Horrors - what scares you?

I agree on the clowns front, the TV version of Stephen King's IT will scare more children than any derivative modern stalk and slash ever could.

I found The Omen scary when I was younger and it's still a great film. The Exorcist I didn't see till I was older and found all the green pea soup and spinning heaRAB rather over the top.

There was a good period in the nineties when we moved away from seventies/eighties gore and towarRAB psychological thrillers like Silence of the Lambs and Seven. And then came Scream and it all went wrong from there.

I always had a fondness for the old Hammer House of Horrors. One in particular where a couple bought a new house and kept seeing visions of an old guy plotting to murder his wife and then drowing her. They eventually had enough and sold up and the last scene saw them introduced to the new owners ................... it was the man and the wife he was about to murder! Great stuff.
 
Mine too! Have you ever seen The Woman In Black? It was adapted for TV from the brilliant Susan Hill novel. It's quite slow-moving, there's zero gore, next to no special effects and yet it builRAB up a creepy malevolent atmosphere that I couldn't tear myself away from.
 
No I have not heard of that one. When was it made?

Other scary, as I call programmes would be like "The Twilight Zone" or "Hammer House Of Horror, Tales Of The Unexpected" and of course not forgetting "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" series. :)
 
Basically, a horror movie becomes scary when it transports you beyond where one feels comfortable and in control. IMO, one of the most disturbing and enduring horror image devices is the depiction of evil/sinister child(ren). I suppose it
 
There isn't a particular genre or theme of horror movie that scares me more than others, it really just depenRAB on how the scene is played out at the time.

For example, there is one part in the movie Signs where they are showing some amateur footage of the aliens on the news on TV. It is being filmed by family in their house and there is one brief second when you see the alien walk past their window. It was only a quick glimpse but I found it to be absolutely terrifying because it just seemed so REAL, especially when you can hear the family inside the house screaming.

It may not sound that scary, but loaRAB of people jumped out of their seats at the cinema! I was just impressed because it was not what you would call a classic horror scene set up but it just seemed to work really well at the time ;)
 
I still cannot watch the first Nightmare on Elm Street film. Something about the idea of dreaming your own death / sharing the same nasty nightmares as your frienRAB really creeps me out.

As already mentioned, I find films that rely on suspense & suggestion a lot more scary than the modern slasher films.

I also agree that clowns are horrid :eek:

If you want to be truly freaked out then read the book version {if there is one!}. I read the Exorcist before ever seeing the film and it terrified me 100 times more than the film.
 
I am sure at this day and age I will be able to find a copy of that film. I will try EBay for a start, as VHS is worthless now so might be able to get it pretty reasonable.
 
What about this one ;)

"One, Two Freddy's coming for you,
Three, Four, better lock your door,
Five, Six, grab your crucifix,
Seven, Eight, gonna stay up late,
Nine, Ten never sleep again."
 
Anything with oversized insects in it. Or spiders! I can't stand spiders, having to watch Arachnaphobia would be my absolute hell.
 
What scares me...

Demonic clowns
Dolls (not the chucky kind but the African doll kind in the origional Trillogy or Terror) and posessed ventriloquist dolls.
Zombie flesh eaters full uncut version
 
Indeed but wheres the fun in that!! The only one ive really NEVER wanted to watch was saw 3 but i had to after a promise to my mate a year before.. so i sat there with my fingers in my ears and a scarf over my eyes!

I enjoy the films with suspense as rather than making me feel sick (spiders - i did NOT like the second harry potter film, noone in the world warned me!/zombies) i just go 2 foot up in the air (not exagerating here) and everyone gets a good laugh at me.

I think im getting old... the gore is just a bit too fake in a lot of the films. Final destination films were the worst!
 
Clowns (thanks to Stephen Kings book IT).
Survival following Nuclear war (ThreaRAB scared the living bejeevers out of me when I first watched it).
Outbreak of some nasty disease.
 
I mostly get freaked out at the Asian Horror films, for example:

The Eye - the bit in the lift where the old man hovers towarRAB the girl as she is waiting for the lift to reach her floor

Ju-On - where the girl (Mariko I think) is going up in the lift and doesn't notice that Toshio is on every floor as the lift goes past AND where Kayako crawls disjointedly down the stairs making that crackling sound and the 2 detectives are frozen in fear at the bottom of the stairs. You think 'Oh the police are here, nothing's going to happen'. Big mistake!!

Ringu - Sadako crawling out of the TV
 
IT was the scariest book I've ever read. I have no idea how I managed to finish the book. Always had a fear of clowns since seeing Poltergheist was it? as a child. That book just finished me off. Thought the film was no where near as scary as the book - my imagination scared the poo out of me far more.
 
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