Scary Films

[eve1974]

Which movie ... in distant past or more recent... has scared you. Like really given u the heeby jeebies?

[OldBather]

Well, for me,nothing could ever be as scary as Psycho (1960) I was just 13 and shouldn't have watched it in the cinema(how I got in is anyone's guess)I literally didn't sleep for the whole weekend.
Hitchcock was a genius.
Someone once asked him "Mr Hitchcock when are you going to make a comedy film?" Hitch answered "I thought ALL my films were comedies!"

[eve1974]

Oh yeah at 13 I bet that scared you lol

[Tilly2]

The Ring........I will never forget the scene where the girl climbed out of the television set!

[Traci66]

The Hitchhiker with Rutger Hauer gave me nightmares for weeks, The Conjuring is the only film that has made me 'jump' whilst watching it.

[eve1974]

Ooooh cool keep ideas coming folks

[Samuraisan]

The Shining, and The Exocist . Oh and Jaws.

[eve1974]

Yeah the conjuring was good!

[eve1974]

For me the freakiest was The Rite with Antony hopkins

[Sipowicz]

Loads of suggestions in related questions,(below)

[Samuraisan]

I haven't seen the Conjuring!

[Arrods]

In terms of a finale - definitely Carrie.

[Buenchico]

I'll agree with OldBather!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atjhOhH-V3E

[Buenchico]

I saw, this back in 1974, in a Sheffield cinema where they'd installed massive low-frequency speakers, so that the seats actually shook at the dramatic moments:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071455/mediaviewer/rm758518784
A guy had actually died of a heart attack during a screening in that cinema just a few days before!

[-SharonA-]

I just cannot watch a scary movie any more, my nerves have gone!!

[OldBather]

Buenchico)(et al)~
The "blood" in Psycho was chocolate syrup.
Hitchcock tried all sorts of things,including pig blood,but they washed away too easily.The chocolate syrup was sticky and moved at just the speed that Hitch wanted.

[Buenchico]

The incredible thing about that scene, OB, is that the viewer doesn't actually see any violence at all. It proves that what's in someone's imagination can often be far more frightening than reality!

Does anyone else here think that Spielberg's 'Duel' is really frightening in places? I find it amazing that such a good film was made for TV, rather than for cinematic release.

[Prudie]

The only one that made me feel really terrified was The Shining

[SnookerPlayer]

The shower scene in Psycho, always wondered how they got the shot under the shower head without wetting the camera lens, amazing sequence.

[Tilly2]

The phrase, 'I see dead people' also lives in my head.

The Sixth Sense.