what is the scariest horror film?
 

are there enough to do a field of 64? or should we just argue randomly?




Salem's Lot


American Werewolf in London


The Evil Dead

I hate horror films but

Cape Fear
Silence of the Lambs

Dracula, Bram Stoker, Directed by Fancis Ford Coppola - artsy scary.

Alien

I put this in the wrong thread:

The Changeling - from the early 80s. Scared the shit out me
oh and :

Audrey Rose.....left me with a fear of getting caught in a fire.

The Shining still scares me.

Agreed.

This was a fantasy based on a reality that I could believe in. Vampires, ghosts or zombies dont scare me.

Not a film, but...

Dead Set, which I have already mentioned in the Halloween 2008 thread.

Shown initially as a five parter across five nights culminating in last night's Halloween finale. It's being shown tonight as a feature length showing.

Imagine Day of the Dead, or 28 Days Later, but this is set in and around the Big Brother show. As the world ends, the contestants are in the only safe place, unaware of the carnage outside. The virus is brought to the set, as evction night gets into full swing. Crowds of screaming fans, reunions of ex-BB starlets, and all the iconic Big Brother touches so familiar to the world. One of the isolated survivors outside the BB house, a lowly runner on the show. Played by Ray Winstone's daughter, and what an actor that girl is.

The show is darkly humourous, biting satire on BB and 'celeb' culture, written by one of our most insightful cultural and media commentators but played absolutely straight.

The zombies are brilliantly done. Some of the death scenes are amazing. And tense...

Oh. My. God.

I watch a lot of horror flicks. I don't often find them scary or unbearably tense. I have seen many zombie type films, and mostly I find them a good giggle and that's about it. I spent this show literally on the edge of my seat, or deliberately not looking at the screen and talking to pilau to break the tension in the room.

I don't ever need to see another zombie film again. I've now seen it done as well as it is possible to do :P

Thanks for suggesting this, I watched it this afternoon on cath-up. It was great! I loved seeing the former Big Brother contestants for a start ("It's only Brian") and Davina all zombied up.

I had no idea Andy Nyman was an actor. I mean I knew he had a bit part in The League of Gentlemen, but I though that was because he's been friends with Jeremy since he was 15 - I only knew him as working with Derren Brown. Wonderful.

Kevin Eldon I recognised from Spaced first, then fought my way to remembering he was in Funland. After that, Black Books and Spaced clicked into place. I checked him online to be sure and damnit if he hasn't been in loads of things including Jam and Green Wing.

It wasn't the scariest thing I've seen, but it was well worth watching and I'm glad I did.

The Exorcist and The Shining--I can't watch these movies while I'm alone. Night of the Living Dead is up there, too.

Carrie.

Yea. I agree with blue, Night of the Living Dead still scares me too. No matter how much I watch it. Some Zombie flicks freak me out, some don't. Like 28 days Later, because nothing scares me more than a zombie that moves quickly!

The films that scared me the most, other people find laughable.
The House on Haunted Hill (remake) and Event Horizon. Both were gory and both, for no real reason I can fathom, utterly suspended my disbelief.

I think claustrophia has something to do with it - the feeling that there is something in here with us and we can't get out. I've always been more scared of the spaces inside than outside.

In HoHH it was specifically the gibbering movement of the ghosts, which fed straight back into a nightmare I'd had where something made the same movement out of the corner of a hotel room. I woke screaming from that after all. I was sat on my evil ex's sofa, wrapped in his big heavy dressing gown with the hood up. It didn't help - he had surround sound (a really good one) and at one point I had to get him to walk me to the bathroom because I was too scared to go alone.

In EH, which I saw at the cinema, it was the pleasure in blood-letting that the crew pieced together. I have an atavistic fear of "mobs" and mob rule. Anything that keys into this frightens me on a visceral level.

I watched both films again afterwards, determined to break their hold on me. I did, although it took about 3 times with HoHH.

I am a scaredy cat.

Evil Dead ..campy
The thing 1982...?
exorsist WOW
poltergiest good
dawn of the dead classic

HOHH.....was that the one with the old mental institute where the mad scientist/doctor's ghost can be seen flicking about on the security monitors?

If so, those sequences are some of the scariest moments I've ever seen on screen. The guy playing the doctor is Jeffrey Combs, one o my favourite horror actors.

Waterworld. Scared they could spend so much money on such a crappy movie.

Seeing Halloween when it first came out made me realize I loved being scared. Halloween wasn't gory, just scary.

The first 15 minutes or so of Scream scared the snot out of me. It was just suspenseful.

