Scariest movie you ever saw! Mine was

[Mr Natural]

For me, it was "Horrors of the Black Museum".
My cousin took me when I was like 8 or 9 yrs old and the first scene where this lady receives a present in the mail and it's a pair of binoculars. So she goes over to the window to use them and these 12" knives come out of the eye peices and shes got her hands on her face with blood POURING out between her fingers and shes' screaming........

Man, you never saw a kid run out of the theatre so fast

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by ByrdWyngs

How about "Phantasm", anybody else remember that one? I grew up on SF and horror flicks and very few of them ever really bothered me, but for some reason that flick just totally creeped me out (I'm sure it didn't have anything to do with the fact that I was higher than a kite when I saw it , not that it was a terribly unusual condition for me to be in back in the late '70s )

By the time Phantasm came out, I'd gotten past fear and into enjoyment of them not unlike a rollercoaster. I'd also discovered that horror films tended to have an odd effect on the libido of one's date. (Let's just leave it at that.)

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by Mr Natural

For me, it was "Horrors of the Black Museum".

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I've never heard of that one. It has some very good reviews online.

[JerryM]

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What is your "scariest movie"?[/QUOTE]

You mean other than "Showgirls?"


Would have to be "Psycho," which I saw when it first came out. I must have about 8. I went with a group of my school buddies. I think the occasion might have been one of my friend's birthdays. We were just dropped off at the theater--no parents. There were no ratings then, and they'd let kids in to most anything. It's really a pretty violent and disturbing movie for a bunch of 8 year olds, and most of time, we couldn't even look at the screen. Strange entertainment for a kid's birthday party.

[fropiler]

I was wondering if I was the only one on the planet that saw this "bone sucking" movie. I had nightmares for years about that monster. any idea what year it was?

Originally Posted by soundmotor

I remember it well, for me it was "Island of Terror" (Night of the Silicates) w/ Peter Cushing when I was ~11 or so. Lab experiment goes wrong and calcium eating mollusk things are set loose on a Jersey island. Victims have their bones sucked out of them and leave a very squishy corpse. I watched it after school one afternoon before anyone was home & halfway through the film I was locking the doors & shutting drapes. I may have even had my Hillerich & Bradsby on hand.

Honorable mentions -

Rosemary's Baby
Nightmare on Elm Street (1st one)
The Changeling (still creeps me out)
Haunting of Hill House (original)
House of Wax (original)
Many more I've thankfully forgotten

[soundmotor]

Originally Posted by fropiler

I was wondering if I was the only one on the planet that saw this "bone sucking" movie. I had nightmares for years about that monster. any idea what year it was?

This is somewhat cathartic. The film came out in 1966 but it wasn't until the early 70's when I saw it. Here's a couple for the trip back down memory lane -

[Sandy G]

Anybody remember "The Leech Woman"? Grade-Z flick that came out in '60, scared the P*ss outta me in like '65 or '66 when I was 8 or 9...My mom had a cousin who vaguely resembled-VERY vaguely-the "monster"- I never could look at her after that w/o thinking of that dreadful movie. She was a very nice lady, too-always nice to me, I shouldn't think of her like that.-Sandy G.

[Sandy G]

"Showgirls"- Dammit, Jessi, put yer clothes back on, girl ! Yeah, I always wanted to see Elizabeth Berkeley nekkid, but....Boy, HER career went in the terlet w/THAT one- has she done anything since that ?!?-Sandy G.

[RussinOhio]

I posted elsewhere in this forum about my recent viewing of "The Exorcist".
I was 14 years old when I saw that picture and it really freaked me out! I was actually traumatised by that movie. Damn it was a good month or two before I could sleep normally.

"Alien" in 1979 gave me a bad dream or two!

I totally agree with you guys about Twighlight Zone & Night Gallery....great shows!!


Russ

[Mr Natural]

Anyone remember Chiller Theatre? Used to start with that lady from Plan9 from Outer Space comin' at ya. That used to scare me every Saturday night. One time they ran 'She Devils' or 'She Demons' and when the girls truned into the monsters with those awful faces, I used to duck under the blankets and not come out the rest of the night.....even with the NY Rangers coming on later!

[Celt]

I like scary movies...always have...but they have rarely ever scared me. That being said, one of the best is "The Haunting" (1963) with Julie Harris. It doesn't try to scare you with horrific special effects...instead it just suggests it.

[Trawlerman]

Nobody scared at the Hellraiser movies?

Always gives me the heebie-jeebies. Especially the second episode. The bloke with the maggots all over him freaks me out and particularly when the doctor gives him the razor to cut them off with.

Now that's some seriously warped stuff!

[Sandy G]

Anybody else remember "The Outer Limits"? Damned if some of THEM weren't scary..at least to a 7,8 yr old kid. I'd get so upset my parents wouldn't let me watch it. Remember the episode where they steal several blocks' worth of 1963 suburbia America & transport it to this planet where everyone looks like they have world-class acne? Or the one where these things that look like crabs get on yr back & suck you dry ? Another good one was where Robert Culp has this glass hand, & is actually a robot...Aww, man, I could go on all day !! <grin>-Sandy G.

[TVTeufel]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Anybody else remember "The Outer Limits"?

Another good one was where Robert Culp has this glass hand, & is actually a robot...Aww, man, I could go on all day !! <grin>-Sandy G.

One more then..... either from "The Outer Limits", or "Twilight Zone" circa late '50s, early '60s. Scenario - USA & USSR are close to lobbing the big one at each other. Our (mad) scientists come up with a plan whereby the only way to save mama earth from oblivion is to invent an extra-terrestrial, & have him (it) land somewhere to announce a coming invasion by hoards of his (its) species, with the intent that the cold war adversaries would quit pissing each other off; & join forces against the impending space invasion. One of the scientists is "selected" to begin a series of body part transplants from various barnyard critters to make him appear uh..."less human". I think the final result resembled a satyr, but not as cute. Anyway, he's loaded into a fake spacecraft, & is destined to land somewhere to mutter the "Take me to your leader" line. However the craft misses its mark (Times Square?), & crashes somewhere less civilized (I know, hard to imagine).
After our deformed savior crawls from the hatch, he (it) is wandering through a forest (think Deliverence), when "POW", he's (it's) taken down by a bullet betwixed the horns.
"Day-um", exclaims hunter Buford to buddy Darrold, eyeing the fallen critter. "That's the ugliest dam' warthog I ever done seen".

The end.

Prolog - happy ending....USSR discovers Playboy, tears down The Wall, buys Cadillacs, & sells bombs to Saddam.


Ron.

[markdi]

2 movies stand out to me

john carpenters the thing

and Requiem for a Dream