Any movie that has either clowns or midgets can not end well. :)
The Birds is a classic. I was too old when I saw it to be scared but I still loved it. Fantastic movie and my favorite part is there is NO soundtrack. Alien is a great movie but Ive never been able to get scared by things i didnt feel existed. Im pretty sure I dont have to worry about a biomechanical xenomorph hunting me down
Watch the first Saw. it is a VERY good movie. its not about gore at all...it has its gore moments but its a very well written thriller. They turned it into a gorefest starting with part 2.
When Jaws came out in the 70's it scared people so bad... that people were afraid to get in the bathtub I lived in Indian (no where near any salt water ocean) and was scared out of going swimming at the Country Club swimming pool for a good 3 weeks after my dad took me to see Jaws
I actually made an action figure of Rosie for the Flintstones movie. I'm still having nightmares! Image Unavailable, Please Login
using a similar recipe, somebody out there made this little short about a ghost girl, if you didn't know it was nicely done amateur horror flick, it would freak you out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnH9OJP6FTk
I never liked swimming in the ocean that much, but after seeing Jaws, I think I've been in the water maybe 2-3 times! When I was young, "Green Slime" scared the cr*p out of me. Saw it on TV a few years back, what a hoot! Image Unavailable, Please Login
Up until a couple of years ago, any horror would scare the living daylights out of me... One of the worst was The Grudge. I kept seeing that freak cat-boy everywhere at night, I slept with a nightlight on for weeks! There was also a film with freaky children haunting a town, I think it was children of the corn. Had the same effect on me as the grudge lol. But now I watch horrors all the time, no problem. Lol.
Note to self: never watch a movie called "Saw II". If Stephanie can't handle it, that is a clear indicator that it has to be too intense for me. I always hate channel surfing in the late evening and come across one of these films on the movie channels.
The original "Night of the Living Dead," right from the start- the cemetery scene, an isolated setting in the gray light of an impending afternoon storm, and a figure walking, haltingly across the lawn, he's coming to get you. Shot in B & W, on the cheap. No effects, no fancy stuff. Terrifying. Gore isn't scary. The most disturbing movie I have seen is Irreversible. I agree that the original Alien had shock value, and the film holds up even today. (Great Cast-Harry Dean Stanton- yeah, baby).
When Jaws first came out, I was probably 7-8ish. I did NOT see it in the theaters. But I remember, I was afraid to sit on the toilet. I thought Jaws might come thru it and bite my a**. My favorite scary movie is Halloween I.
Another one that scared the hell out of me was the original "The Blob" with a young Steve McQueen (1958). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob I was very young at the time and could very well imagine a "Blob" slowly growing under my bed or in my closet.
Not too many movies have freaked me out. When I was 9 my dad too me to see "Aliens" and I could not go to sleep at all that night....funny that it became one of my favorite movies of all time. The only recent movie to freak me out was "The Ring". After watching it, I was trying to go to sleep, but I kept opening my eyes and looking at the television and feeling very creeped out, so I went and slept with my 2 yr old daughter that night. One I really want to see is "Orphan". Kids can just be really creepy sometimes.
First three are alltime faves of mine, saw orig. Omen and Sentinel as new releases and have rented all 3 repeatedly over the years. My high-church Protestant Episcopal upbringing wasn't far off the mark from your Catholic one...it took me years to get up courage to see the original Exorcist. The Shining is a fourth favorite from that era, stands tall beside them in pure creepiness though there are no religious overtones. More recently: Angel Heart, ca. 1988, original Saw. Now I'm jaded, nothing cinematic scares me any more. Real life is infinitely more frightening. All in all, creepiest, absolutely most stomach-churning movie I've ever seen is "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer", indy film ca. 1990. You owe it to yourself if you haven't seen it. Jaws...ho hum. Suspenseful, yes; scary, no. I'm landlocked here in north TX and beaches aren't part of my awareness spectrum.
Hands down Exorcist. Saw and the ilk are just stupid. I have a friend who gave up swimming in the ocean to this day because of Jaws. Yes; I forgot Aliens. Classic.
I figured you are much more fearless than I am. (see quotes below from the other thread). So, if Saw II was too intense for you, definitely too intense for me.
John Carpenter's "The Thing" Not because of the gore. Just the premise that you don't know who to trust or when it's coming for you.
One of my fav films of all time...flawless in execution and one of the few films to break the rule that you HAVE to have a love interest for proper character development. Having said all that Ive never found it to be all that scary. Just very very cool.
