AFI's 100 scariest films ever :eek:
 

Yesterday, the AFI released 100 top scariest films--top three were Psycho, Jaws, and my personal favorite, The Exorcist.

Although the film was originally released in 1973, there was something about the recent re-release that got to me all over again. Maybe it was Linda Blair's spider walk down the staircase.

What is everyone's all-time scariest movie scene and why?

Psycho's shower scene: Cause it's just too darn close to reality, that's why!!

Every day that I get in the shower, I close the door and wonder. Sometimes, I just out and right lock that bad boy!

Frat,
You know Event Horizon was pretty scary too me.

Sphinxpoet
Representing the Ice COLD Ace Club

Oh and the reason it was scary to me because it showed how FAR obsession can take a person!

Scariest? Bamboozled. I saw this recently and I thought I was going to be sick. I didn't even finish watching it. It made my stomach hurt, especially Damon Wayan's character. I shudder just thinking about it.

I watched "Salom's Lot" as a child and had such nightmares. I have rented it as an adult, but chickened out and couldn't even watch it. I just remember that boy hovering outside of the window and trying to get the other kid to let him in. And that green vampire guy? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif Yikes! It's scaring me just thinking about it.

Salem's Lot is my favorite Stephan King book.I agree that the kid hovering outside the window is freaky.
One of my favorites didn't make the list.It is an old french film from Roman Polanski,who made Rosemary's Baby.It is called "Repulsion"and it is about a woman who goes silently crazy and kills two men.

I liked the exorcists too! Halloween was tight the first time I saw it.

The most scariest to me when I was little was Children of the Corn....or even Candyman

Anything that is based on a true story.....like "the Entity"..still can't watch that one..

Sybil...that was some crazy/scary chit!

I have to say that The Shining is one of the scariest movies, as well as the scariest book, I have ever seen. This is saying a lot, I don't scare easily.

As a sidebar: I recently saw the exorcist and it cracked me up. I mean the events were shocking, but once I stopped to think about what just happened I started laughing. After I found out that it was based on a true story, I was a bit disturbed.

The Exorcist was not so much scary as it was disturbing to me - too close to reality. It shows what you can open up when you dabble with the unknown (i.e. Ouija boards).

I caught "Stir of Echoes" in the middle where Kevin Bacon sees the spirit of the young girl standing in the door way and that scared the daylights out of me. The way she moved towards him was the creepiest. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif

I've heard people say "Stigmata" was scary, but it wasn't to me. I actually liked the movie. Again, it had some disturbing parts, but not scary.

And finally, I love "Event Horizon" and "End of Days" (even though they don't scare me).

Now, I once read a book called 666 (?) and it scared me so badly that I threw the book on the floor (and I don't scare easily).

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Good Topic!! Horror films are my favorite (tied with musicals) genre of film. Anywho...

I would have to say the scariest for me when I was little was Children of the Corn. To this DAY, I hate cornfields (hence the reason I am DYIN' to leave Ohio). I really was scared after that movie. Actually, this is right up there with Village of the Damned (the original, black and white film). Scary mess, for real.

But most recently, the movie that scared me THE MOST was The Sixth Sense. That mess unnerved me something awful. Now, EVERY FRIGGIN' TIME I get a chill, I'm looking all around, wondering exactly which ghost it is that's around me. Mess, I'm tellin' you.

I also love horror films, as well musicals, I too digress.
But my all time favorites are....(drum roll please)

Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)

What Lies Beneath w/ Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford. The bathroom scenes scared me everytime.

The scariest movie to me is The Serpent and The Rainbow. I think that's the name.

It was like about Haiti or jamaica and they were sprinkling some kind of crazy dust on people that parolyzed them, then they would bury them alinve, because the family would think that they were dead.

I don't know, it was just freaky.

much respect...

i loved that AFI show!

my #1 is definitely the Exorcist. I read the book when i was 13 and was freaked out. Then begged my mom to rent the movie. Didn't sleep soundly for a week!

#2 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane...its black and white but a serious psychological thriller!

#3 i feel you Serenity...Bamboozled was horrifying...in the sense of knowing how true that movie is and could be.

#4 Sleepaway Camp

and many others...mostly the ones that scare me are about the supernatural. i am fascinated by how in almost every movie about Satan or other supernatural forces, the Catholic Church always saves the day. That just made me want to research the Catholic Church...what do they know that other religious folx don't know? *shrugging my shoulders*

peace

I thought I was the only person who loved that movie! I was creeped out by that scene!

I have Sleepaway Camp as well...I could not believe http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif that they turned that little boy into a girl-and named him Angela-I know you remember the scene with "Angela" and the boy that liked her-(wanting to see if you noticed this as well)when they showed the boys face, he was smiling! I think that something went down http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif
The sequel and prequel (S.C. 2&3) were horrible!

I know that this didn't count as a movie, but as a child, THRILLER scared the hell out of me! http://www.mpz.co.uk/cwm/otn/evil/bgbiggrin.gif
I didn't get over that until I was about 14 http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif



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Peace and God Bless
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Classy Diva...

if you know where i can get a copy let me know! i have been trying to find it for years! Yes that movie freaked me out! the Angela twist didn't tweak me as much as when Angela (boy/girl combo) stuck the redhot curling iron in the girls....well...you remember...and the sizzling sound just made me sleep in two pairs of sleeping pants for at least 6 months...*L*

The movie that haunted me for over 15 years (i'm 29 now) was a foreign film named Susperia...there were several scenes...but especially the one where the girls, who lived in this dorm for dancers, woke up and they were covered with maggots!

And then I saw it as an adult and laughed all the way through it. Funny how things scare you as a child but are just plain amusing as an adult.

peace

I just checked www.borders.com, and they have the lowest price for Sleepaway Camp at 8.99 http://search.borders.com/fcgi -bin/db2www/search/search.d2w/QResults?doingQuickSearch=1&srchPage=QResults&keyw ord=sleepaway+camp&mediaType=Video that link will take you to the page.

I remember the curling iron scene http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif-that is what she got for sleeping with all the counselors anyway. I'm gonna check out Susperia (never heard of it), and I'll let you know what I think of it once I get it.

Sleepaway Camp 2 and 3 are also featured when you click on the link http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

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Peace and God Bless
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the movies that use to scare me was the:

night of the living dead
day of the living dead
and
dawn of the living dead.

something about the walking dead is terrifying.

i was petrified of those 3d movies that use to come out and you had to go buy the 3d sun glasses from 7-11.