Are you afraid?

[Stormystarr]

My question is, what is the most scary movie you have ever watched, and why did it scare you so much?
Since I asked, I'll go first...

Scariest movie?
The Exorcist

Why?
I decided to pull the old video out and watch it today, BIG MISTAKE. Now I'm all alone in my house and scared shitless. I have gone through the whole house and turned on every light. I keep looking all around me to see if Regan is watching me from the shadows. Of course she isn't, but her face and voice scare the hell out of me. Tonight I know I'll dream of her, then I'll wake up and see her until I turn on the lights.

So, what scares you?

 

[teresafannin]

I still can't sit through "The Exorcist." The other scary movie for me is "It" by Steven King. Just stay up talking to us & you'll be fine.

 

[Patryn]

"The Omen" for me. I was kinda young when I saw it, and that could be part of it. It's just so creepy, with the jackal being the kid's mother, and the dog and all that. Still creeps me out.

 

[Stormystarr]

OMG, I have it bad. Someone just called me and when she laughed, she sounded just like that little exorcist bitch. Way too freaky for me.

 

[KillerMuffin]

In a word, Amityville, just the name scares the living crap out of me.

I'm sorry, but if the house told me to get out, I'm gone. Way gone, so damned fast I'd hit antartica before the brakes kicked in.

 

[Earthgoddess]

Best advice I have for you is to watch something totally funny so you relax-your mind is a terrible thing when it is hyped on adrenalin and will continue to freak you out-I have been known to sleep with a bible under my pillow and all the lights on-I hate the movie "IT"I saw it years ago and still have nightmares from it*shudders*

 

[Bobtoad777]

its an old B flick 'Saturday the 14th: The only thing worse than friday the 13th' came out long before the friday13th movies

any one here see it?

 

[Svedish_Chef]

My brother had nightmares just from the face of Communion... the book. This lasted over a year... as for me I seem to be pretty much scareproof. I had read 'IT' by the time I was 10 so obviously these things don't phase me quite as much as they possibly could.


Now the board... well that does scare me!


Da chef

 

[SeXy ReDHeD]

"Lost Highway"... gives me the chills just thinking about it

Not too much really scares me... my parents showed us EVERYTHING short of porn when we were very young (3 or 4). They were of the belief that if you teach us that it's not real, that it won't scare us. It worked.

There is, however, one film that scares the shit out of me. It is one done by David Lynch (one of the most awesome directors ever BTW!!!) and it's called "Lost Highway." I never did quite understand the movie (I think that's how it's supposed to be though), but there's one character in it (the very pale guy who has the wierd eyes and smile) that just gives me the creeps. If you've ever seen it, I think you'll agree. He is just... eewwww... non-human. That combined with the sinister quality of the movie, well... it's sickeningly irresistible!

 

[Jester]

The first time that I watched Poltergeist (the original) it scared the living bejesus out of me! I still like that movie! The build-up, the creepiness, the little girl's voice echoing out of the house itself... oh yeah, that's the stuff!

 

[Never]

Never.. is a coward. A coward with an overactive imagination.

I've got out to watch a scary movie, or watched an entire movie at home - I don't think I ever will. I once saw the commercial for "Child's Play" I had nightmares about it for weeks.

We won't ever talk about what happened when, while at a friends house, I saw fifteen minutes of 'Gremlins'.
Trust me.
You don't want to know.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[neo1172]

exorcist ,,,it has to be the 1st that gave me nightmers
omg i still cant watch it

 

[Stormystarr]

Oh please tell us Never, we won't laugh,I promise. I've got all the lights on in my house, and if they didnt laugh about that...


And if you all notice, I never said a word about 'nightmers'

[Edited by stormystarr on 09-25-2000 at 10:08 PM]

 

[Nicole]

Never I'm with you, I CAN NOT and WILL NOT watch scary movies.

We used to watch them as kids and my sister (god bless her) scared the living shit out of me everytime.

You know as a teenager I used to have posters of Freddy Kruger up on my wall, then one night after watching one of them I felt something on my leg, it was since that point that I can no longer watch Scary Movies.

Someone told me not long ago DO NOT watch scream, you'll never answer the phone again, I took their advice.

As for the scariest Movie I ever saw that would be the Exorcist for sure, the whole pea and ham soup thing (you know where she throws up). Must have been pretty bad because didn't Linda Blair go through therapy after that.

 

[Juliangel]

For me it was Night of the Living Dead. I still have trouble going outside at night because of that movie.

There are times I step out on the porch at night and a vision of the scene where the dead people are coming out of the dark woods towards the farm house flashes in my head and I have to go back inside.

 

[Skibum]

The original "Jaws" did it for me. I was sitting between my sister and my cousin, and when the dead guys head appeared in the hole in the bottom of the boat they both left fingernail marks on my arms!

