Dawn Olsen gives us the lowdown on her personal scariest movies
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Dawn Olsen gives us the lowdown on her personal scariest movies
Let's move this party to the family room and list the SCARIEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME.…
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376 - EISUS
No WAY.... they don't have saw up here!!!??? That is very scary...I recon anyway.
377 - andria
well,i like ghost stories they scare me...hahahaha..lol
378 - jay*jay!!
what about saw 2 or 3 is pretty good!!
379 - Julie
I think that the most scariest movie of all time would have to be The Exorsist.That possesion stuff just fucking freaks me out!
380 - thomas andrws
i think that evil dead is for pussys what are they on about these are my top 10 horror movies
friday the 13th halloween nigtmare on elm stret
texas chainsaw massacare remake predator alien
childs play leprechaun (funny)
wishmaster hellraiser
381 - Daniel the .lV
Dawn,
I agre with some of your list,wouldnt say that night of the living dead is the scaryiest, but in saying that, when i watched it with my 10 year old brother a few nights ago,when we went to bed, every time we heard a noise it shore scared the shit out of us!
This next bit i wrote is for all people on site:
i my self have my top ten list too,
10. The Exorcim of Emily Rose
9. The shinning
8. Haloween 4
7.the omen (2006)
6. The grudge
5. The texas chainsaw massicre the begining
4. Saw 2
3. Dawn of the dead (2004)
2.Haloween Resurection
1. Ghost Ship
That ghost ship really scared me,and it takes a lot to scare me!
I havnt seen the Exorcist yet, so i wouldnt mind if someone wrote a comment about if its good or not.
Thanks!
382 - Demon Joe
Been a while since I've posted here...I just got back from Saw IV, and I have to say, it just might be the scariest movie I've seen all year. It returns to the roots of the original film (you're drawn into the victims' confusion, then made to realize they're more disturbing characters than the villain is) while keeping the emotional element that made the second and third so good. (And, amazingly, my "John = Lucifer" theory is still alive!) I take back my old disparaging comment about a fifth Saw; after this one, the only "shudder" I'm feeling over Saw V and beyond is of excitement. Funny how things change...
Some other good thrillers I've seen since we last spoke: Unrest, A Tale of Two Sisters, Death Sentence, The Descent, Infection, Black Christmas (1975). And for Daniel: If you're willing to immerse yourself in a more classical, slow-paced movie (and since you liked The Shining and Emily Rose, I'd imagine you are), then I guarantee you'll love The Exorcist - but brace yourself, because it's VERY intense.
Peace out.
383 - zunair khan
this are the scariest movies ever. i can't beleive it and so don't forget to buy them if yur parents give u money. i was scared to death i nearly got a heart attk. se you readin so watch out is the creatures are not at the back of u seein how to kill u n to EAT u.
384 - daniel
I saw the remake of halloween it scared me im only 9 and like scary movies i saw it with my dad like that part when michel as an adult killed his family and when he killed anny that wa all difrent everything was diffrent
385 - dan
im 48 yrs old an im a scary movie buff. the gorier the better. my list is as follows.not in order.halloween the exorcist re animator all the night of the living dead movies. the original was in black an white. george romaro used chocalate syrup for the blood scenes. figuring people wouldnt tell the differance ha ha.john carpenter was correct when he said people come to movies to be jumping out of their seats.nightmare on elm movies were all silly an stupid,kids dont know what scary is.
386 - chaz xx
heyy guys im chaz im 12 and the ring...
IS NOT SCARYY!!!!! omg lol
your a bunch of bludy baybees!!!
i was bout 8 when i watched it!! omg u saddos lolzz
i like al da scary movies though.. der not scaryy just funnyy lolz xxx
387 - chaz xx
ma top ten...
1. exorsist
2. The omen
3. saw 2
4. saw 3
5. the grudge
6. storm of the century
7. candyman
8. the shining
9. thirtheen ghosts
10. rock - a - by baby - funny film but scary/ sad too xx
iff you avent seen these films watch them...like...NOW!!!
chaz xxxxx
388 - Rose H
My top ten:
1)The Thing
2)Candyman
3)Dead Calm
4)Halloween (the first original)
5)Friday the 13th Part 3
6)Carrie
7)Kristine
8)It
9)The Exorcist
10)The Entity
Honorable mention goes to The Stand, while it wasn't scary, it was unthinkable. I also loved Salem's Lot.
