Posted on 10/28/2011 6:27:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Okay, we are coming into Halloween Weekend leading into Monday. I expect a whole bunch of horror movies on the tube during the next few days. So my question to you is what is the SCARIEST movie you ever saw and why?
I'll lead off by telling you the scariest movie I've seen in the past few years. I found it to be even scarier than "The Exorcist." In this case it was a movie I saw on the tube about a week ago called "The Last Exorcist." It was filmed as if it were a documentary following a Louisiana Preacher by the name of Cotton Marcus who is something of a con artist. He doesn't really believe in possession by the Devil but he will perform exorcisms because he claims the fraud will actually make people feel better. Of course, he also collects money for his phony exorcisms.
The documentary style film starts off low key but ends up with a truly frightening ending that I won't spoil by giving it away. However, the thing that scared me the most is that the 14 year-old girl, Nell Sweetzer, who was supposedly possessed by the Devil draws a picture of the cameraman getting his head chopped off. The cameraman tells the preacher that he doesn't feel comfortable being around a girl who drew such a picture of him but the preacher tries to sooth the camera guy by playing down the idea that a mere girl could harm him. From that point on, you just KNOW that the cameraman had better SPLIT that scene immediately. What really made it scary is the way the girl when demonically possessed kept focusing in her eyes on the cameraman...sometimes with a wicked smile. That really creeped me out. I have to admit that I had a hard time getting to sleep after watching this flick.
Things you can do something about: I am Legend, Dawn of the Dead, Silence of the Lambs, The Thing, Alien.
Things you can’t: Amityville Horror, The Exorcist.
What you said.
Oh, as far as movies go, since I don't watch horror flicks per se, I'd have to say In Cold Blood is the scariest, esp. knowing it was filmed on actual location.
The Shining came close.
Yes, the Shining.
Also Fear (Mark Walberg) and Cape Fear (DeNiro).
Agree on the scary factor. Never got into the horror genre, but suspense is what you don’t see. The less I know of a story going in, the better the experience.
Best in theater flick......Marathon Man.
“Is it safe?”
Best Horror flick..........The Exorcist.
“Dami, why you do this to me Dami?”
Scariest childhood flick...The House on Haunted Hill.
Too young to remember any line but scared the heck out of this 7 year old.
Best reality shock value...Pulp Fiction.
Knew absolutely nothing about the flick before seeing it.
Best scene shock value.....Alien.
Read that the actors were not privy to the alien through the thorax birth scene before filming and the reactions were genuine.
Agree! Wait until Dark. Very good!
I remember that made-for-TV miniseries, with David Soul. I was a young teen at the time and yep, that was some terrifying stuff!
Hopefully, the movie (being brought to the screen by Leonardio DiCaprio) will combine the atmosphere of Ragtime with the historical prototype of Hannibal Lecter in the person of H H Holmes.
(Arguably, the other Lecter prototype would be Holmes' contemporary, Jack the Ripper.)
Years later, I saw the ending on TV and it wasn't as awful as I had anticipated.
Texas chain saw, exorsist and the 2008 election
Just my opinion of course!
Best in theater flick......Marathon Man.I remember every time I get a reminder from the dentist,Damn
“Is it safe?”
Best Horror flick..........Alien, Think About it everytime my gut aches!
Scariest childhood flick...Willard, a rustle can spook the hell out of me at night,in enclosed spaces.
Best reality shock value...Pulp Fiction.Something always had me on edge, Cap the good guys in his world would have been a plan with the exception of Ving.
Knew absolutely nothing about the flick before seeing it.
Best scene shock value.....Texas Chainsaw Massacre
And pretty much anything with Vincent Price in it. I know I’m showing my age, but you can’t beat watching those old movies on a B&W under the covers when your supposed to be a sleep. And when your not watching the Playboy show of course.
Oh good God.
Salemes Lot was it for me. Even 20 plus years after I see it, I STILL am waiting for someone ( my brother, my husband etc ) to say Watch out for Barlow to me.
Funny tho because a few years ago, my Gramma and I were Christmas shopping and we saw Salem’s Lot 2 and I made her get it for my brother as a joke.
He was pi$$ed at us ~! We just laughed at him .
Then when I told dh that we got it because we knew brother dearest was scared of the original, he had to go buy it as well.
I hate scarey movies. I’m still a chicken and sleep with a tv or light on every night.
Even my 5 year old son says to me “ Mommy, why are you scared”......
“The Grudge”.
Although it's certainly not a horror movie, Jurassic Park had me nervous every time I had to go down to the basement for do laundry for a week! I found myself peeking around the corner, checking for velociraptors!
Mark
Some people could find their movie here....
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3ASciFi_Horror&sort=-publicdate
Spend Halloween watchin some oldies.By the way we own these movies all are Public Domain so watch them online download and do what you want!
Eegah - Arch Hall Sr. and Don Schneider
From IMDb: While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by a seven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, she returns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attempt to find the giant. They do, and it proceeds to terrorize them and the rest of Palm Springs, California. Stars: Arch Hall Jr., Marilyn Manning, Richard Kiel, and Arch Hall Sr. The 1GB MPEG4 file was derived from the 2GB MPEG2 found on this page.
Keywords: Horror; Romance; Musical
Downloads: 753
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958)
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a science fiction/horror film about aliens ressurecting the dead bodies of earth people and using the resulting zombies to further their plans for world domination. The film’s main claim to fame is probably the fact that it is believed by many to be the worst film ever made.You can find out more about Plan 9 from Outer Space at A Passion For Horror.
Downloads: 2,428
Average rating: 2.83 stars (7 reviews)
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (aka Assignment: Terror) - Fullscreen
Not to be confused with Al Adamson’s “Dracula vs. Frankenstein”. Michael Rennie (dubbed by a different actor) plays a space alien bent on conquering the world by resurrecting all Earth’s mad scientists and awakening the most deadly monsters in history; Count Dracula, The Mummy, the Wolf Man and the Frankenstein Monster, all under their control. Eventually all the monsters duke it out in a burning castle...
I started reading the book when I was very young. Maybe I look for a copy. I have never seen a movie made from a book that was as good as the book. Sometimes the details and even the main theme are changed.
That was always my problem once I got older. By the time the movie came out I would have already been scared witless by the book so the movie seemed tame.
Scariest books ever?
The Haunting of Hill House. It is terrifying.
The Shining. Kept me awake at night for days.
The Crawling Eye
20,000 Fathoms under the sea
The Blob
The Thing
Jaws
And the best of all time Alien 2 “ I say we nuke em from orbit just to be sure, game over man”
I have both versions of The Day of the Triffids.
A BBC miniseries from 1983 came out on Amazon a few years ago. It wasn’t bad.
scariest movie was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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