Scariest Movies of all time

purplemonkey · 15-11-2004 3:08pm #1

Hi everyone,

I was recently watching a program listing the top scary movies of all time. I disagreed with alot of these choices and was wondering what other people thought. I have added a poll to the thread so feel free to vote. If you vote for "Other", please specify what movie you think is scarier.

Thanks

orangerooster · 15-11-2004 3:25pm

Ringu-definitely Ringu that or Ju-On. Hollywood horror rarely scares me unless its the remakes of either of the films I mentioned and even then their not even close to being as scary as the originals!

Cactus Col · 15-11-2004 3:44pm

Psycho (Hitchcock Version)

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre ... definetly scariest movie ever ... just for the sense of total unease I felt while watching it

enda_4 · 15-11-2004 3:46pm

Long time dead good show, def one of d scariest i've ever seen

doh.ie · 15-11-2004 3:48pm

Unusual choice, but one of the scariest things (psychologically) I've ever seen is the 1946 movie, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"... The normal film shots are in black and white, but the shots of the painting are in the recently-invented technicolour! Yikes! I jumped every single time it showed up!

QC · 15-11-2004 4:03pm

Psycho (Hitchcock Version)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- still one of the scariest and disturbing films out there. I love the fact that it does the old cliche of one survivor at the end, but she's a traumatised wreck.

Cactus Col · 15-11-2004 4:15pm

Psycho (Hitchcock Version)

although the Blair Witch Project deserves a mention ... being the second scariest movie ever... (certainly better than Tommyknockers and It)

hshortt · 15-11-2004 4:17pm

Silence of the Lambs

An American Werewolf in London??

Exorcist just pips it.

WhiteWashMan · 15-11-2004 4:18pm

i thought the blair witch was bloody brilliant, and by far the best scarey film i have seen in years.
although i am looking forward to seeing the grudge.

the last scene in blair witch was just excellent.

trotter_inc · 15-11-2004 4:20pm

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I thought the Texas Chainsaw masacre was a joke!

Amytiville(sp?) was much scarier!

Zulu · 15-11-2004 4:20pm

Event Horizon.
I know it's not really - but I had serious alcohol induced horrors watching it after a week on the beer. The D/T's that night were horrendous. Haven't been that scared since watching the Omen as a child.

....oh, wait, "the wicker man". Scariest movie, ever.

IrishMike · 15-11-2004 4:23pm

Blair witch was awful. Boring rather than scary if you ask me.
Scariest film if you ask me was nightmare on elm street, saw it when i was young and it
scared the daylights out of me. Probably a dull film if i watched it now but at the time it
was terrifying.
Also ringu definetely deserves a mention.

Goodshape · 15-11-2004 4:26pm

Other (Please specify in thread)

Voted 'It' because it scared me when I was about eight years old. Only other movie to seriously scare me was 'The Omen' when I was about the same age. (although niether of them would be the best horrors I've ever seen).

I'm tellin' ya, let your kids watch horror movies... they're just not the same once you're all grown up.

Kêrmêttê · 15-11-2004 4:48pm

The Exorcist

I'm not a fan of scary movies. I always end up with my hands over my eyes or peeking from behind a cushion. I have to admit though that I always enjoy watching The Omen... it's not much of a scary movie though... but I find it facinating as well as Carrie, Psycho and The Exorcist.
Poltergeist 1, 2 and 3 have to get honourable mentions too!

The Blair Witch scared the bejaysus outta me though! I was amazed that I actually sat through the whole of that without running out of the house! :eek:
I'd say Carrie is my favourite

Boro · 15-11-2004 4:55pm

Zulu wrote:

Event Horizon.
I know it's not really - but I had serious alcohol induced horrors watching it after a week on the beer. The D/T's that night were horrendous. Haven't been that scared since watching the Omen as a child.

....oh, wait, "the wicker man". Scariest movie, ever.

Have to agree with Event Horizon - all shock horror, but scary nonetheless when i saw it first.

Probably have to pip it with Jaws though. That scared the ****e out of me when i saw it as a kid!

Gizzard · 15-11-2004 4:58pm

THe Ring (japanese) or The grudge (eek so scary)

Hugh Hefner · 15-11-2004 6:02pm

I'm torn between The Omen, The Blair Witch Project, The Shining, The Wicker Man and Ring. I would have to go for The Omen personally. I can't say any of them scared me (I don't get scared by Horror films *toots own horn* although it is my favourite genre) but The Omen had the most impact on me.

Naturally it was one of my first Horror films.

I bought The Amityville Horror in HMV for like €9.00 or something, having read good things about it on these forums. I thought it was really good but not at all scary. I wasn't even nervous that something scary was going to happen. Still a great film though.

And by the way, Carrie was crap. I was never so disappointed with a film I had heard was such a classic. It was only worth watching for the vicious changing room scene and to have actually seen such an iconic film.

Karl Hungus · 15-11-2004 8:11pm

The classic Don't Look Now scared the bollocks off me, and though it probably suffered from it's own hype, The Eye gave me quite the shock.

Basq · 15-11-2004 8:40pm

enda_4 wrote:

Long time dead good show, def one of d scariest i've ever seen

You're not serious, are you?

I hope it's not the same one i'm thinking of... that shi*ty English one with the guy from Eastenders and the Djinn.. with the Ouija Board.

That was utter muck!

I don't really scare easily. But i'd probably vote for 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... on the basis that it was creepy as a child and also because Freddy Krueger is the ultimate horror creation. Pure genius by Wes Craven!

Loretta. · 16-11-2004 12:43am

Goodshape wrote:

Voted 'It' because it scared me when I was about eight years old. Only other movie to seriously scare me was 'The Omen' when I was about the same age. (although niether of them would be the best horrors I've ever seen).

I'm tellin' ya, let your kids watch horror movies... they're just not the same once you're all grown up.

i saw "IT" when i was about 8 as well and i remember it being a special showing on sky one. but my god i have never been so freaked by a movie as i was then.....i still cant swim over drains in pools now..although that could be cuz of all those "holidays from hell" programmes

as well i think its cuz of the whole creepy clown thing.

anyway im glad i saw it cuz it got me into the whole horror genre so yeah i definately encourage kids 2 see horror movies

trotter_inc · 16-11-2004 8:41am

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Hugh Hefner wrote:

I'm torn between The Omen, The Blair Witch Project, The Shining, The Wicker Man and Ring. I would have to go for The Omen personally. I can't say any of them scared me (I don't get scared by Horror films *toots own horn* although it is my favourite genre) but The Omen had the most impact on me.

Will have to second this - these were great films too!

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