What is the scariest movie you've ever seen?

Spoken said:
the exorcist is still a haunting film.
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Thai Domi said:
Criminally underrated and underappreciated movie.
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Someone got there before me, that's IMHO Alan Parkers best film and for me is almost the equivalent to Alien when it comes to supernatural horror films in how well it builds its atmosphere and how good the performances are, you can kind of see at the time why some felt it was almost De Niro passing the torch to Rourke although the latter ultimately didn't run with it.

Honestly this kind of thread always makes me a bit depressed at how crap horror has become as a genre, in the 70's and 80's it was one of the most creative in cinema where as these days its selling the same crappy clichés to a small audience of junkies for that style.
 
Arachnophobia is not a traditional horror movie, and I'm not really scared of spiders. But like a lot of you've mentioned I may've been a bit too young to see such things at the time.
As an adult the movie that stucked with me the most must've been Serbski Film.

Funny mention: I was a alone and did some shrooms when this old Steven Seagal movie aired on TV a long time ago. Can't remember the name, but he was batteling jamaican voodoo thugs, and this main antagonist callled Screwface was not kidding around. I think I just sat there throughout the movie with my jaw down on my chest. Good times
 
It's not a film, but there was an episode of The Outer Limits (I think) where there was a "Boogyman" kidnapping kids. No film freaked me out more than that episode. For films, probably Poltergeist or Night of the Demon. Was about 8 when I watched them, and I don't think I've really found anything scary since them.
 
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

That part when he comes out the giant metal door is burned into my memory forever..out of fear.
 
The Descent freaked me out bad as a teenager.

It's the scary fact that they're trapped inside a cave and they don't know exactly what's hunting them which makes it so scary.

The ending as well was horrible, where she hallucinates that her daughter's there with her.

Then part 2 came out and completely shat on the epic 1st film.

The ending of Insidious really stuck with me
 
As Above So Below was scary as fire to me. Thinking about being lost down in the catacombs under Paris and experiencing all that chit.. @_@ no fukking thanks jeff

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as an adult, it is hard to be truly scared, knowing that it is all just a movie. but as a kid, this old Japanese movie Legend of Dinosaurs scared the shit of me. I was scared of darkness or even dark places, like under my bed, for quite a while.
 
See my av.

It is also my favorite movie of all time. I was 10 years old when I watched it. My mom allowed me to watch any horror movie I wanted except for that one. I wasn't scared of any of of the horror movies prior to that (Friday the 13th, nightmare on Elm street, child's play etc) and I was always chasing the ultimate scare. So one evening my parents left me with my older brother to babysit me while they were on a date and I ran to the video rental store and convinced the owner to let me watch it (she knew I was into horror movies and that I wasn't disturbed by them so she let me watch it). I popped the movie in the VCR and already within the first few minutes I knew it was going to fuck me up even though nothing truly scary happens until a half hour into it. There was something about the lack of musical score and the longer drawn out scenes that made it seem more real. But it was the perversion and the vulgarity of the demon and its psychological attacks that made me too frightened to even go close to the television to turn it off (we had lost our remote control).

I went to church the next morning without any objection.
 
Poltergeist when I was 4 fucking years-old. I couldn't sleep for a week. I kept waiting for my bedroom wall to open up and try to pull me in.

Otherwise I don't find horror movies "scary". I have no suspension of disbelief, so I usually either find them corny (supernatural) or disturbing (torture porn).
 
People Under the Stairs as a kid

S&M leatherbound landlord was just out there, keeping orphan kids in the basement, cutting off tongues and what have you

no thank you
 
correct answer is any number of LiveLeak or bestgore vids

to quote ace ventura 'fiction can be fun, but I find the reference section a lil more enlightening'
 
Scary is subjective. To me The Shining is the "scariest" film ever made. Things like dolls, or ghosts, or bumps in the night aren't very scary as i'd kick them in the face... Jump scares are played out and are comical at some point... the setting, the atmosphere Kurbick created and the idea of slowly dissolving into insanity are more frightening to me...
 
Guess, I'm gonna watch banshee soon.

Just read a little of the plot, sounds great.

Plus katia winter... nice
 
badascan said:
Scary is subjective. To me The Shining is the "scariest" film ever made. Things like dolls, or ghosts, or bumps in the night aren't very scary as i'd kick them in the face... Jump scares are played out and are comical at some point... the setting, the atmosphere Kurbick created and the idea of slowly dissolving into insanity are more frightening to me...
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Polanski used to be great at that. Check this out bro

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I read a story once, can't even find it on google so it could be rubbish, but once back in the 70's Polanski and Kubrick were at some party chatting. Polanski was telling Kubrick how much he loved Barry Lyndon, so Kubrick replied saying how much he loved The Tenant. The result of this was Polanski making Tess as his Barry Lyndon, and Kubrick making The Shining as his The Tenant. The Tenant has a very similar theme of the environment twisting a character into madness

Repulsion is another Polanski film about environment and madness
 
Zer said:
Polanski used to be great at that. Check this out bro

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I read a story once, can't even find it on google so it could be rubbish, but once back in the 70's Polanski and Kubrick were at some party chatting. Polanski was telling Kubrick how much he loved Barry Lyndon, so Kubrick replied saying how much he loved The Tenant. The result of this was Polanski making Tess as his Barry Lyndon, and Kubrick making The Shining as his The Tenant. The Tenant has a very similar theme of the environment twisting a character into madness

Repulsion is another Polanski film about environment and madness
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Nice, haven't seen it. I'll check it out. I also really enjoy Barry Lyndon so I'll watch Tess as well. Thanks.
 
Given I watched it when I was on acid 20 years ago, Jacob's Ladder thoroughly freaked me out like no other movie.

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