Which movie scared you the most?

[SimonH]

Simple question - which movie scared you the most? I'm not talking 10 years old, watching an R rated movie - I'm talking you as an adult, watching a movie and ending up so scared that you check behind every door in the house before you can go to sleep

Mine is Wolf Creek. Probably because it is set in places that I have been and just the remoteness of the locations are unnerving to a city slicker like me.
(Quentin Taratino called it "the scariest movie I've ever seen!" - can't find a good link at the moment). It is only very loosely based on various murders of tourists in Australia. Maybe a little too gore-porn, but the suspense makes it all worthwhile.

[cmsahe]

Simple question - which movie scared you the most? I'm not talking 10 years old, watching an R rated movie - I'm talking you as an adult, watching a movie and ending up so scared that you check behind every door in the house before you can go to sleep

Mine is Wolf Creek. Probably because it is set in places that I have been and just the remoteness of the locations are unnerving to a city slicker like me.
(Quentin Taratino called it "the scariest movie I've ever seen!" - can't find a good link at the moment). It is only very loosely based on various murders of tourists in Australia. Maybe a little too gore-porn, but the suspense makes it all worthwhile.

the movies that scared you as a child are never forgotten, Why don't you allow us to talk about them?

As an adult, I was scared by the Blair Witch Project (the sequel was so bad that it made me feel angry) and Signals with Mel Gibson, maybe because Mexico City appears in the movie and those UFOs are spotted regularly here, I have seen several UFOs, it's going to be a year when I and the whole family saw a fleet and as if they were saying good bye a red delta shaped UFO flying faster than a fighter plane, the sighting lasted for 35 minutes and...the day after I bought a video camera!

[SimonH]

Simple question - which movie scared you the most? I'm not talking 10 years old, watching an R rated movie - I'm talking you as an adult, watching a movie and ending up so scared that you check behind every door in the house before you can go to sleep

Mine is Wolf Creek. Probably because it is set in places that I have been and just the remoteness of the locations are unnerving to a city slicker like me.
(Quentin Taratino called it "the scariest movie I've ever seen!" - can't find a good link at the moment). It is only very loosely based on various murders of tourists in Australia. Maybe a little too gore-porn, but the suspense makes it all worthwhile.

the movies that scared you as a child are never forgotten, Why don't you allow us to talk about them?

hey - I'm no net nazi - go for it with the early age stuff

[TheDukester]

That monstrosity from that "genius" Lynch was truly frightening.

[Seraphan]

As a kid, Evil Dead scared the shit outta me, that camera speeding across the woods with that freaky noise made shrink on the couch.

As an adult, i nearly had a heart attack when i watched the cafe scene of Mulholand Drive.

[Rakis]

Yeah Evil dead was good...I also liked The Omen and the Exorcist, of course...

[TheDukester]

As an adult, i nearly had a heart attack when i watched the cafe scene of Mulholand Drive.

One of the few times I actually jumped like one of those cartoon cats ...

Great scene; too bad about the movie, though. Typical Lynch: 20 minutes of good ideas in a two-hour package.

[GamePlayer]

As a child, Alien gave me nightmares.

As an adult, Requiem for a Dream really brought on the fear.

[Freakzilla]

My parents took me to see Alien at the drive-in when I was about 7. I don't know WTF they were thinking.

Oh wait... my seven-year-old has seen Alien. I saw Jaws around the same time too, I didn't swim in the ocean again until I was an adult.

ANYWAY...

I wasn't quite an adult but The Exorcist scared the shit out of me so bad I was afraid to go to the bathroom. Salem's Lot was pretty scarry too.

[DuneFishUK]

As an adult, Requiem for a Dream really brought on the fear.

Yeah - that proper got to me too.

Blood and guts don't scare me any more - my "how do they do that" sense kicks in and I start thinking about addition cure silicone, deadener and compressed air.

But nothing has ever gotten to me as much than Little Mermaid did - not even close.

[Tleszer]

Most recently I felt sick watching the end of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Even though I had seen the TV show before the movie and I knew the inevitable outcome, I was seriously bummed and a little depressed with the depiction of Laura Palmer's fate.

Also related to Twin Peaks TV show, I found it very creepy that the homecoming photo of Laura that's used in the End Credits was actually the actresses real homecoming picture.

[Eyes High]

Early Adulthood: Arachnophobia.

I'm still not for sure how my co-worker talked me into seeing this film. I am scared of spiders to begin with but I guess I figured it wouldn't be so bad. Most spider movies that I had seen up til then had been hokey, so this one probably wouldn't be any different. I was wrong.

