My aunt Virginia, a single pretty 26 year old at the time, watched *PSYCHO* in a movie theater .... during a road trip in June of 1960 .... driving through the Nevada desert .... and staying in isolated motels ..... alone. ruclips.net/video/0WtDmbr9xyY/видео.html
Haha ohh man....I know that exact kind of feeling. When I was around 10, my buddy down the street and his brother watched Texas chainsaw massacre one night at my house in October, and he said when they left to walk down the street, they heard somebody revving a hedge trimmer, or something like a chainsaw from a neighbor’s house, and they screamed and ran all the way to their house. I just remember him telling me the next day, how much they were freaked out.😁
I have a huge Blu-ray collection of highly rated movies starting from the 70's.They were put to bed because of streaming services.This channel is nudging me back there...
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Its one of my favorite horror movies and noooks (ot was ubder the. Ame legion when it came out) and yes, while i dont like jump scares, the nurse scene is epic
Watched Hereditary during the day and it was the scariest thing I've ever watched. In most horror films, it doesn't feel all that tragic when cannon-fodder characters die. In hereditary it is actually tragic on top of being disturbing.
@@HenryBeetroot You know, I’ve actually heard other people say that about the movie as well. I can understand why some of the things could come off as silly, (like the paranormal stuff and the naked people) but what about the part where the girl’s head gets knocked off? Surely that would be upsetting to anyone. It could happen in real life, after all.
Great list of movies. When I was a kid, the scariest part of "The Shining" was the elevator blood river and the twin sisters scenes, but as an adult, the creepiest scene I thought was when Danny was talking to his dad alone in the bedroom, and he asks his dad, "You would never, ever hurt us, would you?" And Jack Torrance's response is so creepy. You know he's lying, and you know Danny knows he's lying, and the reality of that situation was just DAMN!!! It was believable, and it was also creepy as hell.
For me it was always the bear suit blowjob that scared me the most. It's just too weird. As an adult it just makes me really sad because of what it represents. I've been watching Robd videos on the Shining and I cant stand the inside of room 237 too, before we even get to the old hag it's just wrong The lighting and colors...everything is just so wrong.
Weirdly enough I always thought the bathroom scene with Nicholson and Grady the butler/caretaker after he'd spilled the drink on him was really freaky. Jack Nicholsons face, full on psycho, while Grady is the opposite, stiff upper lip and his wording "I beg to differ sir, You, are the caretaker, you've, always been the caretaker" "I caught my children trying to set fire to the overlook so I, corrected them, my wife tried to stop me from doing my fatherly duty, so, i corrected her" Just had the feeling they were going to fly at each other in a violent rage at any second, the tension in that scene with both of them hardly moving was crazy and dare I say it the guy who played Grady definitely held his own against Jack's unhinged psycho acting.
@@redguerilla8248 I agree that was creepy. I think every time Jack is talking with either Lloyd the bartender or Grady the butler/caretaker, or even Stuart Ullman, he's in fact talking with the Devil. He's bargaining with the Devil, which is very creepy, because in real life, isn't that how people compromise their beliefs, character, and convictions? There's no sign that says, "You're dealing with the Devil." This also speaks to other themes in the movie, such as how we largely lead our lives in denial of the horrific massacres and genocides of human history. We don't study history, and if we do, we don't learn from it, or overlook important lessons, like Jack Torrance being at the July 4, 1921 ball; and if we learn, we often learn the wrong lessons.
@@111Phoenix777 Never thought of them being the devil to be honest but i like the idea, i always just thought they were manifestations of the evil spirit of the hotel, whatever that was. Re your original comment i agree that the scene where Danny sits on Jack's knee is terrifying. The look on Jack Nicholsons face the complete opposite of the look on Danny's face, his almost robotic nods of the head and blank stare says it all. Also i notice when Jack has his arm around Danny and gives him a pat, he then gives an extra pat pulling Danny towards him, like an intimidation tactic. Yeah, it's a great scene that leaves you thinking that there's no damn way he'll never ever hurt Danny and his mum haha. Regards to the guy in the bear/dog suit, in another video i saw about the child abuse theme it shows the bear skin rug in that room everytime, except once that's just before the wife see's that scene. The video said Kubrick would never make that mistake so leaving the rug out of the room was intentional, theorising that what she actually saw was either Jack or Danny wearing the rug but her mind couldn't comprehend the horror of seeing her son being sexually abused by her husband her mind twisted into that scene. I mean see only had a second to see and process it before she was gone so i find this a good explanation. I remember commenting on one of Robs other videos about the shining a while ago about the rug not being in one scene but he never addressed it, probably never saw the comment but I'd love to get his take on it as i don't own a copy of the shining to check :-/ Apologies for the essay but i love dissecting movies especially the best ones derived from great books.
"Hereditary" is absolutely brilliant, one of the best horror films to come along in a long time. And I saw "Blair Witch" in a theater during a surprise screening in NYC. Nobody knew anything about it. I specifically remember at the end, when THAT moment happens, the audience was like little kids, slumped down in their seats moaning in fear. It was so great. It's really never recaptured that time when it first came out.
I can't watch Descent at night because of one of the earliest scenes in the film. The part where the main character Holly gets stuck and pinned in a narrow natural crawlspace like passage within a cavern just sets my claustrophobia into overdrive, and it takes my mind a few hours to get the overactive imagination to settle down. I have to watch it in the early morning if at all (it is an excellent film, my personal phobias notwithstanding).
My fave horror movie is The Thing, but I find it scarier to watch in a group rather than alone. On the opposite of that is Videodrome, which is even more unsettling when it's just me and a TV/Computer.
For me, The Ring and The Grudge really creep me out at night. They are pretty cheesy movies, but the visuals of the ghosts stick in my mind. The thought of a ghost hiding around every corner, waiting to strike... chills.
Nightmare on Elm street holds up pretty well today. Looks great on Blu-ray. Imaginative and creepy. And Johnny Depp is sooooo young in it... but we all were then.
Hereditary defiantly stuck with me for weeks after first watching it. The scene of the mother in the corner of the ceiling was so terrifying. It was a brilliant shot, bringing up the lighting to reveal a figure, so terrifying. It reminded me of the figure that I see when I get bad sleep paralysis.
I've tried to watch it several times... can't do it. Even though most of the murders he claims weren't really him, he took cues from the cops interviewing him; intellectually I know that, still can't watch the movie.
Klimov's masterpiece flies under the radar because it's considered a war movie rather than horror, but it nonetheless is a brilliant glimpse of a young soldier's descent into a personal and external hell. I recommend it to anyone that wants to see a real horror flick, as opposed to some mindless supernatural drivel that exists only in fairy tales. Nothing scarier than reality.
Curiously enough, I had a similar experience as Rob described with the witch. I had the beast that rapes Mia lurking around my room. Luckily, I realized quickly that it was just a dream and calmed down to wake without being too scared.
Its a great concept, and good movie for the time----- But its not scary BECAUSE the viewer is clearly shown that is is raped by the devil... destroying any mystery thus its not scary Even if they tried to make it look like a dream..... obviously it happened..... there is no doubt or confusion.... clearly she got raped by the devil and those old people were the cult behind it.... I commend them for trying, but I think a remake might actually do the story some justice....... the devil rape scene is too obvious rather than ambiguous... the husband is too obvious too: he basically says "hey sorry wife, I raped you last night after convincing you to go to bed, I scratched your skin in the process".... they could have made that less cheesy and dramatic She even knew there was something in the pudding, or else she could have just said "I don't want it" rather than try to pretend to eat it Its like she knew she was being drugged, raped, drugged again and going to have to baby stolen There was no mystery, she knew straight up they were a cult and rather than tell MANY people about it, she told her doctor, WHICH OF COURSE was in on it too..... Again the concept of the film is great... but it was done in a cheesy, overdramatic way whereby the viewer knows what to expect..... so its like watching a re-run..... very predictable NOT scary.
