Scariest Horror movie of all time?
 

I'm getting together with some friends and we thought of getting a good action pic and a good classic horror movie. Any recommendations?

Classics like Exorcist, The Omen trilogy, Carrie et al are cool but are there some not so known scare the shiznat out of you movies anyone would recommend?

I was surprised how good the recent Jeepers Creepers was.

think We just did this.

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hehehe

Burnt Offerings starring Bette Davis. It's classic and it will scare you.

Also Whatever Happened to Baby Jane starring Bette Davis.

That bitch was the shit at scaring people by just being natural. :2 cents:

Yup, was it a Dawgy thread?

I don´t know if you´re allowed to start a Horror Thread
if you though Jeepers Creepers was good :disgust

Mommy Dearest- That movie still gives me the creeps...Joan Crawford is scary

Little shop of horror :1orglaugh

jeepers creepers scared you?

there's no such thing as good horror. stick with troma!

-shane

I agree with hornybunny, I was pretty suprised by how freaky Jeepers Creepers actually was. I knew it would be at least half decent because Clive Barker said it scared him.

The John Carpenter remake of The Thing, scared me many times.

Event Horizon is another good freaky flick.

Hellraiser2, especially the unrated version has some decent moments. Plus the gore alone is good.

Have you seen Signs yet in the theaters? It has some decent moments that make people jump.

The original versions:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Night of the Living Dead

I didn't see them until my late 30's and met my old man, he had them and I swear they scared the Devil right out of me!

Evil Dead, Part 1... the others were funny... Dawn of the Dead was a good one... and Red Dawn! :)

Rose Red
Released not so long ago.
Story written by Steven King
No horror but creepy movie:)

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0280609

I want to see it, but I don't want to see it, if you know what I mean. Knowing what the Scottish wilderness can be like... in the middle of nowhere with nothing around you, yet you can feel that you're being closely followed or watched and there is no way to escape. Chilling... :(


"A squad of british soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the carnaged remains of his team. As they encounter ranger Megan it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to prepare for some action as the there will be a full moon tonight..."

Here are some favorites:
1) Race With The Devil - with Peter Fonda
2) Trilogy of Terror - with Karen Black (the devil doll segment was the best)
3) Devil's Rain - with William Shatner
4) 'Salem's Lot - still the best of Stephen King's movies
5) The Exorcist
6) Rosemary's Baby

I believe that's "DogSoldiers" a fairly new film--action/horror. They're going to be screening it at the Egyptian Theater here in Hollywood. I'm thinking about seeing it. Looked good--fun and scary.

As for the scariest horror movie? I go for the classics--got the chance to see "The Mummy"--with Boris Karloff at the Orpheum Theater in Downtown LA--very creepy and scary.

The Changling is good--old fashioned ghost story. I love The Lady in White as well.


hmmmmm. this has got me thinking. We've seen Xmas themed content sets. How about Halloween themed content sets? :)

Add my vote for Trilogy of Terror also. I loved the Karen Black segment! She was the perfect actress (of that time period) to play that role, I think! :thumbsup

Showgirls.

:eek7

Spy Kids 2 is a real thriller also.

Jaws! Always freaked me out...still does! :)

My life is a horror movie :(

pet semetary, the original Stephen King one.

Pretty Woman...that fucking Julia Roberts overbite/huge honker thing scared me away from hookers for a long long long time.......

Watch Vincent Price in "Blood Bath At The House Of Death"

or Edward D Wood Jr.'s "Orgy Of The Dead"

hard to rent, most liekly gotta buy.....

PumpkinHead ~ VERY underrated and fuckin scary movie
Event Horizon ~ excellent, it'll be on cable for the next 50 years
The Cube ~ no monsters, but still disturbing

Speaking of Vincent Price, watch "The Last Man On Earth", both Dr. Phibes' movies ("The Abominable Dr. Phibes" & "Dr. Phibes Rises Again") & all the Poe-based movies. A good anthology horror movie is "The Monster Club" with Vincent Price playing a writer in a disco filled with monsters. The best segment is the last one entittled "The Humgoo Story" where a director goes to a village to find it filled with monsters. The flashback scene in that segment will give you the creeps.

Hmm..

Invasion of the body snatchers (1978) with Donald Sutherland

and

Poltergeist (1982)

Those 2 movies gave me quite a few creepy nightmares.

I swear I just saw the end of this the other day on TV. If so, it was a decent horror movie, not great. Pretty predictable like so many others.

Chucky pwns ju

Mausoleum (*sp) is worth a screening ...

Trilogy of Terror for sure.... i dont know how sleepless nights that film caused me as a kid... that african doll.... gotta find it on video now

For me *Alien* (the first in the series) is still the scariest of all movies. One critic once said basically, "At first, it seems to be a science fiction story, but at heart it's really a haunted house story."

hell yeah, that ending fucked me up.....

GFY: The Movie :thumbsup

ahh i LOVE event horizon, i've watched the thing like 10 times when its been on hbo :)

When I was like 9 and watched 'the shining', it seemed the most frightening movie ever... I think I was traumatized. I wonder if I can sue Jack Nicholson.

Poltergeist as a kid was one of the scariest along side Amityville.

Ghost stories always get me.

An AVID Horror collector though.

DVD purchased today. Thir13en Ghosts remake.

pretty good.

