Scariest Movie You Ever Watched

I’d say Arlington Road. It’s a not your typical pick when thinking of films that are scary. It’s a suspense thriller about domestic terrorism and it left me shook to the core, with fear and paranoia. A truly sinister film.

I meant with OP. Wait until dark not so much

It depends whether you want some mind-twisting as well.

Triangle

Let The Right One In

30 Days of Night

Alien (first viewing - once you know what happens, the impact is less traumatic)

The Stand

I'm young...ish (at least for DataLounge), at 37, and the movies that always scared the doodoo out of me were all old - Nosferatu (1922) - Max Shreck's Count Orlock literally kept me up at night, Horror of Dracula (1958) - I had to cover my eyes when Christopher Lee comes down the stairs i to the crypt after Jonathan Harker, and Night of the Living Dead (1968) - this movie probably more than any other. Funny enough, even back then, I loved these movies, and classic horror remains my favorite genre to this day...1994 is usually my cut-off year, with rare exceptions.

Even though I had read a lot about the film before I saw it in a theater, The Blair Witch Project scared the hell out of me.

It had an inherent creepiness that took me a while to shake off.

Agree with r5 about nosferatu. Also Session 9 is still very creepy and House of 1000 Corpses

When I was very, very young I saw Invaders From Mars (the original, not the crappy remake starring a cross-eyed lead actress). It terrified me as the first people to get zombified were the parents. That very rarely happens in movies from the 1950s. I spent weeks waiting for my parents to try to convert me to being a Martian.

Buy far it was Alien. There were parts where I could not look at the screen.

When I watch it now, the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is campy fun. However when I saw it as a young teen, it unnerved me and gave me nightmares.

The Wicker Man. Edward Woodward, Not Nic Cage. That thing gave me nightmares. I've never seen the Cage version, but I've heard it's awful.

The Haunting starring Julie Harris. Very Scary!

I saw Arlington Road in the theater with my best friend, and we both thought it was dull for the most part, a not super thrilling thriller, but when Joan Cusack shows up in the parking lot next to Bridge's girlfriend (maybe remembering it wrong) and the girlfriend's trying to make casual conversation with Cusack even though she's scared and Joan just...smiles at her. Not an evil smile, just sadly accepting, like "sorry, nothing personal, but I'm going to have to kill you."

I tend to avoid this genre, but Marathon Man scared me.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

When I was a little kid, the Tommyknockers mini-series scared the shit out of me. The coffins rising out of the ground in Poltergeist also freaked me the fuck out.

In my teen/adult life, nothing has probably creeped me out like the corpses in the wall on the Haunting in Connecticut. Just fuck that shit. Although Hereditary was pretty disturbing.

The Innocents (1961) (R5 would like this one).

Deliverance (1972)

Depends. In terms of tension and apprehension, probably HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. In terms of unbearable, can’t look fear, AUDITION.

THE EXORCIST is a good combination of those, but I’ve seen it so many times I know what’s coming.

R5 here - thanks for the rec, R19!

This is probably cliche, but the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. When Leatherface attacks the first guy with a hammer and then slams the door shot -- chilling without overuse of gratuitous gore/torture.

There's a film I saw a long time ago as a kid about a man disguised as a scarecrow in a field. He attacks and kills. I'm foggy about details but I think it was from the '70s. It was rather creepy.

Sounds a bit like Jeepers Creepers 2, r23, but that’s a much more recent film.

Jeepers Creepers is actually pretty scary.

R24, never saw the Jeepers Creepers sequel, but enjoyed the original with Justin Long -- saw it in theater, and yes, it was scary!

The sequel was not as good, more of a slasher/monster movie than horror.

Véronica on Netflix is a good and creepy possession thriller.

The Japanese make the scariest movies: Ju-on, Audition, Ringu.

Any movie G is in. Yeesh!

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is fucking terrifying, I was shocked at how intense it was.

Also try Black Sabbath (1963) R5. If that doesn't scare you, nothing will. The "Drop of Water" segment is certainly the scariest thing I have ever seen. Prepare to be traumatized for life!

The Innocents, Rosemary's Baby, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Arlington Road was great and prescient.

The Legend of Hell House

Starring DL favorite Roddy McDowall.

The Descent. I'm claustrophobic about tight interior places. So that made the already creepy movie almost unbearable to watch.

I don't know if it counts as horror, but I found Roadgames with Jamie Lee Curtis to be scary.

Not scary so much as so shocking to me was Funny Games. I kept thinking one of them would get away and get the upper hand.

The Haunting with Julie Harris, mentioned above, is something I love watching with friends. It always gets them. I think part of why it's so effective is that despite the great photography, jangling score and effective acting, it seems initially hokey. Then that terrible hollow booming starts and you realize there are few places you'd not rather be than a bedroom in Hill House.

The Fog was terrifying to me as a kid and is still an effective picture with a great score. Carpenter's other early films are all very solid, but The Fog is the most atmospheric.

David Lynch has frightened me more consistently than any other director, but the cocktail party in Lost Highways must be one of the most ruthlessly creepy moments in screen history.

Nightmare on Elm Street retains its power because it's a disturbing look at suburban teenage life even without Kruger.

The Shining is brilliant. A Clockwork Orange is flawed but fascinating.

Psycho and The Birds have classic sequences. Carnival of Souls is an excellent and very scary low-budget number.

Suspiria has amazing moments. Most of Argento's early films do. Fulci's Woman in a Lizard's Skin has some brilliant sequences and a nasty reveal.

Last Year at Marienbad has a shocking sequence about midway through and the whole film makes my flesh crawl.

Revulsion is another minor masterpiece.

I want a movie night with r41!

In My Skin (2002) made me faint. I hate body horror film, and there is a scene when she scraps her....Ahhh can't even finish writing about it, I fainted

The Serbian Film is sick, sick, scary sick. The loss of control the central character suffers is the worst ever.

Audition - 'deeper, deeper' - AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ichi the Killer made me cry, much as Ichi cried. I mean human tempura, just fuck off.

Megan is Missing. A lot of people HATE this movie, and it will make you feel awful after watching it, but its message is pretty damn effective.

Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer.

Evita was so horrifying I ran out of the theatre after 25 minutes.

The Ring. I saw it when I was alone at home late at night.

Seven is disturbing torture porn that I wouldn't want to see again.

Showgirls.

I had to cover my eyes when I saw Nomi's jiggling pussy when she kicked the shit out of Andrew Carver.

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