Last night I watched the 'Ring' and 'Ring Two' and the little girl, Samara, has got to be the scariest thing I've ever seen. When she crawls out of the TV I was pulling my head under the doona and I had to look away when she was crawling up the well. *shudder*

Jason with his mask, Freddie with his knife fingers and massacres with chainsaws have nothing on this little girl.

I can't stand the clown in IT nor Hannibal Lector.

What is it about clowns? They are scary as heck, aren't they? That one it "It" was chilling to the bone (of course, it didn't help that Tim Curry was underneath all that white-face) and I read around here somewhere about the clown in "Poltergeist", too. I'd forgotten about that one ~ a rather jazzy looking life-sized toy one minute and constricting the kid senseless and hauling him off to the bowels of Hell the next. I have never heard an adult or child ever say anything remotely happy about Ronald McDonald, either - the dude is just plain creepy. Add to all that the real-life Wayne Gacy who had an affection for clown suits and serial killing [not necessarily in that order] and I'm thinking that clowns of any ilk should be banished outright.

Back to movie horror characters, though: I agree with Mr. Krueger (it's pretty bad when instead of hanging out in dark spooky woods or sneaking a make-out session or a bottle of whiskey in an abandoned basement you get drawn and quartered simply because you fell asleep in suburbia)! And that "Pinhead" thing from "Hellraiser" was unnecessarily well thought up.I think there's something corny and almost fun in the monsters like Godzilla or Frankenstein (who I still think got a raw deal) - it's these ones that might show up in the garage or at the gas station that get me itchy. You have to go on a dig in Africa to unearth the devil ("The Exorcist") but a quick trip to Toys-R-Us will get you a psychotic clown? Frightening.

Oh, and don't get me started on that "Chucky" contraption ...

Any ventriloquist's dummy that speaks on its own is sure to get me every time. Ack!
And of course, clowns. What IS it with them? (Although I did read somewhere that the fear of them has something to do with the fact that they give false facial signals--the makeup and costume hides their true body language--and we can't "read" them and get mixed signals, so it scares us in some primitive way. But anyway...)
Years ago my grandmother managed an apartment building in Milwaukee and Ronald McDonald lived there. (Well, one of him anyway.) He had a bit of a, um, drinking problem. He was pretty creepy. I was only 8 or 9 at the time so it sort of stuck with me that Ronald was not what he appeared to be.

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(of course, it didn't help that Tim Curry was underneath all that white-face)

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I thought we all agreed never to mention his name again, Gats.

Lets not forget that little voodoo doll that comes to life in "trilogy of terror" i think it was called. You know the one goes in the oven and the fumes end up possessing the woman, she calls up mum and sits by the door waiting for her knitting needles in hand. Yikes!

When I was little, "Night Gallery" had the story of the doll coming alive to its owner, a little British girl who received the package from India. Honestly the eyes on that doll are still haunting me!
Does anyone remember it?

On the original "Twilight Zone" series, they ran two episodes about ventriloquists' dummies who come to life. One, the later "Caesar and Me", is about a ventriloquist who seems to have a split personality through his dummy...but it's familiar to anyone who's seen "Dead of Night", "Magic", et al. The earlier "The Dummy" is a real classic where the ventriloquist and the dummy change places at the end!

As far as I know, the show never aired any episodes about clowns!

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Ok a quick Google got me my worst nightmare again....holy Cow...it still makes my skin go all over with goose bumps after all these years...

Take a gander at this doll:

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/nightgallery/nightgallery1-5-3.html

That is a truly scary doll.

The little girl in The Ring really gave me the horrors.

My all time scariest creatures probably aren't going to mean a lot to non-Brits. Yup, its the daleks.

If I had to choose the scariest horror character, I think I would choose Freddy Kruger, because we all have nightmares, but the nightmares that he creates have to be the scariest because you literally die in them.

I agree that the "Trilogy of Terror" doll is very scary. I remember the very first time I saw it, I was like 7 or 8 years old and I had horrific nightmares.

