Scariest movie you ever saw! Mine was
 

(if memory serves - as this was when I was a young kid - and THAT may have been a factor on how scary I perceived it) an old black and white - I can't recall the name, but if someone knows...

One scene:

A man (doctor?) was sitting in a wooden chair in the middle of a room and he had this very large and grotesque "death smile" on his face. Can't remember much else as I had nightmares about this for several years. Maybe he was dying and he had his family around - all "after" the large inheritance? Sorry for the very fuzzy details.

What is your "scariest movie"?

The only thing I can think of that's similar is "The Legacy" - 1978. It stars Katherine Ross, Sam Elliott, and Roger Daltrey. It's the story of a young woman who "inherits" the wealth and demonic power of a family she hadn't even realized she was a part of.

It's been years since I've seen it, but IIRC the patriarch of the family lies, half sitting up up in bed and hooked to a very loud respirator, for the greater part of the film, and I don't believe the audience sees his face until the very end of the flick. I was about 15 -16 when I first saw it, and recall being pretty scared at the time. Dunno if this is it, but hope it helps...

Edit; Oh yeah, probably The Exorcist, at least the first time I saw it.

Well, for long term heebie jeebies it has to be The Exorcist...

I saw it when i lived in Argentina...I was alone (folks out town) in a huge 9th and 10th flr duplex apt....I came home and had to ride the creepy elevator..slept with every light on for 3 nights...

The Birds" age about 9-10 Dad didn't help telling me when to hide under the covers just made it worse"!

Gee...and here I was gonna say "Bambi"! :D

The first Alien movie. I went the first week it opened with no pre-warning that it was a scary movie. I thought I was just going to see a cool Si-Fi movie. Just about lost my cookies when that thing jumped out of his chest :sigh:

Lefty

Probably Jaws, I still WILL NOT SWIM IN THE OCEAN, ANY OCEAN Since I saw this movie as a child. I actually get a little freaked out when I am out in deep water where I can't see the bottom in LAKES even. I start hearing that damm music in my head even though I know there is no way a shark can get me I still can't shake the fear that something is gonna eat me :yikes:

Second place goes to the Exorcist, nightmares for weeks after seeing that one.

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- first version in B&W.

Born and raised Catholic, the Exorcist scared the living shit outta me... I haven't watched since I saw it in a theater when it first came out!

scary
 

the night stalker when I was 10

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. A low budget zombie movie from the early 70s. I was about 10, and couldn't make it through the entire movie.

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Has to be "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" with Bette Davis.

It was 40 years ago when I was in high school and I still remember how I nearly wet my pants so it must be the scariest I've seen. I'm sure one reason it got to me was I had no idea it was a scary movie when I went to see it. No time to prepare. :sigh:

Terry

Passion4audio, the movie you mention might have been The Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus, or something like that title. For me, the scariest movie was the original Dracula in balck & white with Bela Legosi. I saw it when I was very young & made my mom buy a crucifix to hang over my bed to keep vampires away.

1968 version of "Night of the Living Dead". Stumbled on to part of it in college, had to walk thru this big parking lot on the way back to the dorm, them damn ghouls were comin' after me about every second car. Was in WFO run by the time I got to the dorm. I knew nothing about that damn flick B4 that nite, yeah sure its stupid as all get out, but I was still terrified.-Sandy G.

blear witch projekt was pretty real and the one from sandy did it too

13 years old when my folks took me to see "Jaws". Scared the crap out of me, I guess because it was something that could be real. Monsters don't usually scare me much. However, when I was 8 or 9, we saw "The Legend of Boggy Creek" at the drive-in. We had just moved out in the country (thick woods rural Arkansas) a couple of years before, and after that movie some local teenagers making out at the gravel pit swore they saw a "bigfoot" and someone else saw it crossing the highway nearby. Those two sightings put it right through our woods. We spent the whole summer scarred out of our wits to set foot in the woods!

Another one that "did it" was "The Evil Dead". Went to see it primarily 'cause it was filmed near here, over near Newport, Tennessee, Was OK until they stuck a pencil into a guy's ankle & you heard it go crunch, crunch, crunch...There were 4 or 5 of us watching it, we all bolted at that point. Not so scary, but just "JEEZ !"...-Sandy G.

Scanners really freaked me out when it came out. I don't know why, but it did.

Gary

"the birds" i saw this when i was 8 or 9.the worst part was that my room was in the basement!worse still my door was a pair of old saloon style swinging doors.not good for keeping monsters out!the third strike was a mouse in the wall.i knew the mouse was there but that night it was 100 seagulls trying to get through my wall! i lay in bed sweating,and afraid to move for the longest time before i went to sleep.thankfully ive never been that afraid since.

I found it! Here's the movie I remember scaring me to death
 

when I was young...

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Allright, my memory's not totally gone yet. I remember Dr. Sardonicus well. When he digs up his dad's grave to get the winning lottery ticket and is cursed with that evil grin.... Yikes.

"About Last Night" with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. It scared the sh*t out of me.






Seriously... as a kid, it would be "Jaws"... I was scared of swimming pools and bath tubs.

As a teenager, "The Hitcher" with Rutger Hauer... I still have a hard time sitting through it and I know what is going to happen. That movie is really creepy.

