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post #1 of 29
9/5/04 at 4:50pm
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What is in your opinion the creepiest movie ever made?

What makes a good one versus a cheesy one?


My favorites:
The Haunting (the original)
The Woman in Black (excellent british film)
The Ring

In my opinion, atmosphere is the main driver behind a good creepy movie. In the Woman in Black, it's the isolation of the house and the ever-present threat of a melevelont spirit. In the Haunting its the oppressiveness of the house and the question of Eleanor's sanity. without taut tension, the atmosphere is lost.

Thoughts?
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post #2 of 29
9/5/04 at 4:57pm
Broad subject, perhaps too broad.

"Creepy" is in the eye of the beholder. I can take almost any extreme of violence in a horror film, but when it gets into extended mysogyny like in a Takeshi Miike film, then I pull back.

John Carpenter's The Thing is one of my favorite films of all time, but I am deathly afraid of bugs, so I refuse to watch the spider-head scene to this day.

"Creepy" is what happens when a film digs to your limits of comfortability, not necessarily atmosphere, not necessarily gore, but subject and intent.
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post #3 of 29
9/5/04 at 5:03pm
RINGU for sure. THE EXORCIST as well. That movie gets unbearable at times.
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post #4 of 29
9/5/04 at 5:46pm
The Shining for me. Never been so creeped out just by watching a film.
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post #5 of 29
9/5/04 at 6:07pm
I have to say The Shining as well. This goes back to when my Dad took me to see this in theatres when I was about 9. I was afraid to go to the bathroom for weeks afterward. Totally freaked me out.
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post #6 of 29
9/5/04 at 6:25pm
Ringu imediately came to mind....something about the warped pictures gets to me. The bathroom scene in It terrified me for years as a kid.
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post #7 of 29
9/5/04 at 6:32pm
The Fly creeps me out.
Making a mistake, turning into something grotesquely inhuman, and not being able to stop the process.

that maggot birth scene....ewk
the twitching, the skin, the hunched over way he stands, becoming less human in both appearance and behavior... creepy, man. Creepy.
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post #8 of 29
9/6/04 at 4:37am
Creepiest ... good word ... I'll have to go with RINGU, PEEPING TOM, KAIRO, BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and HOUSE OF WHIPCORD .... and the Roddy McDowell segment of the NIGHT GALLERY film in which the painting continually changes ...
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post #9 of 29
9/6/04 at 9:12am
Prince of Darkness or scarecrows
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post #10 of 29
9/7/04 at 2:15am
I'd probably have to run with Kairo, as well...or even Cure.
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post #11 of 29
9/7/04 at 6:08am
The Thing, The Exorcist, Night of the living Dead & The Shining.
My all time favourites, and the creepiest (in my opinion) movies i've seen.
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post #12 of 29
9/7/04 at 6:51am
Peeping Tom, yeah, that's a good choice... I've always found it way creepier than Psycho
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post #13 of 29
9/8/04 at 4:52pm
Alot of good ones have already been said, but I'd have to add In the Mouth of Madness....I was pretty creeped out the first time I saw that....
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post #14 of 29
9/8/04 at 10:43pm
The Dark Crystal.


There is NOTHING creepier than this movie. It fucked me up when I was a child.
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post #15 of 29
9/9/04 at 10:43am
Audition or May would be my choice.
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post #16 of 29
9/10/04 at 6:54am

Exorcist

The Exorcist still creeps me out more than any movie. I'm not even Catholic, or easily scared by movies, but I still can't watch this one alone. I'm a wuss. Oh and Young Frankenstein- scared the hell out of me.

Night of the Living Dead is also the absolute most, but everybody knows that, huh. That movie with Barbara Hershey and the ghost with busy hands, The Entity, that is kind of creepy to me too. I could go on and on and on and on
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post #17 of 29
9/11/04 at 5:06pm
The Exorcist, original version.....without a doubt, that movie. Hands down. I'm not heavily religious, and I'm farrrrr from Catholic....but I just don't know what's up with it and the way it can scare the shit out of me still. Ringu is also pretty creepy.....well, actually, it didn't really creep me out until the end....then I was afraid to turn off my television, mainly because I had been watching the movie in the dark.....hell, I still get a little creeped out when I'm in my room alone, in the dark, with my tv off.
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post #18 of 29
9/11/04 at 7:23pm
Mothman Propehcies was, in my opinion anyway, very creppy. The Grudge looks pretty damn creppy, Signs was creppy the first time I saw it, Seven was downright disturbing. There are alot of good creepy movies.
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post #19 of 29
9/15/04 at 12:29pm
Ringu
Kairo
The Exorcist
Ju-On The Curse
The Eye
Suspira

In my humble opinion.
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post #20 of 29
9/15/04 at 11:19pm
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl is the Universe
The Dark Crystal.


There is NOTHING creepier than this movie. It fucked me up when I was a child.
You and me both. We should have a support group or something. Maybe sue those involved for the cost of treatment and a little extra for pain and suffering.
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post #21 of 29
9/15/04 at 11:36pm
Granted, Signs wasnt all that creepy, but that one scene where the lights turn on to reveal the hand coming through the grating totally stuck in my head. i couldnt stop thinking of it while trying to go to sleep for weeks.

and also arachnophobia was one of the creepiest movies ive seen, had to check my shoe and sleeping bag everytime i put it on as a kid.
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post #22 of 29
9/16/04 at 2:00am
Arachnophobia

That movie creeped me out and had me looking for spiders for months. To this day, I can't watch it again. I still catch myself looking for spiders in shoes or in the corner of the shower. That movie gave me arachnophobia.
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post #23 of 29
9/16/04 at 10:13am
Here are a few that I haven't seen mentioned that work along the same lines as some that have. Actually all the films I'm listing have a paranoia factor going for them which is something I find particularly unsettling.

The Omen (also Damien:Omen II and Final Conflict)
Rosemary's Baby
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (particularly Kaufman's 76 remake)
Dead and Buried
Uzumaki
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post #24 of 29
9/16/04 at 4:48pm
My childhood creepy movie? POLTERGEIST. The scene where the tree in the yard broke through the window and started to swallow the kid rang far too true for my little mind and I ran out of the house screaming. Now whenever I watch that film it's all I remember.
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post #25 of 29
9/17/04 at 3:49pm
Getting in kind of late on this one.

Some very cool movies already mentioned and I gotta echo two that have been listed:
Blair Witch Project (I know this movie is very polarizing, but for me it worked brilliantly...the definition of "creepy" as far I'm concerned.)

Cronenberg's The Fly...just a terribly fucking disturbing movie.

Honorable mention: Seven.
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post #26 of 29
9/18/04 at 11:21pm
the opening credits to house of 1000 corpses, when they are playing the heavy metal music and flashing through many different images. for some reason sitting at the theatre and watching that part of the movie left me feeling somewhat uncomfortable.
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post #27 of 29
10/13/04 at 1:59pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by COFFINROCK
Blair Witch Project (I know this movie is very polarizing, but for me it worked brilliantly...the definition of "creepy" as far I'm concerned.)



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I was shocked by how much The Blair Witch Project creeped me out! The last minute just is too much for me!!

The Exorcist, Ringu, The Thing (when I was kid), Omen (First two parts), and Poltergeist all freaked me out!

As did The Terminator when Arnie cuts his damaged eye out!!!
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post #28 of 29
10/13/04 at 7:41pm
I thought The Blair Witch Project was kinda boring until the last few minutes, which still creeps me out. I get chills just thinking about that scene.
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post #29 of 29
10/13/04 at 9:34pm
I'd go for The Changeling or Exorcist III.

dmeister
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