The Five Scariest Movies

[peach]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:28pm

In the spirit (pun mildly intended) of getting ready for Halloween, name five movies that genuinely scared you. Mine are

1. The Exorcist

2. The Changeling

3. The Shining

4. The Blair Witch Project (I know people say it's lame, but I saw this in the movies the night it opened and I was genuinely freaked!)

5. Gigli


Discuss.


Boo.

Updated On: 10/21/05 at 04:28 PM

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:30pm

The original Halloween is the scariest movie I've ever seen.

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:30pm

Signs
Poltergeist
The Excorcist
The Sixth Sense
The Amityville Horror (Both versions.)

[Aigoo]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:32pm

I hear the Omen's pretty scary. >_>

The Manchurian Candidate's generally freaky.

Updated On: 10/21/05 at 04:32 PM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:33pm

um, we just had a thread exactly like this maybe 3 weeks ago.....

[WOSQ]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:34pm

The Haunting, the 1963 version NOT the remake, is the single most terrifying movie I have ever seen, and there is not a drop of blood anywhere.

Julie Harris, Clare Bloom, Richard Johnson and Russ Tamblyn.

Who needs four more?

[peach]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:37pm

Was there another thread about scary movies? If so, sorry 'bout the repost. I must have missed it - searched first, but nothing came up.

EDIT: And here you go...seek (using every possible variation of a word) and ye shall find. Here is the earlier thread...

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=off&thread=870507
Updated On: 10/21/05 at 04:37 PM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 4:46pm

WOSQ, I couldn't agree more - a truly horrifying film - one of my all-time favorites.

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 5:29pm

Halloween
Night of the Living Dead (original version)
The Exorcist
Audition
Session 9

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 5:41pm

Far From the Matt_G Crowd

The Wreck of the Mary Deaere Ethel

Baddadnpa at Black Rock

Duck Soup

Torn CurtainUp2

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 12:50am

So, Im watching The Exorcism of Emily Rose... alone..... and I think I have lost my mind.

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 12:55am

Session 9
The Haunting (1963)
Black Christmas
The Changeling
Halloween
The Ring

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 1:18am

The Ring is without a doubt the scariest movie I have ever seen. I love it though.

Others:
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Exorcist (ugh)
- The Grudge (which probably wasn't even a good movie, but I sat through the entire thing with my hands over my eyes cuz the images were frightening)
- Urban Legends (yeah I'm pretty easy to scare...)

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:31pm

night of the living dead- def
Manhunter

[tacos are great]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 2:11am

The Ring. Man, I got so much **** for yelling out at the theater because of that...well, *that* scene. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. I still get teased because of that.

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 2:36am

lol, don't remind me of *that* scene!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 3:59am

Alien & Aliens

[Celestial Entropy]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 5:34am

1. The Exorcist... I simply cannot watch that movie all the way through.
2. Amityville... the original one... scared me pretty bad.
3. House on Haunted Hill... the old B&W version.
4. Psycho... the original
5. Blair Witch Project. When I first saw it, I didn't think much of it and didn't get the hype... but that night it played on my psyche and when I went out to my car, that sat near some woods, a branch brushed against me and I screamed bloody murder, knowing Blair Witch had gotten me. :| I'm an astronomer and when it's late at night and I am working outside at the scope, sometimes I look out towards the trees and all I think is "Is that a Blair Witch cross hanging on that branch?" LoL To make matters worse, moving to the DC area didn't help much because now I live only an hour away from Burkittsville. Oh how it fans the flames of my Blair Witch Paranoia, on a slow night at the telescope. LoL

[TheHumanTorch]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 6:45am

definately The Shining... that movie freaked me out

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:09am

1. The Shining
2. Halloween
3. The Exorcist
4. The Birds (SO MUCH scarier to me than Psycho)
5. Candyman

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:26am

The scariest movie, to me, is the Exorcist. I have yet to watch it because the pictures from it get to me so bad that I used to have anxiety attacks thinking about it.

Honestly, Pet Semetary is a badly made movie but if you finish the book and then almost immediatly watch the movie it is pretty damn scary...

[Elphaba]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 11:02am

the Shining, hands down.

the original Night of the Living Dead now just seems silly, and gross .......but in its day it freaked everyone out.....

'I'm coming to get you Ba-bara"

[Georgeanne]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 11:06am

Session 9 was a psychologically freaky movie. My friends and I watched it the night before school began last year, ha.

[littleredridinghood]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:13pm

What was *that* scene in The Ring (actually, it's probably a bad idea to remind me of it...)? For me, there were like 30 of *that* scene. I hate horror movies.

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:19pm

Elphapa, i didnt think anything scared you! :)