Here at the Science Museum of Minnesota we just finished working on a exhibit about the science of fear called Goosebumps. On the exhibit website there is an interesting poll where you can vote for the scariest movie ever. I picked the Shining from their list what would you pick?
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It didn't make your list, but I have to say the Mothman Prophecies was the scariest movie I have ever seen! It combined my two criteria for terrifying: 1. evil supernatural creatures and 2. based on true events. The first 10 minutes of The Ring are a close second.
It was a toss-up for me between HALLOWEEN and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. I voted for the latter but then realized that at least you could kill the zombies with a shot to the head, whereas Michael Myers seemed immortal. Not to mention the fact that the mask Michael wore in the film was (and I'm not joking here) a William Shatner (aaaaiiiiiiiiiieeeee!) mask the film producers had purchased at a local shop, and doctored up a bit. Now THAT'S scary.
A Shatner mask? That's so cool.
I've always thought that the thing to consider with zombies, MDR, is that, even though they can be stopped with a serious blow to the head, they're everywhere! It's never just one zombie, it's always a whole world of zombies. One zombie wandering around is kind of sad, but thousands are something to take seriously. And I do - any movie ending with "OF THE DEAD" has a special place in my heart.
All that said, however, I'm a big fan of The Shining. I spent about an hour once trying to convince an 8-year-old friend of the family to walk into the kitchen and start screaming "Red-rum! Red-rum! Red-rum!" at my mother. Unfortunately, it turned out that the 8-year-old just wasn't cool enough for that.
it is scarey huh?
When I saw Prince of Darkness when I was 14 that was one of the scariest movies I have ever seen - and the memory of being totally scared has prevented me from seeing the movie again, because if I see it now it'll look like a cheesy 80's horror film. 28 Days Later is also a good scare, but that's mostly because zombies that run are unexpected and far more likely to eat you than zombies that shuffle. And neither are listed. I voted for The Ring. The faces of the deceased were creepy!
I'd vote for anything by Michael Moore. The movies themselves are more funny than scary; what's terrifying is that people actually take them seriously. ;-)
(As for real horror movies, I don't watch them. Never understood the concept of being scared and/or disgusted as a form of entertainment.)
I think just about any Congressman or CEO gets pretty scared when they see Michael Moore approaching with a camera and microphone.
I would say the scariest movie would have to be "The Exorcist" when it came out..
i think the scariest movie around would be any kind of zombie movie relating to 28 days later that has a good story line and is pretty gorey with lots of zombie violence that does not look fake but seem gorey with reality. that was a rather long comment but i have more. i mean if you sincerely think about it, zombies are pretty **** horrifying. im not trying to state the obvious but infected humans with shat up faces, unnatural craving for blood, and seemingly able to infect anyone nearby with a bite can **** at night. and yes i agree with the comment above saying that zombies that run are a whole lot unfair/scarier than ones who insist to make us bored out of our minds with baby steps. if our world was infected with zombies and our lives were to end no matter what, i would say oh wtf and place a set of zombie teeth on my neck screaming '' this is gonna be interesting.'' other than that i was pretty dissapointed to see that there werent much zombie movies to choose from but i can understand that other people have different opinions. one last thing, lots o` zombies beats exorcists. zombies would eat them.
hostel is pretty gory...and tense. im not sure though, you should give "ichi the killer" a try :)
Silence of the lambs. Such a creepy movie!
Oh yeah, I heard a clip from the Exorcist this morning, THAT is scary. Also scary in a Sci-Fi way is Alien. Aliens is great for the action, but Alien is a great scary movie.
Time has a list of scary movies posted and what's interesting is #25.
When I was growing up the Lyceum in Duluth would run triple features on Saturdays so you could spend all day watching b-grade movies for a dollar. A couple of horror films from that period have stuck with me ever since. The first was THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD which was about some kind of giant sea mollusk (mutated by atomic testing) that would suck all the moisture out of it's victims leaving only a severely shriveled corpse and a lot of radioactive slobber everywhere. For the life of me I couldn't remember the title of the film until a couple of years ago when I saw it mentioned in a book. I tracked down a VHS copy and watched it again. Overall, it wasn't quite as scary as I remember but it still had its moments.
The second film was THE PREMATURE BURIAL. This was Roger Corman's classic retelling of an E. A. Poe story and man did it scare the tar out of me. In it Ray Milland plays a guy with an unhealthy fear of being buried alive (can one have a healthy fear of it?), so he has a mausoleum built with lots of safeguards and escapes just in case he goes catatonic and is mistaken for dead. I have to say it didn't make being buried alive very appealing. I can still recall the song one of the gravediggers was whistling as they dug up the grave of some poor gal who had been buried alive, and it still makes me feel very uneasy. My mom made me take my little brother along even though I objected saying he would be too scared. However, he watched the whole thing wide-eyed while I watched it peaking through my jacket which was wrapped around my head.
Just watch 28 weeks later and i usually am not scared of movies butwoah i was scarwed
Scariest movie??? I gotta go with Brokeback Mountain...just kidding...actually it depends on the music/sound effects that do it for me. Try watching a scarey movie without the sound...and it usually ain't so scarey. Anyway, I'd go with "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." But without the chainsaw sound effects, it's just a movie about an eccentric butcher.
Ha ha! Ha!
Brokeback Mountain!! Because of the gays! Ha!
Yeah, they're scary AND funny!
Or did you mean the part where a human gets beaten to death by another human because of his sexual orientation?
hehehe for me blaiwitch project 1 is the most horrifying movie ever
I'd say the Exorcist
i found exorcist the scariest movie ever . specially the spider walk scene
Hands down The Shinning, The Exorcist, and Evil Dead… All three of these movies scared me as a kid, and they still give me goose bumps to this day!
The scariest movie I've ever seen was The Exersisium of Emily Rose.I swear I couldnt sleep that night and I actually had a nightmare about it.
Ok I already posted once but i thought about it and IT was a really freaky movie.It made me think twice about going to the circus.
i would say that they need to combine lots of scary movies and make a very scary movie the consept of being scared makes me happy and its good to watch with girls.......
childs play
I thought the House Of Wax was pretty gory !!! I was so scared the night i watched it !!!!
When I was little I saw the movie "IT" with the clown and I had dreams about it for a month. It may have also added to my adult fear of clowns.
u kno truthfully that scared me to its ok there not scary at all they jus try to be funny wen really there scared of u
Well For Me, When i was Young i watched the Exorcist, i think it was the first one, but then yea that one was scary. Gave me Night Mares for a Week. The one where she comes down the stairs on her back. That One Gives me Creep and the Chills because she looks so Scary in Bed Too with the demon inside of her or something.
And Now Today, That Movie Stills Scares Me .
The scariest movie that I have ever seen would probably be Red Rose based on the story by Stephen King.
i'd have to say one of the scariest movies i've ever seen was Poltergeist. The first time I watched this movie when I was little i couldn't sleep for 2 days. To this day it still freaks me out. A couple other good ones are the horrorfest movies, the ring, amityville horror, or the grudge.
My favorite scary movie was Bram strokers dracula.
to me i think The Fairly Haired Child. and i only saw the previews!
My favourites are the new Halloween because it really showed you how mesed up Michael Myers was. The furst Jeepers Creepers with the dark tunnel scene was really good.
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