Scariest Film?

Gal44

Can anyone recommend a really scary film? Thanks!

old hippy

Any particular type? Slasher? Monsters? Psychological?

Wolf Creek - Australian road trip turns nasty when the kids meet a "Crocodile Dundee" type off the beaten path.

The Descent - Several friends go caving and encounter some very unpleasant denizens of the dark

The Devil's Backbone - Atmospheric Guilermo del Toro flick set in an orphanage during the Spanish civil war

The Human Centipede - mad professor kidnaps unfortunate visitors to perform an experiment of unspeakable ghastliness.

elimare

I second 'The Descent', also 'The Ring' freaked me out.

Gal44

Cheers! Ya Slasher/Psychological.. not really into the monster/alien type ones as much..

blatantrereg

The human centipede isn't scary, it's just really disgusting.

Martyrs is pretty horrifying, in a nasty sadistic kinda way. Better off not seeing it imo - but it is certainly horrifying. The strongest example of torture porn.

Wolf Creek is the best slasher film I can think of too.

The Thing [John Carpenter's one] is the best monster horror imo.

Shutter Island or Jacob's Ladder - or The Thing - for psychological horror maybe.

Kynodontas is a good wtf type horror.

Audition is another to consider. I won't say what type of horror it is, as it's not obvious where the plot's going, and it would be a spoiler to say. Same director as Ichi the Killer, but less funny, more realistic... Other suggestions: Let Me In, Let the Right One In [both based on the same book, but different approaches] - very good vampire horror films.

Renn

Lost Highway. First 45 minutes is some of the best horror you'll ever see.

MagicMarker

W.E.

A film directed by Madonna, even the thought of it is terrifying.

old hippy

Psycho. Still frightens the willies out of me.

MidnightQueen

Paranormal activity.

SlipperyPeople

session 9

pontypool

the orphanage(spanish)

grohlisagod

Wolf Creek.
In the dark.
In silence.
On your own.

Padraig Mor

'The Descent' was the first film in years to make me jump in my seat. For pure shivers-down-your-spine, you can't beat 'The Shining' IMO.

Skinfull

Dangerously close to a "list thread" ... IBTL!

For sheer terror I've never felt as scared as I did watching John Carpenter's Halloween 1978.

The shots the music the "acting" is all spot on to make this one of the best horrors ever made. One shot in particular is when Tommy looks out the window and we see Michael Myers standing across the road at the Wallace house. But the scary thing is...is he looking at the Wallace house, about to attack or across the road to the Doyles house, lookign at Tommy watching him... :eek:

Gal44

Skinfull wrote: »

For sheer terror I've never felt as scared as I did watching John Carpenter's Halloween 1978.

The shots the music the "acting" is all spot on to make this one of the best horrors ever made. One shot in particular is when Tommy looks out the window and we see Michael Myers standing across the road at the Wallace house. But the scary thing is...is he looking at the Wallace house, about to attack or across the road to the Doyles house, lookign at Tommy watching him... :eek:

Halloween - Probably my favourite scary film ever!!

its just so eerie! and the music.... eck!

Myrddin

The Grudge


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CamperMan

old hippy wrote: »

Any particular type? Slasher? Monsters? Psychological?

Wolf Creek - Australian road trip turns nasty when the kids meet a "Crocodile Dundee" type off the beaten path.

a great film

Attabear

Stephen King's IT, the first part at least.

Skinfull

EnterNow wrote: »

The Grudge


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Puh-Lease! That wasnt scary. Maybe the original version (didnt like it) but the US version was laughable

old hippy

CamperMan wrote: »

a great film

Indeed but not a first date film. Unless you want to break up with said date...

sensibleken

[REC] - spanish 'zombie' movie. plenty of AAGH moments. Another vote for the descent and Ring (japanese one).

sensibleken

old hippy wrote: »

Indeed but not a first date film. Unless you want to break up with said date...

you've never met my missus. our first date was prodding corpses and she has a bigger horror movie collection than me

old hippy

sensibleken wrote: »

you've never met my missus. our first date was prodding corpses and she has a bigger horror movie collection than me

Awesome

Is Prodding Corpses some kind of sectarian night club?

Myrddin

Skinfull wrote: »

Puh-Lease! That wasnt scary. Maybe the original version (didnt like it) but the US version was laughable

That film got under my skin big time.

crazygeryy

grohlisagod wrote: »

Wolf Creek.
In the dark.
In silence.
On your own.

Is that 4 different movies or are u telling op what to do?

a nightmare on elm st(the daddy of them all) the original one btw not that kack from 2010

Dog soldiers.incredible movie

And the descent as already said.

old hippy

And...

The Shining - Kubrick's peerless take on a King novel
Solaris - either version but I slightly prefer the Soderbergh... fear, loss, sorrow and madness in space... more of a weepie than pure horror
I Walked with a Zombie - from the 40s, this is not a Romero style zombie flick - the zombies here are people in a trance... all melancholia and highly atmospheric

Hamhide

Silent Hill.although it pailed in comparasion to the video game
Jacobs Ladder is one of my fave

Mike Litoris

The Exorcist or Session 9.

There is one scene in a non horror that frightened the ballix out of me more than any horror ever did. I guess it's because it was a disney movie that that the brain had absolutely no defences up. Completely unexpected and shot flawlessly to give you a heart attack.

