Horror movies that are actually scary

tbl · 11-02-2007, 07:23 AM

Can anyone name a horror movie, that if watched today is actually scary. I don't mean that was scary in its time or when it came out, but one that can be considered scary by today's standards.

The only movies that have really made me jump was the Ring when I was 13 and just recently 1408, though the first half was better than the latter half.

earnbussi · 01-22-2008, 07:34 AM

well i dont know about the ring but i was really amazed by 1408 .
I saw it in my hostel room alone at night and it ended at 3.35 am in the morning.
and i was really scared. I would recommend 1408 to everyone...

bizwiz · 01-22-2008, 07:56 AM

The last horror movie that actually scared me was the dawn of the dead remake. The zombies are so vicious and scary that it scared the heck out of me.

Sensei · 03-09-2008, 06:19 AM

Some of these might do the trick. Warning: Some of these go beyond scary and border on disturbing.

1. Last house on the left- Early effort directed by Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm street) was banned in the UK until the mid 90's
The Last House on the Left - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2. Audition-Audition (オーディション, Ōdishon?) is a 1999 Japanese graphic horror film directed by Takashi Miike and starring Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina. It is based on a Ryu Murakami novel of the same title.
Look in the forgien section of your video store. This will most likely be the next Japanese horror film to get an American make over just like The Ring and The Grudge
Audition (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3 Canibal Holocaust (For sure DISTURBING-The film was banned in Italy, the UK, Australia, and several other countries for graphic gore, sexual violence, and for the genuine slayings of six animals featured in the film. While many nations have revoked the ban, it is still banned to this day in other countries around the world. Despite this notoriety, Cannibal Holocaust is seen by some critics as a social commentary on civilized society.[2][3]

Cannibal Holocaust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

4.Irreversible-Irréversible (2002, France) is a film written, directed, edited, and photographed by Gaspar Noé. It stars Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Several reviewers declared it one of the most disturbing and controversial films of 2002, due to its explicit depiction of rape and murder. The film employs non-linear narrative.
IrrÃ©versible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scene from Irreversible that is considered to be one of the most disturbing (but not the most) in the film.
WARNING< WARNING< WARNING=EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DO NOT WATCH IF GRAPHIC THINGS UPSET YOU>>>WARNING>>>WARNING
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=mwSc-uPsxfI

5.Begotten: The end all of be all of strange, wierd and disturbing films-The film opens with a robed, profusely bleeding character disemboweling himself, with the act ultimately ending in his death. A woman emerges from his remains, arouses the body, and impregnates herself with his ejaculate. Becoming pregnant, she wanders off into a vast and barren landscape. The pregnancy manifests in a fully grown man whom she leaves to his own devices.
IrrÃ©versible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With this one your in luck. The whole film can be viewed here:WARNING< WARNING< WARNING=EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DO NOT WATCH IF GRAPHIC THINGS UPSET YOU>>>WARNING>>>WARNING
Begotten DVD Feature film Elias Merhige

Now for just plan good and scary

1.The Exorcist: Story of a young girl possesed by the Devil. This will always be the movie all other horror movies will be judged against. The film earned ten Academy Award nominations—winning two, one for Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay. Great movie.
The Exorcist (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2. The Shinning: -The Shining is a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. It is often regarded as one of the greatest and scariest horror films ever made. This is pretty high up on my personal favorite list. In many other forums on the net I use the screen name "Redrum".
The Shining (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3.Jacob's Ladder:-Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 psychological horror film directed by Adrian Lyne, based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin. It starred Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, and Jason Alexander. Actor Macaulay Culkin appears briefly in an uncredited performance that predates his wider fame.
Jacob's Ladder (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The hallucination scenes in this movie area beyond good and creepy. Here's a sample-Again scary stuff but not as graphic as the above ones
YouTube - Jacob's Ladder: Hospital Scene

4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: (Original) I did enjoy the remake but the scene with grand pa trying to hit the girl with the hammer near the end of the original is brutally scary/sad. One of the few times while watching a horror movie that I felt entirely bad for the victim. Teaxas Chain saw "The Beginning" also does a good job creating this feeling of apathy for the victims.
TCM link: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TCM The beg link: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Halloween: Let's face this movie gave birth to all the "Slasher" films to come. Directed by John Carpenter on a $335,000 budget the film is a masterpiece of the slow build and you honestly feel bad for poor Laurie by the end of the film.
Halloween (1978 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Original tralier
YouTube - Halloween 1 - the original trailer for the first movie, '78

EDIT:

The Day The Clown Cried I've never seen this movie and none of you have seen it and neither of us ever will. This is a Jerry Lewis movie (Yes that Jerry Lewis) The synopsis of this movie is beyond wierd-Lewis plays a depressed, formerly great German circus clown named Helmut Doork during the Holocaust. He's basically washed up and not a very good clown. Helmut is caught in a bar by the Gestapo for drunkenly mocking the Führer, and imprisoned in a Nazi camp for political prisoners. Helmut tries to make due by telling all the other prisoners how famous he is. They get him to preforme only to mock him because he is so terrible. He sees children laughing with him (not at him) through a fence and begins to entertain them. The gaurds break it up beating Helmut and several children.
The guards see a use for Helmut and put him to work marching children onto the trains leading out to the interment camps. By a twist of fate, he ends up accidentally accompanying the children on a boxcar train to Auschwitz, and he is eventually used, in almost Pied Piper fashion, to help lead Jewish children to their deaths in the gas chamber. (This is Jerry Lewis were talking about here).
The bad guys offer Helmut his freedom if he helps in getting the kids into the "showers". Helmut relizes that he's never going to be set free. After the kids are in the chamber Helmut goes in too, to entertain them. As the children laugh while he performs, every one of them dies quietly of the effects of Zyklon B.
AGAIN THIS IS JERRY LEWIS PLAYING THIS ROLE

I would love to see this film the Wiki article that I HEAVELY paraphrased above is here:
The Day the Clown Cried - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

reallygreatidea · 03-12-2008, 12:00 PM

Hahahaha...yeah, not much scares me either...I thought that 30 Days of Night had its jump points though....

Skittles · 03-16-2008, 04:13 PM

Movies usually don't scare me. I mean yea when I was four years old and my parents were brilliant enough to let me watch "IT" I was petrified of clowns for a while, but as an adult there aren't really any movies that scare me. I'd say one movie that bothered me a little bit, and this wasn't so much because it scared me, was The Descent. The part where she is crawling through a tunnel and there is sort of an earthquake and she cannot get through. I am very claustrophobic and had trouble watching that scene heh.

Any zombie movie bothers me. Land of the Dead was the worst one for me, and 28 Weeks Later was really good. But those are probably the only ones.

sunken · 03-16-2008, 05:31 PM

I'm usually not scared as much as grossed out in some films like Event Horizons, the Saw series, etc. The last time I jumped at a movie was oddly enough in the unscary "I Know What You Did Last Summer." I jumped when Anne Heche slapped the window of the car. The noise was totally unexpected. Most of the audience did too. Didn't really jump with the bad guy though.

Course scary is more than just jumping, if it's psychological fear. Perhaps I would recommend the Hitchcock films.