Favorite Scary movie?

[rocklobster]

In honor of the fourth Scream movie coming out this Friday, (Why?) I thought I'd create this topic. What are your favorite scary movies? You can list any movie that scared you, regardless of whether it's a horror film or not. My vote: Aliens.

[Atria35]

Ju-On- the original Japanese version of The Grudge. While both were terrifying, there was one scene in Ju-On involving a kid and a closet and a hanged man. And now I'm rather terrified of my big walk-in storage closet.

[GrubbTheFragger]

Well, as a massive horror buff i have alot. But for times sake i'll do the films that have scared me.

The Sixth Sense: Great ghost movie that by all means is M Nights best work and it scared me when i was young

The Strangers: Easily the scarest slasher film ever made IMO or that i've seen. It is tense and just down frighting. Not for the easily scared for sure.

[Atria35]

The Sixth Sense: Great ghost movie that by all means is M Nights best work and it scared me when i was young.

Oh, that IS a fabulous movie! It also scared me when I was young. Now it doesn't scare me so much, but the thoughfulness and the characters are so compelling!

Hmmm.

The Shining still counts for me. Jack is an amazing madman. He truly terrifies me.

[ADXC]

I haven't seen many, but I've seen a few good ones.


Chucky (Obvious reasons)
The Hitchhiker (It had some good suspense)
Funny Games (For different reasons. I dare you to watch it. XD)
Friday the 13th
Quarantine
The Phone Booth (More of a thriller, but whatever.)
The Sixth Sense
Signs

[ShiroiHikari]

"Scary" movies I like:

Poltergeist - I love almost everything about this movie. It scared me when I was little, but now I don't think it's all that scary.
The Shining - Never really scared me but I think it's an all-around great film.
The Others - Not that scary, but I love the acting and the atmosphere.
The Sixth Sense - The only M. Night Shamalamadingdong film I ever enjoyed.
Alien and Aliens - Some of the best films ever made, in my opinion. Alien is just so dark and brooding and Aliens is a blast to watch.

Movies that scared the !@#$ out of me (that I never want to see again):

- John Carpenter's The Thing
- Eraserhead

[Scarecrow]

I really can't think of any good horror films that actually scared me. The atrocious End of Days gave me some nightmares but that's the only one.

Movies that I really enjoy and found them exciting though:

Scream - all (yes I'm super excited about the 4th)
Alien/Aliens
Chucky
The Devil's Advocate
Sleepy Hollow
Poltergeist

And that's all I can think of off the top of my head that I saw and really liked.

[Wolf-man]

I am with Grubb on this one. I have too many to list but here are a few that either made me uneasy or were just plain scary.

Ringu - The Japanese really know how to scare the crap out of you while also making good films.

John Carpenter's The Thing - This used to scare me so much when I was young and it still creeps me out. Fantastic movie.

Suspiria - The Italians are also great at scaring. This movie was intense.

Ju-On - Did a good job of having those classic Japanese scenes of things just being there. Like no lead up just like the camera panning over and there is something and your like HOLY CRAP WHAT IS THAT!!!!

So yeah that is an extremely short list but still some good ones on there. Can't wait to see Scream 4

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I don't really have a favourite as such. These are all my favourites (different levels of scares):


Session 9 is terrifying. It takes the old abandoned mental hospital story and whittles it down into a carefully-timed nightmare.

Rosemary's Baby - this movie is truly scary but I don't recommend it. There's something very wrong about the whole thing (and not just in a scary movie way).

Se7en is truly disturbing but also very well-done. It's not a pleasant movie but you come away with no doubt that the wages of sin is death.

28 Days Later - I'm not one for zombie movies but I really enjoyed this one. The focus was on the characters and building the tension and telling a great story. This is probably one of the scariest movies I've seen.

The Ring - I've only ever seen the American remake but I thought it was great. Scared the stuffing out of me. (I've also seen the original Japanese The Grudge and it freaked me out big-time but I didn't enjoy it).

Dark Water - I've seen both the Japanese original and the American remake and as controversial as this is, I have to say I mostly prefer the remake. It just seemed scarier and had a better-developed story.

A Tale of Two Sisters - this is a thought-provoking Korean horror movie/drama. Messed up and fractured beyond belief but intelligent and well-done.

Picnic at Hanging Rock - an Australian classic. I find the movie scary because it's a giant mystery, hugely eerie with no solution in sight. The real star of the movie is the Hanging Rock in Victoria, Australia.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho - the one which pretty much started it all, not much more to say. A terrifying exploration of evil.

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - I haven't read the Stephen King novel but I loved this movie so much. It was quite scary at times. Jack Nicholson was brilliant and the atmosphere was beyond intense.

Ridley Scott's Alien - the facehuggers are the stuff of nightmares! (Aliens is also scary in some parts)

OldBoy - this Korean movie is brilliant but highly disturbing. I won't be watching it ever again but it's so well-done.

Finally, Children of Men. This movie is horrific in another way. A future without children, without hope, makes for a very bleak and disturbing movie. Great but very intense.

[ShiroiHikari]

Oh dang, can't believe I forgot to put Session 9 on my list. Really good movie. Oh, and Psycho, I really enjoyed that one too.

I've seen Suspiria but I didn't think it was scary at all. It was just so...over the top.

[the_wolfs_howl]

I'm definitely a horror movie fan, and hope to broaden my experience!

