Most frightening movies you've seen?

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List which movies you've thought were the scariest.

Mine:

1. Event Horizon. Star Trek meets Hell.

2. Aliens. I hate bugs and those were big.

3. Storm of the Century. Maine meets Hell.

I can't think of anymore, but those were more than I needed to see.

Event horizon was pretty creepy. I haven't seen the other ones.

I love horror movies. I can only think of 5 that have really scared me (i.e left me with fear after the movie had ended). In order of severity:

1. Pet Sematary. I used to live in an area like the one this movie is set in, and had an enormous amount of pets buried in my backyard. There was just something horrible about the way they use the burial ground in the movie. Plus, the dead guy is creepy.

2. The Blair Witch Project. I overidentified with this movie.

3. The Ring. This is one of my very favorite movies now, but elements of the story stuck in my head for almost a week straight afterwards.

4. The Amityville Horror (2005)

5. The Shining. This movie didn't freak me out terribly, but did stay in my head for a while afterwards and deserves an honorable mention.

Most people don't agree that the first four are that scary, but hey, I'm different. I don't think The Exorcist is scary, but so many other people do.

Hellraiser

I think many horror movies are more disgusting or depressing than frightening. The scariest movies I've seen were "Aliens", "The Shining" and "Secret Window". I also thought the dialogue between John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson at the beginning of "1408" was the scariest scene in the movie. Goes to show you don't need graphic violence to create an unsettling atmosphere.

Arachnophobia

That one made me search for spiders for weeks. It's a good thing I looked for them being under the seat and stuff. If I didn't look under the sink, I wouldn't have found the huge black widdow that was sitting right under the rim where we stuck our fingers!

I have seen a few other 'horror' films that didn't bother me as a young girl. Aliens, Jaws, horror TV shows, ect. I guess Arachnophobia got to me, because I was inside a house filled with spiders. eew.. I bet if someone bulldozed that house, a cloud of spiders and bugs would crawl out. blah!

requiem for a dream.

Misery
Dead by Sunset

Saving Private Ryan...

For me, the scariest movies aren't horror films.

The Exorcist
The Ring
Pet Semetary

I mowed a yard like that once. I was 16, and running my own lawncare business, and this one house's lawn was literally covered with those translucent/tan medium-sized spiders, whatever they're called. I mean, it was by all appearances a normal lawn, and well cared for even before I took over its upkeep, so how did it get that many spiders? I've never understood what the attraction there could have been. Needless to say, I stepped lightly when mowing that lawn! There were so many, that they'd probably crawl right up your leg WHEREVER you set your foot down for a few seconds! And they literally spanned the entire front lawn -- I just don't get that. I mean, I wouldn't even know how to deliberately keep that many spiders on one lawn!

But, the owner was a real nice guy, who owned my favorite kind of terrier (the Airedale, which is also the largest terrier), so it wasn't a crappy job altogether.



Oh, and the movie "It" was pretty scarry, at least when I was 12.

The Exorcist

I could only watch the first 10-20 minutes before freaking out.

The Exorcist
28 Days/28 Weeks Later (I think the sequel is better)
Night of the living dead/Dawn of the Dead/Day of the Dead/Land of the dead
Alien
Altered States - Freaky imagery...
Evil Dead 1 & 2 (Part 3 is brilliant but not at all scary)
Candyman - First movie has incredible atmosphere
Dark Water, The Grudge 1 & 2, the Eye, Premonition, Red Shoes, Pulse - Japanese Versions only
Demons/Deep Red (and several other Dario Argento films)
The Ring - US Version only
Final Destination 1-3 all a bit freaky (also butterfly effect 1)
The Fly and the Thing (remakes)
Ginger Snaps 1&2 (not sure why)
Hellraiser (I wish they'd just update the SFX ala Lucas Style)
High Tension - wow....
Jeepers Creepers (first 30 minutes)
Nightmare on Elm Street 1
Salem's Lot Original version (ok.. it's not scary nowadays)
Serpent and the Rainbow - a bit freaky.

For me I LOVE Phantasm! The Tall Man was definitely one character I dreamt about quite often.

Most scary movies don't scare me. Here are a few exceptions, off the top of my head:

-Fail-Safe
-IT
-Misery
-Poltergeist
-The Shining

I am not one for scary movies, but one film that had me at the egde of my seat was Silence of the Lambs. I got scared at numorus parts but I still think that film is one of the best out there.

Ghost in the Shell 2 really creeped me out the first time I saw it. Few things scare me more than seeing eyes going weird, and so those dolls in the film terrified me when their faces opened up, and their eyes popped out! Pan's Labyrinth also scared me, mainly because the violent and gory scenes were shown so graphically, and in a very matter-of-fact, almost documentary-like way. Also, the Pale Man has to be one of the scariest movie monsters in history IMO (with Captain Vidal as a close second )!