I'm not the biggest gore movie fan, but the scariest movie that I can remember seeing considering my age at the time (11) was Alien. I remember seeing it with my father while we were on vacation at Nantucket and we had to walk back to the marina at night. Holy $hit did that movie scare the fvck out of me!
HAHA. Same here, my aunt took me to see the first Alien movie and I wasn't even 5. I remember being terrified, I ought to thank that bitch!
I was 12 when I saw The Exorcist. That's the scariest movie I've ever seen to date, probably because of the way the movie was shot and the mood it projects. Very haunting and I love how every character is well developed and suffers the same because of the girl.
Right now, nothing in movies can scare me. There has not been one "horror" movie in the last 10 years or more that looked appealing to go and see. I'll give an honorable mention to "House of 1000 Corpses" but that was a slasher movie and I really don't see what's scary about seeing someone get chopped into bits...
"Scary" movies rely too much on two things these days:
- Overfilling movies with scenes that will get you to jump out of your seat, which is the oldest formula in the book. At this point it's ridiculous.
- Gore, blood and a seemingly indestructible psychopath. Scary blood huh?? I'd be scared if i've never had a nosebleed before. You've seen one, you've seen them all - Jason, Freddy, "Halloween" movies, "TX Chainsaw", "Saw" movies, "House of Wax". I didn't see that last one though
but you get the point, right? A generic revolving plot.
I liked the first "Saw" because I felt it was well written and had great twists and mind games in it. But the sequels were just unnecessary!
Sorry about a long rant but Hollywood has been quite disappointing in the last few years!