Scariest films

;632278']Not exactly the scariest film I ever saw, but when I watched Arachnophobia for the first time (in the dark) someone sneaked behind the sofa and dropped a small towel on my head. I nearly hit the ceiling, I jumped that much.

I don't find most of the "scary" films very scary most of them are too predictable, or just become too gorry to take seriously. I prefer films that mess with your Head, The Sixth Sense, or Twelve Monkeys are good, trouble is it only works the first time you watch them.
 
I thought that there was a couple of scenes in blair witch that slightly spooked me, but then I have got an over-active imagination, so it's probably my own fault.

I jumped one or twice when I first saw Jaws as well, oh yeah, the "master" out of Saloms lot scared the s**t out of me when it was first shown on BBC1 (I was about 10...).
 
B]Don't Look Now[/B] - quite an old film but it's really unsettling

Jacobs ladder Especially the nightmarish hospital scene. A superb film as well

The Thing Great atmosphere and that bloody head on spiders legs (I hate spiders;)

Rosemarys Baby Geat film, trust no-one type thing

And a film that I have no idea what the title was - I saw it when i was kid on TV. A Little african doll comes alive and it gets hold of a bread knife - you can imagine the rest. The sound it made freaked me out at the time. I would probably have a good laugh at it now though:)
 
The original poster said The Exorcist 3 not The Exorcist and they are right. It's damn scary.

I remember seeing it at its UK premier at an all-night horror festival in Hampstead if I remember correctly many years ago. It was the headline film of the evening shown in front of an audience of demanding horror fans.

*That* scene in the hospital - you know the one - got *everyone*. Even if you know what's coming up it still has the ability to scare the hell out of you.

Astonishing for a film that really should be crap but just isn't.

Richard.
 
Absolutely! Forget the remake with Liam Neeson. Why do they bother remaking classics? They are never as good as the original. Add to that 'The Innocents' and 'Psycho' (the original Hitchcock film, not the awful subsequent efforts. They prove that you don't need gobsmacking special effects and buckets of fake blood to make a film genuinely frightening. None of these was even in colour.
 
For me scary films are only of the creepy Ghost type.
Hacker slasher films have never done anything to scare me.:cool:

My list of top scarers
The Changeling
The Others
The woman in Black (TV)

All3 of those had me turning every light on in the house.
 
Agree with all the choices in this thread for scary movies, they don't seem to make such gory films any more.
Watched '13 Ghosts' last night and although there were no shocks or surprises it was quite entertaining - in a non-threatening kinda way. :D

Anyone else seen it?
 
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