Scariest movie you ever saw! Mine was

[passion4audio]

(if memory serves - as this was when I was a young kid - and THAT may have been a factor on how scary I perceived it) an old black and white - I can't recall the name, but if someone knows...

One scene:

A man (doctor?) was sitting in a wooden chair in the middle of a room and he had this very large and grotesque "death smile" on his face. Can't remember much else as I had nightmares about this for several years. Maybe he was dying and he had his family around - all "after" the large inheritance? Sorry for the very fuzzy details.

What is your "scariest movie"?

[fotno]

The only thing I can think of that's similar is "The Legacy" - 1978. It stars Katherine Ross, Sam Elliott, and Roger Daltrey. It's the story of a young woman who "inherits" the wealth and demonic power of a family she hadn't even realized she was a part of.

It's been years since I've seen it, but IIRC the patriarch of the family lies, half sitting up up in bed and hooked to a very loud respirator, for the greater part of the film, and I don't believe the audience sees his face until the very end of the flick. I was about 15 -16 when I first saw it, and recall being pretty scared at the time. Dunno if this is it, but hope it helps...

Edit; Oh yeah, probably The Exorcist, at least the first time I saw it.

[WhiteSE]

Well, for long term heebie jeebies it has to be The Exorcist...

I saw it when i lived in Argentina...I was alone (folks out town) in a huge 9th and 10th flr duplex apt....I came home and had to ride the creepy elevator..slept with every light on for 3 nights...

[Mark W.]

The Birds" age about 9-10 Dad didn't help telling me when to hide under the covers just made it worse"!

[Celt]

Gee...and here I was gonna say "Bambi"! :D

[Lefty]

The first Alien movie. I went the first week it opened with no pre-warning that it was a scary movie. I thought I was just going to see a cool Si-Fi movie. Just about lost my cookies when that thing jumped out of his chest :sigh:

Lefty

[THOR]

Probably Jaws, I still WILL NOT SWIM IN THE OCEAN, ANY OCEAN Since I saw this movie as a child. I actually get a little freaked out when I am out in deep water where I can't see the bottom in LAKES even. I start hearing that damm music in my head even though I know there is no way a shark can get me I still can't shake the fear that something is gonna eat me :yikes:

Second place goes to the Exorcist, nightmares for weeks after seeing that one.

[Wornears]

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- first version in B&W.

[kerozene]

Born and raised Catholic, the Exorcist scared the living shit outta me... I haven't watched since I saw it in a theater when it first came out!

[jimbecky48001]

the night stalker when I was 10

[rulerboyz]

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. A low budget zombie movie from the early 70s. I was about 10, and couldn't make it through the entire movie.

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[TWantiques]

Has to be "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" with Bette Davis.

It was 40 years ago when I was in high school and I still remember how I nearly wet my pants so it must be the scariest I've seen. I'm sure one reason it got to me was I had no idea it was a scary movie when I went to see it. No time to prepare. :sigh:

Terry

[bozak ron]

Passion4audio, the movie you mention might have been The Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus, or something like that title. For me, the scariest movie was the original Dracula in balck & white with Bela Legosi. I saw it when I was very young & made my mom buy a crucifix to hang over my bed to keep vampires away.

[Sandy G]

1968 version of "Night of the Living Dead". Stumbled on to part of it in college, had to walk thru this big parking lot on the way back to the dorm, them damn ghouls were comin' after me about every second car. Was in WFO run by the time I got to the dorm. I knew nothing about that damn flick B4 that nite, yeah sure its stupid as all get out, but I was still terrified.-Sandy G.

[junkaudio]

blear witch projekt was pretty real and the one from sandy did it too

[Ghog]

13 years old when my folks took me to see "Jaws". Scared the crap out of me, I guess because it was something that could be real. Monsters don't usually scare me much. However, when I was 8 or 9, we saw "The Legend of Boggy Creek" at the drive-in. We had just moved out in the country (thick woods rural Arkansas) a couple of years before, and after that movie some local teenagers making out at the gravel pit swore they saw a "bigfoot" and someone else saw it crossing the highway nearby. Those two sightings put it right through our woods. We spent the whole summer scarred out of our wits to set foot in the woods!

[Sandy G]

Another one that "did it" was "The Evil Dead". Went to see it primarily 'cause it was filmed near here, over near Newport, Tennessee, Was OK until they stuck a pencil into a guy's ankle & you heard it go crunch, crunch, crunch...There were 4 or 5 of us watching it, we all bolted at that point. Not so scary, but just "JEEZ !"...-Sandy G.

[ejfud]

Scanners really freaked me out when it came out. I don't know why, but it did.

Gary

[tdpatt48]

"the birds" i saw this when i was 8 or 9.the worst part was that my room was in the basement!worse still my door was a pair of old saloon style swinging doors.not good for keeping monsters out!the third strike was a mouse in the wall.i knew the mouse was there but that night it was 100 seagulls trying to get through my wall! i lay in bed sweating,and afraid to move for the longest time before i went to sleep.thankfully ive never been that afraid since.

[passion4audio]

when I was young...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005V4XF/104-2047942-4300728?v=glance&n=130

[bozak ron]

Allright, my memory's not totally gone yet. I remember Dr. Sardonicus well. When he digs up his dad's grave to get the winning lottery ticket and is cursed with that evil grin.... Yikes.

[Johncan]

"About Last Night" with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. It scared the sh*t out of me.






Seriously... as a kid, it would be "Jaws"... I was scared of swimming pools and bath tubs.

As a teenager, "The Hitcher" with Rutger Hauer... I still have a hard time sitting through it and I know what is going to happen. That movie is really creepy.

John

[Retro Stereo]

For my wife, it was The Blair Witch Project. That woman had nightmares for a good week after watching that. As a matter of fact, since that movie, she hasn't watched anything even remotely scary.

I guess for me, it has to be the early black and white version of Night of the Living Dead. Remember the little girl that dies down the basement and comes back to life? I can still hear the sound of that hand-held garden spade she was using to kill her first victim.


Retro

[Sandy G]

...Who was her MOTHER, as I recall. I think her real name was Kyra Schon. The guy who was the "Newscaster" was "Chilly Billy" Cordele, who was host of the "creature feature" movie in Pittsburgh. His daughter, Lori, was in one of the later George Romero "Dead" flicks in the '80s.The story of the "Dead" flick is a fascinating one, to say the least. About everybody who played in the 1st one was part owner, writer, assistant director or something. It was kinda as if about 25 of us got together & decided to make a film from scratch, & talked a bunch of our friends/relatives into helping us.-Sandy G.

[BULLWINKLE]

As a child The Pit and The Pendulum freaked me out but, later as a college kid The Exorcist made me afraid of the dark. If I hear the music Tubular Bells, I feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Havent watched a scary movie since!

[Toasted Almond]

The Changeling, with George C. Scott.

[sandoz]

Nightmare on Elm Street - My friends dad owned the movie theater in my home town and I could go see whatever I wanted. I think I was 12 when I saw it by myself and I was afraid to sleep for many days!

[rulerboyz]

Over the years Freddie Krugger has found his way into quite a few of my dreams...not always as a villain, however his presence is never comforting. Definitely a compelling character of horror, that strikes when you're most vulnerable.

[SPL db]

I saw a movie when I was between 7-9 in the mid seventies that scared me pretty good.

It had made it to TV by then and I remember watching it with my parents...

About all I remember from the movie is that it takes place on an airliner that was either
possessed or haunted.

I only remember two scenes from the movie... one of the crew had to go through one
of the cargo holds, and "whatever" was on board had turned the hold into a deep freeze
where if the cold itself didn't kill ya, touching anything gave you instant frostbite.

There was a point when the crew member was walking along and the guy looks over
and there was a german shepard that was in a dog crate that was frozen in mid bark.

The second scene was all the passengers where in the first class area of the plane and
"whatever" was trying to get in and the carpet on the floor started bubbling up and one
of the stewardesses took a doll from a little girl and had drawn an evil face on the doll and
showed it to the bubbling carpet and it went back down...

