Movie That Legitimately Freaked You Out and Why?

Blair Witch Project did and still does genuinely frighten me. I can't get over how chilling the night scenes were. That bit with children laughing all around their tent before something unseen attacked was just messed up.
 
The only movie that ever really freaked me out is Lucio Fulci's "Zombie". Specifically, the scene where the people pull up to a house and walk in the front door and the room is just completely full of zombies all over the floor munching on bodies. The zombies are the scariest looking zombies I have ever seen, and the lighting in that particular scene is kind of dark so you only really see bits and pieces of what is going on.
 
[quote name='goukill1120']Muholland Drive - The Homeless guy and the ending sequence really messed with my head.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='Filler2001']Im surprised I havent seen Signs mentioned......holy fuck, the birthday scene[/QUOTE]


Thanks for reminding me :cry:
 
Takashi Miike's Imprint from Masters Of Horror

Didn't freak me out more than it did make my sick to my stomach and feel icky all over. The torture scenes are brutal and the whole movie just feels off.
 
[quote name='lokizz']btw wasnt there another event horizon/deadspce type movie that came out towards the end of 09?does anyone know the name of it and was it any good?[/QUOTE]

You're thinking of Pandorum. Haven't seen it. First trailer looked like Dead Space. Second trailer was loud, fast paced and completely killed the mood prevalent in the first one.
 
[quote name='Filler2001']Im surprised I havent seen Signs mentioned......holy fuck, the birthday scene[/QUOTE]

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. The movie didn't stay with me but that scene was brilliant and terrifying.

Along the same lines, while Descent didn't screw me up for life, there's one part
where the camera is panning around with the nightvision turned on that nearly made me jump out of my skin.

I haven't gotten around to watching Zombie yet although it has been in my Netflix queue for months. Maybe tonight.
 
[quote name='batman1939']

Child's Play, I never trusted my Alf doll after that...I still haven't found my cat[/QUOTE]

I had a my buddy doll and it was pretty close to a good guy lol :lol:
 
[quote name='Snow Vixen']You're thinking of Pandorum. Haven't seen it. First trailer looked like Dead Space. Second trailer was loud, fast paced and completely killed the mood prevalent in the first one.[/QUOTE]


thats the one thanks for the help im gonna go read some reviews and see if its worth checking out. yeah signs was a very great movie until you finally see the aliens then i just rolled my eyes. the birthday scene was the shit though.
 
Jesus Camp - documentary about fundamentalist Christian youth camps. Scary (at least to me) in a very realistic way.
 
[quote name='Filler2001']Im surprised I havent seen Signs mentioned......holy fuck, the birthday scene[/QUOTE]
I ran the fuck out of the theatre after that.Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying.
 
Jacob's Ladder. The scene where he's being wheeled around the progressively more and more fucked-up hospital gets me every time because you're so vulnerable in the hospital, and the last thing you want there is doctors doing who-knows-what to you.
 
IT always freaked me the hell out. I was so scared of shower drains afterwards. Also, the leg shaving scene from Cabin Fever still makes me cringe when i think about it. And the fact that the girl was stupid enough to keep shaving after he skin starts to come off. WTF?!
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Saving Private Ryan - I can't handle the knife scene

The Blair Witch Project - the location reminds me a lot of where I live and I've seen and heard a lot of weird things at night. Also, there are two abandon houses nearby and the remains of an abandoned 1700s village.

The Descent - the claustrophobic aspect mostly[/QUOTE]

that knife scene is as tense as could possibly be
 
Okay, Cloverfield honestly freaked me out. It may have had something to do with the fact that I watched it at 3 in the morning, after a night of insomnia the night before, and then I had to look up all kinds of information about the ending afterwards, but it still scared the crap out of me.
 
Cannibal Holocaust i didn't even see it i just read the description.
Hostel 2 flipped me the fuck out! I guess it was the fact i could see it happening.
 
Mars Attacks. Don't laugh >_> I was a kid! I had nightmares!

Haven't seen a movie that freaked me out, but I have the feeling that Paranormal Activity would.
 
In order....

Poltergeist - Watching it on HBO when I was a kid, the cable went out and went to static TV, and while at a scary part. Brought the concept too close to home for me. I couldn't sleep in the room with a TV for a while. Especially since older TVs glow for a little while when you shut them off.

The Prince of Darkness - Was a kid, once again, and watching it on cable. Couldn't sleep at all that night because I had closet doors that were mirrors.

The Blair Witch Project - Before this movie was a movie it was opening pirated on irc. Barely anyone on irc even knew what this was and we thought it was possibly some kind of snuff film. I downloaded this, watched it at 1am, and pretty much didn't sleep for days. Was so happy to find out it was fake. I remember getting to the end and thinking, "HOLY SH*T the internet has some messed up stuff!"

The only other thing that kept me up at night when I was a kid was porn.
 
