# Scariest movie you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095 "2018-08-23T04:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/101 "2018-08-25T02:38:52Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > About five years ago I was home with a bad cold. I had heard that _The Thing_ was a great movie, but I had always been too scared to watch it. I felt silly about that, so I made up my mind to watch it that day. > > I was shivering with both fear and fever chills by the time that thing was over. I finally watched it about two years ago. I didn’t find it scary. At all. That’s how it has been with most of the movies people cite as “scariest” because they watched them as kids and I wasn’t allowed to: **Changeling, The Fog, Jaws, Jacob’s Ladder** etc. The reason I wasn’t allowed to watch horror movies is my parents made the mistake of taking me to see **Poltergeist**. I wasn’t quite five and had nightmares for a year. Anyway… **The Ring** is kind of scary. And **Boogeyman**. And **Event Horizon**. Parts of **Rose Red**. **Pandorum**. Probably the scariest movie I’ve ever seen as an adult, however, is **In The Mouth Of Madness**. Other than Sandra Bullock being ridiculously too old for the protagonist, I’m looking forward to the adaptation of **Bird Box** , because the novel is pretty damn scary. It’s unfortunate, however, that it wasn’t released before **A Quiet Place** , which is similar. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/102 "2018-08-25T04:32:36Z")
> [@blob](#): > > You’re lucky it was the 60s, otherwise you’d be all over youtube and unable to deny it. 😃 Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/103 "2018-08-25T07:49:02Z")
The Mist. Because of the ending. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/104 "2018-08-25T10:00:34Z")
[It!\_The\_Terror\_from\_Beyond\_Space](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It!_The_Terror_from_Beyond_Space) Black and white, made in 1958 sure. But terrifying to a boy foolish enough to stay up late and watch it one night. Still gives me shivers. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/105 "2018-08-25T18:19:26Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > [Night of the Hunter](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/?ref_=nv_sr_2) > > I first saw it as a kid, saw it again as an adult, and it still chilled me. Yup. For '55, not bad for a [creepy scene](https://youtu.be/uF7uscfKrjA?t=4013). Especially when she sings along with him. And for '60, quite [menacingly sadistic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pwb4Y9INWY) (From the excellent _Peeping Tom_) How about scary film images? Right after the letter “G”, at [@ 2:47](https://youtu.be/oJ_t1eOAipo?t=165) in this old David Lynch short. Wasn’t quite expecting [this](https://youtu.be/LBtHBWs0__g?t=72) in what I incorrectly expected would be a “non-scary” scene from _The Ring_. (please - not to be confused with the second line from _Needles and Pins_) Heh, [First Evil Face Appearance](https://youtu.be/TD0RJ_iuBPo?t=18) (@ 0:22) in _The Exorcist_ Couldn’t find adequate footage of Mrs. Allardyce and the million-watt-smile of the hearse driver from _Burnt Offerings_. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/106 "2018-08-26T09:56:26Z")
The Exorcist - story. I saw it the first time and it was great/frightening. Second time was with a new girlfriend who was a devout Catholic. I knew what was coming and it was humorous (actually) to me. She was squigged out. Never saw her again; found out she withdrew from school and returned home within two weeks of our movie date. Alien - interesting dinner scene among others :eek: Cape Fear-good old family stalking. For disturbing, I’d go with SE7EN (SEVEN). ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/107 "2018-08-26T10:27:32Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > For disturbing, I’d go with SE7EN (SEVEN). Have you ever seen one called Twisted Nerve with Hywel Bennett? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/108 "2018-08-26T11:37:52Z")
For me, the scariest movie is going to be a YouTube video of some hipster moron free-climbing a ten-thousand foot high tower and doing handstands and one-armed push-ups and the Lindy Hop at the top. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/109 "2018-08-26T16:14:46Z")
Poltergeist - I saw it when I was in first grade, after begging and pleading with my parents. They relented - fools. I know for a fact they did not have sex in their bed at night for about a year, because I was there, every night, screaming down the hallway the entire way. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/110 "2018-08-26T16:57:31Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > For me, the scariest movie is going to be a YouTube video of some hipster moron free-climbing a ten-thousand foot high tower and doing handstands and one-armed push-ups and the Lindy Hop at the top. Right - for inducing a cardiac arrest in someone ridiculously vertiginous like myself, sure - I won’t argue with that. Once, I stupidly youtubed “cliff falls”, saw maybe a bit of one video, then got the hell outa there, feeling not only whoozy but also skeevy for even going there. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/111 "2018-08-27T12:13:02Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Yup. For '55, not bad for a [creepy scene](https://youtu.be/uF7uscfKrjA?t=4013). > Especially when she sings along with him. > > And for '60, quite [menacingly sadistic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pwb4Y9INWY) > (From the excellent _Peeping Tom_) > > How about scary film images? > > Right after the letter “G”, at [@ 2:47](https://youtu.be/oJ_t1eOAipo?t=165) in this old David Lynch short. > > Wasn’t quite expecting [this](https://youtu.be/LBtHBWs0__g?t=72) in what I incorrectly expected would be a “non-scary” scene from _The Ring_. (please - not to be confused with the second line from _Needles and Pins_) > > Heh, [First Evil Face Appearance](https://youtu.be/TD0RJ_iuBPo?t=18) (@ 0:22) in _The Exorcist_ > > Couldn’t find adequate footage of Mrs. Allardyce and the million-watt-smile of the hearse driver from _Burnt Offerings_. Ah yes, Karen Black as Mrs Allardyce. [" I’ve been waiting for you, Ben"](https://www.google.com/search?q=karen+black+burnt+offerings&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoufaUmY3dAhWNrFkKHY5HCioQ_AUICigB&biw=1512&bih=908#imgrc=r85wgp58Le5t3M:) There are lots of pictures of [this guy](https://www.google.com/search?biw=1512&bih=908&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=yumDW8WjHYHv5gKZ0oKACA&q=chauffeur+burnt+offerings&oq=chauffeur+burnt+offerings&gs_l=img.3..0.115874.120956.0.121443.25.18.0.7.7.0.55.867.18.18.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.25.872...0i67k1j0i30k1j0i5i30k1j0i8i30k1j0i24k1.0.3QDXwGpJGlM#imgrc=UbfBt0QhOzjuGM:) . Funny how they lose their scariness when seen out of context. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095/112 "2018-08-27T12:29:35Z")
[_The Fool Killer_(1965)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_Killer), with Anthony Perkins. Same creepy vibe as _Night Of The Hunter_, but more violent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-movie-youve-ever-seen/820095.md?page=5)