389 - Rose H
Sorry Typo.
My Number 3 should be Dead Silence.
Another one that scared the bejesus outta me was Child's Play. I can't stand to see ventriliquist dolls any more since watching it and I was in my 20's when I saw it!
390 - hl_lover
Yeah, I know...been mentioned already:
The original "The Haunting". I will never forget seeing that on TV in the late 60's. Never. The thought of it spooks me still.
391 - daddybooboohumps
snuff films would be the scariest..if they're real that is
392 - stacey fincaryk
the scariest movie is an old horror called " Someone is watching " I can't find this old classic anywhere.
393 - Soumen Bhattacharjee
The Scariest Movie ever made I think is The Ring and that's it. Don't mess-up things -for those are not originally Holywood...but adapted to. Just look at the eyes leering at you through her long tresses and you got the answer.Kubrick's shining comes very next with it's hallway scene...ohhhhh, all hell let loose with that...that's the creation of a genius. Shining is always a better movie between these two, but The Ring is a greater movie-greatest of them all. Exorcist, Poltergiests and movies of these sort are either tasty morsel or good funstuff, compared to the following four movies- The Ring, The Shining, The Grudge, The Car.
394 - Soumen Bhattacharjee
A quickfire round.
1. Who is scarier -Samara or Sadako?
2. Which one is funnier - Exorcist or Evil dead.
Now, all u scared people got it. A scary film is not only an assimilation of grotesque images on the screen, nor it is a ghoul feasting on a grisly corpse.It's not at all scary, but it's eerie(someone in this blog commented earlier "u people don't know what scary really means). Yes, I don't prefer the word scary, but eerie while talking a word or two about the greatest horror movie of all time. A true horror movie is one that truly blurs the border between real life and reel life when u r returning from the fleapit after the late night show -all alone through the translucent thick fog hovering all around and all the grotesque silhouttes r leering n gibbering at u menacingly -trotting ominously in the sirocco. A true horror film is one that prods your imagination -not takes the shit out of u. So, my list completes with the following movies.
5. The Seventh Seal
6. The Changeling
7. Threads
8. Spectrum
9. Rec
10. The Omen
So, good bye scary people. The greatest horror movie is not yet filmed, going to be directed by me. That is 'The Ink'.
395 - Soumen Bhattacharjee
Here for u people the crux of the plot of 'The ink'-plagiarised from a leaf of a diary of my friend.
The Diary
The evening sky hung low over the top.In dappled twilight, the towering silhouette of Mainam had devoured everything --the lush green shrubbery, the glossy ice lacquering the top, mighty pillars of rock and earth --all in flashes of moment. Almost four hours slipped since I'd lost the route. Now I was abseiling down a steep precipice with the help of bushes and thick undergrowth. The gradient was really mind blowing --to the tune of fifty to sixty degree. The jungle was no longer silent. Nocturnal predators were out on their prowl. Also the pitter patter raindrops and the hooting nightjars --all helped to an elegiac rhapsody.
Suddenly it started to piss down. In the pelting rain, all that stood before my eyes were an immense upright structure of a rocky earthy mountain. A high water fall jumped out of a deep cleft of the mountain, grumbling like rain clouds. After a breath taking fall of few hundred feet, it burst into millions of water grain --then transmuted into a gurgling electric brook flowing some thirty yards ahead of me through the chasm between the two mountains. Mists hovered all around. A true Stygian Abyss and life really fell apart for me.
One hour was over since I'd fled the base of the waterfall. Within this span, I'd climbed at least three hundred feet. Light had petered out completely. I could hardly see the silhouettes of dead trees through the translucent thick fog hovering all around. The jungle was eerie. With the specter of dense misty fog looming up and the ghoulish apparitions of dead trees trotting all around ominously in the sirocco, the whole place took a horrific look like valley of death. Nor worse was the audiovisual contrast of deadly white mosaic of frost, leering and gibbering menacingly under the feet. Life was not groovy here... but the ice under the feet and a lot of energy was spent to drag even a single step over the deep spongy ice. Filths of bear were scattered all around. I'd even lost my Duracell Voyager --the last weapon of protection...
