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What, in your opinion, is the scariest film ever made?

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Jimmy the Squid:

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You forgot the best line in the whole film: "I kick arse for the Lord!"

LeeZion:
Since the original question is, "What is the scariest film ever made?" I have to mention these, which have nothing to do with horror.  But the only films that ever truly scared me were NOT horror films.

Savage Nights. Or, in the original French, Les Nuits Fauves. Cyril Collard wrote the script, directed and stars as a man who knows he has AIDS, but sleeps around anyway, telling his male and female conquests only after the fact. One of the many things that made this film truly terrifying was that it was an autobiography — in real life, Cyril Collard had AIDS, and he probably lived what he portrayed on screen. He died a few months after the movie was released. I remember being shaken by this film that after it let out, because this could have happened to me, in one way or another. I called the girl I was dating at the time. But she wasn't in, and I had to go through the whole thing myself.

Safe. According to IMDb, there are several movies with this title. The one I'm talking about is the 1995 film starring Julianne Moore. She plays a woman who becomes extremely sensitive to common houshold chemicals, and her life falls apart. She goes for a perm, and it gives her a nosebleed. She has to carry an oxygen tank with her just to go to the dry cleaners. And it gets worse from there. What made this film horrifying was that it was real — people can and do develop multiple chemical sensitivity — unlike horror movies, where the thing we're supposed to be afraid of can't possibly exist once we leave the theater. The other thing that made the film horrifying is that there's no closure, no triumph, no catharsis. The film just ends.

Me and My Gal. Now how did a Hollywood musical end up on this list? A comedy starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly? Well, I watched this film a few months ago. There's one scene where one character gets his hand caught in a door, and his fingers get crushed. I watched this film just after seeing a doctor for arthritis pain in my fingers, and the way that particular scene was shot, combined with the very real pain I was in at the time, jolted me way out of my comfort zone. Here I am, a fully grown adult, and for weeks afterward, I was terrified of doors. I would hold my hands close to my chest every time I walked through a door, just to make sure my fingers didn't get caught. Even now, just thinking about it ...

Returning to the horror genre, the best horror films I have seen were more unsettling than scary. The Sixth Sense. The Devil's Backbone. The Butterfly Effect. And The Blair Witch Project. The woman I saw it with, she was terrified — and made physically ill by the constantly moving camera. She couldn't even look, but the sounds got to her. She called it the best horror film she had never seen.

Emaline:
When I first saw the Blair Witch Project, I was a kid. Maybe ten. I lived near a forest. In fact, it was right behind my house. It scared me, because of a combination of things.

First of all, I watched it at a slumber party with some friends. We were all in the living room. All of the sudden we hear this loud crashing noise, like a lot of glass breaking. We wander into my room to find out that all the shelves in my room have been knocked over. All of my stupid glass knick-knacks(including a fish tank) were destroyed. We had no idea how it could have happened. The door was closed. No one was in there. It had to have been the Blair Witch!(We later found out that someone had shut my cat in there. So, no witch)


Then, we're all trying to sleep. The lights are out, everyone is quiet. The whole house is silent. Except for this sound coming from outside that sounds like someone clapping two stones together(like they heard in the movie). The sounds continues until we make my dad go outside and see what it is. It turned out that it was squirrels throwing acorns on the porch.


So those two things, coupled with the fact that I lived right near a forest and as a kid often played in it, made the movie very scary. When I watch it now though, I tend to laugh at it's horrible cheesiness.

Did anyone play the computer games, though? Those were pretty sweet.

Ben yayayayayayayay:

--- Quote from: Emaline on 16 Jun 2007, 12:32 ---When I first saw the Blair Witch Project, I was a kid. Maybe ten. I lived near a forest. In fact, it was right behind my house. It scared me, because of a combination of things.
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Whoa! Same for me but I think I was 9.

The night I first saw it, I woke up feeling sick. The kind of sick where you lie in bed just hallucinating crazy shit. I got up out of my bed to get some water and, in the dark corner of my room, I saw a robed figure with what looked like hair covering its face...just staring at me. In the corner of my room. I ran to the light switch and could see that it was only my coat rack. Still, robed figure, corner of room, holy fuck.

And yes I did try to play the games, but my computer froze after only a few minutes in. It had nice lighting though from the little bit I played  :|

flippant:
The Shining, mostly because my sister snuck me in to see it in the theater when I was way too young to see such things  and it fucked me up for weeks.  Any other scary movie I've seen since is disturbing but not nearly as  scary, I think maybe if all the shit you have inside is scared out of you at one time, you can't create any more.

then again, that doesn't make since either, since I know I am full of shit.

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