What was the scariest movie you ever saw?
 

What movie scared you so bad you almost had to stop watching it, and it gave you nightmares?

"Wrong Turn" was the scariest movie I have ever seen.:eek:

Freddy Kreuger used to give me nightmares when I was younger. For a more recent movie, I'd like to forget that I've ever watched Saw.

Yeah, Saw was crazy.:eek:

I don't really get "scared" by movies.. more like disturbed or disgusted.

The worst movie I ever saw was The Hills Have Eyes. It makes me mad to even think about it.. I had to turn away multiple times. House of 1000 Corpses was disgusting as well.

I can handle the blood and disgusting isht.

I absolutely cannot stand movies that totally fcuk up your mind -- The Shining, The Ring, The Grudge, Children of the Corn...etc.

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same. I can take blood and guts. Don't like movies that mess with my mind/soul. I get scared when I watch Halloween, just because I hate how the victims run, Michael Myers can walk and still catch them and hack them up. And I despise The Exorcist, still. Must be my religious guilt or something.

The Exorcist is beyond a doubt the most terrifying movie I've ever seen and I'd never, ever in a million years watch it again. And the version I saw was on network television so I can only imagine what the theatre version was like! {shudder}!

I'm not a wimp about scary movies - bring on Freddie and Michael and Jason and their buddies and I won't bat an eye. But that devil isht scares me!

Carrie has my vote for scariest scene.

My friend is still disturbed by The Grudge. After we saw it, I would call her at work and just make that noise. She hated me for it.

The movie that gave me nightmares recently was Dawn of the Dead. When I was a kid, it was Jaws.

So far Hostel has been the scariest one that I have seen. I normally don't like scary movies and this one was no different to the others in that regard. The only reason I watched it was because my best friend had gotten it out and I'd have felt guilty if I didn't watch at least part of it with him, esspecially since he was sick at the time as well.

I had nightmares for a week because of that movie. :p

The list of horror movies I've seen in currently under 5. I have no desire to see them.

I've seen the Exorcist several times, and its never bothered me. But I also watched it in my senior year Theology class back in my (obviously) Catholic HS when we learned about exorcisms.

The one that has scared me the most is the Blair Witch Project. I live in rural Appalchia that is chock-full of strange characters. One of these characters could be doing something quite similar and it wouldn't surprise me.

I will have to give my vote for The Exorcist too. Although I usually find a good ghost story with an inferred haunting far more frightening than the grue. If I want that, I'll read true crime. Many of the slasher characters are based on real true criminals anyway.

The Exorcist - That messed me up for life.....

^^LOL, but yeah, I vote for that one too.

I LOVE scary movies though! I have to agree with the above poster(s) that blood and gore don't scare me, but the psychological/religious type stuff scares the crap out of me.

I must also say when that little dayum boy says 'redrum' in The Shining I scream every time, lol.

Last House on the Left.

I take back what I said about being able to handle things disgusting. This movie was horribly grotesque and enough to screw with your mind days after viewing it.

Halloween. Couldn't sleep for a couple of days after I first saw it...and the movie pretty much ended my babysitting career.

Has anyone seen the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet? I wonder how they are going to play off the original since the original was a total freashow that wasn't scary...LOL...

I think the last movie I saw that I could do without was SAW.

Are you talking about the original--original (lol) or the "original" that starred Jessica Beal in it? Cause I thought that the one that came out recently w/ Jessica Beal was shitty. I saw the original TCM when I was in 4th grade and I had nightmares for weeks afterwards!

I have to agree with everyone and say that blood and guts don't scare me (it might gross me out, but it doesn't scare me)...i do hate the psychological crap. I saw the Grudge when it first came out---in the movie theaters at 12:00 am, sitting in like the 3rd row from the screen with no one in the theater but me and 3 of my friends. That shit was scary---but then we watched a bootleg copy at my friend's out and I laughed at it. It still creeps me out a little though! lol

The scariest movie i've seen....that still scares me to this day...is The Exorcist. I can NOT watch that movie from beginning to end, at night. It creeps me out.

I haven't seen this one myself, but my dad told me about it (if it's the same one I'm thinking of) and he said he couldn't sit through it all. He had to leave the theater and go puke. If that was my dad's reaction, I think it's a safe bet I won't be seeing that one.

I was talking about the "original" pre-Jessica Beal.

I would have to say the worst was "When a Stranger Calls".. the original. I watched it while babysitting and that was just the stupidest thing I ever did. I was like 15 years old, babysitting.. dumb, dumb, dumb. I was so paralyzed with fear that I couldn't even get up to turn it off (we didn't have remotes back then.. yeah).

The Exorcist was plenty disturbing, but I'll have to go with I Spit On Your Grave just because of the bathtub scene.

golly, let's see. hush, hush sweet charlotte, psycho or the shining.

those psychological horror movies really mess with my mind.

