Most frightening movies you've seen?

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Films mostly frightened my in my childhood, now, not so much.

-Jurassic Park (the first): I don't remember how old I was when it came out in movie theatres, but it freaked me out.

- Hitchcock's Birds: Was highly paranoid of birds for a while after that.

- The Blob (all of them): really scary! I've never looked at tongues in the same manner since. Now it's mostly humorous, but then...

- Them: black and white, old fashioned movie of overgrown ants killing people and raiding cities.


That's all I can remember for now.

Me too!

Also...another I found scary would have been "Fear.com".
Some say that this movie is silly, but honestly, for weeks after I saw that movie I was too scared to use my computer.

Hannibal lector movies

eats people , says enough

I've never understood anyone that found that movie scary, or people that classify it as a Horror movie. Yes its a fantastic movie, but Horror it is not.

Personally I've never been scared by any movies. Probably the most frightened I've been watching a movie was Alien when I was 10, and even then It didn't really bother me when it would have scared the pants off of most 10 year olds(And some adults, hell, my aunt had nightmares from Jurassic Park, which I also saw when I was 10 and remains the movie I've seen the most times in theaters at 4, loved it). I know its fiction and all special effects so I find it hard to actually be scared by things in movies.

Probably House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects - because it *could* happen to a degree.

I had a school teacher once who tried to tell me that to be classified as "horror", you needed some sort of supernatural element.

I disagreed, saying that Jaws was technically horror but the teacher wouldn't have it.

In that sense, I'd say that Silence of the Lambs fits horror. Yes, it's a thriller but it's a horror thriller because it fills one with "dread".

believe it or not the sixth sense scared the monkey out of me O_O

The Others - great movie

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Ok, being half Japanese and yet an outsider to Japan has given me the silly habit of renting movies based on or from the place in some kind of attempt to connect. I think I'll stop now. I did not understand "Princess Raccoon" the last movie I tried at all, and just now it occurs to me that my top scary movies are all due to this habit.

Scariest movies:

1) The Ring/Ringo.
2) half of "The Grudge" (japanese version) I ended up shutting it off half way through.
3) "Dark Water" with Jennifer Connelly, but the ending was so, so scary, strange and sad

OH NO - You saw Event Horizon!! Worst thing ever! I saw it with my younger brother and friends (otherwise it would have come off) and still wish I'd just been braver and said little brother (he was a teenager at the time, but he'll always be little to me), I am not letting you see this no matter what you say! I still have scenes from that movie I can't erase and I saw it eons ago. Sam Neil why did you do it?

I quite liked event horizon... and I liked the Hellraiser in Space (V?) which was very similar.

I honestly can’t remember the plot or much else in that film aside from 3 or 4 horrible moments I’ll never get out of my head.

True dat.

That was pretty good, and to this day you still hear loads of tunes with samples from all areas of that movie.

Event Horizon, aside, I am really worried about what people put into their minds. I can’t enjoy 24 alt all because of the gratuitous torture, for instance which is allowing us to believe it can be a heroic device necessary to security, and even a valid question for debate – should we torture? Regardless of the message of a movie, whatever it may be, I seen no excuse for teaching people horrible new ways of killing people.

We have lost all art, subtlety, craft and style in filmmaking. I think we are basically, as a culture and as individuals, largely what we think, and excessively horrific films are conditioning a culture of shock and fear. The first chapter in Al Gore’s book, The Assault on Reason, discusses how we are all in an elevated state of shock from constant media influx that repeatedly activates trauma, making us easily controlled - basically it makes us weaker and more foolish not stronger.

I heard the government of China on the news a while ago say they were thinking of banning violent movies to protect the minds of their next generation. Obviously they have come up with a flawed criteria perhaps, but at least its acknowledging that films do have the power to shape a culture adversely. There are documentaries made about all the crimes that have been inspired by movies, and we still deny that they are a problem.

http://english.sina.com/ent/p/1/2008/0324/151726.html

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