeps you guessing and surprises you at every turn!!

[wally wonder]

can't say it's my favorite, but i remember the movie, dark shadows, i believe it was called, saw it at the lode in hoton. line all the way down shelden. scene toward the end, barnabas, as i recall, wearing this blue shirt, pool, blue water of the pool, and barnabas meets his end. blood. lots of blood. pool water. blood. lots of red cloudy blood in the blue water.

there was a television show, dark shadows, a werewolf, and that new thing sk might or might not be working on is all right by me. nightmares about werewolves, running in pacs of three, blame goldilocks, i figure, her and her boodwa. oops, did i swear? karly had to go sand in the corner when he was reading the story. teach thought he was swearing. didn't know ow to pronounce poorridge but he knew what it was. oatmeal.

in the remake, i expect blood, blue water, and oatmeal.

[seanryan]

Jaws for me. Scared the crap out of me as a child and stuck with me as a perfectly paced story.

Great acting, great direction, great script. Please, please don't remake this one.

[peaceluvnsploosh]

I wouldnt say it is my favorite movie- but its on the top of my list the remake of the hills have eyes was great in my opinion----- the scariest part for me was when pluto and ohhh whats his name with the messed up lip( oh brain fart) attck the trailor when everyone is sleeping adn the dad starts buringong on the tree... i juist thought it was scary becasue [SPOILER]the mutants take the baby and it scared the "poop" out opf me cuz i didnt want anything to happen to the little baby:([SPOILER]

[seanryan]

I actually felt the strange need to blog about Jaws after commenting here.

Have a read if you like: http://jawsseansshack.blogspot.com/2009/12/movie-that-changed-my-life-one-word.html

[Ranger_Strider]

Ok, I've fooled around alot, but take my word on this:
It was the Exorcist scenes with the possessed Reagan.
I was about 10 when my parents and I saw it at the Duke City Drive-In theater in Albuquerque.
We were in a 1970 Ford Thunderbird (which was puke-green) and I was in the back seat sitting in the middle. When the full-on stuff started I started looking at the floorpans left and right waiting for the Devil to come from beneath and get me.
But that wasn't the worst, I kept my cool so as not to embarrass myself to my Dad, who always hated me whether or not I did good or bad. I kept silent.
No, a week later (my brother and I shared a room, he kept the AM radio playing at night while we slept) I awoke at 12:00 midnight to the theme of the Exorcist playing. It was called Tubular Bells if I remember right. Alone, at night, hearing that creepy crappy stuff I was almost the first 10-year old in the history of mankind to suffer a stress-induced heart-attack while that song played. The worst part of it was that in spite of my mind-numbing fear that the Devil had awoken me just as that song stared in order to inform me that his demon patrol was coming for me, I knew I had no one to call out to for complaint because I was always reviled and hated by my family for being handicapped.
Now that, all together, is some serioulsly scary stuff. I sucked it up and by the end of the song I had determined thet nothing in life would ever make me that scared again. Even the modern religion-fascist-dollar based politics and war dosn't scare me because I knew then what I know now: We are all adrift in a sea of hatred and evil. The Devil is the master, and we are all his puppets. We will all die and it will be scary and hurt, no worries, at least I know what to look forward to. God can't help you because the Devil is what prevails.
It's playing out all around.
You just haven't accepted the scary truth the way I have.
Somebody top that, if you think you can.

[jamescolton]

scariest scene EVER to me is the scene in child's play where the mother comes home after her son told her that his good-guy doll killed everyone, she's distressed because he's been put in a mental health center, she picks up the box that the good guy doll came in, she turns it over and the batteries fall out and we realize that the doll has been running without batteries the whole time.

another horrific scene is the part in the strangers where if you look closely the guy in the mask is standing in the dark doorway staring at liv tyler.

my favorite horror movie probably has to be return of the living dead, although its really kind of a comedy.

[MadamMack]

It was the Exorcist scenes with the possessed Reagan.
I was about 10 when my parents and I saw it at the Duke City Drive-In theater in Albuquerque.
We were in a 1970 Ford Thunderbird (which was puke-green) and I was in the back seat sitting in the middle. When the full-on stuff started I started looking at the floorpans left and right waiting for the Devil to come from beneath and get me.
But that wasn't the worst, I kept my cool so as not to embarrass myself to my Dad, who always hated me whether or not I did good or bad. I kept silent.

Now, a week later (my brother and I shared a room, he kept the AM radio playing at night while we slept) I awoke at 12:00 midnight to the theme of the Exorcist playing. It was called Tubular Bells if I remember right. Alone, at night, hearing that creepy crappy stuff I was almost the first 10-year old in the history of mankind to suffer a stress-induced heart-attack while that song played. The worst part of it was that in spite of my mind-numbing fear that the Devil had awoken me just as that song stared in order to inform me that his demon patrol was coming for me, I knew I had no one to call out to for complaint because I was always reviled and hated by my family for being handicapped.