Don't Look Now is my one. That film chills me to the bone, especially the final scene when Sutherland is following the red coated figure around Venice. I really like Ben Wheatley's Kill List too.
When people think of A Nightmare On Elmstreet now,they only remember the campy over the top Freddy.The first movie was not wacky or campy at all.It had a slow,creepy buildup and Freddy wasn’t really seen till towards the end.
On a Saturday night, my older sister babysitting me, my sister’s boyfriend put The MenBehind The Sun’ on the vhs player. I didn’t and couldn’t sit through the whole thing, a dramatisation of alleged experiments performed by the Japanese army during WW2, but by Jeebus, it was disturbing. Truly not one to watch alone or if you are really easily depressed and disturbed by torture violence. Makes Hostel look like an episode of Playbus.
Absolutely true about the hag in the bathtub from The Shinning. It's funny though that scene on paper would sound corny but the way Kubrick did it somehow still gets me after all these years... =]
FWIW, in the book, Jack never encounters the hag, only Danny. And the way that it's written in the book is FAR scarier. In fact, I hate the movie because the book is so much scarier throughout. People look at me as if I have a spear sticking in my forehead when I tell them that, but I just tell them to read the book to see what I mean.
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns You're right on the mark about the book being scarier. After checking the tub and finding nothing, Jack starts to walk out of the room when he hears the shower curtain being pulled closed and turns around to see something behind it. He loses his nerve and exits the room, but not without hearing a scurrying behind him, as if something in the tub wants to catch up with him.
@@TPOrchestra Exactly The things scene and unseen are what make the book so scary. The part that really freaked me out was also scratched from the movie (you'll remember this one) was when Danny crawls into the snow-covered playground cement tunnel, staying at the opening, only to hear the leaves quietly rustling at the other end of something coming his way. He panics and gets out of the tunnel, and the thing coming toward him is never scene. That was just terrifying to me.
I remember seeing Nightmare on Elm Street in the theatre and holy cow, the fact that the villain could infiltrate your dreams was mind blowing and chilling, it took horror to a whole new level.
@@juliannfloress3490 --- no doubt a good movie, one of the classics, but an unkillable dude with a knife? Not very creative. Anyone could've came up with that.
I saw the Exorcist III at the cinema. That scene you were talking about, everyone jumped out of their seats started screaming, then looked around at each other nervously and started laughing.
Roger Corman noticed this was a common reaction in horror films, terror followed by laughter, which inspired him to make A Bucket of Blood, an early seminal horror-comedy.
Yeah, I saw that in college and was afraid to date for a few weeks. "What if she has a razor?" In those days, I shaved with a straight razor. I had to pause before starting due to the feel of the blade & the image of the guy she kills with that razor. He first thinks she scratched him with her nails & gets angry... and then... Ugh!
all of those three polanski's movies that are placed in apartments - repulsion, the tenant and rosemary's baby scared the shit out of me, the atmosphere of psychological isolation is something im not really fond of. also, the dreamy sequences from repulsion, when the walls begin cracking, doors are being slammed, hands come out of the walls and rape scenes - that was so intense i had to pause the movie for a while each time.
@@g00zik97 , that is scary, Polanski and Spielberg puts horror setting in very nice postal card perfect view and puts viewer of guards, and then ... Movie Jaws very nice setting beach american dream and then some monster lurking, Poltergeist same, very innocent suburbs and after that you left shirtless :)
For me its 1. Sleepaway Camp (scariest ending Ive ever seen to a movie) 2. Audition (particularly the man in the bag scene) 3. Event Horizon 4. Martyrs 5. Lake Mungo 6. The Eye (2002) 7. Megan is Missing 8. Maniac (1980) 9. It Follows
I'm totally desensitised to horror movies now but would never laugh at people for being scared. I am probably more nervous of people in real life than most people so we all have our fears. I love your analysis of movies, also the way you present them as your views and not fact, seems to be rare these days and always factually backed with evidence. Keep up the great work
Me too, I've never seen a movie that I was disturbed by or scared by. The ring fucked me up mostly due to a stupid circumstance. WHen I came home from watching that movie I stupidly left the TV on, and back then if a dvd player turned off while the TV was on you'd get the 'snow' static. Well, that's what i came home to, alone, in the dark.
So glad you mentioned Exorcist 3! I would love to hear you do an analysis of the dream sequence in Exorcist 3. It's one of the most brilliant and profound surreal sequences I've ever seen. On a side note, it took me 5 years to realize that beyond a doubt the distinctive voice of the old woman who 'confesses" to killing a waitress (and then murders) the priest in the confession box is the same voice of the senile old woman hospital patient who grabs police detective Kinderman's (George Scott) jacket and asks "Are you my son?" Kinderman asks the Gemini Killer 'who helps you get out' of his cell and Gemini smirkingly answers "Just.. friends. OLD friends..." So now we know that that particular old woman patient was the body that the Gemini Killer used when he killed the confessional priest. Just as he used Mrs Clelias body to kill Kindermans friend Father Dyer. Thats why they found her fingerprints on the jars that contained "Father Dyers entire blood supply." I have noticed numerous such subtle clues that effect one very deeply because they are mostly registered on a subconscious level in this masterpiece of a film...
My all time creepiest movie is John Carpenter's Halloween. Lost count the amount of times Michael Myers has stalked me in my nightmares. I recall watching Barbara Hershey in The Entity scared me as a kid, even though it fell apart at the end of the film.
Thank you re: Halloween. At 11 yrs old, I saw it during the day, on normal TV and edited, I was alone. It was light out. Yet, All the rest of my teen years i had it too.
Ya, I watched Inland Empire alone in my creepy basement (which normally I have no problems with), and the hallway in my basement is just a bit too similar to that one hallway in the movie... After watching it, I had that weird feeling I get sometimes if I stay up too late, feeling of eeriness like I'm not in the real world, I'm in a dream that is about to transform into a nightmare at any moment. And maybe there is no real world, just this nightmare.
Yep totally agree about the way he messes with your grip on reality, your sense of the world is disrupted when you come out of the film. He's got to be the greatest horror director that never became a horror director. The first act of Lost Highway in particular is up there with The Shining imo. Also his rendition of Baron Harkonnen in Dune is some of the most exquisite nightmare fuel ever committed to celluloid.
The cool thing about The Blair Witch Project is that the witch actually isnt real, the entire movie is actually about the two men of the film killing the main protagonist. The original script of the movie had one of the men being the protagonist’s ex boyfriend and being more explicit about the murder plan. The changed it to be more subtle and it is much better.
You know the part when they're in the tent and they hear kids inside their tent and they jump out screaming and you hear heather go "what the fuck is that?!" They were going to show a witch hovering but they decided not to
Pretty good list. I'd also suggest "Shutter" (a Thailand production), "The Baby's room" (made in Spain) and "Hell's resident" (Spain) as very good horror movies that will crawl under your skin and stand the test of time. :)
The vision scenes in Prince of Darkness freak me out. Decent Carpenter film but those vision scenes are so visceral. "This is not a dream..." I love it. Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me gets me as well. Exorcist 3 is very underrated.
Well to me unless you actually live in Texas it’s not that scary. Because the basis of the film is that the killer is in Texas. So unless I go to Texas. Leatherface ain’t gonna get me :D
@Gerry Buckets I think the remake is worse, I watched the original out of curiousity to see if it was better but honestly I don't think it is. I could be biased because I saw the remake first but the remake does the tension building something usually associated with older films.
I’ve watched the shining quite a few times, even as a younger kid (10-12) the only scene that really scared me was the twins hallway scene. But for some reason around age 20 I watched it at night alone and something clicked. This movie has become more frightening every time I watch it now. I will not watch it at night again. I agree with you on the Exorcist 3 and the Exorcism of Emily Rose.
