Here is a thread for the scariest movies you've seen. I recently watched "Ju-on" or "The Grudge" and DAMN was I scared! I was watching with some from friends and we were screaming so much. We watched it at night (much better effect, especially when the screeen went.....kekekekem you'll have to watch it in the dark). If you have seen it, you may not agree that this is the scariest movie, but I am veging on fear of the dark after watching that. I dont even feel safe in bed after watching that. *shudder* brrrrrrrrr. That was some scary.....shit.

Hmmmmm...

The last movie that genuinely scared me was Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining". The music helped set the mood quite a bit, and I'd love to get my hands on the Soundtrack. Most so-called "Horror" movies today are just "Psycho" rip-offs with over-the-top violence and special effects tossed in.

Yeah, well this was mostly a psychological thriller, hardly any CG except for the smaky thing that almost jumoed out of the screen. *shudder*

i watched Ring (japanese version) last halloween, scared the crap out of me :P

great film though, if a little odd.

The Exorcist. I liked the Exorcist because of the innocence of the girl. It's not something you can simply shoot at and make go away. Thats not to say that all supernatural horror films are great, but they are the ones I prefer.

Off topic - What defines a good scary movie to you? I agree that excess blood and bits and gore spoils it for me. It wasn't the special effects that made the Exorcist scary for me, it was the concept of the little girl and the devil.

Lets see: Alien(even thought ive not actualy seen it) the whole idea of the parisite scares me.

The Thing is quite scary thought its fun when some one looks away and says "Tell me when this bit ot over" of course you tell them its over half way throught the gruseom mutilation etc.

hmmmm, what makes a movie scary (btw, it's not off topic, this is a thread for scary movies!!! and stuff to do with scary movies so..... :thinking: meh) anyway, well, music definitely creates a scary atmosphere. also, if the movie keeps you gussing, that's really scary....and good! even if you can't go to bed calmly at night! :heh:

edit: forgot to add that if it's psychologically scary, that does it for me. excess blood and gore does ruin the atmosphere, i have agree with you there zebra

Originally posted by zebra@Oct 10 2004, 06:59 AM
Off topic - What defines a good scary movie to you? I agree that excess blood and bits and gore spoils it for me.
Actually, it's what I *don't* see that can make a Horror movie frightening. I once saw The Haunting (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/) and it was quite an intense experience. The interesting thing about it was that there is nary a ghost to be seen -- all of the "haunting" is done with sound and lighting effects. I think Stephen King put it best in his book "Danse Macabre" (an excellent resource if you're interested in the genre) when he pointed out that (and I'm taking this from memory, so I *could* be incorrect here) a six-foot-tall cockroach is frightening because it is a relatively common thing (who, after all, has never seen a cockroach?) seen outside of it's normal context. But it's only frightening until a *100 foot cockroach(!)* comes along. (To which I would add: A 1000 foot cockroach may*sound* scary; but when you realize that it wouldn't even be able to move or breathe because of it's weight, it sort of takes the fright out of the scenario and injects an element of the comical/absurd. Bigger is *NOT* always better...)

exorcist is plain demonic, it is satanic but it doesn't play with pagan worships

I agree with Edwin on The Haunting (63 version) from a time when they let your mind conjure the nasty bits & so it becomes as bad as your own mind, House on Haunted Hill (59 version) is another example of this, but avoid the remakes of these two as they take away the edge the older ones have

