Your favorite scary movie?

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#1 SolidGame_basic
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Normally not a scary movie person, but something in my middle age has made me one 🤣 Watched Scream, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist. All great movies. How about you, OT?

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Hmmm as of right now I'll go with Jacob's Ladder 1990.

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The Exorcist, Suspiria (1977), Misery, Carrie, The Visit

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Does the movie have to scare me to qualify? Because I haven't seen a movie in at least a decade that scared me. Video games are another thing, like Alien Isolation. That still gets me. But as for film, I would say, in no particular order

  1. Alien by Ridley Scott
  2. Signs by M. Night
  3. Blair Witch 2
  4. Blair Witch
  5. Quarantine (2008)

I know some folks don't think the Blair With was scary but there's something unsettling about a grown man standing in the corner when you know he's avoiding the witch.

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#5  Edited By SolidGame_basic
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@mycatismilk: doesn’t have to scare you per se. Signs was great! And I remember Blair Witch.

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#6 Valgaav_219
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I'd go with the original It, House On Haunted Hill, or The Shining if it counts. I'm not the biggest fan of horror films, though, so my tastes are probably trash lol

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#7  Edited By mrbojangles25
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Big fan of sci-fi-horror, horror with aliens. I also am getting into some Lovecraftian-esque stuff, too; a bit late to the party but there's a lot of good stuff and monsters inspired by that.

  • Alien
  • The Thing (Kurt Russel remake)
  • A Quiet Place
  • The Void
  • The Witch
  • Hereditary
  • Midsommar
  • Event Horizon
  • Last House on the Left (remake)
  • The Descent

I also likes horror anthologies. It's like a tasting menu of short films, some of which are quite good. And the bad ones are still entertaining.

  • Masters of Horror
  • ABC's of Death
  • VHS
  • Creepshow

Honorable mentions: not horror, but still scary:

  • The Abyss. I am terrified of drowning and frankly the suspense in that movie terrified me.
  • Full Metal Jacket. Again, the suspense. That last scene with the sniper. Oooof.
@warmblur said:

Hmmm as of right now I'll go with Jacob's Ladder 1990.

Damn that was a pretty terrifying movie. Had the whole traditional scary stuff, but the psychological component (and that ending!)...yeesh.

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@mycatismilk said:

Does the movie have to scare me to qualify? Because I haven't seen a movie in at least a decade that scared me. Video games are another thing, like Alien Isolation. That still gets me. But as for film, I would say, in no particular order

  1. Alien by Ridley Scott
  2. Signs by M. Night
  3. Blair Witch 2
  4. Blair Witch
  5. Quarantine (2008)

I know some folks don't think the Blair With was scary but there's something unsettling about a grown man standing in the corner when you know he's avoiding the witch.

Blair Witch deserves a seat at the table if only for popularizing the found footage subgenre of film.

It was also a good movie but I think it was maybe not taken serious for its lack of traditional horror elements: a clear villain, blood and guts, etc.. Up until the last few years I don't think the horror genre was really taken serious by film snobs and Blair Witch might have been a little ahead of its time. I don't think it was anything amazing, but I don't think it deserves the criticism it retroactively gets.

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@mycatismilk said:

Does the movie have to scare me to qualify? Because I haven't seen a movie in at least a decade that scared me. Video games are another thing, like Alien Isolation. That still gets me. But as for film, I would say, in no particular order

  1. Alien by Ridley Scott
  2. Signs by M. Night
  3. Blair Witch 2
  4. Blair Witch
  5. Quarantine (2008)

I know some folks don't think the Blair With was scary but there's something unsettling about a grown man standing in the corner when you know he's avoiding the witch.

Wow, I'm surprised I'm not the only one here that likes BW2 it's pretty much universally hated.

@mrbojangles25 said:

Big fan of sci-fi-horror, horror with aliens. I also am getting into some Lovecraftian-esque stuff, too; a bit late to the party but there's a lot of good stuff and monsters inspired by that.

  • Alien
  • The Thing (Kurt Russel remake)
  • A Quiet Place
  • The Void
  • The Witch
  • Hereditary
  • Midsommar
  • Event Horizon
  • Last House on the Left (remake)
  • The Descent

I also likes horror anthologies. It's like a tasting menu of short films, some of which are quite good. And the bad ones are still entertaining.

  • Masters of Horror
  • ABC's of Death
  • VHS
  • Creepshow

Honorable mentions: not horror, but still scary:

  • The Abyss. I am terrified of drowning and frankly the suspense in that movie terrified me.
  • Full Metal Jacket. Again, the suspense. That last scene with the sniper. Oooof.
@warmblur said:

Hmmm as of right now I'll go with Jacob's Ladder 1990.

Damn that was a pretty terrifying movie. Had the whole traditional scary stuff, but the psychological component (and that ending!)...yeesh.

Yep, that's one of the main reasons I love that movie it's one of the best psychological horror movies of all time and also of course it influence some of the Silent Hill games.

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Shaun of the Dead

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#11  Edited By Speeny
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There's many, but I'd say Halloween II is definitely up there for me. It's a mix between nostalgia and liking the fact that it's set in a hospital.

Other than that:

House of Wax (2005)

Saw II

Sleepaway Camp

The Strangers & The Strangers Prey at Night

House

Gremlins II: The New Batch - Technically not a horror, but it falls into that category to an extent.

Poltergeist II: The Other Side

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World War Z

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Yeah...that's all that come to mind right now. :P

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@warmblur said:

Hmmm as of right now I'll go with Jacob's Ladder 1990.

Nice choice, that’s a great flick.

I know this isn’t a popular choice, but I’d have to say Paranormal Activity. It’s one of my top favorites. I find the theme of being vulnerable when you’re sleeping (something you cannot escape) to be very unsettling.

Katie being dragged out of bed. Yeah, nope!

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@mycatismilk: The Original version of quarantine called REC is much better especially the ending.

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#15  Edited By ENI232
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My favorite would be haloween. The one that is scariest to me that ive seen is the exorcist, for that reason it is not my favorite. Its a little too real for me and i never enjoyed it.

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#16  Edited By Litchie
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I'm such a little bitch when it comes to scary movies. Generally hate watching them, but I absolutely love these ones. Probably because they're not that scary.

Alien
The Thing
Silent Hill (weirdly good for being based on a videogame. Do not watch the sequels.)
The Blair Witch (again, screw the sequels)

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@MirkoS77 said:
@warmblur said:

Hmmm as of right now I'll go with Jacob's Ladder 1990.

Nice choice, that’s a great flick.

I know this isn’t a popular choice, but I’d have to say Paranormal Activity. It’s one of my top favorites. I find the theme of being vulnerable when you’re sleeping (something you cannot escape) to be very unsettling.

Katie being dragged out of bed. Yeah, nope!

The first Paranormal Activity was really good I remember that scene it was crazy.

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I saw Signs and The Descent were listed, and agree, those are on my list.

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#21 SolidGame_basic
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Watched The Conjuring, it was meh. Saw The Omen, not bad.

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The Ring 2. It seemed like every other scene was a scary part. It scared the crap out of me.

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#23  Edited By strategyfn
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So many great horror movies and I mostly agree with everyones’ choices that were posted.

For me, Shocker, The First Power, and House of 1000 Corpes, 28 Days later and sequel standout.

I could never get into Texas Chainsaw Massacre because it was too brutal and sadistic for me.

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Definitely not one of my favorites genres, but there are some i've enjoyed.

probably The Shining is my favorite. Jack Nicholson is just so entertaining in it

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#25 SolidGame_basic
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Saw the newest Scream. It was pretty decent actually.