"Top 10 Most Terrifying Non-Horror Movies" Topic

I think Jaws and Misery are horror movies.

1. Thirteen

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As a father of teenage girls, the most terrifying movie I've ever seen.

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JohnG

Alien, though one might argue that it is a horror movie.

Anything with Adam Sandler

the first 10 minutes of Casino Royal, gods I'm afraid of heights…

The Wizard of Oz.

If you can forget how many times it's been parodied or viewed out of context, watch Margaret Hamilton's 'Wicked Witch' performance with fresh eyes: she is terrifying and chillingly cruel.

Dead Calm is a horror movies as well… as are Fatal Attraction, Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange. Just because they're smarter than Cheerleader Massacre III and have lower body counts don't mean they ain't horror.

Any sequels to The Bad News Bears.

What? No one has added Twilight to the list yet?

The first 20 min of "Saving Private Ryan", in a theater tricked out to make it sound like the Nazi machine gun bullets were coming up the aisles …

Man, I'm glad getting off a LCI wasn't my job.

Amen, thosmoss.

Seeing that in all its graphic horror really drove home the fortitude of those in that generation that served.

Threads?
Most Holocaust themed movies
The Killing Fields

I nominate The Day After and Failsafe. Both deal with the nuclear issue. I didn't sleep for a week when The Day After aired(I was twelve or thirteen)

Open Water…horrified me that someone would willingly make and or fund such a travesty.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The child catcher still gives me nightmares, the rest of the film is not too scary though!

Outbreak. The implications are terrifying

The first time I saw "Saving Private Ryan" in the cinema I found the beach landing completely terrifying, I've watched it plenty of times since and the effect has worn off, but that first time is not something I'll forget.

"Threads" is still a film which scares me, my mother prevented me from watching it when it was fist shown (a VERY wise move, I was only seven at the time!), and I didn't actually get to see it until they repeated it on BBC4 a few years ago. Despite its age and dated political context it was still bone chilling.

Its always the stuff that could happen not imaginary monsters that's truly frightening.

Open Water…horrified me that someone would willingly make and or fund such a travesty.

Is that the film with the couple floating in the water? To be honest I haven't watched it but overheard it and had to keep fighting the urge to shout 'just drown her will you!' That woman sure could talk.

"1984"

For anyone dating two girls at once when Fatal Attraction came out, they know that was a true horror film.

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer
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Silence of the Lambs
Trainspotting
Requiem for a Dream

Brian

Jaws …Maybe a horror film
Saving private ryan …I was in the thearte and watched veterans cry .
Threads …it was banned here for a while , made the day after look like a picnic.
Silence of the lambs …just plain creepy .

Why is this not on TMP Plus?

Jurassic Park – watched it at the cinema with a good sound system. The scene were the T-Rex has the children pinned under the windscreen of the car – suprised it was only a 12 rating here!

The Island Not the recent one the one with Michale Cain

@Karellian Knight

Yep…that's the one :)

Will probably think of others but when I saw the thread Serial mom instantly jump out.Thought Kathleen Turner was on top form in it.

Why is this not on TMP Plus?

Several reasons:
1) It's about Horror.
2) Very few people get their panties in a wad about proper classification. Sadly, some do.

How about the original "Cape Fear".

Sin City

Not terrifying as such, just disturbing

Of the Top 10 above, "No Country For Old Men" was the most tense for me.

Not knowing where/when Chigurh would turn up next had me on the edge of my seat.

The Naked Lunch

CaptMors, I'm with you. I would turn off the movie when he showed up when I was little. I never knew how the movie ended until I was a teenager. Still scares me.

Francis Ford Coppola's _The Conversation_, starring the brilliant Gene Hackman.

Children of Men, if really think about the concept(s) especially for us in the UK.

Reservoir Dogs?
Village of the dammed?

Seven

The movies that scared me as a kid:

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (that Death Coach and the banshee – Yikes!)

Fantastic Voyage – for some reason, the scene in the lungs gave me nightmares for months afterward.

The Andromeda Strain – I had to walk out into the lobby when they had the "virus" under the microscope and it started growing.

Of course, I wasn't all that old when I saw these, but they still left great impressions on me.

The Dutch/French film "Spoorloos" (The Vanishing).

@ platypus01au

Have you seen KIDS?

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Off the top of my head:

1900 (Bertolucci)

Man eats dog (french mockumentary about a serial killer)

Munich

Pan's Labyrinth

Oh, and Leaving Las Vegas.

There's a Brazilian movie called Pixote that features a good bit of real-world horrors.
Similar to Trainspotting, Requiem For A Dream.
I suppose stuff like that is more 'horrifying' than 'terrifying' though.

Watership Down. Gave me nightmares. Then again, I was about 8…

The Happening and Knowing.

13 was more sickening and sad than horrifying.
More than likely slightly over baked as well.

The most Terrifying Non-Horror Movies ever?
That's easy

Brokeback Mountain

:-)

I only asked about TMP Plus because my Archer Fugitive of the Empire question got nuked. I'm not a stickler.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. When I was a kid, the child catcher was very scary. The Flying Monkeys from the Wizard of OZ were always very creepy too.

Have to agree that Jaws, Misery, and Dead Calm are all horror movies.

2001 A Space Odyssey – HAL scared the crap out of me.

In terms of movies that aren't "scary", but will have you waking up sweating at night, worrying about possibilities:

Hotel Rwanda
The Killing Fields
A Clockwork Orange
Class of 1984
Enemy of the State
1984
In the Name of the Father
Lord of the Flies
Witness
Outbreak
Children of Men
12 Monkeys
Conspiracy
The Believer
Power Play (with Peter O'Toole)
The Manchurian Candidate (the real one)
Seven Days in May

Most of these deal with dystopian futures, man hurting man, society hurting man, self-destruction, and suffering of the innocent.

I've seen lots of movies that aren't horror (or have borderline horror themes) but are still really horrifying. During the course of my life these movies have freaked me out.
In no particular order:

Eraserhead
Scarface (chainsaw scene)
Salo, 120 days of sodom
Audition
(the paper cuts) hmmm bleeped but stars a guy named Knoxville
Taxi Driver
Kids
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Legend of Boggy Creek (it's funny what will scare you as a kid)
Dead of Night (Dummy story, saw this when I was 6!)
The Machinist
Don't look now
Irréversible
The Wicker Man
Apocalypse Now
Jurassic Park

Happy Viewing!