It is a simple question. What scares us? Some say evil frightens us. But no one considers adultery themed movies white knuckled thrillers. And there is nothing particularly evil about being killed by exotic animals. If horror were purely based on evil, Anaconda and Arachnophobia would have been labeled dramas or tragedies. And why is death so frightening itself? Not particularly the death of the self, but the deaths of others. It has nothing to do with separation anxiety. Consider two strangers in an elevator. They reach their destination and never see each other again. If the same two strangers are together in an elevator and one starts foaming at the mouth and dies the other is terrified and can not bear to remain there. So what makes death so horrifying? It isn’t just the drama of it, because if one of them left elevator screaming about how their life was over and jumped off the building, it still would lack the depth of watching someone’s body die.
Death has always frightened man because it just seems wrong. Here is something that moved, laughed, cried. And now it doesn’t do anything. It is impossible to summon a response. Imagine Cain’s shock. Death just seems like it should not be. That is the root of all horror. Something is not right. “Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark.” Something should not be, or, to put it in psychological terms, something gives us “cognitive dissonance.” We have some definite that is being toyed with. This is what makes “Les Enfants Terribles” such a great scheme. There is a general cognition, “children should not be evil. ” But when reading The Turn of the Screw or watching The Ring, cognitive dissonance is unavoidable. This disorder horrifies humanity.
Just for the unconvinced, I will go through a list of examples where things frighten us because that is not how they ought to be. Take The Sixth Sense. People should not see the spirits of the dead. It just should not be. Take all Zombie movies. If it frightens us to see people die, we definitely do not want to see them move again. Take Slasher movies. Most of the time the victims have either broken the perverse moral code of the killer or the killer enjoys killing. Both should not be. Humans have what they consider a universal set of morals that should not be toyed with. Whenever a character appears who gives out punishment based on a different set, we have cognitive dissonance. (I could go on and on and point out the dissonance in every horror medium available, but I hope the contention is now understandable.)
It is little wonder then that most horror scores are full of dissonant music. When analyzing the wave lengths of a minor chord, the perfect fifth is perfectly consonant. It is the minor third in between that makes it sound awkward and frightening. It is so powerful that even when the third is absent its presence is still implied and played in our minds due to the minor key’s influence. The idea of dissonance still haunts us even when it is not placed directly before us.
So, what does this say about humanity? Overall, we prefer order. Minor chords have their role in the most cheerful odes and tension is present in all stories. There must be conflict to make something worthwhile. But when the conflict is against something that just ought not be, horror becomes the main event.

Sorry about such a long post. I felt inspired.

Originally posted by Alfonso de Sabio@Oct 18 2004, 02:55 AM
Sorry about such a long post. I felt inspired.
I can see that :heh: It was a good read though...and rather interesting.

Originally posted by Alfonso de Sabio@Oct 17 2004, 09:55 PM
(...)there is nothing particularly evil about being killed by exotic animals. If horror were purely based on evil, Anaconda and Arachnophobia would have been labeled dramas or tragedies.


As I wrote above (using Stephen King's example), a lot of Horror goes to context: Most people have seen snakes (usually in a controlled environment, like a school or zoo) and practically everyone has seen a spider or two in the basement or laundryroom. But outside of the context of those "safe" environments, both animals have a "menacing" aspect (i.e. both have sub-species known to be lethally poisonous to man) and therefore are feared -- and the fear is exaggerated either by the sheer size and speed of the creature (the 60+ foot snake in "Anaconda") or a percieved "supernatural" intelligence/"group-think" superior to man's own. (The "smart" spiders in "Arachnaphobia".)

One of the scenes that I always laugh at in the movie "Creepshow" is the one where the cleanliness fanatic played by the late E.G. Marshall is over-run and eventually killed by a zillion cockroaches. Cockroaches may indeed be dirty, disgusting insects; but (other than spreading a few diseases with the help of man's own carelessness) they're essentially harmless. They don't bite and inject no venom. It's their sheer *numbers* that scares us! To which I answer, "I have yet to meet the cockroach that can withstand the heel of my boot!" The same is pretty much true of rats and, to a certain extent, mice. Their numbers and reputation for spreading disease (Black Death, anyone?:death: :ph34r:) are what frighten us -- but not *all* of us, considering that some of us keep them (and cockroaches) as pets...

And, yes, your post was certainly inspired *and* inspiring!

The Sixth Sense scared me REALLY bad....but I saw it at the movies (so i was only like 11), and I was pretty sick at the time. Still refused to see it again and see if it really was as scary as I thought it had been.

What Lies Beneath also freaked me. I'm really not a great fan of horror, and never have been.

haha ju-on...and you thought hiding under the covers was safe =D

It's not funny souma! I couldn't go to sleep feeling safe for days!!