I was under the cover that my mom had on the couch after that! :para:

Still don't know what the name of that movie was...

Scott

[rulerboyz]

If you ever want to find out the name of a movie you can only remember partial details about you should post a question on the I Need To Know board at imdb.com. Chances are that if they can't figure it out for you, nobody can.

http://us.imdb.com/boards/

[rca2000]

I still have a SERIOUS aversion to dentists........(Is it safe???)

[SPL db]

If you ever want to find out the name of a movie you can only remember partial details about you should post a question on the I Need To Know board at imdb.com. Chances are that if they can't figure it out for you, nobody can.

Thanks rulerboyz! :thmbsp:

Found out that the movie I watched was a made for TV movie called Horror at 37,000 Feet! :yes:

Scott

[Andyman]

Well, it wasn't a movie, but the Twilight zone episode "To Serve Man" scared the crap oout of me for years.

That's the one where the 7' aliens come to Earth and present a global peace plan and a book to the UN. Peace ensues and folks start migrating to the Kanamits home planet. One of the crytographers working on deciphering the book, who's title of "To Serve Man" is all that's been decoded is leaving for his trip to the alien planet when his assistant runs up to him as he's getting aboard and shouts something like "Dr! Don't go! It's, it's ............a cookbook!!"

It ends with the scientist sitting in his room on the alien spaceship and not eating. One of the aliens comes in and says "Dr, you haven't touched your lunch? We wouldn't want you to lose any weight"

Sheesh, Rod!!!!!!

Scared the chit out of this 12 year old!! :yes:

[fotno]

...Who was her MOTHER, as I recall. I think her real name was Kyra Schon. The guy who was the "Newscaster" was "Chilly Billy" Cordele, who was host of the "creature feature" movie in Pittsburgh. His daughter, Lori, was in one of the later George Romero "Dead" flicks in the '80s.The story of the "Dead" flick is a fascinating one, to say the least. About everybody who played in the 1st one was part owner, writer, assistant director or something. It was kinda as if about 25 of us got together & decided to make a film from scratch, & talked a bunch of our friends/relatives into helping us.-Sandy G.

You're exactly right Sandy, her name is Kyra Schon. I've never met her in person, but she and I are both members of a horror movie board, and she seems to be a genuinely nice person. Tells some great stories about starring in NOTLD, and being in the horror movie industry period.

[Sandy G]

OF COURSE I'M RIGHT ! Vhen vill you schtoopit Anglanders realize zat I know everythink, und bow und scrape to my obvious intelligence..AHA ! Today, AK ! Tomorrow...Za WORLD ! MBWAHAHAHAHA...-Dr Prof.Ing Sandy G., Certifiable Mad Scientist.....

[bear-hifi]

The original Alien:alien: movie really did a number on me! Of course I was 9 at the time and have never seen anything close to a horror movie like that before. I felt that the movie was ahead of its time for 1979…


http://www.markta.co.uk/alien/



http://www.markta.co.uk/alien/airlock.htm

[Dynacophil]

Hi
does anybody remember "Eraserhead" of David Lynch.... i liked that very much :)
HH

[bolly]

eraserhead in B&W, I seen it dynacophil.

[Dynacophil]

..... the "baby" was seen just a short second...surrealistic - i liked it much. Was the debut of Lynch, i guess, and was great what he did just with light.... Already nearly 30 yrs ago...

not the debut, his fourth film i read... what was before?
the answer:
http://www.davidlynch.de/

i also loved Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive and I even have the Diary of Laura Palmer :)

Helge

[Bogframe]

Horror Hotel (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053719/) has a jump cut it in that still gets me shaking. It's when a coven of witches is about to sacrifice a girl. The knife comes down until it just touches her chest and the you see the same knife at the same speed going into a birthday cake!
Carnival of Souls (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/) Is another one that still creeps me out to this day!

[THOR]

..... the "baby" was seen just a short second...surrealistic - i liked it much. Was the debut of Lynch, i guess, and was great what he did just with light.... Already nearly 30 yrs ago...

not the debut, his fourth film i read... what was before?
the answer:
http://www.davidlynch.de/

i also loved Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive and I even have the Diary of Laura Palmer :)

Helge

Phil you should change your avatar now before you are told to, can't have any nudity in them. As much as I like the boob in your it's gotta go ;)

[RussinOhio]

...Who was her MOTHER, as I recall. I think her real name was Kyra Schon. The guy who was the "Newscaster" was "Chilly Billy" Cordele, who was host of the "creature feature" movie in Pittsburgh. His daughter, Lori, was in one of the later George Romero "Dead" flicks in the '80s.The story of the "Dead" flick is a fascinating one, to say the least. About everybody who played in the 1st one was part owner, writer, assistant director or something. It was kinda as if about 25 of us got together & decided to make a film from scratch, & talked a bunch of our friends/relatives into helping us.-Sandy G.


As a kid I was a big fan of Bill Cardille. My mother & I lived in Uniontown Pa. in the late 1960's while dad was overseas. We watched "Chilly Billy" every Saturday night. The show (out of Pittsburgh) was called "Chiller Theatre". He'd run 2 movies and in between commercial breaks he'd comment on the movie. The guy smoked like a fiend. The movies always scared the shit out of me but in later years the same movies would be ridiculled & poked fun at on "Mystery Science Theatre 3000".

It seems John Bloom...aka "Joe Bob Briggs" used the same shtick in his "Monster Vision" show on TNT in the mid-late 1990's.

Russ

[Sandy G]

In Richmond, we had the "Bowman Body" on channel 8, who was the host for the Creature Features. He'd do the commentary on commercial breaks, was so effin' bad, he was good..We'd get good 'n' drunk, or "otherwise", & watch the Bowman Body Show late Sat nites, & howl at him...-Sandy G.

[Jupiter1610]

The Shining still gives me the creeps.

[Retro Stereo]

The Shining still gives me the creeps.

"Here's Johnny!"

They tried re-doing that movie a few years back, and the second version just plained sucked! Why would you do something like that?


"By the way, Lloyd, pour me another will ya?"



Retro

[Kamakiri]

Mine was a movie about a computerized hospital called "Terminal Choice", a mid-80s flick. Scared the daylights out of me. In fact, I was telling my wife about this very movie last night.

[Urizen]

As a young child, there was a movie or series called "Devil Dummy"? It was about a ventriloquist and his dummy which had to be caged at night as it would escape creating mayhem. Nightmares over that one.

As I got older, "The Birds", "Jaws", "The Exorcist", "The Shining", "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The Blair Witch Project".

[Dynacophil]

Phil you should change your avatar now before you are told to, can't have any nudity in them. As much as I like the boob in your it's gotta go ;)

Buen dia, Thor!

i knew from the late seventies when we nearly got lynched on Long beach beeing with topless chicas on the beach in the sun, but this was 30 yrs ago...
what happened meanwhile, puritan revival? :scratch2:
but anyway, before the Hammer hits me i covered it :nono:

not Phil, Helge (the *phil is the german spelling of *phile)

[fotno]

"Here's Johnny!"

They tried re-doing that movie a few years back, and the second version just plained sucked! Why would you do something like that?


"By the way, Lloyd, pour me another will ya?"



Retro

The sad thing is Retro, that the mini-series was executive produced, and the teleplay written by King himself. Supposedly the intent of the remake was that it would stay truer to the original text, and be something that King would be happier with, than he had been the original film. But you're exactly right, it just plain sucked.

The Kubrick version is light years better than the most recent rendition.

[TVTeufel]

I was around 12 when I saw "The Thing" in 1953 as I remember. ...didn't think I'd live to be 13 with the nightmares it produced.

James Arness played "The Thing".
Who's James Arness you ask.
He went on to star in "Gunsmoke".
What's "Gunsmoke" you ask.

Nevermind - It helps to be an old phart.

Only "Alien" comes close to the subtlety of "The Thing".

Ron.

