What are the most frightening horror films you ever watched?

Rae said:
My little sister, about 5, saw a movie with Abbott and Costello, that had hands coming out of the wall and it scared her so bad, she was afraid that would happen in her bedroom. My brother and I would laugh at her but she would never watch that movie again.

We used to watch the Friday night scary movies as children and it would scare us.
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That's why some films should not be watched by young children. As a child, I became ill after watching the film Them.
Strange about the Abbot Costello film since one expected comedy and not anything horrifying.
 

I remember two movies I saw at the show house when I was a small kid that really scared me.
The first one was called, The Thirteen ghosts, if I remember right.

The second one believe it or not was, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. My folks dropped my brother and I off at the show house and told us we were seeing a pirate movie. Yeah right, when I first saw that cyclops coming out of the cave I was headed for the lobby..
 

GoneFishin said:
When I was young back in the day on TV they had "Friday Fright Night".
Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and Wolfman movies were shown.
Those were the ones that scared the bejesus out of me.
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Yeah, as a child, those Universal horrors were frightening. Then there were the Hammer movies..... yikes!

As an adult, not much is truly frightening. However, I was truly disturbed by The Haunting (1963). There's a scene with a door that was.... yikes.

Seen for the first time, without knowing anything about it, The Blair Witch Project was quite something.
 
VaughanJB said:
Yeah, as a child, those Universal horrors were frightening. Then there were the Hammer movies..... yikes!

As an adult, not much is truly frightening. However, I was truly disturbed by The Haunting (1963). There's a scene with a door that was.... yikes.

Seen for the first time, without knowing anything about it, The Blair Witch Project was quite something.
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I didn't like that one at all. Camera bobbing around too much made me dizzy. 😵‍💫
 
I don't remember the name of the movie, but it scared the living hell out of me. I was about 6, in the back seat at a drive-in movie with my mom and whoever in the front seat. On the screen some half naked lady was laying on her back on a table of sorts, and someone stabbed her in the stomach--very close-up--with what looked like a sharpened wood popsickle stick. Blood spurted out everywhere freaking me out to no end--I do remember screaming. Since then, I have never understood why normal rational people actually crave to be horror-ized.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
In my opinion, if a person CAN watch seriously violent movies without being affected, they’ve seriously got something wrong with them. In the movie ‘mother’ a newborn baby was torn up to shreds. Those who can watch that with no adverse reaction might need some mental help.
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Well, personally I don't go to see such films , but I get your point .

But a person needs to separate the fiction of a movie / from the reality of life.

I do seem to remember seeing the Exorcist , or part of it anyway. And I did see the film Amityville Horror due to the fact that it was [reportedly] fact based .... jury is still out on that.

But it just amazes me what so many will accept as entertainment. And not just teenagers either.
 
Radrook said:
That's why some films should not be watched by young children. As a child, I became ill after watching the film Them.
Strange about the Abbot Costello film since one expected comedy and not anything horrifying.
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It was a horror comedy movie, cannot remember the name, but that is why we laughed at her even though it scared her. I looked up their movies and some had Frankenstein and other scary monsters with the funny parts.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
In my opinion, if a person CAN watch seriously violent movies without being affected, they’ve seriously got something wrong with them. In the movie ‘mother’ a newborn baby was torn up to shreds. Those who can watch that with no adverse reaction might need to mental help.
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My mother burst out crying when watching the Jesus actor getting whipped in Mel Gibson's film: The Passion. I had warned her but she had insisted on seeing it.
Rae said:
It was a horror comedy movie, cannot remember the name, but that is why we laughed at her even though it scared her. I looked up their movies and some had Frankenstein and other scary monsters with the funny parts.
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Yes. I am familiar with the genre now that you mention it.
Comedy horror - Wikipedia
 
Topoff said:
I don't remember the name of the movie, but it scared the living hell out of me. I was about 6, in the back seat at a drive-in movie with my mom and whoever in the front seat. On the screen some half naked lady was laying on her back on a table of sorts, and someone stabbed her in the stomach--very close-up--with what looked like a sharpened wood popsickle stick. Blood spurted out everywhere freaking me out to no end--I do remember screaming. Since then, I have never understood why normal rational people actually crave to be horror-ized.
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That could be a lot of movies, but I suspect it was something from Herschell Gordon Lewis. He was popular at drive-ins back in the day, and his spent a lot of time shopping people up. :D

rgp said:
But a person needs to separate the fiction of a movie / from the reality of life.
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I pretty much ONLY watch horror movies. I watched them when I was quite young. It's important to remember that it's just fiction. Nothing you're seeing is real, and there's as much horror at seeing waves of men being killed in a World War I film as there is in watched Sasquatch reach into someones belly and pull their spine out. :D
 
oldman said:
None for me, but my wife got shook up over watching “Candy Man.” Yeah, really.
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oldman said:
None for me, but my wife got shook up over watching “Candy Man.” Yeah, really.
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I was just thinking every now and then, an older kid, maybe 15 will come dressed in a scary costume that causes my wife to have nightmares for a night or two. She refuses to watch scary movies since seeing “Candy Man,” which I didn’t think was so scary. She said she has been traumatized since she was a kid and watched “Frankenstein.”

She wouldn’t watch the movie by Mel Brooks, “Young Frankenstein.” I had to watch it while she was on one of her girls only trips.
 
CallMeKate said:
Carrie... I was a teen and too old to believe it, but after getting back from the theater, I ran REALLY fast to the house door, thinking of a hand coming out of the ground and grabbing my ankle. 😲🙀
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So did you make it to the door without a hand coming out of the ground and grabbing your ankle? Or did the hand come out of the floor after you went into the house and grabbed your ankle?
 
I remember a YouTube reactor, just a big kid at about 40 and funny as heck.

He watched The Exorcist for the first time, and when he finished he closed by saying that he "was going to get ice cream and sit in the church parking lot for a while." :ROFLMAO:
 

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