Scariest movie you've ever seen...

[Cyclone1]

In the spirit of Halloween, let's discuss horror films, shall we?

What's your favorite scary movie and why?

I'll start.

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Here's the plot.

Three film students were given a project by their film school, so they decided to make a documentary about a legend called the Blair Witch directed by Heather Donahue. Heather and her two friends Josh and Mike left for the woods in Burkettesville, Maryland in October of 1994. They disappeared. Search parties looked for the trio for months.

In 1995, their footage was found. The movie itself is nothing more than the footage filmed by the three students. It is freaky....

Of course it's all fake, but it looks SO real. The reason I like it is because scary movies today don't try to scare you. Heck, they're not even scary. They are gory. They just try to gross you out. Not Blair Witch. It is a genuinely terrifying movie that people thought was real for a while.

It's coming on at 4:00pm today of FX if you wanna watch it. That is... 11 minutes from now.

So tell me, what's your favorite scary movie?

[Miss Mary]

Hands down, the classic of all time and coincidentally it was on cable this afternoon.......drum roll please....


PSYCHO!


Runner up would be.....drum roll please....the music alone gives me instant chills.....

THE EXORCIST!

[Cyclone1]

Oh, The Haunting was good too, but it wasn't scary. It was just a great movie.

[Tstormwatcher]

I'll have to go with the original Halloween.

[Category 5]

Snakes on a plane.

It was so bad, it gave me nightmares.

[Cyclone1]

Snakes on a plane.

It was so bad, it gave me nightmares.

Oh really? I thought that movie was horrible...

[HarlequinBoy]

Halloween, the real one.

Friday the 13th also freaked me out..

[angelwing]

When I was about 4 I saw "THe Blob" that gave me nightmares and I promised myself never to watch another horro movie, then I saw "The Exorcist" that movie FREAKED me out totally, haven't seen one since!

[Cookiely]

The movie that changed my life forever (I will not close the shower curtain if I'm alone in the house) Psycho!

The most intense edge of my seat has to go to Texas Chainsaw

The most disturbing to my psyche has to go to The Exorcist. I haven't watched it in years and tried to watch it last night and turned it off.

[tropicana]

i will admit that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie was one of the scariest for me.

[vbhoutex]

Gotta be Texas Chainsaw Massacre!!!

[Miss Mary]

I forgot about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre - I "saw" this movie at a drive-in and had my coat over my head just about the entire time. lol I had to "watch" the Exorcist the same way too. Thank goodness I had a coat at both movies! Here at home a throw pillow comes in handy....

As a result, it's been years or a decade or more since I've watched any horror movie. I need sleep and if I watch one, I can't sleep - for nights!

[HollynLA]

As for the scariest movie, probably would have to say the Exorcist so sure. But, as for the BEST (not scariest) movie, The Others, with Nicole Kidman.

[arkess7]

Salem's Lot! I remember having nightmares for a while after seeing that movie, when I was about 11 years old!

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), but another little known movie is probably even a bit worse and jarred me even more:

Cannibal Holocaust:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust

This movie is permeated by a sense of dread that is second to none from almost the very first scene, and also has some of the sickest gore of all time. The thing is that does not detract (as it often does) from the sense of dread.

Honorable Mention the Blair Witch Project; another movie like TCMC and CH that is permeated by a sense of total dread after the first couple of scenes.

[Cyclone1]

Ya know... I say I don't like gory films, but there is one movie I liked that had a LOT of gore.

An Inconvenient Truth!

<sitcom laugh track>

...

Y...ya know...

...because of Al Gore? ... ... ... <tomato throwing>

[Jinkers]

The Exorcist, that movie still scares the crap outta me

[JTD]

"It" by Stephen King was the scariest horror movie I've seen.

[JTD]

Here is a clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk

[vbhoutex]

"It" by Stephen King was the scariest horror movie I've seen.

Definitely a close 2nd to TCSM!