Movies that scared the bejeezus outta ya!

[JCRobinhood]

The other night my friends and I watched (the latest version of) "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and got so freaked out afterwards that we had to Google for images of "happy babies" to get the horrible images out of our minds!

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. The Ring

last movie that really terrified me.

[sus]

2. amen. haunted me for weeks.

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Absolutely

My wife and I couldn't fall asleep the night we watched it. Couldn't use a VCR for weeks.

[JCRobinhood]

10. Been wanting to rent that

Thanks, I'll be sure to invite some friends to share my blankie!

[Mallifica]

38. beware . .

I couldn't even go to the bathroom by myself for the rest of the night . . .

the original movie is part of a Japanese trilogy. The prequel is pretty terrifying too.

[flamingyouth]

18. Me too

Getting chills just now thinking about it.:scared:

[underpants]

3. Original "Halloween" and Rod Stewart's "Young Turks"

The first time "Halloween" was on network TV the same night Dick Clark had some Bandstand special on. We were flipping between the two and Stewart did "Young Turks", to this day when I hear that song (which isn't often) I think of that movie.


"Halloween" scared the hell out of me ("The Exorcist" too of course) but I was just a kid and didn't realize how stupid it was.

[JCRobinhood]

14. Halloween & Friday the 13th originals

Both freaked me out when I was young... loved all those "if you have sex, you'll be killed by a crazed serial killer" films of the 70s

[Salmo Trutta]

4. Gigli

What WAS I thinking?!?!

[Maestro]

35. Oh God, how funny! -nt

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. The first time I saw the Exorcist

I was probably only 11 or 12 and that movie scared the hell out of me. Of course I pretended that I wasn't afraid, but I definitely had nightmares with that one

[Bertha Venation]

8. I have a friend who saw that film in the theater on his Confirmation Day

no shit :7

[Bertha Venation]

7. The Silence Of The Lambs

One of the best films ever made, based on one of the finest horror novels. Just thinking about the way Lecter said, "People will say we're in love," and then touched Clarice the last time they saw each other makes my blood curdle.

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. I have a friend...

that every time when we go out at night, she needs someone to check her back seat for Anthony Hopkins, so he wont attack her on the way home.

I said to her one time, shouldn't we be checking for Hannibal Lecter. And she responded, Don't be silly hes only a movie character...Anthony Hopkins is the REAL psycho!

I've got strange friends!

[Bertha Venation]

13. heh... tell your friend this:

Anthony Hopkins is the only man I've ever had an erotic dream about. That oughta shake her up. ;)

PS -- it's true.

[Reverend_Smitty]

16. That definitely will

She can't even go see his movies any more cause Silence of the Lambs screwed her up so much

[underpants]

15. I have never seen a crowd reaction like I saw for that movie

I saw that in an Army theater "in the field". We generally didn't know anything about the movie as we had only one channel and the commercials were all Army "don't forget to brush your teeth" type messages (mindlessness).

The intial shot of Lecter in his cell not only sent a shiver up my spine but half the audience shot bolt upright in their seats.

The reaction (room full of "manly" GI's) when Buffalo Bill did the "tuck in" was equally as memorable.

[topherX]

26. Silence of the Lambs (vote 2)

One scene that really creep-ed my out in this movie was when the police where looking for Hannibal Lecter in the town of Calumet City. I was sitting in a movie theater in Calumet City watching the movie. Talk about getting the chills.

[johnnie]

9. Helter Skelter

When that ran on television and that was on, it scared the crap out of me because I knew it was real.
The other on that I can remember that scared me was a movie called "The Other". Nothing as of late has had those effects on me.

[Jade Fox]

11. 28 Days Later creeped me out...

Not the same thing as being terrified, but I had trouble getting the movie
out of my mind.

[Mallifica]

37. me too

the "crazed zombies" stayed in my head for weeks . . . the way it was shot was also really scary . .

[NashVegas]

17. Wizard of Oz

those monkeys used to send me scrurrying to the dining room, as a kid.

[oxymoron]

19. The original version of "The Haunting"

with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom. It scared the hell out of me as a kid. It's a good film. Too bad the remake was such crap.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. Yes, definitely the old The Haunting

Once when I was sick with the flu as a teenager, my parents let me have the portable black and white TV in my bedroom, and a local station showed The Haunting as its Saturday night movie.

