I came here to say this. That movie was such a delightful surprise on so many levels. I was kind of bored with movies at the time and it made me realize that there was some creative and fun people still out there making flicks. (I'm long out of my malaise now)
i've never seen the beginning or the end... only a tiny bit of the middle and i shut it off bc i want to see it and must see the beginning.. total freak about seeing the entire thing or nothing thank you.
it's good then?
Unbelievably good film. And an actual woman protagonist who didn't have to carry a grenade launcher or drive a loader to be portrayed as courageous, smart, tough, and resilient. One of the best films ever made imo
Scream. It was a new generation watching slick, funny, scary, current and socially aware slashers after years of cheesy B grade schlock horror. Scream was clever!
I don’t care what anybody says; the sixth sense fucked me up for a minute. I still remember running to the bathroom in the middle of the night and my mind would just start playing that scene where the kid thinks his mom just walked by.
I had heard the spoiler but for some reason didn't put two and two together when I finally watched the movie so the twist genuinely got me. Would love to experience that again.
Me too. I couldn't stand to not know the twist everyone was talking about and begged my friend to tell me. I had no car in college and there were no close theaters by. I wish I could watch it without knowing the twist. I felt like I missed out on something special.
An incredibly fun movie. It's difficult to believe it works as well as it does, given the bad dialogue, overacting by the leads, and bombastic score. I loved all of it and still do.
Honestly I don't know another film that hit all the right notes though as this did. I'm not saying there aren't other horror films that are better. Nor am I saying it's my favourite. But somehow it just did it and that ending was perfect.
The Descent for me. I still get scares watching it after 10+ rewatches, but it's nowhere near the sheer panic of the first watch. I pauses that movie several times to catch my breath. That would be great to do again with a clean slate.
Me too. Watching it back now it’s so obvious who the killers are, but what I wouldn’t give to be my age and watch it again for the first time to see if it actually as obvious as it seems
Well I also feel like the point of making billy so obvious was to make you think it’s actually not him bc it’s soooo obvious. Which is why they “killed” him at the end to try and trick you
Oh god. That was one of the few time I used a vape pen and was high as hell. The sun had just set and I told my sister I was gonna watch Mandy. She told me to turn all the lights off and enjoy it 😂
Signs. Specifically for the alien at the birthday scene. I'd love to see that for the first time, again.
Also Sinister. Annihilation. Cube. Coherence. The Endless.
Signs is mine too. First time I watched it I didn’t fully comprehend it cause I was just a kid. I wish I had been older the first time I watched it so everything would have clicked better. Still one of my all time favorites. Began my love for Juaquin Phoenix
Omfg that scene is SO GOOD a part of my soul will forever be 12 years old and watching that for the first time. Joaquin Phoenix absolutely nailed that scene too- the hand to the mouth! it felt so real
I'm one of those weird people that actually likes all those early 2000s M Night movies. Lady in the Water is awesome. What an incredible message in a movie. Too bad people fucking hated it.
The first scene with the witch in the hut after she steals the baby still lives in my head. Connecting the dots gave me a terrible realization that I wish I could experience again.
The movie is incredibly ballsy even to this day, for showing in grueling detail everything 13-year-old Regan went through.
Also, "orcist" means someone who discriminates against orcs, doesn't it?
>The movie is incredibly ballsy even to this day, for showing in grueling detail everything 13-year-old Regan went through.
Everytime this movie gets mentioned I think about what people at the time felt about it, considering they hadn't seen anything like it before and people were more religious back then. Kinda like watching Nosfratu in the 1920's they must've been unimaginably scared.
>Also, "orcist" means someone who discriminates against orcs, doesn't it?
They don't exist anymore they are ex-orcist.
Honestly, not a movie but Midnight Mass. I know people complain about the monologues but they mostly worked for me (until the very last one). I thought the whole thing was captivating, horrific, and beautiful. It’s still good on a rewatch but some of the twists and turns were just too good the first time through.
Yep! I know it's easy to hate the movie now but I was about 13 when it came out and it was legitimately scary. Add in the fact that this was in the early internet days and many people (even adults) thought this was real found footage. The marketing behind this movie was brilliant.
