What is the scariest movie you've ever seen?

[Thai Domi]

Angel Heart

Criminally underrated and underappreciated movie.

 

[ChucksGlassJaw]

The original When A Stranger Calls, Jacob's Ladder and Birds fucked with me as a kid.

 

[rocketskates]

Not trying to sound like a tough guy but I generally don't get scared during horror movies. But, when I was a kid I snuck and watched my parents VHS copy of IT one night and regretted it for weeks as I was looking everywhere for that fucking clown.

Kind of stoked to see the remake next month.

 

[Graves The Elder]

well this is really going back but the original theater release of The Exorcist was the end all in scary shit.
I saw it, really high btw, and for a couple of nights my sleep was disturbed.
it's been spoofed so much over the years, it's hard to imagine it actually being scary.

also, The Omen when it first came out was lights out scary.

 

[Daniel Fox]

I would have to go with "Buried" (2010) a scary and very under rated film. It is scary because it is very believable.

 

[dawnignited]

I'd say Halloween but I was also only 8 when I watched it. The Ring and Session 9 fucked with me for awhile, too.

 

[Turismo]

For me it's The funhouse (1981).

I was around 5 or 6 years old and it was the first time I'd been exposed to a horror film. The opening scene got me me good and I always remembered how scared I felt watching it. So then In my late teens I began to search for the film but could never seem to find it. (No title).

That was until a couple years ago when I stumbled upon it by accident. As soon as the film started, the opening scene took me right back to that same feeling I had as a kid.

Otherwise it's a pretty poor film, and not really scary at all.

 

[shockaholic12]

It's no doubt dated now and I doubt I'd find it very scary, but I've never been more terrified than the first time I saw Event Horizon as a little kid. dat footage of the old crew. Prob the main reason I never became an astronaut

When they played the audio recording from hell in that flick ... that shit played in head every time I tried to sleep for weeks.

I would say first encounters and silence of the lambs fucked me up as pre-teen.

 

[SaigeVanZant]

Blair witch. Watched it when I was like 10 and freaked the fuck out

 

[209 Life]

Strangeland by Dee Snider

 

[the ambush]

The Shining
The Exorcist
The Omen

Can't fuck with the classics

Spoiler

I find Evil Dead to be a bit overrated.

 

[BobSappIsMyDad]

I swear by old films, so it took me a while to give this one a chance. I loved it and thought it was scary as hell, but the ending was pretty weak. I was ready for it to end with a bang and scare the shit out of me like the rest of the film, but it felt kind of corny and out of place given what they had spent the rest of the film building up to.

I can't remember much of the ending but when I saw it in theaters I can remember everybody screaming at the last ten seconds lmao.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

It's no doubt dated now and I doubt I'd find it very scary, but I've never been more terrified than the first time I saw Event Horizon as a little kid. dat footage of the old crew. Prob the main reason I never became an astronaut

Still supprising really how good that film was considering what Paul W. S. Anderson's career turned out to be afterwards, slightly cheap with some of its shocks I spose but still generally effective and indeed one of the last holdouts to CGI totally taking over SFX which makes it hold up very well visually for the era.

Does rather highlight as well what I preffer in a horror film which generally isn't "jump scares" or gore but more a general feeling of dread. One very underrated film for me in that regard would be Alan Parkers Angel Heart.

 

[bigraydaddy1]

When I was a kid, the ending of Trilogy of Terror really freaked me out.
One of the scariest "made for tv" movies, ever

 

[bigraydaddy1]

 

[deviake]

Alien, easily.

 

[DarkneT]

Guys, I was slowly preparing my horror joke about a missing scene and stuff.

Now I look like an idiot.

My bad
I had to second guess myself because I watch that much shite I always forget what movie it's from haha

 

[DarkneT]

...whuuuuuu what the fuck is that from

 

[KYS]

Just saw Pet Sematary yesterday. Is that the official title of the movie?

Started old school (it's from '89) but quickly became pure terror.

 

[Simian Raticus]

It's no doubt dated now and I doubt I'd find it very scary, but I've never been more terrified than the first time I saw Event Horizon as a little kid. dat footage of the old crew. Prob the main reason I never became an astronaut

Was gonna post this. That shit had me shook as fuck.

Stuff like Sinister and the first Insidious are the only types of movies that do it for me these days.

Probably the single film that scared the shit out of me the most is a Thai film called Shutter.