Pick one, and only one: Scariest movie

[Jannix Quinn]

Nooooo watch the whole movie!

 

[WarPig]

I think to find a movie that really scares a person, you need to know the person. Blood, gore, paranoia, insanity, jump out scares, trapped-ness. There's a movie for all types really.

QFT. People have different "scare buttons". Also, it depends on a pivitol factor in your life - as many have noted, seeing a movie when you are impressionable will stick with you like no other will.

I was a projectionist when "The Exorcist" came out; it didn't scare me the first or the forty-first time I saw it. But then, I'm not a very religious person.

Some movies I will avoid because they very well *may* scare me. My taste in films is more the "fun-shock-jump-out-of-your-seat" films. The first one that did it very well for me was "Alien". Scary now? Not really - but at the time it was!

Just a side note: here's a short independent film that is scary/disturbing on a number of levels. I think someone on the RPF originally posted the link some time back. In any case, if you have twelve minutes to be entertained, have a look.

 

[DeLucks Designs]

DELIVERANCE. I still go into the woods alone....

 

[JD]

Jaws is the scariest movie I've ever seen.

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

The movie of my first wedding ceremony. It starts harmless, but the ending is a nightmare. Makes 'The Exorsist' look like the 'Smurfs' movie.

BTW, this is my serious answer. No joking.

 

[kalkamel]

Ringu.

 

[BIKERFETT]

The Original Salem's Lot, the scene where the kid is floating outside the window scratching it is so freaky

 

[Jedi2016]

The Exorcist never really bothered me that much. I was thinking about it recently, since I always watch a rash of horror films throughout October, and the one that always tops the list for me is Poltergeist.

 

[Flagg]

Jaws wins for me. I saw it when I was little and I was terrified of swimming for years. I still have issues going into the ocean to this day if the truth be known.

 

[BAK55]

Back in 1975, ABC brodcasted "Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black. It was three stories all based on Richard Matheson's writings with the creepiest for last.

Little screaming, toothy, blade wielding killer dolls still creep me out.

 

[WarPig]

Back in 1975, ABC brodcasted "Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black. It was three stories all based on Richard Matheson's writings with the creepiest for last.

Little screaming, toothy, blade wielding killer dolls still creep me out.

I must be *really* weird: to me that doll sounded like Speedy Gonzalez and had me laughing the whole time! :lol

 

[NoTsOsErIoUs]

No contest, to my mind it is and always will be this:

*I warn you that if you click this link it be on your own head and I cannot take any responsibility for any mental disturbance you encounter from viewing said link.

Spice World: The Movie Trailer - YouTube

GO! And heaven help you.

 

[niennumb1]

Okay 2 things that haunted my mind for years when I was younger and surprised no one has said it yet:

The creepy old man from Poltergeist II:

And Tim Curry as IT:

As far as a movie.... Gosh Paranormal Activity is pretty darn freaky to me. I haven't seen "IT" in years, but that movie always creeped me out just because of the freaky clown stuff. I think the grittier stuff that is supposed to be "real" is stuff that creeps me out a lot, like stuff that looks like home movie stuff done really well. I can't say there's just ONE definitive film though

 

[Altoeria]

Silent Hill

I didn't think it did too much damage til I went into work the next day and there was a whole bunch of nurses in the corridor discussing the new scalpels we had just got in, oh yeah, crapped myself then

 

[niennumb1]

YES!! And aside from the dangerous scalpels and freaky faces, they otherwise got it going on pretty well! Ha!!!!

 

[Moviefreak]

So my wife was terrified of the first Paranormal Activity. I didn't find it too scary, but I really don't find anything truly scary. I will say her jumping off the couch everytime started to get to me though. I did enjoy how the movie was set up so that you knew something was coming and it built up nicely. The sequel not so much.

As I'm writing this I feel like I'm about to be blasted.

I think to find a movie that really scares a person, you need to know the person. Blood, gore, paranoia, insanity, jump out scares, trapped-ness. There's a movie for all types really.

Most scary movies don't work for me because they just come across as fake. They may have a good story idea, but fake make-up and special effects ruin it. So I will have to go with Paranormal Activity as well. That film worked for me because it was the old Hitchcock idea that what you don't see is scarier than what you do see. The idea that something evil is lurking, can scare the heck out of you, and then just to see it drag people down or up stairs made you really think... This could happen.

 

[Shendorion]

Jaws and The Ring compete for the top spot for me.

 

[Art Andrews]

You will probably laugh, but when I was young, Damnation Alley scared me unbelievably badly. Those roaches....

The funny thing is, I am not scared of roaches at all, but as a kid, that whole movie terrified me.

There was another movie, wish I knew what it was, but it had arms coming out of the walls trying to get the main character.... and that also scared me badly. I wish someone could ID that movie, but that is all I remeber about it... just the walls kinda melting and arms coming out of it.

 

[ConvergencePro]

John carpenters The THING gets my vote

 

[Clutch]

I saw the 70's version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a kid and it was scary in a sense that everyone was so helpless to do anything about their situation.