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The title pretty much said it all, but I'm gonna precise anyway : which movie really scared you when you watched it?
The scariest movie I ever saw was a 1997 science-fiction movie, called "Event Horizon", with Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburn. I went to see it on theater with some of my best friends (really big fellows, btw), and we got out with pearl white faces. This movie really pinned us to our chairs, one of my friends even admitted that at one time he gazed away from the screen, to avoid seeing what was happening...
Having bought the DVD some years ago, I admit it's less scary on TV, but it still retains some frightening power.
Well, it's your turn now...

This post has been edited by Mr Thou on 14th October 2003 20:57

i cant really think of a movie that really FRIGHTENED me, but i can say that there was one time when i was at my friends house and i was a little up in the clouds, if you dig what im saying, and he popped in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and some of the stuff in that movie was like freaking me out. the hitch hiker being all freaky like made me hide under a pillow and when leatherface put the girl up on the meat hook, i was bugging out. i watched it the next day with my drummer when i was in a straight frame of mind, and i just couldnt understand what it was about that movie that got under my skin when i was high. i guess it was all the screaming.

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You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...

The only thing to make me jump was the part in Signs when the alien stuck his hand under the pantry door, reaching for Mel. I saw it coming, and it still made me jump.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

there isn't a movie that has necessarily "scared" me. There are movies that have, however, freaked me out. "Signs" freaked me out a little... "They" was a little weird.... "The Ring" was also a little creepy, but now it's just more of a thinker movie whenever I watch it. I was scared of "Chucky" when I saw it first, but that's because I was like 8 or something.

I will admit, there was one movie that completely horrified the life right out of me... and that movie was that Spice Girls movie, "Spice World".. I had nightmares for weeks.

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

Quote (Sabin @ 14th October 2003 21:32)

I will admit, there was one movie that completely horrified the life right out of me... and that movie was that Spice Girls movie, "Spice World".. I had nightmares for weeks.

I'm glad I turned off the TV when the commercials for that came on!

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

Quote (therandyrhoads @ 14th October 2003 17:03)

i cant really think of a movie that really FRIGHTENED me, but i can say that there was one time when i was at my friends house and i was a little up in the clouds, if you dig what im saying, and he popped in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and some of the stuff in that movie was like freaking me out. the hitch hiker being all freaky like made me hide under a pillow and when leatherface put the girl up on the meat hook, i was bugging out. i watched it the next day with my drummer when i was in a straight frame of mind, and i just couldnt understand what it was about that movie that got under my skin when i was high. i guess it was all the screaming.

I agree with you, and the first time I saw it I was in your state. The main thing that freaked me out about that movie is that it is based on a true story. Even freakier, it occured about 20-30 min from where I live. The family had been in-breeding for generations and were all sorts of screwed up. That is why I consider Leatherface to be the scariest movie villain of all time.

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"My impersonation of an ordinary person was flawless." - Neal

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

wow i always knew it was based on a true story, but never heard much about it. the inbreeding really does explain a lot though with the way the people were. tell me, have you ever been to or near the house where it all took place?

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You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...

Acutally the reason I know it is nearby is because a friend of mine lives within two miles of the house. I have not actually seen it with my own eyes, but a couple others have. Another little tidbit,

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the girl who survived in the original actually died about two weeks later, her mind just couldn't handle what she had been through.

This post has been edited by Hanyou on 15th October 2003 22:15

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"My impersonation of an ordinary person was flawless." - Neal

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

"Evil Dead" was pretty scary but movies don't really scare me. The only time I was really scared was when I saw the original "Friday the 13th" when I was like 6. I didn't watch a scary movie after that for years.

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U sir R a n00b >:-( - Cactuar

The only things that has ever been on TV or in Cinemas that remotley frightend me?

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Germany 1 England 5 AAAAAARGH!

*gulp* or worse... 1966

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STUPID RUSSIAN LINESMAN! THERES NO WAY THAT WAS OVER, YOU COMMUNIST MUPPET!

or, most horrifying of all

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Lisbon 1967- Celtic win European Cup

they dont shut up about it either...

but hey, thats jsut little ol' scottish, St. Mirren me.

Films ahve freaked me out before. Like Saving Private Ryan.

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when the 20mm cannon fired on the troops on the tank, I thoguht that it wasnt possible for any weapon to actually take someoens head off like that.
then i found out it was.
oh, and the fact WW2 seems to have been fought entirely by American Actors

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"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Movies don't scare me anymore, but when I was smaller, the movie "It" had me scared of clowns for months on end. The first time I was "A Nightmare On Elm Street" I was too scared to go to bed.

House Of A 1000 Corpses was one hell of a scary movie, I wasn't freaked out or anything, but I knew from watching it, that it would scare the pants off a lot of people.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

Hey I've haven't been here for a while but.........

The movie that really freaked me out was when I was 4 years old i saw Ernest Scared Stupid and I had nightmares for months.

Other than that I saw the Shining and it was scary. Nothing now scares me but before i was the worst movie watcher there was.

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"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

I don't find many movies scary, but the occasional Outer Limits episode will scare the crap outta me.

