Movies that scare the $#!t outta you
 

In honor of the spookiest month of the year coming up. How about we all list movies that scare the heck outta us? Even if you're a little embarrassed to admit. What movie(s) scares or scared you a profound amount when first watching?

Piranha. The original, mind you. Watched a week-long killer-creature marathon when I was about 9, and that was the ONLY one that scared me- even the sequel didn't bother me, but THAT one gave me nightmares for weeks! Didn't help that people were finding "piranhas" in our local lake occasionally around that time. They were actually the somewhat related but vegetarian pacu fish, but still.... To this day, I still don't like swimming where I can't see what's in the water.

Moments from Jaws and Return to Oz really do scare the living daylights out of me. However, as the great leader of the TMNT once said, "Fears are just in our minds and we have the power to overcome them."

This.

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I think I've become to desensitized by horror and violence at this point. Hardly anything scares me anymore, except when it comes to two things: giant bugs and creepy, homicidal marionettes. Put either of those in a film, and I'll most likely crap my pants!

Oh, Jesus.

Never seen it, but read about it. Having read about it, I'm almost certain I'll never, ever see it.

That said: You definitely win. NOTHING could possibly be more horrifying than THAT. Now people are gonna go either watch it read about it, and they'll never fully be able to erase it from their memories.

Thanks a f*ckton, You. :trazz:

Meanwhile, movies in general don't affect me, but anything with wrist slashing or graphic depiction of wrist veins, for some reason, makes me highly uncomfortable. That one scene in Nightmare on Elm St. 3, that's pretty bad. I actually sometimes get a little dizzy watching that.

Not blood and gore in general, for some reason, I'm fine with all that stuff in buckets. Specifically wrist veins, is the problem. ((Shudder))

I'm a little odd when it comes to something like this. Most people may not ever pick these 3 movies, but anyway..

1. Anaconda. reason snake phobia

2. Twister. reason, just because a twister is a real thing and they happen around here during certain times and I never want to be caught in one. Actually love the movie though.

3. The Omen. reason, just f*ck that movie.

Pet Cemetery

The Woman in Black

There was another one that freaked me out recently. I can't remember the name but this family moved into this house and some demon took over the mom.

I get spooked by things involving demons. Not the monster-looking kind, the Paranormal Activity kind.

That's the only horror that's managed to remain with me after I stopped watching the movie. I guess because it seems like it's a thing that could possibly happen. Some kind of entity targeting you and disrupting your life in small ways that gradually build up and drive you crazy?

Ringu and Grudge spooked me the most, couldn't sleep without lights on for a while.

Pet Semetary also, when I was younger.

Child's Play when I was a kid. I remember having nightmares. Funny that it turned out to be my favorite horror series but guess we all like being scared sometimes...it's why we celebrate Halloween right?

I hate spiders so Arachnophobia always makes feel creepy-crawly.

The Final Destination movies creeped me out because accidents, no matter how unlikely, can actually happen.

The first time I saw The Descent(before it came to America) it scared the crap out of me.

The Exorcist
The Handmaid's Tale

Scream scared me.

^Scream was just stupid teenagers on drugs. What's to be scared of them? :lol:

Sinister
Insidious 3
It Follows
Triangle
The Shining
Juon 2
Final Destination
Saw

Fun scary movies tbh. :)

That sure as hell wasn't why I did it. Anyway, as for my picks:

The Wanderers: It's a movie set in the Bronx in the early 60s that features gangs, and the Wanderers were a gang of Italian-American youths. There's this one gang called the Ducky Boys who are from one of the worst parts of the Bronx, and what makes them so freaky is that they don't speak. It's especially freaky when one of the Wanderers ends up in the area and is cornered by them everywhere he goes when he tries to escape.

Ghost: When the two main antagonists get dragged down into the underworld after they get themselves killed.

The Princess and the Frog: It's the main antagonist's "death" scene.

I don't watch horror movies at all.

Ooh Stephen King's The Mist creeps me the hell out, I still hate driving in the fog!! 28 Days Later is pretty bad too, I was a wreck after watching that.
I know its not a film but I do watch The Walking Dead and that scares me witless, the whole apocalyptic/zombie is terrifying. Still keep watching though so I guess some strange part of me enjoys it?!

I don't really watch too many horror movies since that's not my genre but the original The Fly movie scarred me when I watched it as a teenager. The ones that upset my stomach the most though are body horror movies not because they're scary but because they're gross to look at.

Which leads me to ask, are the Human Centipede trilogy of movies or Tusk by Kevin Smith scary?

Yep. Those movies did it for me too. Never seen Pet Semetary.

I enjoyed the Final Destination and Saw films.

Exorcist didn't scare me much, but it was creepy. The Shining was good too.

Lol Imma check out that Serbian Film though.

Ugh, I have no interest in A Serbian Film. It does nothing that Salo didn't already do 40 years ago.

Martyrs is my favorite horror movie. It does everything so perfectly. And to see a successful modern horror with almost no CG is so refreshing.

Sadly, the impossibility of Anaconda ruined any scariness that movie might have held for me. Reason- the snake moving that fast at that size is a physical impossibility. It had too much body mass to move as fast as it did. throughout the movie. I was fine with some of the "creep/scare" shots, but the first time that snake started zipping around like lightning after someone, it killed my suspension of disbelief completely. Couldn't take the movie seriously after that. Anacondas are one of the SLOWEST snakes, because of their huge size!

Twister doesn't scare me, exactly. but living in Texas, it's something we have to worry about fairly often, so that one makes me nervous.



