Scarest Movie Ever? Name As Many as You Can..

[Stuart G]

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TWO THAT..... i WALKED OUT ON.....ABOUT 10 YEARS APART...( & one that i didn't walk out on)

HOUSE OF WAX.....3D...1953
PSYCHO...................1960

ALIEN....(FIRST ONE) (JUST COVERED MY EYES)....1979

NIGHT AND FOG ....1956. WORST OF ALL.(review at the bottom of this long thread)...and it is totally true...about millions of deaths BY NAZI GERMANY...

[Enter stage left]

1. does the 2016 Repuq convention count?

[Blue Owl]

3. The 2020 remake with Kimberly Guilfoyle as the coked-up gargoyle was pretty frightening as well

[Stuart G]

4. iF YOU SAY SO....PUKE MOVIE

[11 Bravo]

2. The Blair Witch Project is certainly on my list.

[Diamond_Dog]

18. Mine too

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. The shaky camera made me a little nauseous...

... but that was about it.

Saw it in a theater with a friend, and we started whispering wise-cracks about it after awhile.

Then my friend suddenly laughed pretty loud as he said, "Look, he's taking a piss!" when the movie was almost over, but I couldn't even make out what he saw until later.



Yes, I'm aware he was supposedly under some "spell" like the earlier story about the little kids, who had to stand in a corner before they were killed.

[d_r]

26. he's standing in the corner waiting his turn

so the one with the camera has their turn to die right now

[Buckeye_Democrat]

28. Yeah, I figured it out...

... after he described what he saw and I remembered the earlier "folklore" from the movie.

[d_r]

32. my wife and I saw it in the theater

when it showed that quick shot of him in the corner it was ligit terrifying

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. I struggled to even see him in the corner!

I probably needed yet another new prescription for my glasses back then.

[d_r]

38. it was a really quick flash

that's what made it scary

[electric_blue68]

89. Some friends of mine, and I were at a restaurant and...

I was suffering from a serious case of anxiety where I was leaden, and stiffish (like you might feel in a nightmare). Near the end of the meal one of them started making fun of TBWP.
With some food left on her dish she started making
the branches thing with toothpicks.

Now I hadn't seen it - but I had seen the trailers and saw the branches. Her partner might have seen it with her., too.
We were all cracking up more and more!
(It was the first thing that made a dent in my physical misery. We were going to see Springsteen, and by the end I was able to dance some in my seat, but TBWP pointed me in that direction first. 👍

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. The Innocence (1961)

Was a kid the first time I saw it (when it was released) and it gave me a nightmare. I still find it scary.

Jaws (1975). Didn't last through the whole thing.

[Stuart G]

9. i NEVER SAW "JAWS" BECAUSE OF THE FEAR FACTOR....ALSO...

Schindler's List ....because of fear and sadness factor...

[ailsagirl]

76. Yes, with Deborah Kerr

That was spooky!

[ailsagirl]

111. "The Innocents" was definitely very creepy

Again, not one drop of blood (I don't think), but the general atmosphere was very spooky. Chilling, even.

[Haggard Celine]

6. I thought Seven (1995) was pretty scary.

8mm (1999) was pretty scary, too. Those two had a similar vibe.

[Blue Owl]

7. The Shining is certainly a classic

Isolation... madness... Stranded inside a big empty, spooky hotel with a madman...

[FakeNoose]

85. Probably I would have agreed with you on this

... except I had read the book first before seeing the movie. The book was so much better, I thought. But the movie had some great scenes and it played for scares that weren't in the book. So to each his own. Anyone who saw the movie first probably found it terrifying.

[Ocelot II]

8. Prince of Darkness, Wait Until Dark, The Shining,

Don't Look Now, Midsommar, Let The Right One In, The Night of the Hunter, The Innocents

[d_r]

14. Let the Right One In

The Scandinavian one. I didn't think it was as scary so much as I thought that most of the reviewers at the time misunderstood it. They thought it was the story of young love but it wasn't that at all. She was not young and she knew exactly what she was doing. This was Elie got her familiars, her slaves until they grew too old to serve her purposes. Oskar was just going to be her slave until he grew too old and she used him up. The American remake didn't really get it either.