Now that, all together, is some serioulsly scary stuff. I sucked it up and by the end of the song I had determined thet nothing in life would ever make me that scared again.

That is spot on for me as well Ranger . . .the movie had the same effect on me and to this day it still scares me . . .it lingers in my mind for days after watching it.

Not much scares me now . . .which kind of scares me more!

I always hope for the best but I stay prepared for the worse, I keep a plan A, B, and C readily available. Over the years I've taught myself to hide this from others, but not much surprises me. And the little daily hassles don't bother me at all . . .I just roll with it because I found that getting upset about it only makes things harder.

In what way are you handicapped Ranger? If you tell me to smuck off I'll do that but I'd like to know . . .if you prefer you may tell me in a PM.

[dejolane]

I love Jason,Freddie,Michael Meyers and Hannibal. But I love to watch horror movie really horror like Saw 1-6

[bhill]

Silence Of The Lambs..........Utterly disturbing!!!!!

[DancingCorpse]

My favourite horror movie, and probably my favourite actual film, is The Shining, i think i rambled on about it in that section, it's a work of art.

But, the most frightening film i have ever seen, by far, is The Exorcist.

I saw it when i was around 15 and couldn't stop laughing. I saw it at 21 and found it the most disturbing and psychologically distressing thing i have ever witnessed and it haunts me constantly. It is so awful seeing that poor girl going through such evil torments by this vicious force.

The worst aspect is that this is a child who is herself, scared out of her wits and in undeniable pain. She isn't a monster, but a victim, and her family have no control or idea of the power they are dealing with.

It's terrifying. I admit, i have an active imagination and do get freaked out by shadows and the like, but this film goes far far beyond any of that.

[davemelnick]

My favorite horror movie is John Carpenter's: The Thing. Given, the 1st 2 Freddie Krueger movies are great also. :eek2:

[peaceluvnsploosh]

TOTALLY agree i absolutely love seven and i was in shock more then scared at the end but it thought it was GREAT!
i ended up doing a whole latin project on dante's inferno after watching that .

[DancingCorpse]

Seven has a particularly macabre and very well done ending, i agree.

[Kahllie]

I guess horror is whatever horrifies you...not all people react to the same triggers.
(I read here to get ideas of movies to check out)

I don't know that it would be considered a Horror film, but The Abyss scared me..had me edgy the entire time. I hate water that is above my head in depth, so Water scares me...even water in MMORPG's if it looks real and you have to swim for something on the bottom for a quest. I can pace the bank for 30 minutes trying to get myself to go into the Pretend Water. Yeah..found out when I was little you can't breathe down there...that did it. So, The Abyss had me on edge throughout, but when Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio had to voluntarily drown herself, that just horrified me.
I guess the most frightening event, however, was when I was at a theater for Poltergeist. The lights went down and it was pitch black. There was no sound for what seemed to be an extended amount of time until you heard the unmistakable sounds of something moving. And then it was snuffling and Crunching something. My insides were freaking out while I tried to place the sounds, but was too scared to be able to. Then, the projectionist finally realised that he had not turned on the FILM! A dog was snarfing up chips and sandwiches the family had left lying around.
Bet the next time the guy took a break, it was on another job.

[ashiepoo84]

THe Others definitly messes with your head, it scared me so much the first time i saw it, i was only like 13 but still.

I would have to say The Butterfly Effect, which i still havent seen all the way through since it scares me so much, or Hostel, which gets me with all the gore. I'd say Hostel is the reason why i dont travel out of the country, lol.

[pike747]

The scene in The Brood when the camera shows a little demon child looking through the slats on the stairway, looks away and back again and there are only small bloody hand prints on the slats. That movie really creeped me out!

[Trueivy]

I'd have to say that The original Night of the living dead is my favorite horror movie.

But the creepiest thing I ever saw was High Tension. I don't usually get scared by horror movies, but this movie lept me up for two days.

[Ranger_Strider]

John Carpenter's "The Thing" is noteworthy I think, because of the setting. I can't imagine a worse place to stumble upon an all-consuming alien life-form than Antarctica in the onset of winter. Beautiful use of the setting literary device.

[Jbkoskinen]

I purchased a real b-movie vhs some ten years ago, and I can't remember the name of it! But the guy looked like a bad remake of buffalo bill from "Silence of the Lambs." What still comes to mind is a particular scene when the woman is trying to get away from this guy. She gets to her apartment building, but the elevator is out of order, so she's left running up the spiral staircase (yeah, the building is that old).

