You know, I don't like Horror movies, and tend to avoid them. Therefore I'm going to go smartbutt (and mostly true) and say "Birth of a Nation", because of how many people enthusiastically believed in and supported what was portrayed in that film. Cheers!
the only movie to ever scare me was THE EVIL DEAD. Started watching late at night adn before I knew it I was yelling in fear. even at 16, i was too scared to get off the couch and turn it off. when the power went out about 30 or 40 minutes into it, I instantly lept off the couch and ran to bed where i hid under the covers until i drifted off hours later. i tried finishing the movie the next afternoon and was screamed just as much.
other movies might make me jump once or twice, but no other movie has affected me the way this one did, and I've seen every title mentioned so far. While I like SESSION 9, THE EXORCIST, and THE HAUNTING, on the scare meter I find them all kind of "blah." But each of our own internal fear meters is like our senses of humor, unique.
The only movie that ever really scared me, and I admit it's is a tad silly and I really don't have any clue why it scared me, but Pumpkinhead had me pretty well freaked out the first time I saw it.
The first one to rock my socks off was An American Werewolf in London. That Nazi Werewolf did me in. The next film was John Carpentar's The Thing and the one to this day that still creeps me out is...Night of the Living Dead (1968). Romero has a way of totally destroying me.
ghost story is an adaptation of a Peter Straub novel of the same name. Straub wrote the scariest book I've ever read, Shadowland. That's my favorite author. Lost boy, lost girl was excellent.
You guys may know this one.... I saw it when I was a kid and it scared my pants off. Some virus gets transported into a town on a train. If you fall asleep your die, you explode into a pile of goo. So at the end, this guy falls asleep and wakes up rejoicing that he isn't infected but the government guys come in in biohazard suits and kill him anyway.
Did anyone ever come up with a thread for this? I've looked around but didn't find anything. I have a small plot for a movie I haven't seen in a since around 87' but it was an old one at that time. It's been bothering me for some years now that I just can't come up with the name. Please let me know. Thanx
Slasher films and monster films have no effect on me and because the Tenant is a phsycho-thriller I can get drawn in. This movie is from 76 or so but Its still quite valid. There is some very twisted (but believable) stuff going on in there. The film effected(s) me strongly since I have a notion (its in my art) that buildings and items can talk. (that doesn't mean they have some sort of supernatural voice chords) but that some persons may interpret them. On the other hand some view this movie as a dark comedy... I can see this viewpoint as well.
There is a movie that was almost as creepy, but more dark and graphic, Called Jacob's Ladder.
I still seem to be the only person on earth who gets absolute shivers when I hear those rocks clacking in Blare Witch Project!