Movies that scare ya. I mean really SCARE you to the core?

The Road seems to keep coming up. I saw it and found it strange. Like who has a gun and 4 or 5 bullets(can't remember). It was just strange. I remember seeing the first Romero black n white Night of the living dead and thinking I should get into reloading!
 
No new movies scare me. Actually I'm only scared of Missus P&R Fan (She's going through menopause) and the IRS.:eek:

I remember when I was real young on Friday night they had Creature Feature on TV. Showed scary movies. One that made an impression on me was The Thing That Couldn't Die. Made in the '50s. They are dousing for water and find an old chest. Turns out there is a head in it. They find out it was an old occult leader. Long story short, they put the head back on the rest of the body and he comes alive. Scared me really bad when I was a kid. I've watched it several times since. It's kinda funny now.

I always loved horror movies. Growing up in the '80s I saw 'em all.
They don't make them like that any more.:(

Oh, I guess one thing I watch scares me.....Fox News.:eek:
Jim
 
I'd have to go with the original "Halloween". I was over at a friends place & they decided to watch the movie. We had been indulging in some "stuff" that I don't do anymore, & the movie got right on top of my imagination. When I went out to the parking lot to go home, around four AM, I could barely make it to my truck since I was constantly spinning around, on the lookout for Michael Myers.:eek::eek::eek::D

Strangely, those as well as the Friday the 13th movie series didnt bother me. I think it was because I was ticked off on how cowardly those characters were/are. Same with the Freddie movies, interesting idea-but stupid movies.

I remember one called: From Beyond, that was supposed to be scary--it wasnt-just had disgusting elements through the movie. Another I hated, and only watched because of the girlfriend I had at the time, were those slumber party massacre movies, massacre at central high, and the first friday the 13th movie. It was a night long thing. We started the friday 13th movie first. I was tired so laid on the couch and fell asleep before the first person was killed. I woke up when the last movie was about to end, realizing that Patti, must have got scared during the night, and she was laying on the couch with me and had my right arm around her.
 
I don't think any movie itself has actually scared me since I was maybe 10 years old. I went through my teen years during the cresting wave of the slasher film genre (in 3D, even!), and it became fashionable to be inured to the horror of chain-saw mutilations and such.

Some movies can scare me second-hand: I don't get scared while watching the film, but they provide unhappy fodder for my imagination to chew on later and, as I have a very active and very visual imagination, they can lead to unenjoyably realistic, vivid, and scary nightmares if I dwell on them too much.

I'd have to give props to the first Nightmare on Elm Street as the one that disturbed me most, as mentioned by someone previously. In general, the losing-touch-with-reality themed movies are ones I don't enjoy. They don't 'scare' me, but they disturb me enough that I don't enjoy them. The idea of going mad (and knowing its happening) is probably the closest thing I have to a phobia. Trapped-in-a-fire would be a close second-place.
 
If thats the one im thinking about? is this the one that had the monster rip through a bathroom wall while a guy was "doing business" If so, I was a toddler then too, and was w/ my brother and dad watching it at the Texas Theater. I ran out into the lobby after that bathroom scene.

Forgot to mention, the female star of that movie passed away last year.
 
Anything with Sandra Bullock in it.
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Chuck

Aw noooo, she was good with Stallone in: Demolition Man:
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This probably sounds stupid but as far as movies I would say the Blair Witch Project. Just a very eerie movie.

Books get me. The Amityville Horror was great and parts of The Shining.

My ex-DIL went to a Jesuit university in St. Louis where the inspiration of The Exorsist took place. She had a class with a priest that took part in it. He said the movie didn't come close to the horror of the reality. He also said that the room in the hospital where it took place (I can't remember the name of it) has been permanently walled off.
 
I seldom watch horror films any more, as most of them seem rather contrived. Even "The Exorcist" didn't bother me, although it did keep my interest focused.

The only film I've seen that made me feel physically uncomfortable was the original 1979 film "Phantasm". This was during the time when really realistic special effects started showing up in films. This one had an unstoppable flying metal ball with a spike sticking out - it would fly at the victim, impale their head with the spike, and then suck their brains out.

From Phantasm (1979) - Trivia - IMDb
"The film was originally rated X by the MPAA because of the famous silver sphere sequence, and because of the man urinating on the floor after falling down dead. Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin made a phone call in a favor to a friend on the board. Thanks to him, Phantasm was downgraded from the original dreaded X-rating to a more acceptable R. Champlin's positive review was quoted on the film's promotional posters."
 
Texas Star, I had forgotten The Ghost & the Darkness. I didn't see it in a theater, but I did have an awesome sound system hooked up to the DVR & when the lions roared it went right through you. Big cats have always fascinated me so I really liked that movie.
 