Lol, I screamed a proper man scream! It was in Eight below(2006) about 2/3 of the way into it when the dog finds the dead whale. Thats all I'll say else I'll ruin it altogether.

Myrddin

Mike Litoris wrote: »

The Exorcist or Session 9

The Exorcist is another massively disturbing film. I didn't like Session 9 at all though

crazygeryy

EnterNow wrote: »

Mike Litoris wrote: »

The Exorcist or Session 9

The Exorcist is another massively disturbing film. I didn't like Session 9 at all though

I had such high hopes for session 9 and it was rubbish.

In the mouth of madness
And
Dead birds

Were also good.

Mike Litoris

Session 9 is definitely a marmite movie.

trixie_belle12

EnterNow wrote: »

That film got under my skin big time.

My heart just jumped wasn't expecting that!

Another vote for The Shining, an all time favourite. The Descent also really freaked me out.

Bobby Baccala

The hills have eyes
The Uninvited.

tunguska

Picnic at hanging Rock always puts the hook in me. Its a beautiful, etheral film, but theres something very sinister about it too.

The Orphanage scared the bejaysus out of me. Ditto for Paranormal activity

trixie_belle12

tunguska wrote: »

Picnic at hanging Rock always puts the hook in me. Its a beautiful, etheral film, but theres something very sinister about it too.

The Orphanage scared the bejaysus out of me. Ditto for Paranormal activity

I've never seen Picnic at hanging rock right the way through. I'm always too freaked out! Great movie though.

grohlisagod

crazygeryy wrote: »

Is that 4 different movies or are u telling op what to do?

Telling op what to do.

I once sat through Wolf Creek in a big group of friends who refused to shut up, and kept trying to predict what would happen and saying sh*t like "I definitely wouldn't have done that". Drove me absolutely mental. Thank f*ck I'd seen it before. Excellent film.

KnowYourEnemy

Silent Hill scared the crap out of me!

As mentioned already, The Shining truly is the daddy of all psychological horrors

mcwhirter

tunguska wrote: »

Picnic at hanging Rock always puts the hook in me. Its a beautiful, etheral film, but theres something very sinister about it too.

The Orphanage scared the bejaysus out of me. Ditto for Paranormal activity

Agree, orphanage almost made me cry with fear.

Shining, terrifying the first time you see it.

Myrddin

mcwhirter wrote: »

Shining, terrifying the first time you see it.

Those twins terrified me to my very soul when I was younger

henryporter

The Shining is absolutely the most fearsome

A Tale of Two Sisters comes pretty close (Korean film about 10 years old)


Some of the ones that I watched when younger scared the crap out of me at the time:

- The Abominable Dr. Phibes
- Dr. Phibes rises again
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Fearless Vampire Killers

WatchWolf

Scary as in jump out of your seat or scary as in becoming creeped out for months to come?

OldeCinemaSoz

I found the "deep...deep...deep..." scene in Audition
virtually unwatchable...

I averted my eyes in the Adelphi I when the Snake Woman
being persued by Dekard fell through all those panes of glass...

Watching SURVIVE! was a nightmare...I was only 13 and the Irish censor had given it a 15...horrible stuff...

TORSO was mental...the old man didn't even check the rating
of the support feature for 21 HOURS AT MUNICH at The Sandford
and despite the heart working out...along with Suzy Kendall...it formed me love for The Giallo film...

:eek:

[Rec] is an absolutely brilliant Spanish horror movie. Friends of mine who never jump watching these kind of movies screamed at one scene in particular. [REC]2 then somewhat messed up for me.

sensibleken

I dont know how people thought paranormal activity was scary. me and my gf found it terrible verging on funny terrible

Sammy_Jankis

1.Creep

still makes me jump.

Mr Freeze

sensibleken wrote: »

I dont know how people thought paranormal activity was scary. me and my gf found it terrible verging on funny terrible

Well I watched it on my own, and ya I found it scary, not from what happened on screen, but the flipping ideas it put in my head, I was looking around me at night for weeks in case something was there and seeing things out of the corner of my eye.

And [rec], that was recommended to me in the last scary movie thread, and I bought, not scary in the least, it is a good film, just not a scary one. Watched it in the dark, surround sound turned up to the last hoping for a good scare, not one to be had unfortunately.

Now The Descent, in the dark with the sound turned up, especially if you have a good surround will scare ya. Great film.

OldeCinemaSoz

Sammy_Jankis wrote: »

1.Creep

still makes me jump.

Good one. very atmospheric.

Orizio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWno4I62Bs8

Woodsocks

Don't Look Now

irishh_bob

the exorcist

always find it amusing when people try to claim the shining is scarier , the shining is atmospheric and the boy has a creepy talent but thier is nothing especially horrifying about jack nicholsons charechter , going crazy in itself is not horror personified

OldeCinemaSoz

Woodsocks wrote: »

Don't Look Now

Completely captivating. I recommended this for a fellow horror
film fan once and she said it was the most wasted 90 or so
minutes of her life...

:rolleyes:

Oh well. One does try!

Anyways a masterpiece I think too. The end, as i'm sure woodsocks is
referring to, gets me every time.

Woodsocks

It is indeed a classic horror movie.
The Wicker Man also freaks me out big time and all the Hammer films are great for a cold winter night.