What movie scared you the most?

[twaddler (imported)]

Several entries.

1. Alien.

2. John Carpenter's The Thing.

3. The Hellraiser movies.

I am now morbidly curious to see The Sentinel.

2 & 3 definitely. I had nightmares for several years after watching Hellraiser films. D: And 'The Thing' with Kurt Russell? That twitchy freakiness is just way scary.

[Riverwind (imported)]

For me, no question.

8 or 9 years old, Saturday night, "The Posiden Adventure" plays on TV for the first time. Babysitter that was with me let me watch it.

Result: screaming nightmares, fear of pools, and a refusal from me to get on any boat for the rest of the summer. Dear ol' Mom never let me watch any sort of scary movie again!

However, since I became an adult, "The Shining" wins the scariest-movie award for me. I still get the creeps when I think of lonely hotel hallways and cute little girls in blue dresses.... <shiver!>

I went to a double feature, I don't remember the movie I went to see but the other one had been playing about 30 minutes, and in those days you could go right in, well I walked into this movie and they were climbing up a x-mas tree that was upside down. It was maybe 15 or 20 minutes later that there was a shot of the boat upside down when I commented " OH there in a boat" which got laughs from everybody near me.

Gremlins, was the scariest movie I have ever seen as an adult. That Mother gave me nightmares for a week, One in the microwave, one in the blender, one down the garbage disposal, SHE WAS SCARY.

Jurassic Park, the raptors chasing the kids in the kitchen.

River

[Dave (imported)]

I was involved in a video rental store for a couple years and I've warned away from the HELLRAISER films. The evil characters are profoundly evil and beyond any redemption (to use a phrase borrowed from Christianity because that is the mythology those films dea with).

Another film that we warned people about renting was John Carpenter's Poltergeist. The reason for the warning was that kids saw the movie differently than adults.

Kids saw the tree scene as threatening and had no defense against it -- a kiddie nightmare the scary limbs of a tree reaching to take them away from the house.

The little girl responding to the TV. So easy for little kids to identify with those characters and feel real fear.

Being lost or abandoned is incredibly frightening to a kid and to make the characters kids could see and sympathize with -- nightmare city. Hansel and Gretel is not just a story for kids, it is the one big nightmare -- Mommy and Daddy don't want you, have abandoned you.

[Rusty Dai (imported)]

#1 - Alien - rented VHS tape at home. I'm not sure if I was more scared for Sigorney Weaver's character, or the cat. The first time I saw it was extremely intense.

#2 - Dracula - The version with Gary Oldman and Keanu Reeves - also rented and played at home.

#3 - Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte at the Airport Drive-in Theater, Goleta, California.

[Peter47-NL (imported)]

Straw Dogs (1971) with Dustin Hoffman.

[Twinsenboy (imported)]

However, since I became an adult, "The Shining" wins the scariest-movie award for me. I still get the creeps when I think of lonely hotel hallways and cute little girls in blue dresses.... <shiver!>

Kubrick is the greatest, isn't he? Yes he, is. Yeees, he is =D

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[MacTheWolf (imported)]

The first drive-in movie I ever went to scared the crap outta me. It was back in 1955 and called "War of the Worlds."

[Arab Nights (imported)]

"Ginger" with Cheri Caffaro. Cheesy acting, bad script, but the long, drawn out castration scene made me cringe

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

"Ginger" with Cheri Caffaro. Cheesy acting, bad script, but the long, drawn out castration scene made me cringe

I loved the Cheri Cafero movies like Ginger, Girls are for Loving and one other I forget.

[Eunuchorn (imported)]

The first drive-in movie I ever went to scared the crap outta me. It was back in 1955 and called "War of the Worlds."

My first drive-in was Paint your Wagon. I was a toddler while my parents were doing parent stuff.