What is the scariest movie you've ever seen?

I love horror movies and horror novels. In fact, I usually can't get enough of them. But I just watched Misery, based on the Stephen King novel. It was so disturbing, so terrifying, more than any other horror movie I've seen.

What's the best or scariest horror movie you've ever seen?

Amityville Horror...the first one.

If we're talking Sci-Fi, Alien and Alien 2 followed by Event Horizon

Scariest Stephen King based movies...

1. Children of the Corn
2. The Shining
3. Cujo

I haven't seen Cujo in a long time.  It might have only been scary because I saw it as a kid.  But Children of the Corn and The Shining were pretty frightening.
As far as the "classical" ones go, the original Nightmare on Elm Street was terrifying due to the concept that he came at you when you fell asleep.  A couple  that I feel are a bit under-rated are In the Mouth of Madness and House on Haunted Hill, they were pretty scary ones.  One that I think is VERY over-rated is Scream...I just thought it was dumb.
I've never seen "Saw" ...I need to rent the first one.
And please don't mention Cloverfield or I'll puke.  Cloverfield was such a horrible movie I was too annoyed by it to be scared.
Most people will say The Exorcist.  I thought it was very scary and it would probably make my top 10...but for alot of people that was sort of a "definitive" part of society...I heard it was so scary that many people had to leave the theatre when it came out.  Others will say Psycho...or the Shining should top the list.  Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, Jaws...those all usually make Top 10-50 lists.

Jesus Camp.

Honestly, I haven't been "scared" by a horror film in a very long time.  Not since I've had adult teeth at least.

I guess it depends on what your definition of scariest is.  If you like films like Misery, as opposed to jump-scare movies that Hollywoods feels that we should all love, I recommend watching these:

Suspira
Session 9
The Tenant (Le Locataire)
Audition (Odishon)
Eraserhead
Repulsion
Carnival of Souls
The Kingdom (it's a mini-series)
Inland Empire
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Begotten
An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou)
The Virgin Spring
The Holy Mountain
Naked Lunch
Irreversible
Gummo
Onibaba
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

All of them made me uncomfortable.  Not scared in a pure sense of the word, but I didn't feel quite right after watching them.

'The Fog' ; really old 70's film about, you guessed it, a fog, which kind of envelopes people and kills them in a pretty disgusting fashion. Watched it with my dad when i was quite young-maybe 9/10, pretended to be nonchalant and not scared the whole way through, 21 now, and still a little frightened of fog...!

The Wicker Man was another film my dad thought id like, post Fog...nope....

Not a film, but a tv show that really scared me was the League of Gentlemen; it was supposed to be a funny sketch show-again, my dad found it hilarious, but it seriously disturbed me. In particular this old couple, a woman called Tubbs, and i think the man was Edward, they ran a local shop on a deserted hill and would kill hitch-hikers who passed by; and they both had sellotape pulling their noses back and crusty stuff all over their faces....argh, it was horrible!!!!!

Jaws scared me too; in the way that i still cant go too far into the ocean, and i am actually crazy enough to give swimming pools a quick once over before i get in.....you never know....

Original Post by jewelsmcblah:

Honestly, I haven't been "scared" by a horror film in a very long time.  Not since I've had adult teeth at least.

I guess it depends on what your definition of scariest is.  If you like films like Misery, as opposed to jump-scare movies that Hollywoods feels that we should all love, I recommend watching these:

Suspira
Session 9
The Tenant (Le Locataire)
Audition (Odishon)
Eraserhead
Repulsion
Carnival of Souls
The Kingdom (it's a mini-series)
Inland Empire
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Begotten
An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou)
The Virgin Spring
The Holy Mountain
Naked Lunch
Irreversible
Gummo
Onibaba
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

All of them made me uncomfortable.  Not scared in a pure sense of the word, but I didn't feel quite right after watching them.

 OMG Onibaba pissed me off so much on the puppy part i have to turn it off and give it away.  Grrr! 

But yeah a lot of those movies you named are good!

It is very rare that I get scared by a horror film, unfortunately.  I wish that wasn't the case.  The last movie that made me jump in the theatre was "The Strangers".  Other pretty creepy ones...

Phantasm, The Children, Mirrors i thought was pretty scary!  The original The Hills Have Eyes, a lot of Italian and Japanese horror movies...

I'm not really into scary movies but I heard the movie Hostel was really disturbing. :D

The creepiest movie I have ever seen would be Wolf Creek.  My friends and I have an "anti-valentine" tradition carried over from our youth where we spend Valentines together watching horror movies (and in the past eating hugely calorific chocolatey goodness!!), even though most of us have partners now!  It was agreed that although it's not necessarily a film that will make you "jump", it was by far and away one of the most disturbing films we have ever seen!

