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With Halloween approaching what are your all time 5 scariest Movies?
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I still love scary movies - even the video for "Thriller" got some jumps out of me when I was a young mother watching the premier late at night!
My favorites? I include some gore, some "could it really happen?" and always, the suspense!
5) Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMAeleNg4Q
This clip is from Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The suspense level grows to level that easily caused a high school auditorium filled with 300 honor roll teens to scream almost continuously through the final minutes.
4) The Thing - the version by John Carpenter starring Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevQS4qgE_Q
There are so many great scenes in this movie! The effects are awesome and the "what's next" keeps you in your seat the entire film. Sorry about the slight language in the clip!
3) Carrie - Seventies schmaltz combined with Stephen King. Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta, William Katt - the list goes on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nV_0oQDiRA
The scene is "Carrie's Revenge". I was blessed to have read the book years before I ever saw the movie, but I was not disappointed.
The final "gotcha" set the bar for those to come.
2) Alien starring Sigourney Weaver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuapyExYJBI&feature=related
For most, this is THE scene that set Alien apart. In my own teenage memories, I can't remember the exact scene in which one of my friends waited at the back of the theater, then behind my seat before grabbing me at the perfect moment. I DO remember that night fondly, all these years later!
1) The Hitcher starring C. Thomas Howell and Rutger Hauer - the ONLY version of this film that matters. Also featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC2jQdYkSv4&feature=related
This movie is probably my absolute favorite scary film of all time. The suspense is....is....is...
Just watch it...trust me!
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Number 1 was Steven King's IT, I watched at age 5 from behind a couch after my sister told me I couldn't. I was afraid of the drain for weeks.
The "We all float down here" scene always got me.
I don't find it scary anymore though.
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Number 2: John Carpenter's The Thing, come on now the whole concept.. is just scary. We could all be things right ow. O.o
I just couldn't pick one scene from that movie.
I sat here and thought for a long time, and I couldn't actually think of 3 more movies that legitimately scared me.
Species was a bit scary, at times, in some of the movies, so I'll call that 3.
I give House of 1000 corpses number 4, Rob Zombie does do realistic horror well, that could happen makes it slightly more scary.
And I give the entire Chucky Child's Play series number 5, because, well I always loved Chucky whether he was scary or not.
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As a genre of film, Japanese horror films seem to get under your skin a little more than their American counterparts.
Some of my favorites are:
Ringu
Ju-on
Shikoku
Nihon no Kowaiya
Jigoku
I also like Hana to Hebi, but I'm not sure if you could really call that one a horror film.
Here is a link of interest:
http://inventorspot.com/articles/japans_frightening_five_scariest_7632
Source(s):
http://inventorspot.com/articles/japans_frightening_five_scariest_7632
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Before that: The Birds. That one scared me b/c I wasn't found of birds at the time. I was a teen LOL. Anyway, scariest scene is when they were getting attacked by them outside. Hated that scene.
The Mist: saw it in theaters. It was the not knowing that got me. Although I loved the part where they shot the crazy lady in the head. The scariest scene was when they were running through the parking lot to the car. I was cringing in anticipation of them getting eaten by something.
Wrong Turn was just the whole "ick" factor. The worst was when they were hiding under the best and their friends dead body is dumped there in front of them. I would have lost it... and that is when I changed the channel.
Orphan... saw it... left half way through or so. It wasn't scary really, it was just disturbing. The part where she broke her own arm and then laid in bed crying... I was like "psychotic child!" and left. I was looking for scary, not freaky and disturbing.
One more since the last one wasn't "scary"...
The Fly... I saw it and I still get creeped out when I think of the scene where she gives birth to to a maggot *shivers* EW!
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unwirklich
1. Shutter: The reason why i don't shoot pictures in the dark :)
2. The Ring: When the girl is coming out of the well so creepy.
3. Friday the 13th: Who's not scared of Jason? :)
4. Silent Hill: The pyramid-head man ripping the skin of the little girl.
5. House of 1000 Corpses: Dr. Satan skinning his victim
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I know, backlash, backlash. I don't care what you think now, back when I first saw it in theaters and we all thought it was real footage, I screamed my butt off (and I'm not into cheap thrills...not at the movies anyway!). And I wasn't the only one, tons of people were hiding, cringing, and screaming at that movie. And to this day I can't go into a "Michigan basement" (ie a dirt-floored, stone-walled, half-height basement/cellar) without freaking out that someone will be standing in the corner.
