What are the most frightening horror films you ever watched?
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officerripley
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Hereditary:
jujube
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That movie scared the stuffing out of me.
I was about 12 when I saw it in a theater and I had nightmares for weeks about the scene where the hanged woman appears outside the main actress' window and the rope slithers in through the window and wraps around her feet.
I watched it again on TV a couple of years ago and it STILL creeped me out big time.
It was a corny movie but tops in creepy.
officerripley
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I agree about that movie; what I think was especially scary about his character is that there are so many like him in real life, shudder.
Very true, albeit to differently degrees of hypocritical evil.
dilettante
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When I was young (maybe 7 years old) I'd gotten starved for reading matter one Summer. I started in on those godawful "true" crime and murder magazines my Mother read.
At some point it reached critical mass and I started worrying about killers hiding behind every bush. But it didn't take long before I woke up and realized it was all crap. Not that such things couldn't happen, but that they are so exceedingly rare as to not be a serious concern.
The desperate fearful nature I see in posts above shocks me. Even I got over such paranoia as a kid. Are people really going through life over-estimating how dangerous the world is?
At some point it reached critical mass and I started worrying about killers hiding behind every bush. But it didn't take long before I woke up and realized it was all crap. Not that such things couldn't happen, but that they are so exceedingly rare as to not be a serious concern.
The desperate fearful nature I see in posts above shocks me. Even I got over such paranoia as a kid. Are people really going through life over-estimating how dangerous the world is?
My problem has been just the opposite. The Underestimating of the degree of evil in this world, trusting people who did not deserve my trust, and getting seriously hurt physically, and in a variety of other ways, because of it.
Paco Dennis
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Saw ...could not watch it.
Yikes! Definitely a very frightening film!
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And mine just the opposite. I have been in three fights that lasted less than 5 minutes with no damage except I bloodied the nose of my attackers. No big robberies, assaults, crime of any kind. Where did you encounter this evil? The only thing I can think of is stupid shows on the boob tube/internet.
The theater I saw it at had this skeleton gradually emerging from the side of the screen area, hanging from a line, being slowly pulled above and towards the audience during a certain scene. They had announced the event as terrifying. I found it merely distracting.
As I clearly said, these were life experiences. They involved people whom I had trusted as friends and family and as honest neighbors or honest employees.
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I remember as he hunted for the kids , one of the children said "Don't that man ever sleep?". So scary!
And I was and still am a Robert Mitchum fan!
I remember Gerlado Rivera interviewing a serial killer who said that he couldn't sleep unless he had recently murdered someone.
That is down right scary!
McBride
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Dracula with Gary Oldman and Keanu Reeves. I watched some of it on YouTube. Gary Oldman's interpretation felt like watching a very mentally ill person. Couldn't watch it.
Mitchum always referred to the characters that he portrayed as those other guys.
Geraldo lost his temper when the serial killer said that and challenged him to kill him.
hawkdon
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Just yesterday I overdosed on the original The Thing, and 2 others I cannot rememberr now LOL!!!
jujube
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Yes, they did that at my theater, too. Not the slightest bit scary. "Oh, look, there's a plastic skeleton on a string! Ooh, terrifying!" Not.
They even suggested that people with heart problems not go and see the film lest they risk cardiac arrest.
I thought that the original film was the accurate version of the story. Then I found out that the sequel was the one that was more accurate.
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I think it was "The Tingler" where they had people dressed like a doctor and nurse in the lobby checking people's hearts.
The seat backs in our theater were equipped with vibrating apparatuses so that when the Tingler (which looked like a large spiky slug and attached itself to your spine UNLESS you screamed) "escaped" from the screen into the theater, you were told to "scream, scream, scream for your lives." Just then, the vibrators would go off and, indeed, there were screams.
It was fun. Only time I was able to scream for my life in a theater and not get kicked out.
Have you ever been kicked out of a theater? I was once. I was about 10 and with some friends, sitting in the front row of the balcony. Somebody (not me, not me, and I don't know why I went along with it because I was usually pretty well behaved...) got the great idea to spit partially chewed gummy somethings over the rail on the people below.
Even though we quickly moved somewhere else, we were ratted out, expelled and told never to darken their doors again. We were back the next Saturday, of course, but good as little lambs
Tom52
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Psycho, I was just a kid and saw it at the drive in, scared the bejeesus out of me.
Exorcist, it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand out. Never since have I had that sensation
Salem's Lot, pretty creepy vampire movie
Exorcist, it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand out. Never since have I had that sensation
Salem's Lot, pretty creepy vampire movie