What was the scariest movie you ever saw?

kstar · #1 10-08-2006, 02:57 PM

Last House on the Left.

chitownxo · #2 10-08-2006, 03:32 PM

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

BadSquirrelBeta · #3 10-08-2006, 03:50 PM

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.

epchick · #4 10-08-2006, 04:28 PM

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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.

BadSquirrelBeta · #5 10-08-2006, 05:26 PM

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

AGDee · #6 10-08-2006, 05:38 PM

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).

JonInKC · #7 10-08-2006, 06:02 PM

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

KillarneyRose · #8 10-08-2006, 09:22 PM

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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).

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!

_Opi_ · #9 10-08-2006, 09:59 PM

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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).

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.

scbelle · #10 10-08-2006, 04:59 PM

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Last House on the Left.

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.

kstar · #11 10-09-2006, 04:02 PM

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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.

That's kinda the reaction most sane people have. It is seriously the most twisted movie EVER.

BadSquirrelBeta · #12 10-09-2006, 06:16 PM

Mr. BSB and I were talking about this.

He remembered a story when he was in the 6th or 7th grade and a friend of his had a movie theatre party for his birthday. It was one of the first "boy/girl" events as pre-teens. Anyway, this kid throwing the party was extra cool because his dad owned the theatre. So, down they sit in their pre-teen glory to a special birthday screening of THE SHINING. Apparently this kid's dad hadn't seen it yet.

OMG, Mr. BSB said there were girls screaming everywhere and running out of the theatre when the hallway was filled with blood, etc. etc.

Needless to say, the movie party WASN'T a hit and none of the boys "scored".

aggieAXO · #13 10-08-2006, 11:21 PM

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

dekeguy · #14 10-09-2006, 12:14 AM

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.

cecarter82 · #15 10-09-2006, 02:30 PM

It was the "The Shining" until I saw "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"