Movies you won't watch in the dark...

[Lord Crumb]

Well, I'm sure there have been threads like this before, but it's been a while and it's always good to hear from the new users, too!
I named this thread "Movies you won't watch in the dark", but frankly, I love to watch scary movies by myself in the dark. My picks are actually movies I won't watch during the DAY!
So, go ahead, kids. List some of the scariest movies you've ever seen and are TOO scary to watch in the dark, alone...

-Blair Witch Project
-The Changeling
-Black Christmas
-Session 9 (100x scarier than in the theater!!! )
-The Exorcist
-The Exorcist III
-Amityville Horror
-The Others
-A Wicked Ghost (a recent discovery I made - A Japanese "Ring" rip-off with some of the most frightening imagery I've seen in a long time!)

Most of mine are ghost stories, because those are just the freakiest for me.

[chlngr1970]

I'll add to that...

Prince of Darkness
Halloween
In the Mouth of Madness



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[dvdjedi]

The only film I can honestly say scared the hell out of me was Alien.

[RamonesGirl]

Night of the Living Dead... it still scares me... in fact it's one of the VERY few horror movies that can chill me that much alone in the dark.

[Prancer]

The Exorcist......haaaaaaaaa



Well I would not watch it alone. Definitely in the dark to get the affect. BUT NOT ALONE!! aaaaaaa.

[LeonardShelby]

The ending of Halloween III still freaks me out to this day...

'Eight more days 'til Halloween'
'Halloween, Halloween'
'Eight more days 'til Halloween'
'Silver Shamrock'

I just got the chills from typing that...




Also -
Dawn of the Dead
The last part of 'Creepshow' ...the guy with the bugs.

[SolidSnakeASS]

I will watch everything in the dark, even if it scares the sh1t out of me. Isn't that what is so much fun about scary movies?

[sub780lime]

i love scary movies, but i have to say anything supernatural freaks me out sometimes, the only one i feel i really need to add to your list is thirteen ghost, i think that movie is quite freaky by yourself

[limacharliewhiskey]

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candym....

[Marq]

....an.

By saying movies that I don't watch in the dark, I imply that these are movies I MUST watch in the dark (usually alone) to get maximum enjoyment/ scare factor out of (as you implied anyway Lord Crumb, and Solid Snake):

- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Mulholland Dr.
- Jacob's Ladder
- The Blair Witch Project
- Candyman
- Psycho
- The Exorcist
- Night of the Living Dead

best to watch in the dark, but with a group of folks:

- The Evil Dead
- Halloween
- Dawn of the Dead
- Scream

many more I can't think of right now...

[SolidSnakeASS]

The only time I get 'scared,' more like nervious, is when their is a seriously demented scene of realistic violence played out slowly. I wouldn't get scared of say "Hard Boiled," because it is unrealitsic, but in something like "American History X" the curb stomp will get me every time.

[Hiphopfan]

It's a rarity for a movie to scare me, but I remember the first time I saw David Cronenberg's "The Fly" (I was about seven or eight, maybe younger) and when Jeff Goldblum's fingernails and shit was falling off, it scared me. Another one that would scare me once in awhile was the old t.v. series titled "Freddy Krueger's Nightmare's" anyone remember that show? There was one episode in particular where a plane had crashed into a mountain and the members had to eat each other.

[Maximum Jonah]

John Carpenter's "The Thing"

Won't watch it in the dark, or in the winter.

Scary!

Arachnophobia.

'nuff said!

[John Yaya]

The one and only Halloween still gives me the willies....

It's that white mask that quietly emerges from the shadows...lurking about inside the house...still gets me every time...

Alien & The Exorcist.... Alien..because of it's claustiphobic setting and the alien attacking out of nowhere. The Exorcist...the film's setting inside of a house, the sinister sound effects...ewww!!

Those are the only horror films that stills gets into my head and makes you kinda look around hear things that really aren't there

The other listed here I can watch without feeling that spooked out feeling while sitting in the dark...

"Barrbraaa...they'reee commmming to get youuuuu"


"sell crazy somewhere else...we're all stocked up here!!"

[Wirehed]

Exorcist
Alien
Nightmare on Elmstreet
the People Under The Stairs
Hellraiser


I would have to go threw my collection.

I'm not listing any obscure foreign films that usually qualify more into the catagory of disturbing.

[Crow T. Robot]

the only one that scares me is "The Exorcist" other than that i can watch most horror movies in the dark

[J.P. Morgan]

"The Legacy" starring Sam Elliott, Katherine Ross and Roger Daltrey.
It really twisted my twinky when I was a teenager.

"The Crate" short story from "Creepshow" is still excellent.

[Raxel]

Japan Movie "The Ring"

I bet you won't sleep or accept any phone call that night.

[Monterey Jack]

I watch every movie in the dark, just so there's no glare off the TV screen.

[LeonardShelby]

Yup....add another to my list:

"Night of the Living Dead" (1968)

I just picked up the Elite DVD (THX) last week and hadn't had a chance to watch it yet...