And, funny, just like the plot lines in a lot of the horror movies, we've all watched one or two while babysitting...

I remember I watched the original Friday the 13th when I was babysitting and also Carrie. Friday the 13th freaked me out more...and I swear everyone at school was talking about the lady reaching up for her head after she got it sliced off. I think in Carrie I was more horrified what the girls did to her in the locker room at the very beginning of the show than in the rest of the movie.

I imagine Brokeback Mountain would be pretty scary.

Well, not to provide any spoilers there, but the sheep were violated only by the wolves.

That movie had been on HBO or something when I was in junior high school and shortly after, when I was doing one of the very few babysitting jobs I'd ever worked at, my mom called me there and said "Have you checked the children?".

My family. We put the "fun" in dysfunctional!

"Hush hush, Sweet Charlotte" is a good one, with a GREAT TWIST ending! :D

Scariest movies for me would be "Silence of the Lambs", only because you know that there are sick mofos out there that could exist like that (Buffalo Bill).

And I saw the Jessica Biel "Texas Chainsaw" movie, and I don't do well with seeing "suffering". That's why I have not seen "HOSTEL", as I understand that there are scenes of suffering in there, which would be horrible to see.

I haven't seen the Jordana Brewster "Texas Chainsaw" movie.

I saw that movie in the theatre and when he was watching her through the night goggles and she was in the pitch black the entire audience would scream when we thought she was going to come close to getting it. That has got to be one of the best thriller movies ever. And Anthony Hopkins with that mask...

Was it anything like the one that just came out? Because that movie was a waste of how ever much I paid for to see it.

LOL @ shinerbock for brokeback mountain.

The Birds
Poltergeist (sp?)
only saw bits and pieces of the Exorcist-would not watch the whole thing-eek
Salem's Lot
I have never watched a Friday the 13th and have only seen one nightmare on elm street
I don't like scarey movies

The Hills Have Eyes was scary. Especially the background music.

Carrie wasn't scary man. My X was like that. LOL

I live in an area that is very hilly. HC I SPEED past the hills at night singing at the top of my voice to distract my from looking at the hills and possibly seeing "eyes"

LMAO

As a rule, movies don't really scare me but sometimes one surprises me.
The one that I thought had the most unexpected ending was a German made version of Dracula shot back in the 1960s which featured all of the old Hammer Films stars like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee but was shot in German language. I saw this in Germany when I was on Army duty there inbetween undergrad and Law School. In this version you have the old Priest visiting on a short vacation from Rome to his native village where he stays at his brothers inn. His neice, predictably, is Dracula's target. The story line follows the attempts by Dracula to get to the neice, and the old priest's efforts to stop him. The impact of the ending pretty much assumes that the audience is Catholic in order to get the full understanding of what happens and why the reaction is so intense. As the film approaches its culmination Dracula decides that he needs to get rid of the priest so he can get to the neice. You see the usual mist slipping under the door of the priest's room and then Dracula materializes to confront him. The old priest is reading his Breviary (book of daily prayers and commentary on which to meditate) when he realizes who has just shown up. Dracula asks him, "you know who I am?" "Yes", he answers. "And you are not afraid", says Dracula with a sneer. "No, not really" the priest answers. "Then you must be very brave or very foolish" The priest closes and puts down his book, rises and looks directly at Dracula and says, "my dear count, I know who and what you are, but it is obvious that you have no idea who I am". Again sneeringly Dracula says, "and who are you little priest?" Almost pityingly the priest says quietly but firmly, "I am the Father General of the Jesuits!" Dracula recoils in terror, staggers back and the picture fades and rolls to credits. If you are Catholic you realize that just about the last person on earth Dracula would want to confront is the one he unknowingly chose to take on. The audience, an obviously Catholic crowd in Bavaria, went wild laughing and cheering. Not at all the ending I was expecting but great fun.

Same here- it is the movies that mess with your mind that get me.

"The Nanny" would have to be my #1. It is a Bette Davis film in which she plays a mentally disturbed nanny in a home with a mentally disturbed boy. It is one of her lesser-known films, but quite chilling.

This film will absolutely terrify you.

I love that movie,

"TAAAKKE YOOOOOOOOOOUR HAAAAAANDS OFFFFFF THAT!"

Definitely an awesome twist ending too. Did Olivia DeHavilland ever play a "bad guy" in any other movie? She was not originally cast in that role (Joan Crawford walked off the set during the original filming), but given her snow white screen persona she was the perfect one to turn out to be the unexpected evil character.

That's my favorite movie of all time. :D Oh and there are sicker mofos that have existed.. if anyone feels like getting really grossed out, check out Albert Fish.

There's a rumor that he had to be shocked twice in the electric chair because he had stuck so many needles into his body for pleasure.

:(

Sorry I'm kind of obsessed with reading about serial killing. Haha.