I wouldn't agree about the Godfather. The book is better because it is more indepth and complete. Luca Brassi's story arc alone made the book better, not to mention the extended story arcs of Johnny Fontaine, Genco, Fabrizio, and Don Tomasso. Also, the book's final paragraph of prose is more magical and revealing than anything the movie did. People's intoxication with the movie is because of is awesome style and phenomenal acting.
I can watch anything late at night before bed. I’ve watched The Shining in bed and fallen asleep with it still on. Also I’ve slept to 1408, the exorcist, Salem’s lot and just about anything else. When there is a new horror film I really want to watch, I’ll only do it very late at night with no lights on anywhere or any distractions. I’ll watch the film sitting very close to the screen in total darkness, with very good headphones to hear every sound and open myself up to being scared. These people who can’t open themselves to a film and watch it without being on their phones half the time drives me crazy. No wonder all we have in movies these days are explosions. A film has 1/2 the responsibility to be thrilling, the other 1/2 belongs to an audience willing to be thrilled. If you don’t do your part, no reason to totally blame the film. A film that made my Skin Crawl using this watching technique was Incidious. The music alone....wow.
spijkerpoes I saw the Exorcist in the theatre when I was 6. Then, there was an earthquake while I was laying on my very rickety, brass, canopy bed. I thought for sure I was possessed.!
Excellent list! Personally, having not seen Murder by Decree (which I now intend to checkout, thanks) I would have added in The Strangers. I wouldn't say the movie is as transcendant as the aforementioned films on your list but I watched that film alone at home and the very nature of the film is unnerving and realistic in a way that makes private home viewing uneasy. I remember hearing random sounds in my house while watching the film that made me turn the lights on and do a quick sweep. I'd personally like your opinion on watching that film at night alone. Thanks again for always producing such wonderful film content.
I saw the Exorcist III on British TV (maybe late Nineties?!) one night. Alone. And THAT scene had me nearly jumping through the roof! I think because the nurse is just checking rooms and closing doors and it's so mundane, like you would do your rounds on a night shift; no giveaways that ANYTHING like that is about to happen...and then....WHAM! Out of nowhere it just springs up and f***s you right up if you're watching it for the first time. Takes a while for the heartbeat to settle after a moment like that hahaha - it's possibly one of the best jump scares in any movie, let alone the 'Horror' genre. Such an iconic and memorable scene and crazy - I have only seen that film a handful of times and I can't remember too much about it except for the 'roof-crawling scene' and the ending, but THAT scene always stays with you. It's nuts!
Rob I love your work. I was delighted to see Exorcist 3 on your list but I almost whooped for joy when you mentioned Murder by Decree! That music scared the hell out of me as a kid - I couldn't watch the film for a decade afterwards! That slow motion, those eyes, that score creeps all over you. Carry on your excellent uploads mate. Much appreciated.
A Quiet Place really got to me. Yes, it may be full of plot holes, but if you let yourself just be entertained I found the situations of having to remain absolutely silent to be terrifying.
I remember my parents telling me when I was a teenager about the first time they ever watched Nightmare on Elm Street, and how badly it terrified them... the fact that they were frightened somehow made it even more scary. That, and The Exorcist.
Weird thing is... of all the movies I wouldn't watch alone at night, I would chose to watch them all, alone, at night. I actually love being at that point of freaked out so much that you revert to being a kid... turning all lights on on way from room to room, running up the stairs, just in case, checking behind.doors.... Lol love it.
The shining has a constant scary soundtrack so even when nothing is dramatic on screen it's still creepy. Just jack looking at the window is terrifying
When I was 12 I watched "Suspiria" for like 20min, before I felt the schock and trauma overcoming my senses pretty bad, to the point I felt dizzy and almost fainting, absolutely terrified and paralyzed by fear. God knows the courage it took me to stop that tape (it was VHS at the time). Couldn't sleep for a month, that opening scene fucked me up really bad, although now at 35 I love horror movies and games and watch/play them at anytime with no problem (the only good thing it did for me I guess lol).
Rob love your videos, you're the most astute film analyst on RUclips..But you really need to explore the incredibly terrifying and disgustingly underrated horror film 1982 "The Entity"
I like it a lot. Probably the only weak link in it is when it goes from horror to sci-fi. The wind is taken out of the sails when they try that university experiment which makes no real sense in the movie. I think the director just thought he needed a big fx scene at the end. Thankfully it returned to its plain roots at the end.
I agree with you on elm street. a lot of people focus on the cheap effects and the cheesiness of it, but what's extremely effective is that it is more believable than any horror film because it is a dream, anything can happen and you don't have any control over it. I've had dreams that may not have been scary, but discomforting, but I felt strapped and forced to be taken for a ride, until you finally wake up. genius
I don't have a film I can't watch alone at night, but I'll tell ya, if I'm walking in my basement in the dark, I always think of that ending shot in Blair Witch and get a chill up my spine.
For an unforgettably unnerving experience, I recommend watching *Phantasm* alone at night. It's corny and low-budget, sure. However (to me) it has the true feel of a nightmare: familiar elements of narrative structure are presented in a disjointed and illogical manner, bringing no resolution yet lingering in the memory only as vague feelings of terror and dread.
Oh my days I forgot about Serpant and the Rainbow. That scene where a cloaked figure opens his cloak to reveal the police chief making that horrendous hissing face scared the life out of me back when I was a teenager.
Great list Rob, the original Texas chainsaw massacre still to this day freaks me out, I love the film but I find it genuinely disturbing, the Characters in the family are superb they portray insanity to a T, I find Gunnar Hansen Leatherface far more terrifying as a mentally disabled big fat man child than the hulking killing machine he is in the remakes etc , nightmare on elm st is a superb classic horror film and I definitely found the Blair witch horrifying when I first saw it, Lake Mungo is one I won’t watch alone.
Pretty silly, but I had an experience of sleep paralysis back in the day when Marble Hortnets first started their Slenderman skit, that was pretty terrifying lol
Fun thing to know about sleep paralysis, you can wake yourself out of it. Sleep paralysis happens when your mind wakes up in the middle of your dream state. Our bodies become paralyzed IRL to protect us from moving around in a dream state. The only part that doesn't become paralyzed is our facial muscles. To wake from sleep paralysis you simply move your facial muscles. Make a " did you just fart" face and your brain will shut down the paralysis and allow you to wake up. Funny thing is, screaming would work just as well, and this is what he did.
Exorcist and the Omen are the two scariest movies I’ve ever seen! Never saw Emily Rose because of those! My number 3 is The Ring. And after The Ring and Blair Witch, I stopped seeing scary movies. 😱
Back in '73 I was reading 'The Exorcist'. Alone in the house. Except it was a sunny saturday afternoon. We all know that it's OK to do that on a sunny saturday afternoon. And then I heard a BUMP from upstairs. I didn't even look up from the book. I thought to myself, "It's the dog. Rolling around on my bed." And then the dog made a small noise. And I saw the dog sitting at my feet. And I stood up and GOT OUT OF THAT HOUSE.
Wow, great movie. If anyone hasn’t seen it, I recommend watching it alone in the dark right now. It’s in the same vein as the shining, it’s better than Doctor sleep.
I saw a Freddy Kruger movie too early as a kid, and I did it by hiding behind a couch to watch when others thought I was in bed. For the longest time, he would appear in my dreams and I would spend the night running from him. When I was about 15, I reasoned that you cannot force yourself to dream about something, and I wanted so bad not to dream about him, that I would try to force myself to dream about him, and it seemed to work to avoid a nightmare. In my 20s, I suddenly was able to toy with him if he showed up, and I somehow enjoyed those dreams. It's been 20 years now since I've had a Freddy nightmare.
@@TheJollyMisanthrope It's really underrated. I understand why people didn't like it at the time, but it's an excellent horror movie. Sheryl Lee was terrifying and amazing at portraying that horror.
