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What's The Scariest Movie You've Ever Seen?

Recently, it was the Hottie and the Nottie.

I liked how they made sure to put the "hottie" caption under the picture of Paris, just to make sure that you didn't get confused as to who was who.
 
When i was 8 and went to see Jurassic Park 2 or 3 at the cinema and cried the whole time. Can't remember any of the film
 
Mr. Brooks was pretty creepy.

Saw One Missed Call last night and laughed through the entire thing with my friend.
 
Silence of the Lambs. (creepy)

The Signs
The Sixth Sense
The Village.

Yes, I have a thing for the way Shyamalan makes things scary.

Most other 'horror' movies tend to make me laugh. :eek:
 
Mm, the girl from the Grudge wigged me out, although I've seen her again and it wasn't as scary as I'd remember (still disturbing)

I like M. Night's films too, although the general opinion is that he's rubbish.:mad:

@the 7 dwarfs guy: Disney's Pinocchio scared me. There was some very disturbing imagery in that cartoon.
 
Shyamalan is not rubbish, he's genius. His movies are typically not re-watchable. But that's because he keeps everything secret until the very last minute - if he reveals ANYTHING at all.

The brilliance of this is that viewers use their own imagination to 'see' the object of fear. And there's nothing scarier than our own imagination.
 
Ryan1524 said:
Shyamalan is not rubbish, he's genius. His movies are typically not re-watchable. But that's because he keeps everything secret until the very last minute - if he reveals ANYTHING at all.

The brilliance of this is that viewers use their own imagination to 'see' the object of fear. And there's nothing scarier than our own imagination.
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I thought that Sixth Sense was brilliant, Signs was ok, and The Village was dreadful. I didn't even see any potential for fear in The Village.
 
Ryan1524 said:
And there's nothing scarier than our own imagination.
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, you peeps should have been brought-up in the era of radio.

Now there was some creepy stuff. ;)
 
Finalday said:
There should be a distinction, between scary and Gory. They are 2 different tastes.
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I've seen scary gory if that makes sense. I can withstand most things people consider gory on media these days - even enjoy it quite a bit. But there are certain ways some artists do gory that makes me want to turn it off.

I think it's when they mix the Reason the characters do the evil things they do. If it's sinister and sick enough, then the gore becomes scary.
 
Due to seeing so much of special effects, gore holds no value for being scary. Stepping out from a blind corner, sneaking up on someone, the suspense, is what makes it scary for me. Like Jaws, the effect only worked once, when the not knowing the shark was there.
 
Or watching the serial killer watch Clarice fumble in pitch black through a night vision goggle. That's creepy to the max.


"It rubs the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again" :D
 
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Poltergeist and Omen. Only because I saw these films at an age I shouldn't have.
 
28 Days Later was a pretty tense film I thought, along with that Sunshine film.


Not really a film but The Last Train set me in a funny mood for weeks when I first watched it.
 
diehldun said:
I had trouble watching "28 Days Later", "28 Weeks Later", and Saw I/II/III/IV.
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28 Days later was pretty good. 28 weeks later just seemed to be an OMG I can't 28 days made so much money so lets throw this together real quick type of sequel.

Same with SAW the first was great but the 2nd was no good, just gore no suspense and I would not even venture to watch the others.

Another scary movie "Super Size Me":eek:. I have not had McDonalds since and only have fast food maybe 2 or 3 times per year. Before that video I ate fast food 1 to 2 times per week.
 
I'm probably the only one because i saw it when i was like 12...
House on Haunted Hill. (The original in black and white)
I was so tense the whole time that afterwards my whole body hurt.
 
hotsauce said:
Poltergeist and Omen. Only because I saw these films at an age I shouldn't have.
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I first saw Alien when it had it's UK TV debut, my dad let me watch it. It scared the crap out of me for weeks after.

Gore films just make me feel uneasy now, I used to laugh at them. Psychological horrors scare me the most. My imagination only needs a little prompt to freak me out. :eek:
 
Though I saw it years ago when it came out in 1990, "Jacob's Ladder" was the scariest movie I had seen up to that point. Though I'm not a big fan of scary movies (most of them are just stupid) "Jacob's Ladder" was just plain spooky -- nothing was as it seemed, and the smallest things put you on edge in the movie because you're not sure what's real and what's not.

Another one I enjoyed, and which was pretty scary, was John Carpenter's 1982 remake of "The Thing." Boy, was that a bizzare movie.
 
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