Another disturbing movie that I'd recommend renting is Cube.

Silent Hill :(

Original Post by jewelsmcblah:

Jesus Camp.

Don't joke about that.

Home videos from when I was 10.

I haven't been scared by a movie in a very long time, but some things were a little disturbing to me about Pans Labyrinth.  When the dude beat the other dude's face in with a bottle, it was a little too realistic looking and it made my stomach sink.  I wasn't scared, I was a little..  *shudder*

I don't know about you guys, but I thought The Shining, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, and the like were funnier than hell.

I wish I could scaried by movies.  I wish hollywood would go for tension over jump scares.

The most disturbing movie I ever saw is called The Girl Next Door (not the comedy by the same name).  Not a horror movie per se but it disturbed me for days on end.

The french horror movie Inside probably comes in second for being disturbing.  They do a great job creating tension.  But don't rent the Blockbuster version because they cut out like 7 minutes.

I also liked the Blair Witch Project.  I know that movie has a lot of haters but I let myself get sucked into the feeling of being lost in the woods and all alone and not knowing what on earth is going on.

The Grudge and the original Ju-on put me on edge.  Actually all those Japanese movies that have the weird body movements kinda freak me out.

I really hate jump scares.  They're a cheap way of getting a reaction.  It would be so much better if the film-makers would go into it thinking "I don't want to scare people, I want to instill fear in them." 

I loved the Blair Witch Project. It was easy to get sucked into feeling that you were watching real people. Plus they never showed any gore which is often more scary.

I loved the first Alien movie. I didn't know it was supposed to be a scary movie. I thought it was just a science fiction movie. The suspence in the first movie was incredible. Remember when Signorney Weaver was looking for Jonesy the cat?

I have been disturbed by a lot of movies but not really scared by one since I was a kid. Poltergeist scard me as a kid and I still have trouble with mirrors now at 26 years old. One movie I did kind of get frightened by enough to not want to go to sleep yet (and watch Comedy Central for a while before I did go to bed) was the remake of Pulse. Not really sure why because it wasn't the scariest movie I just think it 'got' to me.

I forgot to mention The Birds. It's an old time black and white horror flick from the 50's. I still can't stand big black birds around me to this day. Creepy.

Original Post by moonikins:

I loved the Blair Witch Project. It was easy to get sucked into feeling that you were watching real people. Plus they never showed any gore which is often more scary.

Ditto. I found it very easy to get completely wrapped up in it. Me & my cousin went to see it & neither of us spoke on the way home. I haven't watched it since!

I also loved the original Amityville. Poltergeist too. Children of the corn, most of those 70's type horrors were classics.

Does anyone remember the Twilight Zone? Some of those stories were very disturbing- one in particular about a small  boy who gets sucked into a tv & an alternate cruel world...very surreal & weird... 

I loved the old Twilight Zone episodes. Many of them were very thought provoking and disturbing as well.

one that really got to me was In Dreams.  more disturbing than straight-up scary.

i love horror movies, but most of the mainstream ones don't really do it for me anymore.  Halloween was my first (it was on TV; i think i was 12), and i loved Halloween: H20 for sentimental reasons.  how can you not love a movie that has Janet Leigh giving Jamie Lee Curtis advice about a psycho killer?

a lot of the newer ones just aren't that satisfying.  i mean - you have to have some plot and character development, even if you are going to slaughter everyone in the movie.  and i think that when they laid out the formula in Scream, they kind-of did a disservice to the genre.  it was a good formula.

i liked the Scream series, though.  they were funny.

actually, i kind-of liked the first Jeepers Creepers.  the brother-sister dynamic was great.

jeepers creepers freaked me out a little.  not sure why...i felt like it should have been lame and cheesy, but was freaky somehow.

i've numbed myself to the exorcist at this point, having watched it like, 10 times...

i found the grudge to be creepy, even though it shouldn't have been.

i find movies that seem possible and more realistic to be far creepier.  movies with tons of suspense, as opposed to gore.  gore doesn't bother me.  if it's something that is possible to happen down the street, or in my house, it freaks me out ALOT more.

Original Post by moonikins:

Another disturbing movie that I'd recommend renting is Cube.

YES!  but skip the sequel and watch the prequel....very very good!  Man I love those movies!!

Def see the Saw movies.  good times. 

Im not sure why but the Decent scared the piss out of me.  I left bruises on my BFs arms...(seriously..) I have it recorded on my DVR but Im too afraid to watch it again! haha Its so silly too!

When I was a child Carrie scared me very badly.  Got me hooked on horror for good!

You need to read Misery..its much more disturbing...the movie is mild comparatively. 

 

eta: audition gets my vote too...that is such a WTF JUST HAPPENED movie....oh and In the Mouth of Madness :D