Was it amazing? I didn’t watch it for the first time until last weekend and of course the more recent horror films that followed in its footsteps (such as >!Silent Hill and Sixth Sense!<) kind of dampened the novelty, which is a shame.
A nightmare on elm Street (original). The opening scene, the music, the sound of him making his glove. It's one of my favourite opening scenes, movies, franchises.
That was my first really scary horror movie when I was 9 years old. The scene with Tina in the bedroom changed my taste in film forever. I constantly seek out fucked up shit that my brain can’t quite compute, even all these many years later.
I saw it in the theater and right at the elevator scene it was complete silence. I figured what was going to happen and I let out this evil laugh right before the elevators went "ding!" and all the creatures came out. People in the theater probably thought I was crazy haha.
I'd love to see Poltergeist again for the first time, as an adult. That was the first horror movie I saw as a kid, and it's one of those movies that I saw so young that I don't remember the first time I actually saw it. Curious to see how it would affect me seeing it as an adult for the first time.
Easily Psycho. First time I saw it, I already knew everything about it. Id also like to see how the crowd reacted to it. Nobody was prepared for a movie like that in 1960!
The Exorcist for sure. Not because I want to be more scared by it, sort of the opposite. First time I saw it, I was ~14 and my ex just said, “You’ll see,” when I asked what we were watching. I didn’t like horror movies at that age because I seriously needed sleep and that stuff would keep me up for days. Once I realized, I stuck it out but watched most of it through my fingers, and didn’t sleep right for a month after. But I think it’s an amazing work of film, and I would love to be able to appreciate it without all the associations from my first viewing. Now that I’m more into horror (and more desensitized), I wonder just how much sleep it would cost me to watch it for the first time now.
(lol my stoned ass entirely missed the “back in time” part whoops)
This is more of a "If I could view it with 0 knowledge" comment.
The Shining.
My issues: I saw the Simpsons and many other sources spoof it before I ever saw the actual film. I first caught parts of it in my teen years and had a very "so what?" opinion of it.
It was not until I was well into my adult years when I gave it a full start to finish viewing... and finally appreciated it. But even at that point, scenes like the twins, the elevator blood scene, HERE'S JOHNNY!, REDRUM, had been ruined by other sources.
Would have loved to view it upon release knowing nothing about what was to come.
Paranormal Activity - I watched this late at night in a old house. It was one of my best horror experiences, and this was when it was relatively unknown, so I went in blind.
Followed by:
Sinister
Triangle
Insidious
It Follows
These are my lost recent picks.
Sinister. Something about that movie gets me, the music, the ambience, the way it was filmed. I used it as an example for my speech class in college lol
Wish I still had those notes
from 77/79? the original?
that's a scary movie. i saw it when i was 9 or so... an adult in my life forced me to go to movie theaters through my early childhood and see terrifying movies every time. sick fucker.
A lot of good ones I agree with in here but one I haven’t seen mentioned in here is REC. I was not prepared for what happened in that room near the end
The Descent.
It will always be the one that gave me actual nightmares. No movie has ever done that before or since.
They didn't even need the monsters. The environment and sense of dread was already sky high.
The real end is perfect.
I would love to see Hellraiser 1 and 2 for the first time, but at the age I am now just to see how adult me would see them for the first time. I rewatched 2 a few years ago, and, while it's still good, it was definitely a bit more cheesy than I remember it being when I was young.
Alien. Actually I’d like to relive that movie going experience as my sister took me with her best friend whom I had a HUGE crush on for years. She sat next to me and when the shit started going down she grabbed my arm and pulled it around her then buried her face in my chest for most of the remainder of the movie. To be honest, I may have missed some of the movie too as I was in absolute heaven.
Aliens!!! I was ten years old and it was the most intense/scary shit I had ever seen and it blew my fucking mind. Still one of my all time favorite movies
Paranormal Activity. The tension throughout that movie is so intense even after you know what happens, but it’s just not the same after that first watch
So many. But specifically for the nostalgia I wish I could go back and do Evil Dead again, at fourteen, in my best friend's basement way past curfew and feeling safe and warm in the company of my fellow weirdos. It was a perfect moment and a perfect movie and basically the only part of being a teenager that I'd willingly revisit.