She gets to her apartment (with her groceries in hand, no less - lol), and she finally gets the key into the door as she hears the elevator coming up to her floor.
Her apartment door opens, and she rushes into the darkened room, with bags in hand (probably had ice cream in the bag. i would have held on to it, too). She then realizes that she left her key in the door!

So, after a few moments of listening, she decides to try for the keys. She opens the door (which is cool, because all you get is this thin ray of light moving over her face), and she slowly reaches her hand through the ever so slightly opened door...

The hand of the guy grabs her hand and immediately injects her in the wrist with a syringe!!! It was awesome! Needless to say, she didn't get to eat her ice cream, right?

Still sticks in my mind, even after all these years...

Johanna

[JohnnyHack]

My fav. horror movie is The Thing. I can watch that movie a million times, and still jump from the cheezy graphics. The part with the crawling head always gets me. The scariest scene I've ever seen was from the black and white movie The Birds. The part where the bird starts to pick out the dead guys eyes. I saw that when I was younger, and since then, I still cant finish the movie.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

I saw the remake of 'The Omen' over the holidays.

What a waste of time and effort!

Long days and pleasant nights

[Christiane17]

I have a few of those I really liked, like The Birds a great Hitchcock movie, based of Daphne DuMaurier's novel. That was really creepy and scaring, but I must say that the scariest thing I have ever watched was The Exorcist. Jaws gave me some good adrenaline moments, but I should say that The Car was kind of stressing.:oo:

[JohnnyHack]

I have a few of those I really liked, like The Birds a great Hitchcock movie, based of Daphne DuMaurier's novel. That was really creepy and scaring, but I must say that the scariest thing I have ever watched was The Exorcist. Jaws gave me some good adrenaline moments, but I should say that The Car was kind of stressing.:oo:

The Car? Would that be any car inparticular, or just cars in general? I've never heard of that movie, I'll have to look it up.

[Sigmund]

The scariest movie I have seen is "The Strangers". Messed up my head totally. I have seen virtually every horror movie and this is the only movie that actually gave me nightmares-for days. Besides the gun I keep by my bedside I "planted" other guns/weapons throughout the entire house so if these or others like them ever got here I would be ready. I can't wait to see The Crazies!

[Jbkoskinen]

John Carpenter's "The Thing" is noteworthy I think, because of the setting. I can't imagine a worse place to stumble upon an all-consuming alien life-form than Antarctica in the onset of winter. Beautiful use of the setting literary device.

You should visit my house during Thanksgiving when my mother-in-law comes to visit.

It's pretty close.

[~Ally~]

I really don't get scared by movies.
The best I have seen would be Poltergeist because it DID scare me when I was four.
The scene where Marty was washing his face and it started to peel off scared me for years. :eek2:

[REDRUM]

Don't have a scariest movie moment but two movies have had scenes that have had a profound effect on me. The first is Begotten, which had several scenes. The next is I Spit on Your Grave, the rape scene was brutal.

[Christiane17]

The Car? Would that be any car inparticular, or just cars in general? I've never heard of that movie, I'll have to look it up.

Sorry for the late reply. The Car was made in the seventies and it's starring James Brolin and Kathleen Loyd. Many fine actors in that movie. Here is the link to the synopsis.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075809/ I hope the link works for you. It's pretty scary and it has something to do with the devil. Actors are incredible and the scenario is well written. :smile2: The car is no particular brand. It's just weird. :oo:

[TriggerHappy]

Oh my God, I'm starting to think I must be disturbed:eek2:
I've seen all the movies mentioned in this thread, and most of them were not scary enough for me. I still liked them, though.
So I'll have to say my favorites are The Blair Witch Project, The Shining, The Exorcist, 28 Days Later, and a couple hundred more.
But the scariest would have to be The Last Broadcast (all of it), and The Poughkeepsie Tapes (especially the last chapter). Both indie flicks, both mockumentaries, do watch them if you like [REC], Paranormal Activity and suchlike.

[frisbee]

I'm with TriggerHappy - I've seen them all too. I'm at a loss for defining "scariest". Since I've seen so many there are very few that scare me now. The Exorcist came out when I was in 8th grade and I got very scared just by the radio commercials. Hearing the evil raspy voice of Mercedes McCambridge over the radio gave me nightmares before I even saw the movie. And the music was very creepy. Now, when I see the movie, I wonder "why did that scare me so much?" but at the time seeing the girl possessed for the first time scared me more than any other movie. Also, I just watched Paranormal Activity. While the movie itself didnt leave me feeling all that scared I definitely got a fright at the very end (won't give it away here).

