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Added 2021-10-06 00:11:07 +0000 UTCWhat was your scariest movie experience and why?
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I’ve always had issues with body horror involving small creatures inside the body. For example, the scarabs in The Mummy, or the bellybutton tracker in The Matrix. I wish I could say that the first movie to introduce me to this concept was Alien, but unfortunately, I saw Space Balls first. I still have nightmares of the knockoff alien puppet dancing across the countertop. I also distinctly remember being messed up throughout the entirety of Shrek just because there was a trailer for Evolution that included the scene where the guy had the mosquito thing in his leg. I guess there’s something about seeing this concept presented as gross out humor that was deeply disturbing to me.
Hart
2021-10-09 19:18:10 +0000 UTCNot many scary movies stick with me, but “Pink Floyd’s The Wall” always creeped me out. Also, “Mulholland Drive”
Jestergambit
2021-10-09 00:39:53 +0000 UTCAs a kid, maybe 6, one afternoon on TV I watched the alien experimentation sequence in the the decidedly B movie Fire in the Sky and it messed me UP! As an adult, not really a horror/scary movie per se, but the opening sequence of Irreversible; the disorienting camerawork that then takes you right into the fire extinguisher scene. I knew about the subway tunnel rape scene beforehand, so I was expecting it, but I did not know about this part. Watching it alone in my apartment with all the lights off was extremely disturbing. Amazing film though.
Ian
2021-10-06 13:23:35 +0000 UTCMy grandmother used to work at a large sporting / concert event arena when I was growing up. It was great, free concerts and games whenever we wanted. I got to see Prince for my first concert in 1997 when I was 12 years old. Anyway, one weekend, when I was 4 or 5 there weren’t any events happening and the entire arena was empty, so she decided to go in to finish up some paperwork and I went with her. This meant I had free reign of the whole place. I decided to take her portable TV into the pitch black, 14,000 seat arena, sit in the middle of floor and watch whatever was on, which happened to be the TV edit of Poltergeist. The moment Carol Anne got sucked into the TV I was so freaked out that I jumped up, ran out of the arena and back up to her office. She could tell I was scared, but the first thing she did was ask where her TV was… so I had to walk back into the black void where the TV’s glow was the only thing illuminating the room, just like in the movie. It was the most frightened I’ve ever been watching a movie and I only saw like 10 minutes. I finally finished Poltergeist when I was a teenager, not bad.
Shaeffer Holt
2021-10-06 04:33:45 +0000 UTCI don’t know if I’ve been “scared” beyond when I was a child, but I was unnerved for many days after watching It Follows. The thought there was some unstoppable reaper that would ceaselessly pursue me bothered me for a bit. Also I like to do evening walks and the sight of a person slowly B-lining toward me definitely got to me after that movie. Maybe outside your question, but the most anxiety I’ve ever felt during a movie is watching The Game. I haven’t seen it in years but I remember being tense pretty much the entire movie.
Arthur Augustyn
2021-10-06 04:05:59 +0000 UTCWhen I was about 16 or 17 the far rightwing youth group leader at my church showed us a movie called "A Distant Thunder." Before showing us the movie he had spent months guiding us on a line by line study of Revelations, which we all believed to one extent or another. This movie is a dramatic depiction of the end-times, in which all of the Christians left over after the Rapture were hunted down and forced to accept the mark of the beast or be executed (by guillotine no less). The movie is written as a thriller with the heroine being captured at the end and about to be executed (?). Our entire group was in shock, most of us shaking and/or crying. That guy was a real piece of work, later arrested and convicted of child molestation. I think I am still traumatized 40 years later. I wouldn't dream of seeing it again.
Edward Eiffler
2021-10-06 02:47:09 +0000 UTCI’ve seen better horror films before and after, but none has topped the experience of watching The Blair Witch Project in theaters when it first came out. The final sequence from when they find that house to that chilling last shot of the film had me in a state of escalating dread that I had never felt watching a movie before. I guess it has to do with the fact that the movie, in its found-footage format, wasn’t following the rhythms and mechanics of scary movies I had seen before, so I wasn’t able to anticipate what was going to happen. I of course knew that the film wasn’t real (a major talking point at that time, given how it was marketed), but that didn’t help me at all. I was at the right age at the right time in seeing the movie. It made an impact. I’ve mentioned this before, but having my dad along made the experience more memorable. He was not one to go see movies, unless they’re set in a historical era he was interested in, and even then, he’d rather watch ESPN. He certainly wasn’t one to go out of his way to see a horror film. But I managed to get him to go with me to see this one. He started cursing my name under his breath at around the time the main trio fled their tent in the middle of the night when something started pawing at it from the outside. “Goddammit, why did you drag me to this movie?” He was scared, and not happy about it. That cursing went into overdrive when they entered the house at the end. We talked about it the entire ride home. He was glad he went, it was a good experience for both of us, but he would’ve rather had us do something where he wasn’t scared shitless. He got me back though for taking him to the movie that same night when I went to bed. As I was starting to drift off to sleep, he stood outside my bedroom window and started clacking rocks together. He wanted to fuck with me, so he took a page from the movie. In my heightened state, it certainly had the desired effect. It’s funny now, but it added greatly to the experience of the movie.
Bennett Oliver
2021-10-06 02:14:40 +0000 UTCSinister. I’d say I’m a huge horror fan and nothing ever really gets to me, but there’s just something about this one that did. The atmosphere, music and the villain himself were just so creepy and got to me in a way no other movie has and I still can’t quite put my finger on why
Anthony Murray
2021-10-06 01:42:06 +0000 UTCThe only movie I've walked out of was The Death of Stalin and not because I disliked the movie. I was quite enjoying it but about halfway through, some random dude walks into the theater with a backpack and hat on and sits down a few rows in front of me. Weird for sure but I've seen people come into movies really late so didn't alarm me too much. Shortly after he puts the bag in the seat right next to him, rummages around inside and then just gets up and leaves the theater with the bag still in the seat. He doesn't come back after ten minutes. Me and my girlfriend are too freaked out and nervous to finish the movie so we get up, tell the closest theater employee and leave.
Tyler Shobe
2021-10-06 00:40:24 +0000 UTCGuess it would have to be the IT remake.
swift minus one
2021-10-06 00:35:23 +0000 UTCWhen I saw the whole opening of Scream with Drew Barrymore's death, I was young when I first saw the film when it came out. That freaked me out so much, and still has an effect on me. Even though the film parodies horror films, that opening was very suspenseful and frightening despite some in jokes.
Tony Moro
2021-10-06 00:34:33 +0000 UTCWhen Ripley rescues Newt from the queen in Aliens. One of the best monster reveals ever and amazing tension with Ripley using the flamethrower to threaten the eggs so the monster's guardians won't attack and all without dialogue, too. Then the escape from the exploding base with the monster chasing them is perfectly executed. Seeing the subtle details that I missed as a kid makes it scarier as an adult.
Wolfman Brandon
2021-10-06 00:30:43 +0000 UTCIT (2017): Pennywise the clown (from under a sewer) tells Georgie (a young boy) to come closer, then opens his mouth, reveals shark teeth, bites his arm off, and drags him into the sewer.
Michael Smith
2021-10-06 00:25:47 +0000 UTCMight be weird, but I get different types of scared: The wide-eyed, naked male witch in Hereditary is the last one to make me sleep with the lights on because I saw his smile in every dark corner of my apartment the night that I saw it. Under the Shadow made me jump the most because I cared so much about the characters, and I was so worried for them. Audition and I Saw the Devil are the only movies that made me curl into a ball while watching.
Jared Angcanan
2021-10-06 00:16:47 +0000 UTC