BEST SCENE: The end when she sees him standing in the corner and the whole audience goes pale white and thinks collectively "Oh, F***********ck."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D51QgOHrCj0
2. The Shining
Whenever I'm in an old hotel, I still cringe when I look at the end of a long hall half expecting to see those dead little girls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmn6FRgYwBQ
3. Poltergeist
It's like this movie picked off my worst fears one by one. Demonic clown doll? Check! Spooky living tree that grabs you and eats you? Check. Voices coming from the snow on the tv? Check. I still flinch every time the chairs stack themselves in the kitchen. Even the theme music is unbelievably creepy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1l4kWPtazs
4. Nightmare on Elm Street
The original made me terrified to go to sleep each night. I mean, COM'ON, the guy attacks you in. your. sleep. That's really messed up.
http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_A/freddy_krueger_old.jpg
5. It
Stephen King's story about a demonic clown child killer who haunts the sewers and makes faucets run with blood. This scene here still gives me the chills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk
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And I made the mistake of watching "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" while I was home alone at night. Freaked me out. And I'm not normally scared of clowns. But they wrap you in cotton candy and suck your blood!
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So I'd say
1.The Strangers (2008)
2. Cloverfield (2008)
3.The Return of the Living Dead (1985) (When the split animals come to life, it just wigs me out.)
4.The Exorcist (1973)
5.The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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The Shining- The Redrum scene sent shivers down my spine
Halloween 1 - The music alone creeped me out
Candyman
The Excorcist
Home movies of my Ex and her family
Source(s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cb3ik6zP2I
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1. Audition- the whole movie is creepy especially the end
2. The Shining- when the kid says REDRUM
3. Friday the 13th- At the end when the mother jumps out of the lake.
4.The Exorcist- The backward walk down the stairs
5. Hellraiser- Right when solves the puzzle
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October 21, 2009 04:05 AM
With Halloween approaching what are your all time 5 scariest Movies?
What was the scariest scene?
I'm not talking about the blood and gore shocker types, I want to know what 5 movies really scared you the first time you saw them and what was the scariest scene?
Hers my top 5
'The Haunting' (1963)
'The Exorcist' (1973)
'Jaws' (1975)
'Alien' (1979)
'The Thing' (1982)
Hers my top 5
'The Haunting' (1963)
'The Exorcist' (1973)
'Jaws' (1975)
'Alien' (1979)
'The Thing' (1982)
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| October 21, 2009 03:43 PM |
My favorites? I include some gore, some "could it really happen?" and always, the suspense!
5) Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMAeleNg4Q
This clip is from Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The suspense level grows to level that easily caused a high school auditorium filled with 300 honor roll teens to scream almost continuously through the final minutes.
4) The Thing - the version by John Carpenter starring Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevQS4qgE_Q
There are so many great scenes in this movie! The effects are awesome and the "what's next" keeps you in your seat the entire film. Sorry about the slight language in the clip!
3) Carrie - Seventies schmaltz combined with Stephen King. Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta, William Katt - the list goes on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nV_0oQDiRA
The scene is "Carrie's Revenge". I was blessed to have read the book years before I ever saw the movie, but I was not disappointed.
The final "gotcha" set the bar for those to come.
2) Alien starring Sigourney Weaver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuapyExYJBI&feature=related
For most, this is THE scene that set Alien apart. In my own teenage memories, I can't remember the exact scene in which one of my friends waited at the back of the theater, then behind my seat before grabbing me at the perfect moment. I DO remember that night fondly, all these years later!
1) The Hitcher starring C. Thomas Howell and Rutger Hauer - the ONLY version of this film that matters. Also featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC2jQdYkSv4&feature=related
This movie is probably my absolute favorite scary film of all time. The suspense is....is....is...
Just watch it...trust me!
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October 21, 2009 04:33 AM
Number 1 was Steven King's IT, I watched at age 5 from behind a couch after my sister told me I couldn't. I was afraid of the drain for weeks.
The "We all float down here" scene always got me.
I don't find it scary anymore though.
Number 2: John Carpenter's The Thing, come on now the whole concept.. is just scary. We could all be things right ow. O.o
I just couldn't pick one scene from that movie.
I sat here and thought for a long time, and I couldn't actually think of 3 more movies that legitimately scared me.
Species was a bit scary, at times, in some of the movies, so I'll call that 3.
I give House of 1000 corpses number 4, Rob Zombie does do realistic horror well, that could happen makes it slightly more scary.
And I give the entire Chucky Child's Play series number 5, because, well I always loved Chucky whether he was scary or not.
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October 21, 2009 06:23 AM
Just about every J-horror flick I've ever seen could probably qualify for the scariest movie of all time. As a genre of film, Japanese horror films seem to get under your skin a little more than their American counterparts.
Some of my favorites are:
Ringu
Ju-on
Shikoku
Nihon no Kowaiya
Jigoku
I also like Hana to Hebi, but I'm not sure if you could really call that one a horror film.