This post has been edited by Neal on 18th October 2003 20:50

A.I. - Artificial intelligence. It's an old movie and not supposed to be a scary genre, but just the idea of having "a robot who can feel" freaks me out. I hated stories like that. Not just the setting, but the flow of that story (like how some weird alient/machine dudes after 1000 remade his mom with her DNA ) this movie's worst than a pinokio

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The Shining, and the 1rst Texas Chainsaw Massacre were scary like you guys've said, and so was the 1rst Night of the Living Dead, but if you want a real scary one then see Jacob's Ladder. That movie will send you to the looney bin (but in a good way).

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When I was really young I was scared of ET running in the corn field yelling while running away from the government.

Quote (Bismark87 @ 18th October 2003 18:31)

A.I. - Artificial intelligence. It's an old movie and not supposed to be a scary genre, but just the idea of having "a robot who can feel" freaks me out. I hated stories like that. Not just the setting, but the flow of that story (like how some weird alient/machine dudes after 1000 remade his mom with her DNA  ) this movie's worst than a pinokio

Yeah, those kinds of movies bother me too. Not really scare, just bother. It seems like our progressions of artificial intelligence technology are a step towards replacing humans altogether. Those movies are just a reminder.

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Quote (Ejoty @ 19th October 2003 02:42)

The Shining, and the 1rst Texas Chainsaw Massacre were scary like you guys've said, and so was the 1rst Night of the Living Dead, but if you want a real scary one then see Jacob's Ladder. That movie will send you to the looney bin (but in a good way).

Funny you should mention Jacob's Ladder : I haven't seen it myself, but I've been told it inspired a great deal of the atmosphere and the textures used for Silent Hill (wich remain in my mind as the scariest game ever).
Since you saw it, can you tell me what you think of this thought?

The Ring got me the first time. It wasn't that I was actually scared, it was more that afterwards I kept turning around and expecting to see something.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

The Ring scared me a lot because I was just expecting it to be the most awful movie ever, so I was terrified before I even turned the movie on. Heh. Signs was creepy until the last scene, which ruined the entire movie. The part that freaked me out the most, though, was the birthday video. The Haunted was lame but still freaked me out. I get scared pretty easily, but I love it.

Oh, and What Lies Beneath was really good just because so many parts were unexpected.

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

I will never look at a snowy t.v. the same way again thanks to the ring.
A movie that I really loved for scaring me to peices when I was younger was
Wishmaster (and now I own the trilogy, and let me tell you, all three are pretty damn scary)

I was wondering if anyone saw "Seven". That movie definatly freaked me out. Especially with the cop..oh man...

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Okay, but there was a goat!

Seven was creepy, but not really all that scary for me. The only part I jumped at was the guy in the bed. Child's Play really freaked me out when it first came out. However I watch in now and laugh, it's a doll...just kick it.

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"My impersonation of an ordinary person was flawless." - Neal

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

Try watching the House on Haunted Hill in the middle of the night with all of the lights off, alone,

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and watch the part where the girl with the video camera goes off on her own. When she suddenly realizes she's not alone, turns around, and finds a creepy looking ghost staring right at her, and then rush at her with alarming speed, I almost wet my pants every time I watch it.

I'm normally not freaked out or scared of any part of any movie, but dayam, when I watched that 1 part totally alone in the dark, I felt I had to turn the lights on.

This post has been edited by TheEvilEye on 20th October 2003 05:37

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When I was really young I was scared of ET running in the corn field yelling while running away from the government.

LOL i agree with you, i wasn't pleasent when the new one came out.
How is the new one differ? is it a sequel or remade version?....or is it not new at all?

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I will be there...

actually, ET was rather creepy when i first started seeing it. i was young and i never finished watching it. i still havnt...

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Shhhh! I'm trying to hear the voices!

ET bugged the hell out of me when i was younger. So did Carry, and other child/pyshco/alien/goverment conspiracy movies. It was really disturbing. Especially after I first saw the movie "GingerSnaps". Sweet merciful moose that movie traumatized me towards girls and sex for a good long time.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The first time I saw it I was very young and got so terrified! I didn't dare to go to bed! Nowadays, when I'm older I watch it without any problems, but at that time, it was so scary.

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there arnt many movies that can scare me. now horror movies are almost comedies to me. but back in the day i would say that the first nightmare on elm street was pretty scary and still bothers me today because if you die in a dream and see it before you wake up you do die in real life. but thats about the only one that still gets to me.

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A hero is somone who steps up when everyone else backs down.

Your greatest adversary hides inside your mirror.

A little fact about night of the living dead. They were eating raw cuts of beef. The things actors will do.... I bet they all became vegetarians.

I know it's spam, just thought I'd mention it. Sorry.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Ditto on the ET votes...but I watched IT when I was six (what was my mom thinking?) and it got to me..so did Michael Jackson's "Thriller". I dunno if it was the zombies that really scared me when I was young or if it was Michael Jackson...

On a more serious note I haven't seen a decent scary movie since It (it may have been the age factor, but I haven't seen "Signs" or "The Ring"..I'll have to check 'em out)

EDIT: EvilEye's post reminded me that House on Haunted Hill freaked me out when it first came out.

This post has been edited by The_Pink_Nu1 on 29th October 2003 04:32

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