What is the scariest movie you have seen?

me and a friend went on a horror movie phase aswell and the scary ones i can remember were

Saw, Silent Hill, Hostel, Dawn of the Dead, House of 1000 corpses,

after i watched Saw it was like sleep with the lights on lol
 
Agreed. It's the only horror film to make me jump twice. Watchign it a second time was less impressive but the remake did make me jump atleast once.
 
Candyman. It was the only movie I tried to watch at home and actually felt that I HAD to stop it after getting so far into the movie; it was far too gorey/graphic I thought. I was either 16 or 17 at the time I watched it...

What is it with young kiRAB like 6 or 7 or so watching films like Nightmare on Elm Street, It etc.? basically 18 rates... I remember hearing people saying they'd seen ChilRAB Play age 8 or something. Do their parents know this? I never thought of myself as a particularly big wussy but I would never have even wanted to see something like that at that age really...
 
Definitely the 1986 remake of The Fly. Utterly terrifying when I first saw it when I was about 5(!) and I still can't bring myself to watch it to this day without looking through the gaps between the fingers of my hanRAB covering my eyes! To me it's more than just a film, its a wholly intimidating visual experience which has traumatised my mind so much that I fail to appreciate just how brilliant it actually is. I mean I know it is but I just find it too unwatchable!
 
Me too, if I walked into a room and Salem's Lot was playing I'd walk back out.

Pure horror, still Salem's Lot and the remake of Dawn of the Dead, the only time Zombies have actually been scary in a film as opposed to pityful in Romero's quadrilogy, although perhaps more believable in 28 Days/Weeks later as the rage infected are more likely than resurrected corpses. Event Horizon was pretty scary in parts and Poltergeist gave me the willies for a while.
 
Agreed also. Watch the film "Duel" made by Steven Spielberg. Jeepers Creepers owes a lot to that film. If you ever wished Jeepers Creepers didn't cop-out completely after the first 45 minutes by revealing the creeper far too early, Duel will grant that wish. :D

Jeepers Creepers really irritates me to this day. It could have been a classic... oh well.

The sequence at the cat lady's house for instance: Everything is perfect by that point in the film.... then they REVEAL THE CREEPER! Atmosphere, tension, suspense, everything that made that film good sucked out at that very moment. :(
 
As an adult I've never been scared by a film, but when I was a kid I used to be so scared of Chucky from the chilRAB play films - I couldn't go to sleep as I was convinced he was under my bed.

I also remember being creeped out at the scene in Halloween where Micheal is watching Laurie from behind a tree and you just hear him breathing through the mask.

Love Chucky and Michael Myers these days though, Halloween is one of my favourite movies.
 
Between

The Chuckie films
Salums Lot

But the most recent has to be The Decent (the thing in the cave) :eek: honestly that is so freaking scary. I never get scared now but that one give me the hebies.

Oh and The Ring I swear to god that bit where she comes out the telly OMG me and my sister nearly peed ourselfs we screamed and everything lol.
 
For some reason the US remake of The Grudge worked on me. Most films don't, and I could see this one was just a string of spring-loaded cats, but I found it effective.

I'm not bothered by Saw, Hostel, Hellraiser etc.
 
I really don't know why The Exorcist seems to top these Top 100 Horror films/Top 100 scariest films ever charts on Channel 4 etc as I've seen it a few times now and I find it a lot more disgusting and repulsive rather than anything near frightening.
 
Agreed - I can never remember being gripped by the suspense and terror of those first 45mins by any other film at the cinema. Then in that sequence its all sucked out, your right it could of been a classic but the creeper was revealed far to early.
 
My sentiments exactly.It's the same with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre,a movie which some find just garbage others find brilliant but either way it's not really scary but if it does work on you it works as plain disturbing due to it's relentlessness.

The Fly is a great example of a movie which goes from really scary to stomach churning during it's running time.The visuals of the movie are more repulsive then scary,but it leaves you emotionally scarred later on.Still not a movie I can watch often either,not that it's bad just really effective.
 
Children of the Corn. Especially the first half hour or so of the movie. I still have nightmares about it...I was 13 when I watched it. Maybe it wouldn't be as scary to me now I'm in my 20s? Though I remember an adult friend of mine when I was a teenager watched it and she was terrified too, and she's a real toughie usually.
 
I'm not really sure why....but Predator really spooked me....much more than any straight horror film.

Even though it's 20 years old and the effects are quite dated now....I still find it powerful. :eek:
 
The only film that has ever truly disturbed me has been 'The Exorcist'.

I know some people don't get it, especially younger people, but it's the only film I would never watch alone. :o
 
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