I am looking for something that will make me jump out of my seat, and make me sleep with all the lights on.

The Hills Have Eyes

When a Stranger Calls (1979)

Phantasm

28 Days Later

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (( very gory - was not for me ))

The Omen

The Exorcist

Click to view attachmentClick to view attachmentFor me, THE EXORCIST, was the scariest of them all. Sound effects, helped a great deal . .

LOVE, the BAD SEED . . . not really 'horror,' but it IS disturbing, and haunting!
the original HALLOWEEN, isn't bad . . . But, truly . . . let's tell it like it is . . . NOTHING beats, MOMMIE DEAREST.

Go read Rasputin's post on the FBI profiler in Talk about Life. There's a crime in there that's pretty graphic and contains a Wham song that's been in my head all afternoon.

There's a Thai horror flick I saw at the Tribeca festival a few years ago called "The Eye" that was pretty good.

The original B&W 1968 George A. Romero version of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.



The 1959 French B&W flick, LES YEUX SANS VISAGE.



1973's DON'T LOOK NOW with Donald Sutherland.



HENRY T: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER



Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER





Are you REALLY serious about something that will horrify you to your very toenails, and never leave you ever-ever-ever? Go to the website http://www.ogrish.com and watch some of the REAL beheading videos of American citizens. What you see will fry your brain, but the soundtrack-- what you hear-- will curdle your blood forever. And I mean it.

Second The Exorcist. Couldnt sleep well for a week. And The Shining, I had to turn off the tape at times to get up and walk around the room!

The witch trilogy from Dario Argento....SUSPIRIA, INFERNO and TENEBRE. Very artsy, very scary movies...here are the theatrical trailers....

Suspiria - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni6HTd41pKw

Inferno - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEMQyuWf7V4

Tenebre - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LBD7CNh0g


Truly creepy movies. I warn you though, there is some gore here.

Here's an INCREDIBLE scene from Suspiria....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6zJGUUiG0c

'putin, I have been to ogrish, but never have I LISTENED, to the tracks . . . btw: the Sharon Tate crime / scene, autopsy photos are no fun, either.

THE RING (I'll never be able to look at a fuzzy tv screen again...)

I'm always surprised by what scares folks.
I don't care to watch movies about demons or possession, mostly because I do believe people can be possessed...and I don't like to ponder on the subject too much.
Still...I am a horror movie fanatic...not to be confused with slasher movies, which have their place in the movie-world, I suppose...and thrillers, which I do like, but don't usually have 'monsters' in them.
It has been a long time since I was truly scared by a movie, but "The Ring" (the first) was one I viewed while my husband was working the night shift...and it left me very unsettled.
Back when I was still a 'kid'...and I saw "Dawn of the Dead" and "The Howling" (the first and ONLY, as far as I am concerned)...these movies scared me...mostly because of the cannabalism...and the gore.

I don't think movies like "Suspiria" and the like would scare me. Just viewing the trailers and clip nearly drove me over the edge from being terribly annoyed.
I guess I don't get "artsy".

Click to view attachmentJust remembered, another GOOD ONE!! The ORIGINAL, DIABOLIQUE. Simone Signoret, stars. The conclusion is a real, spine tingler. Thrilling, from start to finish.

I can't believe no one mentioned "Psycho". I coudn't take a shower for a long time after that one.

And after "Diabolique" I coudn't take a bath. PU

Click to view attachmentClick to view attachmentYes, frangipani . . . we know.

Miss Ellen, I don't dig slasher or in your face kind of horror movies. But I highly recommend "Eyes Without a Face" and "Carnival of Souls" (which I own and can lend you).

The Tenant by Roman Polanski is weird and unsettling. It might not make you jump out of your chair, but you might think about it a lot after you watch it.

I've never seen "Eyes Without a Face", but the Billy Idol song (with the same title,) is one of my all-time favorite songs !

Guess not....

And I so rarely use sarcasm.
Hunh.
That was good. Sarcasm begets sarcasm. That's a new one. *rolling eyes*

Ahhh...sometimes it's so refreshing...to have inferred that one is a 'lowbrow'... *chuckling*

I have to say that I'm a "tub" person because of PSYCHO. Alfred Hitchcock did a great thing with that movie! I've worked through it enough to take showers if I can see through the glass! It's been lots of years though!!

I also thought that The Exorcist was one of the most frightening because.........I believe in the dark side....


I don't ever usuall go to horror movies. Way too much reality for me.

I'm not a slasher or demonic movie buff, but here are a couple of films that definitely had me on edge:

-- The Deep (undersea thriller, wildly tense)
-- Poltergeist (eeeeeeek!)

Deliverance.

I always thought that "Deliverance" was a western of some sort...lol! That shows how much I know. What is Deliverence about? Now I'm curious...

The following suggestion is a thriller but rather "horrific" and likely one of the scariest films I've ever seen.



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/

The 1988 DUTCH film is "The Vanishing" ("Spoorloos") directed by George Sluizer and stars Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu and Gene Bervoets.


The Exorcist scares me ... I have tried watching it several times and barely make it through the first 30 minutes. The film terrifies me - I can't watch it!

Storm of the Century, Silence of the Lambs.

The Descent,a British movie and women based too!
The same director made Dog Soldiers also great.

The Exorcist disappointed me. I heard so much about it and when I finally watched it,sort of went OK when is the the scary bit?

A totally brilliant movie with George C Scott,The Changeling.

I have to say blood and gore do not frightened me at all.

For fun you really should watch the Vincent Price/Roger Corman Edgar Allen Poe's from the early sixties.

