What is the most frightening horror film you have watched?

I'd probably say upto now for me it's Aliens. I have discussed this with quite alot of people who are a little older than me. I have been told that back in 1976 when Jaws came out it had a unbelievable effect on people. Apparently 76 was a very hot summer and this film supposedly effected people that they were scared to swim in the sea and were only paddling with water up to their ankles. This was in an age where the Great White was not really known in Europe and no documentries had been made about it.

I can imagine this because people would know about sharks but have very little knowledge of man eating sharks.

To be honest, I find it hard to find films that scare or frighten me or have a lasting effect that lead me to start checking under the bed and getting paranoid when I'm on my own!

When I was, I guess about 11ish I saw Nightmare on Elm street which at that age should be scary but it just made me laugh because I love gore! And it was cheesy in places. Me and my friends used to watch it over and over! And Hellraiser too!

Most horror films these days, just don't scare me. Ok there might be a bit that makes me jump, but I don't really get frightened. Most of them are all full of special effects and gore which I don't find scary. Even the bits that make you jump, are often predictable so don't have much effect. The story is usually so unbelievable as well.

Did the blair witch project frighten anyone?? I was really excited when this came out, but disappointed when I saw it. I found it tense but not frightening.

I would say the only film that has frightened me recently is 'The Others' with Nicole Kidman. I was actually really tense during that film, and one part of the film actually made me scream out loud (quite embarrassing in a full cinema!). I think the reason this was scary was because it was about ghosts and was fantastically acted and done in a simple way ie. no gore and unrealistic people coming back from the dead to seek revenge with knives and hacksaws for the tenth time! It was more believable which made it scary.

I saw the ring recently, but that didn't really scare me at all, just wasn't believeable. I did enjoy it though, it was good.

I think this is the problem with horror films, they try to be too gorey and have special effects and don't worry so much about the story. In my opinion the scariest most frightening things are when you can believe that it could happen and it is acted in a way that makes you feel how frightened the person is in the situation.

Saying that, I think Event Horizon was quite scary in places and I can see what you mean by Aliens.

Can anyone recommend a film they think will really frighten me??

Originally posted by "Foxxx"

To be honest, I find it hard to find films that scare or frighten me or have a lasting effect that lead me to start checking under the bed and getting paranoid when I'm on my own!

I'm with you there! Films don't tend to have much of an effect on me, I'm not easily scared!
Having said that, "House on Haunted Hill" really freaked me out....everybody laughs at me when i say that, as everyone else thinks it was pathetic...it was the way the doctors moved, especially the doctor with the little knives. I couldnt sleep for about 2 days after i watched that film, and when i could that doctor was in my nightmares!
I put it down to the fact that i was pregnant at the time, and all my feelings seemed to be multiplied by about ten!

Watching the Omen when I was about 13

woooooooa

or what about the Excorscist or however you spell it!!

Originally posted by "Foxxx"

Did the blair witch project frighten anyone?? I was really excited when this came out, but disappointed when I saw it. I found it tense but not frightening.
The blair witch project was rubbish. The only people who it frightened were stupid people who thought it was all a true documentary.

Originally posted by "Sidla"


The blair witch project was rubbish. The only people who it frightened were stupid people who thought it was all a true documentary.
You mean it wasn't??? Phew, can sleep at night again now!

I thought Blair Witch was ace, and I was under no illusion as to it being a documentary. Great tension buildup and a hair-raising final scene.

Others? The only one where I've been truly scared was an old 50's b&w thing called "The Haunted and the Hunted" when I was about 15 - probably just laugh now. Alien(s) / Excorcist are classics and The Others is a really good recent one - Nicole Kidman is superb in it, and the twist is really well hidden until the end.

I liked Sixth Sense too.

Sixth Sence wasn't that scary. Very predictable though.

I had a really hard time keeping awake through Blair Witch Project....I thought it was poor. I think I could have done just as good a job too, buy a camcorder, take it to a local woods and run around screaming with it....

i found BWP 2 better than the first one

Originally posted by "Lickszz"

I had a really hard time keeping awake though Blair Witch Project....I thought it was poor. I think I could have done just as good a job too, buy a camcorder, take it to a local woods and run around screaming with it....
I think it all depends on how you take this film. The Blair Witch Project was released upon the American public with little hype and because of this, they took it at face value, and accepted that the footage was genuine. By the time it had filtered through to us over here in the UK, it had been hyped as the scariest movie ever so it was therefore a little dissapointing to watch.

