What is your favorite scary movie? In your opinion what is the BEST of all time scary movie? A scary movie that made you come close to pissing in your pants.
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I prefer suspense, it makes me crazy! Alien & Aliens made me sit on the edge of my seat.
I was really freaked out when Linda Blaire did the crabwalk backwards down the stairs in The Exorcist.
my parents took me to see “jaws” when i was five and im still terrified of sharks to this day. i am afraid to go see “open water” because i think i might walk out and waste nine dollars.
I thought THE RING was pretty good. The Excorcist series is also good.
The Ring??? Really? I saw it and I didn’t think that it was really all that scary! It had a few jumpy points, but, not very scary.
Friday the 13th is for me one of the scariest movies…amongst Halloween and Amytiville…
I thought Session 9 was pretty scary. Creepy.
C’mon, It’s the original Candy Man! Hands-down.
Supernatural rarely frightens me…slasher movies dont scare me but I cant stomach the torture they sometimes go through in those movies (Texas chainsaw massacre like torture).
But, the only movies that literally scare me so much I have trouble sleeping or cant stay in my apartment by myself are The Excorcist, Amityville, Aliens and House on Haunted Hill. Yeah the last one is a REALLY lame movie, but for some reason the whole thing makes me hyperventilate. Maybe because all the odd imagery in it. Ugh now im thinking about it…
I’d have to say The Nightmare Before Christmas.
I used to be really into watching horror films.
Not much scares me now. It seems most horror films out there have become predictable. Mainly it could be my poor choice of films I choose to watch I guess.
The movie called “The gift” although gave me a few jumps. This is because the suspense was set before any horrific events occur. Like other horror, no suspense is set. So you can second guess what is going to happen.
Slasher movies are now boring and I think horror producers should explore other ideas of giving us the frights.
Event Horizon.
Hell from another dimension on a spaceship. Suspense is good, gore even better.
Cannibal Holocaust made me a “Saaaaaad Panda”.
When i was just a we tiny little panda, Honey ive shrunk the Kids also made a “Saaaaaad Panda”. Remember, when the got killed by the big beatle.
Demons 1 is scary. Demons 2 is a joke.
umm…
The Shining.
The original Exorcist is scary. Although it is slow at times. What about the original “Halloween” made in 1974 I think? That is a pretty creepy movie. Halloween II is also a good movie. I didn’t like the very first “Friday The 13th.” In the end you find out that Jason’s mom is the killer. At that point it just seems really stupid. But Friday the 13th Part II was good and Part III was alright.
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I’ve never actually watched all of it, but when I was a kid my parents had it on the TV and I saw some of it.
The bit that got me was when the (younger?) brother had been ‘turned’ and was tapping on the other brother’s bedroom window. I still have trouble looking out of windows at night now .
I know, I know…sad!
For the record, I preferred the American Ring to the original Japanese one (I speak Japanese so it wasn’t a language thing; I just found the US version creepier). As for the movie that scared me the most, the TRILOGY OF TERROR, “killer doll” part. Karen Black was in all three vignettes (was a 70’s movie). I saw it as a kid (5 or 6 years old) late at night while my folks were out. Scared the shit out of me! Years later, I would check the TV guide every week to see if it would be on so I could face my demons (sorry xanderman…), and only once in those many years was it on, really late–I fell asleep waiting for it… 
(okay, I guess I COULD have rented it…). I finally saw it in my 20’s and laughed my ass off! However, I could see why it would scare the bejeezus out of a little kid (all the close ups of this huge jaw and the shrieking…oh the shrieking…). I then saw they made a Trilogy of Terror 2 (friend had a tiny part in it) years later, and the final vignette has the doll again (what a disappointment 
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I love horror movies. 
the ones that scare me are always ‘based on true stories’
Recently ‘the Mothman Prophecies’ scared me so much I almost didn’t go back for the second half…
But hands down - “scared my bladder out through my urethra” scary
‘The creature from Boggy-Creek’
(a sort of big-foot documnetary/reconstruction )
saw it when I was far too young, remember some scenes to this very day… 
“Darkness”
Hands down
I dunno, good question. There are so many but I can’t think of one off hand.
One quality regarding horror movies that makes them great, for me, anyway, is a plot that does not involve a villian. When the movie is based around the deeds of a killer, or madman, what have you, it strikes me as merely human and I cannot experience a sense of terror when reflecting on such characters. My cynical side always finds the little idiosyncrasies…I find comical faults, uncoordinated methods, character flaws. The villian isn’t so bad anymore and I’m outta popcorn by that time anyway.
I like the ones where there are evil “forces” at work, rational forces…nothing empirical. Where horror is experienced psychologically…no axes or dumb blondes or vengeful ghosts.
Alright, how about this one, if you can imagine how it might be considered “terrifying.” “Apocalypse Now.” Or even “2001 A Space Odyssey.” Now that movie was creepy.