[THOR]

The sad thing is Retro, that the mini-series was executive produced, and the teleplay written by King himself. Supposedly the intent of the remake was that it would stay truer to the original text, and be something that King would be happier with, than he had been the original film. But you're exactly right, it just plain sucked.

The Kubrick version is light years better than the most recent rendition.

I gotta admit I understood what was going on in the mini series better than the original. But no one has a chance being as scary as Jack.

Makes me wonder who they'll get to play The Joker when he appears in the next Batman movie? Gonna be tough to live up to Jack's version :yes:

[THOR]

I love the John Capenter remake of The Thing. One of my faves!

[Sandy G]

Y'all might laugh, but I found "Deliverance" to be a very scary movie. Well, disturbing, I guess, more than scary. But think about it...The Banjo Boy...the grossly deformed kid in the house... the accident that leaves the bone sticking out of Burt's leg..."Squeal Like a Pig, Boy!"...the sheriff (actually James Dickey, who wrote the book), the hand raising out of the lake...the juxtaposition of such an incredibly beautiful place-and North Georgia IS very pretty-and the dreadful, nightmarish events...-Sandy G.

[soundmotor]

I remember it well, for me it was "Island of Terror" (Night of the Silicates) w/ Peter Cushing when I was ~11 or so. Lab experiment goes wrong and calcium eating mollusk things are set loose on a Jersey island. Victims have their bones sucked out of them and leave a very squishy corpse. I watched it after school one afternoon before anyone was home & halfway through the film I was locking the doors & shutting drapes. I may have even had my Hillerich & Bradsby on hand.

Honorable mentions -

Rosemary's Baby
Nightmare on Elm Street (1st one)
The Changeling (still creeps me out)
Haunting of Hill House (original)
House of Wax (original)
Many more I've thankfully forgotten

[rbneron]

"Jaws" was my first PG movie...ouch! I lived in Florida at the time, and remember that everyone was scared to go in the water. A very impactful movie.

[tentoze]

Victor Victoria- Julie Andrews as a cross-dresser gave me nightmares for months.

[Toasted Almond]

TVTeufel has a point. It was different when we were kids, and the original The Thing was one scary movie to a kid. Invaders from Mars too.

[Sansuiman]

Ok,

I saw a movie when I was between 7-9 in the mid seventies that scared me pretty good.

It had made it to TV by then and I remember watching it with my parents...

About all I remember from the movie is that it takes place on an airliner that was either
possessed or haunted.

I only remember two scenes from the movie... one of the crew had to go through one
of the cargo holds, and "whatever" was on board had turned the hold into a deep freeze
where if the cold itself didn't kill ya, touching anything gave you instant frostbite.

<SNIP>

Scott

This movie had to be "Horror at 37,000 feet". I think William Shatner was in it, a pretty cheesy 70's made for TV movie. It definately had it's moments where it got to you.

For me, Evil Dead was probably one of the scarier movies I've seen. Another was Demon Seed, had an evil computer voiced by Robert Vaughan (though he was uncredited in the movie interestingly enough) of Man from U.N.C.L.E. Fame. Kind of a wacked out early 80's combo sci-fi/horror job. Pretty intese at times.

Amityville Horror also ranks up there (the 1976 version, not that rancid steaming heap of crap they re-made a couple of years back) I saw this as a kid. Now, it just looks like a low-budget BS job. Which is exactly what is was.

And, don't forget the Exorcist III - after the bad joke that was Exorcist II, it tends to be overlooked. It was actually a very good movie for both story and production value. It also spooked the hell out of me, as opposed to the chuckles I got hearing Richard Burton say "Pizuzu" or whatever stupid demon they were talking about in the second movie.

One more that gets honorable mention - The Car. Insanely stupid 70's horror movie about a big, black, ugly car with full window tint and no door handles on the outside, that honked it's horn when it was about to attack. Starred James Brolin as the police chief in another one of his great performances (insert sarcasm here) and the car was, I suppose, driven by the devil. I laugh at it now, not so much 20 years ago.

Kevin

[fotno]

Y'all might laugh, but I found "Deliverance" to be a very scary movie. Well, disturbing, I guess, more than scary. But think about it...The Banjo Boy...the grossly deformed kid in the house... the accident that leaves the bone sticking out of Burt's leg..."Squeal Like a Pig, Boy!"...the sheriff (actually James Dickey, who wrote the book), the hand raising out of the lake...the juxtaposition of such an incredibly beautiful place-and North Georgia IS very pretty-and the dreadful, nightmarish events...-Sandy G.

Just think Sandy, if it scared me and you (and it did scare me) - I can only imagine how terrifying it must be fer Yankees! :D

[Sandy G]

No shit Fotno, I knew some folks not TOO different than the people in the flick...This was filmed below Chattanooga in Dalton & Calhoun, Georgia, & there was a bit of a kerfuffle at the time as the locals weren't exactly best pleased at the way they were portrayed in the film...-Sandy G.

[diddlybopper]

"THE EVIL DEAD" Scared crap out of me and still does.However the most "Disturbing"movie for me anyway is "Looking For Mr.Goodbar"Somthing about it that I find extremely disturbing,not at all sure what it is.So I just don't watch it.
TVTeufel..Gunsmokes bartender SAM (Glenn Strange) also played the Frankenstein Monster in a couple cheezy flicks,one was Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein..

[Toasted Almond]

"Horror at 37,000Ft" was a Twilight Zone show, and then re-made as a segment of the "Twilight Zone" movie in the 70's.

[soundmotor]

This movie had to be "Horror at 37,000 feet". I think William Shatner was in it, a pretty cheesy 70's made for TV movie. It definately had it's moments where it got to you.

There was a period in the early 70's when ABC had a regular horror movie every couple of weeks and I am pretty sure this film was part of that series as was Trilogy of Terror w/ Karen Black. I remember both of these well and they both creeped me out.

I can't recall the name of one other movie from this series. In it the main character is a 20's something girl who moves into a large, old home. Living within the walls are these dwarf-like things wearing black cloaks & had prune shaped heads. They could not stand the light and were very nasty. I had trouble leaving the lights off after seeing it. Does anyone remember this film?

[soundmotor]

Although I cannot remember any specific plots, I do recall episodes of "Circle of Fear" & "Night Gallery" that hung with me for weeks. Even "The 6th Sense" and "The Magician" had their moments!

Crap, it's all coming back now. There was even an episode of "The Streets of San Francisco where these 2 old brothers lived in an old mansion and a kid died on their property so one of the brothers sewed him up inside a large clown doll to hide him. Wrong, wrong, wrong on so many levels! I don't think I slept much between the ages of 11 & 14 yet found myself watching this stuff every chance I got.

[THOR]

I remember this one Night Gallery I think it was, the whole show this girl thinks this guy is a vampire, all the signs point to him being a vampire and the reason folks are dissapearing, finally somehow they confront each other and he shows her himself in a mirror's reflection and is like "see I'm not a vampire" she is relieved UNTIL HE TURNS INTO A WEREWOLF AND EATS HER!!!!

I'd love to see that one again!

[Bigerik]

Not even an entire movie, but the scariest thing I ever saw was in the movie Carrie. I was a teen, just come home and turned on the tv. Did not know what I was watching. Came in at the scene where the girl is putting flowers on the grave. Won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it, but it scared the crap out of me. I bet I jumped about 5 feet into the air and screamed like a little girl.....
Erik

[passion4audio]

one where this guy had a fear of spiders. He saw a small one in his apartment and killed it. Then he saw a bigger one and washed it down the sink. Then a bigger one.

At the end (if memory serves, and this has been a LONG time) he goes to a neighbor in a hysterical state. The neighbor tries to calm him as they walk together back to his apartment, then the neighbor shoves him in his apartment and locks him in. The camera then pans to a GIANT spider. (Not sure of the accuracy of my description.)

I wish the Night Gallery series was available on DVD (it may be though, I haven't checked). What a series!