I don't get scared by horror films. I went to see the Exorcist at a special screening about 8 years ago and nearly got kicked out the cinema for laughing. I just find the special effects hilarious. The Others was brilliant, and I love the original 1950s versions of The House on Haunted Hill, and The Thing. I think you can get much more tension out of a spooky story well-told than some special effect that you know has to be fake. It's easier to suspend your disbeleif.

I do remember getting spooked out of my wits by a Disney film called 'Watcher in the Woods' when I was about 8 - anybody know that one?

Originally posted by "stephstellar"

The Others was brilliant

It was, still is in fact, very original and different story line at the end. Not really scary though.

Originally posted by "stephstellar"

I do remember getting spooked out of my wits by a Disney film called 'Watcher in the Woods' when I was about 8 - anybody know that one?
Don't remember that one, but I remember watching 'Hauntings of the Deep' when I was young and I found it really scary.

'Lighthouse' looks promising, but for pure fear factor - the one on the boat 'dead calm'

M.

Originally posted by Sidla
The blair witch project was rubbish. The only people who it frightened were stupid people who thought it was all a true documentary.

that wud be me then.... i kid u not lol

Film - The Changeling (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/)
Really spooky ghost story (see link)

TV - Threads (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/)
best TV docudrama ever (see link).

Originally posted by Sidla
Sixth Sence wasn't that scary. Very predictable though.
Wow if you thought Sixth Sense wa predictable you must be a movie genius.

I write scripts (well actually still on script one... re-write) and I didn't think the sixth sense was predicatable at all, and I count myself as a movie buff.

I enjoy horror and psychological thriller movies most of all and have yet to find a horrow film that gets under my skin.
The movies that have got the closest are Blair Witch 2, The Others, Event Horizon and The Omen II.

However I've not been scared but drawn into the movie.

My ultimate goal is to write a movie that's scares the **** out of people and does basically what the Exorcist did to people in the 70's.

Watch this space-------------------> [................................................]
[Edited section below]

I thought of some movies that you guys who like horror should see.

The Gift (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0219699/)
What Lies Beneath (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0161081/)
Witchboard (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1023832/reviews.php?critic=all&sortby=default&page=1&rid=310112)
Witchboard - The return (or Devils Doorway) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108577/)

Incidentally while searching for Witchboard I came across this (http://www.witchboard.com/) site! Who's gonna go first???

I thought that the Blair Witch project was stupid, until Iwas walking home through a wood on my own a few days after I'd seen it. Then it became scary!!

I also thought that the first half hour of the House on Haunted Hill was really scary, but then it degenerated. In the end they were being terrorised by a gigantic ball of soot.

Aliens traumatised me. When I was a kid I walked into my uncle's lounge, and saw that bit at the beginning where Ripley has a nightmare that an alien is bursting through her chest. The horror caused by that image of the stomach rising up and splitting open still gets me to this day!!!

Originally posted by DaBouncer
Wow if you thought Sixth Sense wa predictable you must be a movie genius.
Could have something to do with my brother telling me about the twist at the end, but if he hadn't have told me I think I would have worked it out anyway. It was pretty obvious.

When I was about 10 (early 80's) I watched Texas Chainsaw at a friends house...

Holy Jesus, I couldn't sleep for weeks. It just seemed so real - I'd never seen anything like it.

I watched it again recently and it was no problem.

I remember watching American Werewolf in London at around the same time and that one also scared the pants off me.

It's quite a funny film now, but back then it really got under my skin.

Black Christmas from the 70's was really scary stuff

Originally posted by mikey
or what about the Excorscist or however you spell it!!

i watched that at a mates party a few years ago i was about 12 or 13 i think and i just found it quite funny. her 6 year old little brother was only a little scared aswell and that was mostly because of ehat we were saying to him!
i would really like to find a film that i do find scary though!!! no real luck so far!