Movies I love that seriously scared me:

Signs - Even though I've seen it enough times it doesn't really scare me anymore (the hand in the coal chute still gets me if I'm into it, though), I love this because it's so well done and such a good story even without the thrills and scares. It was also the movie that made me realize I like horror movies and the nightmares they bring.

The Grudge - I should probably see Ju-On one of these days, but so far I've only seen this. The Grudge is by far the scariest movie I've ever seen, and I love it. What always scares me is the things that seem to reach through the screen and threaten you, rather than you knowing it's just a movie (in Signs, what haunted me the most was the reflection in the TV). For a whole freaking month, I couldn't look under my covers or wash my hair without shuddering. And...that death rattle.... *shivers*

The Ring - After The Grudge, this didn't seem quite as horrifying as I had heard from other people, but there were a couple of moments that freaked me out. Namely, the part towards the end with the girl and the TV, and a couple flash-moments at the beginning where it was like something passed in the corner of your eye. The menu of the DVD is also possibly the most terrifying thing to sit through and watch loop over and over again.

Wait Until Dark - Audrey Hepburn awesomeness. Probably the best performance of a blind character I've ever seen. What makes this a scary movie is that you realize it could all happen - that this is really what it would be like to be blind and alone when people are trying to break in and kill you. The tension slowly builds up till it just explodes in the climax, and there's one jump-out-of-the-shadows moment that gets me every time.

(I would add the first episode of Lost, because I've had enough experiences with turbulence in planes to make it that white-knuckle terrifying, but....)


Scary movies that I liked but that didn't scare me:

El Orfanato (The Orphanage) - Just a beautiful movie. So well put together, such a joy to watch. It's also fairly creepy, and uses long shots very well, I think. There is a medium who comes into the story, though, so that's treading on some iffy ground.

Escalofrio (Shiver) - Another Spanish horror movie. It's not brilliant, and I think they could have pulled the danger of light into greater prominence to heighten the tension/horror, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. There was an interesting sequence that used a lot of glow-stick lighting and handheld cameras that was very creepy, and I felt shudders when the girl was in the house, because I could totally relate to the main character's fear.

Psycho - After hearing my mom's story of watching this on TV and hiding behind the sofa, I knew I had to watch this thing. It's classic, it's Hitchcock, what more needs to be said? The shower scene is amazing, and the music is the most terrifying part, I think. The very last shot of the movie is also enduringly creepy.

Alien and Aliens - Wonderful movies, so well done for their time. They hold up to today's standards pretty well! I mean, there are some old movies where the special effects look so tacky you can't take it seriously anymore, but this one uses the available technology to its full potential and makes a truly nightmarish movie. The flashy lighting was also pretty effective. I liked the first one better, but the second was still good. Nothing really scared me, though.

[ich1990]

The Sixth Sense: Great ghost movie that by all means is M Nights best work and it scared me when i was young

The Others - Not that scary, but I love the acting and the atmosphere.

Alien and Aliens - Some of the best films ever made, in my opinion. Alien is just so dark and brooding and Aliens is a blast to watch.

Session 9 is terrifying. It takes the old abandoned mental hospital story and whittles it down into a carefully-timed nightmare.

Signs - Even though I've seen it enough times it doesn't really scare me anymore (the hand in the coal chute still gets me if I'm into it, though), I love this because it's so well done and such a good story even without the thrills and scares. It was also the movie that made me realize I like horror movies and the nightmares they bring.

The Grudge - I should probably see Ju-On one of these days, but so far I've only seen this. The Grudge is by far the scariest movie I've ever seen, and I love it. What always scares me is the things that seem to reach through the screen and threaten you, rather than you knowing it's just a movie (in Signs, what haunted me the most was the reflection in the TV). For a whole freaking month, I couldn't look under my covers or wash my hair without shuddering. And...that death rattle.... *shivers*

The Ring - After The Grudge, this didn't seem quite as horrifying as I had heard from other people, but there were a couple of moments that freaked me out. Namely, the part towards the end with the girl and the TV, and a couple flash-moments at the beginning where it was like something passed in the corner of your eye. The menu of the DVD is also possibly the most terrifying thing to sit through and watch loop over and over again.

El Orfanato (The Orphanage) - Just a beautiful movie. So well put together, such a joy to watch. It's also fairly creepy, and uses long shots very well, I think. There is a medium who comes into the story, though, so that's treading on some iffy ground.

Looks like I have nothing to add.

[Htom Sirveaux]

Oh my gosh, Ju-On. *shudder* I watched that a couple years ago and I still haven't screwed up the courage to watch Ju-On 2.

As for my favorite, it's the original B&W version of The Haunting, based on my favorite horror novel, The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson. Good, classical, "haunted house" psych horror. Love it.

[Sapphire225]

Given I'm a horror movie fanatic, I can't let this thread fade.

Anyway, I liked The Descent. Very rarely has a movie made me expect these kinds of twists. Also, I really liked Dracula, despite not being so scary moreso than gory. Saw is always a movie I would give a try, as well as the Final Destination movie series.

And of course, Ju-On, which makes our Grudge look like Care Bears.

[Riggidig]

Aliens.

Watched it when I was 10 years old and no other movie in my opinion has ever captured atmosphere and pure tension like that movie has. Remains my favourite movie until this day.