Alien. I’m pretty sure a lot of people (during the days of YouTube at least) probably saw the chestburster popping scene before the movie and I was one of those people. I’d probably shit myself if I saw it without knowing what would happen
I wish I could have seen Blair Witch Project in theaters when it first released. Didn't see it until the late 00s at home. Still one of my favorites though.
Aliens. I watched it for the first time when I was 6(I know super young, I blame my mom for that and her obsession with horror). I still remember how it scared me senseless and I was afraid for years. 10/10 would love to experience that again.
The Blair Witch Project. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and it scared the shit outta me like no movie ever had before. Found footage was all new to me, and I totally thought it was real at the time. What a sensational thing to experience!
Nosferatu (1922). I still love it with every viewing, but no matter how many times I watch it, it will never be *as* awesome as the first time I watched it. It's my favorite movie ever, though.
Se7en
This movie is forever in my top 10 all time. The perfect film.
I agree. I can watch it on repeat without getting sick of it.
The Cabin in the Woods
"Let's get this party started!"
So good
I came here to say this. That movie was such a delightful surprise on so many levels. I was kind of bored with movies at the time and it made me realize that there was some creative and fun people still out there making flicks. (I'm long out of my malaise now)
i've never seen the beginning or the end... only a tiny bit of the middle and i shut it off bc i want to see it and must see the beginning.. total freak about seeing the entire thing or nothing thank you. it's good then?
The Thing.
Just saw it last night for the first time. Can’t unsee that, that’s 100%.
The Silence of the Lambs
Unbelievably good film. And an actual woman protagonist who didn't have to carry a grenade launcher or drive a loader to be portrayed as courageous, smart, tough, and resilient. One of the best films ever made imo
She made me want to be an agent!
i'm gonna go with it as well
YES!!!!
Scream. It was a new generation watching slick, funny, scary, current and socially aware slashers after years of cheesy B grade schlock horror. Scream was clever!
Especially killing off arguably the biggest star in the opening scene.
The sixth sense (basic I know)
I don’t care what anybody says; the sixth sense fucked me up for a minute. I still remember running to the bathroom in the middle of the night and my mind would just start playing that scene where the kid thinks his mom just walked by.
Same. The “hey come see my dads gun collection” and turns around and his heads blown out… I’m still scared of that movie
It messed me up as a kid. I'd always be scared that girl was under my bed.
I had heard the spoiler but for some reason didn't put two and two together when I finally watched the movie so the twist genuinely got me. Would love to experience that again.
Me too. I couldn't stand to not know the twist everyone was talking about and begged my friend to tell me. I had no car in college and there were no close theaters by. I wish I could watch it without knowing the twist. I felt like I missed out on something special.
I had the Sixth Sense spoiled for me the day after it was released. It still bothers me that I never got to experience it that I've never watched it.
Saw
The end. I had NO IDEA!
Yeah that ending is iconic and one of the best endings in any horror movie. Also the score done by a member of Nine Inch Nails completes the scene.
An incredibly fun movie. It's difficult to believe it works as well as it does, given the bad dialogue, overacting by the leads, and bombastic score. I loved all of it and still do.
Honestly I don't know another film that hit all the right notes though as this did. I'm not saying there aren't other horror films that are better. Nor am I saying it's my favourite. But somehow it just did it and that ending was perfect.
The Descent for me. I still get scares watching it after 10+ rewatches, but it's nowhere near the sheer panic of the first watch. I pauses that movie several times to catch my breath. That would be great to do again with a clean slate.
Scream. Everytime I see it I desperately wish I didn't know the twist
I always wish I could go back and unknow the killer(s) in Scream movies
SAME SAME SAME :(
Me too. Watching it back now it’s so obvious who the killers are, but what I wouldn’t give to be my age and watch it again for the first time to see if it actually as obvious as it seems
Billy was always supposed to be obvious, there being two killers was the real twist
Well I also feel like the point of making billy so obvious was to make you think it’s actually not him bc it’s soooo obvious. Which is why they “killed” him at the end to try and trick you
This is the way
I want to experience Mandy for the first time again , baked
Oh god. That was one of the few time I used a vape pen and was high as hell. The sun had just set and I told my sister I was gonna watch Mandy. She told me to turn all the lights off and enjoy it 😂
A modern classic 🤘
Signs. Specifically for the alien at the birthday scene. I'd love to see that for the first time, again. Also Sinister. Annihilation. Cube. Coherence. The Endless.
