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wow... I love scary movies.. LOVE em..
I have many..

some of the movies that I PERSONALLY found very scary were.
When I was younger

"the exocist"
"the shining"
more recient: "the grudge"
Jaws scared me when I was a tyke, but I LOVE IT now..

and "Dog soldiers" its more awesome then anything else.. but some people would find it scary fur sure!!
 

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Haha when I was little the witch and the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz scared the shit out of me. The Exorcist is another good one. But my top two (in order) would be Rear Window and Rosemary's Baby.
 

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I never said it was good. It was scary.

Basic Instinct 2 was edited to death. Too bad, they spent tons of money on it.

and I wasn't disagreeing with you, just saying that I thought it sucked. horribly. :biggrin1:
I also didn't think it was in the least bit scary. It was just gross. Not the same thing. But, that was just my own jaded opinion...
 

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and I wasn't disagreeing with you, just saying that I thought it sucked. horribly. :biggrin1:
I also didn't think it was in the least bit scary. It was just gross. Not the same thing. But, that was just my own jaded opinion...

I hear you...I'm usually jaded. Maybe I was having an Oprah moment.

Regarding The Exorcist, I went to see it when they re-released it a few years ago. If you stood outside the door, you would have thought it was a comedy.
 

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I love old horror movies but I think my favourite is John Carpenter's "The Thing" based on the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. The idea that a living organism could infect humans at such a rapid pace and imitate them while doing so was unnerving to me. The film didn't do well at all in theatres (E.T. came out at the same time) and critics thought the gory special effects were way over the top. I know "Halloween" is Carpenter's trophy but I think this film is his best work. Good study in human behaviour.
 

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Regarding The Exorcist, many people need to understand that when this movie was released in 1973, nothing, and I mean nothing remotely this frightening was put on film. Some of the horror movies that preceded The Exorcist was Rosemary's Baby and Night of the Living Dead, but those movies were mere child's play compared to The Exorcist. In my opinion, considering it was filmed in the early 70's, the special effects were quite good. Granted the spinning of the head may seem a little outdated, but c'mon when she was convulsing on the bed or the entire abuse of the cross scene looked pretty real. This is even way before CGI. Somebody mentioned the acting, and I think that's what made this film appear to be so believable. My gripe with current films is bad acting, lack of plot, predictability, and a gratitious use of CGI. To see something that looks real, and not knowing how it is done makes it that much more frightening. But to sit there and see the effect that you obviousely know was created by CGI takes away the credibility and disbelief. That's why, and I think another member said it, the '70's had the greatest horror films.
 
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I found The Exorcist humorous, too. I didn't buy into it. I wil say that my Catholic friends did, and I can still remember a few who actually thought that they were possessed after seeing it. Ugh!

But here's the really scary part: I saw it when it first came out!:eek:

*Sam's head begins spinning as he spews green pea soup while inserting a crucifix and growling every disgusting expletive possible*

But the most scary movie for me was The Rugrat Movie which my niece made me sit through when she was five! Aaaaarrrgggghhhhhhhh!
 

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The Exorcist could have been filmed with completely convincing F/X and I still would have found it to be absurd and humorous. To me, it's just cheesy. I don't know how you're supposed to take seriously the girl (Reagan?), she's practically a cartoon. I also thought the film was rife with bad acting (you don't think Linda Blair was maybe a little over the top?), cheesy FX, lack of plot, and predictability. Not that today's films are much better or anything, and CGI is overused.... but whatever.. movies don't scare me so I'm going to stop commenting in this thread.
 

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I saw the Exorcist when it was first released, I was 15 at the time and didn't find it remotely scary even then, it was just too over the top and for it to be scary we needed to empathise with Reagan and her character wasn't fleshed out enough for us to care about her. It was probably the first film where the SFX were more important than plot or characters. I like a film where it shows you everything (I'm partial to the rotten.com factor) but the films I find scariest are those which leave your imagination to fill in the blanks, the scariest film ever was the original 'The Haunting' starring Julie Harris and Claire Bloome, you never actually saw anything but you could feel the sense of menace through the screen, the feeling that the house was alive and lying in wait.
 

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OKay, you're all gonna laugh at me for this.

The scariest movie was 'The Vampire and the Ballerina'...lol I was a little kid and had to walk home from the movies by myself. I just KNEW there was a vampire hiding behind every tree just waiting to jump out and kill me. That was the longest walk home of my life.
 