Originally posted by Mo
Black Christmas from the 70's was really scary stuff

Have to agree on the one - it almost scared me to death !!!!

Originally posted by f_g
i found BWP 2 better than the first one

Really? Were you on crack at the time?

Originally posted by Sidla
The blair witch project was rubbish. The only people who it frightened were stupid people who thought it was all a true documentary.

Well it scared the crap out of me, and I knew perfectly well it wasn't real. I guess different people have different triggers for what they find scary.

I'll tell you what really freaked me out, and that was the final scene of Ringu. That was really creepy.

At the age of 10, I went to see a performance of 'Carry On Screaming' in our local village hall.
I never really got over that. Silly to think that the Carry On team could elicit such a response. Just hit that nerve at the time \i guess!

Event Horizon, kind of mixes Sci-Fi and horror in a seamless way. Very good, and very scary.

But for me, Jacobs Ladder is the scariest. Some fantastic horror imagery in that film.

Ive also never been really scared by a film!
I have heard that the Japanese version of the Ring is very scary so might have to watch that!
However I remember watching Stephen King's IT when I was about 6 (perhaps too young and innocent :wink: ) and it gave me the creeps.
I dont think anything can really scare you like your own imagination so I prefer not to see monsters and just let my mind go for it!

Quality horror film Evil Dead 2 Bruce Campbell and his zombified hand I could not stop laughing! :D

i saw the american re-make of the ring with my bf! it certainly was the scariest movie i ever seen!! >____< i couldnt sleep properly for 10 months after that! lol! but thats just probably me >___<

the japanese original of the ring is supposed to be better (better story line) and much scarier! and they have the ring 2 and the newest is the ring 0 which is about how the "video" was made! scary!! >_____<

Originally posted by Bluelunar
i saw the american re-make of the ring with my bf! it certainly was the scariest movie i ever seen!! >____< i couldnt sleep properly for 10 months after that! lol! but thats just probably me >___<

the japanese original of the ring is supposed to be better (better story line) and much scarier! and they have the ring 2 and the newest is the ring 0 which is about how the "video" was made! scary!! >_____<


the bit where the girl climbs out of the water well what fecks me up i had to sleep with the light on for weeks lol

YEAH! thats the part i was most scared of!! the girl climbs out of the well, then walks towards the camera, and out of the tv!!! ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! >__________<

according to the hmv website theres 3 parts of the japanese ring im extremly tempted to buy them:)

Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!







The japanese version of 'The Ring' (or Ringu as it is known) is an ultimately better film. It doesn't have the hollywood style of film-making and doesn't feel the need to explain everything or treat it's audience as morons. it doesn't constantly flick back to the tape, nor does it try to remind you of things that happen in the tape as they occur in real life. one thing redeems the hollywood remake; the child in it is much better than in the japanese version, maybe this is a lack of understanding or a cultural difference but i found the remade kid much more convincing and creepy.

The second film of the series, Ringu 2, defy the expectation by, IMHO, being a better film than the first, though it loses a lot of the ability to make you jump (most of it has been done already) it explores the concept in ways i didn't imagine and also tries to bring resolution to a fim in a way that hollywood could never concieve.

I heard of a third part of the series a Ringu 0 but i heard it was a japanese television series, if that is the case i would love to see it, as i think that the previosu two fils were done in such an intelligent way.

Has anyone seen 'Dark Water', made by the same director, that is a great film also

Wilf

Ring O is on amazon - was released 25 February, 2002 - cost is 15.99 on DVD

Found a mention of 'Ring Virus' [havent heard of that one before - it is the Korean remake!] on this page that has merchandise listed for the Ring : http://ringworld.somrux.com/ringMerchandise.htm

Details of Ring virus are here : http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/ringvirus.htm


Dark water was a fab film - hope the Hollywood version is as good !

Exorcist was scary at the time, but looks false and dated now with all the new technology. My 12 year old daughter went to a birthday party at a friend's house where they watched the original Child's Play. She had nightmares about it for weeks. I don't think it's supposed to be a pure horror film, but it has very frightening undertones. As an adult, I found it strangely disturbing.

