Truly Scary Movies?

[Gooseberrysoda]

Let's face it, there are a lot of movies that try to hard or have lost their ability to scare people over time. Which ones can still keep you awake after a viewing?

For me it's

-The Amityville Horror (And Amityville II: The Possession)
2 Truly Terrifying movies that make me scared to leave the room, to look away from the screen.

-A Nightmare On Elm Street (Original)
The only one in the series that was actually scary (But by no means the best), This movie makes me shit bricks. Especially this scene:


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-Halloween
The first couple of scenes with Michael Myers standing stalking Laurie Strode scare the hell out of me.

-House on Haunted Hill (Remake)
Brings some excellent twisted humor and horror to the floor, and that creepy walk that the ghosts do can frighten me in broad daylight.

What about all of you?

[Betamax001]

I think the only thing scary about Amityville Horror 2 was how bad it was compared to the original.

[renardqueenston]

gotta go with ●REC! what a thrill ride that one was.

[benderx]

Go watch I SELL THE DEAD enjoy.

[Bikeage]

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' falls into the narrow category of "truly scary"... and anyone who praises the remake should be skinned and made into a lampshade. I know opinions were divided on 'The Blair Witch Project', but it's also right up there.

[sevin0seven]

i thought Darkness Falls and The Others was creepy.

[Ziggy]

-A Nightmare On Elm Street (Original)
The only one in the series that was actually scary (But by no means the best), This movie makes me shit bricks. Especially this scene:

First time I saw Nightmare on Elm street I was fairly young. The scene when Nancy is in school and sees her dead friend in the body bag was scary for me. Particularly the bottom pic here:

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' falls into the narrow category of "truly scary"... and anyone who praises the remake should be skinned and made into a lampshade. I know opinions were divided on 'The Blair Witch Project', but it's also right up there.

I was pretty freaked out from a couple scenes the first time I saw Texas Chainsaw (original). And I was older, too. About 14. I hated Blair Witch though. I saw in in the theater with a friend, who made me leave with him at the end because he was too scared to continue watching it. I thought it was mostly lame. A few scenes were kinda creepy (like when they're in the tent) but other than that, pretty boring.

There's something about older movies, especially low budget ones, that make it scary to watch. Any one know what I'm talking about? Old film is just creepy.

[GSZX1337]

There's something about older movies, especially low budget ones, that make it scary to watch. Any one know what I'm talking about? Old film is just creepy.

It's the film grain. Film grain makes everything deadly.

[Ack]

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' falls into the narrow category of "truly scary"... and anyone who praises the remake should be skinned and made into a lampshade. I know opinions were divided on 'The Blair Witch Project', but it's also right up there.

I'll praise the fact I got to see Jessica Biel in that outfit in the remake. That doesn't mean I don't think Michael Bay should die in a fire though...and not an explosion.

Hmm...truly scary movies... Alien terrified me when I was young, and The Thing still makes me sick in my gut thinking about those mutations. I thought Ju-On was quite creepy too. But I'd say Jacob's Ladder is probably the king of the crop for me. There were so many moments where I found myself staring at the screen wondering who could have envisioned something like the imagery you see in it. Session 9 is another favorite of mine, but it's the setting that makes it scary. The plot felt forced.

[Gooseberrysoda]

I think the only thing scary about Amityville Horror 2 was how bad it was compared to the original.

Hey, now. It told the DeFeo story better than Amityville: A New Generation

Honestly the only decent sequel past Two is Amityville 1992. The rest are garbage But Amityville 2 still had the scare factor that 1 did.