Ohhh and you can't forget classics like

The Re-Animator and From Beyond. Jeffrey Combs rocks and Barbara Crampton was a hottie :thumbsup

Breakdance 1 & 2

Few comments and my opinion

I think "Ring" is definetly one of the scarier horror movies out there. It was made in Japan in 1998 and literally caused mass hysteria and even suicide in some cases. It was about a video tape created by a ghost of a telekinetic girl named Sadako who lived/died in a well after her father threw her in. If you watched the video you would die in 7 days unless you made a copy of it and had someone else watch it.

They are making a American version of this movie slated for a Fall 2002 release -- I saw the preview, looks terrible and not even scary. Finding the Japanese version of Ring is easy -- finding it in a subtitled form -- now that is hard :)


Hellraiser 2 was a very good movie -- not neccesarily extremely scary but I thought the plot was really good and Clive Barker's version of Hell is very unique. If you want to experience more of Hellraiser2, then check out the Hellraiser comic series released by Epic comics during the early 90's. It spawned about 24 issues. Do not get confused though with the Marvel comics release of Hellraiser -- totally different.

The Shining falls under the same category as Ring -- a psychological horror. No blood, no gore, but very very scary. It's the kind of movie that you can't go to sleep after you watch it (with Ring, you shudder when you see a TV).

...and don't forget...tomorrow on Video/DVD:
The Fog (one of Carpenter's best, IMHO)
Cat People (Annette O'Toole has amazing breasts)
The Incubus (I was afraid to use public toilets after this flick)
Queen Of The Damned (hint: when this came out in theaters, we had huge spikes in traffic to the goth sites)
The Believers (finally on DVD, damn good, highly underrated Martin Sheen/occult flick)

and next week:
My Bloody Valentine (if any 80's slasher deserves a sequel, it's this kickass flick)
April Fools Day...fucking eh! :)
Friday The 13th 7&8 (sucks ass they will be genric R-rated version, fuck Paramount, fucking cocksuckers, I want fucking uncaut Vorhees mayhem goddamnit!))[/i]
and the classic The Toolbox Murders

Evil Dead 2 :)

The SexyGoat Diaries

Just watch MTV for an hour.

Invasion of the body snatchers (1978) with Donald Sutherland

and

Poltergeist (1982)

Those 2 movies gave me quite a few creepy nightmares.

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Those scared the shit out of me when I was 10 years old and then 14.

I like the Shining. Not the scariest but my favorite in it's genre. Sykkboy's list MUST be good.

Anyone remember ABC's 1983 made-for-TV movie "The Day After"? Now that was scary!

Eru - I watched the ring sortive.
Japanese speaking and Cantonese subtitles - loads of fun not being able to understand anything.
The girl coming out of the TV looked freaky though.

I read about the American version and it does look terrible. No doubt they will botch it up. Too bad they couldn't use the Japanese movie and just dub the voices or put in English subtitles.

I can't think of to many movies that actually scared me.
The last semi-scary movie I saw was called: "Phantom" or Phantoms.
(Don't rent a movie with a guy wearing a purple suit)
Anyway watched it alone in the dark and thought it pretty good. Saw it again with some friends and it didn't seem a 10th as scary as I remembered it.

The Predator - first time i watched it i got pretty scared.

Poltergeist scared the hell outta me to back when it came out, that clown scene really freaked me out, ha ha ha.

Nightmare On Elm Street also scared the hell outta me.

I think that Hellraiser scares the shit outta me more than anything though. Fuck, 2 is freaky shit, even part 3 when they come to the city was crazy, like that nightclub scene where the chains come down and start sticking people, freaked the shit outta me. That dude that had the cd weapons was pretty nuts.

I can't believe Rosemary's Baby has only been mentioned once in this thread... you tools have a lot of learning to do, if you think Jeepers Creepers was a good horror movie. Give me Mia Farrow in a phone booth any day of the week for pure heart-pounding terror.

I dunno, I prefer the scene in The Sentinel when she discovers the "secrets" of the residents....

Colin, my list is very long :)

I agree with eru about The Ring being one fucked up ride of a movie....the American version will most likely suck ass..

If you like your movies bizarre, you can't go wrong with Tsui Hark's "Chinese Ghoststory" series...not really horror movies, but damn creepy and atmospheric...

for a good chill, even though dated, a viewing of Phantasm is still a good call...

like meaty foreign horror? The Blind Dead series is really good and of course you can't go wrong with Fulci's The Gates Of Hell or that bizarre opening overkill murder of Susperia or anything else that Argento dreams up....

for cheesy 80's thrills, grab a copy of The Crazies, Wolfen and the granddaddy motherfuckr of them all Friday The 13th (I know, a blatant homage/ripoff of Bava's Bay Of Blood but truly deserving of it's place in cinematic history...

did someone say Zombie movies? Zombie, Night Of The Living Dead, Dead Alive and anything by Fulci....

scared to run with the Devil? The Exorcist, The Sentinel and Rosemary's Baby are good choices...

Demons give ya the creeps? Well, my fellow GFYers, run to the video store and grab Night Of The Demons, Demons and Def By Temptation

oh yeah and fuck The Sixth Sense that movie sucked all kinds of ass, Stir Of Echoes and The Others were 10 times better and without that little creepy Haley Joel Osmet (now HE scares me)

exorcits

halloween - Mike Myers is the baddest horror movie bad guy ever

Hellraiser

Layer of the white worm- disturbing just fucking disturbing