SCARIEST MOVIE you ever seen!

[RCMerchant]

The TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE scared the s**t out of me when I was 12.  I seen It at the Strand in 1974. So did the EXORCIST. (Heavy sigh) To be young and be scared again...

To a kid, this s**t wasn't Frankenstein- this was apes**t crazy!

http://youtu.be/fHvqrpU7Ps4

[Allhallowsday]

I find and found THE EXORCIST more shocking than scary.  It's very important and a great movie.  

There may be more disturbing, but THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE is without doubt the scariest movie I've seen.  

[claws]

The Last Man on Earth (1964) - first scariest movie seen on TV. It literally gave me nightmares.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) - first scariest movie seen at theater. We had to leave halfway through because the film was too scary for my sister and me.
The Exorcist (1973) - first scariest movie seen at theater without leaving, but I was hiding and covering my eyes most of the time.
The Texas Chain Saw Masasacre (1974) - first scariest movie seen on video. Pretty intense experience.
The Evil Dead (1981) - first scariest movie seen on video but covering my eyes again. Back in rental days The Evil Dead was a dare-you-to-watch movie, along with the first Faces of Death.

Why is this in bad movies though?

[RCMerchant]

^ Because some BAD movies scared me. The first time I seen DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT in 1973, it scared the s**t out of me!

" A mothers love, twisted into a shape of malignent evil. ( I'm sure I didn't spell that right).


http://youtu.be/KtNc7K7mNa4

[claws]

Can't say I've been genuinely scared by a bad movie ever, unless it had a jump scare.

[RCMerchant]

^ When the pinhead monster jumps out of the closet in the BRAIN THAT WOULD'T DIE scared the s**t out of me. My step brother Jimmy ran out of the room! And this was on a black and white TV!

http://youtu.be/-nz2JfJ9Mm0
To an 11 year old kid- this stuff was gruesome!

[Allhallowsday]

CARNIVAL OF SOULS was damned scary when I was a kid.  Great movie, it's also kinda bad.    

CASTLE OF BLOOD scared me too when I was very young.  

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD scared the hell out of me when I was about 14.  I saw it on a "late" broadcast ABC-TV out of NY mid 1970s.  I watched it alone and all the B&W TV watching in the movie worked perfectly on my family's B&W TV in the basement... I went to bed looking for a car to drive by...

I saw a lot of sh!t in that era that was scary then : CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS  THE OTHER  DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK  THE NIGHT STALKER  GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE  LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH ...

[RCMerchant]

^ Every one of those movies you mentioned scared the s**t out of me.

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH was creepy as hell. 

[Trevor]

I think I've said this before but the SA film Jannie Totsiens [Johnny Farewell] remains the scariest film I've ever seen.

Reasons are:

1. It is almost too real and in a real situation (a lunatic asylum). Even the opening credits are scary.
2. Someone different (a maths professor) enters the environment causing all kinds of issues.
3. Horror, suicide and attempted murder follow (this was heavy stuff for SA in 1970!)
4. Strangely, despite the horror, there is quite a bit of humor: not much, but it is there.

It's on full on Youtube.

[RCMerchant]

^ Groovy! I'll have to check it out! 

[indianasmith]

Some that have really creeped me out over the last 20 years or so:

THE RING
SINISTER
JEEPERS CREEPERS
HEREDITARY
MIRRORS
GRAVE ENCOUNTERS (far scarier than a film shot on a $60,000 budget should be!)

[RCMerchant]

Some that have really creeped me out over the last 20 years or so:

JEEPERS CREEPERS

The only reason that movie creeps me out is because looking in hind sight about the guy who made it.
I will never watch that movie again.

[Alex]

Agree with you there RC.

When I was six, this one scared me. I do recall enjoying the feeling. Around the same time, I watched 'Jaws' and although the film itself wasn't frightening I do remember being afraid to go to the toilet lol.




And then at age eleven, this one came along. Alas none of the sequels (or the remake), would keep the level of frights up. I'd always wondered if the reason this one got under my skin was because of the night terrors I had when I was much younger.



Unfortunately, they don't tend to make good horror films about the kinds of things that would scare me.

[Gabriel Knight]

Nowadays the only movie that still manages to make me uncomfortable is IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS. I simply love that trip into the corners of the mind.

I do remember from when I was a kid being extremely scared after seeing PUPPET MASTER. Yeah, the same one reviewed on this site. I perfectly recall watching it with my mom and she covered my eyes in the part where the couple is in the bed and the guy is tied up, lol. I wish society were more like that in these times, instead of exposing kids to sex all the time.
Another one who chased me everywhere was the Michael Myers mask, with those empty eyes of his, covered in darkness. I remember I couldn't even stand to watch him, simply awesome.

Ah, childhood.

[indianasmith]

Some that have really creeped me out over the last 20 years or so:

JEEPERS CREEPERS

The only reason that movie creeps me out is because looking in hind sight about the guy who made it.
I will never watch that movie again.

Same here, but it really creeped me out when I watched it the first time!