Nobody mentioned Alien yet. That movie (the original) had a lot of Gotcha moments that really made me jump. In the horror genre, the one that made me look away was Andy Warhol's Frankenstein 3D. It was disgusting and had everything from hanging entrails to necrophilia. I don't know how it ever got released.

I can remember how gobsmacked I was when I came out of the cinema after watching Alien. A truly groundbreaking movie. H R Giger was a twisted genius.

My father said the scariest movie he saw in the theatre was the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi......I've yet to see it, but his description of it always made me think twice (when I was younger).

The first Alien movie.  Tom Skerritt was crawling around in the ductwork of the spaceship for some reason.  He turned around and the creature was right in your face.  I spilled my ... er, beverage ... all over my lap.

jamesg1213
I can remember how gobsmacked I was when I came out of the cinema after watching Alien. A truly groundbreaking movie. H R Giger was a twisted genius.

Agreed!
I read in a supposed interview that all those ideas for paintings and Alien designs came from his nightmares.
He and Ridley Scott were a great combo.
And the lead up to the movie was pure genius also.
A year out all they showed was the egg and "In space, no one can hear you scream!"... then about 6 months out the egg and a few quick cuts only.
I couldn't wait for the release lol.
 
As far as the scariest, I'm hoping the one I'm making props for now will be! LOL
I prefer creepy to the same-old gore for gore's sake myself.
 
 

ampfixer
Nobody mentioned Alien yet. That movie (the original) had a lot of Gotcha moments that really made me jump. In the horror genre, the one that made me look away was Andy Warhol's Frankenstein 3D. It was disgusting and had everything from hanging entrails to necrophilia. I don't know how it ever got released.

Most people don't know that one, "Flesh for Frankenstein" I think it was without searching.
"I'm going to (get) me some spleen!" lol
And the tragic monsters suicide was great!
 
He did a few, that one, "Dracula", and "Bad" were the most famous ... and "Bad" was as described.... opening scene or close to it, the woman chunks a crying baby out the window.... I think that's the only time I ever turned away from a flick for real. lol
 

Mesh
My father said the scariest movie he saw in the theatre was the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi......I've yet to see it, but his description of it always made me think twice (when I was younger).

It's the way he says things. He accents the words a bit differently and what he says, all of a sudden has a much deeper meaning than we thought, or gave credence.
 
"Listen to them, chilllllllllllllllllldrennnnnnn of the night! WHAT music they make!"
 
Or the quote I used in the earlier post on this thread.
 
You never thought of the human evils and horrors, or wolves ... as something else, and in his wording, these things come off totally innocent, compared to the mind of man! That, is, and was, true horror of the human spirit, and it didn't end in 2015 either!
 
"Alien"
 Is not that great a film, since it degenerates to a just plain horror film and gore. However, the first part of it with all the settings is truly beautiful about a director that loves working with art (this film) and then with music (Blade Runner).
 

Moshkito
 
 
"Alien"
 Is not that great a film, since it degenerates to a just plain horror film and gore.
 

 
I disagree. It's a masterclass in building suspense with a few well placed shocks. It's a 'haunted house in space' film really, and along with 'Silent Running' it revolutionized the sci-fi genre.

scary movie: probably "the shining"
scary scene: long-shot up a corridor in david lynch's "lost highway"

jamesg1213

Moshkito
  
"Alien"
 Is not that great a film, since it degenerates to a just plain horror film and gore.
 

 
I disagree. It's a masterclass in building suspense with a few well placed shocks. It's a 'haunted house in space' film really, and along with 'Silent Running' it revolutionized the sci-fi genre.

For my tastes, it was too obvious, and not that much fun, and the whole thing, just became another horror film for me. Mind you, it was extremely well photographed, because they had the budget that most of the other films here did not. And they could pay an artist and other folks to create what was an incredible bunch of visuals and designs.
 
Far more scary, for me, were the psychic events in "The Double Life of Veronique", which did NOT become a horror film, and it easily could have, and it was handled sensibly by Kieslowski, and placed it in a situation that was a bit more literary and involved "parallel" lives ... with some unbelievably wonderful scenes, and music by Zbigniew Preissner. In the hands of an American person, that film would have become a horror story, instead of anything else.
 
I guess I see more horror in the minds of people and their ugliness, than I do in many films, that pray on your (and mine) ability to fear something or other, that we are not capable of imagining. This particular space, is almost the same that creates art, music and literature, however, when it is distorted, and corrupted by bad books and non-sensical information, this is the true horror of life for me. The maliciousness behind it all as a way to control people and their ideas. And excuse it as God's world is even worse!