I'm sure this will spark a more broad conversation, but curious what people think is the scariest movie in terms of what many consider 'classic' horror movies. Have at it!
OT: Since it's so close to Halloween...what's your favorite classic scary movie?
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The scariest movie I’ve ever seen is a documentary on sleep paralysis called the nightmare. The trailer looks a bit campy but trust me. You will not sleep after watching this movie.
My favorite is Alien, but scariest for me is Excorcist. I still have a hard time watching that movie. It will give me nightmares.
Exorcist was on AMC today during the day and even edited for TV it's scary as ****.
One time I think. Had a dream about a dead woman with slashed throat. “Woke up” to see her standing in my bedroom door. Closed my eyes and tried to wake up again and this time she was inside the room. Started flailing around and finally woke up my partner who told me “it’s okay it’s only a dream.” When I got up the next morning I asked her about it and she said she never woke up or said anything to me. Don’t know if that was sleep paralysis, but it definitely freaked me out. Has this happened to you?
I read an article just the other day where someone had done a study to try to determine the scariest movie by measuring heart rates. It was interesting, but the top 10 consisted of almost all newer films, and only a few of these classics made the list. I think really what they were measuring more was the jump scare and tenseness of a film, so some movies that are more dreadful and slow just don't measure up when looked at this way. Still interesting nonetheless.
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A scientific study was conducted to determine which horror movie is actually the scariest. And the answer might genuinely shock you.
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I read an article just the other day where someone had done a study to try to determine the scariest movie by measuring heart rates. It was interesting, but the top 10 consisted of almost all newer films, and only a few of these classics made the list. I think really what they were measuring more was the jump scare and tenseness of a film, so some movies that are more dreadful and slow just don't measure up when looked at this way. Still interesting nonetheless.
A Scientific Study Has Determined the Scariest Movie Ever
A scientific study was conducted to determine which horror movie is actually the scariest. And the answer might genuinely shock you.
Yeah it measured heart rate or something like that if I remember reading it right.
On this topic though, I voted Halloween. It's a great slasher flick that I think holds up pretty well. We've been watching scary movies with my son's this month and that is our movie we'll watch on Halloween night. Not listed, but I think should be up there is The Thing. Great effects, good acting, and tense with solid jump scares. The blood test scene is an all time great.
That is a crazy ass dream. My experience was at a very young age maybe around 5. I've since read up on possibilities to what happened to me and the best most scientific explanation I've seen from people with similar experiences is you get caught right between falling sleep and awake. It's more common with kids and they can hallucinate. Either way whatever I saw in the ceiling that evening in my creepy basement bedroom scared me so bad I couldn't move. Was a really crazy experience.
Well I really wouldn't want those twins showing up in my hallway aaaaand Here's Johnny!
I voted Halloween, saw it at a drive-in on a nite a storm blew in. Scary as all get out back then, never turned the lights out that nite when I went to bed.
I'm disappointed I had to vote other for the original Nightmare on Elm Street. To this day, that one still gets to me. If I watch it alone with the lights out, I turn into that scared kid again who was way too young to see that movie in the first place.
I think that was just a vivid dream, not sleep paralysis. Still creepy though.
It is usually relative because what we thought was scary as children isn't so much as adults. But I would say the original Suspiria was a mistake for me to watch as a teenager. Also.....I remember Prince of Darkness cleared the theatre on it's debut. It was packed at the beginning and by the end only 6 of us were left.
As someone born in the mid/80s, I think all my coming of age horror movies (Scream, Saw, Etc) have desensitized me to classic horror movies. I’ve watched them all and find none of them scary. I voted for The Shining because it’s my favorite on the list, but it is by no means scary to me.
Legit scary movies for me are Pet Semetary and What Lies Beneath.
Legit scary movies for me are Pet Semetary and What Lies Beneath.
Love Halloween. This is a good movie also. It isn't very scary and kinda cheesy, but anything with Alice Cooper is great!
The first couple of Friday the 13th movies actually were frightening at the time. I think people forget because it's become a mockery and basically comedy. However, the first couple made going to camp by any lake a little scary as a kid.
On a related note, I have an affinity for bad scary movies. One of my all-time favorites is "Maximum Overdrive" which was the only one of Stephen King's movies that he actually directed. He was using lots and lots of cocaine back then, and you can tell.
Death Spa may be the best bad scary movie I've ever seen though...
Death Spa may be the best bad scary movie I've ever seen though...