[Sandy G]

Aww, man! Night Gallery ! Remember the one about The Earwig? Or the one about the guy who could "die" when a certain series of raps were sounded out? Clint Howard played a kid in one who could tell the future-and saw the sun going supernova ? Why can't they do stuff like that on TV anymore? Cheesy reality shows & 12,587 different versions of "Law 'n' Order"- Puh-Leeze...-Sandy G.

[Cloth Ears]

A Clockwork Orange (the start, anyway) until you realize it happens now all too frequently.

And a special mention to "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" - not particularly scary, but it hits every base...

[SPL db]

Another movie that comes to mind was the original "The Haunting" in black & white...

More of a suspense movie...

Not really scary at all, but kept me on the edge of my seat, and not too many movies do that for me!

Scott

[soundmotor]

Aww, man! Night Gallery ! Remember the one about The Earwig?

".....and when it came out I squeezed it; and it was full of eggs...."

Did you mean that earwig episode of Night Gallery?

Eeeew!

[ByrdWyngs]

How about "Phantasm", anybody else remember that one? I grew up on SF and horror flicks and very few of them ever really bothered me, but for some reason that flick just totally creeped me out (I'm sure it didn't have anything to do with the fact that I was higher than a kite when I saw it :smoke: , not that it was a terribly unusual condition for me to be in back in the late '70s :nono: )

[Sandy G]

Uhh, yeah, Soundmotor, that was the one..and, yeah, "Phantasm" was sort of a "mind-phuque", even if you WEREN'T "under the influence". That damn shiny ball whizzing thru the air & then augering itself into somebody's head....Sheesh !-Sandy G.

[Toasted Almond]

Soundmotor,

I do vaguely remember the one with Karen Black. In the very last scene she is squatting, scraping the knife back and forth against the floor, with that LOOK in her eyes. THAT creeped me out.

There was also a good creeper about The Bermuda Triangle with Kim Novak. At the end they rescue her in a helicopter, and once they get her aboard realize that SHE is the problem. Another good ending to what I remember was a pretty mediocre movie.

[Sansuiman]

Oh yeah,

Trilogy of terror with Karen Black, and that scene at the end... that was heavy stuff. Now though, those prune headed little demons make me laugh just to think about them. 70's made for TV special effects have not dated well, for sure.

How about another with Karen Black - Burnt Offerings. Not a slash 'n' gore horror movie, but a great haunted house story with a shocker of an ending, well, at least the first time you see it.

Have to agree with previous posts about Deliverance. That was the kind of movie that makes you cringe, because the things portrayed there could actually happen. And that
"squeal like a pig boy..." is about the most sickening bit in the whole movie.

I just thought of another one that spooked me - I think it was it Hellraiser. The one with the guy who had all the pins stuck in his head in a perfect criss-cross pattern and a whole cast of other gortesque perverts. That was some messed up sh....tuff.

Kevin

[Mr Natural]

For me, it was "Horrors of the Black Museum".
My cousin took me when I was like 8 or 9 yrs old and the first scene where this lady receives a present in the mail and it's a pair of binoculars. So she goes over to the window to use them and these 12" knives come out of the eye peices and shes got her hands on her face with blood POURING out between her fingers and shes' screaming........

Man, you never saw a kid run out of the theatre so fast :yikes: :cry:

[soundmotor]

How about "Phantasm", anybody else remember that one? I grew up on SF and horror flicks and very few of them ever really bothered me, but for some reason that flick just totally creeped me out (I'm sure it didn't have anything to do with the fact that I was higher than a kite when I saw it :smoke: , not that it was a terribly unusual condition for me to be in back in the late '70s :nono: )

By the time Phantasm came out, I'd gotten past fear and into enjoyment of them not unlike a rollercoaster. I'd also discovered that horror films tended to have an odd effect on the libido of one's date. (Let's just leave it at that.)

[soundmotor]

For me, it was "Horrors of the Black Museum".
Presented for your enjoyment.....

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0001Z653K.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I've never heard of that one. It has some very good reviews online.

[JerryM]

[QUOTE=passion4audio
What is your "scariest movie"?[/QUOTE]

You mean other than "Showgirls?"


Would have to be "Psycho," which I saw when it first came out. I must have about 8. I went with a group of my school buddies. I think the occasion might have been one of my friend's birthdays. We were just dropped off at the theater--no parents. There were no ratings then, and they'd let kids in to most anything. It's really a pretty violent and disturbing movie for a bunch of 8 year olds, and most of time, we couldn't even look at the screen. Strange entertainment for a kid's birthday party.

[fropiler]

I was wondering if I was the only one on the planet that saw this "bone sucking" movie. I had nightmares for years about that monster. any idea what year it was?


I remember it well, for me it was "Island of Terror" (Night of the Silicates) w/ Peter Cushing when I was ~11 or so. Lab experiment goes wrong and calcium eating mollusk things are set loose on a Jersey island. Victims have their bones sucked out of them and leave a very squishy corpse. I watched it after school one afternoon before anyone was home & halfway through the film I was locking the doors & shutting drapes. I may have even had my Hillerich & Bradsby on hand.

Honorable mentions -

Rosemary's Baby
Nightmare on Elm Street (1st one)
The Changeling (still creeps me out)
Haunting of Hill House (original)
House of Wax (original)
Many more I've thankfully forgotten

[soundmotor]

I was wondering if I was the only one on the planet that saw this "bone sucking" movie. I had nightmares for years about that monster. any idea what year it was?

This is somewhat cathartic. The film came out in 1966 but it wasn't until the early 70's when I saw it. Here's a couple for the trip back down memory lane -

http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/pics/I/iot4.jpg http://exclamationmark.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/islandofterror2.jpg http://pre-cert.co.uk/pix/iotmarket.gif

[Sandy G]

Anybody remember "The Leech Woman"? Grade-Z flick that came out in '60, scared the P*ss outta me in like '65 or '66 when I was 8 or 9...My mom had a cousin who vaguely resembled-VERY vaguely-the "monster"- I never could look at her after that w/o thinking of that dreadful movie. She was a very nice lady, too-always nice to me, I shouldn't think of her like that.-Sandy G.

[Sandy G]

"Showgirls"- Dammit, Jessi, put yer clothes back on, girl ! Yeah, I always wanted to see Elizabeth Berkeley nekkid, but....Boy, HER career went in the terlet w/THAT one- has she done anything since that ?!?-Sandy G.

[RussinOhio]

I posted elsewhere in this forum about my recent viewing of "The Exorcist".
I was 14 years old when I saw that picture and it really freaked me out! I was actually traumatised by that movie. Damn it was a good month or two before I could sleep normally.

"Alien" in 1979 gave me a bad dream or two!

I totally agree with you guys about Twighlight Zone & Night Gallery....great shows!! :thmbsp:


Russ

[Mr Natural]

Anyone remember Chiller Theatre? Used to start with that lady from Plan9 from Outer Space comin' at ya. That used to scare me every Saturday night. One time they ran 'She Devils' or 'She Demons' and when the girls truned into the monsters with those awful faces, I used to duck under the blankets and not come out the rest of the night.....even with the NY Rangers coming on later!

[Celt]

I like scary movies...always have...but they have rarely ever scared me. That being said, one of the best is "The Haunting" (1963) with Julie Harris. It doesn't try to scare you with horrific special effects...instead it just suggests it.

[Trawlerman]

Nobody scared at the Hellraiser movies?

Always gives me the heebie-jeebies. Especially the second episode. The bloke with the maggots all over him freaks me out and particularly when the doctor gives him the razor to cut them off with.

Now that's some seriously warped stuff!

[Sandy G]

Anybody else remember "The Outer Limits"? Damned if some of THEM weren't scary..at least to a 7,8 yr old kid. I'd get so upset my parents wouldn't let me watch it. Remember the episode where they steal several blocks' worth of 1963 suburbia America & transport it to this planet where everyone looks like they have world-class acne? Or the one where these things that look like crabs get on yr back & suck you dry ? Another good one was where Robert Culp has this glass hand, & is actually a robot...Aww, man, I could go on all day !! <grin>-Sandy G.

