Movies That Scared You?

theonlydevice007 · February 07, 2011, 05:14:52 AM

It was a old hindi movie of bollywood
Name Virana
It really scared me

Hammock Rider · February 07, 2011, 02:06:53 PM

The latest movie to freak me out a bit was Hard Candy. Man I did NOT see that coming. But the only movie that genuinley gave me nightmares was The Exorcist. At the ripe old age of 8 I was at the theater, bored with the Apple Dumpling Gang or some such, and I wandered into the theater showing The Exorcist. I slept with the lights on for a month. To this day I can't watch any "possession" type movies.

retrorussell · February 09, 2011, 05:18:31 AM

As a youth up till about 15 pretty much any horror flick scared me. One in particular:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eNeCcKt8jw
Once I learned about how special effects were made I suddenly figured out, "Hey, it's just a movie! All that blood is fake!" The scare went away. But I still enjoy those movies.

JaseSF · February 09, 2011, 01:30:15 PM

I know we covered this before in the past but the ones that scared me most were when I was younger.

Salem's Lot and the 70s Dracula had been seriously creeped out by vampires and caused many a nightmare leading to me curling up in bed with the sheets wrapped close to my neck somehow feeling safer once I did that (and of course never ever leaving a window open).

Predator caused me to have a recurring nightmare where I was being hunted night after night by some unseen monster.

Poltergeist: The tree and the clown seriously freaked me out.

Close Encounters: when the little door opens the door, I was terrified what might be behind it.

Star Trek: "The Galileo Seven" The primitive giants in this episode got me to hide my head under the covers and occasionally peep out to see what was going on...

Kaseykockroach · February 16, 2011, 11:42:51 PM

I'll never live this shame down....
Deep Blue Sea scared the jeepers out of me as a tyke. The scene where Samuel L. Jackson gets eaten, that perfect timing? Funny as hell. Everything else...-cringes-. Too gruesome, in a way that wasn't fun at all.
Oddly, none of the Jaws films ever scared me.

Doggett · February 18, 2011, 06:06:13 PM

The getting on the bus scene in Carnvial of Souls was terrifying.

But pretty much the film is nightmare fuel.

Umaril The Unfeathered · February 18, 2011, 07:21:23 PM

Quote from: Hammock Rider on February 07, 2011, 02:06:53 PM
The latest movie to freak me out a bit was Hard Candy. Man I did NOT see that coming. But the only movie that genuinley gave me nightmares was The Exorcist. At the ripe old age of 8 I was at the theater, bored with the Apple Dumpling Gang or some such, and I wandered into the theater showing The Exorcist. I slept with the lights on for a month. To this day I can't watch any "possession" type movies.

Possession movies....the one that did it for me was Beyond The Door and let me tell ya' mate...I still sleep with a light or two on now and then when I think of this one. To hear the name of the movie alone makes me shiver.

The whole movie had a very authentic feeling of evil to it, and Juliet Mills looked so hateful and vile when she was possessed.

And when she looks at the doctor and does her famous "Whoooooo-are-youuuuuu" bit, that's enough to scare anyone.

The film may have had it's dull moments, but the possession scenes more that make up for it, and they are very chilling sequences. The opening speech by the devil as he addresses the audience makes you uneasy as well. See this one if you dare...

bob · February 19, 2011, 02:08:27 PM

The Ring still fraeks me out, although not nearly as much as when I was a kid. After seeing it on DVD I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep.

Couchtr26 · March 12, 2011, 10:15:35 PM

Quote from: Killer Bees on February 04, 2011, 05:49:27 AM
The Ring. Man, when that chick came out of hte tv, I nearly wet my pants.

There was something so bowel churningly creeeepy about that scene.

Actually, I find most J-Horror disturbing not in the scary way but in the how can you contort the human body like that way. Always creeps me out. I will agree the scene is creepy.

RD · March 13, 2011, 01:10:46 PM

When I was a kid the movie IT, and Tim Curry's makeup scared the bejesus out of me. Pretty embarrassing, looking back the movie is pretty cheesy.

voltron · March 13, 2011, 02:29:21 PM

Black Christmas - i've said this before, but i saw this before it was released on dvd so i didn't know what to expect and ho-lee s**t was it terrifying!
Maniac - brutal, grim, unrelenting, downbeat, AWESOME!
Hospital Massacre - REALLY cheesy when i watch it now, but when i was a kid, hospital movies really creeped me out.

Bargle5 · March 13, 2011, 06:50:16 PM

When I was little, The Monster That Challenged the World and Teenagers from Outer Space. And anything involving injury to women's breasts would give me nightmares.
When I got older, The Exorcist, Jaws and Alien. When the devil screamed out 'Marin!' in The Exorcist, I jumped so bad I hit my head on the roof of the car.

WildHoosier09 · March 13, 2011, 08:51:37 PM

The Ring scared the crap out of me when I was 20ish. I'm still a little leary of staticy TV's

A_Dubya · March 14, 2011, 09:47:05 AM

The Shining really scared me when I first saw it. The scene where a guy was in a bear costume especially disturbed me, because it was just so random.

RD · March 14, 2011, 11:33:31 AM

Also as a child the poster for Little Monsters scared me. I had no idea what it was about but Maurice (Howie Mandel) just spooked me. Then I saw the movie and realized his character was a good guy, and the fear subsided. Still... I have an innate fear of Mandel and can't watch Deal or No Deal.