I more or less agree with that BrainThrust, although I still think the US remake was a good film in it's own right. The two films actually highlight quite well the differences in style between US and Japanese horror. Hollywood always go for the big scare, whereas Japanese Horror is much more creepy. I wouldn't call the original Ring scary, but it has a creepyness that stays with you much longer than the US version.
I've got Dark Water but not watched it yet, looking forward to it.

I watched a good British horror the other day, called My Little Eye. I was a bit dubious about it because the plot was a take on reality TV, something that has been done umpteen times before. However, it was really effective and had a great pay off. Watch it with the sound turned up, because the soundtrack plays a big part in the scares.

If your video shop can get them try some of the original japanese horror films. the original japanese version of the Ring is much better than the hollywood version. Some are gory though but not in the hollywood sense of the more the better but in a way that scares the **** out of you

My top ten horrors of all time in no particular order

1- The Entity
2- Blair Witch Project
3- The Exorcist
4- The Manitou
5- American Werewolf In London
6- What Lies Beneath
7- Urban Ghost Story
8- The Company Of Wolves
9- Final Destination 1/2
10- The Ring (Jap Version *)

* Havent seen it yet but heard wonderful things about it!

Oh and Poltergeist 1 & 2
just remembered them!

When i was about 11 i stayed at my mates house and we found all his parents video's . . ( well, not ALL his parents video's ) but the scary films etc. We pulled the curtains shut at about 3pm in the afternoon and put 'An American Werewolf in London' on.

This film was so scary, it had an everlasting effect on me. The beginning part - on the moors & the scene in the tube station!

Also another film which scared me out of my wits as a youngster was 'Salem's Lot'. A scene in that film where the young boy's dead brother comes back to get him and is floating outside his window, tapping on the glass and asking him to open the window was so frightening!!!!
The final scene in that film when all the dead are crawling towards David Soul was nailbiting too.

2 classics, they just dont do them like that anymore!

OH, not forgetting a brilliant new film called 'the ghost & the darkness' with Val Kilmer & Michael Douglas. It's a true story about the British rule in Africa. How two man-eating lions almost stopped the bridge ever being built. I dont know if this film is meant as a scary film but it certainly has some heart-stopping moments.

Awww crap..
The Ghost & The Darkness was on ITV yesterday!!
I meant to watch it again...

Its a top film that mate, went to see it in the cinema when it
first came out.. supposedly a true story innit?

Yea Angelus it is a true story, It's amazing to think that really happened. Two lions that actually thought like humans and killed for the fun rather than for food! wouldn't have liked to have been a worker on the railway line back then.

The story of Patterson is supposedly quite a famous one, i checked out the background to the film on the net and the two lions are kept in a glass case in a museum in the US.

stephen kings IT always bothered me! i dont like clowns!!

also THE SHINING always makes an impact on me!

but i cant say that any really scare me! or not one that iv seen yet anyway.

When I was little I used to dream about a mechanical cowboy chasing me. Then years later I watch West World and the dreams started again.

Nosferatu is creepy and the vampire in Stephen Kings mini series. the one with David Soul, cant remember the name of it, but the vampire looks similar to Nosferatu's vampire. Its not the obvious ones which are frightening I think but the ones which trigger something inside you personally. The first time I watched Alien I was totally creeped out, and I saw the Exorcist when it first came out and that stunned me at the time. Now it has no effect at all. People who watch it for the first time now are much more blase about it because society has moved on. I love horror films. Has anyone seen Braindead it is totally hilarious. So much gore and splatter squeezed into one film. It is so over the top it is quite relaxing to watch. God Im sick:loopy: I need help:confused:

Dilwise, the stephen king vampire is from 'Salems Lot' which i talked about in an earlier reply. That film really was excellent for it's time, I take it your referring to the scene where he gets into the prison cell?
Couldn’t sleep for weeks after seeing that film.

Scariest film ever !? ... Event Horizon.

An event horizon is the outer edge of a Black Hole--a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Nobody really knows what is beyond the event horizon of a black hole; there are only theories.