[TVTeufel]

Anybody else remember "The Outer Limits"?

Another good one was where Robert Culp has this glass hand, & is actually a robot...Aww, man, I could go on all day !! <grin>-Sandy G.


One more then..... either from "The Outer Limits", or "Twilight Zone" circa late '50s, early '60s. Scenario - USA & USSR are close to lobbing the big one at each other. Our (mad) scientists come up with a plan whereby the only way to save mama earth from oblivion is to invent an extra-terrestrial, & have him (it) land somewhere to announce a coming invasion by hoards of his (its) species, with the intent that the cold war adversaries would quit pissing each other off; & join forces against the impending space invasion. One of the scientists is "selected" to begin a series of body part transplants from various barnyard critters to make him appear uh..."less human". I think the final result resembled a satyr, but not as cute. Anyway, he's loaded into a fake spacecraft, & is destined to land somewhere to mutter the "Take me to your leader" line. However the craft misses its mark (Times Square?), & crashes somewhere less civilized (I know, hard to imagine).
After our deformed savior crawls from the hatch, he (it) is wandering through a forest (think Deliverence), when "POW", he's (it's) taken down by a bullet betwixed the horns.
"Day-um", exclaims hunter Buford to buddy Darrold, eyeing the fallen critter. "That's the ugliest dam' warthog I ever done seen".

The end.

Prolog - happy ending....USSR discovers Playboy, tears down The Wall, buys Cadillacs, & sells bombs to Saddam.


Ron.

[markdi]

2 movies stand out to me

john carpenters the thing

and Requiem for a Dream

[Toasted Almond]

Do not attempt to adjust your TV set. We control the vertical. We control the horizontal.

[Sandy G]

Sit quietly & for the next hour we will take from the inner mind to THE OUTER LIMITS...

[Toasted Almond]

The show would've looked like hell in color. Man, those were the GOD's (Good Old Days).

[Yamaha B-2]

Hate to date myself like this, but we had just gotten a new RCA B&W console in '52 and at the age of 4+ I snuck into the LR and turned it on one Saturday evening whilst my father was asleep and mother was in the bath. Watched about 20 minutes of "The Thing". But, when they thought they had it trapped in that cabinet and used and ax to knock open the lock on the cabinet door and a dead sled dog fell out (killed by the Thing, obviously) I lept up and ran in and sat outside the bathroom door until my mother finished her bath. Scared the bejesus out of a preschooler.

[Sandy G]

Yeah, "The Outer Limits" had a "look" to it that prolly wouldn't have played well in color.It was the work of a cinematographer named Conrad Hall, & he deliberately used odd camera angles & murky lighting to give it "that" look. The biggest problem w/TOL was that it was kinda uneven, some shows very good indeed, some weren't, & were hard to follow. Still, I'd give my eyeteeth to see something like it or "Twilight Zone" nowadays. Yeah, I know BOTH of 'em had new shows, but they seemed more interested in preaching to you about Injustice or Women's Rights or some other blarney, than scaring yr pants off...-Sandy G.

[Toasted Almond]

Yamaha B-2 that is exactly what you deserved. Somewhere around the same age myself, I snuck out of bed one night and went into the living room. My parents were both out cold on the couches, and the TV was on with a wolfman type movie. I watched it till the end and then woke them up, cause there was no way I was walking down the hallway back to my bedroom alone.

[shrinkboy]

has anybody mentioned the friggin' Banshee in 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People"? that thing put me into fright zone so bad i was nearly paralyzed for a month

[Sandy G]

OMIGAWD !! Holy Schnikees, I'd mercifully forgotten about THAT one...Guess 'cause I'm part Scotch-Irish it REALLY worked on me, too....-Sandy G.

[shocley]

There was an Outer Limits episode about some sort of particle creatures who ate up the bodies of people working in a nuclear reactor and took over their radiation suits. It all happened during a thunderstorm, and the reactor was wonderfully creepy, a hellish furnace, all glowing, surrounded by people (well at first, anyway) in klunky radiation suits.

I know I first saw it during Xmas because I was at a friend's house; coming home, Mom and Dad were at a party and only big sister was there. She informed me that the christmas tree would protect us from the Particle Creatures. Well, at that time we sort of poorly estimated Xmas tree height out in the field and got trees way too tall for our living room. The result was a lopped-off, huge and bushy tree. I estimated that I could fend off Particle Creatures in the cover of that tree until Mom & Dad got home. Maybe jab 'em with the bubble lights or toss a spikey ornament at them if they got too aggressive.

In the summer, though, the threat came from the Martians. I'd seen Invaders From Mars a couple years before, and in the summer you're outside and on kinda...soft...ground that any competent Martian could dig a tunnel under and suck you in. I stayed on the sidewalks after dusk, believe me.

Man, the Martians in the Summer and the Particle Creatures in the Winter....it was tough being a kid.

[Jamison]

scariest movie i ever saw? well how about scariest preview... the scene in BIG MAMMA 2 that parodies BO Derek... now that scares the bejesus out of me :banana: :tears:

[Jamison]

Oh ya scariest movie i ever saw had to be poltergeist.. we saw it in the movie theater after dropping 2 hits of acid really blew our minds

[soundmotor]

has anybody mentioned the friggin' Banshee in 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People"? that thing put me into fright zone so bad i was nearly paralyzed for a month

That is a great movie!

The banshee didn't scare me but it turned my older sister into a basket case. The way my mom used to tell it, when my sister saw it the theater when she was a little girl, she woke up screaming for a couple weeks afterwards.

:thmbsp:

Heh, Heh, Heh! (Never liked being tickled by her.)

[MaDHaTteR]

Not a movie but i do remeber particular episodes off "the x files " freaking me out quite abit.

[freddyfender]

right now i'm in the middle of "Helter Skelter", the TV movie from '76. now that is freaky! i remember watching this back in the day, and i'm finding that it still creeps me out. the actor that plays manson is perfect, as well as some of the women that play his disciples. of course knowing that it's true adds immensely to the scare quotient.

[blackwax]

Pink Flamingos

Starring: Divine

[Sandy G]

Steve Railsback was the dude who played Manson. IIRC, he was in "Lifeforce" that space-vampire movie from '81-82 that also had Patrick Stewart in it. Anyone remember "The Invaders" on TV in '67-68 ? It was a Quinn Martin show,& starred a guy named Roy Thinnes, & that creepy old guy Alfred Ryder played the head alien. Anyone remember "The Time Tunnel" Seems like I remember getting my blood pressure up a time or 2 watching that one...-Sandy G.

[jlindsey86]

My sister and I saw this movie on TV when we were about 8 or so. Later I found out it was called Wheels of Terror. Sounds like a remake of The Car. It's pretty cheesy but at the time it scared us shitless. We stayed up many of nights looking out the window making sure it wasnt out there.

I saw halloween when I was around 10 and that had me scared for a week straight.

[Sandy G]

Yeah, "The "X" Files" had a creepy one or 2 in it. The one that got me was the episode where Mulder 'n' Scully went to investigate this family of yokels that REALLY "kept it in the family"...And the local sheriff was a black guy named Andy Taylor...and they kept playing "Wonderful, Wonderful" thru the episode....-Sandy G.

[rulerboyz]

Right around the same time they had an X-files episode with a monster that was genetically half parasite/half human that swam around in the sewer. That one was really creapy.

[Hepcat]

Rear Window. My dad took me to see it when I was 12. That was the one that scared me the most at the time I saw it.

The scariest was and still is -from 1956, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[daddydlb]

"COMA" was pretty scary for me. Genevieve Bujold was in it. About how they put people into a coma so they could sell their organs on the black market. This was out in 1978. Ahead of its time.

[kfalls]

For me it was the first Halloween movie, a great suspense builder. As a teen I remember looking out the kitchen window to see if Michael Meyers was in the back yard.

I'd have to add a vote for the Exorcist as well. I was raised Catholic, but investigated Penacostal churches. Watching people dance and pray in the spirit and speak in tongues, it only made sense people could also be posessed by evil spirits. Too bad for Linda Blair though, she never really made it movies after that.

