Scary movies
What are the scariest movies you've seen and what were the most horrifying moments from them? It's ok to include tv movies, too. The first Alien movie scared the crud out of me, particularly the part at the end where Ripley has gotten away from the alien planet and you think she's safe. As she's undressing, you see movement behind her and the alien is in the ship with her!!! :shock: John Carpenter's The Thing had lots of scary moments, particularly when the doctor is giving electric shocks to someone who's heart had stopped and suddenly the guy's chest opens up and clamps on to his hand, like jaws. It also creeps me out when the thing gets in with the dogs and starts digesting them. The tv movie The Day After scared me when I first saw it but then I was only in middle school at the time. The first Nightmare on Elm Street was very scary. I don't remember right off a particular part scaring me. War of the Worlds really got to me. I was afraid of thunderstorms for months after seeing it. The sound of the storm and the flashing lightning reminded me of the machines when they were attacking. That was the scariest part of that movie--hearing the machine's make the foghorn like call that let you know they were there and people were going to die.

I hate horror movies. They give me nightmares. The scariest movie I watched was probably Carrie. My sister and I watched it on tv one night, I was okay till the very end where, (I think this is how it went, its been a long time) someone is visiting a grave and a hand comes up thru the ground. My sister and I both screamed and ran for the stairs. The last one up had to turn out the light and go up stairs in the dark. Im not sure but I think I ran her down that night. The fallout from that was that the next night, I was coming from the kitchen and as I passed the back door it opened and a hand came around the door frame...so I did what any rational person would do, I pushed the door shut on the hand, and kept pushing. I dont know what I may have been saying but when I returned to my right mind I heard my other sister laughing and yelling "Lori stop it! Its just me!". She was out back and was just reaching around the door to turn on the outside light. :oops: Her fault, she should waited another 10 seconds and I would have been past the door. Remember a series on Fox years ago called Werewolf? I dont want to talk about it. :shock:

I love horror movies....not the gore kinds, just the scary ones. But they don't make good ones anymore....at least not that I like. Loved...Birds. To this day I do not like birds and I blame this movie. Frogs was another one. That scene where the guy is running into the trees and they are covered in spider webs and he gets all caught up :shock: K, that's enough of that. Pika, I'm with you on Alien. Dynamite movie, scared the crap out of me the first time the Alien came out of the guy and at the end. The book Salems Lot scared me. I ended up staying up the whole night reading it cause I couldn't get to sleep (ended up staying home from school the next day). Nightmare on Elm street was another good one, along with the Thing. I don't find the horror movies of today very scary at all. I never did get The Ring or The Grudge.

Oh, yeah. Salem's Lot was another goodie! I had forgotten about it. The movie Tarantulas scared the heck out of me, too. The part I remember the most is the end, where the whole city is enclosed in a spider web. Brrrr! Jaws made me afraid of the water. It's strange because it didn't bother me so much during the day but it made swimming at night creepy. My sister and I were even afraid to swim in our swimming pool at night even though we knew logically there are no sharks in our pool. I don't know. Maybe the movie Alligator had more to do with that fear since it has a scene where a kid dives into a pool at night and there's a gator in there. There are some movies that I don't remember particularly well but I remember being scared by them at the time. Notably Scanners, with the only scene I remember being when someone's head blows up, and The Hand, which had Michael Caine as a guy who lost his hand in a car accident and it starts murdering people.

I remember watching The Birds with my dad one sunday afternoon. To this day Im am not a bird lover. Everytime I see a bunch of black birds in my yard I think of that movie.

Re: Scary Movies
A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Ring are two of the scariest movies I've ever seen. I can't think of any other movies that come even close.

Re: The Ring
Yes, you must be jaded. You are the first person I know of that didn't think The Ring was terrifying. The Ring 2 sucks, though. And isn't scary one bit. It's just plain stupid.

One movie that was always terrifying for me was a movie I saw in my 30s called "Lady In White". It came out in 1988 and may be on video now. If you're not familiar with it, here is Roger Ebert's review of it .... Here's a trailer although you have to sit through a commercial to see it ... http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095484/trailers Lady In White Release Date: 1988 Ebert Rating: *** By Roger Ebert Apr 22, 1988 "Lady in White" tells a classic ghost story in such an everyday way that the ghost is almost believable, and the story is actually scarier than it might have been with a more gruesome approach. The film creates a run-of-the-mill small town, populates it with ordinary folks, gives us a bright grade-school kid as the hero, and then plunges into a tale of murder and revenge. We have been this way before in countless other movies, but not often with so much style, atmosphere and believable human nature. Frank LaLoggia, who wrote and directed "Lady in White," knows that ghosts are more frightening when they appear in the midst of everyday life. He also knows that horror stories work best when they play by the rules of conventional morality and reality. The reason movies like the "Friday the 13th" efforts grow old and boring is because they permit pure anarchy in which anything can happen and therefore it's no use for us to hope, or care, about the characters. This film stars Lukas Haas as Frankie, an inquisitive kid with an active imagination, who has a cruel trick played on him one night. Some kids lure him into the school cloakroom and lock him in, and as the night grows darker and the moon rises, he realizes that no one knows where to look for him. Then an eerie thing happens. He sees a ghost, the ghost of a young girl about his age, who seems restless and tragic, as ghosts must, because why else would they wander the Earth unless a great injustice remained unsettled? Frankie even speaks with the ghost, but then, not long after, the cloakroom has another visitor, a masked man, who fishes down in the heating duct for something and who almost kills Frankie but finally lets him loose. Who is this strange man? Is he a ghost, or a real human being? Students of the Law of Economy of Movie Character Development will figure out soon enough that the masked man is obviously the only character in the movie who has no other reason for being on the screen, but by then it's already too late to save Frankie from possible doom. The peculiar thing about these goings-on, we discover, is that they really do exist on two levels: There is indeed a ghost in the movie and also a real, live killer. And on a parallel track, there is the ghostly Lady in White who is said to wander the town at night, and also the weird Amanda (Katherine Helmond), a spinster whose home reminded me of that lonely closed room in "Great Expectations" where Miss Havisham kept her wedding cake. All of these bizzare events are anchored in reality by the strong, commonsense performances of Haas, Alex Rocco as his father and Len Cariou as a family friend. There are lots of small-town details in the movie, conversations that exist for no other reason than to establish the everyday reality against which the haunted events of the night take place. The movie does a good job of telling a complicated story, which accounts for the various ghosts and other midnight apparitions, and yet it is not shy when it comes to special effects and cliff-hanging endings. It's kind of tricky reviewing a movie like this. Almost nothing I can say will accurately reflect the tone of the film. I can write about ghosts and killers and strange old ladies, and I could be describing a much different film. But "Lady in White," like most good films, depends more on style and tone than it does on story, and after awhile it's the whole insidious atmosphere of the film that begins to envelop us. Like the best ghost stories of M. R. James and Oliver Onions, who were the best in their classic field, "Lady in White" is finally not really about being frightened by ghosts, but about feeling pity for them.

Another scary movie is "No Way To Treat A Lady" from 1968 starring Rod Steiger. Lee Remick and George Segal. Lots of scary moments in this one.... No Way To Treat A Lady A succession of murders of middle-aged women is carried out by a priest, a plumber, a gay hair stylist, and a policeman. Except that all the murderers are actually the same person—a theatre impresario named Christopher Gill who is a failed actor and master of disguise eager to live up to the reputation of his actress mother. When the detective assigned to the case (Morris "Mo" Brummel) inadvertently praises the elegance of the first crime in the newspapers, Gill makes a connection with Mo and proceeds to warn him about the later murders by telephone. A game of cat and mouse between the two follows, but the stalemate appears to be broken when Mo attempts to smoke out Gill by trying to pin an unrelated murder on him. Gill responds by stalking Mo's own girlfriend, Kate Palmer.

I saw this movie, "MIdnight Lace", when I was 9 years old in 1960. It stars Doris Day, Rex Harrison and John Gavin. This was a time when phone calls could not be easily or instantly traced but that does not detract from the scariness of this movie ... Here is a trailer for the movie but you have to sit through a commercial ... http://videodetective.com/default.asp?frame=http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=1190 Midnight Lace Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is frightened one day in a London fog by a voice behind a statue. Next the telephone calls start. Then there is a new man on the block, the architect of a building going up next to the Prestons' vintage apartment. That vintage building has the kind of curving stairwell and cage-type elevator that Hitchcock and other suspense masters have loved. Could Kit merely have an overactive imagination? ....A fine mystery with a cast that makes the most of it. Doris Day is an American living in London and married to a successful businessman Rex Harrison. She soon finds her life in danger...

Another scary one for me was 1985's "Stephen King's Silver Bullet" about a werewolf in a small Maine town. The scariest scary scene for me was when the handicapped boy was in his motorized wheelchair at night in a state park shooting off firecrackers when he sees the werewolf.. and the werewolf sees him. I still get chills thinking about it.... Stephen King's Silver Bullet" A superior Stephen King horror film, this release moves like the projectile after which it was named. From the opening scene, in which a railroad worker meets his grisly demise at the claws of a werewolf, to the final confrontation between our heroes (Gary Busey and Corey Haim) and the hairy beast, it's an edge-of-your-seat winner. Rated R for violence and gore...

I forgot about this one, again from the time when phone calls were not traceable. It was "I Saw What You Did" from 1965 and it is truly scary because it's so ordinary and believable and plausible... And it didn't help that the girls' house was way out in the country at night... I Saw What You Did Two teens, Libby (Andi Garrett) and Kit (Sarah Lane) want to have an overnight sleepover together while Libby’s parents are out of town on business. Their parents have hired a baby-sitter to watch Libby and their younger daughter, Tess (Sharyl Locke). But the baby-sitter calls in sick at the last minute. Rather than cancel the business engagement, Libby’s father says she is now old enough and responsible enough to baby-sit her sister, Tess. Kit’s father drops her off at Libby’s house, but will return later to pick her up. Libby’s parents leave and the first thing these immature girls do is made crank phone calls. They randomly pick mens’ names from the phone book, and when their wives answer, they speak in deep female voices suggesting their husbands are cheating on them. After several hours of this the girls get bored, and take the activity to a new level. They call people randomly, and say, "I saw what you did. I know who you are." Most people just hang up. Except for Steve Marak (John Ireland). You see, he has a guilty conscience because he just killed his straying wife. Steve has also had an affair with his lovestruck neighbor Amy (Joan Crawford). With Steve’s wife out of the picture, Amy is ready to move in and corral the object of her affections, Steve. While Amy is in the process of seducing Steve, he receives a random phone call from those trouble making girls, Libby and Kit. Libby says, "I saw what you did. I know who you are." into the receiver, and a paranoid Steve immediately thinks that this person knows he killed his wife. Steve starts to come on to her, and when asked for a name, Libby responds with "Suzette". Steve begs her to meet him someplace, but she refuses. After they hang up, the lonely Libby is intrigued with what this guy has to say. She talks Kit and her sister Kit into joining her in a trip to Steve’s house--just to check out where he lives and hopefully get a look at him. Using their parents car, the trio easily find Steve’s house. Against Kit’s wishes, Libby gets out and looks in the windows of Steve’s apartment, where he sees her. He grabs a knife and advances to kill her, but a jealous Amy shows up thinking that this teenage girl is her rival for Steve’s affections. She forces Libby back into the car, then grabs the car registration from the dash board. The frightened girls head for home, unaware that Amy gives the registration to Steve. He now knows the address of Libby’s house. Steve fires up his car and begins the trek to the girl’s home. They must fend off the threat of the murderer in order to survive the night!

Those all sound like really good flicks, Grimme. I haven't seen any of them, but I love the older flicks, they were made so much better than todays movies. For me, the scariest movie I ever saw has to be The Excorcist. I was only about 6 when I saw it and to this day there hasn't been another movie that had the impact on me that that movie did. I also remember one part of a flick I saw when I was little, I can't tell you the name of it, I only remember that there was a little girl that got trapped in a wicker chest and died there. It was more terrifying for me because that was one of all of my brothers favorite torture devices for me, they'd trap me in places-closets, chests, even wrapped up inside a blanket and leave me there for what seemed like forever to me. And then when they finally freed me, I'd be threatened with all sorts of horrors if I even thought about telling mom and dad. They were rotten...