If you have seen The Ring but never The Shining (Kubrick's version, for God's sake, don't waste your time with the miniseries crap of Stephen King's), you need to watch it as both movies have a similar uneasiness to them in the terms of atmosphere and mood. The Shining just has scarier music, IMO.
Maybe forty years ago. Now, it's so dated that it's super lame. Oooohh... a turning doorknob... how frightening...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original). This movie freaks me the F@$# out. IMO, it pegs what a serial killer would do and what their home looks like. Any movie that gives me bad dreams earns points in my Scary Movies book, and this one takes the cake. Suspensful movies are good for the BOO! factor, but bottom line is that they are the same as a ride at Astroworld. Something that stays with you is so much scarier.
Ring, Japanese version. The music (or lack of it) plays a large part, maybe more so than the revelation.
I would vote EXORCIST. Frikkin' poop-puking, evil-sounding little girl was the creeps. How about: "Más Negro Que La Noche" with Lucía Méndez? That shiznit made me peeps in my pants as a kid in MEXICO.
I'm surprise no one said Nightmare On Elms Street. The first and second were pretty scary when I watch them for the first time as a kid. The part that freaks me out was when a girl in a classroom stared out at the hall way and saw a person in a bloody bodybag being dragged across the floor when nobody else notice it. The part where freddy run down the alley and extended his arm was pretty wierd and freaky. For the new stuff, I got to give it to The Six Sense. The movie that started a whole bunch of ghost/psycological thriller clone.
The Excorcist - No doubt. I remember when we first got Cable and it came on late one night when I couldn't sleep, I started watching at about 1am....and did not sleep one single wink that night....I was horrible in school the next day.... Still sends chills down my spine. DD
Has anyone seen the Japanese movie "Audition"? I have it on my blockbuster queue, it suppose to be one of the masterpieces of Japanese horror movies.
My friend saw the Ring and couldn't sleep that night so he watched TV till he passed out. Unfortunately, he woke up when the channel went off the air..
We were just watching that movie, and... WTF was up with that scene? Also, at the end, how did the guy get into the pictures from 1921? Was he alive in 1921, and was that true the whole time? If that makes any sense...
Scariest: 1. The Exorcist 2. The Shining 3. Jacob's Ladder Movies that were super scary at the time they came out (but not so scary nowadays): Phantasm Jaws Poltergeist Alien The Thing (1982) Halloween
mooney is awesome for real, though, the Shining - more disturbing than scary. Great native-american allegories throughout, really haunting racist/commentary subtext.
i always used to consider The Shining the scariest movie i had ever seen, with the guys in the costumes scene always being the freakiest part, but The Ring absolutely blew it away. so many scenes and visuals that were just captured perfectly for horror (the face of the first girl she kills and the head moving when they discovered the body was probably the worst). i'll watch The Shining if it comes on tv and enjoy it for the suspense and creepiness. i still haven't watched The Ring again and probably won't no matter how many times hbo shows it. and i damn sure couldn't watch The Ring 2. i think i'm starting to get nervous just typing about it. and if i ever wake up with my tv on static, i'm just flying out the window and taking my chances with gravity over that girl.
I don't really get scared when watching movies more just freaked out at times. Though I would have to say the Shinning or maybe even The Eye (though only for the first half). Parts of Susperia and Inferno were pretty good but both fell competly apart towards the end. Another recent one thats up there is Session 9.
There was an old John Carpenter movie called Prince of Darkness that scared me alot when I was a kid. I just recently saw it recently and it just wasn't the same. Still a good movie but wasn't scary at all.
