What's yhe scariest movie I have ever seen? I mean hands over the face, peering through the fingers scary? Frieghtened to death because it might happen to me scary?

Meet the Parents.

The Ring The Original Japanese One I Watched That On Channel 4 Late One Night And I Was Seriously Shocked On How Scary It Was The New Version Does NOT Do The Original Justice And A Film That Looks Scary But Iv Not Seen Is The Grudge... I Think Its Called Anyone Seen That??

Yeah, i saw The Grudge and I would have to say its the scariest movie I've seen in a while...I usually don't get scared, just an occasional jump..but, i had to force myself to keep looking at the screen for this one!!

If you like scary movies, you should go see the Grudge!!

I think "The Exorcist" is a very good movie. Maybe even great, but I didn't care for it a whole lot. Just not my thing. The spinal tap was the most disturbing bit in the whole movie. But I didn't really groove on how it handled the whole devil possession thing very well. It was pretty to the point and in the open with the girl screaming obscenitys, stabbing herself with the cross, and everything else. Yeah that's gross and stuff, but that's not my definition of scary.

The same applies for The Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Granted I love all three of those movies but that type of horror flick is not scary to me.

What is scary for me are all three of those movies Roman Polanski did about the terrors of urban living. Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant. Those three films are probably the three that scare me the worst, just because of how we slowly watch a characters gradual mental breakdown and the terrors they go through both real and imagined. Catherine D. (can't spell last name) was amazing in "Repulsion" and watching her lose her mind is one of the rare treats in cinema. Truly scary and disturbing stuff. Mia Farrow having doubts about her husband, neighbors and her child in Rosemary's baby was surely creepy. And Polanski playing a realistic and fathomable idea of possession in "The Tenant" I also find scary.

"Angel Heart" is another flick that can send a shiver up and down your spine. And "The Shining" too, naturally.

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What's yhe scariest movie I have ever seen? I mean hands over the face, peering through the fingers scary? Frieghtened to death because it might happen to me scary?

Meet the Parents.

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Haha, I have a friend who can't sit through that movie, because she is too embarassed for the characters. What can I say, she's a sensitive girl....


Scariest movie - Sixth Sense... that one had me freaked out for a while. I also read Stephen King's IT - the book was super scary.

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I also read Stephen King's IT - the book was super scary.

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Great book, the movie just couldn't reproduce the fear the book created. If you liked IT, might I suggest King's "Cujo", "Carrie", and Thomas Harriss' "Hannibal" (The movie ruins the ending on that). As far as scariest movies I can't really say. I think I am inclined to mention "28 Days Later", "Psycho" (original), and the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (Although the remake is pretty freakin' scary)

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I'd say the scariest movies I've seen are as follows:

Session 9
Jaws
The Exorcist
The Exorcist 3
Ju-On
The Blaire Witch Project

Forgot to mention the 6th sense. That movie always freaks me out.

"I see dead people..."

ummm...i think that one of the scariest parts in a movie is easily the part in silence of the lambs...where clarice starling is looking for "wild bill"(or whatever his name was)and she is in the pitch dark..and then they cut away to him looking at her through the night vision goggles...and he proceeds to almost touch her and stand basically right in front of her without knowing. That shit still scares me.

I dont think it is the scariest movie ever...but it sure is up there.

I guess it would have to be different for everyone though...whatever taps into your psyche...and fucks with your mind a bit!

It is really hard for me to choose a scariest movie ever.

I saw Valentine when i was like 8 or 7 and it scared to crap out of me! i am now 11 and i am one of the hardest people to scare at my school.... i want a good really scary movie to watch! so, i think Valentine is definetly the scariest movie I have ever seen!

omg scariest film eva has 2 b the shining!! i saw it wen i woz lyk 10 and it scared me lyk hell! all i cld fink all the way the film is stuff lyk: Y wld tht daddy do something to his family or Y is tht woman scabby and moldy? jebus! i woz 10 ppl...

