This isn't about scary movies that are good. I'm not interested in straight up quality. I want to know what movies scared YOU personally. What flick made you want to sleep with a night light?
BLACK CHRISTMAS (the original) is one for me. I watched it for the first time, last year, on Netflix streaming, sitting in my office. That's about the least immersive way to watch a movie. And yet it scared the crap out of me. I was freaked out all night.
TV mini-series Salem's Lot scared me quite a bit back in 1979
However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
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A mid 1980's BBC movie called Threads. Its about the Nuclear bomb being dropped in Britain. The movie deals with the aftermath of the event and how it affects different peoples lives. I didnt see it when it was first broadcast in the early eighties but i managed to track down a copy on dvd a few years back ,scary stuff.
Threads and Shoah for me because of what they imply but in a traditional sense I'd go for something like The Haunting.
There may be a degree of cross over with this thread.
Poltergeist. Freaked me out when I was younger.
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THE RING really got me. Partly because I'd never seen any J-horror before, and partly because I worked in a video store at the time.
A young Sluggo (age 6 or so) was quite spooked by Son of the Blob. It took a few weeks to get over as I was an anxious kid at the time.
In a similar vein (television wise).
Bingowings said:
In a similar vein (television wise).
I remember watching Ghostwatch when it aired in 1992 , i had no idea at the time it was all a joke. Pipes the ghost scared the shit out of me, when they thought they seen a ghost in someones bedroom on live t.v. was really shit your pants scary.
The film that got under my skin more than any other was 'The Blaire Witch Project'
I watched it on DVD when first released rather than the cinema. Man, that film really spooked me up. More so for the reason that -
1) The situation they were in would scare the living shit out of me...The Dark, the dark woods, tent being bashed by little kids, being alone....All of that freaks me out...
2) I was stoned when watching it....Always helps :)
Man, I'm getting goose bumps even when I'm typing this shit
I was out at work Murry so all I got was the fallout but I snapped up the DVD ASAP.
To be fair it wasn't a hoax, it was billed as a drama, was the final play in a drama strand, featured well known bit part actors as the 'real' people but even when you know that it's still bizarrely effective.
Other British telly scares of yesteryear include,
And naturally if you want to be really weirded out in terms of a series get Sapphire & Steel.
Bingowings said:
The Yellow Wall Paper.
True story.
I was working at a video store, closing up for the night, and sitting on the counter all of a sudden was a slightly crumbled, stapled packet of yellow paper. No one had been in the store for a good half-hour and I'd have sworn that the counter had been clear.
I look at the packet and it's a photocopy of the short story "The Yellow Wall Paper." Curious, I sat and read it and it scared the hell out of me, made worse by it's inexplicable origins and being the only living person in a closed strip-mall.
I ran to my car and threw that paper into the dumpster before speeding home.
The last half hour or so of [REC] is the only thing movie-wise that's legitimately scared me in about five or six years.
TheBoost said:
Bingowings said:
The Yellow Wall Paper.
True story.
I was working at a video store, closing up for the night, and sitting on the counter all of a sudden was a slightly crumbled, stapled packet of yellow paper. No one had been in the store for a good half-hour and I'd have sworn that the counter had been clear.
I look at the packet and it's a photocopy of the short story "The Yellow Wall Paper." Curious, I sat and read it and it scared the hell out of me, made worse by it's inexplicable origins and being the only living person in a closed strip-mall.
I ran to my car and threw that paper into the dumpster before speeding home.
Pet Sematary scared me when I first saw it as a kid - for obvious reasons.
Sluggo said:
A young Sluggo (age 6 or so) was quite spooked by Son of the Blob.
How does The Blob have children?
TheBoost said:
Bingowings said:
The Yellow Wall Paper.
True story.
I was working at a video store, closing up for the night, and sitting on the counter all of a sudden was a slightly crumbled, stapled packet of yellow paper. No one had been in the store for a good half-hour and I'd have sworn that the counter had been clear.
I look at the packet and it's a photocopy of the short story "The Yellow Wall Paper." Curious, I sat and read it and it scared the hell out of me, made worse by it's inexplicable origins and being the only living person in a closed strip-mall.
I ran to my car and threw that paper into the dumpster before speeding home.
either you have made this up, or there must be a logical explanation. Photocopies of short stories do not just materialize out of thin air. Did you ask any of your coworkers whether the photocopy belonged to them?
I don't really have a film that scares me, but I can think of a scene that scared the heck out of me when I first saw it. It was in The Blackhole. Now you have to understand when I first saw the movie, I was just a little kid and not yet been exposed to very much violence in movies. My parents were very protective. Anyway the scene that scared me was when Maximilian kills Dr. Alex Durant. The robot kills him by stabbing him with its spinning fan blades. It was not what I expected to happen, and had to be the most violent scene I had seen at that time. It scared the hell out me, it was about the only time I ever screamed in fear due to something I was watching on TV.
I got ya Warb. It is rare for a robot to murder a man in a kids movie.
And Mr Stardust, did you miss the blob maturation program in middle-school health class? Go ask your Dad.
Sluggo said:
I got ya Warb. It is rare for a robot to murder a man in a kids movie.
it wasn't just that it murdered him, it was how Maximilian did it. It would have been one thing if Maximilian had zapped him with a laser, but he stabbed him with that fan blade. It was a very violent death(at least, to a little a kid back then it would be ).
When I was a kid, "The Tingler" really scared me.
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Warbler said:
Sluggo said:
I got ya Warb. It is rare for a robot to murder a man in a kids movie.
it wasn't just that it murdered him, it was how Maximilian did it. It would have been one thing if Maximilian had zapped him with a laser, but he stabbed him with that fan blade. It was a very violent death(at least, to a little a kid back then it would be ).
I'm getting that to the only problem for me was the scene was wrecked by a girl called Sylvia shouting out at the top of her voice "Naughty robot, smack his bum!".
The entire audience laughed.
I found the reveal of the humanoids freaked me out more (partly because it wasn't wrecked by Sylvia's expert comic timing).
some of the gorey scenes in Poltergeist spooked me a little.
And beneath the planet of the apes when the mutants take their faces off.
Warbler said:
TheBoost said:
Bingowings said:
The Yellow Wall Paper.
True story.
I was working at a video store, closing up for the night, and sitting on the counter all of a sudden was a slightly crumbled, stapled packet of yellow paper. No one had been in the store for a good half-hour and I'd have sworn that the counter had been clear.
either you have made this up, or there must be a logical explanation. Photocopies of short stories do not just materialize out of thin air. Did you ask any of your coworkers whether the photocopy belonged to them?
If I'd made it up, there would have been a busty 19 year old and a bottle of wine in the story.
Also, I don't think most of my coworkers could read.
then you are saying the photocopy of the story materialized out of thin air, I find that difficult to believe.