Best horror film ever

[Ceyrin]

Rubber (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/)

Also, it's available for streaming on Netflix. =)

Enjoy.

[diethx]

You're kidding right? Please say you're kidding.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I heard Human Centipede 1 was really good as far as a "it could happen and that shit is fucking crazy" kind of way. Not my kind of film so I didn't watch it though. I did like all three of the Paranormal Activity movies, though I wouldn't call them scary - I just like the story telling behind them.

[Reltov420]

It's actually 'The Little Rascals'.

[Allereli]

The Evil Dead

[Drunken Durfin]

The Sound of Music.

I still have nightmares.

[SHAFT]

The Thing

[Drew]

Alien.

[Drunken Durfin]

The Thing

Which version? 2011, 1982, 1951 (yes, 1951).

[Celephais]

Event Horizon.

[Androidpk]

Sublime, with Event Horizon a super close 2nd.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/434135/sublime_movie_trailer/

[JustDan]

If you're looking for straight-up creepy horror: The Exorcist still holds up better than anything that comes to mind

If you're looking for way-overdone gore with more nudity than some pornos (some of it quite good): Hostel

If you're looking for black comedy: Evil Dead / Army of Darkness

If you're looking for creepy, loss-of-all-hope despair: The Mist (one of the most brilliantly fucked-up endings I've seen in a movie)

If you're looking for a tour de force non-supernatural creepfest: Silence of the Lambs is still exquisite

I've left off any of the international films (those folks are fucked up in the head), but the few that I've seen put American "gore-horror" movies to shame. The Audition was disturbing as hell...

[SHAFT]

Alien.

Fucking A right.

As far as The Thing, I love the Kurt Russell version. I refuse to watch the new one and I started to watch the original a few months ago and haven't finished it.

Also, Halloween is badass.

[SHAFT]

Event Horizon.

Yeah buddy

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x176/shaft4783/EventHorizon.jpg

[Tisket]

I wonder how many of you are mentioning movies that actually scared you? Do you remember the first time you were actually terrified by a movie, if ever? I do. I have watched most of the movies listed thus far and they were damn entertaining and had a good scare factor for sure.

I was trying to remember the first time I was genuinely terrified while watching a movie. I was five or six I think and we were watching a movie that was made decades earlier. I still remember it clearly and how wet-the-pants scared I was. At one point I had to leave the room because it was too intense for me.

There wasn't much gore (it was made in 1961 after all) but the atmosphere and story had me riveted. I think it was the first time I gave any thought to human evil.

I haven't seen it since because I don't want to ruin the memory with the reality, if that makes sense. I don't want to watch it and go "oh lame, look at the stupid effects and overacting." I'd rather remember the feelings I had while watching it.

It was The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price.

P.S. Sorry for the tl;dr but I have to make at least one long post a year. It's in the rules.

[WRoss]

I remember being 8 or so and sneaking out of bed and watching some horror movie my parents were watching. It was about this monster who was chasing some family around. His tongue had a mouth and teeth on it. It absolutely terrified me at the time. If I could find it, I'm sure it would not be scary at all.

[Tisket]

I don't think you should look for it personally. Keep the memory intact.

[Ceyrin]

First of all...

WTF is wrong with you people. This wasn't a fucking share-your-opinon thread. I was trying to put you people on to some Grade B horror shit, the likes of which you'll probably never see again. Fucking noobs.

Secondly... the first and last movie to ever truly frighten me, Tisket, was Labyrinth when I was like 6. Obvious comments about David Bowie aside...

It was the scene with the two doors. I remember realizing I was in no position to logic that shit out at 6, and was terrified of the possible outcome if I was ever in a similar situation. Yeah, I know, Labryrinth isn't really a 'horror' film, but it terrified me. Also, Jim Henson puppets are creepy as fuck.

[Tisket]

First of all...

WTF is wrong with you people. This wasn't a fucking share-your-opinon thread. I was trying to put you people on to some Grade B horror shit, the likes of which you'll probably never see again. Fucking noobs.

I didn't want to rain on your parade by giving my opinion of Rubber. I can if you want.

(in before the obvious rubber jokes. Get your minds out of the gutter, people!)

[Tisket]

I've never seen Labyrinth. I'll have to remedy that sometime.

[Androidpk]

First one was nightmare on elm street when I was level 7.

[Tisket]

lol @ level 7

[thefarmer]

http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/

[4a6c1]

The one where buffy the vampire slayer slays a japanese house except RUH ROH dead people eat her. FUCKING MEOW KID. Cleaning out dark spaces is a challenge.

[Manamethis]

I heard Human Centipede 1 was really good as far as a "it could happen and that shit is fucking crazy" kind of way. Not my kind of film so I didn't watch it though. I did like all three of the Paranormal Activity movies, though I wouldn't call them scary - I just like the story telling behind them.


They made a Human Centipede 2 with 12 people instead of 3.

I didn't have the stomach to watch it.

[Stanley Burrell]

Suspense > ominous > identification with audience > deliberate dark tones. But, lemme use a small font on the greater than symbol because it's not by some colossal margin.

