What are you scared from?

[Favourite end]

So my question towards you is simple: Which is the scariest movie you`ve ever seen?I don`t mean something repulsive or just slightly scarry, I mean the movie which you couldn`t move while watching it.The movie that made you spent sleepless nights, and...I think you got the picture http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[arto_j]

Arachnophobia. Me no likey spiders.

I have never seen nightmares because of movies, but I've seen a load of scary ones after which I have to look behind every corner, and I'm a bit jumpy after a good horror film, yeah. I'll return later to name a few more that come to mind.

[Grebdron]

Jaws was without a doubt the scariest movie ever. Only because of my age when I saw it. Movies just don't scare me anymore, but I was on the edge of my seat while watching The Blair Witch Project the first time. I thought they did a good job transferring the fright of the actors to the audience without any blood and gore.

[belphegor]

session 9 really scared me. must be that i'm scared of going crazy ;-)

On the other end, i do some occasional scuba diving (used to do much more of it) and after seing Jaws i simply couldn't swim without girating around, looking all over the place. Jaws really put an icy bag of fear over my pleasure of scuba diving. lasted a few years... now it's all gone.

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[RogueSpear]

The only movie to ever actually scare me, to the point that I was too scared to walk into my basement was Halloween. No movie has ever affected me the way John Carpenter's classic did. It still gets me to this day.

More recently, I though M. Night Shyamalan's Signs was very frightening, but not in the same way as Halloween.

[TheFrost]

Nightmare on Elm Street scared the crap out of me!! I was only little, but when I saw the first one and saw that Freddy was "dead" I said to myself: "Yes, Freddy is gone" but then he drags that woman through the letterbox at the end http://www.joblo.com/ubb/frown.gif

[flowrchild]

In recent years, Blair Witch Project scared the crap out of me. I saw it at night and I didn't sleep until the sun came up the next morning. I just couldn't.

Very strange too, because VERY few movies are scary in the slightest to me.

[electriclite]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by flowrchild:
In recent years, Blair Witch Project scared the crap out of me. I saw it at night and I didn't sleep until the sun came up the next morning. I just couldn't.

Very strange too, because VERY few movies are scary in the slightest to me.</font>

I saw the Blair Witch Project and it didn't scare me, but I totally respected it... especially when I found out that my little sister (I took her with me and my friends) ended up sleeping with my mom and trembling all night. It even made my 20 year old guy pal sleep with the lights on, AND it freaked my brother too!

On the downside, it gave another friend of mine vertigo.

So far the only movie to make me actually scream out loud in a theater (which I haven't done since I was little) is Signs. It was a good feeling to be able to be scared again.

[ColinM]

I haven't really been scared by a movie, but Signs, The Silence of the Lambs and Rear Window were all quite intense.

[Big Pudge]

there are 2 movies to scare the crap out of me to where i was seriously questioning everything (lookin behind doors, thinkin i heard stuff) the first was FIRE IN THE SKY! the first time i watched it i shut it off midway, i was TOOO scared to finish, i finally got enough balls to finish it and i love it, but it still freaks the shit out of me!
second one is BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, the first time i saw it, i thought it was for real, it was real footage i thought they really were missing and or dead, so i was scared shit less, i was laying in my room trying to sleep, and from downstairs i would swear to it i heard noises, so i got no sleep that night!

alot of movies send chills down my back, like all of M. NIGHT SHAYMALANS movies (6th sense, unbreakable and signs) and movies of that sort!

[syxxpac]

Signs is the scariest movie I've ever seen, hands down. Jaws, Halloween, and even Silence of the Lambs were frightening in their own respect, but Signs is the only one of these that sat with me for a few days afterwards and haunted my thoughts with its truly disturbing moments (I won't spoil anything, but people who've seen it know what I mean)

[Strider]

No film has really scared me. I am not the type of person that gets scared easily. But I did find films as The Shining, The Exorcist, The Omen, The Blair Witch Project, Session 9, and Storm of the Century to be very, very, very creepy.

Strider

[blankpage]

Jaws is a still after so many viewings still gives me the creeps.I don't get Insomnia from it but still.

SignsThere are fe movies that give me the creeps and then stay with me.But Signs is a film that does.Ever since I had seen it (Monday)I could not sleep.It has taken me almost an hour 'till I calm down and doze off.

Teen Slasher horror movies don't really scare me.But those two films above are one's that STAY with me.As well as some of Hitchcock's films still give me the creeps.

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[Antonio]

The one movie that I still cannot watch alone, or late at night, or without the lights: THE CHANGELING.

[flowrchild]

I thought Signs was MUCH more scary *before* they showed the aliens. I think one of the reasons Blair Witch Project scared me so much is because it was a psychological thriller, where you don't know what is real and what isn't. Seeing the aliens kind of blew the mystery for me. Anyone else feel this way?

[austin2408]

signs was not scary, just chilling and spooky..

[Grebdron]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by flowrchild:
I thought Signs was MUCH more scary *before* they showed the aliens. I think one of the reasons Blair Witch Project scared me so much is because it was a psychological thriller, where you don't know what is real and what isn't. Seeing the aliens kind of blew the mystery for me. Anyone else feel this way?</font>

Exactly, flowr!! That IS exactly what made BWP frightening. They can't come up with ANYTHING through CGI that will scare me, and that's what was so perfect in BWP the first time I saw it. I think it loses something when you re-watch it, but that first time was genuine fear personified.