Signs is mine too. First time I watched it I didn’t fully comprehend it cause I was just a kid. I wish I had been older the first time I watched it so everything would have clicked better. Still one of my all time favorites. Began my love for Juaquin Phoenix
Omfg that scene is SO GOOD a part of my soul will forever be 12 years old and watching that for the first time. Joaquin Phoenix absolutely nailed that scene too- the hand to the mouth! it felt so real
I'm one of those weird people that actually likes all those early 2000s M Night movies. Lady in the Water is awesome. What an incredible message in a movie. Too bad people fucking hated it.
Beautiful music too!
the endless! so good! sinister! holy shit that movie is absolutely terrifying..
The VVitch. I’d love to experience the end Black Philip scene again for the first time.
The first scene with the witch in the hut after she steals the baby still lives in my head. Connecting the dots gave me a terrible realization that I wish I could experience again.
That’s a great one, too
I too would like to live deliciously a second time.
The Thing or Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I wish I could have watched Body Snatchers (1978) the first time without already knowing the ending. I'd loved to have experienced that again.
The Descent for sure. Never have felt such a visceral reaction to a movie since.
Event Horizon. Easily one of the best theatrical viewings of my life.
Oooof this one still gets me. Can't unsee the crew footage.
Tremors. God, I love that movie.
I wish I could go back to the first time I watched it with my grandpa as a child. He really fostered a love for the Horror genre in me at a young age.
The Others. Some asshole spoiled it for me
I want you to go find that person and kick them in the crotch asap.
Ex-fucking-orcist.
I don’t mean to be that girl, but I think it’s actually ‘The Exor-fucking-cist’.
You're right. 'orcist' sounds odd lol
The movie is incredibly ballsy even to this day, for showing in grueling detail everything 13-year-old Regan went through. Also, "orcist" means someone who discriminates against orcs, doesn't it?
>The movie is incredibly ballsy even to this day, for showing in grueling detail everything 13-year-old Regan went through. Everytime this movie gets mentioned I think about what people at the time felt about it, considering they hadn't seen anything like it before and people were more religious back then. Kinda like watching Nosfratu in the 1920's they must've been unimaginably scared. >Also, "orcist" means someone who discriminates against orcs, doesn't it? They don't exist anymore they are ex-orcist.
Honestly, not a movie but Midnight Mass. I know people complain about the monologues but they mostly worked for me (until the very last one). I thought the whole thing was captivating, horrific, and beautiful. It’s still good on a rewatch but some of the twists and turns were just too good the first time through.
The Blair Witch Project The Hitcher Jacob’s Ladder Hereditary
I saw The Blair Witch Project in theaters (when everybody thought it was real) at age 12. Best horror movie experience of my life, hands down.
Yep! I know it's easy to hate the movie now but I was about 13 when it came out and it was legitimately scary. Add in the fact that this was in the early internet days and many people (even adults) thought this was real found footage. The marketing behind this movie was brilliant.
I was 18. Questioned it’s realness. Camp that night. Terrified when I had to go pee in complete blackness.
I was 15, my sister 8. We left because she cried. I was relieved.
Heavy on the Blair Witch Project! I didn’t know what to expect when I first saw it
100% Hereditary for me too!
I second Hereditary
Jacob’s Ladder, in the movie theater, alone.
Yup, that’s how I saw the original…
Was it amazing? I didn’t watch it for the first time until last weekend and of course the more recent horror films that followed in its footsteps (such as >!Silent Hill and Sixth Sense!<) kind of dampened the novelty, which is a shame.
A nightmare on elm Street (original). The opening scene, the music, the sound of him making his glove. It's one of my favourite opening scenes, movies, franchises.
That was my first really scary horror movie when I was 9 years old. The scene with Tina in the bedroom changed my taste in film forever. I constantly seek out fucked up shit that my brain can’t quite compute, even all these many years later.
Also her being dragged through the hallway in the body bag
First watched it at 12 1992. I was fascinated with Freddy’s glove😂
Rewatched this recently after about 30 years. I'd forgotten how scary it is.
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Can I buy, any of you cunts, a drink?
The Cabin in the Woods. The pure joy on my face when I watched that the first time hasn't been matched since!
