Happy Halloween!
In my endless quest to find a movie that will scare me, I have “Rosemary’s Baby” sitting on the counter (on VHS, sadly) ready to go. I’m actually amazed I haven’t seen it before now. And my Japanese “Ring” DVDs arrived yesterday. So the search continues.
What’s the scariest movie you ever saw? Tell me a story to entertain me on Halloween.
Use LSD, go to a friend’s house, watch “The Shining”, and see what happens.
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I go now.
I like Carpenter’s version of The Thing.
Wilford Brimley prying open burned alien carcass: “Ugh. Wheugh. Fweughghgh.” “Uewwghh.”
Hmm. your comments system dropped half of my comment because I foolishly employed an angle bracket.
Nothing scares me more than parsing errors. “The Parsing II: No Escape(d Characters)”. “The Parsing III: The ASCII Prophecies”. Und, as the Germans say, so weiter.
No movie is as scary as what my imagination comes up with after it. Anything involving ghosts/spirits or aliens will do me in in a hurry. I think it’s because it’s much more likely to happen in real life than crazed ax-murderers or escaped mental patients.
But, seriously, Blair Witch every time. I can’t watch that movie in the middle of the day without soiling myself. Gegh.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my big brothers for pinning me down and forcing me to watch every horror movie ever made from ’79-’89. I’ve learned to appreciate gore. Meanwhile, my oldest brother suffers terrible nightmares almost every night. Hahahahaha.
Serves him right.
There’s a movie from the ’50s or ’60s — I can’t recall its name — that I saw as a small child which involves a dismembered hand clothed in a glove that goes around town killing folk. Though I’ve seen the movie once as an adult (and it’s a pretty bad movie), from a five year old’s perspective it was pretty scary stuff.
Poltergiest scared the living hell out of me as a kid. I still can’t really watch it.
I just thought of another one: The Bad Seed. Holy christ is that little girl scary. I saw that movie on my first night in my first apartment all by myself. My friends were to move in a few day later, and they had boxes stacked up all over, and I blew a fuse in the living room, and had the TV on a very long extension cord. What was I thinking?? Turns out that one of those friends was a bad seed. She didn’t kill anyone or anything, but there were some definate similarities. . .
The most frightening film I’ve ever seen is the original Robert Wise version of “The Haunting.” I haven’t seen it in years, but it scared the piss out of me back in the 70s.
Damn, I hope they release that on DVD, now that the remake has formally tanked. It won’t be the same in pan-and-scan.
The scariest movie I ever saw would probably be~ A Nightmare on Elm Street. I saw it when i was about 10 years old. I was in my basement with the lights off at about 10:00 at night. I couldn’t sleep the rest of the night. I still watch it on occasion, but i still scares the shit out of me.