I refused to watch any of the FD movies after the first three. Reason- EVERY TIME I saw one of them, I had an accident of some kind. Nothing life-threatening, but enough to cause injury and/or bleeding. So I decided those movies were bad luck for me, and I have not watched any of them ever since. Still won't. If one comes on, I avoid the channel, leave the room, or find some other way NOT to watch it. To this day, I've only seen the first three, and those were all in theaters.



Storm Eagle, I think the movie you're referring to is The Warriors, not The Wanderers. I've seen it. It has one of the most-referenced lines in movies, too: "Warriors! Come out and plaa-ay!" Even the Nick turtles parodied that line.

I didn't watch the whole movie so I didn't know that until I saw this.

Scream wasn't even teenagers, nearly all the major characters were older and in college or beyond. I think he's actually thinking of the Scary Movie spoof franchise. Those were the only movies where teens and/or drugs were present.

I definitely know about The Warriors, but The Wanderers is something totally different. You should read about the movie here, and you'll also see that it's based on a novel by Richard Price that was published in 1974.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wa...281979_film%29

Never heard of that one, but the plot you mentioned is the exact same story. Either somebody ripped of the idea of one or the other, or they're both based on the same book.

Edit: Hmm, checked the wiki of both, noth based on the same book, but very similar novels, apparently, and during the same time-frame. Not surprising at any rate. On an interesting side-note, the plot of The Warriors is nothing like the book it's derived from, but DOES bear a striking resemblance tot he other one. Hmm....

What celebrate Halloween? The free candy then huh? :D

Saw The Mist was mentioned. That was a great movie except for the last 2 minutes or so when they decide to kill themselves and army conveniently saves the day. Which was not in the book after looking it up but I've never read it.

That part is easily forgotten or edited out if you really wanted to. Just cut off after they see the giant monster walk by...Which is a cool but creepy moment.

If it wasn't for the stupid ending that could have made a great sequel. Could redo it I suppose but still.

I forgot one. IT. That movie always freaked me out and I've never liked clowns.

Ooh, good one! I have a neighbor who is terrified of clowns (along with just about everything else, apparently- she's like a real-life Monk...) and that movie scares the crap out of her. I love it. We've contemplated having my hubby dress up as Pennywise, stand outside her door and knock, then deliver one of his lines (he's great at impressions) when she answers it. Kinda twisted I know, but she's a nosey and annoying pest who blabs our business all over town, and is constantly coming down uninvited.

Another really fantastic thriller I'd put in horror is The Mothman Prophecies. Its rated PG-13 and there's no gore, but that movie captured a sense of fear and confusion so well. Its like a really really good episode of The X-Files. And its totally based on true accounts. It gives me goosebumps. Super freaky.

I don't think they're scary, but rather nerve-racking.

Aw, c'mon. Don't do that. I mean seriously...

C'mon. Think of your soul. Just don't.

My wife gets annoyed with me because I'll often read about and "spoil" movies for myself before seeing them, and I'll forever point to that movie as a perfect reason why I do that. I'd heard of it a bunch and probably would have seen it, and then I decided to read about it and it was like, "Okay, yeah, I get what they're trying to do, but NO."

I mean, yeah, do whatever you want. I'd advise against it, though.

Eh. Change my mind. Trailer didn't look too good. Prob won't find it anyways.

Just- ew. Yeah, not something I'd ever want to see on purpose, or even by mistake while channel surfing....

I'm not touching The Human Centipede series with a 100-foot pole. I got an idea of what that was like from watching an episode of South Park.

I can assure you that no network would ever show that. It's banned almost everywhere.

Pure shock value is boring, gross and does nothing inventive for this ever-ailing genre. The ****ing Marquis De Sade was writing this kinda depravity on the walls of his prison cells in the 1700s. Fresh substance, please.

More than anything, I love thought-provoking, well-paced, innovative horror. Stuff like Pontypool, even though zombie is a grossly over-saturated subgenre, had a really interesting take on the spread of the disease. It's just so rare to find those kinds of movies anymore. It's much easier to throw buckets of blood and severed tits at the screen in 3D. I enjoy the occasional over-the-top dumb horror comedy for kicks, but even that's getting old (And 90% of them are just awful).



Honestly, people hype Human Centipede up so much in their heads. The implications are much worse than anything you see on screen. If anything, the overacting makes it pretty funny.

I only watched the first one and I didn't like it because the main characters were dumb, but damn, that's a pretty legit reason to not like them.

The Human Centipede isn't really that bad. Like our friendliest Pangolin here said, the overacting can be pretty amusing [though your mileage may vary on whether or not that makes the film more tolerable since I understand people getting weirded out by finding something they're supposed to find disgusting funny].

That movie didn't scare me at all, but it kinda fascinated me in a gross kinda way, since I kinda like ****ed up body horror and experiments and ****. I wouldn't be in any hurry to watch it again or anything though.

I'm still not taking any chances.

As for you Netkeeper, I may be able to sit through certain horror movies. I once marathoned the entire original Nightmare on Elm Street series and the entire original Friday the 13th series, and I've seen all the Child's Play movies. I also own the Scream movies and a copy of The Craft. However, there is such a thing as a level of tolerance. The kinds of things that you like are likely to be different from what others like.

Besides, didn't THC have a part where one person defecated in the mouth of the person attached to their rear end?

The Descent. Love that movie. The Last Exorcism kinda freaked me out too (mainly the ending). Tusk *grumble grumble* -_- And screw those Saw movies.

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