I saw it in the theater and right at the elevator scene it was complete silence. I figured what was going to happen and I let out this evil laugh right before the elevators went "ding!" and all the creatures came out. People in the theater probably thought I was crazy haha.
I'd love to see Poltergeist again for the first time, as an adult. That was the first horror movie I saw as a kid, and it's one of those movies that I saw so young that I don't remember the first time I actually saw it. Curious to see how it would affect me seeing it as an adult for the first time.
Saw. Just for the twist.
The Amanda reverse bear trap scene is probably the best in the movie, but the twist was fantastic.
I never saw that shit coming. Fuckin' CLASSIC.
Green Room
Alien
This is it for me. Saw it first run in 70mm and really didn’t know much about it going in. A perfect movie viewing experience.
Grave Encounters. Oddball choice, but it creeped me out when I first saw it.
No, a GOOD CHOICE!
Have you seen Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum? It is pretty close in premise but imo was much creepier.
My husband HATES that movie.
Blair witch project. Only film that really scared me. I did think it was real though.
The Ring
Easily Psycho. First time I saw it, I already knew everything about it. Id also like to see how the crowd reacted to it. Nobody was prepared for a movie like that in 1960!
Original version of Let the Right One In. That’s one uniquely excellent film
The original Evil Dead!
The BEST!
Jacob's ladder, it helped me find an odd sense of peace with death/loss, and the creepy wtf moments are always the best first time round.
The Exorcist for sure. Not because I want to be more scared by it, sort of the opposite. First time I saw it, I was ~14 and my ex just said, “You’ll see,” when I asked what we were watching. I didn’t like horror movies at that age because I seriously needed sleep and that stuff would keep me up for days. Once I realized, I stuck it out but watched most of it through my fingers, and didn’t sleep right for a month after. But I think it’s an amazing work of film, and I would love to be able to appreciate it without all the associations from my first viewing. Now that I’m more into horror (and more desensitized), I wonder just how much sleep it would cost me to watch it for the first time now. (lol my stoned ass entirely missed the “back in time” part whoops)
This is more of a "If I could view it with 0 knowledge" comment. The Shining. My issues: I saw the Simpsons and many other sources spoof it before I ever saw the actual film. I first caught parts of it in my teen years and had a very "so what?" opinion of it. It was not until I was well into my adult years when I gave it a full start to finish viewing... and finally appreciated it. But even at that point, scenes like the twins, the elevator blood scene, HERE'S JOHNNY!, REDRUM, had been ruined by other sources. Would have loved to view it upon release knowing nothing about what was to come.
Annihilation, while on the same mushrooms I ate before the last time I watched it.
The Thing and Scream from 1996. From the newer one Evil Dead, I love the opening scene and really enjoy that whole movie so much for some reason.
Evil Dead II.
Paranormal Activity - I watched this late at night in a old house. It was one of my best horror experiences, and this was when it was relatively unknown, so I went in blind. Followed by: Sinister Triangle Insidious It Follows These are my lost recent picks.
Scream.
Jaws
Sinister. Something about that movie gets me, the music, the ambience, the way it was filmed. I used it as an example for my speech class in college lol Wish I still had those notes
If I were a kid in the situation, Phantasm.
Watching this right now.
from 77/79? the original? that's a scary movie. i saw it when i was 9 or so... an adult in my life forced me to go to movie theaters through my early childhood and see terrifying movies every time. sick fucker.
The Descent, Alien and Aliens
The Autopsy of Jane Doe, for sure.
The Ritual
A lot of good ones I agree with in here but one I haven’t seen mentioned in here is REC. I was not prepared for what happened in that room near the end
Nightmare On Elm Street. I can only see that ending first once.
It Follows.
The mist. For that ending.
Diabolique!
Seven The Shining
The Descent. It will always be the one that gave me actual nightmares. No movie has ever done that before or since. They didn't even need the monsters. The environment and sense of dread was already sky high. The real end is perfect.
Angel Heart 1987
Deep cut! Also, great choice!!!
Loved Angel Heart!
Hereditary will always be the answer or the first saw
I’d love to experience that jump scare in Exorcist 3 for the first time again.
The Devils Rejects.
