What Is The Scariest Horror Film Ever Made? *POTENTIAL SPOILERS*

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1) The Ring (American version) The entire film has a overwhelmingly creepy and weirdly depressing feel to it. The direction and cinematography create an incredibly tense atmosphere. The first time I saw this it affected me for a while and I kept thinking about it. Easily the scariest film I've seen so far. I think it's a better film than its Japanese original.

2) Ju-On (The Grudge) Similar atmosphere and feel to The Ring. Quite a few scares in this, and almost as frightening as Ring.

3) Shutter (original version) Veeery creepy. I had to leave a light on after watching this late at night :D

4) Alien Still looks good after all these years, and still scares too.
 
That movie for the music alone (The Goblins) and the fact that it was a Dario Argenta movie (not that I knew that at the time) was truly one of the most terrifying movies I'd seen in the late 70's.

It was just crazy and in many respects, non-sensical .....but evil and suspenseful from start to end.

I've seen all the other films here, but Suspiria was the worst of them all for scaring me out of my wits at that time. :eek:

I also seen another movie that had it's name changed. However I can only remember it as "The Witch". Not sure if that was the former or latter.....I seen both versions but the later version was cut. That was bleeding terrifying too. In fact, I think I had my eyes covered for most of it...so can't tell you much about the plot at all. :o:eek:
 
A seemingly simple question, but it's actually riddled with difficulties; the answer will be an individual opinion and therefore impossible to be accurate for everybody, and perhaps it
 
IN 1980, I saw "Friday The 13th" in the cinema and I had to sit down on a bench on the way home to recover !

As for the nightmare scene in "American Werewolf ", I think the fact that David's family were Jewish and the creatures were dressed in Nazi uniform had a lot to do with it.
 
Yeah. I watched Ringu after watching the American version and I thought it just didn't seem as creepy. The Ring just had a more polished feel to it. Verbinski added some touches which improved the way it looked compared to the original, and he improved things like the cursed video and also the television scene. The actor who played the boy was more effective also.

That said, I prefer Ju-On compared to the US remake.
 
Thanks for the input so far everyone. It's been an interesting read. I'd like to apologise for not including the term *POTENTIAL SPOILERS* in the thread title. I've contacted RAB admin and hopefully that'll be fixed soon. Thanks again for the posts guys; there have been some cracking films mentioned. I'm really looking forward to reading more on this thread.

Rolo Tony x
 
The films that scared me the most were the original Nightmare On Elm St (saw it in the cinema) the end of Carrie (leapt out of my seat), a couple of bits in the Japanese version of The Eye (particularly the calligraphy class and the lift scenes) and [Rec] *shudders*.
 
I haven't seen many scary films really, but fairly recently I saw The Wicker Man for the first time and OH MY GOD it gave me the total creeps and I couldn't stop thinking about it for ages.
 
Thanks Op for the mention, really enjoyed participating in your thread. It gave me something to think long and hard about my answers.

lil lexie I agree with you about The Others and The Orphanage as with a film like The sixth Sense. All brilliant films with great endings. They were very carefully filmed, so they did not give the story away but lacked on keeping you on the edge. The Others and The Sixth Sense are up there in my top 10 all time films but not for scaring me and the OP wanted films that affected us not our favourites, that is what made it so hard to choose.
REC. Was good but I started to get bored near the end. It was a bit of Dawn The Dead X 28 Days Later. I just felt you had seen it all before.
Did you also watch Quarrantine?
 
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I've finally read the book and was surprised at how different it was from the movie. Some characters are renamed while others that figure large in the movie such as Susan's father barely appear in the book. The Master is a terrifying wordless monster in the film while in the book he is an articulate and hanRABome man.

Reading the book has taken away some of my appreciation of the film which terrified the bejeesus out of me when I first saw it - especially Danny Glick scratching away at Mark's window and Mike Ryerson in the rocking chair "look at me, teacher...". :eek:
 
The Haunting (1963)

The Legend of Hell House (1973)

Psycho (1960)

Witchfinder General (1968)

The Seventh Victim (1943)
 
It's simply Goblin and they are an Italian prog rock group...they were Argento's go-to group for a few years. They also worked on Profondo Rosso and Tenebrae.



Yes.

I remember the first time I watched Mulholland Drive and the scene where Rebekah Del Rio comes out and sings Llorando actually prompted me to turn it off and switch all the lights on...for a few minutes at least. The man behind Winkies also freaked me out big time.

Dans Ma Peau (In My Skin) is the only film to scare me witless and it isn't exactly a horror in the conventional sense.

Freaks and The Tenant also left me feeling very unsettled.
 
Blood, gore and serial killers don't really tend to scare me, so I'll say two of the clean but very clever ones which had all the moments to make me jump and a fabulous twist at the end - The Others and The Sixth Sense.

The fear of the unknown is what it is, and all the loud noises in The Others can still make me jump right out of my skin, and the moments when the dead wonder around Cole's house at night in Sixth Sense scares the crap out of me.
 
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