The scariest movie I've ever seen is....

[izhilzha]

(please don't laugh)

(at least, not too loud)

It's Amadeus. Yes, the movie about Mozart and Salieri, written by the brilliant (and slightly twisted) Peter Shaffer

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[kalquessa]

"Moon Trap" scared the living daylights out of me. Yes, the cheeseball B-movie about tiny aliens on the moon who live in things that look like bike helmets and build themselves bodies out of machines and human body parts. Yes. That one. It is the doofiest movie imaginable, and not even close to scary in the light of day, especially if you've got you MST3K goggles on. But something about it got to me when I first saw it (I was probably seven or eight at the time) and I could not sleep for days.

[izhilzha]

LOL, that movies sounds like it would make good cheesy grownup watching. *adds to Netflix queue, or would if it didn't appear to be a VHS-only*

[kalquessa]

Yeah, it's such a terrible movie, they can't even be bothered to put it on disc. It really is exactly as stupid as it sounds. Nothing about the premise, the action or the plot makes any kind of logical sense, even by Stargate standards. And yet I had to "sleep" (by which I mean "lie awake") in my parents' room for three nights running after I saw it. I have no explanation.

Now I kinda want to see it again, with my snark firmly in place. Too bad about the no-DVD thing.

[jd3000]

When I was a kid, it had to be The Philadelphia Experiment. I was already semi-aware of science-fiction concepts, so a failed WWII military experiment to render a destroyer invisible that ripped a breach in the space-time continuum and flung two sailors forty years ahead in time, with some painful corresponding disorder that caused electromagnetic fields around them to flux violently, as well as that scene at the end where the ship returns with all the hapless crewmen fatally materialized inside the bulkheads and deck...that was heebie-jeebie material right there.

-JD

[izhilzha]

Yeep. That does sounds like a pretty trippy movie to watch as a kid.

[kalquessa]

I remember that flick! Not well, but I totally remember the guy having to learn how to open a Coke can because he'd never seen soda in anything but bottles.

[kerravonsen]

The Doctor Who adventure The Seeds of Doom, where this alien plant takes over things (and makes plants attack people), and a guy gets stung and starts turning into a plant. Loss of self, very creepy. I'm not sure why that particular variation of "man turns into monster" got to me more than the many others there have been on Doctor Who, but I guess it's partly because turning into a plant is much more alien than turning into another kind of animal.

[izhilzha]

Loss of self, very creepy.

Yeah, I'm with you there. And I can see how turning into a plant would be much worse than, say, turning into a critter or (heh) Locutus of Borg.

[izhilzha]

Salieri was such a tragic character on sooo many levels.

See, usually I like tragedy, I really enjoy (or at least get a beneficial experience out of) going through those emotions with the characters; the catharsis.

Not with this movie, though. Too close to home, I guess?

Ooo! Blink! Indeed. That and "The Empty Child" both creeped me out pretty good. (Though it's hard to be truly scared when the Doctor is around. *g*)

[amberdulen]

The Descent is just the scariest movie I have ever seen. It's brilliant and absolutely horrifying. I saw it at midnight in the theaters. I didn't sleep that night. Then, when I saw it in stores, I bought it. And I haven't had the nerve to watch it since.

Books? I was just reading the Wikipedia article for Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark, and holy crap was that artwork scary.