The scariest movie you've ever seen was...

[Phantas33]

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)

Event Horizon (1997)

OMG How could I forget "Event Horizon" ?? That was one freaking scary film, damn it. Probably the scariest I've seen in terms of sci-fi like horror O.O

[BFizzle]

Sinister. I was literally screaming.

[zoltanspawn]

When I was a child I saw The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T on television. It gave me my first sense of the horrors of infinity. It is supposed to be a technicolor farce melding Dr. Seuss with live-action, but it induced in me a dread of wrong geometry, as you find in Lovecraft.

Martyrs scared and disturbed me big time. My idea of "scared" is less about seeing frightening visuals and more about things fucking me up psychologically. Hate that film.

Fucking the viewer up psychologically has become a genre unto itself with horror, especially the new euro-shock. I'm on the fence with them. Some, like High Tension , I think will stand the test of time. Others will degrade as Wes Craven's Last House on the Left did. I've got Inside in my queue right now, but haven't added Martyrs or Frontiers.

There's something to be said about the difference between scary movies, and upsetting ones.

[Croynan]

The Exorcist - i stupidly sat there and watched the entire film but i did not want to ruin things for the person i was with. Little did i know that the film was a key to his personality.

The Shinning - shame on Stanley Kubrick.

eM/

[bankside]

Oh, here we go! I had completely forgot about Jacob's Ladder.

[JWaggy]

The classics:





Ones that surprised me most recently:

[BFizzle]

^ Shit, Insidious is the one I meant. I haven't even seen Sinister.

[Phantas33]

Strangers is waaaaaay too slow for me. I tried sitting through it, but it couldn't capture me at all.

[BelovedEnigma]

I don't find horror movies all that scary anymore. The only time I've had nightmares/couldn't sleep because of a movie was when I was 10yrs old and my parents were watching some werewolf movie/show. All I remember was when they transformed they took their upper and lower jaws and pulled apart their faces and the werewolf came out that way. It wasn't drawn out, one moment they're fine the next < rip > they're werewolfs. It still freaks me out a bit today, but I guess thats what you get when you peek through your fingers when your parents tell you to cover your eyes.

[derelictdarrel]

I find horror movies pretty cheezy most of the time. I do have a catergory of movies reserved in the freaky/disturbing catergory.

human centepede II final sequence- I couldnt finish this one, the main character made me sick to my stomach.

A serbian film- ...yeeah... not for family viewing.

Blair witch project- The idea and execution was well done. the first of it's kind.

Hostel I&II- they're pretty bad movies.

[alphacock]

this movie made me lol in the theater because of the audience lol

For me, it was Drag Me To Hell:



It definitely wasn't the best horror movie I've ever seen, but at a few points it scared me so badly that I had to turn it off (which I haven't had to do with a movie since I was 13).

What about you?