The most terrifying thing you've ever watched (or read)?

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The original, or the re-make?

I love that book so much. It gave me inspiration to restart the book I was working on a few years ago. Oh do I love Stephen King...

I also want to create a horror book or movie one day, but the idea I have is pretty sick...

I could not get through that book, no matter how hard I tried, because it was so damn BORING!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Welcome to every Stephen King book I've ever read.

He's much better with short stories and novellas.

I actually don't mind his novels - just It.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The clown doll in the movie Poltergeist scared the pants off me when I was a child.

Though it's not a horror film, I remember David Warner's performance as Jack the Ripper in Time After Time scared me more than any other villain in a horror movie that I saw when I was young.

That movie, "Poltergeist" unnerved me for months after watching it. I remember that clown doll; yes, it was pretty scary.
And I actually loved that movie "Time After Time."

Mustve been the re-make.. the original was in black and white no? The one I remember was set like in the 80's in color.


Poltergeist: Oh heck my little sister had the exact same clown toy from that movie. It was creepy.


Another movie that would not let me sleep was CRITTERS. Not because it was scary but because the scene of the kid sleeping with his arm hanging from the bed and the critter jumping up to try and eat it... well, lets just say I stopped sleeping with my feet hanging out the bed for a good while. XD

The Exorcist is the only movie that ever scared me.

I had completely forgotten about that movie! There is one scene where Regan crawls backwards down the stairs, with her arms and legs like those of a spider. That is one scene that you couldn't pay me to watch willingly ever again!

I saw the thing when I was around 10 and it scared the crap outta me! I also remember seeing The Ring in theaters in high school, and that's the only time in my life I've left a movie theater physically trembling from fear. I feel so dumb now when ppl talk about the movie being lame, and picturing them sitting there yawning and mocking the movie and me hiding my eyes.

Scariest book? Probably Scary Stories. Such frightening illustrations!

The tanning bed scene from Final Destination 3. Definetly not the way I want to go when my time comes.

Funny Games scared me beyond belief the first time I saw it, though not in the traditional sense. It's one of those movies most people either really love or really hate, and I think it's because it takes the premise of a classic horror movie (someone comes to a house to scare and ultimately murder the arbitrarily chosen occupants) and shows what (I think) it would be like if the situation played out in real life. No creepy music, no half-naked chase scenes, no superhuman cleverness or stupidity on the part of either party. It's hard to describe but I will say that every friend I've shown it to has hated it. I love it though, I think it sparks so much thought on so many related subjects, and honestly could talk about that movie for hours.
Another one that scared me is an old one called the Trilogy of Terror. Not so much anymore, but the short story that inspired the tiki-man film is truly eerie. My bff/college roomie and I read it once before bed (we were having story time lol), and we had to banish all stuffed animals to the hallway for the night. The imagination is too powerful to sleep next to anything inanimate that also has eyeballs, after that one.
The single most terrifying thing from my childhood is a movie I can't even remember fully. It was some B-movie that played on late night sci-fi, where this genius little boy invented a machine that sucked the "power" out of other electronics. Well of course the boy dropped the remote, the toy sucked the power from it and became uncontrollable, and killed his mom when she got home from work. It was on wheels though, so he was safe on his bed...basically designed to punish kids like me who were awake when they shouldn't be. I only saw it because I was tucked in between my parents and they were watching it.
Probably why I was also so fascinated by Maximum Overdrive as a kid.

i saw "Jaws" in the theater, & i have never since swam in the ocean.

my wife won't take a shower if she's the only person in the house, because of "Psycho".

for a long time now books & art & movies & even music, of the horrific sort, have merely been a pleasurable taste, but there's one book i read not long ago which did scare the bejeezus out of me. it's called "The Long Emergency."...

The Sixth Sense scared me when I was a kid.

I just watched a documentary on netflix: Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation. It was one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen.