so, I’m sitting here at work, listening to the NJ devils absolutely smash the Pens (4-0 in the 3rd) when my mind began wandering from the game to…
Which movie have you seen that scared you the most?
For me? Its event horizion. That movie completely fucked me up. I have never been scared by a movie, (save the occasional jump due to sudden visual change) but on a fundamental level that movie made me fear for my life. That movie should have never been made. Why didnt the good guys win at the end so I could go home what that nice warm fuzzy feeling that all was good in the world?
so in short, great movie, would never watch it again…
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It was a made-for-TV docudrama about the aftermath of a nuclear war that was screened on UK TV in the mid-to-late eighties.
I seriously considered slashing my wrists.
My first vote goes to Halloween which I watched when I was a wee girl. To have nightmares after watching a scary flick may be normal, but I had hallucinations after this one. Up to today, I can’t sit through it.
My second vote’s for The Ring - which came out around the same time as The Blair Witch Project, IIRC. I’ve mentioned it before in a thread on horror movies. Eerie Japanese flick about a reporter who races against time in search of a cursed videotape. No gore. Most of the scenes happen in broad daylight. It’s the very ‘ordinariness’ of the whole set-up that scared me shitless and made me move my VCR and TV out of my bedroom.
When I was 10 or 11 years old, I accidentally stumbled into watching the end of a movie, I think “The Color of Night.” For those of you not familiar with this one, the ‘hero’ saved a girl who had been held captive (All the information I can give, I was young and hadn’t seen the whole thing).
The saving part was all well and good, but the sight of the girl was definetly not. IIRC, she was sitting with her hands nailed to the arms of a chair with marks across her back from flogging. I could not get that image out of my mind for several years afterward - it scared the shit out of me for a long time.
More recently, Dee Snider’s “Strangeland” gave me a severe case of the heebie-jeebies. The plot isn’t particularly good, and there aren’t a lot of special effects. I think the slow piercing scenes are what got to me. Blech.
Prince of Darkness really got to me the first time I saw it. “I’ve a message for you…you’re not going to like it: Pray for death,” and then falling apart into a nice squirmy mass of insects and worms and such. The use of the dream/broadcast from the future was extremely nice, and the final scene of the film, one of the survivors reaching slowly to a mirror, cutting out to sudden credits just before touching it, is one of my favorite endings ever. A good film to watch when 15 or so at midnight alone in the house with all lights out.