[donoghue]

I was raised on horror movies. Some of my all-time faves
Halloween-Low budget masterpiece
Nightmare on elm street-original concept, vey creative horror movie, the scene in the school w/the girl in the body bag is the best imho, Fantastic
Evil Dead-watch this in the middle of the night, "I'm alright now Ashley"
The Changeling--great ghost movie, George C Scott sells it
Texas Chainsaw Massacre--Shocking, the first leatherface scene is a heartstopper
April Fool's Day
Fright Night
Psycho
Shining


The hellraiser movies had a great concept but the stories and acting were subpar, still pinhead is an all time great character

Carpenter's the Thing is a great movie

Hated Blair Witch project, constantly shaking a handheld camera is annoying, not scary

The inbred X-Files episode was one of the most controversial ever, really bothered people, and the mutant man/flukeworm episode is one of my faves

[wesley1959]

Had to be "The Exorcist" in 1973 and by a very wide margin. The next one that truly scared me was The Amityville Horror. Nothing much else since then has really made me scared to sleep without a light on LOL !

[kichijai]

Yes, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things! Horror Hotel and Horror House.

Creature Features stuff like The Crawling Eye and Fiend without a Face.

Psycho
He Knows You're Alone
Black Christmas

[dew042]

Shortly after I saw Salem's Lot, my brother hid inside a hollow coffee table we had - and when I came back from the bathroom he scratched from the inside of table. Freaked me out good.

Needless to say I had some issues sleeping for a bit.

dew.

[russkish]

Scariest movie ever is "They Saved Hitler's Brain" made in 1963. Not because of content, but because the title is so damn tacky it makes you wonder who gave this movie the green light.

[markthefixer]

It didn't bother me when I saw it, but the movie gave me nightmares for quite a while afterwards, it was one of those night of the living dead re-makes, where they blame a chemical, not a virus. I can't remember the variant of the title.

It was mainly because they left the movie wide open for a sequel, where the chemical in the smoke from the incinerated remains gets washed out of the air by rain, and starts things all over again, only even MORE widespread.

[pbda]

Psycho, hands down.

[MrZero63]

The Exorcist. I watched the ceiling for days after I heard scratches in the attic.

-Dave

[goraman]

The Exorcist number #1,The shineing comes in number #2.

[whoaru99]

There was a period in the early 70's when ABC had a regular horror movie every couple of weeks and I am pretty sure this film was part of that series as was Trilogy of Terror w/ Karen Black. I remember both of these well and they both creeped me out.

I can't recall the name of one other movie from this series. In it the main character is a 20's something girl who moves into a large, old home. Living within the walls are these dwarf-like things wearing black cloaks & had prune shaped heads. They could not stand the light and were very nasty. I had trouble leaving the lights off after seeing it. Does anyone remember this film?

I'm thinking the Trilogy of Terror had one about some type of voodo doll/witch doctor thing that came alive after somebody cut off a thread that was tied around it.

I was watching it as a youngster and was sort of dozing in and out. My brother thought it would be a neat trick to wake me - but he had found a halloween mask that was somewhat similar to the witch doctor in the movie.

Instead if it being a cute little joke, I woke and upon seeing the witch doctor right in my face, I must have had a survival instinct because I immediately sprung upon my brother and attacked him quite violently out of sheer fright. It took me several second to snap out of it as mom and dad coming to break it up.

I still remember how pumped up I was for quite a while after it was over. It was a pretty strange situation...

[jimfet]

Brokeback Mountain!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pbda]

Saturday Night Fever.

[Mark W.]

Hitchcocks THE BIRDS as a kid

THE WHO TOMMY as a teenager

JAWS as a young adult (Ok so being stoned in the second row of a tiny Quad theater may have been part of it.

[ShaneC]

The Exorcist is still my #1 - though I first time I saw it was the (2000?) Reissue.

Managed to see that in the Theaters, remastered for Surround Sound (oh yes, the scratches now came from specific locations!). Gave me chills, as I'd read up on the "real" story of it before hand.

Haven't watched it since then.


Cannibal Holocaust - That's just messed up! *shudder*

The first 4 HellRaisers are perhaps my all time favorite horror flicks though. 3 &4 weren't very good, but it did give some back story to the origins.

[Johncan]

Saturday Night Fever.

LOL!!

[audio-ed]

The last man on earth with Vincent Price was a scary one. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was 10 or 11 late one night when everyone was asleep.It would be pretty standard stuff nowadays but very original back then.Aliens would be another favorite

[Yamaha1]

Ju-On, the Japanese version was among the most eerie and I am a veteran of horror movies.

[peteyglad]

Oh ya scariest movie i ever saw had to be poltergeist.. we saw it in the movie theater after dropping 2 hits of acid really blew our minds

That is mine as well. The swimming pool skeletons was the worst part for me. Still don't like going into a pool at night.

[opt80]

The Sound of Music.When julie Andrews came running over that hilli screamed like a banshee

[arrow 68]

There was a period in the early 70's when ABC had a regular horror movie every couple of weeks and I am pretty sure this film was part of that series as was Trilogy of Terror w/ Karen Black. I remember both of these well and they both creeped me out.

I can't recall the name of one other movie from this series. In it the main character is a 20's something girl who moves into a large, old home. Living within the walls are these dwarf-like things wearing black cloaks & had prune shaped heads. They could not stand the light and were very nasty. I had trouble leaving the lights off after seeing it. Does anyone remember this film?

Yes. I saw it when I was about 6. And part of it a few years ago. What the hell was it called?

[Cosmic]

I can't remember if I posted already, but:

"Audition" by Takashi Miike,

"Jaws" by Mr. Spielberg,

"Alien", as seen in 70mm on a Cinerama screen in 1979 during its initial run. From the opening shot of the starfield, with Goldsmith's music starting to work on you, you are locked into that one.

"Men Behind the Sun" is just badly enough done to make it even scarier, based on real events. Much like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", you feel like a shower after watching.

Best,
C.

[kdlsoft]

I know this isn't in the same class as some of the others......

1962-63? 3rd grade - PTA meeting after school. They had to have something for the kids while Mom was in the meeting.

"Treasure Island". Jim Hawkins (the kid) is leaving the ship in Ben Gunn's goatskin 'boat' and going back to the island. Dark, misty, mossy, swampy, etc......

That night I had nightmares about the green misty mossy swamp.

Got up and watched the Untouchables TV show, black and white, with the parents to settle me down!!!!! Nothing like a little violence to finish the night off.......

[Yamaha1]

The Sound of Music.When julie Andrews came running over that hilli screamed like a banshee


:lmao::lmao::lmao:

[godzilla]

I was 6 when I got to see JAWS in the theatre. Scared the living shit out of me and it didn't help that we lived in Sandy Hook New Jersey right on the Atlantic at the time. Then came the 'Shark Craze'. I remember when they caught an 10' Tiger Shark off the pier down the beach from our home and that's all I had to see...no more water for me! I was scared of the ocean from then on...I didn't go in the water for a few years after seeing it. I'll go in now, but I'm always weary about it...it's gotta be some sparkling clear water for me to swim. I went snorkling in Jamaica, but in the winter sharks are a rarity and the water was like pool water, so I could see for quite a ways. The ocean is not my first choice of vacation spots to this day and it all stems back from seeing JAWS!

[drknstrmyknight]

Predator had a few moments, generally puncutated by decent sound effects.

Forbidden Planet still chills

[shrinkboy]

Out of Africa, The English Patient, The Red Violin, Legends of the Fall

[TWantiques]

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, without a doubt.

Not because it was that scary of a movie, although it had its moments, but that I went not having any idea what the movie was about. Kinda snuck up on me. :D

Never could put Bette Davis on my favorite actress list after that.

Terry

[Sandy G]

The FIRST movie I ever saw was this turkey from about 1963 called, IIRC, "The Evil of Frankenstein". I don't remember much about it other than it scared the PISS outta me..I was 6. Don't think I could be coaxed into another movie until MAYBE "Mary Poppins" the next year, or " Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" from '65.