An Aussie movie Wolf Creek semi-based on a real serial killer.

The Haunting, from the early 60s, with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom. A wonderful, atmospheric, disturbing haunted house movie. No blood and guts or slasher stuff though. I have to admit I'm a little obsessed by this movie.

SPOILER ALERT for parts of 'The Omen', 'The Exorcist' and 'The Changeling' (below)

Thank you all for your suggestions! Some of those movies I have seen but many I haven't. I just love a good scary movie.

Some of my faves: The Blair Witch Project, The Ring, The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, The Shining, The Omen (original), The Others, 28 Days Later, The Tenant, The Changeling, The Haunting of Hill House (the original, not the remake with Liam Neeson, which was dopey and not scary at all). I prefer a creepy story to one with blood and guts and a knife wielding killer chasing people around. Three of my favorite scary movie moments:

1) When the nanny hangs herself and when the giraffes at the zoo run away from Damien in 'The Omen'. Also when they dig up the boy's real mother and it is a jackal. FREAKED me OUT.
2) When Regan speaks English backwards in 'The Exorcist' and speaks in multiple voices at the SAME TIME- that got me worse than her head turning around. Also when the words 'help me' appear on her abdomen.
3) In 'The Changeling' when George C. Scott throws that ball into the river, then drives home, opens the front door, and that same ball comes bouncing down the staircase of the dark empty house!!! EEEEEEK!

Susan, yes I would like to borrow 'Carnival of Souls' sometime, thank you for the offer! I will send you an email.

Rosemary's Baby scared the hell out of me.
Single White Female was really scary too.

Oh, I've seen that. A blind girl who has an eye operation, right? I like Asian horror movies. Ringu and the Grudge are good too.

One I was very scared of when I was a kid was Hush..Hush, Sweet Charlotte, but I'm not sure it would scare an adult.

I have just seen two of the best horror flicks ever.

The Decent. This movie freaked me right out. Without giving the movie away all I will say is that the sport which these women partake is absolutely insane!!! I cannot believe people actually do this for fun. This movie is so well done and will keep you on the edge of your seat. I screamed a few times in the theatre.

The Hills Have Eyes. A total creep fest.

"Don't Look Now" really bothered me. Its creepiness stayed with me a long time.

I don't see horror movies. I am too easily disturbed by the evening news.

Huge 2nd. A disturbingly creepy, hair raising, horrific tale... I categorically refuse to ever see it again. It's that good.

Elizabeth, "Spurlos", the originial dutch (or was it belgian) version is so terribly scary! I remember it very lividly.

I second 28 days later and i'd like to recommend a korean film "Say Yes", another japanese "The spiral" ("Uzumaki") and the original 0-3 "Ringu" series (japanese versions), "Dark Water" (by the same author as "Ringu").
Everytime i wash my long dark hair i love to frighten people with the "Ringu"-pose... ;-P


All together i find asian horrorstories so much more scaring than slashers and on... they have a subtleity (sp?) that freezes my blood. The cultural background deals a lot with spirits and ghosts so i suppose that's the reason... there are some other but i cannot recall the titles at the moment. There was one called "Dumplings" also, a chinese or korean film. And there was one with ayoung couple that commited suiceide together... if i could only remember the name. this one was very cool and scary but no slashers here...

The most scary american films i saw were "Wrong turn" and "Blair witch project 1".

Of course Psycho and The birds are one of a kind... Vertigo etc. pp. but these areno REAL horror movies for me, more kind of psycho-thrillers.

Have i mentioned that i am an absolute CSI-Series addict? I LOVE them! I like best Las Vegas and Miami of course but i do also watch NY and Navy CIS.

Oooh, I shuddered just at reading the title. It terrified me, too, and I haven't watched it again.

Oh, i forgot to mention something special, if you're into werewolves don't miss "Gingersnaps" 1-3. These are canadian productions and i LOVE them, esp. the 2nd one that plays in colonial times.

I'll second and third Carnival of Souls. The Sixth Sense disturbed me. For horror with a hoot, all of the Final Destination movies, bloody, so be forwarned. The Exorcist was truly frightening to me, I had to see it without hearing too much about it for the full effect. Don't know if you would consider, The Birds, a horror story, but , When I first saw it, I was frightened to sleep alone....

I don't watch many horror movies and hate graphic violence, but I'll second Nubka and say The Ring, for a good, totally creepy, leave the lights on sort of movie with a great atmosphere.

The author of the novel DELIVERANCE, the American poet James Dickey, was my paternal grandmother's (her maiden name: Mary Dickey) uncle.



My father said that James Dickey always wanted to be remembered for his poetry, not this Ozark shocker. Oh well!

I have two movies to add.

Well, one isn't really a horror movie. It's based on something that really happened, although it's speculative...
That one is "Open Water".
I watched it...and I was shaking by the time it ended...and I shook for three hours, until I finally went to the medicine cabinet and took an Ativan.
But, then, I have a real fear of being in water that is dark and I can't see in...and, of course, there's my fear of sharks...and being abandoned...and drowning...

The other one is "White Noise".
This one put tingles on my spine...and that is probably because I have actually taped EVP, by accident...and that was even scarier.

Open Water was indeed creepy. With no special effects (really) it was creepier than alot of other pictures. The end left me breathless (really)

Catie, I haven't seen Open Water! So glad you brought it to my attention . . . I remember how eerie the scene was, in Postman Always Rings Twice, when Lana Turner and John Garfield swam out as far as possible into the black ocean waters, at night . . . in order for Garfield to prove his love to Lana. She was too exhausted to swim back to shore. It was up to Garfield, to help. Or, else . . .