Okay. Much better.

And ... whatever movie would be a cross between The Shining and The Descent.

[Tisket]

The Descent.

I could not breathe during parts of this movie. So fucking claustrophobic.

[Stanley Burrell]

I could not breathe during parts of this movie. So fucking claustrophobic.

It didn't make a big difference, but did you watch the one with the extended ending?

[Stanley Burrell]

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5944/bahd.png

:(

[diethx]

Secondly... the first and last movie to ever truly frighten me, Tisket, was Labyrinth when I was like 6. Obvious comments about David Bowie aside...

It was the scene with the two doors. I remember realizing I was in no position to logic that shit out at 6, and was terrified of the possible outcome if I was ever in a similar situation. Yeah, I know, Labryrinth isn't really a 'horror' film, but it terrified me. Also, Jim Henson puppets are creepy as fuck.

I don't think I have any words for this. Blasphemy maybe? That's been my favorite movie since I was like... 5 and I first saw it? I dunno, I was really little though.

Jim Henson has a special place in my heart, as he made several of my favorite ever movies/series that will never be displaced. I remember being in California at some hotel when I saw on TV that he died. I was only 8 but I felt truly sad, probably for the first time in my life.


I've never seen Labyrinth. I'll have to remedy that sometime.

...dude.


It didn't make a big difference, but did you watch the one with the extended ending?

I don't know if I did, but I agree that it was pretty claustrophobic the whole time, even if it wasn't technically scary. I think I actually saw it in the movie theater and it STILL felt claustrophobic.

Mine would definitely be the original Jaws. I saw it when I was really little and it terrified me to where I was scared to go in the pool that summer. I am still pretty terrified of sharks and being eaten by one is still my biggest fear in life. It did not help that I grew up on an island. As an aside, I love shark week.

[AnticorRifling]

Event Horizon was pretty creepy.

[Keller]

Anticor and PB's homemade porno.

[Tisket]

It didn't make a big difference, but did you watch the one with the extended ending?

I don't know. It was on DVD and the ending I remember was where she thinks she found a hole and escaped to the surface, only the camera shows her still trapped underground at the very end.

[SHAFT]

Event Horizon came out when DVD's were still fairly new and a few of my buddies and me would stop the DVD on the part where they find the footage of the previous crew eating and mutilating each other. Pretty gruesome. Play it slowly.

[Celephais]

I don't know. It was on DVD and the ending I remember was where she thinks she found a hole and escaped to the surface, only the camera shows her still trapped underground at the very end.

Whoa hey, SPOILERS!

I do remember being scared by Event Horizon, I think I was about 15 (which is old enough I should have been okay w/ this), and I watched it alone at night in an empty house.

I don't have any other memories of being truely scared by a movie, that one kept me up a bit though. I love a good horror film, but too many are about the shock factor, and that doesn't do much for me, suspense and gore are overrated, it's much better if you can plant a thought, of desolation or hopelessness, and just let that thought fester.

Edit to respond to shaft:

Event Horizon came out when DVD's were still fairly new and a few of my buddies and me would stop the DVD on the part where they find the footage of the previous crew eating and mutilating each other. Pretty gruesome. Play it slowly.

I rather liked how it was just flashes of it, it's odd how quickly you can get desensitized to gore in a movie, but if they show you enough to get the image in your head, it'll linger.

[Stabbyrogue]

I was probably five or six when my babysitter made me watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Fucking bitch.

[Wheelerm]

May not necessarily be considered a "horror film," but The Killer Inside Me (remake with Kate Hudson and Casey Afleck) was a little disturbing...

[Fallen]

Haven't went through the thread, but it looks like The Descent was mentioned. That was definitely one of my favorites. Fuck CHUDS.

[diethx]

May not necessarily be considered a "horror film," but The Killer Inside Me (remake with Kate Hudson and Casey Afleck) was a little disturbing...

I was disturbed by how much that movie sucked!

[Bhaalizmo]

I still love the original Hitcher with Rutger Hauer. Great suspenseful horror.

When I was about 10 I snuck out of bed past my bedtime and watched Hellraiser. The first time I'd ever seen any cinematic gore in anything but an action flick. I still remember the Jesus Wept bit. Damn that was visceral at the time and it gave me nightmares for weeks.

Event Horizon was brutal. I enjoyed it.

Of course I love Evil Dead and Army of Darkness but for a campy horror flick my favorite is probably The People Under the Stairs. Brialliant movie.

[diethx]

The People Under the Stairs.

Awesome movie.

[Stanley Burrell]

I must be the only one who thought Event Horizon had a sci-fi "cool factor" when I watched it as a kid that threw off some of the personalization.

For example, or, not really related actually, in Solyaris turned into Solaris, when Clooney is just looking at the face of what's-her-name, and you're just expecting it to go all end-of-Carrie 2, but nothing happens, that element of suspensefulnessism is what freaks with me.

There is going to be a real life horror/action adventure where the ghost of the English language comes for me.