"grizzly" scared me badly as an 8 year old, my mother took me to see it because she thought it would be like "grizzly adams" or "the bears and i"
i wasnt truly frightened until i fell asleep that night and the nightmares started .i think for most people , our imaginations can scare us more than anything. jaws still makes me worry in deep water lol
 
Well, it was a little scary, especially to my wife.

We'd been married just a short while when we saw it, and it shook her a little, especially as I knew a man who worked part time in a gun shop in Texarkana. That shop was owned by the brother (?) of the man who made the movie, and my friend said that although the tracks in the bean field looked fake, he was pretty well satisfied that there was a Fouk, AR "monster", a Bigfoot. One man was hospitalized afer being attacked by it and it terrorized some girls alone in a trailer or home.

My wife waited until I was in the shower, then threw a pail of cold water over the curtain and screamed like a Bigfoot. :rolleyes: Grabbed me and started tickling me as I washed my hair. Tsk, tsk, such doings...
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When, "Jaws" was released, I'd read the book and was eager to see the movie. The wife insisted on leaving pretty early in the movie and I didn't get to see it until after our divorce some years later. It did have its scary moments. BTW, I'd read all of the shark books that the police chief in the film was looking at.

"The Ghost and the Darkness" has a scary scene or two with the lions. I can barely stand Michael Douglas, whose role was created for the movie (and him :rolleyes:), but Val Kilmer was pretty good as the real Lt. Col. J.H. Patterson, VC, who really killed the two man-eating lions that temporaily stopped construction of the Tsavo railway about 1900. I have the book, written at the encouragement of Theodore Roosevelt.

Does anyone know for what Patterson was awarded the Victoria Cross? That's Britain's highest decoration for gallantry in combat, not for his bravery in pursuing the lions. He eventually killed the two main malefactors, but even today, man-eating is more common around Tsavo than in other parts of Kenya.

Some military movies are scary. When Wm. Holden's character was shot down in, "The Bridges at Toko-ri", you knew that he probably wasn't going to be rescued, despite the helo landng. And, "We Were Soldiers" has probably scared some and made many cry for what happened to those men. Both of the real helicopter pilots portrayed finally received overdue Medals of Honor for extreme bravery in taking in ammo and water and extracting wounded in the face of enemy fire so withering that most pilots would have refused to fly into that cauldron of horror. At least one DSC was awarded to one of the men portrayed (Sgt. Savage), and maybe more.

Some of the Bond movies have scary stunts, but the ones with gadgets scare me less than the original, "Dr. No", where Bond is lying in bed and realizes the tarantula is crawling on him. (In the book, it was a centipede, and Fleming wrote it well.)

Oh: have you seen, "The Collector", based on the novel by John Fowles? My date kept repeating, "You know, there are really people like that". The kidnapping by the nut case really shook her. I was young, and saw more good movies then than are now made.

"Zulu" has its moments. I liked the scene where Lt. Bromhead earned the VC by going onto the fragile thatched roof of the hospital building, using a fixed bayonet to drive off Zulus firing on and throwing spears at the wounded and sick in the building. I have a book that shows the real Bromhead, Lt. Chard, and the others portrayed in the movie. But relatives of Private Hook, VC, successfully sued the producers for making him look like a bum and general miscreant.

The scene where the Zulu show themselves on the ridge before they attack Rorke's Drift was pretty sobering. I wrote a college paper on the Zulu and read Donald R. Morris's book, "The Washing of the Spears", so kmew what the British troops were facing. And they had just received word of the massacre of a far larger force by the Zulu at Isandlwana. It must have been a terrifying thing to see them approach in their thousands. BTW, the narration was by the late Richard Burton, maybe because the actor was Welsh, as were most of the heroes of Rorke's Drift. (Some were English; one Swiss. In the movie, one was Afrikaans/Boer, but I don't know if he played a real man.) Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the real defenders, which should say something about the battle. I imagine that it was VERY scary!

J.H. Patterson, I see no reference to him getting the VC--maybe he got the George Cross? Anyway, ive checked victoriacross.org and the British Army Websiite plus numerous others on Wikepedia--no references. The closes name I came across, was to a Private Pettison who was killed at Vimey Ridge in WWI. However, ive sent an inquiry to a friend of mine in St. Albans who will know for sure.

I didnt chect the George Cross recipients list so he might be one fo those?? Also, I have a great skinny book somewhere that a friend gave me around 15 years ago that had complete lists of the VC and GC, but I have no idea where I have it or id look? If not in that complete list--the Patterson gent didnt get either.
 
Considering how long ago it was made..The Exorcist has to be the first and remains a classic scary movie....Before the real special effects that are possible now the exorcist still stands out...Those special effects for the times were not only spooky but amazing. Such a sweet little girl...gosh what a change and that head rotation along with the sound was really ...well un-godly..To say the least....
 

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