Who can ever forget the moment of realization in the first When a Stranger Calls?

This weekend I saw 1408 and The Happening. I liked them both well enough, but wasn't as scared as I'd hoped. The Happening was a bit hokey but there was a creepiness about it that I loved.

The Other (1972) was a nice creepy little movie.

When the girl spider walks the stairs in The Exorcist, I still get so creeped that it scares me.

Oh yes.

I feel very ignorant not knowing who Jeffrey Combs was! I've remedied via Google now. I'm just not very good at recognising American actors I'm afraid.

My top vote goes to - "W"

The Ring (saw it on an airplane by myself!)
Event Horizon

Anything with little kids doing unnatural things, is frightening to me. Seven was pretty scary, too.

The Haunting (original vers.)
Phantasm
Reanimator

The Ring (saw it in a cabin the middle of the woods.)

Stir of Echoes (Kevin Bacon was excellent)

Candyman (even scarier when you've been to those projects)

Saw
The Shining
The Exorcist
Jaws
Jacob's Ladder
The Cube
Night of the Living Dead (original only)
Halloween
The Grudge

I know there are probably a lot of other ones that I'd nominate, but I'm on caffiene underflow right now and can't think of any more.

I'm now wondering if I set my standards too high.
I named two films that deeply disturbed and upset me, and the fear remained with me afterwards.

I always thought I was easily spooked, but the other films other people have mentioned here have just been there and gone things for me. Especially The Shining and Salem's Lot, where I sat deploring the changes made.

Now I know it's all down to personal taste - hell I've even admitted people scoff at my two scary movies - but I do find it a little weird.

Can y'all give reasons to help me out please, and/ or say exactly how they made you feel? Or tell me to piss off, whichever you prefer.

There are very few films that 'scare' me. Some, like Dead Set make me feel tense and on edge whilst watching and maybe leave a residual unease afterwards. very, very few actually frighten me.

The Grudge is one that did. I actually had to intermittently put my bedside light on during the night after that film lol. The scene where 'it' is under the bedclothes....*suppresse a shudder* that film hits childhood fears like they're skittles.

The very first episode of Sapphire and Steel: that set me up with nightmares for years afterwards. I think I must have been about 8 years old. The sound of children's voices singing 'Ring a ring a roses' in that context is possibly the most terrifying thing I can think of.

2008 State of the Union Address. Scared the shit out of me.

Jaws fucked me up pretty good.

Really, if a movie makes me think about it after, for several days, intermittenly, it has had a pretty major impression on me. When the movie is scary, the thoughts are more like little terrifying mini-nightmares. Event Horizon...I kept flashing to the part of the movie where the guy's wife opens her eyes and says something. Her eyes are all weird and bloody and he is already in that cramped little lighted hallway thingy. In the ring it was the idea that the kid came through the screen. That terrified me, and I imagined it everytime I saw a TV screen for a while.

I saw a few separate clips of Audition, less than 2-3 minutes total, and that alone disturbed the shit out of me. On the one hand, I can glaze right by most horror movies without even realizing I'm supposed to be scared--The Shining, for example (though the book scared me quite a bit,) or The Blair Witch Project, did not even ramp up a sense of suspense for me--but the ones that get me, I can't even watch.

looks a little hokey now, but this movie scared the bejeezus out of me whn i was 11.

that's why i have no more bejeezus. ...in case you were wondering what it was that makes me different. I have no bejeezus.

Never, ever take the short-cut!

I forgot about Event Horizon, yeppers...scary.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/gremlins.png


/end of thread

"Don't Look Now" I had to walk in the middle of the road for a few weeks after seeing that one. (To be as far away from anywhere that some one might jump out at me.)

Also nearly anything by David Cronenberg

I was underwhelmed by Event Horizon. Thought it was too obvious. I saw it in the theater with BrianR.

The Ring

The Grudge

Shaving Ryan's Privates

Scariest Horror movie, huh?

"Marie Antoinette" --director: Sophia Coppola

Man, that was scary!

Salem's Lot
Burnt Offerings
Child's Play
A Trilogy of Terror
The Thing (Kurt Russel version)
Saw (1st one)
The Shining
Alien
Exorcist
The Tingler
Nightmare on Elm Street (first one)
Dawn of the Dead
Phantasm

Jim, I'm totally with you on Salem's Lot. It scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I still think the best horror movie of all time is John Carpenter's "The Thing", but Salem's Lot has a special place for me. I didn't watch your video until after I posted my list, and then I laughed when I saw you posted it too.