Watched it tonight, by myself, with the lights out...

I'd forgotten how creepy this film was...



What was that noise? Mommy....

Oh yeah...I almost forgot Carnival of Souls (1962) creeped me out the first time I saw it as well! Can you still find the 'Criterion' of that film anywhere around?

[Crow T. Robot]

Originally posted by Monterey Jack
I watch every movie in the dark, just so there's no glare off the TV screen.

me to i hate that damn glare!

[goatpunish]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer... truly disturbing... good filmmaking...

[Oscar Antonio M]

Akira?:
Not sure, but there are is a lot of freaky stuff about it.

Im sorry, but i dont like horror films much, because they are repetive.

But it seems that i might add Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me in the future as the film truly looks creepy, though i have not seen the series.

And i am waiting for a DVD edition of TP:FWWM that has the deleted footage.

[mgsooner]

The three movies that really scare the hell out of me are:

The Exorcist
The Blair Witch Project

And

The Shining, which I had not seen listed here yet......the shot of the twin little girls standing at the end of the long hallway is one of the most freaky things I've ever seen on camera.

[Damian]

I don't really get scared watching horror movies. However, the only movie that I still won't watch again and again is The Exorcist. (let alone in the dark) When it first came to cable back around 75 or 76 I was far to scared to watch it. (I actually had to hide behind my father as my family watched it. HEY I was like nine back then). It took me another ten or eleven years before I could actually watch it from beginning to end.
So now I've seen it, it was a good movie but still far to disturbing for me to watch over and over again. It's not even part of my collection. So I'd have to say that IF I had to watch that movie again, I would most certainly not want it dark.

[kimfair]

The only time I've ever felt scared in a film, was when I saw Dr. Syn Alias the Scarecrow when I was a kid. I'll jump with the best of them (i.e. head in the boat in Jaws, Alien popping out and jumping on someone, etc), but I've never found the "creepy"style horror film scary (i.e.Blair Witch, Carnival of Souls etc).

[brian_d36]

My list of movies to not watch in the dark:
1. The changling
2. Session 9
3. The Others
4. The 6th Sense
5. Evil Dead

[eel]

Halloween

Also could someone please explain to me what is scary about Blair Witch Project, (apart from the close up of that girls nostrels)

[Marty McFly]

I only watch movies at night, so there's not one I wouldn't. However, there are a few that I'd prefer to watch with a group of people:

Nigtmare on Elm Street 1 & 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Blair Witch Project

[theta]

It takes a LOT to scare me. But in addition to the above movies, here are some that really have me on the edge of my seat:

Funny Games - gimmicky, but will creep the holy hell out of you.

Thesis - well-constructed thriller from Alejandro Amenabar (The Others); now if only Vanguard would make a transfer from an actual print as opposed to the VIDEO MASTER!!!

Shivers - lives up to its name; absolutely NOT for anybody who has any sort of sexual hangup!

[Newbomb Turk]

The Exorcist. Still the only movie that literally bothered me enough to where I've only seen it once. Most horrifying scene to me was when the apparition of the demon Pazuzu appeared on the bed and Regan was lifting herself up to it. Gives me shivers to remember it. Don't like that demonic crap.

Grossest film was without a doubt The Thing.:barf:

[redshifter]

i'll watch any movie in the dark...

the scariest movies i've seen are:

the exorcist
john carpenter's the thing
alien
sante sangre
the others
schindler's list
prince of darkness
the omen
return of the living dead
poltergeist
dawn of the dead
evil dead
eraserhead
carrie
the shining

trekkies
american movie

the last two are documentaries, but they really are scary.

[Disco Stu]

I'm not an easy scare but the movie that got to me so much that I had to finish watching it the next morning was a Japanese horror movie called Kairo (it means Pulse). It's also similar to Ring. If anyone has an all-region player, as its R3, and has surround sound, as it uses the surround speakers extremely well, should buy it immediately for about $15 on ebay.

[jazz]

Originally posted by Monterey Jack
I watch every movie in the dark, just so there's no glare off the TV screen.

same here.

[MefistoHC]

I don't remember very well because I didn't see them in a long time but as I remember, the italian movies Demons and Demons 2 were pretty good gorefests.

[kevin21]

I also wait until dark to watch movies to reduce the glare factor. The Shining and Alien still creep me out but possibly the most disturbing movie that I have seen is Blue Velvet. Frank sucking on that mask and yelling "Don't you look at me" is classic.:rar:

[kiscealguy]

"The Witches"

Aaaahhhhhh!!!!!!

This movie scarred my childhood. I had nightmares of Anjelica Huston coming to get me for years. She was just TOO good in the role.

And this was a Jim Henson "kids" movie!

[aintnosin]

I don't watch any movies in the dark. I tend to trip over the furniture when I do.

[winter_crow]

While The Sixth Sense still gives me goosebumps on my neck the only movie I absolutely, positively will not watch in the dark and possibly not ever again is...

Event Horizon

Alot of people look at me funny when I say that but it completely freaked and weirded me out.

I saw it once in the theatre and that is about it for me.