[Ocelot II]

19. My reference was to the Swedish one, which was definitely better

than the American remake, called Let Me In; and the book, by John Ajvide Lindqvist, was even better and creepier than the movie. What Elie was and what she wanted was clearer in the book, and her "father" was really, really creepy.

[d_r]

27. I read it too

that's why I think the reviewers got it wrong, yes it was more clear in the book

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

29. Wait until Dark, I jumped in the theatre. NT

[Ocelot II]

33. I did, too, and screamed.

[2naSalit]

47. I was going to post that...

I saw it when I was young. Also Seven; Psycho; The Exorcist - too gross and I lived in a house with similar features at the time in the northeast.

After I got into my twenties, I didn't watch those kind of movies anymore, still don't. I can't seem to handle the stress of thrillers anymore and I really liked those.

[exboyfil]

43. Let's hear it for Prince of Darkness

Criminally underrated. The end dream sequence is tremendous. Until recently you haven't had very many supernatural horror movies that break out into the wider world (they are usually contained to a few folks fighting the evil). Would have liked a sequel on the premise of the end of that movie.

[ailsagirl]

112. I loved the suspense in Wait Until Dark!!

Must have seen it a dozen times.

[d_r]

10. when I was a kid

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back in the 70s, Salems Lot was on TV for a couple of nights. Holy crap that kid floating outside the window and that vampire in the rocking chair. Also, The Other was on TV and holy crap that pitch fork in the hay barn and that pickle jar. Also, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and holy crap those things coming out of the walls in that old house.

Anyway, nothing has ever been as scary as that stuff I snuck to look at on tv in the 70s.

[Stuart G]

15. With the movie ..."PSYCHO"...i NEVER MADE IT THROUGH IT....BUT....

THEN WHEN IT CAME OUT ON TAPE.......I got it from the library. 1984....and watched the last 3 minutes...

enough to scare you forever....

[ailsagirl]

114. Yes-- Hitchcock was indeed the "Master of Suspense"

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. I posted about the same scene!

I didn't see your earlier post when I wrote mine!

[Sancho]

11. Birds...

[Siwsan]

12. 'The Haunting' (1963 version)

That movie absolutely terrified me, the first time I saw it. And, the original 'Night of the Living Dead' still creeps me out.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

52. I forgot about "The Haunting"!

I didn't see the movie until I was an adult, but I read the Readers Digest condensed book version when I was a kid and it scared the crap out of me (when I was older I read the whole book). I thought the movie version did more than justice to the book!

[ailsagirl]

77. I agree-- 'twas definitely spooky!

[bamagal62]

13. The House on Green Apple Road -

I remember the opening scene quite well. But, that’s about it other than it scared the snot out of me.
And, another I remember is the TV movie Amelia in the Trilogy of Terror. Pretty scary.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. Non-fiction horror tales always scared me the most.

I was born in the late-60's, and I think Helter Skelter was the first movie that really scared me. I kept asking my older brothers, "So this really happened?!"

Then the movie about the Jim Jones mass-suicide a few years later.

Movies about "monsters" and "apparitions" had almost no effect on me.

One exception, though...

I thought this scene from Salem's Lot (TV movie in 1979) was extremely CREEPY! And the scratches on my bedroom window, from a bush blowing in the wind, kept me awake longer than normal that night!

[d_r]

30. oh my God it was so scary

I was probably about 10, my older cousin was watching it on tv and I was sneaking from around the corner looking in and watching

[Buckeye_Democrat]

35. I saw it with my oldest brother as we visited...

... our sister and her husband. (Most of my siblings are much older than me.)

I watched it quietly, not letting them know that it bothered me.

I definitely watched that TV movie more than any of them. They were constantly distracted by each other's "adult" concerns, whereas that creepy movie kept my attention!

Edit: Oh, and I was 11 years old.

[d_r]

42. I bet that's why we remember it like that

sort of the perfect age to be old enough to get it and young enough to be terrified by it

[Buckeye_Democrat]

44. Most of the horror films that I'd seen up to that point..

... were Vincent Price movies, and other ridiculous stories shown every week on a local TV show called "Shock Theater".

So maybe it was the better special effects of that movie that made it more chilling to me?

Not that the special effects of that movie are very good by today's standards, of course.

