What movies are able to truly frighten you as an adult?

HMMMMM...

Audition.

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I was actually going to say both JL and Audition, originally. I've always been proud of my ability to withstand extremely graphic and gory films, but Audition.... there's a way movies freaked me out and made me squirm up to the age of, say, 12 or so, and then after that the emotion was completely lost. Until I saw "Audition".

haha :-)

When we were into teh w33d a few weeks ago I made some of my friends watch Fantastic Planet. It freaked some dudes out.

was just watching ju-on 2 a little while ago. overall it's cheesy but you will JUMP and you will LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER.

love the scene where the little boy ghost is playing with the hanging bodies.

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it's better that way - imagine what it looks like!

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Re-watched Threads recently - pretty scary.

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very last scene of the Blair Witch Project

everything, but especially zombies. I just can't take them, i think it's the cannibalism angle. shaun of the dead gave me the creeps, though I could appreciate the humor, and I won't go near 28 days later and all that. I can watch movies with the kind of people who laugh and shoot the shit at scary movies cause their laughter gives me enough distance to laugh with them, but I'm not one of those people, if that makes any sense.

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This bit was pretty sweet when they were meditating and all their bodies/clothes were blending together. v psychedelic.

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This bit was more wtf than scary.

i wanna see the blair witch project again

I'm with trememdoid; a lot of movies freak me out. I did fine with Shaun of the Dead but am afraid to see 28 Days Later because it's not worth the not-sleeping later. Weirdly, the more outlandish the plot, the more likely it is to bother me. Movie about a random killer? Probably fine. Zombies or ghosts or monsters? I don't sleep well for weeks.

The Crying Game

Also, The Quay Brothers' "Street of Crocodiles" was so fucking eerie and creepy to me; something about the jerkiness of the stop-motion and the not-explicitly-SCARY-but-very-eerie quality it had...

OH MAN is Fantastic Planet ever awesome. But even watching it on thee shrooms didn't unsettle me, and that is a situation in which I am easily unsettled.

Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS sure as fuck did it --- Jeremy Irons as psychotic, meticulous, kinky twin gynecologists.

Land of the Dead really disturbed me, but a portion is bcz I forgot to take my meds that day. I'd driven about three miles home on the freeway when my friend pointed out that I really needed to shift out of second gear --- I was too busy quivering of the scared.

Quay Bros....a thing like Fantastic Planet that can creep you out while simultaneously boring you...to DEATH!

Has anyone seen their Institut Benjementa? What a fucking soporific...I think I would've gotten much more of the impact they wanted were it a book of photos.

The movie of WATERSHIP DOWN has scared a lot of people I know, to mention another animated feature.

FEMALE TROUBLE frightened me in a completely different way than a horror flick --- the only film I've turned off partway through in YEARS (when Divine had tied her daughter to the bed).

some of the movies that portray mental health issues scare me a lot like, a Beautiful Mind, Memento, Identity.

The blair witch project was scary, yes, but only for a short while.

Movies about Kissinger.

Freddy Krueger still scares the shit outta me.

I think I've said this somewhere else but I've never been scared of movies, not even when I was little - I was too busy being the creepy kid freaking everyone else out. My whole attitude to scary movies is basically the same as going on a rollercoaster. I watch them for the thrills and the adrenaline but they don't bother me afterwards. just don't have the imagination for it, I think. I'm way more likely to be freaked out by hyper-realistic portrayals of violence - like detached killing of little kids, and some of those scenes from "Children of Men", but I don't know if that's considered the same type of response.

That said, there's one thing that truly frightened me the first time I watched it - the video to Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy". You know the scene. It was late night, the first year I was living alone, and I was high and fucking hell that thing was terrifying. I had to go put on a spice girls cd to feel normal again.

The Wall

Exorcist. First and only time I watched it I couldn't go to sleep without the light on for literally weeks afterwoards. I was 21 at the time.

Ring was pretty bad too. Basically anything with mad-eyed posessed or undead females. Man I've giving myself the creeps now just thinking about them.

I think Threads would freak me out now if I saw it again, and I'm not sure I want to.

I dont think I want to watch "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover" again in a hurry either. It disturbed me for some reason. Oh and "Salo".

But that was less fright and more "omg wtf gross argh my brain".

Anyone seen "The Woman in Black", 80s UK ITV production? Notable for one scene in which yet another mad-eyed undead female suddenly appears above the protagonists bed, screaming, hair waving, mad eyes madly staring. Scared the crap out of me.

Oh yes I think I know what you mean! large mansion, horse and carriage outside, then suddenly this almost silent-scream banshee thru the window over the bed? Freaked me the fuck out too.

I saw the play of that in London recently, and it was highly effective and scary. There was a great deal of shrieking in the audience!

To get back on thread: I still find the Shining really scary. And Don't Look Now: even if you know what happens at the end, it's still very atmospheric, and that ending is really fucked up.

anyone here seen 29 Palms? my old flatmate has been trying to convince me to watch - by promoting it as the most disturbing thing he's ever seen. that really didn't sell it for me. i'm a total sissy when it comes to horror films/creepy films. my brain is way too impressionable and i end up having nightmares.

blair witch project scared the holy fuck outta me.

