Scariest Horror Movies

[Vinayaka]

Classic horror never bothered me much, but thrillers did. I remember 'Play Misty for Me' , 'See No Evil (1971, Mia Farrow), and 'Wait until Dark' as all being kind of chilling.

 

[Runewolf1973]

Nothing will match a good episode of sleep paralysis though. Natures own thriller.

 

[Awkward Fingers]

Red State
Deliverance

 

[Fireside_Hindu]

'Play Misty for Me' ,

My dad keeps telling me to watch that. He said it's one that got to him the most.

:camp:

 

[Vinayaka]

My dad keeps telling me to watch that. He said it's one that got to him the most.

I was on a long stopover once upon a time in Johannesburg, SA, and took a hotel for the night. I started watching this movie, and knew I'd seen it before but couldn't remember what show it was. That went on for 20 minutes or so, but once I did remember, I just got up and turned it off.

Psychopaths are real, monsters aren't.

 

[ShivaFan]

Classic horror never bothered me much, but thrillers did. I remember 'Play Misty for Me' , 'See No Evil (1971, Mia Farrow), and 'Wait until Dark' as all being kind of chilling.

Namaste Vinayaka,

Wait Until Dark! A classic fanorite of mine...

But not a horror movie ... just a good movie. Great movie.

HELLO Others,

I love The Birds. Everytime I go to Bodega Bay, California, and see that old building where one of the famous bird attacks was recreated, I think of that classic movie and so many classic scenes with a California backdrop.

But I do not consider that a horror movie.

The one movie which approximates a horror movie and which grabbed my attention, was The Exorcist.

I saw it in the theater when it came out. It was frightfully engaging. So much so I returned about 3 times to watch it in movie halls. Very captivating.

But after so many times you pretty much seen it too many times. But one of my favorite horrors.

Om Namah Sivaya

 

[satyaroop]

The one movie which approximates a horror movie and which grabbed my attention, was The Exorcist.

hi shivafan, the exorcist is probably my favourite too, here's an incomplete list from another thread
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/3798818-post40.html

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I was really scared of Poltergeist, the Return of the Living, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead as a kid. Now certain movies don't so much as scare me as they do disturb me. The part in Men Behind the Sun when they vivisect the young boy is really disturbing to me. Then there's movies like Nekromantik which is the on the disgusting side of disturbing (Buttgereit's Der Todesking is on the depressing side of disturbing). The Autumn Underground movies, which are basically a simulated snuff film, is disgusting, too (although the first two are more effective). Then there's the mondo shockumentaries like Faces of Death. (Not all mondo films consist of fake footage, though, like Traces of Death.)

But that's fiction. The most disturbing stuff I've seen was real.

 

[Sir Doom]

Horror movies don't really scare me anymore (because I LOVE them) but some that have made my skin crawl on first viewing:

Silent Hill (the second one was garbage)

Insidious (again the second one was garbage)

The Call of Cthulhu (this is a low-budget film you can find on Netflix done in a mock silent movie style which I think captures the underpinning dread that Lovecraft intended better than any major studio ever could with special effects)

From Beyond (another Lovecraft adaptation, a bit cheesy, but there is a genuine level of creepiness to it all the same)

I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of.

 

[Nerthus]

A lot are ruined by the endings - where it turns out to eb some stupid alien thing.

I did find The Blair Witch Project scary (probably the only one who did!)
Most things with ghosts, set in old houses where a horrible murder happened freak me out.