I dont know how I watched Twin Peaks The Return alone. Those Woodsmen, and Judy, and fucking Bad Cooper and long driving scenes... it was all so tense. Episode fucking 8, holy shit what the fuck. I want to rewatch it again so bad but jesus christ I cant.
"Whistle and I'll come to you". Is my scariest, I can't possibly watch the end scenes and then go to bed, terrifying. Your Blair witch dream was sleep paralysis, I used to get that regularly in my twenties, still do get it now and again, it is terrifying, however I've learnt how to stop it so it's not as bad as when I could have it all night long.
The scariest film I have seen, by far, is the Japanese film "Cure" from 1997. I saw it in broad daylight and it stayed with me for weeks. You could argue that it's not technically a horror film but more of psychological thriller, but it's stayed with me over the years in a way that no horror film ever has. And from what I've gathered it's not even the scariest film made by the same director, but to be honest, I've never dared to watch any of them in the ten or so years since I first (and only time) saw this film. Supernatural horror doesn't really bother me all that much since I'm not religious, but "Cure" is about as pure a psychological horror as you can get. Pretty much the whole film has the same unnervingly slow-burn quality to it that the nurse scene in The Exorcist III has.
The examination scene in the alien abduction movie “Fire in the Sky” is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever watched. The feeling of helplessness is suffocating.
I watched Nightmare on Elm Street at a friend’s house when I was 11 and had to ride my bike home in the dark. I was terrified
My aunt Virginia, a single pretty 26 year old at the time, watched *PSYCHO* in a movie theater .... during a road trip in June of 1960 .... driving through the Nevada desert .... and staying in isolated motels ..... alone.
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Lmao. I know that feeling
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Haha ohh man....I know that exact kind of feeling. When I was around 10, my buddy down the street and his brother watched Texas chainsaw massacre one night at my house in October, and he said when they left to walk down the street, they heard somebody revving a hedge trimmer, or something like a chainsaw from a neighbor’s house, and they screamed and ran all the way to their house. I just remember him telling me the next day, how much they were freaked out.😁
I would've just stayed at his home for the night
I'm addicted to this channel i'm finding loads of films that I need to watch and it's re-sparked my love of movies again.
Absolutely, and the prices for his premium videos are so cheap, like $2-5. Absolutely brilliant
I have a huge Blu-ray collection of highly rated movies starting from the 70's.They were put to bed because of streaming services.This channel is nudging me back there...
Regarding the double upload confusion: At first I accidentally uploaded the raw footage where I hadn't edited out the occasional fluffing of my lines or perhaps even occasional bit of swearing when someone makes noise outside that forces a retake. For the 100 or so of you who saw that before deletion I hope you had a good laugh !!! Funnily, I've had an idea in my head for ages of uploading a collection of my best recording gaffes.
Oh I thought you were loosing your mind.
@@jwnj9716 lost it a long time ago :)
Collative Learning Very disturbing particularly 2:22, loved it sir
Collative Learning I was on the money with The Exorcist III then. That confession box scene!
@@collativelearning I'm glad I wasn't alone at night when I saw you rooting around in that hooter of yours. lol
Watched Exorcist III Alone. It was one of the scariest movie viewing experiences of my life. Very underrated film.
Its one of my favorite horror movies and noooks (ot was ubder the. Ame legion when it came out) and yes, while i dont like jump scares, the nurse scene is epic
a masterpiece.
I ended up rewatching it last night after this video. My missis had never seen it. It's still awesome stuff.
Exorcist 3 is one of the most underrated horror films of all time. Brad Dourif should have won an Oscar for his performance.
You're issuing a clear invitation to the dance.
Watched Hereditary during the day and it was the scariest thing I've ever watched. In most horror films, it doesn't feel all that tragic when cannon-fodder characters die. In hereditary it is actually tragic on top of being disturbing.
Hereditary was the funniest film I’ve ever watched. It’s genuinely not a horror film, and yes I was stone cold sober
@@HenryBeetroot You know, I’ve actually heard other people say that about the movie as well. I can understand why some of the things could come off as silly, (like the paranormal stuff and the naked people) but what about the part where the girl’s head gets knocked off? Surely that would be upsetting to anyone. It could happen in real life, after all.
The Shining: by far the creepiest scene is the guy in the furry bear suit. 🐻
Pedo bear: Daddy?
@The End lol I figured you guys would show up eventually!
@The End Totally agree! I wouldn't turn down Scarlett Johansson in a furry suit. (I know I can always dream).
Great list of movies. When I was a kid, the scariest part of "The Shining" was the elevator blood river and the twin sisters scenes, but as an adult, the creepiest scene I thought was when Danny was talking to his dad alone in the bedroom, and he asks his dad, "You would never, ever hurt us, would you?" And Jack Torrance's response is so creepy. You know he's lying, and you know Danny knows he's lying, and the reality of that situation was just DAMN!!! It was believable, and it was also creepy as hell.
For me it was always the bear suit blowjob that scared me the most. It's just too weird. As an adult it just makes me really sad because of what it represents. I've been watching Robd videos on the Shining and I cant stand the inside of room 237 too, before we even get to the old hag it's just wrong
The lighting and colors...everything is just so wrong.
Weirdly enough I always thought the bathroom scene with Nicholson and Grady the butler/caretaker after he'd spilled the drink on him was really freaky.
Jack Nicholsons face, full on psycho, while Grady is the opposite, stiff upper lip and his wording
"I beg to differ sir,
You, are the caretaker, you've, always been the caretaker"
"I caught my children trying to set fire to the overlook so I, corrected them, my wife tried to stop me from doing my fatherly duty, so, i corrected her"
Just had the feeling they were going to fly at each other in a violent rage at any second, the tension in that scene with both of them hardly moving was crazy and dare I say it the guy who played Grady definitely held his own against Jack's unhinged psycho acting.
@@redguerilla8248 I agree that was creepy. I think every time Jack is talking with either Lloyd the bartender or Grady the butler/caretaker, or even Stuart Ullman, he's in fact talking with the Devil. He's bargaining with the Devil, which is very creepy, because in real life, isn't that how people compromise their beliefs, character, and convictions? There's no sign that says, "You're dealing with the Devil." This also speaks to other themes in the movie, such as how we largely lead our lives in denial of the horrific massacres and genocides of human history. We don't study history, and if we do, we don't learn from it, or overlook important lessons, like Jack Torrance being at the July 4, 1921 ball; and if we learn, we often learn the wrong lessons.
@@111Phoenix777 Never thought of them being the devil to be honest but i like the idea, i always just thought they were manifestations of the evil spirit of the hotel, whatever that was.
Re your original comment i agree that the scene where Danny sits on Jack's knee is terrifying.
The look on Jack Nicholsons face the complete opposite of the look on Danny's face, his almost robotic nods of the head and blank stare says it all.
Also i notice when Jack has his arm around Danny and gives him a pat, he then gives an extra pat pulling Danny towards him, like an intimidation tactic.
Yeah, it's a great scene that leaves you thinking that there's no damn way he'll never ever hurt Danny and his mum haha.
Regards to the guy in the bear/dog suit, in another video i saw about the child abuse theme it shows the bear skin rug in that room everytime, except once that's just before the wife see's that scene.
The video said Kubrick would never make that mistake so leaving the rug out of the room was intentional, theorising that what she actually saw was either Jack or Danny wearing the rug but her mind couldn't comprehend the horror of seeing her son being sexually abused by her husband her mind twisted into that scene.
I mean see only had a second to see and process it before she was gone so i find this a good explanation.
I remember commenting on one of Robs other videos about the shining a while ago about the rug not being in one scene but he never addressed it, probably never saw the comment but I'd love to get his take on it as i don't own a copy of the shining to check :-/
Apologies for the essay but i love dissecting movies especially the best ones derived from great books.
@@couchpotato3197 The arched green and purple carpet pattern in Room 237 has a phallic symbol at the center of each arch.
Prince of Darkness always gets me. The idea that evil is all around us just trying to break through is incredibly unsettling.