Originally posted by Inu-chan@Oct 28 2004, 09:05 AM
It's not funny souma! I couldn't go to sleep feeling safe for days!!
Haha, there is a remake of that coming out over here soon. I assume America already have it.

Has Sarah Michelle Gellar in it :think:


Haha ~ I don't really get scared very easy XD The only thing that has amazingly made me uneasy was probably the Blair Witch Project. It was so incredibly lame I had to pull the covers up at nighttime and whisper to myself "If I can't see it ~ It doesn't exist" over and over again B)

A remake?!?! They already remade "the ring" What next?!?! It must be because the americans can't make their own scary movies scary enough, so they have to "remake" a Japanese one! Gyah! Those damned Americans! Next thing you know, they'll doing remakes of every Asian movie and try to make money off something completley unoriginal!! *huff huff* :ranting:

Weirdly enough, the film that scared me most was 28 days later. I hate scary-looking faces, they just give me the heebie-jeebies and the eyes of the plague victims just freaked me out! Another face that scared me was that horrible one in the end credits of Bubblegum Crisis - it just lingers behind my eyelids as an afterimage and is really creepy :o

Originally posted by silverwings@Oct 10 2004, 10:24 AM
i watched Ring (japanese version) last halloween, scared the crap out of me :P

great film though, if a little odd.
I think The Ring sucked, people dying because they saw a video tape.. is kinda dumb. I can't wait to watch The Grudge on Sunday (Halloween^^)! I'm gonna get scared so badly. I'm a horror movie fanatic =)

I haven't watched many horror movies come to think of it... I watched alot of Chinese horror movies, but missed out all the great English ones T.T My mom thinks I'm too young for these kind of movies =_=

Bewareeeeee of meeeeee =D Bwahahaha

when i first saw the animated movie - akira, i was like totally freaked out~ ppl getting all bloated up and mutated really scare the hell out of me~ but now, I feel that's so cool especially after I started using K999 in King of Fighters~ :)

and for ppl who have not watch the grudge~

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Originally posted by Inu-chan@Oct 28 2004, 08:06 AM
A remake?!?! They already remade "the ring" What next?!?! It must be because the americans can't make their own scary movies scary enough, so they have to "remake" a Japanese one! Gyah! Those damned Americans! Next thing you know, they'll doing remakes of every Asian movie and try to make money off something completley unoriginal!! *huff huff* :ranting:
The Japanese made the Ring II, and now the Americans are re-making it.

Originally posted by Inu-chan@Oct 28 2004, 03:06 PM
A remake?!?! They already remade "the ring" What next?!?! It must be because the americans can't make their own scary movies scary enough, so they have to "remake" a Japanese one! Gyah! Those damned Americans! Next thing you know, they'll doing remakes of every Asian movie and try to make money off something completley unoriginal!! *huff huff* :ranting:
No, China is original, making their own versions of pretty much everything that's invented in America and Europe :lol:

Does it really matter if the concept is original? Shakespeare didn't have an original idea in any of his plays but he's viewed as the greatest playwrite ever. It's not really the premise that's important but the execution and 'The Ring' definitely was executed well.

Actually, for the remake of the Grudge, the Americans worked closely with the original Japanese director . .

Anyways, the Japanese version of Ring scared me and my friends. We were watching it on somebody's computer, huddled up in a small room with the lights darkened . . all their fears rubbed off on me, and I didn't want to sleep afterwards . . . the English version was okay, but it was great for clarification, because the other one I watched didn't have any subtitles.

Originally posted by Elite666@Oct 28 2004, 07:45 PM
Does it really matter if the concept is original? Shakespeare didn't have an original idea in any of his plays but he's viewed as the greatest playwrite ever.
I agree. No one is going to have a truly original idea when it comes to stories. The Ring is essentially just a new twist on "Les Enfants Terribles." The earliest work of length I know of to incorporate that is in the 1700s. Not to mention all the little myths, like Loki's daughter, Hel.

Originally posted by Al@Oct 29 2004, 04:30 AM
Actually, for the remake of the Grudge, the Americans worked closely with the original Japanese director . .
Actually it has the Japanese Director. I believe Sam Raimi did it in conjunction with the original Japanese Director....was filmed in Japan and everything ~ :lol:

So there is a Japanese Cast beyond the main American members I think ^^ The Americans had to learn Japanese too, because of the Japanese Director :heh:

Exactly, that's what I meant, heh. So I think I'll check it out sometime soon . .