Most scientists agree that any bold space traveler who sailed beyond an event horizon would be sucked into the black hole's "singularity," a point of infinite density and curvature of space-time where the laws of physics as we know them no longer apply. Some astrophysicists, such as Kip Thorne at the California Institute of Technology, postulate that, in special cases (such as in a rotating black hole), these singularties could be utilized as portals into other areas of our universe, or even other universes. The possibilities are truly infinite.

No-body has mentioned The Evil Dead, was it just me that was scared out of my tiny mind! try watching it alone with the lights off!

Originally posted by roth ghost
No-body has mentioned The Evil Dead, was it just me that was scared out of my tiny mind! try watching it alone with the lights off!

I don't know about the most frightening film, but it is a good set of films!

I found Evil Dead II amusing.

Originally posted by Jamie


An event horizon is the outer edge of a Black Hole--a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Nobody really knows what is beyond the event horizon of a black hole; there are only theories.



Technically, (according to most black hole theories) the event horizon is NOT the edge of a black hole. From the outide, it is the point of no return, once past it you can never escape from the black hole's influence, not matter how fast you go because the sheer power of the black hole warps space and distance.

From the inside of the black hole (assuming you were not ripped apart or any of the other things suggested by the black hole theories) there is no event horizon. What occurs theoretically is that if you were ever to near the event horizon of the black hole, the three dimensions of space warp so that as you head towards it you are actually moving through 180 degrees and then away from the event horizon.

Pure theory, but confusing. The more you try and explain what we can never experience, the more it eludes out comprehension.

Wilf

Originally posted by Jamie
Scariest film ever !? ... Event Horizon.



I totally agree, I was hoping someone would put this one down. I went to see this at the cinema. I think the reason it is scary is because it doesn't show much horror and leaves it to your imagination, which is far worse.

I thought Event Horizon was an appalling cheap badly made Hellraiser in space knock off - so dull I nearly fell asleep in it and only kept going through it by playing spot the film reference!

I'm with the Evil Dr on this one, I thought Event Horizon was a lame excuse for a film. It was just downright boring.

Agreed. Saw it at cinema and always regretted it. It was poor.

never seen hellraiser so can't comment

I think the most frightening horror film ever was one called Spice World.
It had 5 horrendously life-like zombies in it that made your skin creep. The wailing of the banshee's was blood-curdling and I dreaded watching every next scene because you just didn't know what was going to happen next.

Spice World ( it even gives me the creeps saying it ) is a true horror masterpiece. A big thumbs up to the special effects guys.

I loved the Blair Witch Project. A scarrry film only works well if there is some sort of audience interaction. Blair Witch was cunningly created along side a multitude of websites (all official although some hidden) to make you believe it was real. Even the actors are listed in Hollywood listings as 'missing'.

But for shear fear factor, it has to be Candyman! If you say his name three times he appears from nowhere and kills you. Nobody I know will say Candyman three times to this very day!

I agree with the Hellraiser/Even Horizon comparison. I think Hellraiser is good of its kind although I think it is sick and Event Horizon was a ghouls in space rip off.

A film that scared me was the black and white House on Haunted Hill where no one comes near when its late, in the dark. Forget the Lia, Neeson, Catherine Zeta Jones one which was laughable.
In the original nothing was seen but the camera work and the noise was really scary.

Originally posted by Foxxx
Saying that, I think Event Horizon was quite scary in places ...

I completely agree re: Event Hoziron.

I was gripped with fear the whole way through that film ... must see it again soon!

This is an old thread resurrected. I can' t be bothered to check if I've posted before(!), but for me it has to be Poltergeist.

Put me down in the 'I thought Event Horizon was crap' category. It was a great idea that I don't think transpired into a film very well. I thought 'Sphere' was better about spaceships going into black holes.

I'm with Jamie on this one.

Event Horizon is without question the most truly terrifying film I've ever seen - that scene at the end promising that horror from another type of reality, perhaps beyond the wildest imaginings of human beings is going to be unleashed on this world/universe. And nothing can stop it ......

Psychological horror films are ultimately so much more frightening than visceral/gore fests if you have any imagination at all .....

StarSparkle

Yep me too........ a great Event Horizon fan.........looking forward to the release of the special edition DVD.

That film has been the only horror film to give me nightmares!!