[d_r]

45. that floating scene

was amazing special effects for the time. The contact lenses on the eyes, and there aren't wires you can see

[cachukis]

17. DIABOLIQUE.

You cannot share the ending.

[ailsagirl]

113. Another chilling one

(Won't spoil the ending)

[Diamond_Dog]

21. The Amityville Horror

The Omen

[smirkymonkey]

95. The Omen was a good scary movie.

They just don't make them like that any more. I like scary movies where there is something truly evil and other-worldly involved. I'm not really into slasher movies or where the scary element is human.

[smirkymonkey]

98. The Changeling.

With George C. Scott and Trish VanDevere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(film)

[3auld6phart]

22. The Thing

Early ‘50s B & W movie James Arness was the Thing.
‘

[El Supremo]

24. I used to think The Exorcist was the scariest.

I saw it at a theatre. As we were walking out to my car they turned out the parking lot lights an my date jumped three feet in the air.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

25. Evil Dead

The Thing,Children of the Corn, The Fog,Eraserhead,
Feast 1,2,3 gross awful but so entertaining.
As Above So Below..
PI,Hobo With a Shotgun..

[marked50]

31. Without a doubt for me- The Exorcist

Watched this movie with a couple of friends. Was totally freaked out at what it showed. We returned to my friends home, barely able to fathom what we had just seen. We would spend lots of time talking to my friends mother about all sorts of things in previous times. She was an extremely wise lady and of course, as we knew, Catholic. When we described what we saw she just said something like -" Yeah, these things have happened. Exorcisms are not uncommon". Couldn't sleep very well for weeks afterwards.

[d_r]

34. another scary one

for generation X people of a certain age.

It was a disney made for tv movie that came on the wonderful world of disney called "child of glass."

I'll just leave this here

[AZSkiffyGeek]

37. The Thing (John Carpenter's)

The Serpent and the Rainbow
Suspiria (both versions, but the Argento version is better)
The Wicker Man (Christopher Lee version)
The //itch

[Thomas Hurt]

39. I found Alien scarier than any horror monster, psycho movie I have seen.

[electric_blue68]

90. Alien is a Sci-Fi/Horror mix.

[LunaSea]

40. Red State

Scarier today than when it was released in 2011.

Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.

[Skittles]

41. The Haunting 1963

no blood, no gore, just spooky as hell

[Harker]

75. That's the one. n/t

[exboyfil]

46. Some of my all time B&W favorites

from the creature feature on at night when I was a kid.

Black Sunday (1960 version)
Night of the Living Dead (original)

The end scene in Carrie got me jumping as a 13 year old. Others have mentioned Salem's Lot which was one of the best TV horrors (It was also good).

Also on TV Trilogy of Terror especially the final sequence with the native doll.

[Lars39]

51. That native doll gave me nightmares for a long time!

[chowder66]

58. This was the scariest one for me when I was a kid. That story was called "Amelia".

[Lars39]

61. Don't watch it tonight!

I may never watch it.

[chowder66]

66. I watched it again last year and it's still effective but in a kitschy way.

Tonight I'm watching "Legend of Boggy Creek" which is wonderfully eerie.

[Lars39]

67. I'll have to find that one for

my husband. He loves Big Foot and all its relations.

[chowder66]

69. It's pretty great. : )

[bamagal62]

82. Yep! I mentioned that one above!!!!

[chowder66]

83. The Omega Man also spooked me pretty good but not as much as the fetish doll.

I was pretty young when I saw both of those.

[ClimateHawk]

48. The Mothman Prophecies

It’s loosely based on true events that happened in WV. As a kid that movie scared me. Now not so much but it’s still suspenseful.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

55. I saw the movie long after I read the book, and really liked it even though as you said it's only

loosely based on the book.

I calso an't recommend the book (by the late John Keel, a fantastic writer) highly enough to anyone who really wants to be freaked out!

[tblue37]

49. 28 Days.

[jpak]

73. Yup

When I saw that in a theater

I thought

Why did I do this?

[tblue37]

92. I gave up watching halfway through.

[electric_blue68]

88. Oh, that reminds me - The Andromeda Strain

[kimbutgar]

50. Phantasm

[exboyfil]

62. Boy

Great pick.

