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Posted: 9/23/2019 8:10:35 PM EST

[#1]

At the time (important distinction) I had a few:

Prince of Darkness (yeah, Satan scares me)
Alien
Halloween

I remember as a kid being scared of Nightmare on Elm Street. Watching it now it seems like a comedy. The ones above all hold up well.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:10:56 PM EST

[#2]

[REC]

Alien

The Evil Dead remake, but only the uncut version

Hellraiser

Don’t Look Now

Baskin (trust me on this - it’s Turkish and freaking terrifying)

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:11:37 PM EST

[#3]

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Thought The Strangers was pretty crazy

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I did too but that whole movie all I could think about was “if only they had an AR and NVGs”....

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:12:34 PM EST

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Amittiville Horror gave me nightmares as kid.

Id say The Ring will mess with you.

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The Ring always gives me the heeber-jeebers.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:12:39 PM EST

[#5]

Probably the first time I saw Hellraiser.

I also saw the Exorcist younger than I should have. But that was more disturbing than scary.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:14:30 PM EST

[#6]

The Night of the Living Dead

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:17:59 PM EST

[#7]

I don’t know about scary but I found the eye-gouging in 28 Weeks Later to be uncomfortable to watch

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:20:13 PM EST

[#8]

The 1980s movie the Changling scared me . The wheelchair down the stairs for some reason did it. I dont even remember anything more. That movie just freaked me out.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:20:53 PM EST

[#9]

Wasn’t a movie. It was a game...

All Scripted & Random Lisa Encounters in P.T. (Silent Hills)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84rcDyvadT4

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:22:20 PM EST

[#10]

Deliverance

Demons and shit are not real, but crazy ass raping psychos walk with us daily.

TV, Mindhunter.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:22:36 PM EST

[#11]

In a darkened theatre, at age 17, "The Exorcist." Nothing comparable had been produced up to that time, and it was a jarring experience for a young person viewing on a huge screen with volume turned up to the max. If the stairway "spider walk" had been included in the original version, it would have been beyond epic. Hearing the opening strains of "Tubular Bells" still stirs up memories from 1973.

"Alien" was great a few years later.

Since then? Not sure. "Event Horizon" and "The Descent" are a bit disturbing, but I don't know if scary is a good word to describe them.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:22:44 PM EST

[#12]

The only movie that ever truly scared me was Salem's Lot. Granted, I was young.....

the scene with the rocking chair fucked me up lol

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:23:08 PM EST

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Posted: 9/23/2019 8:24:40 PM EST

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The Exorcist

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Yep

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Well, when I was 15, The Legend of Boggy Creek scared me so bad I spent several nights sleep standing in my tiny closet with the light on.

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Same here, and then a few decades later I end up about 4 or so hours from where it was filmed ... still have not made it down there

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:25:41 PM EST

[#15]

Exorcist

The Shining

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:25:46 PM EST

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Yup

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:27:59 PM EST

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For me, The Omen. It creeps me out today as a adult. Also, The Ring.

As a kid, the Trilogy of Terror episode with the Zuni doll was absolutely terrifying.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:28:26 PM EST

[#18]

Final Destination.

Got me thinking about all those times I escaped Death.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:31:16 PM EST

[#19]

Hellraiser was scary to me as a 14 year old.

The Hitcher was pretty bad too.

I didn't see Amityville or Exorcist until I was an adult but those both kept me awake more than a movie should.

The opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan have been nightmare fuel for me for more than a decade.

Jaws is my favorite movie of all time.

Now days I won't watch any movies with exorcism or incantations in my house. Afraid they might kickstart something I like to think doesn't exist, but being raised Catholic it's hard to not believe dark forces aren't a possibility.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:32:24 PM EST

[#20]

Go away! Baiting!...

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:32:57 PM EST

[#21]

The Shining

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:33:56 PM EST

[#22]

The only "gut wrenching" or "disturbing" thing to me was Omaha beach in SPR. It made me sick the first time I saw it. Horror movies don't creep me out to the point of nightmares.