I watched it in the dark. Big mistake.

While there's been all this hype about how The Blair Witch Project manages to be scary without showing any blood and gore, I found that particular movie to be merely boring and irritating.

However, The Haunting is genuinely creepy on the first viewing, and all the horror lies in creating an atmosphere of doom, in the characterizations, and in Julie Harris's narration.

[sybylla]

20. Alien

Spent most of the movie cutting off the circulation in my boyfriend's arm and looking at his shirt.

I decided that I didn't need to see another horror movie again, at least at the theater. It's just a gigantic waste of money.

Probably the next scary movie I saw was Silence of the Lambs which was a different kind of scary and not intimidating to watch. It is the one horror movie that stuck with me for a very long time. There aren't enough pretty pictures in the world to get that out of your head.

[arwalden]

21. Jaws, The Blob, Alien

[SaveElmer]

22. Frenzy

When the guy broke the dead girls fingers to get his pin back...I get the creeps thinking about it now

Sixth Sense also really gave me the shivers!!

[baldguy]

23. I can't remember the name...

A cabal of corporate fascists put up an moron for the Presidency - and jig the election to get him in office. Then they proceed to loot the entire US Treasury, running the economy into the ground while they and their pals get richer. And they start to plan a war to get control of the world oil supply. But Then...

One of their old terrorist-business partners attacks the WTC and kills thousands of people. (Apparently an old business deal involving an oil pipeline went bad.) The Pres has to retaliate, so they have to put off plans for the Oil War.

By the end, the US is fighting two wars, the economy is in the trashcan, the cabal starts fighting among themselves, and all of their shenanigans start coming to light. So they start planning ANOTHER terrorist attack to allow them to postpone the next election.

Man, it was so realistic....

[Jade Fox]

29. Texas Nepotism Massacre?

I vaguely recall it....

[Magrittes Pipe]

24. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

:scared:

[Imalittleteapot]

25. Deliverance

The potential reality of the situation still gives me the willies.

[SCDem]

33. But the dueling banjos tune is sooo good

So if the dueling banjos started to play as you were walking down the Chatooga River would you start thumping your foot to the tune of the music or would you start running towards the nearest civilization!?!?! Luckily for me since I am a woman I think I would just enjoy the tune... unless of course I heard a cry for help!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

27. I'm glad you enjoyed it honey!

:P
I wish I could have watched it with you guys.
It was over the top, huh?

[philosophie_en_rose]

28. Disturbing Cannibal Operetta

Stop motion animation Hansel & Gretel.
The witch looked like a character from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

[Gothic Sponge]

30. The Shining

I saw it as a kid and i could not sleep in peace for a month.

[AVID]

42. Shining

[SCDem]

31. Children of the Corn

still freaks me out today to be physically close to a corn field which kind of sucks for me a city girl who has recently moved to a rural life.

Oh yeah and I saw it like when i was 7 or 8 with my older brothers so maybe that is why I am so traumatized!!

[Maestro]

34. The Exorcist by far.

Everything else was child's play. Although the first Friday the 13th movie scared the hell out of me at times, especially the ending.

[MissMillie]

36. Freddie Got Fingered

I mean.... someone actually paid money to make that film...... yikes.

[TrogL]

39. 1984

When it started coming true.

[mrboba1]

40. The Shining, and

the first time I watched 'Alien' (the first one).

f'n scary.

[peekaloo]

41. 'Fiend Without a Face'

Really stupid movie about brains from outer space munching on the people of Earth. But when you're six years old the thought of something invisible landing on your neck and pigging out is creepy.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

43. Platoon

The first time I saw it in a theater back in the '80's, my heart was pounding in my chest through several moments in the film. There was the feeling of exposure and jeopardy as the GIs moved through the jungle, knowing that the enemy could be anywhere. That incident when the platoon was bedded down for the night and the VietCong stealthily made their way towards them was frightening. And the ending, when thousands of VietCong are on their way towards them but we don't yet see them, was also pretty scary stuff. It was scarier to me than a horror flick because I know it was based on reality. No great suspension of disbelief necessary in order to experience the horror.

[Lisa]

44. "The Vanishing"

The original Dutch film, not the remake.