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

Never seen The Grudge, but saw its sequel. Jesus that film freaked me out, just the whole idea of those freaky kiRAB following you wherever you go. For those who have seen it, the scene with the school principle/psychiarist towarRAB the end just petrified me.

I have never seen the Exorcist and dont intend to. I have had a deep phobia of it ever since playing The Scary Maze Game, where that girl's possessed face pops up on the screen.
 
Thanks again to everybody who's posted their views on here, especially lil lexie and mistygal! Looking forward to more answers and opinions, and if I get enough of a result I'll post the collated stats at the end... parrrrty!

Rolo Tony x
 
For me the "scariest films" are the ones that stay in my mind, and still jump up in my thoughts.

The recent remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD really stuck with me, particularly the ending. Also EDEN LAKE was a film that keeps on filling my thoughts.

If I had my way I would like to remove these films from my memory, as there are parts of them that still bother me today!
 
Stuff can creep me out but nothing really scares me much thesedays, sadly.

The Descent

It's not even the monsters in the cave that are really that bad, it's the caving that always gets me, when they are in that tight tunnel and she's stuck, that's just about one of my worst nightmares.

Session 9 - When I watched this I must have been left thinking about it for days, not many movies leave me like this did, it certainly had an impact on me. Danvers State Asylum was such a fantastically creepy setting for the film, i'm still sad they tore down such a building :(
 
Ringu. .no question about it. Hideo Nakata should be given an Oscar for that film. Nothing scared me until I saw that film.

Also, Ju-on (The Grudge) is pretty scary.

While unsettling in some parts, The Exorcist never scared me because it was so over the top.
 
No particular order:

The Omen - the visuals and the music

Blair Witch - all psycological and brilliantly done

Ringu (I think it's called - the Japenese version) - the concept and the visuals

Wolf Creek - just a tense, nervous uncomfortable film
 
HSM the serieis..and that colour and those creepy grins not to mention the songs ahhh

Salams lot was pretty scary.Wouldnt say the whole film itself but the bloody straching at the window moments ahhh!!!
 
I saw The Others in the cinema and it scared me! Watched it again on DVD recently and realised that I didn't remember much of it :eek:

Sadly, it didn't have the same atmosphere watching it on my bf's little tv in his room than it did on the big screen with surround sound :( Think it still made me jump at some point though :p

I tend to avoid watching horror movies in the cinema cos I'm embarrassed of being scared :p I know it's really silly. I saw White Noise 1&2 in the cinema and hid most of the time! I'm a wuss :p I watched the second one of tv when it was on recently and it still made me jump :D

I've never seen The Exorcist. My mum and dad saw it in the cinema and my mum says though it didn't scare her at first, it's haunted her ever since :D I think they saw Carrie too (I think the creepiest bit of that was when she was at home near the end).

Oh, Blair Witch Project scared me somewhat. As did House on Haunted Hill (the remake) and Thirteen Ghosts! :eek: These films are ones which we watched on our pc during one summer or something.

I've seen half of Wolf Creek and couldn't bring mself to watch the rest of it :p I couldn't watch anymore at the time because it was on tv and I had to go home. It was recorded for me but I couldn't watch it :p
 
Halloween - watched it when I was 7 and Micheal myers scared me to death even now he gives me the creeps

28 Days Later - Scared me to F***, cause it was set in London and is realistic

REC - Sooooo scary

Blair Witch Project - 1st time I watched this I couldn't sleep for days and I was 10 when 1st watched it
 
You're welcome.:D

I'd just like to add that I do love horror films, even the trash ones but for a horror film to be truly effective for me, it has to resonate on a deeper level, that isn't to say it has to be a clever film, it just has to successfully communicate that sense of fear - which is a difficult thing to do but as we have seen, some manage to great effect.

It's good to see Salem's Lot getting a lot of mentions, it is a fine horror film and perhaps the last of it's kind. Whilst I love my subliminal commentaries (such as Dawn of The Dead, REC, ect) there is a lot to be said for films that are able to convey a sense of unease and creepiness, something which has become even more difficult to convey in these technological and more cynical times, although films like The Others and The Orphanage do attempt to address this although they haven't been successful in spooking me but hats off to them for trying.
 
The Evil Dead - when I was 14 it scared the bejeesus out of me, although I find it quite funny now.

Candyman - the first 18 I ever saw at the cinema, really made me jump several times.

American Warewolf in London - the opening scene on the moor is really well done, along with several of the dream sequences that are still quite chilling.

Cannibal Holocaust - not scare as such, but just horrible with the animal cruelty. You need to see the uncut version to really appreciate how low it is willing to go in trying to disgust the audience.
 
Unfortunately, nothing seems to scare me these days and although I love Asian horror, none of it actually scares me.

If I had to choose, I guess it would be "The Exorcist" (when it was first released). Unfortunately it has been parodied so often now that it no longer has the same impact. I can't watch it without thinking of French and Saunders now ("Your mother's a biology teacher.....". )

Also "A Tale of Two Sisters" is one of my favourite Asian horrors.

Nowadays, I think the most chilling films are ones that stray only slightly from reality and are therefore more believable. I think my favourite horror film hasn't been made yet.
 
I guess it's back to square roots with film makers if they really want to capture our attention.

I think films are like music in so much as they do cycles and then full recycles across the decades, before getting to the first cycle again, but then start with a clean new look to them.

I guess I can afford to say that as I'm in my early fifties and have seen quite a lot of recycling going on.

Nothing much has shocked, frightened me or alarmed me, apart from the news these days.

So I guess on that premis, there's still room to shock should a film maker want to go down the route of reality. However, I would guess that most folks don't really want to know about that.

I certainly don't...and that's why I prefer a good thriller, drama or comedy these days as opposed to horror.
 
I cannot handle any horror movie that features demons or supernatural things - The Exorcist, Rosemarys Baby, The Omen, even Nightmare On Elm Street (killing you in your sleep? GENIUS!)
You can defeat a crazed psychopath with a knife or chainsaw. In the end, they're only human.

You have no way of defeating something supernatural.
Perfect escapism really.
 
In that respect, you're spot on. I.e. the supernatural and unexplained. That type of escapism, I can handle and view as a type of horror I can deal with.

It's the near to the bone type horror that we know that happens, that I can't bear to view.
 
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