[Snaggletooth]

The Brain That Wouldn't Die scared me silly when I was around 8 y.o. It's a 'B' movie, but a good one. Made in 1962. The Haunting (original version) also scared me pretty badly as a kid; I literally could not sleep that night, after seeing it. Boy, was my Mom pissed. I guess that's why I loved horror films so much as a kid, because my parents disapproved of them (!)

[Alan Pangborn]

I'm not one for picking all-time favorites, but in recent years I loved The Descent, Rec and Quarantine, Wolf Creek, Paranormal Activity, and both 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later.

The clown scene in Poltergeist always scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

[catnoel]

The Shining. The scariest part, the very beginning.... there are no violent scenes, however, that music creeps me the hell out!!

[fushingfeef]

Movies high on the creep factor:
The Others
The Orphanage
Don't Look Now
Jacob's Ladder
Suspiria
The Changeling (1980)
Inland Empire
The Descent
Paperhouse (region 2 DVD)
The Vanishing (Dutch version, 1988)
The Innocents
The Shining
The Exorcist
Scream of Fear
Paranoiac
The Girl Next Door (2007)
Session 9

[Nisi]

:eek2: there are too many horror movies I love, but I think my favorites are:

House of 1000 corpses
Starshiptroopers
Nightmare on Elmstreet
The Exorcist

and the scariest scenes are from The Exorcist, I just don't know which I can tell, there are too many scenes that are scary or disgusting. And there are also really heavy scenes in "Antichrist". I can tell you... some scenes will make you cry if you are a male... And I thaught I have to :barf:. In the first, I think half hour you think that there is nothing happen and that there can't come more. But then you... I can't explain that :dunno:

[guardianofthebeam]

The Exorcist is my favourite horror film to date. I get full on goosebumps just thinking about that scene in Regan's bedroom where she levitates and the priests reiterate "the power of christ compels you" so many times I stop breathing and almost die! Scariest ever moment for me is in The Haunting (the original version with Claire Bloom and co.) when the knocking begins. The camera angles hurt and the sound is painful. Love it.

[Vado Tempestas]

"Jaws" is still the greatest horror movie ever, even though it's not categorized as horror. Mainly action, I guess, but c'mon. It had the perfect, cannot be duplicated Suspense Factor. Not so much when the scary monster jumps out at you, but waiting for the scary monster to jump out of you. Now that's scary.

[aahlyia72]

The Exorcist is still my number one scariest movie. I don't find gore scary and i find most movies too predictable. If they had made the Exorcist today, they would have ruined it with too many special effects. i think the story, as it was made back then, is the focal point through out the movie. And honestly, I haven't seen anything creepier, uglier than the Reagan's face when she was at her worst. I still have a hard time looking at it.

[Ranger_Strider]

The Exorcist seems to be a clear winner in this cate-GORY!

[GNTLGNT]

The original "Nightmare on Elm Street" series...and in the same "vein" if you will-The Dream Child from that series got me...

[elrod]

the shining, exorcist, 28 days later, 30 days of night, alien, - i think what they have in common is great direction?

[Billiards Girl]

Movies high on the creep factor:
The Others
The Orphanage
Don't Look Now
Jacob's Ladder
Suspiria
The Changeling (1980)
Inland Empire
The Descent
Paperhouse (region 2 DVD)
The Vanishing (Dutch version, 1988)
The Innocents
The Shining
The Exorcist
Scream of Fear
Paranoiac
The Girl Next Door (2007)
Session 9

Wow, I can't believe somebody else has seen Paperhouse! I watched this for the first time when I was about 9, and searched high and low for a copy of mine very own and finally got it on Ebay for twenty bucks.

I just watched Session 9 a few weeks ago. Brilliantly done, and one of the most underrated horror movies released in the last few years. You fushingfeef had a fantastic list.!

[JellybeanJay]

I would have to say my favorite horror movie is the remake of The Hitcher or the new Halloween by Rob Zombie (Mike Meyers as a child).

One movie that is really high on the creep factor is The Entity with Barbara Hershey. The part where the ghosts are biting her creeped me right out!

[kkmjfm]

My favorite horror movie was Nightmare on Elm Street 4...I watched it at the drive in and was so engrossed that I didn't see someone approach my side window. When I did see them, I started screaming and almost had a heart attach. The guy thouight he knew me and apologized, I told him if I would have had a gun in the car that he would be dead. I rolled down my window, put my blanket up, rolled the window back up to hold it and continued watching the movie. No other movie has ever scared me as bad as the scare I got that night.

