Scariest movie you have seen? - Shutter (2008) Discussion

[–] Cthulhu06 17 years ago

Most american movie makers seem to think surprising you and making you jump is "scary", it's not, anyone can make someone jump

As for films I would call "scary" four spring to mind, none are american :)

-Ring (Original)
-Ju-On: The Grudge (Original)
-Dark Water (Original)
-Shutter (Original)

The U.S. version of The Ring had a big budget and some nice effects but it just wasn't scary in the slightest

The Grudge was the same, where the original was very dark and had a very oppressive feel to it, the remake seemed all glossy and expensive

Dark Water, same as above

Haven't seen the remake of Shutter yet, I'll watch it when I don't have to pay as I have very low expectations for all remakes and wouldn't part with a single penny to watch one of them

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[–] awr_tsai 17 years ago

Jurassic Park 3. Anyone?

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[–] hoaxey 17 years ago

A Tale of two sisters, the eye and the eye 2 originals were some of the scariest films ive seen and by that i mean theres a sense of dread and creepiness and not just jump out scare scenes but i like those as well mixed with the creepy atmosphere.

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[–] ivan_toniolli 17 years ago

Alien

By a long shot. I saw it when I was 12, on my own at night. Scared the living daylight out of me. When one of the crew is chasing with a motion detector the alien in the tunnels with a flame thrower I felt so claustrophobic, like I was in that tunnel with him. Very few movies drawn me in like that.

Profondo Rosso

A little unknown movie from Dario Argento. Shots of hands and coat of the killer are quite scary, plenty of blood and a very creepy music. Also quite a twisted script, but probably that one would not scare me today.

Shining

"Heeeeere's Johnny!" How creepy is the sound of the wheels of the toy cycle on carpet and tiles, in endless corridors? It scared the begeezes out of me.

All the others don't really get close to it for me...

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[–] brettmarch 17 years ago

The Exorcist just makes me laugh, the only scary part are the noises from the loft, things like that freak me out. The Grudge (remake) actually freaked me out, that crawling woman is just sooo wrong and nasty ;)

The Shining scares me , i think thats from when i watched it as a kid, made me have nightmares. I remember the Ammityville horror scared me lots when i was growing up.

Forgot to mention the Alien movies, not too bad now, but when i was a kid, they terrified me! mind you, so did King Kong ha, giant apes are evvvvviiiiil :)

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[–] smakagen 17 years ago

Cant belive u guys didnt bring up "The Entity"(1981), ive seen all the movies mentioned in this threat, and thats hands down the most scary ive seen, see it alone after midnight and im sure some of u cant watch it without stopping ;) its not blood or any like that, just creepy scary, but ok its from 1981 so ofc some slow scenes, but when it picks up omg and the music score is right on, PLZ check it out if u havnt seen it.

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[–] DrProfessor 12 years ago

There are two films that I found profoundly scary. Alien was one of them. I was eleven years old when it came out. I saw it in NYC in one of the big theaters. Previous to Alien, there was nothing ever like it. It was pure terror for everyone in the theater.
However, horror is not just defined by suspense. When a film haunts you long after you've seen it, it's done it's job. Communion, is just this type of film. Being based on Whitney Strieber's own personal experiences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley_Strieber#Communion_and_.22The_Visitors.22) while on vacation in upstate New York.

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[–] sanziano 12 years ago

Unknown movie from Argento? Deep Red is a beep classic.

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[–] docvandelay 17 years ago

Psycho, the original. Hitchcock had it right.

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[–] chad_zimmerman54 17 years ago

Only movies that ever scared me were "fire in the sky" and "Event Horizon," but i saw them when i was like 13 so that's probably why.