Originally posted by madmazda86@Oct 28 2004, 09:10 AM
Weirdly enough, the film that scared me most was 28 days later. I hate scary-looking faces, they just give me the heebie-jeebies and the eyes of the plague victims just freaked me out!
28 Days Later still freaks me out just thinking about it!
I don't really get scared by things coming out of TV's like the Ring series or anything like that... I get scared from movies that make me think some virus may come and make me want to destory everyong like 28 Days Later... >.> That has to be my pick.


Anyways, the Japanese version of Ring scared me and my friends. We were watching it on somebody's computer, huddled up in a small room with the lights darkened . . all their fears rubbed off on me, and I didn't want to sleep afterwards . . . the English version was okay, but it was great for clarification, because the other one I watched didn't have any subtitles.

I seriously didn't find the Ring series scary... I watched all of them plus the american at Star's house (some of you know star) and I nearly fell asleep during Ring 1... >.> Of course, Star was nearly pissing her pants. XD


I can't wait to watch The Grudge on Sunday (Halloween^^)!

Oh! Me niether! I'm going to try and get my mother to let me go on a double date for my birthday to see it. ^^ I'm a huge horror movie nut! ^^

Well, I personally am all for the Nightmare on Elm Street series. I mean, come on...being afraid to go to sleep? Plus if you're watching it at 3 in the morning, anything seems real to ya...Hehe.

Nightmare on Elm Street didn't do anything for me... Neither did Halloween. Then again, it was probably the constant talking about it with you.

I'm all for the old black and white movies compared to NoES or Halloween... Like Psycho! That was a good movie. Heh

Dude, Pyscho was the best XD Alfred Hitchcock was a freaking genius! ...And I'm being roasted to death by my uniform... X_X

The Ring is freaky... The Ring 2 is coming out soon...

28 Days Later is scary too...

i read the manga version of ring 2...and it kinda made more sense but spiral made moreeeee sense to why ppl died in by watching the video. What happened was []

*revives in a scary manner*

The Grudge made me laugh because... seeing a bunch of Asians in blue make up is a bit more on the family reunion side then horror..

The scariest movie Ive ever seen was proably IT. Stephen King is one of my idols, his realistic books scare the crap out of me. Now adding that, plus the fact I was about 6 at the time I saw it and it was the first horror flic Ive ever seen... Lets just say Im scared of my own closet when I try to sleep now T_T

So theres IT, The Birds, Akira... God im a sissy..

The scariest movie Ive ever seen was proably IT. Stephen King is one of my idols, his realistic books scare the crap out of me. Now adding that, plus the fact I was about 6 at the time I saw it and it was the first horror flic Ive ever seen... Lets just say Im scared of my own closet when I try to sleep now T_T


yeah it was scary, i saw it when i was like 6 too. but id say the scaryest movie i say was "event horizon". the movie about a ship that folds space to go to distant locations. but it couldnt be that simple now could it? i saw that movie when i was like 12 and i was like traumatized. those dude without eyes were *creeepy*. oh and the "sphere" movie was really freaky too.

ps. 28 days later is one of my favorite zombie movies. its awesome i just adored it.

Sphere!?!? Sorry, but I just saw it two days ago on TV and I thought it was funny. I can see how its scary (trust me, I have some strong case of some swimming pool/lake/ocean phobia), but come on man! OH! And another scary movie is Ghost Ship. I swear, somewhere, I saw that Miyazaki worked on that movie, which adds to the scary factor seeing how that might be a cry for mental help thus no more movies from him!!!!1!!