[kimbutgar]

63. I watched it alone in a theater before because my ex husband didn't like horror films

I watched that as a double feature and had to walk to my car at dusk to return home to my ex. Who then demanded I cook him dinner.

Luckily, I married a man the second time who loved sci fi, and horror films!

[exboyfil]

64. I love my wife but she isn't into horror or overly violent films

I do love watching the Disney Plus movies with her though.

For horror and SF I watch those with my daughter (24). I used to watch them with my dad before he passed away.


I watched the Muppets Haunted Mansion and Rocky Horror with my wife this holiday season.

[kairos12]

53. Audition. Nothing else is close.

[blm]

65. Audition is some SERIOUS horror.

I Saw the Devil, is another.

[Hotler]

79. The Omen with Gregory Peck, and the Exorcist. The uncut versions.

Little bastard Damian.......

[3catwoman3]

54. The scene in The House of Wax where the young woman pulls the wig...

...off the wax figure and realizes it is her missing friend scared the bejeezus out of me when I was about 12. Small screen black-and-white TV at home.

[IcyPeas]

56. I can think of 4...

The Exorcist

Last House on the Left

Death Wish

A Clockwork Orange

[electric_blue68]

87. I forgot about Clockwork Orange! 😦

[Chipper Chat]

57. Forbidden Planet

[Goodheart]

59. The Omen

I'm not much into those ghosts and vampires and zombies and monsters stuff, but a tale of the antiChrist as a young boy... now that was compelling (not that I believe in that stuff, either )

[OilemFirchen]

60. Midnight Express.

Much more terrifying than any "horror" film.

[hatrack]

68. Dead Ringers - David Cronenberg

Not "Boo!!" "AIIIEEE!!" horror by any stretch, but the most genuinely disturbing movie I've ever seen. I couldn't get it out of my head for days and days afterwards.

Oh, and Jeremy Irons is freaking brilliant in it.

I will also defend Alien3. It's got serious flaws, but if you can get the Assembly Cut version, it's substantially better than the original, which was David Fincher's first feature film.

He disowned it because of studio interference, but it's ahead of its time in a sense - its basic outlook is better suited to 2020 than to 1992. It's so utterly bleak and unremittingly grim that it's almost uplifting.

[Ocelot II]

71. Oh, yeah, Dead Ringers was seriously weird and creepy.

That one haunted me for awhile. The fact that it was based on a true story didn't help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_and_Cyril_Marcus

[Mad_Dem_X]

80. Dead Ringers still haunts me.

Great movie, but OMG, sooooooo creepy!

[LeftInTX]

70. January 6th, November 8, 2016, Election Night 1980, Bush 2000, 9/11/2001

[Rhiannon12866]

72. When I got home tonight, "Psycho" was on the TV

My first reaction was "Isn't that John Gavin?" And then "That's Anthony Perkins..." Oops! I immediately changed the channel. I first saw that film in college, the "film society" showed what were considered "classic" film on weekends - and I went to "Psycho." And I was unable to take a shower without apprehension for a couple of years. I saw it once, that was enough.

[Stuart G]

74. I Forgot One, WORST OF ALL... "Night and Fog"... Awful, but Totally True and its pictures prove it.

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A documentary on the Holocaust. 32 minutes on how Nazi Germany killed people..A scene at the end, of real
dead bodies...is indeed horrific. And, I watched it many times, since I showed it to my classes as a teacher of
history in the public schools. It is totally real, and totally horrific....The worst of them all, because it was real,
and represented millions of people killed...........................................................

Oh, if you want to inform people of what Nazi Germany did to millions of people during WWII
. You can get...Night and Fog at the Library...........................................................
Somewhere in your city or town is a library that has it..YOU ARE WARNED...YOU WILL NEVER FORGET
THE HORROR IN THAT FILM...NEVER!!!..

...........................I reviewed this film and Internet Movie Data Base...............................................
at the link below...The Most Powerful Film Ever Made.....stuartpiles16 November 2004...If you want to read
my review, you will have to scroll a long way down..If you do, then you will see that I am not the only one that thinks that this is a movie that everyone should see...to really know ..."man's inhumanity to man.".......
................in a way that you will never forget..