The Shining is impossible to watch drunk. Dunno what it is about it, but I can't get any further than about 20 minutes if I've had a few drinks.

Yeah, I watched it while drunk once and it did my head in.

blair witch yes.

house on haunted hill, the bits with the cctv of the ghost patients stop motioning around the place.

carrie, at the end. the cheap jump. yuck.

The Ring is the last horror movie I watched, um, three and a half years ago. It's the reason I haven't seen any others since. (It tapped into childhood fears of ghosts coming out of mirrors - I had to sleep on the couch in front of the TV the night I saw it, even though the girl comes out through the TV and kills people, because I was too scared to go up to a bedroom with a mirror thanks to reading too many ghost stories as a kid.)

Ring. I could not be alone in the room with the television off for about a week afterwards. It just has a whole OHJESUSMAKEITSTOP vibe to it.

Also 28 Days Later scared me so much that we had to stop watching it after half an hour and watch the rest of it at 11am.

And I saw the original Night of the Living Dead in the cinema about ten years ago and then had to walk to a party through dark streets afterwards. That was pretty scary.

Hostel really freaked me out.

Ring was pretty bad too.

There's a very brief bit in Repulsion (if you've seen, it you probably know what I'm talking about and if you haven't, I don't want to spoil it) that is almost magically shocking within the context of the movie.

The subliminal bits in The Exorcist still get me. Especially the one during Damien's dream about his mother.

The first half of The Descent was really hard to watch, mostly because the filmmakers went the brilliant route of exploiting real, tangible fears that a lot of people have.

I saw a preview screeing of Blair Witch several weeks before its release and all the attendant hype, knowing nothing about it. Scared the shit out of me. Post-hype, it was almost laughable. That movie is a gun with exactly one bullet in it.

Poltergeist, when I watched it a year or so ago, was still remarkably effective in giving me the creeps.

Unfortunately, I'm so jaded that it's rare for me to be genuinely frightened by a movie. That whole current rash of torture flicks make me incredibly uncomfortable, but that's a whole different thing.

The first half of The Descent was really hard to watch, mostly because the filmmakers went the brilliant route of exploiting real, tangible fears that a lot of people have.

Absolutely. Then the stupid mutants showed up and it became a joke.

"Dead Birds" had plenty of spooky bits, but I can't really watch any horror movie with ghosts. Hell, even the trailer for "White Noise" freaked me out.

Murnau's Nosferatu and the BBC Dracula still do it for me.

there were some shots in the holy mountain i had to look away from.

The subliminal bits in The Exorcist still get me. Especially the one during Damien's dream about his mother.

d'ya mean The Omen?

my mom grew up around the corner from there, when it was still an active prison.

Okay, this is how conflicted I am about this. I bought a video copy of the original version of The Haunting, which everyone says is terrifying - but I don't dare watch it. It's based on the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House, right? Loved that book. Reading horror is usually fine for me, but put a visual and some music with it and I'm screwed.

It's scary because it leaves so much to the imagination, IMO. The black and white makes it extra scary. It is based on the book.

Session 9 is truly creepy, plus David Caruso!

xpost I kind of feel like I should try to watch it before VCRs go the way of the dinosaur, but at the same time, I can't let on to my kids that Scary Movies Scare Mommy...

(ha, maybe I can find a way to not let on that I'm, like, sleeping with a nightlight...)

I saw The Haunting (original) in a theater a few years ago, and left feeling like I was the only person who didn't think it's a masterpiece. The spooks and sounds and breathing walls and all that are very well done, but the supposed psychological aspect of the story was campy to me and left me really cold.

Sara - lol yeah. Go to it! Watch it! I hope you don't have a big house.

Kenan - If you feel cold, engage the weasel. Haunting WAS brilliant.

maybe i was just in a bad mood. That can happen.

I've met quite a few people who didn't like it though, so I could see it happening again.

Creepshow's all LAFFS to me - man haven't seen that in ages!

Oh, TOTALLY! And it's so great! Romero 4ever.

http://www.horror.milowice.com/creep.jpg

I'M IN UR WINDOW TELLING U STORYS

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IM UNDER YOUR BOTE EATIN UR GIRLFRENDS

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HI DERE

Sorry, I'll stop now.

That kinda made me wanna watch Creepshow tonight as I drift off towards the Sweet Land of Dreams. Because I am a masochist, apparently.

I scare very, very easily. Ringu scared me so much that I walked out of the cinema about 20 mins in. Similarly the one time I tried to watch the Shining I had to turn it off halfway through. Also, Event Horizon - I'm glad I'm not the only person who found that scary. I remember very little about it except for a couple of scenes, but I'm not sure I should go back to it again, really.

Come to think of it The Others scared the fuck out of me, too (except the ending made it all OK).