[Mr. Lin]

I know it's so cliche by now, but I still find the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre to be one of the eeriest and most disturbing movies I've ever seen. The ambiance of that film makes it easy to imagine yourself in that scenario.

I thought the recent remake was garbage though.

[wineslob]

I was probably 7 or 8 but The Birds scared the crud out of me.

[WhiteSE]

when i lived in argentina, I went to see The Exorcist by myself, when the whole family was outta town...We lived on a duplex apt on the 9th and 10th floor. boy, that was the longest elevator ride ever when I got home...dark, quiet, and the old fashioned doors that you pull closed or push to open...where you can see the elevator tunnel...

I was spooked for 3 nights in a row..

[madwing]

original fear: "earthquake", living in los angeles and having experienced the '71 sylmar quake...i had to leave the theater and go lie down on the bench in the lobby (i was about 10).

later fear: "the stepford wives". still scares the heck out of me, makes me want to live alone in the mountains sometimes...oh, wait, i already do that, but with my family. "do you want more coffee? do you want more coffee? do you want more coffee?" yikes!

[Zeromancer]

Poltergeist when I was 5 or 6

[Rome]

Dracula has Risen from the Grave with the Great Christopher Lee as the Count will always be in my memory.

These have already been mentioned, but they will never be equaled in the sheer terror factor:

Alien: The best of all time!
Exorcist
Jaws

Also, check out the 1932 version of Tod Browning's: FREAKS.
It is a chilling piece of work!

Rome

[Hepcat]

The scariest movie I ever saw was the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The movie that scared me the most when I saw it was when I was 11 or 12 and my dad took me to see Rear Window.

[whoaru99]

Lots of good ones.

Event Horizon was a more recent one that really gave me the willies...

[xpert54]

The one that scared me the most was the original B&W movie of The Haunting of Hill House. That was the first and only time I've had the hair on the back of my neck stand up I was so frightened and I was 17 at the time

[tboat4]

"Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn, Richard Crenna and Alan Arkin. My wife told me it was the scariest movie she ever saw, so one night I watched it. I thought my wife was nuts. The movie wasn't scary at all, and then, a scene happened and I actually jumped out of my chair. Caught me way off guard. Up until then, I had never been that scared in my life. Holy shit!

[FalconEddy]

I've seen MANY. Some were scary, and some were just bloody and gross.

But, the one movie that scared me into a state of nervous paranoia for a couple of weeks was. . .

The Exorcist.

JAWS only scared me for a few days, and I've seen it several times since its theater opening.

However, I'll NEVER watch The Exorcist again. Once in the theater during the opening weekend was more than enough for me.

. . Falcon

[ablethevoice]

I'm a big horror movie fan so I don't get "scared" at all any more with any visual graphic stuff the filmmaker might choose to throw at me...
However, I was a sensitive youth and I recall several films which stayed with me for quite the number of days after seeing them.
The 1965 film "DIE, MONSTER DIE" scared the absolute crap out of me the first time I saw it.
Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING was another sleep-with-a-light-on wonder, as was SALEM'S LOT (Tobe Hooper's version)

Finally, after watching PHANTASM at my mom's house alone late one night, I was driving home with my dome light on - all the time expecting The Tall Man to appear in my rear-view mirror, "Booooooy!"

[ablethevoice]

I saw a movie when I was between 7-9 in the mid seventies that scared me pretty good.

It had made it to TV by then and I remember watching it with my parents...

About all I remember from the movie is that it takes place on an airliner that was either
possessed or haunted.

I only remember two scenes from the movie... one of the crew had to go through one
of the cargo holds, and "whatever" was on board had turned the hold into a deep freeze
where if the cold itself didn't kill ya, touching anything gave you instant frostbite.

There was a point when the crew member was walking along and the guy looks over
and there was a german shepard that was in a dog crate that was frozen in mid bark.

The second scene was all the passengers where in the first class area of the plane and
"whatever" was trying to get in and the carpet on the floor started bubbling up and one
of the stewardesses took a doll from a little girl and had drawn an evil face on the doll and
showed it to the bubbling carpet and it went back down...

I was under the cover that my mom had on the couch after that! :para:

Still don't know what the name of that movie was...

Scott

TERROR AT 37000 FEET. Wasn't it a demonically-possessed fireplace mantle or headboard being shipped in the cargo hold of the plane? And wasn't it William Shatner starring? That's the first thing that popped into my mind while reading your description.

EDIT: OOPS!! I quoted and posted before reading the whole thread, not realizing the question had already been answered... TWO YEARS AGO.
I stand embarrassed.

[clydeselsor]

I like scary movies...always have...but they have rarely ever scared me. That being said, one of the best is "The Haunting" (1963) with Julie Harris. It doesn't try to scare you with horrific special effects...instead it just suggests it.

I love that movie!

[rsfmotoman]

Well, for long term heebie jeebies it has to be The Exorcist...

I saw it when i lived in Argentina...I was alone (folks out town) in a huge 9th and 10th flr duplex apt....I came home and had to ride the creepy elevator..slept with every light on for 3 nights...

I'm right there with ya!

Definitely the Exorcist...nothing comes close, period.

[mwicks]

The Exorcist scared the ba-jesus out of me when I was 8.

Suspiria is one of my favorite movies that freaked me out at the time. Neither movie scares me at all now, but I still really enjoy Suspiria for the overall production and awesome soundtrack.

And although it's not really "scary" in the traditional sense, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" is really an experience. Kinda like getting punched in the guts.

[rsfmotoman]

I know it's so cliche by now, but I still find the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre to be one of the eeriest and most disturbing movies I've ever seen. The ambiance of that film makes it easy to imagine yourself in that scenario.

I have the same thoughts regarding that film too. I never felt so alone...

[Zeromancer]

Lots of good ones.

Event Horizon was a more recent one that really gave me the willies...
That movie was creepy fun!!!

[ablethevoice]

That movie was creepy fun!!!

Yes, indeed! It was also very Lovecraftian in tone although at no place in the film was any of H.P. Lovecraft's pantheon of creepy beasties ever invoked. Sam Neill did a disturbingly good job in that movie... almost as good a job as he played the adult Damian in The Final Conflict.

[macca_dj]

PHANTASM 1979
put me off of playing Steelies and marbles

[75Center]

Mine was an old movie from the 60's - could have been The Haunting on Hill House.

There is a scene where two women are sharing a room in an old house. They are in twin beds. In the middle of the night, they are awakened by strange noises or movements in the room. Due to their fear, they reach out to hold hands across the room between their beds. When they wake up the next morning - the beds are too far apart for them to be able to hold hands. SOMETHING ELSE WAS IN THE ROOM BETWEEN THEM HOLDING EACH OF THEIR HANDS.

To this day - I cannot sleep with my arm extended off the bed.

:para::para::para::para:

[Cosmic]

One more of the 'local yokels get their come-uppance' films:
"I spit on Your Grave."

Camille Keaton is a writer who's gone to the country to find peace to write. Local cretins do very bad things to her. And that's just the set-up....

The bathtub scene will make any man wince. Guaranteed.

A nasty little film in the tradition of "Chainsaw Massacre" where the shortcomings of the filmmaking combine with the story to take it to a level that's altogether....oogy.

(Wait, no one mentioned 'Misery', as I recall.)

C.

[elgato8905]

For me me it would have to be the movie "Gothic" made somewhere around 1986. Never has a movie affected me the way that one has. Nothing in it will jump out and scare you nor will you see any blood or gore but it will make you feel like you just watched something very, very bad and wrong. Watch it in a dark room late at night and you WILL be freaked out. The first time I saw it I was twenty years old and I had trouble getting through the whole thing.

[Rome]

Anyone here remember "Rabid" with Marilyn Chambers?

Rome

[soundweasel]

Mine was an old movie from the 60's - could have been The Haunting on Hill House.

