What is the scariest movie you've ever seen?

Question

What makes it the scariest?

Answer 1

The Ring. Didn't sleep for three days after seeing it (and I mean I was literally awake for 72+ hours) and recurring nightmares based on it for a few years.

As for what made it scary: most American films have a sense of divine justice to them, you get killed because you have sex or do drugs or were stupid and decided to split up when you should have stuck together. The Ring, and The Grudge and a lot of J-horror, is completely random. People die in horrible horrible ways whether they deserve it or not.

Answer 2

FrallyFolds, that is a great question, actually the "scariness" of a movie depends on quite a few things:

Your age

Your maturity

Your personality

Your mind set

I always thought that "The Thing" (original version) was the scariest movie I ever saw, but of course I was just a little boy at the time and it was real scary, watching it now it is just funny.

Later on I believe that the Exorcist was the scariest movie for it gave you the feeling that it could happen. Again after they ruined the genre with all the sequels it just became funny.

Then along came "Alien" this was a great scifi movie and very scary even to an adult. I would have to rate it as the best of the scary movies.

I know everyone will have a different answer but that is the beauty of the movies........

Answer 3

SAW and The Ring. No movies are really scary to me. They're just movies. But those two were just really good horror flicks with an interesting story. Horror and a plot, good stuff.

Actually, the scariest movie I've ever seen was KIDS. Not a horror flick...just simply a movie about kids and what happens when you get mixed up in the wrong stuff. Interesting yet scary...especially if you're a parent.

Earlier I said no movies were truly scary because they are movies...I forgot sbout Faces of Death. I saw one of them when I was 17 or 18. It was just gruesome. It wasn't really a movie. I'm not sure what it was. It was all real though. It was just gruesome and disgusting. I think they've been banned. Around here anyways.

Answer 4

The Ring -only because years before I had a dream of a room on a second floor of a barn exactly as pictured in the film. I saw that scene and got freaked.


Some cheesy horrow movie I saw back in the 60's used to be the scariest. Some old lady had her face melt off.

Answer 5

I just know people are going to laugh at this but all well! I think the scariest movie I've seen would have to be War of the Worlds >_<

Answer 6

I seen a lot of scary movies since I was five.
So now very few "scary" movies scare me. The Grudge almost made me p.
But when I was little I seen The Exorcist and The Omen and they really scared the beep out of me. I also seen a movie called Triogy of Terror. Can't tell you what the other two stories were about but the one was about this lady who got this doll with a chain around it's neck and if it comes off the doll goes off. I haven't trusted dolls since.

Answer 7

Any psychological movie. anything that can mind-bleep me is wonderful. Saw, Saw 2, Seven, 12 Monkeys , 28 days just to name a few. The Stand did a good job, except the whole god/devil good/evil fight at the end, the concept was awesome.

Answer 8

The original Exorcist

Answer 9

Poltergeist i can relate to seeing the snowy screen on a television after a stattion signs off. hard to relate to these days with 24 hour cable channels. also just the overall setting of being in an average home.

Answer 10

the exorcism of emily rose scared the **** out of me for real dude i was screaming in the middle of the theatre! I even made excuses like im going to get some popcorn or something to drink just so i could leave the theatre cause i literaly was screaming at the top of my lungs! You gotta see it if you havent

Answer 11

The Blob, because my two biggest fears are being smothered and eaten. Not to mention, I saw the original when I was six years old. I'm nearly 34 and still have nightmares about it!