Still, some seven years after my death at Mainam, I can, Distinctly, in every detail, remember that trek. The deadly white mosaic of frost, the sibilant 'hiss' of wind, the gurgling electric brook, and the grotesque silhouttes of dead trees around the dead man walking.
BTW: Name of my friend is Soumen Bhattacharjee. I don't know how u people pass through me!
396 - Soumen Bhattacharjee
It's neither Exorcist...the puking lolypop girl smeared with some bloodstain, nor it's Storm of the Century with all it's stygian gloom or dreary looking backdrop as prescribed by Mr. King Kong or some Mr. Mighty Demon Joe Young (all one name). Actually the scariest thing about the sh**ingly funny movie The Exorcist is that a whole nation bragged it to be the scariest movie over a period of a time, let alone the comment in this blog by someone that it has stood the taste of time. Yes, of course it did, but as the dumbest, funniest & most nauseating idiotic movie of all time.Any doubt? Just slough off from the world of bigotry & ask the rest of the world who made films like Suspiria, Ringu, Juon, Monihar & so many else.I think u people, yourselves, need to be exorcised first, who commented that spending some $8 is the scariest part about The Ring. Yes, of course opinion varies from man to man, but also yes,of course,u have some issue as somebody has put her doubt already -the issue of sheer utter bigotry & foolhardiness -dumbness to boot. If u people carry on like this, the rest of the world... not me, myself exactly, will modify my list...cut out The shining & put there Suspiria, though the former one is brilliant movie, a rare combination of two maestros, Mr. King Kong & Mr. Kubrick,one of my personal favorites.
The scariest movie u people have ever made is Casper...lol. So, forget about making films like Ringu, Suspiria, Monihar & put up with the geniuses like Nakata, Romero, Satyajit Ray.
397 - Soumen Bhattacharjee
It's neither Exorcist...the puking lolypop girl smeared with some bloodstain, nor it's Storm of the Century with all it's stygian gloom or dreary looking backdrop as prescribed by Mr. King Kong or some Mr. Mighty Demon Joe Young (all one name). Actually the scariest thing about the sh**ingly funny movie The Exorcist is that a whole nation bragged it to be the scariest movie over a period of a time, let alone the comment in this blog by someone that it has stood the taste of time. Yes, of course it did, but as the dumbest, funniest & most nauseating idiotic movie of all time.Any doubt? Just slough off from the world of bigotry & ask the rest of the world who made films like Suspiria, Ringu, Juon, Monihar & so many else.I think u people, yourselves, need to be exorcised first, who commented that spending some $8 is the scariest part about The Ring. Yes, of course opinion varies from individual to individual, but also yes,of course,u have some issue as somebody has put her doubt already -the issue of sheer utter bigotry & foolhardiness -dumbness to boot. If u people carry on like this, the rest of the world... not me, myself exactly, will modify my list...cut out The Shining & put there Suspiria, though the former one is a brilliant movie, a rare combination of two maestros, Mr. King Kong & Mr. Kubrick,one of my personal favorites.
The scariest movie u people have ever made is Casper...lol. So, forget about making films like Ringu, Suspiria, Monihar & put up with the geniuses like Nakata, Argento, Satyajit Ray.So, u just keep ur pecker up
& watch what The Others (ehhh, that's also a horribly stupid American horror movie studded with a brilliant & beautiful Australian actress), sorry the others do.
398 - Jittery
After all the previous comments, will anybody come up & rename The Exorcist as Baby's Shit Out.
399 - Jittery
I watch everybody is busy penning here their list of ten best scary movies. So, somebody has to list the worst ones. So, here is my list.
