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I voted The Exorcist, but Dressed To Kill was so scary that it made me puke.
Exorcist when I was younger but I agree about Dressed to Kill. There was another film in 1981
(probably seems outdated now) that was eerie and shocking - The Howling.
Exorcist when I was younger but I agree about Dressed to Kill. There was another film in 1981
(probably seems outdated now) that was eerie and shocking - The Howling.
THE EXORCIST scared me a lot as a kid. As an adult, not so much. Especially after reading the book, which is actually a lot more beautiful than scary.
THE HOWLING is a great movie. Easily one of the best werewolf movies ever made. Scary? Not to me. Thrilling and a great satire of the whole I'm okay/you're okay generation. But it never scared me.
But honestly, movies rarely truly scare me. If I want to be truly terrified, I watch the nightly news.
But for a movie that is thrilling and disturbing, I have to go with ALIEN. Not only is it great visually, but the sounds of the movie --- from sound effects to score --- are some of the best ever made. No one is better at setting a mood at the movies than Ridley Scott.
^^^The creature from Alien was terrifying compared to other films in the past since it was
virtually an indestructible predator (although The Thing was just as frightening). Credit should
be given to it's creator H.R. Giger https://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalto...bYL#.eqvkZ1jp9
As mentioned I saw The Exorcist when I was in middle school so at that time it was scary. But
what made that worse was - the day we saw it our beds started shaking while we were sleeping.
We found out the next day that there was a mild earthquake in the midwest that evening.
btw, back then the creepiest part of the film when Megan was doing the spider walk down
the stairs was deleted from the film.
Scariest movie for me? I voted A Nightmare on Elm Street -- I think I'm the only one. I only voted for it because the thing that traumatized me with it is Freddy Krueger -- not the movie itself, just him. It was my first horror movie and that day when I watched it with my mother (who is herself a "horror" fan (movies, books, documentaries etc)), I thought it was going to be OK, but oh no, I slept with my parents for 2 months after that. The only movies I couldn't watch are 1. any movie with Freddy and 2. any movie with spirits and ghosts (I still watched plenty of them too but they're really painful to me -- Paranormal Activity, The Exorcist, The Exorcism of Emily Rose 1 & 2 etc). Others are all good! Especially the gory ones (my mother always fell asleep in front of them, she thinks they are "boring")...
I was in my 30's when I saw "The Grudge" and "The Ring" and to this day I find those two to be the scariest for me. As in, staring at my closet at night making sure that white shape doesn't move. When I first saw "Nightmare on Elm Street", I slept with the light on.
The early "Mummy" movies with Boris Karloff. Even though they were made before I was born, I watched one of them on TV when I was about ten years old, and I would not fix myself any tea for weeks afterward! Never mind that it was Lipton, I still wasn't going to take any chances!
(For those who don't know, it was tea made from tana leaves that summed The Mummy.)
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