Well we all definitely know each others' favourite sci-fi movie :D
So as they say in Scream;
"What's your favourite scary movie"
What do you think is the ultimate scary one? :docs2:

For me, nothing is scarier than The Sixth Sense!

"I see dead people! Walking around like regular people! They don't know they're dead! :o

Hm, I'd have to say The Ring. It's just such a creepy concept.

When I was little, though, The Terminator scared me pretty badly! Not so much now--I can't help but think about how fake it looks towards the end.

Funny you should bring this topic up today, I just finished reading Stephen King's Misery and now I really want to go out and rent the movie of it!

^ It's been my experiance that Stephen King's books are way better then the films.
I love the book 'Christine', it's up there as one of my favourite, scariest things I've ever read, but the movie sucks. lol.

Great thread Kath!! Another reason why Alt's board is so cool!

When I was little, about 7 I think. My Dad let me watch 'A nightmare on Elm street'. I couldn't sleep all night cause I was sure Freddy was coming in my dreams to kill me.
That movie desensitized me for life!

Psycho is the true scariest horror thriller I think. But I've seen it sooo many times it no longer has a big effect on me :(

Yeah, sixth sense and the Ring were creepy.

The Quantum leap episode where Sam leaps into that horror writter on halloween and everyone starts dieing is pretty cool. As Kath would agree ;)
But it's not really a movie.

'The Others' scared me when I saw it in the movies.

Oh, and 'The Grudge' was soooooooo scary!!

Yeah, I haven't read many of his books (though Misery has intrigued me and I want to read more now), but I can see how the book in this case would definitely surpass the movie. I looked on IMDB.com and found a trailer for it, looked through the threads people made--the, um, most disturbing part of the book sounds to be far more disturbing than what I've read happens in the movie, if you catch my drift. (Don't wanna let out any spoilers! Hehe.)

On a different note, has anyone seen Sybil with Sally Field? It's a made-for-TV movie from 1976 about a woman with multiple-personality disorder, but we watched it when I took a psychology class in high school. It didn't scare me that much, but it was definitely creepy and there were some disturbing images at play.

I've never even heard of Sybil, so no chance of me seeing it.

Like Shandy and Lil White Dove, The Ring creeped me out. What happened to the peoples faces really freaked me out the first time I watched it, but it doesn't have any effect on me now.

For me Signs is the scariest, I seen it the first time at the cinema, and couldn't force myself to watch it at home a few months later because it scared me that much. I've seen it since and it's not so bad now, still the worst, but not so bad.

Wow - great answers, everybody! I'm getting scared just thinking about the films you're mentioning. :docs2:

I agree, The Ring was really, really scary. I was so frightened when I watched that that I didn't dare even watch that film within the film! Lol! As soon as it ended, my friend, Lora, used her cell phone to ring the house phone just to freak me out! I was sooo scared! Ha ha ha!

Shandy's right (welcome Shandy! btw!) - that episode of Quantum Leap gave me nightmares for years - Al's eyes all red and angry freaked me out! My brother & I used to scare each other talking about that one! Also, the one with the dead housekeeper too! Brrrr!

LWD- it's interesting that you mention Terminator because for at least 2 years after seeing T2, I had a recurring nightmare that the Terminator/Robert Patrick was after me on a motorbike!

Oh yes and The Others!!! Now that was scary too! Eek. I couldn't agree more! :o

Hi again everyone!
Cool idea for a thread Kath.
The movie that scared me the most was "The Blair Witch Project". I know a lot of people think that isn't scary, you don't even see any witch or anything. I have a really vivid, overactive imagination so my mind was conjuring all sorts of stuff up. I suppose that's what makes it so scary, plus the way it was shot and Heather's screams right at the end. :unsure: :(
A film I NEVER want to see is "The Ring". My friend described what happens in it and for ages I kept on expecting something to crawl out of the TV set in my room. :blink:
I suppose "Halloween" scared me a bit but I got over it pretty quickly.
On a weird note though, I don't find zombie or vampire movies scary at all. Weird, huh?

Warpie the Greezer Slayer

My Halloween movie list:

What Lies Beneath
The Sixth Sense
The Others
The Ring
Darkness Falls
Carrie

BTW: Horror movies don't really creep me out. I'm usually the one who sits in the front row seat at the movie theater to watch this stuff. The creepier, the better! Bring it on! (But leave the gore at home. I like to scarf down the popcorn while I watch my horror movies.)

A spoof on Buffy The Vampire Slayer?

I rarely see horror films. I usually stay away, but I did see "I Know What You Did Last Summer" once. it was so scary, even a girl screamed every 5 minutes in the theatre.

Unbreakable was very spooky. I've seen it twice, have yet to see The Sixth Sense.

I really don't see any scary moves. :( My parents usually don't allow me to. :( Though out of the few scary movis I've seen it Dawn of the Dead, and even that isn't very scary.

^ Yeah, one of my friends and I went to see that late at night wanting to be scared out of our wits, but we thought it was really funny, there was just no way we could take it seriously. We both thought the ending was just hysterical.

Alot of movies will temporarily scare me (that list is endless). Besides, it doesn't even really take much to make me jump--people love me for that at Halloween, LOL!

Believe it or not, though (and feel free to laugh!) I think I was most scared by Arachnophobia. :lol: That, and I think any "real life" horror is almost scarier to me than a monster movie.

That's why I actually have been started by some of the "made for TV" movies. For instance, I remember about 8 years ago, there was one called Deadly Invasion: Attack of the Killer Bees. (In fact, it had Robert Hays -- Striker from Airplane -- as the dad.)

Basically, it was about a small town where a few people randomly got killed or injured by swarms of killer bees (and no one knew exactly how to stop it or where they were coming from). In the last 30 minutes or so, the main family -- who lives out in the country -- have their house surrounded by the bees.

I actually taped it, and it still scares me in a way. Afterwards, they showed a semi documentary-type piece about how the "Africanized" killer bees were [in 1996] slowly heading from South America towards the US, and what to do if an attack were to go down, etc.

^ I've seen that film, I think. Is that the one where the little girl goes out to rescue the pet rabbit?

That really reminded me of Hitchcock's "The Birds" towards the end!

I rekon that THE RING would be my second choice for scariest movie. The film that I find the scariest is EVENT HORIZON. For those who have not seen it, it is worse than SCREAM, its in the same leage as THE RING but I rekon its better. For me, THE SIXTH SENSE is not scary, but I have never seen THE OTHERS or GRUDGE but they look very scary.

^ I agree with ya there.

But I think the greatest scary movie was 'Alien'.
It's just such a classic. and when I first saw it, I knew that was the most I'd ever get scared by a film. Stuff in real life is way scarier ;)

Just saw the Ring 2 with my girlfriend. Not as scary as the first one, but there were moments.
Rachael climbing up the weeelll . .. well, I've said too much ;)

^ It sounds, cool. I hope to go see it in a few days with friends. Pity it's not as scary as the first though, I didn't even find the first that scary. With weeelll thing in your post, Shandy, was you sneakily meaning the well (that Samara fell into and comes out of)?

^ Yep. We see the inside of the video :)

I just saw that last weekend, and I agree with you, in a sense...the images in that movie were really creepy and (unfortunately!) stayed with me after the movie, but I didn't think the movie was really all that great. I kept thinking at the end that it didn't make much sense and the story seemed to progress pretty slowly anyway...it seemed like all they were trying to do was keep scaring/shocking you continually throughout the movie. I thought that The Ring was much scarier, and that had a lot less "shockingly scary" parts in it. For me, it was because the story was just so creepy. It was a lot more complex than The Grudge, IMO.