AFI's 100 scariest films ever :eek:

dirtymike1906 · #1 06-13-2001, 04:41 PM

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?

nikki25 · #2 06-13-2001, 04:45 PM

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!

sphinxpoet · #3 06-13-2001, 04:57 PM

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

Sphinxpoet
Representing the Ice COLD Ace Club

sphinxpoet · #4 06-13-2001, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sphinxpoet:
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!

Serenity · #5 06-13-2001, 06:47 PM

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?

Yikes! It's scaring me just thinking about it.

silver · #6 06-13-2001, 07:57 PM

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.

The Original Ape · #7 06-13-2001, 08:08 PM

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

DreamfulOne · #8 06-13-2001, 09:12 PM

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

HeartbrAKA · #9 06-13-2001, 11:06 PM

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

AKA2D '91 · #10 06-13-2001, 11:11 PM

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

Little32 · #11 06-14-2001, 12:38 AM

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.

tickledpink · #12 06-14-2001, 01:50 AM

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.

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).

[This message has been edited by tickledpink (edited June 14, 2001).]

Ideal08 · #13 06-14-2001, 11:12 AM

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.

sophistAKAtedLady · #14 06-14-2001, 11:39 AM

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.

Miss. Mocha · #15 06-14-2001, 11:43 AM

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.