Also like Ghostwatch......the bbc program that was shown on Halloween 1991.

It was made to look like a live broadcast along the same lines as Hospital Watch etc.....

I was 19 and was with my girlfriend in the house with the lights off and both of us were really freaked out.
Its still good now......friends who I have lent the DVD too have been spooked by it.

Some really nice touches throughout such as the ghost showing up now and again in the background or its reflection in the window.....

Worth buying!!

I probably posted before in this thread, but put me down for Event Horizon....

My mates wedding video from 10 years ago.

"The changeling", quite an old movie 80,s about the ghost of a little boy who was drowned in the bath, spooky scenes and lots of things going bump in the night.

Still cant watch all of the excorcist.
salems lot, where the little boy is hovering outside the bedroom window......

Have to admit that the first time I saw Event Horizon it freaked me out - poor old lawrence (sp) Fishburne! Also agree about the effects on House on Haunted Hill. Reminds me of banned PS game Thrill Kill.
Anyone watch Prince of Darkness with Donald Pleasance this week? Pretty cheesy now, but it stopped me looking in mirrors for a while when I first saw it!

Triple film classic

A bucket of Blood, The House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price) and Karloff's The Ghoul.

1 quid from poundland - A great watch for those of you who like the old horror films when suspence made up for the lack of special effects

I'll sit in the anti camp – Event Horizon is dire! Just plain silly.

Hellraiser's a good 'un, as is Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one). I saw Dark Water recently, a subtle Japanese horror (soon to be given the Hollywood treatment, a la Ringu/Ju-on: The Grudge) that's also very good.

The one that really freaked me out as a kid was The Amityville Horror. Couldn't sleep for weeks after seeing it, but the fact that my mum told me it was based on a true story probably didn't help :o

First of all just to clear up a point raised about when JAWS was released it was released in 1975 and NOT 1976.
After sorting that out I think that the best Horror film ever made is THE SHINING It is what you think and not what you see just like in THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973) or THE HAUNTING (1963) all great films.

Originally posted by starla
stephen kings IT always bothered me! i dont like clowns!!

Ever since I saw this on TV I've disliked clowns & found them really creepy.

A film from 1966, called "The Naked Prey" contains the most horrific scene I have witnessed in the movies. A group of callous white hunters are captured by Zulus, who proceed to torture all but one of them to death in various elaborate ways. The one allowed to live is set free naked, and becomes their prey in an attempt to hunt him down like an animal. Hence the title. The fate of one of the men is particularly disturbing. Realistically depicted, he is smeared all over with yellow clay, and roasted alive over a fire. There is a horrible close-up of his unrecognisable clay-smeared face, with a pipe inserted in his mouth to enable him to breath. The implication is that he will survive the roasting, only to be later dealt with as gypsies are said to deal with roasted hedgehogs; when the hardened clay is broken his flesh will come away from his bones whilst the victim is still alive.

Thw true classics are the best, they just don't make horrors like they used to anymore. Films like:

An American Werewolf in London.
Salems Lot.
The Exorcist.

Although I recently saw a fantasticly simple ghost story in the same vein as the good old classics, a spanish film subtitled in English called: 'The devils backbone' If you get a chance to see it, do so. Very, very good.

Originally posted by spotswood444
First of all just to clear up a point raised about when JAWS was released it was released in 1975 and NOT 1976.
After sorting that out I think that the best Horror film ever made is THE SHINING It is what you think and not what you see just like in THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973) or THE HAUNTING (1963) all great films.

Just to sort this out, the official release date of Jaws in the UK was in 1976, not 1975. It was released in America in '75, but back then films were slower to make it across the pond.

The Haunting is probably the most scary for me, i have seen it in it's original format in the cinema and it is great, bad remake though.

I am watching it now. Well I keep turning it off and then back on.
Its Fear of the Dark.

I like horror movies but this had mad me feel cold from the start.

what was the haunting about and when was it out?

Originally posted by Caronp
what was the haunting about and when was it out?

About a supposed haunted house, was released in 1963. Very scary.

I'm a fan of horror movies, but I can't seen to think what was the scariest that I've seen, what's yours?

