Scariest movie you've seen.

[Onihoshi]

When I was young the first Alien scared me so much I couldn't sleep my mum didn't let me horrors until I got older. But then they stopped scaring me, they became predictable and only startle me, not scare.

My last scare was on the Korean Shutter. That movie scared me so much i refused to leave my friends place until the sun came up. Nowadays I prefer movies that disturb me like old boy, human centipede, or Imprint from the masters of horror series.

 

[badgersprite]

Probably 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Only movie to ever genuinely get to me and really creep me out.

 

[hazabaza1]

I think I'll agree with some people and say REC.
SHAME THEY NEVER MADE A SEQUEL TO IT.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

The scariest movie that is good that I saw was Jurassic Park, again I was about 10. Never really watched it again. Was planning to, got the book, read about 10 pages...and no. No. That baby! If you read it, you'll know.

Oh, you're missing out on the "counting velociraptors" scene.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

Probably 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Only movie to ever genuinely get to me and really creep me out.

I watched this for the first time recently. I drank 3 glasses of Absinthe, got fairly stoned and spent the length of the film literally glued to the sofa, unable to move, experiencing the film as though I were in it, feeling those atmospheres. The sensation of being THERE at the dawn of time, as though I have seen this before, the sense of familiarity...
Powerful, intense, enlightening and frightening all at once.
What a wonderful, wonderful film.

So yeah, either 2001: A Space Odyssey or David Lynch's Inland Empire. If you haven't watched Inland Empire than you do not really know the definition of fear.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

IT. I don't like clowns much anymore, and certain people's avatars don't help!

 

[redisforever]

The scariest movie that is good that I saw was Jurassic Park, again I was about 10. Never really watched it again. Was planning to, got the book, read about 10 pages...and no. No. That baby! If you read it, you'll know.

Oh, you're missing out on the "counting velociraptors" scene.

Do I want to know about it? Really?

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

The Room. Tommy Wiseau gets a prize for being the scariest monster ever.

OT: I'll be honest, I don't actually know... I don't scare easily, but thinking in terms of favourite horror movies, The Thing is just awesome. Everything about it made me think 'wow' and definitely holds centrepiece as one of the best.

EDIT:

I'd say "Noroi", I hardly get scared when watching movies, but that one did it for me. .

Or this. Noroi is simply fantastic.

 

[HardkorSB]

I started watching horror movies when I was about 5. None of them really scare me that much (I saw Halloween, The Thing , Friday the 13th, Omen, the Exorcist etc. when I was 6 and to me, they weren't scary).
The only movie that has ever scared me was "Evil Dead". I think I was about 7 when I saw it.
Anyway, the thing that scared me was when people were attacked by something and we were watching these attacks from the perspective of that something. The way it was shot really gave me chills. Plus, we never got to see what the damn thing looks like.
It took me a good couple of months to get over it.
Recently?
I guess "the Grudge" (Japanese version, of course) was a bit creepy but you have to watch it alone during the night.

 

[Dark Harbinger]

The Room. Tommy Wiseau gets a prize for being the scariest monster ever.

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It's even worse when he gets out of bed, you can see his horrible butt! *suffers a mental trauma*

 

[hypermage]

Several notable contenders in the atmospherics and aesthetics vein all the hipsters go for these days including but not limited to, The Ring (the original), Inland Empire, lots of Hitchcock, Jacob's Ladder and any Korean black comedy. Very intense cinema, one and all.

Slightly off topic, but System Shock 2 is probably my scariest experience in terms of conventional horror. Its certainly closer than any films I've seen; as far as those go The Thing, Alien and maybe Jaws are the closest I've seen in that regard.

Specific scenes? The old lady in the bath from The Shining, Irreversible (those who've seen it will know which two scenes I'm thinking of) and the last third or so of Audition.

Also, the Marble Hornet Series is pretty scary.

This. Never has watching very little happening been so bloody terrifying.

 

[SCAFC Chimp]

John Carpenter's The Thing [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thing-DVD-Kurt-Russell/dp/B00004D07X/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1302886934&sr=1-1], easily.

I think Alien and Jaws get the honourable mentions, and not necessarily in that order. Jaws would have been shite, but the rubber shark kept breaking down so all the cheesy underwater footage of a rubber shark they'd been planning to use had to be replaced with shark's-eye-view approaches and footage of open, seemingly empty, ocean, and that was scary.

The Thing is an amazing film. I don't think I've ever seen a film use both paranoia and gore so effectively.
Alien is up there, as is The Thing. The first Nightmare on Elm Street got to me as a child, although it was more the concept than the film itself.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

Jesus Camp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URUOSXJrx8c&feature=related


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[Ima842]

Rec, I screan like a girl, and I recommend to everyone.
http://www.cine365.com/sites/default/files/cartel/%5BREC%5D_-_600.jpg?1244201400

 

[Klarinette]

The amount of gore in a movie isn't what I consider scary. I like things that fuck with my mind without ever telling me why I've drawn the horrifying picture in my head. My brother and I agree that Blair Witch Project is a really scary movie (don't hate!) simply because you never see anything, it heavily relies on auditory things, and leaves it all up to you. Because the human mind is a fucked up thing to begin with, you end up scaring the hell out of yourself.

Also in that category is Paranormal Activity. People think it's stupid because they think the ideas of ghosts and possession are stupid. Fair enough. That said, you never see anything (except a shadow on a door, and you're like OH SHIT), you hear everything, there's a lot of waiting for things to happen, building up the tension, etc... I don't know, I just think psychological thrillers are the best when it comes to making me too afraid to get up and turn the light on.

 

[RatRace123]

Oh, forgot to mention, the movie itself didn't do much for me, but The Grudge has made me terrified of grey asian children ever since I saw it. Good god, those little bastards scare the piss outta me.
I would put a picture up but I'm too scared to look at one for an extended period of time.

 

[Ima842]

I think I'll agree with some people and say REC.
SHAME THEY NEVER MADE A SEQUEL TO IT.

they did
http://www.pochoclos.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/rec2.jpg

 

[Sinisterspider]

I watch a lot of horror films but only one has ever actually made me afraid and that was the fourth kind, idk why because it's fairly silly when you look at the thing as a whole but it really got to me. couldn't sleep that night, was too scared of owls.

 

[Ima842]

I watch a lot of horror films but only one has ever actually made me afraid and that was the fourth kind, idk why because it's fairly silly when you look at the thing as a whole but it really got to me. couldn't sleep that night, was too scared of owls.

Yes i forgot about that, I watch it with my brother and we thought it was real, i nearly crapped myself when the alien spaceship appeared in the police recording.

 

[Rylot]

REC, spanish and scary as HELL.

I'd say "Noroi", I hardly get scared when watching movies, but that one did it for me. .

Ninja'd on both counts, damn. I made my room mate watch REC last night and suffice to say he slept with the light on. A shout out to Marter and JK for suggesting those movies to me.