I don't know that it is the scariest movie ever, but the only movie to ever give me nightmares after seeing it is definitely "Event Horizon". It isn't mentioned often, but a spaceship that travels through hell and acquires an evil spirit that forces the crew members and later their rescuers to kill themselves and each other by preying on their worst fears? Pretty freaky. I don't think I'll ever shake the image of Sam Neill gouging his own eyes out with his bare hands. Yeesh.

When I was younger, nothing scared me like Candyman... I still hate watching the opening to Jaws... The scariest movie I have seen recently was Wolf Creek, by far. I really liked the characters and all of the unspeakable things that happened to them really shook me. Very, VERY realistic too... Yikes.

There's two kinds of scariness in movies: shallow scariness and deep scariness. Shallow scariness is the scariness the makes you jump out of your seat in the theater but pretty much leaves you undisturbed after you walk out of the theater. Deep scariness sticks with you. Most horror movies are pretty good at the shallow scariness thing. Only a few get to the level of deep scariness. Such movies haunt you for years. After seeing the original Exorcist, numerous people were horrified about becoming possesed by the devil. I know I felt like I had seen something I really shouldn't have. Jaws was pretty effective at scaring people away from beaches. The Blair Witch project haunts me when I get deep in the woods and start to think I might be lost. The Sixth Sense was a great movie, but it doesn't really have the power to haunt you. It does stick with you in that it makes you think and question your perceptions, but this doesn't make it great as a horror movie. As far as the zombie movies mentioned so often earlier in this thread, if you are really haunted by zombie movies, I won't question your feelings but will have to question your maturity. At one time, I was haunted by the idea that werewolves were populating the countryside, but I was only 7 years old.

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There's two kinds of scariness in movies: shallow scariness and deep scariness. Shallow scariness is the scariness the makes you jump out of your seat in the theater but pretty much leaves you undisturbed after you walk out of the theater. Deep scariness sticks with you. Most horror movies are pretty good at the shallow scariness thing. Only a few get to the level of deep scariness. Such movies haunt you for years. After seeing the original Exorcist, numerous people were horrified about becoming possesed by the devil. I know I felt like I had seen something I really shouldn't have. Jaws was pretty effective at scaring people away from beaches. The Blair Witch project haunts me when I get deep in the woods and start to think I might be lost. The Sixth Sense was a great movie, but it doesn't really have the power to haunt you. It does stick with you in that it makes you think and question your perceptions, but this doesn't make it great as a horror movie. As far as the zombie movies mentioned so often earlier in this thread, if you are really haunted by zombie movies, I won't question your feelings but will have to question your maturity. At one time, I was haunted by the idea that werewolves were populating the countryside, but I was only 7 years old.

good observation. I agree about the sixth sense thing, it doesnt quite have deep scariness, but it has deep something. I think we're long overdue for a movie with deep scariness, since all the ones these days are pretty much the same. As for my list for scariest movies, i'd say exorcist, the shining, and pet sematary (I haven't seen that many, mind you). Plus, Saw kind of freaked me out at first and if you can believe it, i was pretty scared first time i saw sleepy hollow cuz i was like 10.

I've never been scared by a horror movie. They aren't frightening in the least and I've only been entertained by one horror movie because it was interesting. That movie was Poltergeist.

Try watching The Innocents alone and in the dark. It just came out on DVD last year.

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I think we're long overdue for a movie with deep scariness, since all the ones these days are pretty much the same.

I thought The Ring was deep scary. So was Saw. And The Exorcist

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I thought The Ring was deep scary. So was Saw. And The Exorcist

The ring? cmon, it was ok, but nothing too special.
Saw was pretty good. The scariest part for me was watching the parts where the guy would jump out and grab people and then walking around my house in the dark after the movie was over.

The Exorcist was definitely "deep scary," that's what the earlier post was about (i didnt start it i just seconded it). Movies like the Shining and the Exorcist did for horror movies kind of like what AC/DC and Zeppelin did for rock and roll, they helped define the horror movie genre and created a genuine fear in people that cant possibly be replicated by movies today, not even saw or the ring.

Another one I recommend is the first Halloween movie. It wasn't super exciting, but it set the standard for a bunch of horror movies and had some pretty creepy parts.