1. The Exorcist: Yes, of course, as SB has rightly pointed out, this excruciatingly nauseating & painful-to-watch movie undeniably bags the credit of being the stupidest stuff of all time with it’s all vulgar on screen portrayal & funny graphics, let alone the funniest sound effects & morbid rank bad acting. The least u say the better.
2. Halloween: What that funny guy, Mr. Myers, was doing all the time masquerading & busy in meaningless weird activities that led to a stashed slasher for the dunderhead gore champs. An all time stuff of third class fun. He is particularly horrible & his grey matter really shows when he comments on The Ring in this awesome blog. Definitely, the two r the same & needs great polishing work by some another Carpenter.
3. Storm of the Century: Brainstorming of the century that why some people consider this never ending painful & pointless movie as the scariest. Better f**k up & see The Perfect Storm -a much better & much much more serious stuff. Anyway, sacrificing a child… see Sophie’s Choice & go, get what real life horror is.
4. Twelve Monkeys: A real stuff for the army of eleven mongooses & one gorilla " the Mighty…….. Young, but a perfect mind block for the others. Now, u tell me my monkey is loosing hair fast. What to do? Should I sell the bicycle first? Even Bruce Willis, in his weirdest dream, wouldn’t have seen it as overrated as here. It is underrated & rightfully served by the audience.
5. The Evil Dead: The director dead, the actors dead, the spot boys dead, the cameraman dead, the light man dead and finally we, the ill fated audience dead. Dead & dead drunk with this soporific, pornographic monstrous movie. Omg, omg! It should have been a Rob Moron movie.
6. Night of the Living Dead: Another all dead and all cock-a-hoop nonsense…a meaningless death orgy. Gosh! Is there nobody worth his salt, who can perish these movies for ever from the history of films & get my crush on him?
7. Carrie: Sissy, even Jim Carrey is scarier than that lunatic, outrageous, social outcast poor girl. I feel pity for her. This is a mournful movie at its best, depicting how insane the society is to an individual with slightest weirdness that bars the social order. This is a good mediocre film, but describing it as a horror movie is by itself a horror story.
8. Poltergeist: It’s hard to believe that the same man, who gave us the gloom portrayal of Nazi Zeitgeist in Schindler’s List, also gave us this freak. This is absolutely a crow film…a crow film…and a crow film.
9. Saw: A highly overrated plagiarized gay movie, a concoction of several contemporary
horror movies, as rightly pointed out by Mr. Lee earlier in this blog..
10. The Descent: Again stuff for the gore champs, with portrayal of grotesque humanoids in funny make-up, even make-up of Mountain of Cannibal God was far more superior. The only good thing about the film is that it proves that not only the Americans, but the British may also fall in the same manner, though fewer times.
BTW: I really wonder how on earth these aforesaid movies can sit in the same bracket with The Shining, Salem’s Lot, Silence of Lambs, Ringu etc…gosh! Anyway, friends how about ranking Cast Away as the scariest one that really cast a spell on us, a psychological fear of loosing the beloved ones, a fear of getting doomed all of a sudden "a superlative treatment.
400 - S B
Thank u Jittery for all the good work u’ve done. At last, somebody has come up & taxed those fictitiously over rated movies ad valorem, showing them the door. Anyway, did u notice that completely outlandish hellish Demonic comment about Japanese movies...gosh! Disliking movies of a particular country is one’s own choice, no matter how stern a bigot he is, but I smell some evil stench emanating from that. Yes its not special effects, but social effects. Otherwise how on earth one can dare to put that stupid comment, that too against a country that have the legacy of legendary Akira Kurosawa & later begot players like Takashi Shimizu, Hideo Nakata as true heirs. Anyway, to complement the list of Jittery, here I add few other shits.
11. House of 1000 Corpses: The name must have indicated to the fleapit that arranged the premier show and some thousand spin-head gore champs who devoured that shit in that show. Anyway, the name could easily have been 1000 corpses & one Zombie. Give me back my money & time. Anyway, the idea is not also an original, clearly stolen from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
12. Candyman: A good Rosy stuff for the porcelain boys & candy perfume girls. Anyway, the idea behind the purported legend of chanting his name is totally copied from the Persian legend Aladdin. Being a film of zero originality, it shud be perished for one single reason…tempering a beautiful story The Forbidden by Clive Barker.