I don't think Samara from "The Ring" is scary, she just makes you feel sad that her mother was that cruel to her.

I got scared of Samara (Sadako) in the ring when she went out the tv screen. at first i really thought that she was crawling out.. argh :P

What I presumed was scary when I was younger, no longer seem scary now. So, based upon what I used to think were scary would be 'Chucky' from Childs Play.

It's not so much the characters but the actual scene in which they show up, and if that was the case, than the vampires appearing outside a kids bedroom in 'Salem's Lot'. After watching that part as a kid, I could never go to sleep facing the window.

I am afraid I have missed all of these characters that scare(d) you all so much. They were not my sort of films, so I haven't even watched them on TV. However, I must say my early memories of the wicked Queen in Snow White are not too good. Or the Convict in Great Expectations. In fact I didn't like Miss Haversham either. Or what about Whats'erface in The Wizard of Oz? Maybe I was just easily terrified, or maybe their performances were really something?

They were really something, I reckon ~ just all at the wrong time for me. I was an adult by the time I saw "Great Expectations", and had "The Wizard of Oz" memorized (although I must say that the witch was a bit gruesome). Cartoons never seemed scary to me based on the media itself. I guess, in my opinion, it's the character and how it's drawn that gets me on edge. For example, a witch is supposed to be scary so that takes the 'juice' out of it. The guy who rings up your groceries isn't frightening by design so when he turns out to be ghoulish it's scary on some other level or something. I mean, really (in one other way of it), that mother in "The Manchurian Candidate" was the most horrific monster I'd ever seen on screen for the longest time. An absolute witch without a nose and a flying broom? *Made me shudder*

If you dare, rent the movie Tatie Danielle and watch it.
It's a French film about a passive aggressive character who manipulates everyone into thinking she's really a poor old lady when she's vile and horrid.
It's not a horror film really, but I could barely watch it.

I've known several people living it rather than watching it, so, it's scary for that reason!

Like Taesma, I hate ventriloquists dolls AND clowns. I'll add mimes. So if there are any movies out there with anything resembling the above, I'd not be watching either.

I agree, little girl in The Ring is soo eerie looking and scary.

The guy in Jeeper's Creepers even though you don't see much scared the bewillies out of me. I STILL have trouble driving down a country road in the middle of nowhere, lol) Keep looking out the rearview mirror

People or things don't scare me much. The element of suprise is the best way to scare somebody. I thought Annie Wilkes from Misery was frightening. Kathy Bates is an amazine actress.

The girl in the Ring is scary, but in the second movie, a bit cheesy.

Samara was definately the scariest from The Ring, but in part 2 she's not as scary because we know her and what she's all about. We expected to see her crawling out of tvs in part 2. Did anyone see the Silent Hill movie? Pyramid Head is pretty scary!! He's even more scary in the game. I'm always afraid I'm gonna find him in my basement!!

The ghost mask from scream really really scares me! The films don't bother me so much...it's just that mask. I wont allow the DVD boxes in the house, so we have all 3 DVDs sat in an old empty DVD box.

Nosferatu is still the scariest thing to ever appear on film! *shudder*

I have to agree on clowns, some people love them but i hate them all because of the Poltergeist film.

that scene in Salems Lot where danny glick visits the boy that scared me too, not how he looked but the idea.

sometimes its the music the lighting and the atmosphere that gets me.

But the characture that scared me the most and for years, was Lucy Wentresta in the 1970's version of Dracula with Louis Jourdan. the scene in the catacombs, i was only 12 or 13 but I have never been able to watch that bit since.

god giving my age away now lol

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Ventriloquist's dummies and the image of manniquins coming to life have always terrified me. Maybe it was watching Twilight Zone episodes when I was a kid. The show was on too late for me to watch, on Friday nights back in the early 60s, but my mother used to have it on downstairs and sometimes I would sneak onto the stairs and watch it secretly. To this day, I could not bear being alone in a dark room with one of this horrid-faced dummies..not that there would ever be a reason for that me to be in that situation. Still, I cringe just thinking of it.