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The Exorcist scared the shit out of me. It still does. THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU--I was freaking out. Taking Communion that Sunday never made me happier.

Helter Skelter, the book and the movie, pretty damn scary too.
 

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IT scared the crap out of me when I was little, that damn clown.

Michael Moore movies scare me now, not the movies themselves, but the fact that some people buy it all.

Oh man,,

I loved that movie,,, right up until the ending. To me, it was extremely disappointing. I mean C'mon, it didn't even look real :mad:
 

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High Tension - french chase/slasher/thriller.
The Booth - japanese ghost/revenge thing.
The Descent - british horror...i rarely jump while watching a movie, this made me jump like 3 or 4 times.
Ab-Normal Beauty - japanese horror.
Cache - french, more of a pscychological terror.
Hard Candy - definitely NOT a horror movie, but my heart was racing the entire time, edge of my seat, freaking out, etc.
Marebito - japanese underground/vampire/psycho thing.
Oldboy - not straight horror, but a gory revenge story.
Three Extremes - three short japanese films, not typical horror, but all good.
 

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I absolutely love scary movies However, I find the ones that are "based" on blood and guts just so-so. I want to be scared breathless, not just grossed out. I love a good plot, and with that, my vote goes to "The Bone Collector" I haven't seen it in a while, but it still stands out in my memory.

The "scariest moment" I had, while watching a movie is actually hilarious to me... (hopefully it will be for you also)

I was really young and at a drive-in theatre with my best friend and his family. His oldest brother was high school aged, and was very dark skinned (This point is stressed to help with the visual later). We were watching of all things,,"Bigfoot".
So, we're in the car after returning from getting some snacks. With as many people as we had jammed in the car, the windows were constantly fogging up. We had the speaker volume maxxed out (remember those metal boxes you used to hang on your windows,lol). I remember the camera was supposedly following Bigfoot, getting closer and closer. We were all really quiet and concentrating on the movie. All of a sudden, his brother, who was still in the bathroom when we had left the snack shack, leaps across the front windshield, slapping his arm and hands down hard, and let's out this huge growling yell. With the windows being fogged up, his dark skin, and the dark clothes he was wearing, to a child, he WAS "Bigfoot".

SHIT WENT FLYING!! Sodas, Popcorn, you name it, nothing was in anybody's hands anymore. Kids were screaming and tearing at each other trying to get to floor, and his youngest sister was crying. Even "Momma Jo", as everyone called her was screaming and honking the horn.:lmao: :lmao:

OMG, If you have ever had the chance to see and hear a black woman go from scared to angry, Oh My God!! She went off on him, got out of the car and tried to catch him, got back in the car, still going off. I swear, when we all woke up in the morning, the first thing she did when she came out of her room, was go after him again.

After being so scared, I almost pee'd my pants, I was laughing so hard, I think I did pee my pants a little, Hahahaha.

I have to thank you for bringing this memory back up. I still laugh hard about this, even to today. Both, remembering that night as a child, and also imaginging what it must have been like to be the other cars watching this. :chairfall:
I sure do miss them.
 

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I hate movies that have to do with space or time travel.

As a child, I wouldn't watch Back To The Future. I'd start thinking about time and space and it'd give me a deep sense of dread. Back To The Future made me cry.

Scariest time travel: Twelve Monkeys
Scariest serial killer (fuck Hannibal): Se7en
Scariest addiction movie: Requiem For A Dream
Scariest Ghost movie: The Grudge
Scariest Zombie movie: Dawn of The Dead (the new one) Fast moving zombies: freaky.
 

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The original Texas Chain Saw Massacre Not the whole movie, but parts were scary. When he first hit the guy with the sledge hammer, puts the woman on the meat hook, when they put another woman in a bag and beats her with a stick, and when the mock and torment her at the table. The remakes didn't even come near that level. Which shows if they used less blood and more of the above they would have been better.

Yes. The whole movie can be heavy, but some parts ... woop!.

My favourite scary movie (the scariest then) is Demons. I don´t know if it´s the same that The night of demons. The one i say is italian, 80´s, one of the first gore films. There was a scene, when the theatre´s massacre, specially "terrible" to me when i saw it the first time (and second, and third, ...). A woman was running away from monsters and she went into a room, tried to close the door but one demon catched by her hair and pulled up her scalp.

When i was child i couldn´t help watching terror movies. I suffered but i couldn´t help it. But now i don´t like it too much. The last i have seen is Saw, and i found it some stupid. I guess that now i cannot believe anything.