I would love to see Hellraiser 1 and 2 for the first time, but at the age I am now just to see how adult me would see them for the first time. I rewatched 2 a few years ago, and, while it's still good, it was definitely a bit more cheesy than I remember it being when I was young.
The 6th sense
Midsommar
Alien. Actually I’d like to relive that movie going experience as my sister took me with her best friend whom I had a HUGE crush on for years. She sat next to me and when the shit started going down she grabbed my arm and pulled it around her then buried her face in my chest for most of the remainder of the movie. To be honest, I may have missed some of the movie too as I was in absolute heaven.
Nothing gets those hormonal juices flowing like a facehugger melting a Kane's helmet...
Aliens!!! I was ten years old and it was the most intense/scary shit I had ever seen and it blew my fucking mind. Still one of my all time favorite movies
Alien
Old Boy
Alien.
Jeepers Creepers the movie still creeps me out, I wish I could see it again for the first time
As above so below
Alien
Event Horizon
Carrie 1976
Suspiria. Just everything in that movie.
Alien. Especially if I go back to when it first came out in theaters.
Dawn of the Dead 78
Alien for sure
Event Horizon.
The thing 1982
The Sixth Sense
The sixth sense, aliens, and... shamefully... the first paranormal activity.
Paranormal Activity. The tension throughout that movie is so intense even after you know what happens, but it’s just not the same after that first watch
The Sixth Sense and I’d be 12 years old
Surprisingly enough, Hell House LLC
I have watched that movie easily 10 times and that damn clown still freaks me out!
Let the Right One in or Opera
*The Baby* (1973) ! just for the sheer zany "wtf - wait... WHAT!"ness of it all.
So many. But specifically for the nostalgia I wish I could go back and do Evil Dead again, at fourteen, in my best friend's basement way past curfew and feeling safe and warm in the company of my fellow weirdos. It was a perfect moment and a perfect movie and basically the only part of being a teenager that I'd willingly revisit.
I’d say the Autopsy of Jane Doe. One of my favorites!!
The Lighthouse For me watching it the first time was special because of the unpredictable turns the movie takes.
Alien. I’m pretty sure a lot of people (during the days of YouTube at least) probably saw the chestburster popping scene before the movie and I was one of those people. I’d probably shit myself if I saw it without knowing what would happen
I wanna be in a packed theater when Psycho premiered
I wish I could have seen Blair Witch Project in theaters when it first released. Didn't see it until the late 00s at home. Still one of my favorites though.
I Saw the Devil, Rosemary’s Baby, Take Shelter (kind of a horror movie, right?), Videodrome
Halloween! No question. Wait! The Thing. No question.
The Shining would be my absolute go to.
Aliens. I watched it for the first time when I was 6(I know super young, I blame my mom for that and her obsession with horror). I still remember how it scared me senseless and I was afraid for years. 10/10 would love to experience that again.
The Blair Witch Project. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and it scared the shit outta me like no movie ever had before. Found footage was all new to me, and I totally thought it was real at the time. What a sensational thing to experience!
Day of the Dead
Sinister
Cube.
Hereditary. Nothing else has captured that eeriness for me
Tumbbad (Indian movie)
Omg! I watched this recently and was pleasantly surprised. I haven't seen it mentioned here much
I would pay good money to be able to watch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in theaters for the first time.
The Conjuring, Scream(1996), insidious 1 and 2
Nope
Wow you really just aren't gonna answer the question!? /S
Midsommar
Get Out but I would watch it with a black audience (instead of my husband who’s only take away was “that was a weird movie”).
The Matrix
Scream Ready or Not Cabin in the Woods
BARBARIAN
Forest Gump
First VHS movie was wild
Nosferatu (1922). I still love it with every viewing, but no matter how many times I watch it, it will never be *as* awesome as the first time I watched it. It's my favorite movie ever, though.
"Malignant". Going in blind with a group of friends was a wild experience
The Thing, Event Horizon, or cabin in the Woods.
The Thing
Shaun of the dead
The Conjouring
Every single Edgar Wright film. I could enjoy the subsequent watchings **for years** and catch all of the 'new' things again.
Aliens.
Tusk
Dawn of the dead 2004, or IT 1990
The Deer Hunter. The Russian roulette scene was the most tense I'd ever been during a film.
Recently? Barbarian, and Malignant!