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/?ref_=ur_urv

[ailsagirl]

78. Black Christmas, 1974

That film gave me nightmares, which is saying a lot.

The only film that did. If you ever get a chance (and you’re willing to subject yourself to its vibe), check it out.

I started out watching it the way I would any movie, and before long, my skin was crawling.
😱😱😱

[skypilot]

99. That one really got to me.

I saw it when I was about 13 years old and I almost swore off of horror movies because it rattled me so much. It's tame by today's standards but it still gets under my skin. Those phone calls from the killer get to me even today.

[ailsagirl]

100. And we never find out who the calls are from

and why he is calling.

IMO it was scarier than any horror movie I’ve seen because so often film makers equate scary with bloody. I think the unseen/unknown is much more chilling. Hitchcock didn’t drench his movies with blood— his were sophisticated and suspenseful—much more difficult to craft. And they have stayed with me, just like Black Christmas.

[skypilot]

102. We don't know who the calls are from but...

...we get some of his demented history based on the things he says. That creeped me out even more when I saw the film later in life. I like that the movie managed to be scary as hell without being terribly gory and that Billy was such a heavy presence in the house but we never see his face--except for that ONE EYE.

[ailsagirl]

110. YES! That eye!!

And the things he whispered and his odd voice were chilling. Glad you "appreciated" it.

It took me watching it on three different occasions to NOT have a nightmare afterwards. That is, the first two times I was very shaken-- finally managed to see it through (sans bad dreams) on the fourth.

[Zorro]

107. Directed by Bob Clark

The same Bob Clark who directed Porky's and A Christmas Story.

That's quite a range of films from him.

[thucythucy]

81. The House on Haunted Hill.

I saw it as a kid--Vincent Price in his prime.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, too much gore for my taste, but also scary as Hell.

Invaders From Mars--50s science fiction all about paranoa and a child whose fear is absolutely justified.

[FakeNoose]

84. The Omen ... Alien ... The Exorcist

I guess those are my 3 scariest movies. I've never walked out of a movie because it was scary, but these gave me goosebumps, and maybe a few nightmares.

[electric_blue68]

86. The one With Denzel, and the (virus caused) Zombies...

I kept jumping out of my seat! 😲😦

Yeah, too, to Pyscho, The Blob, Forbidden Planet.

Forgot about Clockwork Orange, Alien, AND the one
with the pod people! Including the remake with
Sutherland.
I can "feel" the title walking around just
below my concious!

[VGNonly]

91. One of the worst horror films ever

Night of the Lepus. With rabbits in miniature sets, actors in bunny suits for the attack scenes. With Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and Deforest Kelley. Unbelievably bad!

[tblue37]

93. There was some B movie with large, aggressive venomous shrews.

[surrealAmerican]

106. "Killer Shrews"?

They looked like mangy dogs.
Myster Science Theater did a hilarious commentary on that one.

[tblue37]

109. Sounds like a likely title. LOL.

[Philosophizing Fool]

94. Jaws

Swim + ocean = shark. Everyone knows that now. Who can get into the ocean without that little voice saying, "are you insane?"

[catbyte]

96. The Exorcist scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a teen

but I think it was Linda Blair's makeup that did it. Now it's "Idiocracy" because it's turning into a documentary. Seriously.

[rurallib]

97. One I almost never see on any list is "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

I almost never get scared at movies but this one really got to me.

Was so long ago when I saw it I can hardly remember it, only that it got to me.

[Elessar Zappa]

101. When I was a kid it was

Nightmare On Elm Street and Child’s Play. Now I’d say the Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby.

[Glorfindel]

104. The one that scared me most (I was 10 years old)

I was convinced for months that a nearby hill would burst open and a dinosaur would emerge, thirsting for my blood...

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[gratuitous]

105. I first caught it on the TV Saturday matinee

Just the final scene where Liz Taylor's character tells what really happened "Suddenly Last Summer." The conclusion gave me the creeps AND the heebie-jeebies.

[Laffy Kat]

108. The 1931 version of "Dracula"

It still scares me. They manage to scare the crap out us with nothing more than great acting (Renfield!!!), lighting, and background music. Today, even with all of the CGi, it's not the same kind of scary.