Horror Movie that has kept you UP!

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When I was a kid Twilight Zone the movie freaked me out.

“There’s something on the wing.”

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I guess it’s a little more SciFi than horror, but I think that Black Mirror on Netflix has a lot of similarities to the golden era of the Twilight Zone. Some episodes hit and others miss, but man the ones that hit leave you thinking about them for a few days
 

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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.
The part where each of the demons were called out and said they were with Cain, Nero, etc. was super creepy.
 

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The part where each of the demons were called out and said they were with Cain, Nero, etc. was super creepy.
These were the demons that possessed Anneliese Michel in the real exorcism.

  • Cain
  • Judas
  • Lucifer
  • Hitler
  • Nero
  • Priest Fleischmann
 
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The Ring....I watched it with a group the first time and a few years later it was on TV at night while I was flipping through the channels by myself. When Rachel falls into the well and and starts stumbling around I can't handle it. One of the scariest movie scenes ever IMO.
 

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17 The Mist. I can't tell you how pissed off I was at that ending. It didn't scare me as much as it deeply affected me. Now that I have children, I will never watch it again.
And sadly, not how the short story ended. Hollywood changed it to that. The actual ending was ambiguous where you don't know how it came out.
 

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The Ring is mentioned in this thread more than I would have thought. The scariest thing from The Ring is that there are girls who will cosplay the climbing out of the TV scene as their costume at comicons. Tv on wheels, them looking like the drowned rat and pulling themselves along with just their arms. Unique.
 

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Probably the only move to stick with me for an extended period of time was "Event Horizon".

I was wondering if anybody would bring this up. Seriously disturbing. Easily in my top 10 best horror flicks.

The Strangers is another for sure.

Heard a recent Rogan guest say that one pretty vital element of great horror films is that you can't escape the horror. Your daughter's possessed in your house, you're held hostage, you're stuck in space or in a remote place, you gotta sleep sometime and the horror comes in your sleep.
 
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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.

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Yeah Bruce. That one got me bad as a young kid. Guillermo del Toro said it was very influential to him and he wrote and produced a pretty good remake in 2011.
 
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Was the Legend of Boggy Creek the one where the dude runs out of the bathroom trying to pull his pants up?
Oh Yeah...



A pretty terrible movie, but it scared the **** outta young me. And the trailer and newspaper ads were definitely effective...



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I was born in 76 so grew up in the 80's, we had no rules on what was being watched in our house, if the parents were watching it we were watching it, until we got cinemax of course. We watched Friday the 13th and Halloween as kids. That little jingle thing or whatever sound thing that played on Halloween always haunted me when I was a kid. I don't watch any kind of scary type movies to this day, just not a fan, maybe it had to do with watching all that crap as a kid.
 

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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.
YESSSS. I've watched that movie again a couple times, just for that. Holy chit at the tension build up in that long one shot scene.
 
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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.
Thank you. Came here to post this one as well. I saw this in college at a time where I lived alone and I woke up MULTIPLE times around 3, 3:15 in the weeks after and would make myself stay up until at least 3:40. Slept with the lights on for a night or two. Even today, 15+ years later, if I wake up anywhere close to 3:33 I stay up a little bit past because of that dang movie.
 

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I was little boy and saw Helter Skelter on tv scared me to death couldn’t sleep without nightmares for days
 

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The first Nightmare on Elm Street. Before Freddy turned into a comedian on the sequels, the first film scared the crap out of me. I watched it at a friends house in the 8th grade, and when I came home I kept looking up to make sure Freddy wasn't busting through the wall above my bed. I was scared to go to sleep because Freddy might get me.
 

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Alright fellas, waiting for kickoff, but I don’t care the decade. 17 all the top scariest villains of all time! Don’t care if your 15 or 95, give me the one movie to date that still could keep you up at night!!
Silence of the Lambs was just disturbing. I don't know if it would keep my up, but it's a lot.
 
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Alright fellas, waiting for kickoff, but I don’t care the decade. 17 all the top scariest villains of all time! Don’t care if your 15 or 95, give me the one movie to date that still could keep you up at night!!
I don't watch horror movies, but I don't recommend watching that Angelina Jolie/Clint Eastwood movie Changeling right before bed, because that **** happened for real to real kids and that lady really got railroaded by the LAPD and spent the rest of her days looking for her lost son.
 

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I watched Croom open the 2007 season in Starkville 0-45 against LSU.

That performance was 17ing haunting.
That was not even the worst beating Croom took from LSU that I witnessed in person.
 

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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.


What the hell you a 1.5 feet from the window??


As a kid...

*Pet Semetary
*Children of the corn
*Misery w/ Kathy Bates, scary. Intense/suspenseful and kept your *** on the edge of your seat.