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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:19 PM
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Movies that freak you out:
List 'em.

28 Days Later got me the first time around...
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:21 PM
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1. jacob's ladder
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:23 PM
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4. That's a good one
It's one of the few movies I've watched more than once. It's been a long time since I've seen it though.
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:22 PM
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2. Friday the 13th really freaked me out
But I saw it when I was 10.
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:22 PM
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3. I couldn't sleep after Evil Dead 1 and 2...
I was 6.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:23 PM
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5. "Night of the Hunter"
if you haven't seen it, you should. Robert Mitchum plays a murderous preacher and is truly creepy in the role.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:23 PM
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6. the grudge...
:scared:
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:42 PM
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16. THAT scared the CRAP outta me.
It didn't help that my wife had already seen it and knew the right parts to squeeze my arm.

I thought it was WAY more relentless than even "The Ring".
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:58 PM
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26. grudge is fully messed up...
sure, ghosts roam around...but in the same freaking house, all that 'roaming cross town & underneath your blankets on the 16th floor' crap is messed up, people haunted to death, spilling over balconies just to get away...seemed a relentless notion to me, even the crusty japanese cops who've likely seen it all getting taken down = i'm with you; spooky stuff without doubt
:scared:
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:00 PM
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28. Japanese ghost stories must be like this. The theme being that these
ghosts are freaking relentless and will not stop at anything to haunt your ass and kill you.

The ghost in "The Ring" was the same way although the story didn't play out as such a continuously brutal scarefest like "Grudge" did.

They both have their origins in Japanese ghost story movies...
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Spacemom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:24 PM
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7. I don't know why
I'm not a Christian, but The Exorcist always gets me. I can't even watch the commercials if it's coming on TV.
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:26 PM
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8. Saving Private Ryan ....
Horrifyingly real ....

Saw it once, wont watch it again ....
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:26 PM
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9. definitely Alien, the very first one
couldn't sleep for three weeks without a light on.
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:34 PM
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10. Dead Ringers
or anything by Cronenberg
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:38 PM
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13. Love when he unveils his "surgical instruments for mutant women"
in the OR for the first time. And when he's commissioning the creation of those instruments with the metalworker/artist guy.
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:35 PM
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11. The Corporation was the latest that creeped me out big time
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tarkus Donating Member (780 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:40 PM
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59. I saw that last night... or the night before or something. Scary stuff! NM
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rawtribe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:36 PM
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12. The Child I Never Was
http://www.bavaria-film-international.de/htmls/filmpages/f05_013syno.html
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:38 PM
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14. killer shrews
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:41 PM
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15. Sophie's Choice
When I found out what it was, it shook me to my maternal core.
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ole_evil_eye Donating Member (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:42 PM
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17. Ghostbusters
swa it when I was 5 and had nightmare over the dogs
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:43 PM
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18. Oh there are several...
The Shining
28 Days Later
Dawn of the Dead
The Exorcist
Kiss the Girls.

Movies about stuff that could really happen or zombie movies just freak me out.
And the Shining was the freakiest piece of literature/cinematography ever.
Duckie
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:06 PM
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32. The Shining
really freaked me out. When Shelley Duvall realized her husband was insane...when she looked at his manuscript. That was creepy. The huge vacant hotel was beyond spooky. The little boy roaming the corridors on his Big Wheels. Even that huge industrial kitchen. Just everything in that movie hit some subconscious terror button. I was apprehensive and nervous the entire movie.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:07 PM
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33. What's even worse is it's an actual hotel
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:11 PM
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35. There are some great scenes and imagery in Kubrick's "Shining", but
Stephen King's novel is about 5 billion times more scary.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:17 PM
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38. Come and stay...forever and ever and ever...
http://www.fairmont.com/banffsprings/
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WhollyHeretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:49 PM
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19. The Vanishing
Jeff Bridges was so creepy in that. I had a hard time watching him in anything after that for years.

The Ring- That little girl was freaky.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:51 PM
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22. Forget the US version of "The Vanishing".
If you want pure terror, and possibly the best on-screen killer since Max Schrek's Count Orlof in "Nosferatu", see the original, European version of "The Vanishing". You won't sleep soundly for days afterwards.
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Hong Kong Cavalier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:51 PM
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55. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the European version was better
And no, I didn't sleep very well for nearly a week.
Chilling movie.
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:41 PM
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60. Absolutely.
That was one of the best performances I've ever seen. I had nightmares about that guy.
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Tummler Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:49 PM
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20. August Underground's Mordum
I'm not going to post any links lest I attract the attention of the mods. You can Google it if you dare.

Also Threads, the British made-for-TV nuclear war movie.

There are a couple of really freaky and unsettling scenes in Cannibal Holocaust.

