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

[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