Love this film.
Same here. Ghostbusters 2 has a similar plot.
Your dream about the Blair Witch is maybe sleep paralysis??
That really sounds like a sleep paralysis dream- having had several.
@@brianronaldjones Yeah. Couple of times myself.
Many here was well.
Call on the name of Jesus Christ and the night terrors will stop ...... immediately.
Yes I’ve actually “screamed myself awake” once years ago, definitely sleep paralysis.
"Hereditary" is absolutely brilliant, one of the best horror films to come along in a long time. And I saw "Blair Witch" in a theater during a surprise screening in NYC. Nobody knew anything about it. I specifically remember at the end, when THAT moment happens, the audience was like little kids, slumped down in their seats moaning in fear. It was so great. It's really never recaptured that time when it first came out.
I watched Lake Mungo alone the other night on recommendation from a friend, best mistake I ever made.
Ok... gonna give this a go tonight.
(Can't believe I hadn't heard of it - usually keep an eye out for Aussie films)
Good film.
I watched Lake Mungo for the first time the other night too! Also alone & night. It was very creepy & effective.
I watched on an autumn day when it was getting dark went around turning the house lights on after!
This. Goddamit.
I can't watch Descent at night because of one of the earliest scenes in the film. The part where the main character Holly gets stuck and pinned in a narrow natural crawlspace like passage within a cavern just sets my claustrophobia into overdrive, and it takes my mind a few hours to get the overactive imagination to settle down. I have to watch it in the early morning if at all (it is an excellent film, my personal phobias notwithstanding).
I agree
The first reveal of the creature standing next to the woman and it's head is looking down in that unearthly, alien way.
Excellent movie.
My fave horror movie is The Thing, but I find it scarier to watch in a group rather than alone.
On the opposite of that is Videodrome, which is even more unsettling when it's just me and a TV/Computer.
Agree. The original is the best horror
My favorite movie of all time :)
@Saul Korzenecki Exactly.
Yea good choice.The Thing was one of the first horror movies I ever saw along with Poltergeist and they both scarred me for life!
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For me, The Ring and The Grudge really creep me out at night. They are pretty cheesy movies, but the visuals of the ghosts stick in my mind. The thought of a ghost hiding around every corner, waiting to strike... chills.
Nightmare on Elm street holds up pretty well today. Looks great on Blu-ray. Imaginative and creepy. And Johnny Depp is sooooo young in it... but we all were then.
Simon Osborne Freddie Krueger terrified me as a child. I feel he gradually lost the scaryness (is that a word) as each sequel was made.
@@Ryno87 The whole franchise just became a parody of its original self over time. I still think Freddy's Revenge was great though.
The original holds up better than the remake does.
Hell yeah it does. It's my favorite horror movie. Tina's death is the scariest death scene in horror film history to me.
Those films gave me intermittent freddy dreams throughout my teens, great films though that really do hold up well. Good comment 👍🏼
Hereditary defiantly stuck with me for weeks after first watching it. The scene of the mother in the corner of the ceiling was so terrifying. It was a brilliant shot, bringing up the lighting to reveal a figure, so terrifying. It reminded me of the figure that I see when I get bad sleep paralysis.
Henry Portrait of a serial Killer left me feeling bad...can't watch it again day or night.
The murder scene in the middle was so real looking and terrifying and just made me feel terrible as well. Great film though.
I've tried to watch it several times... can't do it. Even though most of the murders he claims weren't really him, he took cues from the cops interviewing him; intellectually I know that, still can't watch the movie.
I've not seen a better depiction--more realistic--of a serial killer/psychopath's life, unless maybe Monster.
"The Exorcist III" is utterly amazing and I was so amazed with it I was absorbed for a week after.
The shining is my favorite film of all time, Kubrick was just absolute genius but to watch it alone at night? That's a whole lot of nope!
Did u like eyes wide shut.. I think is a scary movie too..
“Come and see” is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen.
Klimov's masterpiece flies under the radar because it's considered a war movie rather than horror, but it nonetheless is a brilliant glimpse of a young soldier's descent into a personal and external hell. I recommend it to anyone that wants to see a real horror flick, as opposed to some mindless supernatural drivel that exists only in fairy tales. Nothing scarier than reality.
Watching the Tobe Hooper Salems Lot. The part where Danny Glick is floating at the window and scratching. Freaked me out as a kid and still does.
I was in college when I read the book... ruined my sleep for weeks.
@smilebackifyourugly For YEARS I pictured that face popping up like that next to my bed. Scarred my childhood MAJORLY!!!
Same
No way! I remember that scene from when I was a kid and it scared the shit out of me!! lol
Indeed. I was five when it came out. If it was on TV we all watched it. Needless to say I was a terrified kid
Rosemary's Baby always gives me the creeps.
@@lostinstrumentalsproject7343 Agreed! Nothing compares. As time passes the movie still holds up.
Scary and depressing. Poor Mia Farrow never catches a break.
@@blakelycreative3171 In real life, too!! LOL!!
Curiously enough, I had a similar experience as Rob described with the witch. I had the beast that rapes Mia lurking around my room. Luckily, I realized quickly that it was just a dream and calmed down to wake without being too scared.
Its a great concept, and good movie for the time----- But its not scary BECAUSE the viewer is clearly shown that is is raped by the devil... destroying any mystery thus its not scary
Even if they tried to make it look like a dream..... obviously it happened..... there is no doubt or confusion.... clearly she got raped by the devil and those old people were the cult behind it.... I commend them for trying, but I think a remake might actually do the story some justice....... the devil rape scene is too obvious rather than ambiguous... the husband is too obvious too: he basically says "hey sorry wife, I raped you last night after convincing you to go to bed, I scratched your skin in the process".... they could have made that less cheesy and dramatic
She even knew there was something in the pudding, or else she could have just said "I don't want it" rather than try to pretend to eat it
Its like she knew she was being drugged, raped, drugged again and going to have to baby stolen
There was no mystery, she knew straight up they were a cult and rather than tell MANY people about it, she told her doctor, WHICH OF COURSE was in on it too.....
Again the concept of the film is great... but it was done in a cheesy, overdramatic way whereby the viewer knows what to expect..... so its like watching a re-run..... very predictable
NOT scary.
Don't Look Now is my one. That film chills me to the bone, especially the final scene when Sutherland is following the red coated figure around Venice.
I really like Ben Wheatley's Kill List too.
Yes! Read the short story it was based on too. Also creepy as hell. Written by Daphne Du Maurier
What a brilliant film and one of the scariest I have seen.
Even though its a TV movie but Salems Lot with David soul still creeps me out especially watching it at night
Lord Teddy Bear terrifying!!!
When people think of A Nightmare On Elmstreet now,they only remember the campy over the top Freddy.The first movie was not wacky or campy at all.It had a slow,creepy buildup and Freddy wasn’t really seen till towards the end.
On a Saturday night, my older sister babysitting me, my sister’s boyfriend put The MenBehind The Sun’ on the vhs player. I didn’t and couldn’t sit through the whole thing, a dramatisation of alleged experiments performed by the Japanese army during WW2, but by Jeebus, it was disturbing. Truly not one to watch alone or if you are really easily depressed and disturbed by torture violence. Makes Hostel look like an episode of Playbus.
Do u recommend that film?.. Im gonna watch it.. Is it online?
@@juliannfloress3490 it is very horrific.
Absolutely true about the hag in the bathtub from The Shinning. It's funny though that scene on paper would sound corny but the way Kubrick did it somehow still gets me after all these years... =]
FWIW, in the book, Jack never encounters the hag, only Danny.
And the way that it's written in the book is FAR scarier.
In fact, I hate the movie because the book is so much scarier throughout.
People look at me as if I have a spear sticking in my forehead when I tell them that, but I just tell them to read the book to see what I mean.
