Scariest movie ever made?!?

[G-man]

  Halloween is coming up faster than Pryor on fire and I wanted some input as to your opinions of the scariest movies know to man.....and a few to mice....
Now I do realize that different people have different phobias....thus are scared of different things....
I, for instance, have a deep rooted fear of sharks.... Don't bother.... I've seen them all...
My personal pick for the scariest movie is School's Out....
It's a German movie based on an urban legend.... No subtitles....It's in English...
The legend is about a man who hacked up some people at a high school with a pair of scissors.... But then I said BASED ON ... I never saw the ending coming...
And, as a direct result of watching this movie, I walked around for 3 days with my fists clenched, jumping at shadows, and triple checking my locks....





"They're coming to get you Barbara!!!"

[Paul Westbrook]

I would honestly say that my picks for the scariest movies ever made, include;          TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THE ORIGINAL HAUNTING, EXORCIST, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES (SCARY HOW MUCH PROFANITY WAS USED EH?), AND MY FRIEND'S WEDDING VIDEO. THAT WAS REALLY FRIGHTENING.

[Scott]

Here are my picks:

Psycho (the best of all time)
Texas Chairnsaw Massacre (original, did I have to say original? ugh.)
Halloween (Micheal Myers)
Jaws (Different type of horror)
Poltergeist (I still think this is a good one)
Evil Dead II (If I had seen it when I was young)
Exorcist (heavy horror)
The Others (this might be a new classic)

[The Burgomaster]

THE EXORCIST is the scariest movie I have ever seen, hands down.

A few others that make my list are:

* THE OMEN
* NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
* INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (I like both the Kevin McCarthy version and the Donald Sutherland version . . . Abel Ferrara's BODY SNATCHERS was decent, but not as good as the other two).

I think that PSYCHO, HALLOWEEN and JAWS were all more suspenseful than they were scary. Thery are also among my favorite movies.

[Scott]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Good one Burgomaster.

[Bernie]

The Way We Were.

Barbra Streisand in love?  Horrors!!

[raj]

Alien.  I was probably about 14 when it came out.  Very tense and intense for me.
Also the ending of Carrie made me jump.

[HK streetfighter Pod]

The Ring1 (japanese version)
The Thing
Child Play (i really hate puppets of anykind after that)
Jack Frost (more funny then anything else, hes a killer snowman for christ sake)
Nightmare (jap movie)
Devils Backbone
Lain (this anime will twist your mind)

[onionhead]

The original THE HAUNTING, with nary a monster onscreen, still scares the bejeezus outta me.
Howard Hawkes' THE THING--I've never been more scared by a walking vegetable.
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

[lester1/2jr]

children of the corn scared the crap out of me

[Sam]

The first Nightmare on Elm Street is the only movie that ever scared me

[Scott]

"Creature from the Black Lagoon" when I was very young.

[G-man]

  Well s**t... If we're doing movies from our childhoods, then JAWS.
I saw that movie in a drive-in. I still to this day can't swim in the ocean... and I live in NJ. Nothing to do in NJ, except go to the shore.
But, you all have to check out School's Out.
I did like some of your picks...
Alien, Child's Play, JAWS, Poltergeist......all good flicks
WTF about The Way We Were...



"It's space herpies!!!"  Ice Pirates

[The Burgomaster]

Actually, a scary movie that was made for television back in the 70s is DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK. Another good TV movie is TRILOGY OF TERROR.