Movies that live up to the word 'scary'
 

In your opinions, I wanna know what movies you think actually live up to being 'scary' or 'terrifying'. Movies that you cannot laugh away saying, that movie was not scary at all.


I made a list of classes in MY OPINION of movies that terrified me.

Class A (Scariest)

The Evil Dead - I am talking about the first one. I saw this when I was younger, and I could not sleep by myself for days. It literally scarred me and kept me away from horror movies for a long time. The voices in the movie still send a shiver down my spine. I remember holding myself everytime I knew something was going to pop out. I was yelling "DONT GO IN THE CELLAR" and when Cheryl had escaped the cellar, I was like ohshit.. shes pissed and shes out.

The Exorcist - I also saw this one when I was younger, and since it's said to be based on a true story, that terriefied me

Psycho - The only black and white movie that actually scared me, besides Night of the Living Dead.

Jaws - I love to swim. Let's just say this movie made me more cautious.

The Shining - I saw this when I was young and I turned it off after the twins in the hallway scene. I eventually finished the rest of it, and I can safely say, this is the only movie that scared me enough to shut it off.

Class B (Movies not as scary as Class A, but scary)

Halloween
Alien
Rosemary's Baby
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Class C (Movies not as scary as Class B, but scary)

A Nightmare On Elm Street
Night of the living Dead

Every other horror movie I have seen, has not made an impact on me or scared me like the movies above have.

What movie has had the biggest impact on you, and actually scared you?

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That's fucking HOT! :D

Haha, The Evil Dead ayy?
What was your reaction to the perverted trees?

I got scared by The Shining, Wolf Creek, Halloween 1-5 excluding 3

I know this might be somewhat different from you guys ,but i honestly had trouble sleeping after watching 'The Ring'. That girl Samara really freaked me out :D

I also think 'The Sixth Sense' was kinda creepy :)

Phantasm, Dawn of the Dead. Two of my favorite awesome scary 70's horror flicks. They kick ass!

The american version of The Grudge made me jump once. (and i knew what was coming because i saw the Japanese version 1st)
i havent jumped at a show for decades - so my hat's off to that flick.

there's way scarier than that my friend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHSbrPZH4A

the ring, the shining, candyman..

and i hate to admit it.. but when I was young I watched Shocker... for like the first 40 mins.. and then my mom made me go to bed.. so i didnt get to see the whole thing.. and I had this ancient console television that would glow for about 20 minutes after you turned it off... Since Shocker could come through anything with electricity.. i was pretty fucking freaked out..

The Ju-On/Grudge series, definitely...scores a very close 2nd to the original Evil Dead.

omg.. That was indeed rather unpleasant... :s

Pumpkinhead did it for me.When I was 5.Haven't been scared since then.

Me too. I was living alone at the time and wound up staying up until 4 in the morning in horror... The only thing that put me at ease is that I convinced myself If there was a ghost in this apartment, it would have gotten me already...

Funny the equally irrational logic you use when you're scared for no good reason.

Scream 1-3

Not irrational. I was in the apt.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Seriously, though. I used to have nightmares about Michael Myers.

Halloween scared the HELL out of me the first time I saw it (and I was a sophomore in college :o ).

see i never found the origional Evil Dead scary.

i loved it - thought it was brilliant, groundbreaking ..out of control,

but i always saw it as a comedy horror rather than a scary horror ..

Candyman definitely scared me a lot, but that's mostly because I have the most intense phobia of bees. Other than that, I usually have to have the right atmosphere going for movies to scare me. I have to be alone in the apartment late at night, and old creaky noises are helpful.

ditto, however there were a couple of great startle scenes.

Pathetically, the American Grudge has pretty much scarred me since I saw it in the cinema FOUR YEARS AGO.

My friends like to put black wigs on and pretend to be the lady. It's so strange - I know it's not real, AND the film was pretty bad, but I actually cannot handle it when they do this to me. I have some great friends (I also see the funny side, even though I can't explain the random terror).

Can't believe a BUFFY movie fecked me up.

Better yet, the other one was Darkness Falls. Similarly crap, and it had ANYA in it.

Clearly I have some Buffy issues.

Darkness Falls? you must scare really easily.