[JayneH]

Wolf Creek is a fantastic movie ..... John Jarratt should have got an oscar for that performance ... I dont get scared in movies but even when I see him on TV now I still get a bit creeped out by him ... (he once was a presenter on Better Homes and Gardens here .. showing us how to renovate and build stuff)

My other favourite is Se7en ... with Brad Pitt

I also really enjoyed the first Saw - purely because of the twists.

[JellybeanJay]

I don't know about anyone else but I am also extremely creeped out by creatures with unnatural movements. What I mean by that is the ghost chick in The Ring and the chick in The Grudge. The flickering and jerky movements are really really high on the creep factor.

I was 4 month pregnant when I watched The Grudge. Not sure if it was the hormones or not but I sat in the theater and watched the whole movie with my eyes covered. Well not watching wasn't good enough, I could still hear, and I will say I am still freaked out by the noise that the creature made when it was being drowned. My husband thinks it is really funny to call from work in the middle of the night and make that noise on the phone. Really doesn't help that we have an attic access right at the top of our stairs by the bedrooms. :oh: Seriously wrecked me for being home alone during a power outage!

[Gladys]

I can't chose only one film, but The Exorcist is a cult film, the Hostels are very funny, and The Human centipede is horrible. I'm a horror movie fan and please, give me ideas!

[Betty]

Pet Sematary when Rachel comes to the kitchen...

[Ranger_Strider]

Gladys, you wanted new ideas?
as JayneH just said:
'Wolf Creek' is a very good horrific movie,
From the land down-under.
Trust us, if you haven't seen it.
It'll creep you out good and you will remember it.
I couldn't get it out of my mind for about a week.
Nightmares are born out of this sort of thing.
Remember... It's just a movie?

[kimberlysteele]

What's your favorite horror movie and what's the scariest movie scene you ever saw?

I just watched "the Others" last night and it creeped me out all the way. The buildup and the part with the photo album were strangely what made it so terrifying for me.
As for one of the creepiest scenes of the movies I've seen, I was ill-prepared for the suicide scene in "Master and Commander".

So funny, I'm not frightened by books or movies (probably because I'm so sick/depraved to begin with LOL) so the Others didn't scare me, yet I loved the pervasive melancholy of the scene where the Nicole Kidman character met her husband in the deep fog. It was very sad and meaningful. Was the Others a novel?

[kimberlysteele]

My aunt used to babysit us. She let us see any and all horror films. So I watched Poltergeist when I was about six years old. It scared the crap out of me--there is no way you ever want to let a six year old watch that, but in retrospect I'm glad she did! There was also this awful movie called The Boogens (I think it was called that anyway) where nasty amoeba boogery alien things sent tentacles from the basement of a house to slurpily abduct various family members. I was afraid of basements for years . . .

[deroche]

I loved M.Night's "The Village" , that has so far been my favorite horror movie. The monster in it creeped me out! and that the story had a mysterious twist at the end.
The scariest one I think I have ever saw was "The Exorcist". I can't watch one anymore.

[Sprite]

Favourite horror movie.....Poltergeist. Scariest movie.....The Exorcist....I still can't watch that movie!

[Stillreading]

No favorite horror movie, but the scene that to this day I still recall as one of most terrifying I've ever seen came from the movie adaptation of a SK book I've never even read (no connection to the experience) -- Pet Sematary. I was with my cousin in our basement back in 1980-something and the scene where the girl's back is riddled with tumours, I think (I honestly have never watched it since), came on and 1) I almost vomited; 2) I began to swoon; and 3) my cousins shrill ear-piercing caterwaul sent the both of us running up the stares like we were on fire. We couldn't even go back down stairs to turn the VCR off we were so terrified. I'd call that traumatic.

[HorrorMama]

2001 Maniacs was pretty scary. Not for the acting or the way it ended. But the way they killed people... limbs being pulled off and such. It was just a messed up way of doing it. Movies as a whole that scare me.. any movie that can actually happen scares me. Break ins, Stalkers, Nerds on Revenge... etc.

[caracalla]

Most of the greats have already been mentioned, The Innocents, The Changling, The Woman In Black, Don't Look Now & The Others

But one that no one has picked up on is A Warning to the Curious. A short almost one man production made for TV by the BBC with the great Peter Vaughan. Gothic Horror really does it for me.

[Pie oh Pah]

I don't know about anyone else but I am also extremely creeped out by creatures with unnatural movements. What I mean by that is the ghost chick in The Ring and the chick in The Grudge. The flickering and jerky movements are really really high on the creep factor.

I totally agree! And the noise the girl made in The Grudge just made it that much creepier! That was probably the creepiest movie I had seen until I saw Paranormal Activity. Wow, that gave me the chills for a week after! Seriously high on the creepy and chill factor and it's all in your head. It's not often I can find a movie that does that to me anymore.