Even though I don't find it as scary now, when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I watched Stephen King's Langoliers (1995) on TV, that was the scariest movie I thought at the time, gave me nightmares and made me change my mind in not becoming an airplane pilot, though now, I want to be a pilot again! ;P

saw 1 and 2 is pretty gruesome

Sphere!?!? Sorry, but I just saw it two days ago on TV and I thought it was funny. I can see how its scary (trust me, I have some strong case of some swimming pool/lake/ocean phobia), but come on man! OH! And another scary movie is Ghost Ship. I swear, somewhere, I saw that Miyazaki worked on that movie, which adds to the scary factor seeing how that might be a cry for mental help thus no more movies from him!!!!1!!


i didnt think sphere was scary kuz of all that water! it was the concept of it all.

Event Horizon hands freakin' down.

Among all I love What Lies Beneath but the scariest and most disturbing for me is Exorcist The Beginning.

Event Horizon hands freakin' down.

lol f**king A.

when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I watched Stephen King's Langoliers (1995) on TV
ive just read that story. Didnt even know there was a film of it. *Goes in search*

I dont think i've been scared by any movie ive watched. except maybe, bird by hitchcock...but its so long ago im not sure if i was just bored of it

anyone seen the old amyville horror? freaky!

I actually haven't seen a movie that I would dub "Scariest Movie" although one movie DID scar(yes I mean scar...not scare) me...."The Excorsist"

The Exorcist didn't really bother me that much :\ I watched it so long ago I probably forgot if it did traumatize me lol. The Excorcism of Emily Rose, however, is a different story.

I've heard people say that it wasn't as bad as the Excorcist but for some reason it seriously distrurbed me. For a whole 2 weeks after watching it I'd wake up at 3 a.m., the time Emily had her first encounter with her uh...demons, and just sit up in bed waiting an hour before I could go back to sleep. I really don't know how...or why I managed to wake up. I think the first couple of times I was just so freaked out that I woke myself up and the rest was just out of habit :\

^Don't you do that normally? =P

the scariest movie I've ever seen?

That one where the chick made out with the 70 or 80 year old lady and there was all the saliva dripping around and....ew.

..ew.

*enters fetal position*

Ive been hearing from people that Saw II is horrific. Having to watch someone get somthing at the bottom of a tub full of neddles would make me vomit, let alone all the other things Ive heard that happens in it. Anyone who enjoys that movie is SICK.

Oh, and I also heard the same things about Hostle. I dispise people who enjoy those kinds of movies. Watching someone get thir toes pinched off with pliers is FUN!?

I recently heard about a film critic for a religious-themed radio station who gave a scathing review of Saw II but absolutely "loved" Passion of the Christ. Can you say "hypocrisy"?

The scariest movie I've ever seen is The Grudge, during the movie I was so scared that I stopped watching =p
But I've seen the whole english-version, but that one isn't scary at all..

yes...I agree
Ju-On (japanese version of The Grudge) is better...my english teacher actually made us watch it T_T

Why that =p ?

And I've seen 2 more scary movies =|
They were japanese (I luuuuv asianmovies =p)
but I've forgotten they're name
One was about a hospital with a few docters who
tought they had a virus or something
and the other one was about a newspaper.. =)

Dark waters, japanese version. From then on I never watched ghost movie. I just find The Excorcism of Emily Rose a bit stupid and a waste of money. Screaming scenes are not that entertaining. The 3 o'clock thing is illogical because at different countries the time would be different and does that mean every hour is a demon hour just that it is in another country.

Dark waters, japanese version. From then on I never watched ghost movie. I just find The Excorcism of Emily Rose a bit stupid and a waste of money. Screaming scenes are not that entertaining. The 3 o'clock thing is illogical because at different countries the time would be different and does that mean every hour is a demon hour just that it is in another country.

Haha, me and my friends saw the trailer for it in the theater a long while ago and we just made fun of it so much. XD

i only saw parts of the exorcism of emily rose. saw her first encounter and the face in the window..too scared to see it all. haha i had to get my brother to walk me to my room and turn on the lights for me.

Ju-On (The Grudge)!
I was so scared that i had to watch the film through my crisp packet! Yes i could still see, it crisp packet was see through!
Making it worst, my friend phoned me in the cinema and my fone was on vibrate! -shivers- never again!

I'm pretty excited about this one:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/silenthill/

I haven't played the game, but I've seen all the video sequences from it and I've read the plot synopsis. It looks nice.