Movies that freak you out

[dancingbarefoot]

As a kid The Omen and the original Willy Wonker and the Chocolate Factory freaked me out.

The Oompa Loompas freaked me out when I was a kid. Crazy orange bastards!

The Exorcist didn't frighten me. Sure, I can find the theology gripping, but shock value? Nada.

 

[Monk]

The Oompa Loompas freaked me out when I was a kid. Crazy orange bastards!

that entire chocolate factory flick was terror! what the heck kind of movie were they trying to make? talk about a bad trip.

 

[Wolf]

Stir of Echoes was a great creepy movie. It came out around the same time as the Sixth Sense and was overshadowed by it at the time, but I thought it was better. Sixth Sense was a long, slow movie for a big payoff, Stir of Echoes was kind of creepy all the way through.

 

[Beer Snob]

The Oompa Loompas freaked me out when I was a kid. Crazy orange bastards!

The Exorcist didn't frighten me. Sure, I can find the theology gripping, but shock value? Nada.

Just wanted to be clear about something... are we talking about when it origianly came out. As in it came out or shortly after... or are we talking about now. Reason I ask is that if we are talking about watching it now... well compaired to others it might be pretty low on the scary list. We are pretty disensitized now. When this came out though compaired to others it was pretty up there.....its like the movie Alien. By todays standard... well... but when it first came out people were peeing their pants..... IMHO

 

[dancingbarefoot]

Just wanted to be clear about something... are we talking about when it origianly came out. As in it came out or shortly after... or are we talking about now. Reason I ask is that if we are talking about watching it now... well compaired to others it might be pretty low on the scary list. We are pretty disensitized now. When this came out though compaired to others it was pretty up there.....its like the movie Alien. By todays standard... well... but when it first came out people were peeing their pants..... IMHO

The movie came out before I was born, so I didn't see it until my teen years (early 90s). I can agree that we're more desensitized than earlier, but my parents were pretty strict about not letting us watch scary or violent stuff. It wasn't that the topic wasn't potentially disturbing (I take the idea of demon possession and religious damnation pretty seriously), but I just found the movie very unspectacular.

 

[Beer Snob]

The movie came out before I was born, so I didn't see it until my teen years (early 90s). I can agree that we're more desensitized than earlier, but my parents were pretty strict about not letting us watch scary or violent stuff. It wasn't that the topic wasn't potentially disturbing (I take the idea of demon possession and religious damnation pretty seriously), but I just found the movie very unspectacular.

Yeah I can certainly agree with that. Last time I saw it I feel asleep.

 

[todd_k]

Stir of Echoes was a great creepy movie. It came out around the same time as the Sixth Sense and was overshadowed by it at the time, but I thought it was better. Sixth Sense was a long, slow movie for a big payoff, Stir of Echoes was kind of creepy all the way through.

I completely agree with you (except for the creepy part). I saw Stir of Echoes first and then the Sixth Sense and I though Stir of Echoes was a much better movie.

 

[Truble]

Just wanted to be clear about something... are we talking about when it origianly came out. As in it came out or shortly after... or are we talking about now. Reason I ask is that if we are talking about watching it now... well compaired to others it might be pretty low on the scary list. We are pretty disensitized now. When this came out though compaired to others it was pretty up there.....its like the movie Alien. By todays standard... well... but when it first came out people were peeing their pants..... IMHO

I was talking about when I first saw it as a kid. Probably saw it for the first time at 7 or 8 years old, so that would be 1980 or 1981 or so. Now, no big deal...

 

[Beer Snob]

Its hard to find a scary movie these days. Some try though. I thought "The 13 ghosts" was a good try.

 

[dancingbarefoot]

I thought What Lies Beneath was pretty good, come to think of it. Psychological thrillers are much creepier to me than horror flicks.

 

[Lounge Lizard]

Come on, it was hilarious! (Not that I would ever do that. It'd be cruel to attack men where their egos are weakest. )

I thought it was too! It's just not the scene I would remember first, when someone mentions the movie.... lol

Nearly the whole thing was a riot. How the story got started was a little lame, but what the heck. Good movie.

 

[The Happy Mug]

For some reason Unsolved Mysteries always creeped me out. I watched it a few weeks ago and got the same feeling. Creepy show esp. the ghost ones.

I loved Unsolved Mysteries! I can remember watching it when I was young and getting freaked out over ghosts and alien abductors.

White noise - good mention. It's the last, and the first movie I've seen in a while that made me jump, and several times at that. The fact that it's based on an unexplained phenomenon just makes it freakier.

Not to derail, but "Dark Fall: The Journal" and "Dark Fall II: Lights out" were two games that kept me on my toes. I highly recommend them to anyone who likes adventure games and fright. Play them with the lights off and volume up, and let your imagination get carried away.

Uh, does anybody else find TxBrew's new avatar a little scary? It's supercool, but kind of freaky when it appears in this thread.

 

[alemonkey]

I vaguely remember watching a movie about 20 or 25 years ago but I have no idea what the name was. I remember it was set on an Indian reservation, and there was this creepy woman going around killing people. She was all white - hair, skin, eyes, etc. Weirded me out for a long time.

 

[drunko]

The Original Texas Chainsaw

 

[Dude]

Anyone ever see The Entity?
It is from the 70's and the woman in it is Barbara Hershey. It freaked me out as a kid.

 

[Beer Snob]

Anyone ever see The Entity?
It is from the 70's and the woman in it is Barbara Hershey. It freaked me out as a kid.

Oh yeah. That was a good one. Supposed to be a true story... ya think?

 

[Brewby, my beer]

If you want to see a movie that will freak you out, check out Eraserhead by David Lynch.

Even after seeing the movie, I'm not sure what it was about!
I think it is the most bizarre movie I've ever seen.

 

[Dude]

Oh yeah. That was a good one. Supposed to be a true story... ya think?

I guess the real life little boy still swears to this day it all happened.
Freaky.

The special FX on the woman's "chest" was wicked. How they did that (made in the 70's, remember), I don't know.

 

[dancingbarefoot]

Anyone ever see The Entity?
It is from the 70's and the woman in it is Barbara Hershey. It freaked me out as a kid.

I'd forgotten about that one. Hell yes, it scared the **** out of me. Hideo Nakata (the guy who did The Ring) is remaking it. **hiding under bed**

 

[Ize]

I'd forgotten about that one. Hell yes, it scared the **** out of me. Hideo Nakata (the guy who did The Ring) is remaking it. **hiding under bed**

He's remaking "The Entity"????? Wow. The Ring had a creep factor that was off the scale... That's gonna be nasty...

"Signs" was another that had a high creep factor. Got under my skin anyway.

Ize

 

[BrewBrothaRick]

Perhaps it's cheesy, but The Ring scared the crap outa me.... l

Ring was a good one. I actually liked Ringu, the original Japanese version of the movie more. It might have been because I couldn't understand most of what they were saying. That ending, the whole make copies and pass it on so as not to be cursed is so Japanese.

 

[dancingbarefoot]

Ring was a good one. I actually liked Ringu, the original Japanese version of the movie more. It might have been because I couldn't understand most of what they were saying. That ending, the whole make copies and pass it on so as not to be cursed is so Japanese.

I like the Japanese version better, too (and I do speak Japanese, so I don't think it was just the language barrier for me). Much creepier. The way the reporter tracks down the story from the video makes much more sense in the Japanese version - it has to do with the characters used to write the girl's name. Since they couldn't use Japanese writing to explain it in the English version, they had to make up the whole storyline about the horses, and I thought it was dumb.