Here is a link of interest:
http://inventorspot.com/articles/japans_frightening_five_scariest_7632
Source(s):
http://inventorspot.com/articles/japans_frightening_five_scariest_7632
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October 21, 2009 07:53 AM
The Ring: the scene where she crawls out of the TV creeped me out. I don't own a TV now. Before that: The Birds. That one scared me b/c I wasn't found of birds at the time. I was a teen LOL. Anyway, scariest scene is when they were getting attacked by them outside. Hated that scene.
The Mist: saw it in theaters. It was the not knowing that got me. Although I loved the part where they shot the crazy lady in the head. The scariest scene was when they were running through the parking lot to the car. I was cringing in anticipation of them getting eaten by something.
Wrong Turn was just the whole "ick" factor. The worst was when they were hiding under the best and their friends dead body is dumped there in front of them. I would have lost it... and that is when I changed the channel.
Orphan... saw it... left half way through or so. It wasn't scary really, it was just disturbing. The part where she broke her own arm and then laid in bed crying... I was like "psychotic child!" and left. I was looking for scary, not freaky and disturbing.
One more since the last one wasn't "scary"...
The Fly... I saw it and I still get creeped out when I think of the scene where she gives birth to to a maggot *shivers* EW!
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unwirklich
October 21, 2009 08:11 AM
Wrong Turn.. wow, I didn't get scary but I gotta agree gross. That movie made me wanna hurl more than once.
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October 21, 2009 03:19 PM
Here's mine. 1. Shutter: The reason why i don't shoot pictures in the dark :)
2. The Ring: When the girl is coming out of the well so creepy.
3. Friday the 13th: Who's not scared of Jason? :)
4. Silent Hill: The pyramid-head man ripping the skin of the little girl.
5. House of 1000 Corpses: Dr. Satan skinning his victim
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October 21, 2009 06:00 PM
1. The Blair Witch Project I know, backlash, backlash. I don't care what you think now, back when I first saw it in theaters and we all thought it was real footage, I screamed my butt off (and I'm not into cheap thrills...not at the movies anyway!). And I wasn't the only one, tons of people were hiding, cringing, and screaming at that movie. And to this day I can't go into a "Michigan basement" (ie a dirt-floored, stone-walled, half-height basement/cellar) without freaking out that someone will be standing in the corner.
BEST SCENE: The end when she sees him standing in the corner and the whole audience goes pale white and thinks collectively "Oh, F***********ck."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D51QgOHrCj0
2. The Shining
Whenever I'm in an old hotel, I still cringe when I look at the end of a long hall half expecting to see those dead little girls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmn6FRgYwBQ
3. Poltergeist
It's like this movie picked off my worst fears one by one. Demonic clown doll? Check! Spooky living tree that grabs you and eats you? Check. Voices coming from the snow on the tv? Check. I still flinch every time the chairs stack themselves in the kitchen. Even the theme music is unbelievably creepy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1l4kWPtazs
4. Nightmare on Elm Street
The original made me terrified to go to sleep each night. I mean, COM'ON, the guy attacks you in. your. sleep. That's really messed up.
5. It
Stephen King's story about a demonic clown child killer who haunts the sewers and makes faucets run with blood. This scene here still gives me the chills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk
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October 21, 2009 08:52 PM
No worries you're not alone the Blair Witch still gets me at the end...
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October 21, 2009 08:59 PM
When the original "Halloween" came out, there was no Jason or Freddie Kreuger. This movie scared the beejeezus out of me! When she was sitting on those steps, and he came up behind her with the knife, everyone in the theater was screaming "Look behind you!!!" I don't watch a lot of scary movies, so this is one of the scariest for me.
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October 21, 2009 10:49 PM
When I was a kid, I was always scared of "Gremlins". And I made the mistake of watching "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" while I was home alone at night. Freaked me out. And I'm not normally scared of clowns. But they wrap you in cotton candy and suck your blood!
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October 22, 2009 12:28 AM
The Strangers is probably the movie that bothers me the most. & it's not one part, it's the whole thing because the killers had no obvious motives. So I'd say
1.The Strangers (2008)
2. Cloverfield (2008)
3.The Return of the Living Dead (1985) (When the split animals come to life, it just wigs me out.)
4.The Exorcist (1973)
5.The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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October 22, 2009 01:50 AM
I will go with the following. The Shining- The Redrum scene sent shivers down my spine
Halloween 1 - The music alone creeped me out
Candyman
The Excorcist
Home movies of my Ex and her family
Source(s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cb3ik6zP2I
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October 22, 2009 03:11 PM
I don't get scared that easy but I love scary movies. I guess my top five would be. 1. Audition- the whole movie is creepy especially the end
2. The Shining- when the kid says REDRUM
3. Friday the 13th- At the end when the mother jumps out of the lake.
4.The Exorcist- The backward walk down the stairs
5. Hellraiser- Right when solves the puzzle
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