Which horror films really creeped you out?

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I'm really into horror films but the ones that really put me on edge were war of the worlds, mama and wolf creek.

They made me shiver and get the nervous sweats.

Which ones affected you?

The ring that it!!
Shudders!!!

The Ring Pickypolly.

Blair Witch Project - I'm a big horror fan and not easily scared but I almost walked out of the cinema.

Midsommar - a modern day wicker man and truly disturbing.

Event Horizon - Sci Fi horror is my favourite sub-genre (Alien/Aliens being my number 1s) and this was particularly disturbing - the video log from the stricken ship sent shivers down my spine.

It Follows - so well done - very lo fi (if that's even a thing in movies) and you can really feel the desperation to get away from this thing.

Paranormal Activity - the first was great, really worked the found footage genre well. I actually thought most of the sequels were pretty good too, particularly the one set in the 80s when the girls were little.

Blair Witch Project scared the crap out of me - I think it was the fact that you never saw 'her' or whatever it was. It was all left to your imagination. I honestly could not understand people who said it wasn't scary or was 'boring'.
Paranormal Activity also petrified me - I think it was the same sort of thing, you didn't actually see what was menacing them.
I also have the first Final Destination film to thank for my ongoing phobia of flying .

Event Horizon - I like a bit of science fiction and Sam Neil is always easy on the eye, so I settled down to watch with a cup of tea. It terrified me! Had to wait for DH to get home before I dared leave the living room. The ship's log video is just horrific and the bit where Sam Neil has removed his eyes because 'where we're going, we won't need eyes'. Horrible.

I don't generally watch horror films as I find them too disturbing!

Blair Witch terrified me and The Orphanage (Spanish) is both heartbreaking and very scary.

I enjoy horror and haven't yet got scared (beyond jumping when something suddenly appears). No nightmares yet!

I watched Blair Witch and found that screechy girl with her woolen hat bloody annoying. I could not make out what I was meant to be watching - it just seemed dark and unfortunately a friend of the friend's house I was in decided to come in and talk at me (just like my friend does!). So I never got to the bottom of that.

I loved The Ring/Dark Water and various Japanese/Korean horror. I think I have seen Saw/Hotel etc but my all time favourite is the Chain Saw Massacre one and there is one where two blokes boil up chunks of people to eat. Some youngsters are captured by them. Cannot remember the name but the monster me whistle to each other.

The music from jeepers creepers totally freaks me out, the bit where he is on top of the bus too!

Also The Ring - I didn’t pick the phone up for weeks!

My now DH booked the movie for one of our first dates - it was Saw, I literally had my eyes closed for the whole thing whilst trying to pretend I was enjoying the movie. Didn’t want to seem like a wimp 😂

Yeah won’t be watching the likes of Hostel, Wolf Creek or Martyrs ever again. Must’ve had a thicker skin when I was younger but now I can’t bear it.

Love anything demonic though! These are what creeped me out most:

Blair Witch Project
Paranormal Activity (first one)
The Possession of Michael King
Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Borderlands

Oh God yes The Ring, forgot about that one. Also, don’t know if you’d class it as a proper horror or not, but I found Cloverfield quite scary too!

Sinister...waiting to see where those videos were going..urghhh!!
Conjuring...the clapping hands in the dark!

And The Orphanage.. though started off creeper and by the end emotional lol

Poltergeist. Really shit me up, though I was onlyba teen when I saw it.

I'm not really into them.

The Blair Witch Project really did scare me the first time I saw it, when the lights came up in the cinema it was to silence and rows of us just sitting there looking somewhat shocked. And I lived in a house by woodland at the time so was quite bloody nervous at night for a while!

The Ring, I watched it on VCR and became slightly hysterical at the 7th day after watching it approached, not helped by my now DH winding me up about it.

My big cousins showed me Nightmare on Elm Street 3 when I was 8 or 9 and I was terrified to go to sleep for weeks after that. Couldn't ever tell my parents why either, as I was also terrified of my cousins.

I came on to this thread to say Sinister with Ethan Hawke, but I see it has already been mentioned.

Also, Eden Lake - I had to turn it off halfway through. I can’t watch torture scenes. Same goes for Wolf Creek!

I love a good horror, but living on my own now means I have to choose carefully. I find slasher/scream type films make me laugh, and I thought Hereditary was a bit meh as well.

For me, the most scary and creepy horror films are Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity type films (the bit where someone gets dragged off a bed - because you don’t see who or what is doing it).

Another classic is the Shining which still freaks me out!

The last shift
Jeepers creepers.

I hated Sinister. I usually enjoy a good horror film, but that one seemed so pointless.
Here's one I never see mentioned on these threads - A Dark Song. It's sad and dark and most of the film is just two actors, but they really hold the screen. The ending isn't exactly happy but it's a good ending if that makes sense.
My favourite horror is Insidious.

Saw. Hostel.

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The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is so sinister

I found the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre very silly & quite funny in parts. The remake is even dafter.

The films that freak me out are the The Fog (original) it's that slow creeping edge of your seat sinister suspense & the culmination of the ghostly sailors with the glowing red eyes & that music. Urgghhh I'm getting the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.
Psycho has that effect on me too.
I've seen The Blob accidentally when I was 4 (DM had fallen asleep in front of the TV & I'd crept downstairs) Ever since then I've never been that keen on blancmange.
And definitely the end scene in Seven (without giving the ending away if you haven't seen it) what he did to Gwyneth Paltrow, if there's any of that in a movie I can't watch.
Will also never watch The Crow again because of what happens to the girlfriend & then the window scene.

An old black and white film called "Dead of Night". It's one of those where a group of people are gathered together and each one tells about a terrifying experience or a nightmare they'd had. The last story with the ventriloquist's dummy scared me to death when I first saw it years ago and I still feel uneasy now just thinking about it.

Another one that gave me the creeps is The Descent. I could almost feel the fear of being stuck in those dark tiny tunnels with something unearthly coming after you...also IT the clown used to really scare me when I was younger.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Jeepers Creepers is horrible!

@KiwiKit defo not just you, I was going to say Jeepers too!

Salems Lot scared me to death, so creepy when Danny Glick floated up to his friends bedroom window and asked to be let in.

Also Thirty days of night with the screaming vampires.

As a teen I loved horror films but I went to see The Ring at the cinema and that was the end of horrors for me! It traumatized me! I remember watching MTV years ago and there was a program about behind the scenes of The Ring 2, I had to turn it off I'm such a coward! So I imagine the Grudge us similar, again when an ad came on I had to change channel lol.
Jeepers creepers I thought was a bit pants and not very scary yet it has disturbed a good few on here. Isn't it strange how we're all effected by different things. I remember my mum telling me The Birds is the most scary film ever lol

Per my username, Salem's Lot (the original version with David Soul). Although it was a mini series, not a film.

The unborn. I watched it at the cinema and then came home and covered every window/mirror in my room.