Also what's the most stupid horror film you've seen? ;-)

I have recently seen White Noise and I thought that wasn't to bad. Also the film Saw, I thought that was a good film. Big twist at end.

It was "Night of the Demon"...a black and white film. I saw it in 1958 I think - never went to see another horror film :o :P

the most stupid horror film is cannibal holocaust, not particuarly scary, just quite disturbing

I have to say that the scariest (and stupidest film) has to be IT i watched it about ten years ago but it still makes me jump now ... evil

back at school "canibal ferox" seemed to be all the rage, dad got out the unedited version from mista video (ex of buchanen road shops)
as said, that sort of film whilst not that scary was very disturbing for a young lad ,gave me nightmares for months {:-(

but "the thing" the newer version ...wooaaaaggghhh !

JJ..

It has to be the Exorcist

Originally posted by Greybeard
It was "Night of the Demon"...a black and white film. I saw it in 1958 I think - never went to see another horror film :o :P

Jacques Tournier! Excellent film! Have you read the story it's based on? Casting the Runes, by M R James.

It's one of my all time favourites.

Some years ago when it was being shown late on a summer's evening, I turned off the lights and settled down to watch it. At the time our cat, Curious, was wandering in and out through the kitchen back door, which I'd left open for him. Anyway, at one particularly creepy part of the film there dropped on to my shoulder something cold, slimey and croaking....

Not a demon, but a frog that Curious had retrieved and dropped on my shoulder...:)

Took me the rest of the film to get the damn frog out of the house!!

As for scary films - Event Horizon.

Joe

Originally posted by kittykate
I have to say that the scariest (and stupidest film) has to be IT i watched it about ten years ago but it still makes me jump now ... evil

I agree, IT has always creeped me out - I can hardly dare go near the bathroom sink after watching it!!

Halloween never fails to creep me out too, it's so tense!

More recently, The Grudge really scared me. That was a great horror cinema experience and made me jump several times (I love horror and it takes quite a lot for a film to really scare me). That throaty noise the woman made was so horrible and disturbing :o

"Les Diaboliques " ? French film , from early '50's

Saw Saving Private ryan at the cinema with me mate & we sat right near the front.

We came out after & were speechless for about an hour.

Not because of monstery-creatures but because it dramatised a real event that happened within living memory.

:o shocker.

i watched the highway last night and spent most of the film behind a pillow ... it was pretty creepy in places and a bit ******up.

It has to be JAWS, I remember for a long time afterwards I hated going into the bath [or maybe that's a boy thing] To this day I still am not completely happy about going in the ocean and I only paddle at that.

Chucky - I think it was really creepy.

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Originally posted by Greenback
I'll sit in the anti camp – Event Horizon is dire! Just plain silly.


All I can say is, if you don't find Event Horizon terrifying beyond words, you don't understand it. :suspect:

StarSparkle

PS One horror film I found surprisingly scary was "An American Werewolf in London". I thought it was supposed to be a bit of a spoof, so was caught unawares when it actually was quite frightening! :o

Did anyone watch american psycho last night? Gotta love it!

I watched TwinPeaks once...back in the days. I was too scared to even move from my chair and turn of the TV (no remote in those days :) ) and so I had to watch the whole thing then sat in the kitchen all nite with a flashligth, drawing and drinking coffee.
Ahhhh the good old times :D

Originally posted by Kittenkel

More recently, The Grudge really scared me. That was a great horror cinema experience and made me jump several times (I love horror and it takes quite a lot for a film to really scare me). That throaty noise the woman made was so horrible and disturbing :o

I was really frightened during The Grudge, and a woman a couple of rows in front of me actually screamed at the bit in the start when the care-lady investigatesthe wardrobe :gag:

White Noise was fab too, but spent most of it with my arms wrapped tightly around my own neck! It actually caused me to have a nightmare about it earlier this week. Recommended! :thumbsup:

K x

oooo ooo that cudda been me LOL i went to the pictures to watch it with my bro and i screamed ( a little scream) at that bit, :hihi:

Litha

Vannila sky is quite frightening

How much did cruise get for that load of tripe, thats frightening.