John

For my wife, it was The Blair Witch Project. That woman had nightmares for a good week after watching that. As a matter of fact, since that movie, she hasn't watched anything even remotely scary.

I guess for me, it has to be the early black and white version of Night of the Living Dead. Remember the little girl that dies down the basement and comes back to life? I can still hear the sound of that hand-held garden spade she was using to kill her first victim.


Retro

...Who was her MOTHER, as I recall. I think her real name was Kyra Schon. The guy who was the "Newscaster" was "Chilly Billy" Cordele, who was host of the "creature feature" movie in Pittsburgh. His daughter, Lori, was in one of the later George Romero "Dead" flicks in the '80s.The story of the "Dead" flick is a fascinating one, to say the least. About everybody who played in the 1st one was part owner, writer, assistant director or something. It was kinda as if about 25 of us got together & decided to make a film from scratch, & talked a bunch of our friends/relatives into helping us.-Sandy G.

As a child The Pit and The Pendulum freaked me out but, later as a college kid The Exorcist made me afraid of the dark. If I hear the music Tubular Bells, I feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Havent watched a scary movie since!

The Changeling, with George C. Scott.

Nightmare on Elm Street - My friends dad owned the movie theater in my home town and I could go see whatever I wanted. I think I was 12 when I saw it by myself and I was afraid to sleep for many days!

Over the years Freddie Krugger has found his way into quite a few of my dreams...not always as a villain, however his presence is never comforting. Definitely a compelling character of horror, that strikes when you're most vulnerable.

I saw a movie when I was between 7-9 in the mid seventies that scared me pretty good.

It had made it to TV by then and I remember watching it with my parents...

About all I remember from the movie is that it takes place on an airliner that was either
possessed or haunted.

I only remember two scenes from the movie... one of the crew had to go through one
of the cargo holds, and "whatever" was on board had turned the hold into a deep freeze
where if the cold itself didn't kill ya, touching anything gave you instant frostbite.

There was a point when the crew member was walking along and the guy looks over
and there was a german shepard that was in a dog crate that was frozen in mid bark.

The second scene was all the passengers where in the first class area of the plane and
"whatever" was trying to get in and the carpet on the floor started bubbling up and one
of the stewardesses took a doll from a little girl and had drawn an evil face on the doll and
showed it to the bubbling carpet and it went back down...

I was under the cover that my mom had on the couch after that! :para:

Still don't know what the name of that movie was...

Scott

If you ever want to find out the name of a movie you can only remember partial details about you should post a question on the I Need To Know board at imdb.com. Chances are that if they can't figure it out for you, nobody can.

http://us.imdb.com/boards/

At age 11, "Marathon man" gave me a good scare...
 

I still have a SERIOUS aversion to dentists........(Is it safe???)

Thanks rulerboyz! :thmbsp:

Found out that the movie I watched was a made for TV movie called Horror at 37,000 Feet! :yes:

Scott

Well, it wasn't a movie, but the Twilight zone episode "To Serve Man" scared the crap oout of me for years.

That's the one where the 7' aliens come to Earth and present a global peace plan and a book to the UN. Peace ensues and folks start migrating to the Kanamits home planet. One of the crytographers working on deciphering the book, who's title of "To Serve Man" is all that's been decoded is leaving for his trip to the alien planet when his assistant runs up to him as he's getting aboard and shouts something like "Dr! Don't go! It's, it's ............a cookbook!!"

It ends with the scientist sitting in his room on the alien spaceship and not eating. One of the aliens comes in and says "Dr, you haven't touched your lunch? We wouldn't want you to lose any weight"

Sheesh, Rod!!!!!!

Scared the chit out of this 12 year old!! :yes:

You're exactly right Sandy, her name is Kyra Schon. I've never met her in person, but she and I are both members of a horror movie board, and she seems to be a genuinely nice person. Tells some great stories about starring in NOTLD, and being in the horror movie industry period.

OF COURSE I'M RIGHT ! Vhen vill you schtoopit Anglanders realize zat I know everythink, und bow und scrape to my obvious intelligence..AHA ! Today, AK ! Tomorrow...Za WORLD ! MBWAHAHAHAHA...-Dr Prof.Ing Sandy G., Certifiable Mad Scientist.....

The original Alien:alien: movie really did a number on me! Of course I was 9 at the time and have never seen anything close to a horror movie like that before. I felt that the movie was ahead of its time for 1979…


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Hi
does anybody remember "Eraserhead" of David Lynch.... i liked that very much :)
HH

eraserhead in B&W, I seen it dynacophil.

..... the "baby" was seen just a short second...surrealistic - i liked it much. Was the debut of Lynch, i guess, and was great what he did just with light.... Already nearly 30 yrs ago...

not the debut, his fourth film i read... what was before?
the answer:
http://www.davidlynch.de/

i also loved Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive and I even have the Diary of Laura Palmer :)

Helge

Horror Hotel has a jump cut it in that still gets me shaking. It's when a coven of witches is about to sacrifice a girl. The knife comes down until it just touches her chest and the you see the same knife at the same speed going into a birthday cake!
Carnival of Souls Is another one that still creeps me out to this day!