No, I don't. That's why it's so bizarre. And I wasn't actually afraid during either film. It was afterwards when my imagination started going.

dude, you SERIOUSLY found nightmare on elm street at least a tiny bit scary?? i laughed my frikkin way through that film..

evil dead (the first one) was quite scary for me when i was alot younger (say about 6-7) and i had to turn it off when the woman was trying to come up from the cellar..i watched it again when i was about 16 and was like "WTF that wasn't even scary" lol...

Scary for me would be The Ring (remake), The pulse, Dawn of the dead (remake) The Thing, Leviathan and Event Horizon. I don't get that scared by horror films these days. I believe this is because of my age, and how i understand what is going on. Also it is because i find alot of horror films these days are weak.

Thai Horror:
Shutter
Alone

I guess Evil Dead is one of those special movies that has a different effect on different people. Some people will find it to be the most terrifying movie ever, then again, some others will probably find it absolutely hilarious.

Man that part in Event Horizon when hes in the hallway or whatever and the light kept flashing off and on and then (was it his wife?) I havent seen the whole thing but I remember seeing that part.

TCM: When leather face opens the door and knocks the dude on the head with the hammer.

TCM 2: When The girl Stretch meets choptop and then Leatherface busts out of the Record Vault. I love Choptop awesome character.

Those were some "jump" moments. Stuff that really freaks me out are stuff like the Grudge were you see the ghost slowly coming up the stairs, or anything that is gliding after you. Also, like per say Jeepers Creepers is the only thing that comes to mind, when you see something off behind you and it slowly is making a gain on you when he was in his truck.

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) scared me when I was little. It was on TV and I only remember a few scenes, but it was creepy.

When I was 16, I watched Friday the 13th: IV: The Final Chapter in the theater with my cousin. That movie scared me! I was afraid something was gonna jump out and get me when we walked out to the car. I'm glad I wasn't alone.

Most movies just make me hold my breath or jump. There was a scene in a TV movie or video I watched where someone sticks his/her hand near a paper shredder and it goes in and gets shredded. I think it was called The Temp starring Laura Flyne Boyle (sp?). I have a major fear of sharp machinery like those industrial slicers in restaurants. Losing a limb or a digit or two would be horrible! Oh, that reminds me of an Elvira episode about a man getting sliced and a scene in The Night Gallery episode having something to do with someone and a grave. Creepy!

Another movie called The Mangler scared me. The machinery is the reason. I don't want to give it away in case you haven't seen it.

Black Christmas scared the baaageezzuzzz outtme when I was younger,

as did, A Nightmare on Elm Street

Most recently, REC gave me some good shivers

These scenes from "The Eye" kind gave me that shiver down the spine thing. Of course a lot had to do with the audio....cranked up in surround sound really makes a difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYdK-R4Tyo

crank up the speakers for the full effect

I have freddy and michael myers nightmares almost everynight. Ever since I started watching them when I was like 5. But I love it. :D
freddy is hilarious and my favorite but in my dreams it reminds me of how scary he was when I was little and it makes him scary all over again.
Michael Myers is and always will be scary to me.

But the shining of course, I still find terrifying and amazing.

Lots were scary as a kid but now? When i first watched The Eye, the original not the american remake. Evil dead made me laugh and i liked the claymation effects.

I dont (now) really find horror movie's all that scary TBO. I can only think of one that actually "scare's" me is an Aussie movie called Alison's Birthday
The old lady at the end screaming, That still give's me the creep's.

I also still get a little scared when watching the movie Misery, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) is still the most scaryest movie character of al time IMO, she terrify's me.

I have to go with GhostWatcher.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365262/

For some reason, that movie creeped me out alot more than others.

I don't get scared of movies like Michael Myers and such, it's more Paranormal movies that freak me out. Maybe because it seems there's more of a possibility for that to happen.

The SHINING 1980
The THING by J.Carpenter
The EXORCIST
Audrey Rose ( had a very very creepy chlling feel to it,IMO atleast )

Ringu, The Shining, The Exorcist, The Thing all have seriously scary scenes in them.

Less obvious - The Tenant freaked me out.

I think the birds is an incredibly scary concept, though I wouldn't call it scary.

Nightmare on elm street freaked me out the first time I saw it. And the thing.

I wouldn't really say The Exorcist is scary, at least not as scary as everyone liked to think.