But jump scares can jump the fuck off! I hate jump scares.
ETA: The omen remake made me jump several times, as did the descent.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:35:46 PM EST

[#23]

Contagion

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:36:14 PM EST

[#24]

The Omen for me. Like others, being religious stuff like that gets to me.

The Exorcist for the same reason. I went to college in DC and went to see those stairs on the side of the building in the dark. Fuck that too.

The Ring. The first time that thing crawled out of her TV set, I almost shot mine.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:36:54 PM EST

[#25]

The Hitcher was pretty scary back in the day,Rutger Hauer did an awesome job as John Ryder

Jaws scared me more than any other movie I can remember,fucked me up good as a kid and I still love the movie today

also honorable mention to Fallen for being a good creepy movie

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:37:29 PM EST

[#26]

Amityville Horror, not just the movie, the even the prime time TV specials on it were scary.

This was creepy scary and sad...

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Posted: 9/23/2019 8:38:03 PM EST

[#27]

The digitally remastered, director's cut of the "the Exorcist". DAMN!

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:38:46 PM EST

[#28]

The Howling.
Yikes.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:41:03 PM EST

[#29]

All the classics yes, but hard for me to say the scariest.

Of the more recent ones, Hostel freaked me out.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:41:35 PM EST

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Well, when I was 15, The Legend of Boggy Creek scared me so bad I spent several nights sleep standing in my tiny closet with the light on.

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Yup, this one was the scariest for me when I was young too. Two days after going to the theatre in Baton Rouge and watching this movie, I was deer hunting in St Francisville near Angola. The club put you out at your stand about an hour before daylight even started. It was one of those foggy Louisiana mornings close to the Mississippi river. if you've ever been in that part of the country, you know what dense fog is.

I was sitting on the ground at the base of a big tree and the morning light was just starting to show. I could see about 15-20 yards maybe. Right about then a huge black Brahman bull came walking up to me from the mist. He was about three feet away when he realized what I was and hauled ass away from me. I was shaking like a dog shitting barbed wire and was this close >< to blasting him.

Scary.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:42:34 PM EST

[#31]

The scariest part is watching Idiocracy play out in real life.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:43:12 PM EST

[#32]

Toss up between Alien and The Thing.

The Exorcist gets honorable mention.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:44:21 PM EST

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Scared the shit out of me as a kid

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:44:24 PM EST

[#34]

I remember seeing The Entity when I was a kid that one got me because it was based on a true story that was still happening.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:45:14 PM EST

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The first time I watched this I went into it thinking it would be another cheesy horror movie. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Part 2 was just as good.

ETA: I almost couldn't finish watching the Green Inferno. Was pretty over the top on gore.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:47:16 PM EST

[#36]

Frailty, because it could happen.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:47:28 PM EST

[#37]

Rosamary's Baby scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it as a kid.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:47:53 PM EST

[#38]

Event Horizon

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:48:38 PM EST

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Posted: 9/23/2019 8:48:59 PM EST

[#40]

IT scared me the most as a kid, but it kind of sucks as an adult.

The Strangers creeps me out the most.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:50:21 PM EST

[#41]

What about Jacobs Ladder ?

Jacobs Ladder - Hospital scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuE8DXDTYag

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:52:05 PM EST

[#42]

-28 days later: super disturbing, not at all like other Zombie movies

-The Descent: trapped in a cave with mutants

-Signs: the most unsettling of the Alien invasion movies

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:52:51 PM EST

[#43]

Lotsa good ones already mentioned but for me it was The exorcism of Emily Rose cuz that shit was real. Paranormal activity got me bad. The very last scene... not much sound sleeping that night.

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:53:48 PM EST

[#44]

I thought event horizon was pretty crazy. Also HellRaiser

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:54:05 PM EST

[#45]

Event Horizon, because I went into it expecting an Alien-esque movie, not, well, THAT

Posted: 9/23/2019 8:55:18 PM EST

[#46]

The Descent and the Ring were both films that really messed me up.

The Last Exorcism seemed scary but it could've been that I was half asleep through it.