 

[CreamyLady]

For me it was the original version of The Haunting. It scared me to death, and most likely because it wasn't about horror or ghosts.

 

[Cheyenne]

I LOVE scary movies. The Exorcist scared me, I was only 14 I think when it came out and I begged my mom to take me and a few friends to see it. I read the book first and couldn't put the book down at night with the picture on the cover facing up. Had to turn it over or I couldn't go to sleep. I was primed to be scared before we ever got close to the theatre. What really scared me about the movie was that I believed it could be true.

The next one that scared me that badly was the first Halloween. I didn't know what to expect when I went to see that one. Couldn't walk down the street alone at night with fallen leaves crunching under my feet after that movie for a very long time. Even now, I think of it sometimes in the Fall.

 

[Stormystarr]

I read The Exorcist too, I hated the picture on the front. After I read it I couldn't give it away, so I went to the middle of Baltimore city and threw it into the street! That way it wasn't in my house.

 

[Lovely Latina]

What scares me?

My wedding video. *rimshot* LOL

No seriously...

I can't believe that no one has said "The Shining".

Watched it during THE DAYTIME and it scared the crapola outta me. Just the images alone are so incredibly disturbing.

And I'm sure it didn't help that it was snowing that day.

 

[Laurel]

LL - Manu agrees with you on that one (not the wedding video, lol). It IS a freaky movie, but it didn't bother me as much as others.

The movies that have REALLY gotten to me at one point or another are:

Hellraiser II
Trauma (by Dario Argento)
Jaws
Terror at the Opera (another Dario Argento)

Nearly anything by Dario Argento gets to me. For those of you not in the know, he's an Italian director, and the master of horror and suspense. The two above mentioned films are his best IMHO - I highly recommend you search out and see "Trauma". "Terror at the Opera" gave me nightmares, and I sat through "The Exorcist" with no ill effects. Scary shit!

 

[Ambrosious]

Damn. The "Omen" movies. All of 'em.
The only other one I can remember is one entitled The Rapture. (I think that was the title) Anyway, we went to a REAL southern baptist church with friends when I was about 7. The movie was about the second coming of Christ and how sinners would be left on earth with the Prince of Darkness establishing a worldy realm. Scared my little butt for two months. I kept looking at the sky expecting it to rip open any moment.

 

[Expertise]

This is gonna' sound pretty dumb but what the hell.

I don't like watching scary movies.

However, the cut 'n slash, psycho serial killer ones don't bother/scare me (Shining, Halloween etc.) nearly as much as the Satanic, supernatural type ones (Omen, Prince Of Darkness). Prince of Darkness gave me nightmares for weeks.

On some level of my mind, I think I could "take out" or get away from the psycho killer/slasher homicidal maniac types. Whereas i'm thinkin' that, as a mortal, Satan or his minions are going to chew me up and spit me out..... either that or tell me "COME WITH US, YOU'RE GOING TO BE A TOUR GUIDE DOWN THERE"

Give me Chuckie give me The Meyers boy or Johnnie or Charlie Manson..... just keep their boss the hell away from me.

 

[Cheyenne]

I loved the Shining, and yes it was scary. I'm almost afraid to admit loving Stephen King's earlier days on this board- so many high class literature people here. But I'd always read the book, then go see the movie.

I just remembered another section of a movie that scared me, even though the movie was a love story- "Ghost". Anyone remember the black somewhat people like forms that came out of the ground from hell to drag people away? THOSE scared the shit out of me. Probably makes a difference if you believe in hell or not. I don't want those things coming after me some day.

 

[Gaucho]

"The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out..."

Ahhhh. Horror movies! A thread after my own heart.

The first movie I recall seeing as a child that scared the bejeezus out of me was the original version of "The Thing" with James Arness as the giant, vegetable-like thing. And although TV typically does this sort of thing badly, I remember an episode of Cheyenne (Clint Walker, where are you now?) called "Big Ghost Basin", about a mysterious creature that was killing off animals and people in out west. I'll always remember them showing the creature staring out from the cave where it was hiding, showing only its two eyes. When I saw it later as an adult, I realized that they'd used flashlights to get the effect they wanted.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the original "Alien" with the infamous chest-bursting scene. Talk about coming out of your chair....

Frankly, I was disappointed with Stanley Kubrick's take on "The Shining" (as was big Stevie). It was clear that Jack Nicholson had no direction whatever (he ran the gamut of emotions from A to B) and the miscasting of Shelly Duvall as the wife was unbelievable. Finally, though, it was the kid talking to his finger that did me in. Oh, please....

Say, Laurel, did you ever see one of Dario's earlier efforts, "Suspiria"? Nothing like a rain of maggots at the dinner table to put you off your chum, eh?