13. Friday the13th. It may rank the thirteenth, the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth…anywhere but shud never be missed out in any list of twenty worst scary movies of all time, a cliché of sex equaling carnage.
14. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Massacre of history of film making, reel after reel relentlessly with its sub-standard bizarre graphic violence & meaningless carnage. If it’s truly based on the notorious Ed Gein, then I’d definitely see either Psycho or Silence of the Lambs… far more superior in all respects.
15. The Thing: Just saw this thing wondering why this thing, The Thing, should not be renamed as ‘A Huge Mound of Shit’. When that guy retires and rid us from his carpentry work. This freak can only attract E.T.s with nuts. Better I read Who Goes There?
16. Trilogy of Terror: Last night after seeing this bogey stuff, I stood dumb for a while, wondering why Dawn’s review of this movie should not be stated as a Eulogy to Horror Film Review.
17. A Nightmare on Elm Street: Shit, A Nightmare on Elm…Shit! Being a shitting prototype of the worse Halloween, it seriously puts a question mark on the reputation of Michael Myers being the funniest character of all time… until the emergence of Fred Krueger. It’s a classic example of how a mediocre film maker can transform a superb social subtext for the adolescents into a nonsensical typo of slasher sub genre.
18. Village of the Damned: A Blog shud be tagged as Blog of the Damned if such a silly stuff finds its place there. Dudes, make one point clear to me. Did all those little human looking creatures brush their eyes with toothpaste by mistake…otherwise how their eyeballs were shining so brightly…really a point to ponder? This might be wrong. Then certainly did they have lights fitted in those cavities…lol. At least they don’t need to use torch lights during load shedding. Can I have one of them & save some money?
19. Pet Cemetery: Shud be cremated immediately along with Zelda.
20. Dawn of Dead: Dawn, don’t mind, but this movie with all its frivolous jerks, shud have been included in your much coveted list which, in the hindsight, I thought u did much earlier than Jittery. Anyway I like those reanimated zombies, who either like to feast on human flesh or make films like The House on the Haunted Hill…err The Hound of Baskerville…again err The House of 1000 Corpses. Some times they also attach a leaf of my diary in this blog, which already transformed into a Ghost’s Blog.
401 - Samara
Last evening I was standing for a while in the darkest corner of my balcony "dumbstruck with my eyeballs completely gouged out of those cavities in great fear. You know why? Just few minutes back, Se7en ended on my personal 21’ big screen. I was almost to give this superbly twisted & creepy psychological slasher the No.1 position, if there was not one The Ring. Yes, few months’ back I was almost to destroy the same 21’’ set after that bizarre demon from the hell was cast. It was something more than creepy. It was eerie to see that demonic girl Samara Morgan popping out of the well stealthily…then coming towards the screen tiptoeing weirdly with a never-heard-before eerie humming "that too on a TV…oh god…oh god… she was coming actually towards me "a completely outlandish hellish idea that truly blurred the boundary between real life & reel life… life reeling after death " down with Hideo Nakata for importing this blood curdling alien version of horror subgenre to modern day movies. Yes SB, who, on earth, can forget those uncanny eyes leering at u through her long black tresses or the eerie video tape careening ominously on the blue screen? This movie really cast a spell on us with all its darkness looming large on our personal screen… never Wait until Dark.
402 - Heidi green
The Entity that is the Movie you are looking for and I have the Movie and it is based on a true story and is very scary!
403 - charlotte
what about the strangers
404 - sergio wergio
i think the ambiance matters most. i saw the exorcist when it was re-released on the big screen a couple years back with 3 of my goofy friends and we were...bored/unfazed. yet i will most likely never pop it in the dvd player at home and watch it alone. IT'S SCARY! scariest movie ever, i dont think i even want the dvd in my house :|
405 - sergio wergio
kudos on bringing up snuff films. FAV GAME OF ALL TIME -MANHUNT- FOR THE PS2. INTENSE!
406 - iliana
what is up with you? you totally forgot SCREAM..!!!!