Films that still scare you

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What are the films that still give you the absolute heebies, to the point that actually affect your life in some way?

For me:

American Werewolf in London - you will not catch me walking alone at night in quiet locations
Evil Dead: I flat-out refused to get a cabin in a remote location for a break with DH
The Conjuring: Every time I put sheets on the line I feel my heart start to race thinking of that one scene.....
Terminator 2 - the nuclear bomb scene. We have a similar view of London from our local playground and I have to not look otherwise I imagine it hitting and get upset.

I dont even like hearing 'Thriller' - I hate zombies. I feel mildly better about films like 28 days later, knowing that in reality as soon as the ankle tendons have rotted, they wont be able to run after you anymore......

For me it's:

1. Session 9
2. Event Horizon
3. It Follows
4. The Bye Bye Man

Salem’s Lot.
Boy tapping on window.
The truck scene.
The Master and his accomplice.
I was terrified.

A film called The Fear. God, I hate when it pops in to my head after all these years!

I went to see the unborn at the cinema on a first date and it creeped me out so much I had to remove the cabinet out my bathroom. Still shudder thinking about it to this day.

Needless to say, there was no second date 😂

I cant watch Threads - I have seen clips and it gave me nightmares for MONTHS

I'm 58 but when I was a kid I watched a film with an Egyptologist trapped underground that was supposedly to do with a curse put upon him by the ancients. This would be a really old film now.

Does anyone know what film this might have been?

It either ended or was shut off by my Mum at the point a drilling team were trying to reach him. Even now, the thought of it gives me the heebies.

Not a film but does anyone remember the series, 'Escape into night' Shize!

I LOVE horror!
Smile creeps me out though. It's the smiles, they're gruesome.
The Conjuring was creepy as well but I think thats been said already.
It Follows is another one that makes the skin crawl, but it's FAB.

Yep

Also titanic
Also hand that rocks cradle
Sleeping with enemy
For me it's not horror as much as psych stuff

Susperia. I had dozed off and woke up about half an hour into the film. DH was away. Terrifying. Even though I kept reminding myself the main witch was Spencer Tracy's wife in Father of the Bride.
The Haunting (1960). It's absolutely brilliant but really unnerving.
The Innocents. Ditto. There's a scene at a window.....

I must say a lot of modern horrors are disgusting rather then scary (to me).

..oh, and the end of The Wicker Man.

I can't even remember the name of the film but a Japanese one where a photographer is being haunted by a young woman and his neck is hurting all the way through the film. He eventually takes a photo of himself and the ghost is sat on his shoulders 😭.

Shutter I think! That film creeped me out too 😬

Jesus Christ I saw 'Fall' recently through fingers. Also, The Descent was horrendous. Oh, and the Ethan Hawke film where his family moved into the murder house and he's a journalist.

That's the one!

Wolf Creek

Terrifying as based on true story too

Sinister!

That scared me too. Very creepy.

There’s an old film (early 80’s I think) called The Changeling which I remember being terrified of. I might see if I can find it and watch it again.

Another vote for Sinister. The bit at the end when you think it's finished - I swear I jumped about 3 feet off the sofa!

I really didn’t like the film Seven with Brad Pitt. It was so gruesome, I’ve only seen it once. I always hated a film with Denzel Washington called the Bone People.

I clearly hate films with psychopaths and torture. Random murders and gore - I’m fine with!

I don't (CAN'T) watch Horror films at all.
I did watch 'Don't Look Now' aged about 20.
I'd like to go to Venice but I'm not sure I could, even now.
I saw The Woman in Black at the theatre years ago & that was scary.
I watched a film about a lighthouse keeper many years ago. all I remember was someone saying: '10 o'clock & alls well, 11 o'clock & all's well, but it stopped'.
Don't know which film it was (1050-1980 probably!) but it was scary all right.

When I was 8 I watched the x files episode of tooms. Scared me witless. Watched it again recently and still felt a prickle down my spine, even though the episode home is worse.

Ted the caver is a creepy pasta that has the descent vibes if you like reading

The bathroom scene in that naughty room 237. I swear I could actually feel the terror coming through my screen from that bloody room. and Those creepy twins taking in unison.

Annabelle comes home.

Oh my goodness! This is what I was going to say - just horrific. I watched it in the 90s (before Internet) by accident. Just switched over 10 minutes in and started watching. I didn't even realise it WAS a horror. Its never left me... 😳

Also, Apaches. A public information film from 1977. Aimed at KIDS. Utterly horrifying... I can't rewatch it after 46 years!

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-apaches-1977-online

Don't Look Now stayed with me for a long time. Freaked out whenever I saw a red coat...

There was an old movie called The Medusa Touch about a man using his mind to cause awful things to happen - that made a big impression.