As far as favorite horror, I can't choose just one, so here are my top 3 in any order you choose. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Hellraiser, or Rob Zombies Halloween.

[jc818]

THE EXORCIST. Anything dealing with the supernatural creeps me out.
The scariest scene in a movie had to be in the original Nightmare on Elm Street when Nancy falls asleep in the middle of class and looks out the door to see her best friend that was just murdered in a bloody body bag waving and calling her name. I was 10 or 11 when I first saw that and I had nightmares for a week.

[HorrorMama]

THE EXORCIST. Anything dealing with the supernatural creeps me out.
The scariest scene in a movie had to be in the original Nightmare on Elm Street when Nancy falls asleep in the middle of class and looks out the door to see her best friend that was just murdered in a bloody body bag waving and calling her name. I was 10 or 11 when I first saw that and I had nightmares for a week.


I know! That was my first horror film. I was under the age of 10 when I saw it. I will never forget that scene and the scene where johnny depp is sucked in the mattress and than shot out and his mom comes in.. good times.. haha

[DogMom]

The Changling, with George C. Scott
Not bloody, not gory, just plain scary. the scene when the ball comes rolling down the stairs and then the wheel chair is just sitting at the top of the stairs and it's pitch black behind it.... ugh... I still get shivers thinking about it.

[TakAhLah]

Hnnn, I'm blowing the board up with posts. Sorry!
But my favorites would have to be The unborn and The last exorcism. Pretty recent ones, I enjoy old horror movies too. The hills have eyes, old and new, will always be on my top ten. ALWAYS. Tak!

[Jakebooo]

Only one movie has given me nightmares for weeks on end, and that movie is Virtual Nightmare. It is a low-budget TV movie, but it freaked me out more than any other movie possibly could. I've been trying to find it again, but I end up asking myself: Is it worth it? Do I really want the nightmares to begin again? *Shivers*

[larasgirl]

Favorite horror film would have to be The Ring. It's so creepy and disturbing. The Descent is another good one. When the camera pans out at the end and she's stuck way down in the caves. OMG

Creepiest moment for me is in The Texas Chainsaw Masacre when they are at the dinner table. They are trying to get the grandpa or whoever to use that axe. Ugh. Thanks for reminding me of that. I refuse to ever watch that movie again. That's one movie I wish I could erase from my memory.

[Evil Queen]

What's your favorite horror movie and what's the scariest movie scene you ever saw?

My favorite horror movie?...hmmm, that's a hard one,...I've seen many that I really like(not too many recent ones though)...Vincent Price movies are so awesome,The first Halloween, The Fog, Amityville Horror(w/James Brolin), ....The first Texas Chainsaw Massacre was pretty creepy & gross:barf:....& the scariest which to this day I won't watch in the night by myself has to be The Exorcist.....:eek2::oo::barf:

[Seb Shaw]

What's your favorite horror movie and what's the scariest movie scene you ever saw?

Favorite horror movie: Misery hands down
Scariest: that's a tough one. I can't name just one.... Pet Sematary... it was just so jumpy. IT... I HATE clowns (I thought watching it would flood the scariness out of my head.... it didn't) :( and the Paranormal Activity films (in parts) because of the really creepy effect and just how they were made. Very jumpy...especially in the cinema or on your own after dark :eek2:

[Rich Bottles Jr.]

I've also got to go with the Exorcist. I remember begging my dad to take my friend and me to see it in the theater (I was 11 or 12 at the time). I still remember my buddy covering his eyes during the exorcism scenes. Maybe it was so scary at the time for me because Linda Blair was about our age. But I watched it again recently and it's still frightening. I think it's because it takes itself so damn seriously (of course the subliminal death masks that keep popping up help too).
By the way, have any of you watched an obscure film by Roman Polanski (starring & directing) called "The Tenant"? Because it definitely has the scariest scene involving a basketball that you'll ever see. I believe that scene seared itself into my memory the moment I saw it.

[Garriga]

Jaws and George Romero's The night of the Living Dead

[chris2-4]

My fav. horror movie to this day is "The Exorcist" ever since I saw it in the movies when I was five. My fav. scene is when her head does a 180 after they were talking about the man who was murdered the same way.

[jeddah]

I got into horror and stuff at an early age - along with some weird stuff going on around my bro and I as kids - so I don't get scared. I do get the sort of cool-chill though. Films that have had that effect on me are Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. I know they both represent Found Footage films but I think what they have in common with SKs methodology (and therefore our phenomenology) is the homely, unassuming, realness. I also include Poltergeist[/] and [i]The Exorcist in there, too.