Man, I was terrified to see The EXORCIST because demonic possession was a fear, a huge Room 101 type fear, that really interfered with my social interaction until I was 14. I watched it at 22 and was more engrossed than terrified. I just felt so BAD for that poor little girl, rather than the Scary Thing possessing her. I thought the scariest scene was when they gave her the spinal tap in that creepy giant hospital machine.

The Exorcist, such a fucking A+ in my book. Great story, great characters, and I was reading hell of 18th century and 'gothic' novels all the time, so I got all analytical 'supernatural vs. rational confusion returns! And like in the Monk, they make it completely confusing!' I quote it all the time, "Captain Howdy, that wasn't very nice!" All the little bits & details like that make it so perfect.

The OMEN (original) is one I quote all the time, too, but bcz it's SO BAD. "It's all for you Damien! I love you Damien!" *dies* In high school me & my friends spent a whole night watching the scene where the guy gets his head cut off w/the pane of glass in slomo over & over bcz you can see the rubber dismembered head flatten out a little before it *bounces.*

Someone upthread was OTM with Children of Men...that's the kind of film that not only scares me but makes me depressed/not wanting to get out of bed for a week.

The scene in the Omen when they find a hyena skeleton in his mother's grave is pretty creepy, tho. But TRICYCLE BALCONY is not. I found it hilarious that the remake made it a RAZOR SCOOTER.

Has anyone watched movies that didn't scare them one whit, but later they had nightmares about them? My list includes Land of the Dead, the Ninthe Gate, and, uh, little Monsters with Kevin Arnold. :(

I've seen most of these.. scary but not that scary but then I was raised really Catholic so.. maybe desensitized after a point? the worst thing I've seen was In My Skin, I had to leave the theater (though I suppose some would find it absurd)

<i>The Thing</i> is really good! I didn't find <I>Audition</i> all that scary.. I mean, it was hard to watch.. but not the kind of thing that sticks with you

I thought the scariest scene was when they gave her the spinal tap in that creepy giant hospital machine.

interestingly, that's not in the original cut. You saw the 2000 cut. I thought it was was the best added scene.

that eyeless creature in "pan's labyrinth" scared the hell out of me.

i'm pretty bad with horror movies; even obviously fake cartoonish gore kind of bothers me. i like "the haunting" and "the shining" and "body snatchers" and all the other classics but i wouldn't say they SCARED me, in the sense that i couldn't sleep after seeing them.

you know what totally gave me nightmares? The bugs in Starship Troopers.

Not the bugs themselves, or even the way they killed... the implication that there are JUST TOO MANY. That there's no winning, no matter what. That gave me nightmares.

William Shatner tries to kill that hermaphrodite.

Bahahahahaha

Welcome to my fahntasies.

The glimpse of Hell seen towards the end of the sci-fi movie Brainstorm scared me witless. Perhaps it had a big shock factor due to most of the film being so boring and timid.

Lost Highway was pretty scary but it was also really boring and I never watched the whole thing.

The Ring probably scared me more than any other movie. Evil Dead scared me a lot when I was 11. I always fall for "jump scares" in the theatre, too.

that upcoming alvin and the chipmunks movie

Just watched Session 9. Holy shit, it's really fucking good.

Suspiria if you have a big tv and good sound system.
But you have to get really high.

Deep Red (dario argento's other most well known film) would be pretty good if you we're really high also.

All that artsy cinematography that quentin tarantino has in his movies or that you expect out of spaghetti westerns are in these two galla flics. The 2nd one mentioned has stuff like children singing and a scene that looks like saw copied directly (I won't elaborate). I wonder when children singing was first introduced to horror movies.

Jesusfuckingchrist, that face* in Inland Empire!

*Like a mad clown

Onscreen for just a fraction of a split second, but utterly terriyfing. The surface of my entire skin went instantly cold.

Safe, still. That ending...

"I love you.
I really love you."

*shudders*

The scenes in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me that take place in the red room (with the terrifying ZIG-ZAG PATTERNED FLOOR) scare me too.

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The Black Lodge scenes in the final episode of Twin Peaks were scarier still.

finally got around to getting the Thing on DVD the other day

That movie is FUCKING GREAT.

I watched Candyman on Thursday. Awesome movie, and actually pretty creepy.

The bees!

man the cover of creepshow freaked me out so much as a kid

just watched it... it's adorable!

i always remember that story with the ants, though!

Jesusfuckingchrist, that face* in Inland Empire!

this. fucking david lynch and photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLQW2qr5Hs

haha I now realize that fantastic planet is the movie they were playing on the wall of some warehouse I saw broken social scene in

In all honesty, the first film to spring to mind when I saw this is THE WITCHES. I know it comes from childhood but the end to that movie still creeps me the fuck out.

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I know Tobe Hooper, and many critics, view it as a black comedy, but the original Texas Chainsaw (which I didn't see until I was in my early 20s) still unnerves me like no other movie.

The scene in the Omen when they find a hyena skeleton in his mother's grave is pretty creepy, tho. But TRICYCLE BALCONY is not. I found it hilarious that the remake made it a RAZOR SCOOTER.

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haha really?? a razor scooter??

is this the inland empire face?

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