Thread: The Scariest Movie of All Time

Originally Posted by sensei_kyle

I'm with Justin on the original Alien movie. I've seen it dozens of times at home on VHS & DVD. We saw it at a special re-release on the big screen a couple of years ago, and even though I knew what was coming the screen, the darkness, the quality sound system still made me jump.

yeah --- I've seen it maybe 10 times and it still gets me ---- at the end when Ripley is trying to get to the escape craft ---- just the sounds get to me --- damn that's a good movie.

Justin

Another vote for Alien here, but an old favorite from the VCR days is Videodrome. We rented that one for a party back in the day, and nobody was willing to eject the cassette from the VCR after the end. The massive amount of beer consumed just might have had something to do with it as well.


Wayne

I remember being 11 yrs old and left alone in the house for the first night of my life. I ran through the house turning out all the lights to watch TV with nothing but the glow of the cathode ray tube in the room. A commercial came on with lots of strange hissing a screeching noises and the camera zooming over the surface of a barren moon. The camera closes in on a lonely egg as the sound fades out and captions appear and fade away;
"In space ..."
"noone can hear you scream"
"ALIEN"
end commercial.

I stood up and turned all the lights back on and waited anxiously for my family to return.

X

The first time I saw the alien-chest busting scene, I didn't know what to do ---- I just looked around me and thought I ain't ever going to be right again . The looks of horror on the actors faces were so real. I actually hated that movie for some time after seeing it for how it affected me and was scared to watch it again (maybe a little PTSD or something -- no joke). But it has become one of my favorite movies.


Justin

Another vote for Alien,

From Beyond
Event Horizon

were also kinda freaky....

Ok i cannot be the only one... I'm shcoked nobody has mentioned it...



oh the fear, the impending sense of doom, the gut wrenching drama...




YOUR wedding movie (ok so maybe it was shot on tape)

Here is my short list of movies that messed me up:
seven
8mm
the shining
happiness (the most inapropriately titled movie ever)

Caveat: i dont like horror. these movies messed me up for days and turned me off to something (like eating, or sex, or sleeping) for at least a day...maybe these are among my most disturbing movies ever, not my scariest movies...although the shining was real scary...i saw it for the first time after we moved to new hampshire as a kid...

The original 1959 "House on Haunted Hill" is the only film that made me turn on the lights in a darkened house.

Much to my surprise, "Signs" scared the hell out of me on several occasions. The Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" also bothered me, particularly the scenes with the heat-ray.

I have not gone further than ankle deep in open water since watching Jaws at the age of seven.

Slightly off topic, but my all time favorite "scary" comedy movie was "Mars Attacks"!!
I could have died laughing when the Martians heads exploded at the sound of Slim Whitman's singing!! AAH AAH AAH!! (Sound of the Martians)

Here's another vote for The Exorcist. The Silence of The Lambs also got my attention.