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[–] stick_bone 17 years ago

"Candyman"(1992) scared the HELL out of me. I dont know if anyones heard of this movie, but it was one of the first horror movies i ever watched. its kinda like the 'bloody mary' urban legend. but after watching this movie as a kid, i couldnt look in our mirror at night for weeks.i would wake up in the middle of the night wanting to go to the toilet and jus hold it in cos i was SO scared to b faced with a mirror.

watchd the movie again when i was 18 and its still just as scary! its a must see for horror movie buffs. VERY twisted and disturbing

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[–] maccy2003 17 years ago

My Scary, Disturbing Films & Tv Films/Series

The Exorcist (Obviously)
The Haunting (1963)
House Of 1,000 Corpses
The Devil's Rejects (Sheer Class)
The Woman In Black (The end of the bed scene.....)
Eraserhead
Don't Look Now...
Audition
Poltergeist
Repulsion (A forgotten clasic - Very, Very, Very Disturbing....)
Millennium (Frank Black - great character)
Carver (Very Sick)

Anyone want to add to/agree with this list?

Comments appreciated
Regards
Mac12003

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[–] justagirl_17 16 years ago

I cant believe none of you guys have said a nightmare on elmstreet. I thought it was so scary cause there nowhere to run.

Rest are:

Halloween (original)
Birds
El Orfanato
Poltergeist

Same old *beep* different day

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[–] atsuki_ayami 16 years ago

Most horror movies scare me (Ju-On, The Haunting, The Shining, etc.) but there were a few movies that scared me on a different level...It's hard to explain. For example: in "Donnie Darko" Frank (yes, the rabbit-guy) made me wanna run out the room screaming!
And in David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" the guy that peeks out from behind the corner...I swear I just couldn't LOOK at a door opening, scared that that creep would suddenly appear.
Maybe I'm just plain weird :)

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[–] MobitzI 16 years ago

The Rabbit from Donnie Darko could have been scary, had he his own movie. For some reason, I think one of the most frightening characters I've ever seen was Chigurh from "No Country for Old Men". Especially the beginning when he is in the Police Station. He's one guy I'd never want to see in real life.

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[–] sanziano 12 years ago

ahahaahah, I agree. And what about the odd couple of old people in the end of Mulholland?

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[–] Marinas1212 15 years ago

I was wondering if someone was ever gonna mention The Woman in Black. Truly scary. If someone watches that and they aren't creeped out, there's something wrong...

Why wish for the moon when we can have the stars?

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[–] ladybritannia 16 years ago

The origial Shutter from Thailand, I was scared to sleep alone after that one

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[–] lavashop 15 years ago

Psycho wasn't scary one bit.

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[–] baseballllls 16 years ago

Arachnaphobia

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[–] MobitzI 16 years ago

By far the Scariest movie ever was The Exorcist.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, or maybe I missed it, but "Child's Play 1" was pretty damn scary (for its time). That movie had me scared for days. But I'm sure if I watch it now I'll just laugh at how corny it really was.

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[–] Meven_Stoffat 16 years ago

The Orphanage.

The scariest jump scene ever is the "Corridor scene" in The Exorcist III... You know where she goes into the room, and there's a false-alarm scare where the man wakes up and startles her, then she goes checks every room... I won't say the rest but here's the scene on YouTube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zH8ynu0jRvY

One of the greatest scenes in movie history. It scares you with no music until it happens. And the violence that happens is implied- no gore, nothing is show. That's how horror should be done.

"Nightmares, will give me piece of mind."-Iron Maiden

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[–] xdevilmaycryx 16 years ago

House on Haunted Hill scared the crap out of me when I was younger.

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[–] Gravity00 16 years ago

I was terrified while watching sixth sense. It is the only scary movie that managed to actually scare me *shudders*.

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[–] Antoine Tremblay 16 years ago

The Exorcist is for me the greatest horror film in the history of cinema but the biggest scare I ever felt was watching Pet Semetery when I was 10 years old. That character Zelda...gave me nightmares for months!

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[–] malmbr-1 16 years ago

By far [REC] is the scariest I've ever seen. Can't believe no one mentioned it.
I really recommend [REC] if u wanna see a scary movie. It's Spannish, but it didn't bother me (watched with eng subs)
Other scary movies:
-The Exorcist
-Blair Witch Project
-The Descent
-White Noise 1
-The Grudge

I really wanna watch Ringu and Shutter now :)
The only Jap horror I've seen is One missed call, but it didn't really scare me...

