Which is the Scariest film you have ever seen?

OMW, I watched that in Halls at uni and we had a noise complaint against us because we were screaming so bad...I honestly couldn't sleep for days because everytime I closed my eyes it took me back to that film...it still haunts me to this day, every now and then when I'm home alone, I end up thinking about that movie and scaring the sh!t out of me!!!
 
I agree the best horror films are the ones that are unsettling rather than aiming for cheap shocks.

Ringu is a very good film. There's this sense of dread that builRAB up through the whole film - a creepy 'unknown' - and when it seems like everything's over it shocks us with a very effective ending.

I'm not sure if you'd call it a horror film or a ghost story, but I recently found The Orphanage very creepy. It's your classic haunted house story but there's moments in it that are very chilling, again preying off the fear of the unknown.

To the poster that mentioned Audition - it's one of the very few films I have actually had to curl up on the sofa and cover my eyes and ears to! Good but disturbing to the extreme!
 
My wife's, lets just say since watching it with her, which I might add she picked it out when we did watch it. I have been labelled disgusting for having such a film in my collection.

Unfortunately they are planning to remake The Entity, I disagree with all remakes as they never improve on anything and in many ways make people look down on the originals.
 
The Grudge 3 (DVD release) omg I was terrified, the little boy who survives part 2 is in a locked padded cell and she still gets in and breaks every bone in his body. Was scared when alone for about a fortnight - lol such a pus*y!
 
I think we have to allow them leeway in the case of well-know and established literary sources, as it can then always credibly be claimed to be a remake of a 'story' rather than an antecedent film version. Otherwise, bravo to you for saying that, I couldn't agree more. Within the past couple of years, there have been remakes mooted of films such as Don't Look Now and Suspiria - how on Earth can you 'add' anything worthwhile to the form in which such films already exist?
 
I lOVED [rec] but Quarantine, the American remake, just wasn't up to the same standard. I dunno if the fact it was foreign made a difference. I find a lot of Japanese stuff really scary - to the extent I refuse to watch Ju-On and Ringu, etc, as i found the Americanised ones too scary. I can't for the life of me think what other Japanese horrors i've seen but they're normally made by Tartan Asia Extreme - can usually tell they're gonna be frighteners if a film's made by them (I think they done Oldboy as well).

Its the bit in The Grudge (or Ring??) where the girl's found in the wardrobe at the very beginning, where her mouths all wide open and her eyes are all huge... Eeeek!!! And the little Japanese boy, and all the hair, and the jerky movements!!

Ooh that reminRAB me - in the film The Gift, there's a bit where Cate Blanchett is havin a kinda vision and there's a fiddler in the sea / river, and all of a sudden he starts playing his fiddle in a really jerky, fast motion - that scared be bejeesus outta me!!!
 
The original japanese Ring I think is the scariest - it has a claustrophobic feel to it throughout and the ending was unexpected and shocking. :eek:
I found Audition really disturbing too...
 
The only movie that has ever given me nightmares was Forbidden Planet, must have been about 6 or 7 but the thought of those monsters from the ID coming to get me :eek:
 
Right now I'd say Paranormal Activity, but I have only recently got back from seeing that... I thought Wolf Creek and [REC] were both fantastic films as well.
 
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