I don’t watch a lot of scary movies. I don’t find that to be much fun. I remember The Blair Witch Project giving me the creeps the next week walking a half mile into my deer stand before daylight with no flashlight. I regretted not having one with me.
Horror Movie that has kept you UP!
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The original IT used suspense and imagination very well for is horror. I do think the big finale scene where they kill the spider thing didn't match the buildup though. That scene kinda pops the bubble they built throughout the movies.
Probably the only move to stick with me for an extended period of time was "Event Horizon".
I don't watch a bunch of horror movies. I am still trying to watch The Conjuring movies. Maybe I make it this Halloween. But there was a TV horror movie in the 70s named Don't Be Afraid of the Dark that still gives me chills when I think about it. It definitely made me lose some sleep when I first saw it.
Movies where you imagine the horror instead of seeing it definitely are more scary to me.
Movies where you imagine the horror instead of seeing it definitely are more scary to me.
The howling was one of mine. Creepshow was another. The Tasmanian devil in the box kept me awake for days. Nightmare on Elm Street. Don’t remember which one was the first I watched.
The one that’s lasted the longest of them all is Jaws. Love the beach. Love getting in the ocean. Don’t like getting deep, or floating.
The Shining , original Amityville Horror and Children of the Corn.
It was based on several different serial killers, mostly Ed Gein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
I love horror movies, but the original Salem's Lot scarred me for life. "the exorcism of emily rose" creeped me out too.
Doctor Sleep, with the way they intertwined the Shining and then killed the kid to steel his shine really messes with me.
First 20 minutes of When a Stranger Calls, its completely anachronistic now, but scary as hell back then
First 20 minutes of When a Stranger Calls, its completely anachronistic now, but scary as hell back then
Right there with you on the Priest getting whacked.
Also, this when speaking of how your following God can get you killed -
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Fire in the Sky freaked me out as a kid too. My grandmother rented it one weekend when she was visiting and I watched it with her. For weeks when I heard jets flying over the house in the middle of the night I kept thinking the aliens were coming for me.
Got high and watched Hereditary by myself. I had to stop it multiple times. Great movie.
Nobody has said anything about Deliverance. You bunch of damn homos.
The Amityville Horror book was scary. The movie not so much. That book made some nights uneasy to me.
That was a rough movie. Comedian Blake Clark had a funny bit about Deliverance. He said, "I'm from Georgia. Have y'all seen the movie Deliverance. It was filmed in North Georgia. With real Georgians."
Go read about the scene on IMDB. Cap'n Redlegs was a method actor and really got into it, erection and all. Ned Beatty was not pleased.
Chucky as a kid. And if I think about him as an adult I check my bed and still think about getting my Achilles cut!
Any paranormal stuff I can’t do!!
The movie itself is pretty poor, but the biggest jump scare I've ever had in a theater is the scene in Exorcist 3 hospital hallway scene. I remember literally jumping up into the aisle. Comes out of nowhere in the movie. It's awesome.
Someone mentioned the Saw movies. One night I’m laying in bed dead asleep and I keep hearing this cellphone ringing so I finally roll over and wake up to see my wife sitting in bed terrified watching whichever Saw movie that had a cellphone ringing in it at 3 in the morning.
That guy was on the Joe Rogan podcast a year or 2 ago. It was a pretty entertaining episode if you're into that kind stuff. Hard not to believe him when there were 4 other witnesses to his abduction.
I don't watch a lot of horror movies because I find them funny. My kids were freaked out by "I Know What You Did Last Summer". I told them the guy in the mask wouldn't have made it through that first scene in our back yard.
When I was younger the movies or TV series horror shows that affected me the most were psychological thrillers like Psycho or Silence of the Lambs. The thought of crazy people disrupting your life is something that is a possibility.
When I was younger the movies or TV series horror shows that affected me the most were psychological thrillers like Psycho or Silence of the Lambs. The thought of crazy people disrupting your life is something that is a possibility.
I’ve said it before but if you sit down and read a synopsis of The Ring, it sounds like the dumbest premise in the history of horror movies. One of the all time greats in terms of expectations vs reality though
I still distinctly remember sitting in a sports bar in Madison watching that game with a couple co-workers, and by the second quarter, a Russian co-worker said.. "man, I don't know much of anything about American football, but your football team really sucks." Yes, Yuri... I am painfully aware
Poltergeist 3. The old preacher man was creeee-pyyyy. I kept hearing "The Lord! Is in! His holy temple!" in my head for years.