[steelhorseclub]

My favorite horror movie is a tie between Carpenter's The Thing and Kubric's The Shinning. The scariest, however, is The Exorcist.
Wow, thats a lot of "The s".lol

[Sigmund]

The Strangers scares the bejeebers out of me. Way to real and possible. Scariest scene-

http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Eric_B/alg_strangers.jpg

The Excorcist, The Brood, The Grudge were all way cool.

[doc_hall81]

The Ring, both Paranormal Activities, and the House on Haunted Hill used to freak me out, some great scenes in that movie.

[CaptainBaccarat]

Halloween is my favorite, and the Exorcist the scariest.

[bugaboosy]

favourite would be any of Romero's zombie flicks and scariest would be arachnophobia mostly coz i have it and that movie just bought all the fears real!! still cant watch it or any movie where there are bugs and stuff crawling over or worse in *shudder* ppl

[dspear237]

My favorite horror movie (heck, my all-time favorite movie): Alien. Scariest scene: when Captain Dallas is in the air ducts trying to flush the Alien out and Lambert says "it's coming toward you!" No scary imagery, no blood, no gore...just a little blip on a computer screen creating an amazing amount of tension. James Cameron was wise to replicate this later with the motion trackers in Aliens. ;)

[Haunted]

Every time I go into the narrow downstairs half-bath in the evening--I am reminded of the 'breathing walls' from The Haunting of Hill House.

The Exorcist is especially scary knowing that it was based on a real case in Maryland and it emphasizes the power of both God and Satan.

[motocop]

Every time I go into the narrow downstairs half-bath in the evening--I am reminded of the 'breathing walls' from The Haunting of Hill House.

The Exorcist is especially scary knowing that it was based on a real case in Maryland and it emphasizes the power of both God and Satan.

Didnt you mention you used to live in Va.? Did you ever go to the staircase in Georgetown where he threw himself down to kill the demon? Creepy stuff.

[doc_hall81]

Man, that place is packed every Halloween. Very eerie.

[Daphne Deschain]

This is a hard one!! Silent Hill, The Unborn, The Exorcist, The Exorcism of Emily Rose but to name a few. Recently Paranormal activity 2 scared the hell out of me at the cinema (pretty sure it won't have the same effect watching it on a personal telly). Recently I watched The Last Exorcism which I found really disappointing but the scene where she's crouched on top of the wardrobe stuck with me for ages after....creepy!!!!

[Haunted]

Didnt you mention you used to live in Va.? Did you ever go to the staircase in Georgetown where he threw himself down to kill the demon? Creepy stuff.

Did the GT scene on the weekend sand drove by that staircase once. 'Twas enough, thank you very much.:oo::eek2:

[king family fan]

my favorite is The Green Mile and The scariest maybe It.

[Haunted]

my favorite is The Green Mile and The scariest maybe It.

The scariest part of The Green Mile was that awful, awful jailer who deliberately caused an inmate to suffer during his execution. The scary part being that, those are people who live among us.

[katelynandsamsmom]

Pet Sematary was the scariest for me. The whole movie just creeped me out and I only watched it once. I wont even watch it when they show it on tv and then all the gross stuff is cut out. Its the creepiest movie of all time. And the music adds to that.

[Cannedice]

I think The Descent is my favorite horror movie, too. The sequel, The Descent II, is equally good, which is rare.

The scariest movie scene I ever saw was in The Descent when one of those creatures sneaks up on them and Sarah sees it through the lens of the camera. I've seen that movie at least three times. I always jump at that part.:laugh:

[gloriaT]

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho....to this day, I cannot take a shower with the shower curtain closed all the way.

[muskrat]

Man, I'm not sure why, but ROSEMARY'S BABY always gives me the chuck-horrors...not so much the devilish stuff, that's old hat, but the claustrophobic feeling that EVERYONE is out to get her...how everywhere she turns she finds another fiend secretly plotting against her...it drives me nuts!

[xkittyx]

I agree with those who posted on being totally creeped out by the herky-jerky creepy as heck movements. The Grudge is the movie I'd say that has scared me the absolute most, I still freak out thinking about it, and that was a few years ago. When I'm home alone at night, I'm always glancing up the stairs, afraid that the woman is gonna come crawling down them.... ugh, freaky, freaky, freaky! The Ring scared me too, but not as bad as that lady from the Grudge... And my friends would call me when I was alone at night and make that noise too... punks.
Favorite scary movies though, as far as re-watching, I really like the Dawn of the Dead remake and the Texas Chainsaw remake, and the Wrong Turns, and the Hills Have Eyes, and the Saw movies and the Hostel movies... I'm a sucker for the gore, I guess there's some sick part of me that likes seeing people being tortured and mutilated... :dunno: NOT that I want to see that stuff for real... ew, no freakin' way, sick... but in a movie, hells yea.

[xkittyx]

O yea, and I forgot to add that I love movies (and fiction) set in old mental hospitals... so creepy, and yet I compulsively want to know and learn more about them...

[ChickenStu]

I'd probably have to say An American Werewolf In London. Saw that when I was young. Kinda freaked me out. Also I quite like Evil Dead 2. But in all honesty I'm not a big fan of horror (even though Stephen King is my favourite author, lol).

[fredthe3rd]

Yes Descent was tough going even before the actual horror element commenced! Then the scene at the end of Carrie in the house with the Mother, the night vision scene in Silence of the Lambs... Not a horror but theres a scene in the last or it might be the second last episode in season one of Homeland where I didn't breath for two minutes.

[KiddDizz]

I LOVE that movie! The Others is one of the most understated horror films of the last twenty years. Glad you enjoyed it. Might I also suggest the 1980 film The Changeling with George C. Scott? It is similar in theme and execution and stands as a lifelong favorite.

[KiddDizz]

Favorite horror movie would have to be The Changeling (1980). Some of the best reactions shots in that flick. The scariest scene, however, would have to go to the scene of the sister in Pet Sematary. Chills just thinking about it. I've seen thousands of horror films in my life and that scene was the only one to every give me a nightmare that woke me up.

[blunthead]

My favorite horror movie, Dead of Night (1945)...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mOIy5U8eaE

[Mary19]

The Changeling yes!!! Not many people say this movie but it scared the hell out of me!! I wouldn't take a bath for years after this movie when I was young. All I could hear was the poor little kids hands pounding the side of the tub!

[charmed_one3]

The Exorcist: When Regan's head spins around and her face changes. Creeps me out everytime!! Also when Father Karras walks into Regan's room for the first time. Major chills! Jason Miller was fantastic in this film.

Halloween: When Michael wears the sheet like a ghost. *CREEPED OUT*

The Woman in Black (2012): When Daniel Radcliffe's character summons the woman in black, and she comes floating into the nursery screaming. Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I seen it in the theater.

The Blair Witch Project: The tent shaking scene and they hear the baby cry and children laughing.

An American Werewolf in London: Not really a scary film, in my opinion. A lot of dark humor, found myself laughing more than anything. But I always dread that moment when he's dreaming, then it cuts quickly to him laying in bed with an evil looking face.

[guido tkp]

sleepy hollow had a really nice, spooky vibe....

there is a scene in the john badham directed/ frank langella version of dracula where the vampire girls with their red, red eys come after harker...spooky as all ****e !!

there are two scenes in the exorcist 3 that haunt me to this day...i've mentioned this to others and those that've seen it remember those scenes...one has a person (a nurse, maybe ?) searching the halls of a hospital...the camera stays static as they walk down the hall away from you...checking each room...until

the other, has a character standing in a room, and the pov is low/looking up, when across the ceiling....

not that is a movie..but the scariest thing that ever happened to me was when i was about 8-10...i had just stayed up quite late watching a bunch of horror movies...as i was trying to drift off...two cats began yowling fervently right outside my window...

not having the faintest idea what it was...i thought for sure the devil was coming after me for being a disobedient little cuss !

[james067]

The scary movie i saw is paranormal activity

[johnbateman]

When I was younger the "Evil Dead" really freaked me out as did "Poltergeist". As a jaded adult I don't get scared by much but "Paranormal Activity" watched late at night in the dark freaked me out as did "Insidious" as the cinemas.

[Anni M]

2 scenes that made me scream in a theater were Poltergeist's CLOWN games with Robby (after he looks under his bed) :ghostface: and the finale` of Large Marge's tale in Pee We's Big Adventure.
Biggest gross out was Gage's surgery on Jud's Achilles heel...
:vomit:

[Milica]

The scariest:The rite and Exorcism of Emily Rose(I can not watch all movie because I was so scared).Favorite:Poltergeist,Storm of the century,It,The Tommyknockers

[the_last_gunslinger]

My favorite horror movie is Evil Dead (and it's sequels) but I don't find them scary, exactly, just fun. In terms of pure scariness, however, it's always been Return of the Living Dead. It was done as a horror/comedy, but it featured some of the sickest and most horrifying zombies I've ever seen onscreen. And the scene where the Tarman zombie is stalking that teenage girl in the basement is easily the scariest scene in that film.

[Berry1980]

It's hard for me to pick a favorite horror movie, being the horror buff I am.

Scariest horror film for me has to be the Entity with Barbara Hershey. :eek2:

[Chuggs]

Event Horizon....hands down. That movie disturbed me deeply. Still gives me the creeps just thinking about it.