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Name a horror film that genuinely scared you.

posted 4 years ago by M1sterDoct0r (4527)
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I don't get those nowadays. I genuinely wish I did. I love me some Horror films that actually do their job.

1. John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) - The first film to ever give me nightmares. The head growing spider legs scared the shit outta me as a kid. Rewatched with my little sister recently & it holds up so well. My favorite horror film of all time. Also, freaking love that the characters aren't written like idiots for the sake of plot. A lot of horror movies do that & I freaking hate it!

2- The Descent (2005) - Saw it when I was a teen. Film uses jump scares so amazingly. The 'creatures' are freaking great. And as a claustrophobic, this film was an anxious watch. Rewatched it a few months ago as an adult, not gonna lie, some of the jump scares got me real good. Still one of the best horror films of all time for me.

3. Jeepers Creepers (2001) -I don't think its that Scary, I just saw it late at night & by myself. Pretty decent horror flick though. Some very well used jump scares

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[–] DoctorThirteen (15227) 4 years ago

Salem's Lot (1979). I had trouble sleeping for weeks (and I wasn't a kid).

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4527) 4 years ago

Does it hold up, at least for you?

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[–] DoctorThirteen (15227) 4 years ago

Definitely. I own it on DVD and dig it out every couple of years or so. I can smile at the clothes and the hair, but the scenes that really 'got' me then still get me now!

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78450) 4 years ago

Salem's Lot is still a remarkably scary novel...
I've read it three times and it's the 'extra book' I've brought to Florida
with me for this vacation

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[–] DoctorThirteen (15227) 4 years ago

'Enjoy' your vacation! 😊

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78450) 4 years ago

I'll try but I'm freaking out lol!

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[–] Mrmojo4700 (21697) 4 years ago

What part of Florida are you staying at for vacation? Hope your getting good weather.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78450) 4 years ago

Naples, on The Gulf... rains like crazy for twenty five minutes
a day but is otherwise like The Garden Of Eden

I'm moving here asap!

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[–] Kowalski (78719) 4 years ago

I THOUGHT IT FELT SHOGUN LITE AROUND HERE....HAVE A BLAST...PACE YOURSELF WITH THE TECATE...LOVE YOU.😘

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78450) 4 years ago

Aww shucks

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[–] Mrmojo4700 (21697) 4 years ago

Are you serious about moving there? I go to Destin several times a year but I’ve never been to Naples.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78450) 4 years ago

Yes, I'm getting tired of snowblowers and humping firewood!

Never been to Destin, is it nice?

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[–] Mrmojo4700 (21697) 4 years ago

It has some of the best beaches I’ve seen in Florida but it is a tourist town, so lot’s of summer traffic.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78450) 4 years ago

I'm at the beach now (not my favorite place but what guy stays not only alive but married for very long fighting with the wife and kids?!?)

My sis in law is with us, she's a realtor down here and says it's really nice in Destin👍

Hope we bump into each other sometime, we'll raise some hell🍻🍻🍻

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[–] Mrmojo4700 (21697) 4 years ago

Hell yeah. 😆

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[–] BullSchmidt (3189) 4 years ago

> Naples, on The Gulf

Cool! I've been to Marco Island several times -- (for the rest of you reading this, it's only a few miles from Naples) -- but that was decades ago. Enjoy yourself!

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78450) 4 years ago

Thank you😃

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

the ending of (rec) is one of the only films that i think truly frightened me as an adult. i think it's genuinely terrifying.

the descent would be on that list as well.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4527) 4 years ago

Still haven't seen Rec. It's been on my watchlist for ages. Thanks for not spoiling it though

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[–] Stratego (31049) 4 years ago

"3. Jeepers Creepers (2001) -I don't think its that Scary, I just saw it late at night & by myself. Pretty decent horror flick though. Some very well used jump scares"

I find the Unsolved Mysteries segment it ripped off way scarier.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4527) 4 years ago

Wait, it's actually based on an actual mystery? Which bit? Is it the missing people's bodies that they find?

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[–] db20db (17711) 4 years ago

https://www.screengeek.net/2020/11/11/jeepers-creepers-real-life-killer-inspiration/

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4527) 4 years ago

Whoa.

Thanks for that.

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[–] db20db (17711) 4 years ago

You're welcome. I remember that Unsolved Mysteries episode.

If you're interested in an even worse story, one of real-life horror, look up The Cannibal of Bus 1170.

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[–] Stratego (31049) 4 years ago

Db already posted a link. The first part of the movie is almost a shot-for-shot remake.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O-pmaY2j8w0

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[–] db20db (17711) 4 years ago

Your link trumps mine, Strat. That's a great, side-by-side comparison.

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[–] Stratego (31049) 4 years ago

I didn't see the UM episode until 6 years ago or something. I had no clue it seved as the inspiration for this movie, so I was really creeped out when I saw it, ESPECIALLY since it was something that happened in real life.😖

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[–] db20db (17711) 4 years ago

What I learned of the writer/director of Jeepers Creepers, as a result of that episode, really conflicted me. Apparently, plagiarism is low on his list of crimes. It's a damn shame! When I first saw that movie, I thought it was a unique, great horror flick.

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[–] Valerian (-273) 4 years ago

The Thing blood test scene is very effective.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4527) 4 years ago

Most definitely. So well done

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[–] robocat893 (16226) 4 years ago

Alien (1979) I saw this movie in the theater when I was a teen. Gave me nightmares for days.

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4527) 4 years ago

Still haven't seen the OG. The Sequel is one of my favorite films of all time but the original film has been sitting on watchlist for over a decade

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

i saw alien probably a year or two after it came out when it played as a midnight movie on our local tv station.

i would have been 12 or so at the time, i guess, & i had no idea what kind of movie it was at all - ie almost the perfect way to see it if you couldn't catch it in a theatre. one of the few times i remember being truly frightened by a film.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Same, terrifying.

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[–] tcrum (31858) 4 years ago

Session 9 2001

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[–] M1sterDoct0r (4527) 4 years ago

That's a good one

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[–] DoctorThirteen (15227) 4 years ago

Another one, The Changeling (1980). When George C Scott first hears that child's voice on the tape it gives me goosebumps every time. Real, honest-to-God goosebumps.

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[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 4 years ago

I couldn't sleep after watching that movie.

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[–] DoctorThirteen (15227) 4 years ago

It definitely gets under your skin. Great performance by Scott, too.

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[–] samoanjoes (58497) 4 years ago

I saw The Witches (1990) in theatre when I was a kid and that thing terrified me.

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[–] TriumphReq (1857) 4 years ago

Yeah I read the Roald Dahl book as a kid and that was not a comfortable experience.

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