What is the scarriest movie you have ever seen? Also, include a book or short story if you can.

Movie: Aliens

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Ringu.

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Candyman

Shutter best horror movie, ringu is weak ...

children of the corn...and the shining

Nou, that other thread was about scariest movie moments, not entire movies. Anyways, you have a great point about "believeability". There is something to be said about a horror movie that is terrifying not only in scenes, but if it can make the viewer believe this could happen to them.

Examples:
Jaws (Scary at its time)
Blair Witch Project and Open Water
Saw (to some extent, although the tortures seem a little too extravegent)

Blair Witch Project was an excellent concept with piss poor follow through. The final scene when the girl enters the house, however, is just downright creepy.

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Originally posted by kush paintings Blair Witch Project was an excellent concept with piss poor follow through. The final scene when the girl enters the house, however, is just downright creepy.

Brian from Family Guy: Okay, they're - they're in the woods. The camera keeps on moving. Uh...I think they're looking for some witch or something; I don't know, I wasn't listening. Nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. Something about a map. Nothing's happening. It's over. A lot of people in the audience look pissed.

about the best summary of that movie

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Originally posted by trewqy Ringu. End thread.

Ringu is not scary at all. The american remake is far scarier.

Anyway the creepiest movie I've ever seen is probably Onibaba

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Blair Witch Project
Mothman Prophecies
Below
House Of 1000 Corpses (not scary, just fucking bizarre )

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Last edited by mellow_head on Aug-20-2005 at 19:07

The Blair Witch Project.

I was genuinly scared watching this film

The House Of 1000 Corpses is quite good, far from scary but quite freaky at times.

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that forest sucks. Gimme the Pine Barrens *cries like a wolf*

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American horror films have for the most part become very shallow, although some have good story lines. Character development has been scraped, and anxiety really isn't present, just shocking scenes and jup-out at you moments. Let's all thank Wes Craven. These scares are good, and movies in the opposite side of the horror movie spectrum sometimes need more of them (The Shinning), but the best movies are often a balance of depth, shock, and anxiety. The Sixth Sense did this very well.

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