[A.J. Hakari]

SIGNS was chilling and creepy to the point that I never got to sleep until 6 A.M. the day after I saw it.

[Horror whore]

SIGNS I still have to go to sleep with the TV on.

[electriclite]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Grebdron:
Exactly, flowr!! That IS exactly what made BWP frightening. They can't come up with ANYTHING through CGI that will scare me, and that's what was so perfect in BWP the first time I saw it. </font>


Isn't it ironic that the Haunting and the Blairwitch came out in the same summer. Stark contrasts there and the real winner was easy to pick out.

I'd agree about the aliens in Signs, except I knew they weren't going to get away with that whole movie without sticking in a full view of an alien. I was expecting it and I wasn't put off by it, "Swing-away" put me off but the alien didn't. Besides, thank God Shyamalan is a minimalist or else there would have been WAAAAAAY more aliens and in much definite detail than the one we saw. Think about it.

[notchreturns]

The one and only film that "scared" me was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

[El Bracamonti]

i would have to say that evey single animated disney movie scares the living shit out of me. think about it. is their anything scarier? i think not.

[Fergus]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by notchreturns:
The one and only film that "scared" me was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.</font>

Damn! You already mentioned it notch! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif This was the film that freaked me out. I saw it late at night by myself at a friends house, in the dark. On purpose of course. For the following week, I would still get the shivers. A close second would be Polanski's ROSEMARY'S BABY. Oh MAN, that is also incredibly freaky under the same circumstances as TCM. Also, EVENT HORIZON, but that was when I was a bit younger, and gave me nightmares, but I was sick at the time, so that could've triggered the nightmares. Only a mild scare now, the other two happened after, and had a much larger impact. That's all that I can think of, unless I'm missing a memory or two....


OH..... I was five years old, in a cabin out in the middle of nowhere, at night, and we watched ARACHNOPHOBIA. I shouldn't have watched it, because now the movie has passed a fear of spiders on to me. Plus, during the pretty nasty finale, my dad decided to scare the crap out of me. That's about it, I think. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Phoenix]

Movies dont really scare me but they do freak me out from time to time.

The movie that freaked me out the most is IT. And I saw this just a couple of years ago and I'm 19 now, so I wasnt a kid. Also this was a made-for-TV-movie. Of course after all the great suspense for like 3 hours SPOILERS IT turns out to be a fucking spider END SPOILERS. Someone else needs to write Stephen King's endings.

Just recently The Mothman Prophecies and Signs freaked me out. The Mothman Prophecies mainly because it was based on true events and has just a slight possibly of it happening to me. And Signs because of how it was done on such a small scale, if it were to happened that's how it would be like to each family household.

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[jeppe]

Blair Witch Project made me really jumpy for a while and camping wasn´t the first thing that I wanted to do on the next weekend.

The Others had many really scary scenes that made me crap my pants pretty nicely.

I think Halloween is John Carpenter´s best film and one of the greatest horror films of all time.


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[Horror_chick]

Mind you, I have seen a ton of horror movies, but Event Horizon scared the holy shit out of me! Why? I still dont know, but I still cant watch it by myself. Also Signs and The Mothman Prophecies got me pretty good.

[Thursday's Child]

You know, it's strange how people either get really scared of 'The Blair Witch Project' or stay completely apathic to it.
I, for one, didn't think it was scary in any way, because I knew it was fake when I saw those 3 actors from the movie on Jay Leno.

'The Lost Boys', which is a black humour vampire movie from 1987, scared me half to death when I was younger.
Not so long ago I watched it again (was very hesitant to watch it) and it wasn't scary at all, but still, vampires freak me out.

[asyouwish530]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Antonio:
The one movie that I still cannot watch alone, or late at night, or without the lights: THE CHANGELING.</font>

I'll second this response

[the movie guy]

I try to get in the mood to be spooked while I'm watching a "scary movie" but all I get while watching them is startled or grossed out...

Signs, ONE scene in Event Horizon, The Others and What Lies Beneath are all movies that startled me (among others), while Final Destination's "bloodshot eyes" scene was able to gross me out more than any other movie (and I don't really know why now). Well, ok, there are two embarassing movies that had me a little scared AFTERWARDS (and, once again, i have NO IDEA why now)...
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 had me watching out for scary-looking dead children (lol), and The House on Haunted Hill had me watching out for crazy doctors whose heads rattled around (ha ha ha). These only lasted about 10 minutes after watching them and having to walk to a bus stop to get home though. OH, and one more movie scared the shit out of me...

Kazaam

Damn, I never wanna see Shaq in movies again...

[Bryce Canyon]

I can't stand seeing a close up of a needle entering an arm, like in Requiem for a Dream or Trainspotting.

[kubotakhan01]

For some reason, I can't watch "John Carpenter's The Thing" alone. I think that the fact that you really couldn't run or hide from it, and no matter what you do, it WILL get you, really disturbs me. "The Blair Witch Project" gave me the chills the first time I saw it, but I can watch that one alone.I don't scare easily, but these to flicks give me the shakes!!!

[rockerbaby604]

Signs is really the only film that made it hard for me to sleep. That was some shit *SPOILERS*
the part in the cornfield scare me
the part with the figure up on the roof
the with the hand reaching through the vent to grab Rory
the part where Mel is trying to see what is on the other side of door and the hand reaches through and he cuts off the fingers.
and Oh My God the birthday party scene where they showed the Alien going by, it looked so real.

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[boggie]

The Others-you just couldn't guess how it was gonna end, and that book of the dead sent a chill up my spine.