Yeah It took me a while to feel comfortable in my bathroom or hallways
A film is almost never as scary as a book, what’s more scary than your imagination?
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns You're right on the mark about the book being scarier. After checking the tub and finding nothing, Jack starts to walk out of the room when he hears the shower curtain being pulled closed and turns around to see something behind it. He loses his nerve and exits the room, but not without hearing a scurrying behind him, as if something in the tub wants to catch up with him.
@@TPOrchestra Exactly
The things scene and unseen are what make the book so scary.
The part that really freaked me out was also scratched from the movie (you'll remember this one) was when Danny crawls into the snow-covered playground cement tunnel, staying at the opening, only to hear the leaves quietly rustling at the other end of something coming his way.
He panics and gets out of the tunnel, and the thing coming toward him is never scene.
That was just terrifying to me.
I remember seeing Nightmare on Elm Street in the theatre and holy cow, the fact that the villain could infiltrate your dreams was mind blowing and chilling, it took horror to a whole new level.
Probably THE most creative take on 'slasher' genre.
@@ilovebutterstuff dont forget halloween 1978...that was the father of horror movies and slasher movies
@@juliannfloress3490 --- no doubt a good movie, one of the classics, but an unkillable dude with a knife? Not very creative. Anyone could've came up with that.
I saw the Exorcist III at the cinema. That scene you were talking about, everyone jumped out of their seats started screaming, then looked around at each other nervously and started laughing.
Roger Corman noticed this was a common reaction in horror films, terror followed by laughter, which inspired him to make A Bucket of Blood, an early seminal horror-comedy.
"White Noise" is one I wouldnt recommend watching alone at night.
That screaming demon face bit is scary as fuck!
Michael Keaton was the only thing that saved that one.
Repulsion is a 1965 British psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Catherine Deneuve.
Yeah, I saw that in college and was afraid to date for a few weeks.
"What if she has a razor?"
In those days, I shaved with a straight razor. I had to pause before starting due to the feel of the blade & the image of the guy she kills with that razor. He first thinks she scratched him with her nails & gets angry... and then... Ugh!
all of those three polanski's movies that are placed in apartments - repulsion, the tenant and rosemary's baby scared the shit out of me, the atmosphere of psychological isolation is something im not really fond of. also, the dreamy sequences from repulsion, when the walls begin cracking, doors are being slammed, hands come out of the walls and rape scenes - that was so intense i had to pause the movie for a while each time.
@@g00zik97 , that is scary, Polanski and Spielberg puts horror setting in very nice postal card perfect view and puts viewer of guards, and then ... Movie Jaws very nice setting beach american dream and then some monster lurking, Poltergeist same, very innocent suburbs and after that you left shirtless :)
Session 9 is a very underrated creepy film. Soundtrack is amazing in itself.
JP Vielleux exactly buddy, very underrated but a psychological harror movie that is masterpiece
@@paymunfarahvashi5255 I appreciate the thumbs up. I have mortified pride.
Its been about 5 years since my last viewing and it still gives me the creeps just thinking about it. A horror masterpiece.
@@Meelsen If you ever get the chance pick up the dvd. There's some extras on it that are quite spooky in their own right.
@@jpvielleux Nice. I will cop the dvd today!
The VVITCH creeped me out. Especially the end when they are floating around the trees and cackling.
Will Fonseca very underrated horror film. The part with the goat in the barn creeped me the hell out!
the whole film was sickening...but accurate
Yes, a great film! I was so caught up in the acting too. It seems so real.
One word...the crow.
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For me its
1. Sleepaway Camp (scariest ending Ive ever seen to a movie)
2. Audition (particularly the man in the bag scene)
3. Event Horizon
4. Martyrs
5. Lake Mungo
6. The Eye (2002)
7. Megan is Missing
8. Maniac (1980)
9. It Follows
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I'm totally desensitised to horror movies now but would never laugh at people for being scared. I am probably more nervous of people in real life than most people so we all have our fears. I love your analysis of movies, also the way you present them as your views and not fact, seems to be rare these days and always factually backed with evidence. Keep up the great work
The Ring Freaked me out when I was younger.
Good movie
Me too, I've never seen a movie that I was disturbed by or scared by. The ring fucked me up mostly due to a stupid circumstance. WHen I came home from watching that movie I stupidly left the TV on, and back then if a dvd player turned off while the TV was on you'd get the 'snow' static. Well, that's what i came home to, alone, in the dark.
So underrated.
So glad you mentioned Exorcist 3! I would love to hear you do an analysis of the dream sequence in Exorcist 3. It's one of the most brilliant and profound surreal sequences I've ever seen. On a side note, it took me 5 years to realize that beyond a doubt the distinctive voice of the old woman who 'confesses" to killing a waitress (and then murders) the priest in the confession box is the same voice of the senile old woman hospital patient who grabs police detective Kinderman's (George Scott) jacket and asks "Are you my son?" Kinderman asks the Gemini Killer 'who helps you get out' of his cell and Gemini smirkingly answers "Just.. friends. OLD friends..." So now we know that that particular old woman patient was the body that the Gemini Killer used when he killed the confessional priest. Just as he used Mrs Clelias body to kill Kindermans friend Father Dyer. Thats why they found her fingerprints on the jars that contained "Father Dyers entire blood supply." I have noticed numerous such subtle clues that effect one very deeply because they are mostly registered on a subconscious level in this masterpiece of a film...
My all time creepiest movie is John Carpenter's Halloween. Lost count the amount of times Michael Myers has stalked me in my nightmares. I recall watching Barbara Hershey in The Entity scared me as a kid, even though it fell apart at the end of the film.
Thank you re: Halloween. At 11 yrs old, I saw it during the day, on normal TV and edited, I was alone. It was light out. Yet, All the rest of my teen years i had it too.
Also any David Lynch movie is pretty unsettling late at night lol.
Ya, I watched Inland Empire alone in my creepy basement (which normally I have no problems with), and the hallway in my basement is just a bit too similar to that one hallway in the movie...
After watching it, I had that weird feeling I get sometimes if I stay up too late, feeling of eeriness like I'm not in the real world, I'm in a dream that is about to transform into a nightmare at any moment. And maybe there is no real world, just this nightmare.
Yep totally agree about the way he messes with your grip on reality, your sense of the world is disrupted when you come out of the film. He's got to be the greatest horror director that never became a horror director. The first act of Lost Highway in particular is up there with The Shining imo. Also his rendition of Baron Harkonnen in Dune is some of the most exquisite nightmare fuel ever committed to celluloid.
Ringu is one that really got me.
Even compared to the likes of Teshigahara and Kurosawa, Nakata's Ringu stands as one of Japan's most well made films.
Yes!
Then don't watch Ju-On :-)
Thought it said Pingu for a second, figured I'd missed an episode, it's still bloody weird though.
The cool thing about The Blair Witch Project is that the witch actually isnt real, the entire movie is actually about the two men of the film killing the main protagonist. The original script of the movie had one of the men being the protagonist’s ex boyfriend and being more explicit about the murder plan. The changed it to be more subtle and it is much better.
You know the part when they're in the tent and they hear kids inside their tent and they jump out screaming and you hear heather go "what the fuck is that?!" They were going to show a witch hovering but they decided not to
Under the Skin freaked me out for a while
That's a great movie.
The beach scene
I was a little mad when I saw that _Stranger Things_ copied some of Jonathan Glazer's ideas.
"Danny's not here Mrs. Torrance" , that part always creeps me out.
Yep me too. Danny's screechy voice is the creepiest part of that film for me.
Pretty good list. I'd also suggest "Shutter" (a Thailand production), "The Baby's room" (made in Spain) and "Hell's resident" (Spain) as very good horror movies that will crawl under your skin and stand the test of time. :)
Yeah, shutter is horrifying
"The changeling" is a scary movie with George C Scott
Great movie
i watched it recently and even though i kind of knew what to expect, it still gave me hella creeps, especially the seance scene
"Creepy", yes. "Scary"...?" No.
