Scariest Movie Ever?

[Dharma Wheel]

I don't know about scariest film ever but I consider Kobayashi Masaki's 'Kaidan' to be the most amazing and inspired ''horror'' film ever made. It is so visually stunning and is based on a great book by Lafcadio Hearn which in turn was based on Japanese folk tales.

 

[nikkipompom]

I was frightened by many films. I cannot name the scariest these days.

 

[brinny]

YouTube - The Obama Deception HQ Full length version

 

[DreamboatAnnie]

Can we keep the Political hatred off these boards? Sigh...


Halloween

 

[Klesk]

The 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre is definitely my favorite horror movie so far.

 

[Alina17]

I find "Sleepy Hollow" by Tim Burton a very scary movie. You can feel the terror in the air and the end you automatically reach for your head to make sure it is still there.

 

[SparkyMaddie]

kind of agree alina..cuz of the way the camera work was but not the scariest of all.

 

[SparkyMaddie]

jaws,yeah especially before ya go swimming ya think of it

 

[CrystalBrooke]

The Strangers was kind of creepy..had some jumpy moments for me and A Haunting in Conneticuit spooked me a bit..but I really don't find many movies scarey anymore.

 

[Saldaws]

can't remember the name...the only about the hotel room the guy stays in and basically has an acid trip/crazy visions of people and things happening. everyone who had stayed in that room in the past had died/killed themselves somehow.

 

[CrystalBrooke]

1408? Seriously? I was bored out of my mind while I watched that.

 

[Alina17]

kind of agree alina..cuz of the way the camera work was but not the scariest of all.

It was for me. And I don't get easily scarred at horrors. Especially today, when the tendency is to show as much human guts and blood possible.

 

[Witchy Bee]

Well I don't watch a lot of scary movies (because most of them are usually stupid and/or predictable). But the scariest movie I ever saw was The Grudge. The movie serious freaked me out.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

"The Ring", hands down. I'm not even remotely scared by the average slasher-type of horror movie, where masked madmen kill screaming teenagers with lots of artificial gore. But "The Ring" - ah, that one appeals to the dark corners of your subconscious, playing upon subconscious fears, grating on your nerves until they snap. I still remember the commentary of the girls sitting in the line in front of me, after the movie was over:

Girl 1: "Oh my, I really need to watch a romantic comedy now!"
Girl 2: "Lucky you, I need a therapist!"

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

I find "Sleepy Hollow" by Tim Burton a very scary movie. You can feel the terror in the air and the end you automatically reach for your head to make sure it is still there.

In Germany (which is VERY sensitive with regards to violence in film, normally), "Sleepy Hollow" received the local equivalent of a PG13-rating ("Ab 12"), rather than "Ab 16". I like Tim Burton's style - but scary? It was more like tension than terror, hoping for the potential victims to escape while knowing that they won't make it.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

he latter, is it really based on real events?
Cos that's just downright scary.
I couldn't sleep properly for days.

"Based on" is a bit of a stretch, but yes, it was somewhat inspired by the case of Anneliese Michel - a bitter testimony to what happens when religious fanatics get their hands on a person suffering from mental illness, and are free to perform their rituals on them to the point of death. IT didn't even end with the poor girl's death. First, the parents exhumed the body, as a Carmelite nun claimed that she had received a godly vision, showing her that the body hadn't decomposed at all - which was supposed to prove that the exorcists were right. However, the body had decomposed normally, as could be expected.

Today, Michel's grave in Klingenberg am Main remains a place of pilgrimage for many Catholics who consider Anneliese Michel a devout believer who experienced extreme sufferings to assist departed souls in purgatory.

A much truer version of events (although significantly less scary, naturally) is the film Requiem.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

The audio tapes taken during Anneliese's exorcism (along with the photos) are REALLY scary, though. After seeing/hearing them, you really do understand how those people back then could end up believing she was possessed...

YouTube - Anneliese Michel Exorcism audio tapes (Long Version)

 

[Alina17]

In Germany (which is VERY sensitive with regards to violence in film, normally), "Sleepy Hollow" received the local equivalent of a PG13-rating ("Ab 12"), rather than "Ab 16". I like Tim Burton's style - but scary? It was more like tension than terror, hoping for the potential victims to escape while knowing that they won't make it.

I don't know about ratings in Germany. But scary doesn't mean blood and guts, it means terror. And I find decapitation the scariest way to die. Plus, Tim Burton makes fine horror movies, unlike the present tendencies, but I'm too tired and bored to insist on the subject.

 

[Truffle]

1408? Seriously? I was bored out of my mind while I watched that.

jon cusak dude..this movie never got going for me or made sense and sometimes they take stephen kings books and ruin them. i dazed out on this one.

 

[Truffle]

The Exorcism of Emily Rose left me freaked out for days ...

LOL> Shadowcat, it made me laugh. we're all so different! it's cool though.