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[–] sanziano 12 years ago

Yeah expecially the final and the guy that fall down the 4th floor at the beginning.

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[–] SyzyDamo 12 years ago

I think its important to keep in mind that the release year of the film is an important factor.

Our tolerances to horror and scares is very different now to what it was in, say 1970.

When the exorcist was released for example, and even later when The Thing was released, few would argue that they raised the bar to such an extreme level for the time that these films literally burned themselves into the viewers minds.

The Exorcist isnt a game changer when you compare it to say a decent scary film made within the last 10 years. But then, recent scary films have trained our audience to a different kind of scare. A good scary film currently might be defined as one with great gore effects or being filled with a million unexpected jump-scene, whereas in 1970 a 'good scary' film may have been more psychologically-based.

The bottom line is there probably isn't a person alive today who wasnt affected in some way by films of their child-hood, that they viewed later in life and felt it lacked by comparison to some current films. But the important thing is the effect it had on viewers AT THE TIME.

As society and times change, so do the sensitivities of material contained in film, and watching these out of context (and out of the time period) will never be an ideal way to recognize a films merits.

What scary film (by and large) had the biggest impact on its audience in the 70's?
What scary film (by and large) had the biggest impact on its audience in the 80's?
What scary film (by and large) had the biggest impact on its audience in the 90's?
etc.

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[–] yourmove2 10 years ago

How true. Omega Man (1971) scared the living hell out of me when I first watched it in the late 70's (who knew zombies could move that fast?) yet that classic Charlton Heston movie would probably only rate as a b grade horror today.

I'm not so sure about your comments about tolerances though, I think it has more to do with "participation".

Horror films of the 70's and earlier often used film noir techniques, doing just enough to force the viewer to fill in the blanks with their own imagination. In essence they relied on viewers to scare themselves, and people were more practiced at doing just that. I figure that's why horror films of the day were more universally scary.

Modern horror films (more action than suspense for the most part,) leave far less to the imagination, and that habit of painting too complete a picture probably explains not only why one persons "best horror ever" leaves others thinking "that ain't scary at all" but also why many of the younger generation of viewers just don't get the older classics - because if they don't see it with their own eyes it didn't happen.

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[–] holcs 16 years ago

how was the orphanage scary??? that movie was not scary at all--for me high tension, and event horizon (but it was so scary cuz i saw it when i was 14 and it gave me nightmares....also movies based on real serial killer are freaky if done well

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[–] sanziano 12 years ago

Damn i almost had an infarct watching it now....

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[–] shopgirl1293 16 years ago

The Exorcist has always scared me. I have to cover my eyes at some scenes even cover my ears. I've been doing that since I was about 13, I'm 23 now. The ring also kind of scared me and along with The Grudge. That noise that Kayako or whatever her name is, does that with her throat, scares me every time, I even get freaked out when I hear someone not in the movie do it.

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[–] megatori 16 years ago

I still love "The Changeling" with George C. Scott. Compare the seance scene with the one from "The Others" (another good movie!)...very similar and creepy.

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[–] egcrx 16 years ago

The only movie that really gave me the chills was Event Horizon, its also one of my favorite movies of all time.

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[–] Lady_Pyralis 16 years ago

I didn't see this one listed:
"The Serpent and the Rainbow". Absolutely terrifying, when you really understand that the *zombie drug* (at the time, at least) was readily available to ANYONE that had the cash to buy it. The "zombie drug" is also used in hospitals, although it's not exactly the same as what's available on the streets. If I remember correctly, in hospitals, it's called "Atropine" & used when doing heart surgery & stuff like that.

So, what terrified me beyond belief was that it didn't take a stretch of the imagination for this to be believeable- while it *was* dramatized, it was asl based on fact.

Just my 2 cents there ^.^.

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