# Scariest movie you ever saw **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666 "2013-06-10T22:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/141 "2013-06-21T20:29:18Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Where did they show the 2nd picture? I’ve seen this movie but I don’t think all the way through. I know of the spinning head and pea soup vomit, and the shadow of a horned demon on the wall, but when did that face appear and why? It looks like its looking right at the camera The face pops up a couple of times, just as brief, almost subliminal flashes. The first appearance is during Father Damien’s dream, just after his mother comes up from the subway and calls his name. It appears again when the lights are flashing during the exorcism. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/142 "2013-06-21T23:21:52Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > FWIW, one of the scariest movies I remember is the 1971 version of **“The Andromeda Strain”**. Especially when the scientists are exploring the dead town. For a young kid like I was when I watched that movie for the first time, that was beyond eerie. The music was disturbing as well. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/143 "2013-06-22T01:46:30Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > It’s not a horror film exactly, but _Blue Velvet_ features one of the most terrifying characters I’ve ever seen: Frank Booth, played by Dennis Hopper. With those big angry eyes and that mask he puts on to inhale a drug that makes him even worse..,… eeeeeeee! One of my favorite scenes. 🙂 (NSFW) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zEHesuSxLmQ/hqdefault.jpg "BLUE VELVET") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEHesuSxLmQ) ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/144 "2013-06-22T02:25:11Z")
The things that make a movie scary, are an acceptable suspendment of disbelief, good makeup /effects, believable acting and the way the storys written. As a zombie fan I’ve seen too many movies ruined by over the top zombie makeup, and the Zs themselves too easily beaten. False alarms try my patience, and heroes who do stupid things that put them in danger, make me think that if they have to mess up to be at risk, then that diminishes the threat. I saw the exorcist in Malta with all of the hype, medics in attendance and the devoutly Catholic audience either screaming or ready to faint throughout the film, and thought that it was a little bit silly, rather then anything else. Alien was indeed tension building, as was Angelheart, another favourite that makes you nervous without understanding why much of the time. Its just incredibly well done. Also a Korean film called R Point is very effective in creeping you out. But my vote goes to a little known film called Severance. The film is actually a Black comedy, buildup is completely believable, makes you have second takes after some of the scenes, and goes from making you laugh one second before throwing you into complete shock and fear the next. Other times it keeps you in suspense until what you fear is going to happen, does happen. And you know that however lovable or innocent the character, they are just as likely to suffer a hideous death as anyone else. So if you don’t fancy sleeping, try watching this before you go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/145 "2013-06-22T02:52:42Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Alien. Hands down. Saw it with my cousin when we where 18. > > Going into the theater I had NO idea what we were in for. We could not go home afterwards, we lived in a very old apartment FULL of hiding places. We ended up in a nice brightly lit McDonalds for an hour or so. Word. Only I wasn’t a kid or teen, I was twenty-nine. When I got home I checked in the closets . . . but not _too_ closely. On the TV side, the already mentioned _Trilogy of Terror_ especially the last segment, most especially the last scene, where Karen Black is crouching in the corner, chunking a knife into the floor repeatedly . . . and _smiling_. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/146 "2013-06-22T09:19:26Z")
A friend told me the British film KILL LIST was the scariest movie he’d ever seen - it certainly was very disturbing but mine would be The Exorcist. In the cinema, aged 16, the two friends I went with exited after the lumbar puncture scene (!) leaving me alone in a packed theatre. Blimey. MiM ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/147 "2013-06-22T14:59:06Z")
Special bulletin is on youtube [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH9Zvmgv3hQ) I remember seeing _Death Ship_ on cable with my oldest brother (11 yrs older) who laughed himself silly during the entire film. I was about 7 when ABC originally showed _Trilogy of Terror_, and even the preview adverts scared me, as I was frightened of the dark when I was little. My other brother (9 years older) thought this was fantastic, and added scaring me about the Trilogy film to his repertoire of shitty tricks he’d play on me (my older brother was a bully who scared me more than film and tv monsters, the abusive fuck). Oldest brother tried to show me that it was all silly bits, and even showed me a magazine article about how they articulated the doll and that. It made me afraid to go to bed at night; one night when both brothers were babysitting, older brother waited until oldest brother was putting me to bed, then went outside to smash his face up against my window to scare me. Oldest brother proceeded to go outside, grab our sibling, and thrash the crap out of him. Ah, fond memories. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2013, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/148 "2013-06-23T09:04:27Z")
[Open Water](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374102/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2) ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666/149 "2013-06-24T11:39:50Z")
I remember as a kid being really scared at a movie called “Horrors of the Black Museum”, which had people getting killed with various items from a museum. The most memorable scene was a man looking through a pair of binoculars only to be killed when spikes shoot out. :eek: :eek: Also, Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes scared the crap out of me as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-you-ever-saw/660666.md?page=7)