[quote name='WormFOODx']In order....

Poltergeist - Watching it on HBO when I was a kid, the cable went out and went to static TV, and while at a scary part. Brought the concept too close to home for me. I couldn't sleep in the room with a TV for a while. Especially since older TVs glow for a little while when you shut them off.

The Prince of Darkness - Was a kid, once again, and watching it on cable. Couldn't sleep at all that night because I had closet doors that were mirrors.

The Blair Witch Project - Before this movie was a movie it was opening pirated on irc. Barely anyone on irc even knew what this was and we thought it was possibly some kind of snuff film. I downloaded this, watched it at 1am, and pretty much didn't sleep for days. Was so happy to find out it was fake. I remember getting to the end and thinking, "HOLY SH*T the internet has some messed up stuff!"

The only other thing that kept me up at night when I was a kid was porn.[/QUOTE]

Poltergeist was prrety damn scary back in the day.the main thing that sticks out in my mind is the tv ( to this day i still wont leave a tv on a staticy channel) and that damn tree. where i grew up there were alot of trees that look like that one if not worse.

now that i think about it as a kid Terminator 1 was a scary damn movie too.
 
[quote name='Pookymeister']haven't watch it yet - but based on the description and movie cover alone I can tell it has the potential to be freaky.
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I watched Grace a while ago. It's actually much better than I expected it to be, considering it was (almost) straight to video and stars Jordan Ladd (she's cute, but I had never thought of her as a very convincing actress before). I think this is more disturbing for men because of the subject matter. I know that this kind of thing makes me uncomfortable even in relatively normal situations, and it really plays on that.

[quote name='lokizz']yeah the abduction flashback was very freakin scary too bad that they embelished it for the movies. from what i heard it wasnt as bad as all that. tha city of the living dead clip was pretty cool though. still trying to get my guts up to watch cannibal holocaust. ive heard its very real looking as far as gore goes.[/QUOTE]

I have to say, I thought Cannibal Holocaust was pretty boring. I got a lot of build-up to it, reading how it was one of the most graphic movies ever (at the time). It was definitely gory, with actual live animals being killed in the movie, but that didn't seem so scary. And the human slaughtering was gory, but seemed kind of unrealistic, with that too-red kind of blood that Italian movies used in the 70s. There really wasn't any atmosphere or tension at all, so just gore didn't make it scary or disturbing.
 
[quote name='WormFOODx']

The Blair Witch Project - Before this movie was a movie it was opening pirated on irc. Barely anyone on irc even knew what this was and we thought it was possibly some kind of snuff film. I downloaded this, watched it at 1am, and pretty much didn't sleep for days. Was so happy to find out it was fake. I remember getting to the end and thinking, "HOLY SH*T the internet has some messed up stuff!"[/QUOTE]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Blair Witch became a joke shortly after it hit the mainstream but like you, I was exposed to it before people knew what the fuck was going on. I worked at Tower Records and people were talking about it like it had really happened. The conversation segued into a supposed "doorway to hell" in the Maryland woods (I lived in Northern VA at the time) and it all suddenly seemed way too plausible. Sadly, I didn't get to see the film until it came out on video but watching it alone, in the dark, at night kept it very scary. I need to watch it again and see how it holds up, I wonder if I still have my old copy...
 
- The first time Samara teleported in The Ring. I was holding myself together just fine even after she crawled out of the damn television set until she pulled that stunt. Nah, f*ck that shit... I was done. Totally unnecessary.

- The Cloverfield viral vids from the moronic girlfriend of the snitch on the tanker. Watching on wondering when she'd turn into a monster (or get eaten by one that could have been in her house) as her sanity dwindled from seabed nectar addiction was way creepier than anything from the movie.

- IT. This and Killer Klowns From Outer Space were entirely responsible for my fear of clowns at an early age. I still don't trust anyone in full face paint and/or a costume... period. Never will.

- The reenactment of Kayako's death in the Grudge 2. The neck snap was particularly brutal and really got to me afterward. Gross.

- You can also put me down for Mars Attacks! when I was much younger. People were dropping like flies at a rapid pace and in ways a little too bizarre for me to completely stomach in that shitty movie.

- Videodrome & Hostel 2. ...Enough said.
 
I forgot about Irreversible. The 10 minute rape scene and the opening scene in the gay club had me wincing a bit.
[quote name='Sporadic']Takashi Miike's Imprint from Masters Of Horror

Didn't freak me out more than it did make my sick to my stomach and feel icky all over. The torture scenes are brutal and the whole movie just feels off.[/QUOTE]Second.
[quote name='Sc4rfac3']Cannibal Holocaust i didn't even see it i just read the description. [/QUOTE]It really isn't that bad, but there's a scene where they cut up a sea turtle for food, and that grossed me out. The girl that gets raped with a large stone, then her head bashed in with it was pretty unnerving too.
 
worst rape scene i ever saw in a flick was that one with Jodie Foster when she got raped in a bar by a bunch of guys. saw that as a kid and to this day it still disturbs the shit out of me. The Accused was the name of it.
 
