Posted on 10/28/2011 6:27:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Okay, we are coming into Halloween Weekend leading into Monday. I expect a whole bunch of horror movies on the tube during the next few days. So my question to you is what is the SCARIEST movie you ever saw and why?
I'll lead off by telling you the scariest movie I've seen in the past few years. I found it to be even scarier than "The Exorcist." In this case it was a movie I saw on the tube about a week ago called "The Last Exorcist." It was filmed as if it were a documentary following a Louisiana Preacher by the name of Cotton Marcus who is something of a con artist. He doesn't really believe in possession by the Devil but he will perform exorcisms because he claims the fraud will actually make people feel better. Of course, he also collects money for his phony exorcisms.
The documentary style film starts off low key but ends up with a truly frightening ending that I won't spoil by giving it away. However, the thing that scared me the most is that the 14 year-old girl, Nell Sweetzer, who was supposedly possessed by the Devil draws a picture of the cameraman getting his head chopped off. The cameraman tells the preacher that he doesn't feel comfortable being around a girl who drew such a picture of him but the preacher tries to sooth the camera guy by playing down the idea that a mere girl could harm him. From that point on, you just KNOW that the cameraman had better SPLIT that scene immediately. What really made it scary is the way the girl when demonically possessed kept focusing in her eyes on the cameraman...sometimes with a wicked smile. That really creeped me out. I have to admit that I had a hard time getting to sleep after watching this flick.
who needs scary movies when you have all those real TV ghost shows?
Man, those things totally mess with my head so I no longer watch them.
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Omen (1976)
The Changeling with George C. Scott (1980)
Possessed with Timothy Dalton (2000)
I think the scariest movie was Night of the Living Dead sometime in the 60’s when I was a teenager.
The unrealistic and negative portrayal of hunters was clearly a leftist position.
Monsters, ax murderers and ghosts don’t scare me, but the movie I found to be the most disturbing was Jack Nicholson’s “The Shining”. I think it was the complete isolation, eeriness of the hotel with no way out that was the most disturbing. I cannot even imagine being left alone in that hotel in the dead of winter with a madman and no one else around. Sometimes there’s nothing more scary than complete silence.
When I was in the 6th Grade, I saw Dr. Zhivago. It terrified me that Communists might come and take over America and we would end up living like THAT.
Funny, I was in my mid 20s, went to the theater the morning after a night of heavy duty partying. Not the movie to see with a major league hangover, creeped us out.
Saw it again later with a clean head, seemed pretty pedestrian.
Although to answer in the spirit which you intended: The Ring. I scare easy. I clutched my cat the whole time.
If you mean what gave me the most nightmares for the longest time, two fit that bill.
The Fly (Vincent Price) when I was in the 2nd grade. Yeah, well I went on Saturday afternoon with my older brother.
Mr. Sardonicus, when I was 11.
I’ve never seen the Omen or the Exorcist. I just don’t handle those possession/beast thingies well. Like Scarlet O’Hara, I was raised on belief in hell and don’t want to be anywhere near it.
It did take me several tries to watch the whole of both “Poltergeist” and “The Shining.”
The Strangers scared me badly. It was like my worst nightmare on the screen.
I love horror movies (and books), but most of them don’t scare me. The one that did scare the crap out of me was the first Nightmare on Elm Street ~ Wes Craven was a genius on that film. I did not sleep so well the night I saw that movie. I have since seen it on TV and wondered what the hell scared me so badly.
The Shining
Night of the Living Dead was scary but what is even more scary is that it was a forerunner of what a Democrat Party convention, starting John Kerry, looked like.
Sequel coming in November 2012. Hide the children, your pets, and your wallet. AAIIIIIEEE!
The election returns in November, 2008. Terrifying doesn’t begin to describe it.
The original “Alien” movie was pretty freaky when I saw it in the theater when it first came out. It was a great mash-up of genres.
My Halloween fare nowadays is more like “Young Frankenstein.”
I get scared.
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