The vision scenes in Prince of Darkness freak me out. Decent Carpenter film but those vision scenes are so visceral. "This is not a dream..." I love it. Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me gets me as well. Exorcist 3 is very underrated.
Yeah Prince of darkness freaked the shit out of me when I was younger tho I haven't seen it for a long time
Noroi: The Curse and Lake Mungo are ones that I have both watched alone at night and regretted; they are absolutely terrifying.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre still gets me every time.
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Well to me unless you actually live in Texas it’s not that scary.
Because the basis of the film is that the killer is in Texas.
So unless I go to Texas.
Leatherface ain’t gonna get me :D
This used to terrify me until I saw it so many times it became more of an art piece than a horror movie. The best!
@Gerry Buckets I think the remake is worse, I watched the original out of curiousity to see if it was better but honestly I don't think it is. I could be biased because I saw the remake first but the remake does the tension building something usually associated with older films.
I’ve watched the shining quite a few times, even as a younger kid (10-12) the only scene that really scared me was the twins hallway scene. But for some reason around age 20 I watched it at night alone and something clicked. This movie has become more frightening every time I watch it now. I will not watch it at night again. I agree with you on the Exorcist 3 and the Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Good choice in the Shining. The shining is probably the only instance where a movie is better than the book.
"JAWS", the book is really different. Movie is better.
The Godfather. The Shawshank Redemption. There's a few.
I wouldn't agree about the Godfather. The book is better because it is more indepth and complete. Luca Brassi's story arc alone made the book better, not to mention the extended story arcs of Johnny Fontaine, Genco, Fabrizio, and Don Tomasso. Also, the book's final paragraph of prose is more magical and revealing than anything the movie did. People's intoxication with the movie is because of is awesome style and phenomenal acting.
as much as I have liked PK Dick's novels, I enjoyed Blade Runner far more than Do Andriods Dream....
I can watch anything late at night before bed. I’ve watched The Shining in bed and fallen asleep with it still on. Also I’ve slept to 1408, the exorcist, Salem’s lot and just about anything else.
When there is a new horror film I really want to watch, I’ll only do it very late at night with no lights on anywhere or any distractions. I’ll watch the film sitting very close to the screen in total darkness, with very good headphones to hear every sound and open myself up to being scared.
These people who can’t open themselves to a film and watch it without being on their phones half the time drives me crazy. No wonder all we have in movies these days are explosions. A film has 1/2 the responsibility to be thrilling, the other 1/2 belongs to an audience willing to be thrilled.
If you don’t do your part, no reason to totally blame the film.
A film that made my Skin Crawl using this watching technique was Incidious. The music alone....wow.
"So hey, little rob, you're 7 now, lets go and watch The Shining " 😁👍
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I saw the Exorcist in the theatre when I was 6. Then, there was an earthquake while I was laying on my very rickety, brass, canopy bed. I thought for sure I was possessed.!
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When i was 6 (?) my brother and I sneaking around to watch "dr who" which I didn't understand but was uber scary
Who on Earth let him watch that movie at seven?! A dad trying to murder his wife and son?!
the original "The Haunting" based on the Shirley Jackson novel is the scariest psychological film I've ever seen. A work of pure art and terror.
Excellent list!
Personally, having not seen Murder by Decree (which I now intend to checkout, thanks) I would have added in The Strangers. I wouldn't say the movie is as transcendant as the aforementioned films on your list but I watched that film alone at home and the very nature of the film is unnerving and realistic in a way that makes private home viewing uneasy. I remember hearing random sounds in my house while watching the film that made me turn the lights on and do a quick sweep. I'd personally like your opinion on watching that film at night alone.
Thanks again for always producing such wonderful film content.
I'm staying by myself at home alone- I can't even watch this list!
I 'm from South Australia, Snowtown was a true life horror, my brother worked in the Sheriff's dept and escorted them to and from court.
"I 'm from South Australia"
Me: AAAAAAHHHH AHH AAAAAAAHHHHH!!
The Exorcist 3 will forever be the scariest movie I have ever seen. The way it is filmed. The movement. Everything
The scariest movie is the news
Hahaha, can't argue with that.
Love Island scares the shit out of me!
It's the saddest movie too
I saw the Exorcist III on British TV (maybe late Nineties?!) one night. Alone. And THAT scene had me nearly jumping through the roof! I think because the nurse is just checking rooms and closing doors and it's so mundane, like you would do your rounds on a night shift; no giveaways that ANYTHING like that is about to happen...and then....WHAM! Out of nowhere it just springs up and f***s you right up if you're watching it for the first time. Takes a while for the heartbeat to settle after a moment like that hahaha - it's possibly one of the best jump scares in any movie, let alone the 'Horror' genre. Such an iconic and memorable scene and crazy - I have only seen that film a handful of times and I can't remember too much about it except for the 'roof-crawling scene' and the ending, but THAT scene always stays with you. It's nuts!
1.)IT (Curry) 2.)Childs Play 3.)The Shining 4.)Candyman 5.)The Cell 6.)Evil Dead 1 or 2
7.)Nightmare on Elm Street 8.)In The Mouth of Madness
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Ooohhh yeah, I used to have the In the Mouth of Madness, VHS.
I know quite a few people who were afraid to take showers because of IT, I didn't find it that scary though.
In the mouth.of madness is a mind fuck
Rob I love your work. I was delighted to see Exorcist 3 on your list but I almost whooped for joy when you mentioned Murder by Decree! That music scared the hell out of me as a kid - I couldn't watch the film for a decade afterwards! That slow motion, those eyes, that score creeps all over you.
Carry on your excellent uploads mate. Much appreciated.
I agree with you about the "hag in the bath tub" scene in The Shining. I was also 7 when I saw it. I lost a lot of sleep because of that scene.
Same here and I check the bathtub to this day. That was the absolute worst!
Same. My younger self was fascinated yet terrified at the same time on that first viewing. The music still creeps me out to this day.
Creepiest scene in Hereditary - the god damn grandma standing in the corner, barely visible. Shit made my skin crawl.
By “screamed myself awake” were you screaming in your dream or screaming out loud? That image of the witch drifting toward you is pretty awful!
LMAO
Interesting. I honestly don't remember actually seeing the witch.
But the scene at the end with the one kid in the corner, just like the legend. Wow.
A Quiet Place really got to me. Yes, it may be full of plot holes, but if you let yourself just be entertained I found the situations of having to remain absolutely silent to be terrifying.
Some good scary cinematography in that one.
I remember my parents telling me when I was a teenager about the first time they ever watched Nightmare on Elm Street, and how badly it terrified them... the fact that they were frightened somehow made it even more scary. That, and The Exorcist.
Weird thing is... of all the movies I wouldn't watch alone at night, I would chose to watch them all, alone, at night. I actually love being at that point of freaked out so much that you revert to being a kid... turning all lights on on way from room to room, running up the stairs, just in case, checking behind.doors.... Lol love it.
I watched eden lake the other night before sleep
It put my stomach in knots,,there's a particular scene of a person being burned alive
Very disturbing
Scary film, I think it has a realism to it which makes it frightening. It could actually happen.
@@Ryno87 Yes exactly it. I won't ever watch it again, it was almost too close to reality.
The shining has a constant scary soundtrack so even when nothing is dramatic on screen it's still creepy. Just jack looking at the window is terrifying
When I was 12 I watched "Suspiria" for like 20min, before I felt the schock and trauma overcoming my senses pretty bad, to the point I felt dizzy and almost fainting, absolutely terrified and paralyzed by fear. God knows the courage it took me to stop that tape (it was VHS at the time). Couldn't sleep for a month, that opening scene fucked me up really bad, although now at 35 I love horror movies and games and watch/play them at anytime with no problem (the only good thing it did for me I guess lol).
Suspiria? Isnt that movie about witches? I cant remember the opening scene dude..
