what's the scariest film you've ever seen??

[SiE]

The changeling scared the shit out of me as a kid, i was gutted the the jolie film wasnt a remake.

[Fear345]

god, insidious was crap. one of the worst movies i've seen. Stupid Darth Maul looking thing playing a piano? scary? pffft.

Agreed what a complete pile of wank.

[Thrush]

Scotch video tape skeleton when I was a kid.

Recently it has been Hostel, I can't watch that film till the end.

[WalterPill]

The changeling scared the shit out of me as a kid, i was gutted the the jolie film wasnt a remake.

Same here. Terrified me.

Ringu as many others have mentioned was a genuinely scary experience. Didn't find the remake frightening at all.

The classics:
Jaws
Hellraiser
The Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Shining
Halloween
Alien
The Thing

The recent best have come from foreign cinema (much like in every other genre actually):

Ju-On
Dark Water (again the original not the remake)
Audition
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinthe
Tale of Two Sisters
Rec

Others that had their moments:

Blue Velvet
The Blair Witch I didn't find particularly scary while watching it but the final scene did disconcert me and left me with a feeling of unease for a while after. Someone else mentioned the specific part
Event Horizon
Altered States terrified me when we unwisely watched it under the influence of mind altering substances. Not sure what it's like otherwise

[TJB]

As a kid, 'An American Werewolf in London' scared the shit out of me. The original 'Nightmare on Elm Street' too. When I was about 14 or 15 the BBC made a program called 'Ghost Watch: Live' and showed it one halloween. I was in the house on my own and it absolutely scared the piss out of me. I haven't seen anything that scared me as much as that. Some of the shit that passes for horror these days is a joke. Having said that I really enjoyed 'REC'. I also recently re-watched the extended version of 'The Exorcist' on Blu Ray. Some of the effects haven't held up that well but it certainly is something that stays with you long after it's finished.

[Nuvoix]

not a horror film as such but Threads scared me shitless as a kid. It was about a nuclear strike on shefeild.

[Mr Men]

Edward scissor hands is the scariest film I've seen followed closely by Omar's Anal virgins...god that was scary

[baggy13]

have to agree with a few already put jaws just because i was young at the time of watching it and the fammer house of horror again was some strange scarry shit. i know again it wasnt a film but tales of the unexpected used to be abit dodgy too for me but then ive never liked horror film and now just see them as stupididty mostly

[miffy]

Films dont really scare me anymore as they seem to be more about the shock factor rather than actually scare you. plus there not really scary unless its something that could actually happen to you.

I remember as a kid though I was terrified of American Werewolf in London, IT the clown and Brain Dead

[BFG]

Check out a film called 'Eden Lake', that's the most recent one that disturbed me slightly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6j3K4MmOKs

[{{909}}]

not a horror film as such but Threads scared me shitless as a kid. It was about a nuclear strike on shefeild.

I've lived around Sheffield all my life and never heard of this, just found the whole film on google videos and the 1980's flavours have been pure comedy so far.

[DJ OD]

not a horror film as such but Threads scared me shitless as a kid. It was about a nuclear strike on shefeild.

I've lived around Sheffield all my life and never heard of this, just found the whole film on google videos and the 1980's flavours have been pure comedy so far.

Threads is a good film, but its not very cheery... Quite a realistic and likely outcome if nuclear war was to happen. Goes down on my list of "non feel good factor films" list, alone with Buried.

Poltergeist scared me as a kid, the bit where the meat turns inside out and when the bloke face is falling apart in the sink.

The Amityville Horror (Original) also was a bit freaky, part where you see the demons eyes at the window.

Saw all the nightmare on elm street, and friday 13th movies etc etc when quite young, but they didn't really phase me.

Seems to me modern horrors, some of which are good (Halloween remake, Hills Have Eyes remake and Last House On The Left etc), aren't so much scary anymore. Really scary films are actually older ones. The pure fact they are old, and have cranky pictures and sound makes them like that IMO.


DJ OD

[{{909}}]

none of the older ones scared me, i remember sneaking into my dads collection and watching one of the living dead films and not being too bothered at all.

I did watch the Shining when I got a 42" telly and the last scenes in the maze were pretty fucking atmospheric though, mainly with those screaming violin sounds, you could have cracked a wallnut in my arse cheeks I was clenching them so hard.

I tried to watch A clockwork orange when I got that in HD and found a lot of the scenes quite unsettling too, not visually frightening but I ended up switching it off and going into a corner for a cry.

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Oh and Hammer films when I was a kid, Watching Dracula behind a cushion.

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[funkyg]

As a kid, 'An American Werewolf in London' scared the shit out of me.

same here. Only one bit though. The bit when he's dreaming that he's in bed in the woods and when he wakes up in the dream he has yellow eyes and the teeth.
Nothing major but that bit appeared in my dreams for a couple of weeks after and shit me up.


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[ZX7R]

Grease.

[Fearless]

The last house on the left (2009)
was on the edge of my seat for most of it
Feed (2005) was pretty cringeworthy too

[DJ OD]

Just had another thought...

Watership Down. The bit where the holes are getting filled in....

Moody arse cartoon that was.


(bright eyes... burning like fire...)



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[ViSaGe]

Wolf creek was a bit 'real' for me, so then i went and got the the dir cut...I shit diamonds for a while as i clenched so hard.

[blaggard]

Alien, I saw that in the first few days of release at the Warner West End, nobody had ever seen the Alien at that point and unlike the sequels it relied, like Hitchcock, on leaving much to the imagine, phenomenal film.