I was working at a state park that summer and of course spiders where everywhere. The following morning after we had seen the midnight showing of this movie, it was my turn to clean the restrooms down by the picnic areas. Of course, over the door of one room was a nest of Daddy-Longlegs. (yes, I know they are not true spiders) and in a knot hole in the door of the supply closet of the other area was a funnel web spider just above the inside door handle. All I could think about that day while out in those woods were scenes from that film. As I walked under that door I kept expecting those Daddy LongLegs to fall down on me. But I did my job and got out of there as quick as I could.

[Seraphan]

Most recently I felt sick watching the end of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Even though I had seen the TV show before the movie and I knew the inevitable outcome, I was seriously bummed and a little depressed with the depiction of Laura Palmer's fate.

Also related to Twin Peaks TV show, I found it very creepy that the homecoming photo of Laura that's used in the End Credits was actually the actresses real homecoming picture.

The black lodge scene of the show's last episode was creepy as well, especially the doppleganger part. And of course there's no need to mention Killer Bob, whose evil grin is enough to make real people pee in their pants.

[nymphitz]

Critters scared the wits out of me as a child.

I'm a horror/gore junkie, Haven't seen anything scary in a very long time.

[SwordMaster]

I have never been scared by a film. Not that I can remember.

Fear is a difficult emotion to evoke via screen or any other media. Its just a primal instinct that I have only felt on 2-3 occasions in my life. Once when I was robbed with a knife to my neck, that sort of fear that you could die any second can never be emulated by watching something I know was created for entertainment.

What they can do is provide a sort of shock and awe feeling of "oh my god I have never seen something so..."

Tourture porn, heavy gore, quick camera work, the spooky music, it might get in your head and give you some twisted images... but its not real fear.

[Rakis]

I have never been scared by a film. Not that I can remember.

Fear is a difficult emotion to evoke via screen or any other media. Its just a primal instinct that I have only felt on 2-3 occasions in my life. Once when I was robbed with a knife to my neck, that sort of fear that you could die any second can never be emulated by watching something I know was created for entertainment.

What they can do is provide a sort of shock and awe feeling of "oh my god I have never seen something so..."

Tourture porn, heavy gore, quick camera work, the spooky music, it might get in your head and give you some twisted images... but its not real fear.

You never even had a friendly "Booo!" ?

[Eyes High]

I have never been scared by a film. Not that I can remember.

Fear is a difficult emotion to evoke via screen or any other media. Its just a primal instinct that I have only felt on 2-3 occasions in my life. Once when I was robbed with a knife to my neck, that sort of fear that you could die any second can never be emulated by watching something I know was created for entertainment.

What they can do is provide a sort of shock and awe feeling of "oh my god I have never seen something so..."

Tourture porn, heavy gore, quick camera work, the spooky music, it might get in your head and give you some twisted images... but its not real fear.

I like to think of being scared and being afraid as two different emotions. I agree with you to a degree that true fear is hard to evoke from images that you know are fake.

However, that scared feeling from a good horror movie, or a great rollercoaster, or even a dang good ghost story can be exhilarating. That heart pumping, adrenaline flowing emotion can be so…what’s the word? Intoxicating? Well I think y’all know what I’m trying to say.

A good ‘safe’ scare can be exhilarating. It’s fun to be scared, it’s not fun to be in fear. To me they are two very different emotions.

So y’all be safe, but go have a good scare somewhere.

[trang]

I would have to say the movie " fire in the sky"... if you know it. the scene where the main character is captured and dragged thru the ship thrown on a table and had the cover put over him and they began experiements on him... the helplessness and shear terror in his eyes was fairly convincing. It helped that it was based on a claimed true account. Actor got it right.

Very unnerving, even today.

[inhuien]

Tokyo Gore Police is scary. As in it's scary that the fucked up sickos who wrote it may be at liberty and unmediated. Watch it! Now!

[smugetsu]

As a child, Alien gave me nightmares.

As an adult, Requiem for a Dream really brought on the fear.

Requiem for a Dream is one of the freakiest movies ever made, even though there's nothing inherently scary about it (no monsters or aliens or anything like that).

I watched it once. Never again.

[GamePlayer]

Yeah, Requiem is definitely a crowd-frightening film for the modern generation. There are films more shocking than Requiem (such as Irreversible) or films more graphic (any horror film from the recent "torture porn" sub-genre), but nothing that is a near a mental onslaught as Requiem. Requiem was for this generation what A Clockwork Orange was for the previous generation. The flash-cut montage for the climax was almost unwatchable upon first viewing and had me literally squirming in my seat.

[Eyes High]

Didn't see it at the theater only saw it on TV, but one of Stephen Kings' shows had me creeped out. I believe the name was: IT

[inhuien]

I know what you mean Eyes, there's just something unfunny about clowns.

[Lundse]

As an adult, Requiem for a Dream really brought on the fear.

Same here - incredibly beautiful and ugly movie, at the same time...