That's my top three, and I seek out "disturbing" movies.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:50 PM
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21. Blue Velvet.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:51 PM
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23. "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover." And not in a good way.
Just horribly disturbing and cruelly violent.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:03 PM
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43. "I had a dream....
In fact, it was on the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world, and the world was dark because there weren't any robins and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free and they flew down and brought this blinding light of love. And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did. So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:52 PM
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24. Not scary, per se, but freaky: The Usual Suspects, Quiet Earth, Solaris
.
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:09 PM
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34. Solaris was... odd, to say the least.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:07 PM
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46. i love: solaris...

the book is a highly nuanced tripper: http://www.lem.pl/english/main.htm
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The Animator Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:56 PM
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25. Batman and Robin (shudder)
Ahnold as Mr. Freeze "Alheight avraboty chiiillll"
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 07:58 PM
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27. The Silence of the Lambs
It freaked me because after I saw it, I had my one and only erotic dream ever about a man -- Hannibal Lecter.
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Catfight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:00 PM
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29. Monster. nt
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melv Donating Member (506 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:01 PM
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30. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind n/t
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:05 PM
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31. 'Cape Fear' & 'The Shawshank Redemption'
I couldn't watch them because of the rape themes.

Also the scene in 'Prince of Tides' where everyone is raped. (I did watch this movie and had to leave the second time during this scene. I was hovering in the powder room with my ears covered waiting for my husband to tell me that it was over.)

Shudder....
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usedtobesick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:11 PM
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36. Taylor of Panama?
Worse movie ever and it freaked me out that I stayed and watched it.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:13 PM
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37. Requiem for a Dream...
Again, not for bogeyman content, but for sheer terror, particularly as it is so real.
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alarcojon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:22 PM
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39. Seven
That Kevin Spacey character was one sick dude, and we got to see way too much gruesomeness.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:27 PM
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40. You beat me to it! This film stayed with me for months...
While trying to watch the film, it made me so anxious I had to continously get up and pace in the theater--I even left a few times to go to the lobby and pace more. It really bothered me.

The intensity and the fact that you only see the AFTERMATH of all the crime scenes. What they say about them and your imagination fill in the rest--so creepy!

When talking to various people about it, each person seemed to have a different crime scene that disturbed them the most--that they couldn't stop processing or thinking about. That was interesting to me.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:12 PM
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49. the guy forced to wear the strap on is now a semi regular on ER
and every time I see him that's all that comes to mind.

Same with Toby on West Wing...he was Doe's lawyer......that movie burrows into one's psyche.

:scared:
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:28 PM
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41. See my post: Movies that mess with your head
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 08:53 PM
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42. Bram Stoker's Dracula. Alien. Saw.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:05 PM
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44. The Seventh Seal
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:06 PM
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45. Eraserhead....
.... the only movie I can recall that I simply had to end early.

That is the creepiest, most unsettling thing I have ever seen.

On the other hand, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Wild at Heart - other Lynch movies I love.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:10 PM
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48. lynch uses 'nausea' as a 'color'...
truly disturbing imo
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:08 PM
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47. ET the Extra-Terrestrial
ET fucking scared the shit out of me!

I had nightmares all through my childhood about him/it.

In them, I usually came out of my bedroom and ET was standing down at the end of the hall and started run/waddling at me at high speed SCREAMING in his weirdo ET scream at the top of his lungs, with his arms oustretched, and I had nowhere to run to or hide! :scared: :scared:
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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:13 PM
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50. The Ammityville Horror (the new one)
Edited on Sun Jun-26-05 10:15 PM by LastKnight
Really freakin got me... and my gf of the time... really grudgelike. but i was more freaked out by the buildup to things rather than the gore itself... im still wanting to see the original...

then again i laugh at horror movies... and sweat... donno why i just start laughing... guess its some sort of defense system...

i didnt sleep until well after 3 15 am for a week after seeing that movie.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:14 PM
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51. Jacobs' Ladder
Made me question reality,
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CantGetFooledAgain Donating Member (635 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:21 PM
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52. Another vote for Jacob's Ladder
honorable mention:

The Omen
Angel Heart
Altered States
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:27 PM
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53. Blue Velvet
:scared:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 10:30 PM
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54. The Shining
hands down.

No contest.

28 days later was scary, and se7en was scary, and silence of the lambs was scary, but the shining just sets up its own department of scary inside your head.
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LeftyDarthBrodie Donating Member (941 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:32 PM
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56. The Passion of the Christ
Goriest. Movie. Ever.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:38 PM
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57. Dead Alive.
Yes, that freaky New Zealand horror comedy. Much more horror than comedy. Help me, buckets and buckets of blood from the good guy chomping the zombies with a lawn mower while his girlfriend goes at it with a blender!
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-05 11:39 PM
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58. 1001 Nights of Sodom
Passolini's highly disturbing adaptation of the Marquee Du Sade's masterpiece set in Fascist Italy...



Warning: You never be the same after viewing.
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