Your top 5 scariest movies as an Adult

[Mikey]

I'm one of the few that didn't care much for John Carpenter's The Thing.

I use to watch and love the original, so to me the remake was just that - a remake.

I also didn't like the fact they didn't have one likable character in it ...

[MIB41]

Exorcist III (the original use to spook me, except now the "demon" dubbing is too obvious and distracts me).

[exoduschj]

I gotta give props to "The Ring" as well. That movie did a great job building up toward the ending. The first time I watched that movie it was 2-3 in the morning and I was application support on-call for the company I was working for, and had rented several horror movies to watch as I sat up all night. I had just got to the part toward the end where Naomi Watts was bent over looking under the TV and sees the other tape lying there and is slowly reaching for it when ...BAM!...all the lights went off in my house! The fuse had blown, but it scared the CRAP out of me and I almost screamed. Needless to say, I was creeped out when I was going down into the basement in the dark to reset the circuit breakers.

[toys2cool]

nothing really scares me, but as a kid
The Exorcist
The Omen(something about Damiens face )
Ghost story (when they push that car in the water and the chick was still alive, always freaked me out)
Dawn of the Dead

[wolfie]

The only film that sends shivers all over me is The Changeling with George C Scott.

[Hector]

I'm one of the few that didn't care much for John Carpenter's The Thing.

I use to watch and love the original, so to me the remake was just that - a remake.

I also didn't like the fact they didn't have one likable character in it ...

The "remake" actually follows the original novella, "Who Goes There?", much more accurately and closely than the 50s film version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goes_There%3F

So no, it's just not a remake.

[dr_cyclops]

The "remake" actually follows the original novella, "Who Goes There?", much more accurately and closely than the 50s film version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goes_There%3F

So no, it's just not a remake.

IMO, so true! On the subject of the original Howard Hawk's version: While I find this version to be classic, It never came close to scaring me as a kid. Apparently there were other 'Thing' designs and deleted scenes. A member of "Outpost 31", (a "The Thing" movie fan-site) claimed that an article in "Starlog magazine" said that the first designs were a Tentacle Octopus creature, followed by a spider design. I can't remember how many make up designs were scraped by Hawk, but they were many. In the end, Hawk told them to; 'Find the tallest actor they could and dress him up as Frankenstein and we'll turn the lights down low.
Deleted scene A: When the research team is approaching the door to the greenhouse, there was supposed to be a shot of the three scientists decapitated and hanging upside down in the greenhouse, with their blood feeding the 'Thing-Plants'.
Deleted scene B: At the end, the scene were the concern scientist runs up to the Thing and pleads for communication and peace, instead of knocking the scientist aside with his 4x4 club, he supposedly decapitates him.
Well that's what I heard anyway.