has a horror movie really scared you...

[Jason]

the only horror movie that ever really SCARED me was the exorcist. I watched that movie when I was 13 and I was scared half shitless. what about you guys?

[zombiecran]

yes all the time.. cabin fever scared me.. more so the plot than how it came off onscreen. session 9 scared me, the ring scared me, may scared and disturbed me. ginger snaps had some scary moments. texas chainsaw massacre remake... well i could go on and on...

i'll leave my opinion on the exorcist to myself though..

[Darkness876]

At this point no movie can scare me. Im too desensitized. I saw Grudge (the "scariest movie of the year") and fell asleep.

i member one time. Halloween 6: Curse of Micheal Myers. I was maybe 9 and my buddy rented it by accident (thinking it was the original) for a group of maybe 5 of us to watch. We got about 10 mins into it and just had to turn it off. That man in Black scene in the kids room is freaky when ur 9. I saw it again with that same group in our halloween fest (6 halloween films in one nite) when we were 12 and it was nothing.

Alot of horror movies have scenes that disturb me but i dont know if that counts as scaring me.
Dawn of the dead (the new one) had that effect. It was really dark and apocaliptic, but at no point was i scared.

The scene in Shocker where the main guy finds his gf gutted in a bathtub was the same.

I'd say the scariest movies out there are Candyman, Halloween 4, Fear Dot com and IKWYDLS(ill defend that for sure). The reason being these films maintain dark, gloomy atmospheres where the terror isnt in pussy popups but just in the film itself and its suspense.

[zombiecran]

the "pussy" pop-ups get me alot. lol... as for creepy atmosphere through the whole movie heres my list ikwydls, ginger snaps 2, candyman, session 9, identity, texas chainsaw massacre, the ring.. well i'll stop there

[Darkness876]

Popups just dont affect me AT all. Fear to me has to be psychological, not just visual. Like the scene in IKWYDLS, where the guy is gutting fish and we see the hook that had been driven into the iceblock is now missing. The moments leading up to his death are HELLA tense.

[zombiecran]

hmm i see your point.. i should be desensitised... as i was raised on the stuff but i'm not.

though the most tense moment in ikwydls was helen shivers' death.. from when she was taken with the cop to when she dies.. you didn't know if she was going to survive or if and when she was going to die.. then right when you thought she was safe, heading toward the fireworks and people and... boom! i think it was that i felt more for the character (and actress) than i did for that guy.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Jaws. Discovery Channel's Shark Week also added to the effect. Sure, the great white was exagerated in size, but just knowing that there are sharks out there just about anywhere there's salt water (except for Bull Sharks, the only sharks that can hang out in fresh water) is enough to keep me from wanting to swim at the beaches. Open Water, a film based upon a true story that I actually remember seeing it on the news, also strengthened the effect, even though it wasn't as good a movie as TV was making it out to be.

Also, Lamberto Bava's Demons got to me as a kid as it was the first grotesquly gory film I'd ever seen.

[xjdr2003]

Witchboard. When I was 6, the movie scared me so bad, I stayed up most nights. Now I'm 23, the movie scares me so bad I stay up. The bone-chilling score, the camera movements and the fact that it shows you don't need alot of gore to have a successful horror movie. A few other movies scared me a little, but none like Witchboard.

[zombiecran]

i've never seen witchboard... hmm maybe i should

[xjdr2003]

I recommend it, Zombie. Very low-budget, but very scary(at least to me).

[zombiecran]

low budget doesn't hurt in my opinion. most of my fave horror movies have been pretty low budget so yeah..

[ISUsycamore81]

I'll be honest. When I saw the Blair Witch Project in theaters it scared the shit out of me. I was a Cub scout as a kid so I regularly camped in the woods. Plus, I have a largely wooded area in my town I would regularly visit when I was a child. A very relatable movie to me back then. People say it's a horrible movie, but I don't care I still love this movie.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Don't worry, I love BWP too, and see the genius in it. Remember, people only started to hate it about a month after it's release, but when it came out they loved it. Though I wasn't scared, I certainatly found it better than "The Jersey Devil" and 'Cannibal Holocaust," which were similar films that predated it.

[Dreamademon]

i saw it(BWP) in the theater and had to leave during it, it made me so dizzy and nausious I couldn't stand it, and therefore ended up hating it lol. and it was all because of the "home video" feel and such, it's the same reason i can't watch people play first person shooter games and why i can't play them myself, I get motion sick of sorts from them...


but yeah...horror movie that really scared me? the only thing that really comes to mind I can't remember the name of and honestly don't know if it even exists but I distinctly remember a scene from it, but yeah no one has ever been able to match it to a movie for me.


oh but i did just think of one...though it's not horror, but The Crow scares me a little bit.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Man comes back from the dead to kill those who wronged him. Oh, "The Crow" is horror, just in a more poetic way. ;D