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[quote name='lokizz']worst rape scene i ever saw in a flick was that one with Jodie Foster when she got raped in a bar by a bunch of guys. saw that as a kid and to this day it still disturbs the shit out of me.[/QUOTE]
The movie was Contact, it was consensual, and it wasn't a bunch of guys it was McConaughey and Sagan and it was hot.
 
[quote name='dothog']The movie was Contact, it was consensual, and it wasn't a bunch of guys it was McConaughey and Sagan and it was hot.[/QUOTE]


lol.
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']
It really isn't that bad, but there's a scene where they cut up a sea turtle for food, and that grossed me out. The girl that gets raped with a large stone, then her head bashed in with it was pretty unnerving too.[/QUOTE]


The 'gross' moment for me was also the turtle, but i thought the woman being impaled was the most graphic scene. I could see that disturbing a lot of people since u dont normally see a giant wooden pole sticking out of a nude woman's mouth.
Picture of the impalment from Cannibal Holocaust blah blah graphic not for the kids...
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Since IT scared me quite a bit when I was younger, I thought about rewatching it...but its 192minutes? 3hours 12minutes...no thanks.
 
[quote name='naiku']The 'gross' moment for me was also the turtle, but i thought the woman being impaled was the most graphic scene. I could see that disturbing a lot of people since u dont normally see a giant wooden pole sticking out of a nude woman's mouth.
Picture of the impalment from Cannibal Holocaust blah blah graphic not for the kids...
cannibal-holocaust-impalement.jpg


Since IT scared me quite a bit when I was younger, I thought about rewatching it...but its 192minutes? 3hours 12minutes...no thanks.[/QUOTE]I think I was too busy staring at her bloody tits to even notice a wooden pole up her ass. :shrug:

I always thought IT was stupid.
 
Silence of the lambs- there was something about Lecter and a paper clip and my mind was racing"what can this old dude do with a paper clip???"
 
you guys you dont even know i got this documentry on netflix (instant stream) called " SNUFF ". oh man that movie f-ing broke me ill never be the same. i saw that movie at 3 am and when it was over i woke my kids up to hug them and keep then safe from the true stuff that happens in this film. A MUST SEE !
 
I thought of somebody who's movies do sorta freak me and my wife out. Not exactly freaked out but puts us in a sort of disturbed state of mind for like 24 hours or more. Lars Von Trier - his movies have a strange vibe to them that I don't get from many other movies. Dogville for sure, and maybe Dancer in the Dark.
 
The all-time scariest movie for me, but probably only because I was so young when I first watched it, would be Pet Cemetary.

That movie scared the ever-loving piss out of me, and I refused to watch it again for like 6 years, given that only made me like 14 at the time, I also wouldn't go near black cats.

Movies don't really bother me anymore, though I can't do 'gore' flicks too well these days. I used to be a huge Takashi Miike fan, but somewhere between Visitor Q and Audition I just couldn't do it anymore.

My list for top 5 scary/weird movies goes:

Pet Cemetery
Visitor Q (Which is hilarious but disturbing)
Happiness
Original Last House on the Left
Audition (Seems too...plausible, other than the guy in the bag.)
 
While its not "scary", Precious is a very disturbing movie. I wouldn't say it freaked me out, but it definitely disturbed me.

Hitchock's Psycho is probably one of the freakiest movies I've ever seen.
 
I saw the original Amityville Horror as a kid and it still gets me to this day.

Blair Witch stuck with me for a while after I saw it, mainly because of the end scene.

Strangers and Paranormal Activity are the only two recent ones I can think of that I would say freaked me out.
 
[quote name='Zodiii']Pet Cemetery[/QUOTE]

Ah, good choice. The part that has always and will always disturb me is seeing the semi barreling down the road as Gage is chasing after his kite. That scene messes me up on a fundamental human level.
 
[quote name='niceguyshawne']I saw the original Amityville Horror as a kid and it still gets me to this day.

Blair Witch stuck with me for a while after I saw it, mainly because of the end scene.

Strangers and Paranormal Activity are the only two recent ones I can think of that I would say freaked me out.[/QUOTE]

Blair Witch? Really?

That's like the 3rd of 4th time I have heard that, as i've been asking everyone lately. I was laughing during Blair Witch, it would have been a decent movie had the camera not been retarded.

I haven't seen Paranormal Activity, but Strangers was disturbing, just because of the random encounter thing. There was no point in them being there and doing it, so that gave it more of a sense of...reality or maybe just brutality.
 
After watching Arachnophobia, i was freaked for a long time.
I would always check everything scared that a spider might jump out.
I would even check the under rim of the toilet so i wouldnt get bite on the ass.

Movies truly freaked me out.
 
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