What was the Scariest Movie(s) of all time?

The Wicker Man became famous especially for Britt Eklands nude dance, which was considered extremely risqué at the time (and consequently attrated droves of cinemagoers).

In New York City, which is near to my home town, one would sometimes see ambulances pull up in front of theaters showing "The Exorcist," because some people became so frightened.

I believe it.

Did you know she used a body double for some parts of that?

My sister and I sat in each others laps duing most of the first "Halloween".

And we weren't even little children when we saw it.

I still think it is insanely scary.

"It" had some pretty scary parts.

Something about that damn Smiling Clown, standing down in the sewer under the street, looking up at the boy hypnotically and saying "Come down here...everything floats down here...."

"The Exorcist", by far

I haven't seen the American version, but I didn't find the Japanese version of "The Ring" all that scary, although it was a very interesting movie.

Boomerang, you sat in your sister's lap? That idea sounds scarier than any crappy horror movie

Oh. I see you've met my sister....



Just kidding - she's lovely! I can think of nothing wrong with sitting on her lap.

"The Exorcist", by far

I haven't seen the American version, but I didn't find the Japanese version of "The Ring" all that scary, although it was a very interesting movie.

Boomerang, you sat in your sister's lap? That idea sounds scarier than any crappy horror movie

Alright already! We're scary!

But we're lovely too.

I always fall for the "startle" effects in horror movies, but I can't think of any film that I really found scary. None that has ever kept me awake or given me nightmares, only documentaries about real atrocities have ever had that effect on me.

You may scared by every scary movie but you will forget it one day.

That reminds me JB- Have you ever read a short story by Jorge Louis Borges called "Funes El Memorioso"? It's about a man who couldn't forget anything. Eventually his head is so filled with memories that he goes mad. That's a scary thought.

I watched a Hitchcock episode on TV last night......
wow it looked tame!

If you're going to watch a psychological horror, you have to open your mind to the film. I've heard a lot of people say Ringu (Japanese "The Ring") isn't very scary but it's all about getting into it. If you really watch it and let the suspense get you, it really is scary. It's definitely one of the most disturbing films I've watched, if not scary.

The US remake is average at best. A lot of people say it's better - the kind of lazy people, put off by the subtitles, who just watch films instead of appreciating them.

'The Changelling' is probably the scariest movie I've seen.

I saw Gothika earlier this year and it had major consequences. I had a major fear of becoming mad and that movie addressed it directly... even if the story made no sense and the movie was bad it was succesful with it's intention of scaring the **** out of me. It literally changed my life as I was permanently scared and paranoic.

Maybe it was that I hadn't slept enough when I saw it but that is the scariest movie I've ever seen. Although I haven't seen the exorcist.

Seriously, reality is the real horror! The evening news does it for me.

That said (and meant), the scene in The Exorcist where the girl is being tested in the hospital.

Also, Henry-Portrait of a Serial Killer is chilling.

The Exorcist, for sure, is the most scary I've ever seen, then The Shining. I've never been able to watch either a second time.

The exorcist didn't do anything for me (I expected to be scared out of my wits, but was rather mildly amused).

I still have to see the Shining.

I saw Deathwatch the other day and thought it was uite bearable as a film even though I did not find it particularly scary. It shows a group of British soldiers during WWI who find themselves in some kind of in between state (between death and life, another diemension? Misspelling intended) a sort of purgatory, fighting the evil in themselves personified in a German.
Andy Serkis (Gollum from LOTR) plays a perfect sadist.

I liked the film mostly for its depiction of the squalor and misery of the trenches.