Starship troopers 2 was frightening, how could they get it so right in the first one and get it so wrong in the second, I wasted 2 hrs watching ST2 when I could have been watching paint dry, scarey as hell.

Memento was a really scarey film to watch, stoned man, I thought I had lost my mind.

Scary films, ohh I don't know...

...Saving Private Ryan, U571, that sort of thing...

...the scary bit...

...Americans actually BELIEVE they did it all single handed.

Jaws, Age 7, Blackpool.

What was my Father thinking ?!?!?!

Originally posted by Tony
Jaws, Age 7, Blackpool.

What was my Father thinking ?!?!?!

Same here, I saw Jaws when I was 6, and I wouldn't go near a Beach for aaaaages afterwards for fear of Shark attacks.

I wasn't aware of the fact that there 's no Sharks in UK waters, not even in 1982 when I was 6.

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Farenheit 911 was on TV last night.
Hadn't seen it before.
Now I'm scared...:o

At 10 years old I s**t myself after watching 'Salems Lot'.

At 13 years old 'An American Werewolf in London' scared the pants off me.

I know I shouldn't have been watching them anyway but when the parents are out and your friends come around . . . !?

Since then nothing has really scared me all that much, the sixth sense was ok and the excorcist not bad but the scariest thing till now has probably got to be 'Titanic'.

Originally posted by timo
A film from 1966, called "The Naked Prey" contains the most horrific scene I have witnessed in the movies. A group of callous white hunters are captured by Zulus, who proceed to torture all but one of them to death in various elaborate ways. The one allowed to live is set free naked, and becomes their prey in an attempt to hunt him down like an animal. Hence the title. The fate of one of the men is particularly disturbing. Realistically depicted, he is smeared all over with yellow clay, and roasted alive over a fire. There is a horrible close-up of his unrecognisable clay-smeared face, with a pipe inserted in his mouth to enable him to breath. The implication is that he will survive the roasting, only to be later dealt with as gypsies are said to deal with roasted hedgehogs; when the hardened clay is broken his flesh will come away from his bones whilst the victim is still alive.

Can you still get this film, it sounds good.

I lurve horrors, my fave genre. The Haunting has to be the most effective one I've seen, both the old and new version because you never actually see the ghosties which means the horrors are at the limit of your imagination rather than the scriptwriters or directors etc, very clever!
The Grudge... I like the idea but the moaning and groaning was a bit comedy for me. White Noise I enjoyed, great stuff if not analysed to closely.
Poltergeist I watched as a child on our Betamax player (LOL), not good for a child to watch, especially since it had children in it! :Nono:
Hellraiser 2 and 3 have to be the funniest horrors, absolute trash and about as scarey as the average dishcloth :)

The film The Fog used to scare the hell out of me when i was a young teen
Also The War of The Worlds record by Jeff Wayne,but then my dad did let me listen to it on big headphones when i was 8!!! lol

ooo ide forgotton all about The Fog :D when i was young i was petrified of fog for years after watching that film, even now if we're out in the car in really pea soup stuff my heart still goes ten to the dozen :shakes:

Litha

I don't usually scare easily, but the first Poltergeist movie creeped me out! When the movie came out, I was a poor college student and living with my boyfriend on the first floor of an old house right next door to Mission San Jose. Our back door overlooked the old graveyard. Or as my dad joked, "the neighbors are quiet!"

Anyway, as part of the Mission renovation going on at the time, they decided to move the bodies of all the poor indians who had died of white man's diseases, or as a result of being mistreated by the Spanish, to a new location further up the hill. The workmen they had hired for this purpose knocked off work promptly at 5 o'clock each day. They didn't care if a body had been moved into it's new "home" or not. They were through for the day.

It was even worse on a Friday. I could look out my back door and literally see dead bodies lying about all weekend. This, combined with that Poltergeist movie where the unscrupulous builder moves the headstones, but not the bodies, and the local indian tribes protesting the treatment of their ancestors, gave me nightmares for months.

The first Phantasm movie scared me as well. I was babysitting, and the kids were asleep, and I had nothing to do, so I watched the movie.

http://www.phantasm.com/

The last really good scary movie I saw was Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon.

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800024880&cf=info&intl=us


:) Sierra