There is a scene where two women are sharing a room in an old house. They are in twin beds. In the middle of the night, they are awakened by strange noises or movements in the room. Due to their fear, they reach out to hold hands across the room between their beds. When they wake up the next morning - the beds are too far apart for them to be able to hold hands. SOMETHING ELSE WAS IN THE ROOM BETWEEN THEM HOLDING EACH OF THEIR HANDS.

To this day - I cannot sleep with my arm extended off the bed.

:para::para::para::para:

I remember that movie!! That freaked me out, too!!!! :yikes:

[soundweasel]

The Devil's Backbone.

[Chazb11]

The Evil Dead had a couple of scenes that really gave me the creeps. The girl being attacked by the tree roots was one and the very last scene where the camera comes through the woods, through the cabin and "gets" the unsuspecting sole survivor in the daylight!

Ya gotta love Bruce Campbell

[electroking]

Dressed to Kill.

All this throat cutting, real or imagined, scared me to death!

[arrow 68]

Win One For The Gipper. :D

[arrow 68]

Dressed to Kill.

All this throat cutting, real or imagined, scared me to death!

Angie Dickinson. :naughty:

[whoaru99]

The Evil Dead had a couple of scenes that really gave me the creeps. The girl being attacked by the tree roots was one and the very last scene where the camera comes through the woods, through the cabin and "gets" the unsuspecting sole survivor in the daylight!

Ya gotta love Bruce Campbell

I liked the Evil Dead movies, but state of mind had a large influence that likely wouldn't come into play today.

[danj]

Let's Scare Jessica to Death

[donoghue]

The Evil Dead had a couple of scenes that really gave me the creeps. The girl being attacked by the tree roots was one and the very last scene where the camera comes through the woods, through the cabin and "gets" the unsuspecting sole survivor in the daylight!

Ya gotta love Bruce Campbell

The original evil dead really is a scary film despite the cheesy opening. The scenes with the girlfriend were intense and the chick in the cellar was excellent, love the demon voice & that moment where she tricked Ash. The sequels were a lot of fun thanks to Sam Raimi & Bruce. Apparently there is going to be a new Evil Dead movie coming out next year.

[danj]

I've always wondered why Bruce Campbell hasn't had more success in movies other than Raimi's. He's a very talented comic actor.

[ablethevoice]

Speaking of "another in a series": There's another RE-ANIMATOR film in the works. Good Old Brian Yuzna and his actual success in making Lovecraft stories work well on film.

He did "Dagon" which was a pretty good adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Another of his films (actually, the first Yuzna film I saw which messed me up for a week) was FROM BEYOND.

[Russellc]

I was around 12 when I saw "The Thing" in 1953 as I remember. ...didn't think I'd live to be 13 with the nightmares it produced.

James Arness played "The Thing".
Who's James Arness you ask.
He went on to star in "Gunsmoke".
What's "Gunsmoke" you ask.

Nevermind - It helps to be an old phart.

Only "Alien" comes close to the subtlety of "The Thing".

Ron.

I know this is a very old post, but one better: Who played Matt Dillons voice on the radio show "Gunsmoke"?
Old fart my ass!

russellc

[Wuchak]

One more of the 'local yokels get their come-uppance' films:
"I spit on Your Grave."

Camille Keaton is a writer who's gone to the country to find peace to write. Local cretins do very bad things to her. And that's just the set-up....

The bathtub scene will make any man wince. Guaranteed.

A nasty little film in the tradition of "Chainsaw Massacre" where the shortcomings of the filmmaking combine with the story to take it to a level that's altogether....oogy.

(Wait, no one mentioned 'Misery', as I recall.)

C.

I remember watching this after school at my friend's house. Their mother came home earlier than we thought. When she asked what we were watching we told her it was about a woman who is raped and then gets revenge on the rapists. She said, "Good for her!" and she sat down and watched some with us.

[outshined]

Another of his films (actually, the first Yuzna film I saw which messed me up for a week) was FROM BEYOND.

I really like From Beyond. Jeff Combs is well suited to any horror flick, and does a good job in this one. M. Crampton is sexy as hell in her black lingerie after she's under the spell of Dr. Pretorious.

My version on DVD is a Chinese import. It has undefeatable Chinese sub-titles, but doesn't distract too much from the movie. I haven't checked lately to see if there is an American release of this film. From about 1986 or '87, I think.

Blue Velvet is also a very dark and unsettling, psychotic film with Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossillini and a very young Laura Dern. Dean Stockwell also does a great job as a psychotic, drug addicted loon. Also from 1986.

[cosmicmessenger]

I agree, Blue Velvet was freaky scary. Have you ever seen:
Videodrome
Eraserhead
Lost Highway
The reincarnation of Peter Proud
The Keep
Razorback (Australian)
The Quiet Earth (New Zealand)
Each has it's own degree of scaryness some more so....

[dread31]

Win One For The Gipper. :D

I've always been absolutely horrified by this one. Just something so unsettling and creepy about one of the actors......................:scratch2:

Dave

[dread31]

Seriously, "The Omen" had me freaked as "The Exorcist" did when it first came out.

Some of the movies you guys mention, I've never heard of.

Gonna have to make a list, and head to the video store.

Dave

[danj]

I know this is a very old post, but one better: Who played Matt Dillons voice on the radio show "Gunsmoke"?
Old fart my ass!

russellc

A few different actors but the one most people remember was William Conrad, who played it longest and best, imho.

In the 70s he starred in the TV series "CANNON" as the rotund private detective.

The television version of "Gunsmoke" starred James Arness. The show's producers had tried to get John Wayne into television and offered him the role. He turned it down but suggested they audition Arness, who had recently costarred with Wayne in a movie. The rest is history.

[jgmacv]

Friday the 13th (original). I remember about soiling my pants when the boy jumped into the boat out of the water. Around 1980 i think.

[Fisher-Dave]

Out of all the scary movies I seen, I never had a nightmare from any of them. But, I came home around 11PM or so on Nov 4'th and turn on the TV. I had to smack myself a few times telling myself to wake up..... but sadly it was real. :sigh:

[dgwojo]

The Skeleton Key, I sat through it 3 times when I was helping run the local theatre. :sigh:

Skeleton Key Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiugxNeXj2Y)

http://www.hardcircle.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/skeleton_key_front_cover.jpg

[opt80]

The Sound of Music and I had the sound muted

[Sandy G]

Any of y'all ever seen the '73 Brian DePalma low-budget thriller "Sisters" ? It had Margot Kidder & Charles Durning & a bunch of unknowns. It was filmed entirely on Long Island, IIRC, when DePalma was just starting out. Kinda creepy, psychological thriller, but what kicks it into top gear is the musical score-it was by Hollywood great Bernard Herrmann-the music itself is enuff to scare the wits outta you.

[SA-708]

I have to agree with Sandy way back in this thread re: Deliverance.

Also, the ending to John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness gave me some bad dreams at the time. Alice Cooper's cameo was good fun as well.

[Zeromancer]

[Rec] is a great first person scary movie.
You should watch this movie alone in the dark.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038988/

The film follows a Spanish late-night television reporter,Ángela Vidal, through the lens of her cameraman, Pablo. During one report of the happenings in a local fire station in Barcelona, the duo follow a team of firefighters who get a call from an apartment building nearby about a trapped woman. When they arrive, they find the apartment's residents huddled in the lobby. They go upstairs to find a woman who is obviously distressed. What follows is a night that none of them will ever forget.

[chathamdad]

"About Schmidt." Ginormous Kathy Bates takes off her clothes and gets into a hot tub. You get full frontal. Then you get sick.

[diddlybopper]

Rec] is a great first person scary movie.
You should watch this movie alone in the dark.
Was this recently released as "Quarantine"

[tshoejohn]

One of the Godzilla or similar movies around ’70 or ’71. I was watching it on my grandma’s old B&W console TV with all the knobs missing. One of the giant monsters was eating people – Pretty scary for a 6 year old. I couldn’t find the pliers to turn the TV off and make it go away! I didn’t watch TV at grandma’s for quite a while after that.