Scariest Movie

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 01:05:17

I saw The Night Of The Living Dead as a kid back in the early 60's and that was pretty scary. But the scariest movie I ever saw was just last year: David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. If you've ever seen it then you'll know what I mean. The scene where the elderly tourist/harpies come in under the girl's door and terrify her into an insane suicidal panic so that she can't get the gun into her mouth fast enough to blow her brains out is the most frightening scene I have ever seen.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 02:28:44

Some other classic scary scenes: at the end of Psycho where you finally see mummified mom; the scene in Jaws where the eyeball rolls down into the hole at the bottom of the boat; the scene in Exorcist where the welts form on Megan's stomach forming the words 'help me'; the first zombie in Night Of The Living Dead that chases the couple through the cemetary; the Alien popping out of the stomach in Alien. Now when I was in High School we went to the drive in one weekend and got really stoned and watched "House of Dark Shadows'. Scared the piss out of me in a hypnotic way. None of this will compare to what we're all gonna feel when tshtf and people are freaked . . ..

by **keekles** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 04:51:09

PMS, if you liked the psychological creepiness of Lynch's Mulholland, you might want to see Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream.
Subject: drug addiction. :cry:

Deeply disturbing and depressing, but beautifully filmed. There are scenes in there you won't forget.

by **Antimatter** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 08:24:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('keekles', 'P')MS, if you liked the psychological creepiness of Lynch's Mulholland, you might want to see Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream.
Subject: drug addiction. :cry:

Deeply disturbing and depressing, but beautifully filmed. There are scenes in there you won't forget.

by **Barbara** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 09:40:55

That movie "21 days after" (or whatever is it in english) is pretty scary. It's a PO movie PLUS the zombies!

by **Aaron** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 09:50:06

Several factors influence this I think.

When the writers & the editors perfectly align the sequence of events, and the actors deliver a believable performance, so that the viewer understands the horror at the same time as the main character... it golden.

Like when Brice Willis figures out he's dead in Sixth Sense.

Or when Mike Douglas emerges from a suicide attempt unscathed in The Game (an excellent film).

But the final element is ourselves. Are we ready for the shock?

In this light I have to say, scariest movie scene of all time...

The winged Monkey scene from Wizard of Oz.

Scared the bejesus out of the perfectly receptive child I was at the time.

by **k_semler** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 13:49:08

The Day After would win that award for me. When I saw it for the first time in high school, I kept on looking to see if there was a mushroom cloud on the horizon for 3 days afterward.

by **lotrfan55345** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 14:44:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Barbara', 'T')hat movie "21 days after" (or whatever is it in english) is pretty scary. It's a PO movie PLUS the zombies!

by **DomusAlbion** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 15:18:00

My all time psychological chiller is Taxi Driver.

De Niro was at his most creepy and scary as Travis the crazy taxi driver.

"You talkin' ta me?!"

by **Malthus** » Sat 19 Mar 2005, 18:26:16

Event Horizon 1997 great blend between sci-fi and horror movie

by **katkinkate** » Sun 20 Mar 2005, 00:22:16

I don't watch scary movies. My nerves can't stand the suspence followed by the shocks.

Website · by **Yavicleus** » Sun 20 Mar 2005, 00:36:54

scariest movie ever?

glitter.

That maria carey movie. I was so scared of it, i couldn't even see it. it terrifies me.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Sun 20 Mar 2005, 18:19:22

So Glitter is pretty scary, huh? :lol:

Aaron, do you have nightmares about flying monkeys? Requiem For A Dream is now on my Blockbuster order list.
28 Days Later (or was it 21?) with the insane zombies running around the land of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Fielding was chilling. And k-semler, that movie, The Day After was among the most frightening movies ever made. Everybody is going about their business, living their lives, while the newcaster on TV is bringing the scariest news possible. Nobody really believed it until they saw all the launches from the Kansas silos. Then the shrooms. . . (Malthus, that selection of yours was a turd and I walked out of the theater.)

by **mistel** » Mon 21 Mar 2005, 00:08:21

"The End of Suburbia" It's about PO, lots of top experts, and at times I literally screamed.

by **Specop_007** » Mon 21 Mar 2005, 02:47:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Malthus', 'E')vent Horizon 1997 great blend between sci-fi and horror movie

by **Specop_007** » Mon 21 Mar 2005, 02:48:51

Poltergiest. I saw that movie when I was around 7 or so at night. Was at the babysitters on the floor, she tought I was asleep. i wasnt, and watched that movie.
Goddamn thats a scary frickin movie for a 7 year old.

Nothing has ever really came close to that experience.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Mon 21 Mar 2005, 03:09:32

Yeah, kids have a hightened sense for scary movies. When I went to see Night Of The Living Dead at the theater, I was about 8 or so. I went with a friend. Neither of our moms knew what we were going to see I guess or they probably wouldn't have let us go. My friend hid behind the seat in front of us. Me, I was the tough one and watched it all the way. My friend later went on to be a lineman for the High School football team. But I knew him when. . .

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Mon 21 Mar 2005, 03:19:04

Lots of interesting stories around this old friend of mine. But it shouldn't be told :-D

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Mon 21 Mar 2005, 03:31:21

While I am in the mood for childhood memories let me write a few more. Once this guy and I were sitting in a grove when a rattlesnake crawled right past us. We ran screaming to one of the older kids who brought a shovel and chopped off the head of the snake.

by **NevadaGhosts** » Mon 21 Mar 2005, 04:24:01

-Sleepy Hallow
-Poltergeist

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