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.
Whoa!
I don’t usually get scared of movies but The Blair Witch Project really scared me. What was scary about it was that a lot of the noises they heard in the woods were things that you might just hear in the woods. Most times you know that they’re probably just animals but what IF? And it doesn’t help that our house butts up against a pretty thick wood. I was afraid to keep my windows open after that movie.
Plus the fact that it was shot like a documentary was freaky too.
And then the element of a crazy person or whatever it was out there was the icing on the cake.
The Haunting (of Hill House) - 1963 version. Lots of bad dreams as a kid thanks to that movie.
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An Inconvenient Truth.... By Al Gored.
Watched it by myself, home alone late one night and was just petrified. Do yourself a favor though and watch the unedited director's cut. Some time later I watched the edited "happy ending" American cut and much of the impact was lost as the original (and thus edited for American audiences) final scene was one of the most chilling parts of the film.
Oops, I meant to reply to #6.
I did see the Exorcist (at the theater when it was released) several times. I was dating several different women at the time and as fate would have it, somehow took each to see it.
First time was pretty spooky, second time was moderately entertaining, third time I could hardly stay awake.
“The Haunting’, the one from the early ‘60s, not the crummy recent remake. Really moody. Watch it with the lights off.
We just had this thread a couple days ago...
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I’m going back to the 40s here.
“The Beast With Five Fingers.”
I couldn’t sleep for days.
Henry. - scared the hell out me.
“Two On A Guillotine”...saw it when I was 8. Slept with my arms over my head for a year so they couldn’t fit my head into the slot.
Then there’s the original “The Haunting”...when that arm comes out of the wall we all jumped into my mom and dad’s bed!!
I haven’t worked up the guts to see “The Descent.” I’ve heard it’s very intense.
I’ll throw into this thread:
The Thing (Carpenter)
The Ring
The Exorcist
Event Horizon
Alien (even though I know it backwards and forwards now)
Silence of the Lambs; Psycho; Jaws; Jurassic Park
“Idiocracy.”
But true fear..."JAWS"!
I was a kid that took beach vacations every year with my family..Jaws changed my enjoyment. I never went to the beach the same again after that.
Definitely, the scariest movie I ever saw was the perv Roman Polanski’s “The Tenant.” To me, the scariest thing ever is what goes on in the MIND. Gotta give the pedophile props for this one. It didn’t help that I stayed in a dorm in Paris that looked just like that building.
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