@@juliannfloress3490 idk what the movie is about, I never watched the rest lol
Great content, please keep up the great work 🙏. The ending of the original Fly movie also terrifies me, first saw it as a child.
Rob love your videos, you're the most astute film analyst on RUclips..But you really need to explore the incredibly terrifying and disgustingly underrated horror film 1982 "The Entity"
@xisobelx373 it is terrifying film
It's based upon an actual likely demonic event in which prismatic flashes of light mysteriously appeared. See Doris Bither.
I like it a lot. Probably the only weak link in it is when it goes from horror to sci-fi. The wind is taken out of the sails when they try that university experiment which makes no real sense in the movie. I think the director just thought he needed a big fx scene at the end. Thankfully it returned to its plain roots at the end.
I agree with you on elm street. a lot of people focus on the cheap effects and the cheesiness of it, but what's extremely effective is that it is more believable than any horror film because it is a dream, anything can happen and you don't have any control over it. I've had dreams that may not have been scary, but discomforting, but I felt strapped and forced to be taken for a ride, until you finally wake up. genius
E.T has some scary moments haha
I don't have a film I can't watch alone at night, but I'll tell ya, if I'm walking in my basement in the dark, I always think of that ending shot in Blair Witch and get a chill up my spine.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes was a disturbing watch the first time through. I’d recommend that as an unsettling horror for sure
good tip, im gonna find that now, cheers
It’s never had a formal release on home media. The acting isn’t great, but it’s a very creepy film.
@@melsoderlund3379 ive found a bluray release
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Really? That’s great! Last I checked it was only available for download on the internet.
Really forgotten and underrated. Great flick.
For an unforgettably unnerving experience, I recommend watching *Phantasm* alone at night. It's corny and low-budget, sure. However (to me) it has the true feel of a nightmare: familiar elements of narrative structure are presented in a disjointed and illogical manner, bringing no resolution yet lingering in the memory only as vague feelings of terror and dread.
Funhouse, the Fly, Serpent and the Rainbow, Poltergeist I and II, 78 BodySnatchers, 28 Weeks Later, Exorcist I and III. 10, Cannibal Holocaust
Oh my days I forgot about Serpant and the Rainbow. That scene where a cloaked figure opens his cloak to reveal the police chief making that horrendous hissing face scared the life out of me back when I was a teenager.
I watched IT when I was 7 and I had nightmares and was scared of the toilet for months. Never rewatched.
The clown...
Great list Rob, the original Texas chainsaw massacre still to this day freaks me out, I love the film but I find it genuinely disturbing, the Characters in the family are superb they portray insanity to a T, I find Gunnar Hansen Leatherface far more terrifying as a mentally disabled big fat man child than the hulking killing machine he is in the remakes etc , nightmare on elm st is a superb classic horror film and I definitely found the Blair witch horrifying when I first saw it, Lake Mungo is one I won’t watch alone.
Lake mungo was so sad! And very VERY creepy.
2:34 that's not a dream, it's called sleep paralysis. It happens very often when you are exhausted and have sleep deprivation.
Pretty silly, but I had an experience of sleep paralysis back in the day when Marble Hortnets first started their Slenderman skit, that was pretty terrifying lol
Slenderman is seriously creepy! Almost a human shape, but all stretched out and no face...
Fun thing to know about sleep paralysis, you can wake yourself out of it. Sleep paralysis happens when your mind wakes up in the middle of your dream state. Our bodies become paralyzed IRL to protect us from moving around in a dream state. The only part that doesn't become paralyzed is our facial muscles. To wake from sleep paralysis you simply move your facial muscles. Make a " did you just fart" face and your brain will shut down the paralysis and allow you to wake up. Funny thing is, screaming would work just as well, and this is what he did.
But he thought his sleep paralysis was just a dream.
Exorcist and the Omen are the two scariest movies I’ve ever seen! Never saw Emily Rose because of those! My number 3 is The Ring. And after The Ring and Blair Witch, I stopped seeing scary movies. 😱
You should watch halloween 1978...mother ship
Salem’s Lot was a mass freak out for my 6th grade class when it aired on ABC in the 70s
There’s only one film (actually, series of films) that I can’t watch alone at night...
“The Exorcist” series, especially the first, the 1973 original.
Same here.
I will not watch the Exorcist 2 alone or with anyone else, at night, or during the day, because its shit.
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Back in '73 I was reading 'The Exorcist'.
Alone in the house.
Except it was a sunny saturday afternoon.
We all know that it's OK to do that on a sunny saturday afternoon.
And then I heard a BUMP from upstairs.
I didn't even look up from the book.
I thought to myself, "It's the dog. Rolling around on my bed."
And then the dog made a small noise.
And I saw the dog sitting at my feet.
And I stood up and GOT OUT OF THAT HOUSE.
1408 gives me the heebie-jeebies, sort of like how nightmares on elm street does you
Very underrated movie.
Wow, great movie. If anyone hasn’t seen it, I recommend watching it alone in the dark right now. It’s in the same vein as the shining, it’s better than Doctor sleep.
I saw a Freddy Kruger movie too early as a kid, and I did it by hiding behind a couch to watch when others thought I was in bed. For the longest time, he would appear in my dreams and I would spend the night running from him. When I was about 15, I reasoned that you cannot force yourself to dream about something, and I wanted so bad not to dream about him, that I would try to force myself to dream about him, and it seemed to work to avoid a nightmare.
In my 20s, I suddenly was able to toy with him if he showed up, and I somehow enjoyed those dreams. It's been 20 years now since I've had a Freddy nightmare.
"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" and "Inland Empire."
Inland empire was disturbing. Mulholland drive scared me also a bunch of times!
Big Twin Peaks fan. The movie really personifies the evil in that story far better than the TV show.
@@TheJollyMisanthrope It's really underrated. I understand why people didn't like it at the time, but it's an excellent horror movie. Sheryl Lee was terrifying and amazing at portraying that horror.
Neither film really scared me, but the pitch-blackness and implications of the ending of Twin Peaks: The Return legitimately shook me.
I dont know how I watched Twin Peaks The Return alone. Those Woodsmen, and Judy, and fucking Bad Cooper and long driving scenes... it was all so tense. Episode fucking 8, holy shit what the fuck. I want to rewatch it again so bad but jesus christ I cant.
"Whistle and I'll come to you". Is my scariest, I can't possibly watch the end scenes and then go to bed, terrifying. Your Blair witch dream was sleep paralysis, I used to get that regularly in my twenties, still do get it now and again, it is terrifying, however I've learnt how to stop it so it's not as bad as when I could have it all night long.
I would recommend "Insidious" and "It Follows" as recent flicks.
The scariest film I have seen, by far, is the Japanese film "Cure" from 1997. I saw it in broad daylight and it stayed with me for weeks. You could argue that it's not technically a horror film but more of psychological thriller, but it's stayed with me over the years in a way that no horror film ever has. And from what I've gathered it's not even the scariest film made by the same director, but to be honest, I've never dared to watch any of them in the ten or so years since I first (and only time) saw this film.
Supernatural horror doesn't really bother me all that much since I'm not religious, but "Cure" is about as pure a psychological horror as you can get. Pretty much the whole film has the same unnervingly slow-burn quality to it that the nurse scene in The Exorcist III has.
Mine would start with Blair Witch too. First time i watched it i was living in a cabin surrounded by woods.
really? fuk man
Oh dear !
“The Ring” is a film I hesitate to watch alone at night
It's not a movie, but I couldn't watch The Haunting of Hill House alone at night 😆
The examination scene in the alien abduction movie “Fire in the Sky” is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever watched. The feeling of helplessness is suffocating.
Yeah but it wasn't true to the actual experience. Read travis Walton's experience online
Ron Calabro oh I know that. Still, that scene freaks me out.
"Dead Ringers" 1988 by Cronenberg is a very disturbing movie.
Watching that tonight!