Red State is another one that gives me the heeby jeebies.
Red State is another one that gives me the heeby jeebies.
They say that the more things change, the more they stay the same but it didn't have to change much for us though. Same uniforms - same results.
I've long forgotten the name of the movie since I saw it as a kid, but there was a late night TV movie with a scene where a lady opened a cabinet in an RV, only to be bitten by a snake.
No movie ever gave me nightmares but The Exorcist would be the one that shook me the most.
Now, a long true story about having the **** scared out of me while watching a non-scary horror movie.
This happened about 20 years ago. I'll set the scene: Living by myself in an old house out in the woods, 800 wooded feet off of the road and no external street light so it's pitch black outside. It's around 10:30 at night and some stupid, non-scary horror flick is on Sci-Fi and I'm sitting there watching it in the dark with only the kitchen light on in the next room. Even though it wasn't scary, I found myself leaning forward in my easy chair during the crescendo at the end. At the exact moment the horror reached its peak, something started pounding on the window about a foot and a half away from me. I promise you if I would have been due for a bathroom break, I would have let fly right then and there. It took my breath! The first thing I thought before I even moved was "Gun! Bedroom!" so there was no time for that. I killed the tv, took 3 steps which covered about 15 feet locking the carport door, grabbed a flashlight and an axe handle that was behind the carport door and killed the light in the kitchen. I then drew back the axe handle in one hand and turned the flashlight on that window and slowly approached. I could see nothing in the window or beyond in the wooded yard as I approached. As I got to the window, I shined the light down and right below the window was a huge boar coon. I'm guessing that he climbed up the brick and was sitting in the window and started scratching himself and was hitting the window. That was easily the most terrified I've ever been in my life! Once I saw the coon, I knew that nobody else or nothing else was around so I was able to get a nice, peaceful night of sleep while laughing at myself.
Now, a long true story about having the **** scared out of me while watching a non-scary horror movie.
This happened about 20 years ago. I'll set the scene: Living by myself in an old house out in the woods, 800 wooded feet off of the road and no external street light so it's pitch black outside. It's around 10:30 at night and some stupid, non-scary horror flick is on Sci-Fi and I'm sitting there watching it in the dark with only the kitchen light on in the next room. Even though it wasn't scary, I found myself leaning forward in my easy chair during the crescendo at the end. At the exact moment the horror reached its peak, something started pounding on the window about a foot and a half away from me. I promise you if I would have been due for a bathroom break, I would have let fly right then and there. It took my breath! The first thing I thought before I even moved was "Gun! Bedroom!" so there was no time for that. I killed the tv, took 3 steps which covered about 15 feet locking the carport door, grabbed a flashlight and an axe handle that was behind the carport door and killed the light in the kitchen. I then drew back the axe handle in one hand and turned the flashlight on that window and slowly approached. I could see nothing in the window or beyond in the wooded yard as I approached. As I got to the window, I shined the light down and right below the window was a huge boar coon. I'm guessing that he climbed up the brick and was sitting in the window and started scratching himself and was hitting the window. That was easily the most terrified I've ever been in my life! Once I saw the coon, I knew that nobody else or nothing else was around so I was able to get a nice, peaceful night of sleep while laughing at myself.
Movies? Not too many. The Fog when I first saw it back when it came out. I was about 10. No movies have done that lately. Now in high school I read all of Stephen King's novels. So many of them kept me up. Pet Cemetery, 'Salem's Lot, and It are ones that stand out.
I saw that scene as a kid and for weeks I thought that gremlin was in the tree outside my bedroom window on the second floor of our house.
Back when Friday the 13th part 2 came out, I watched it late one night before going deer hunting the next morning. As a youngster, sitting in the woods alone before daylight, every little sound made me jump and squeeze that rifle harder.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose, mostly because it was based on a true story. Watch it and the first time you wake up at 3a.m., you will have to put on some clean drawers.
ETA: after reading thru the thread, I need to come back and comment on The Strangers. Yeah, scary as 17. The fact that it is based on a true story makes it worse.
ETA: after reading thru the thread, I need to come back and comment on The Strangers. Yeah, scary as 17. The fact that it is based on a true story makes it worse.
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This book is a real good listen-
https://www.audible.com/pd/Ripped-f...ce_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp
