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To ask of your favourite scary/unsettling films

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MissionItsPossible · 04/07/2017 00:36

I'm just in the mood to watch some and I'd like recommendations.

My contributions are:

Fire Walk With me

I felt afraid and strangely vulnerable for some reason watching this. I was and am a fan of the original series but I did not expect this to be like it was and was very scared while watching lol.

Mysterious Skin

This one I watched when it was broadcast at 1am on Film Four I think and I ended up watching the whole thing at first not knowing what ir was about and by the end I couldn't stop thinking about it for days afterwards. I want to watch it again but I don't know if I can put myself through it.

But both titles are such good films IMO. Anything similar in vein? No spoilers please.

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thethoughtfox · 04/07/2017 08:43

Martyrs - really disturbing French film. Completely recommend if you like that sort of thing ( I do!)

Cocklodger · 04/07/2017 08:49

The clinic.
I'd advise against watching it while pregnant
you'll have nightmares

Cocklodger · 04/07/2017 08:51

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hDiwcVnzRwk Trailer here

FruBayerischOla · 04/07/2017 08:52

Never Let Me Go.

Won't post any links because they all have spoilers!

CockacidalManiac · 04/07/2017 08:53

Come And See.
I was a teenager when I first watched it, on a tiny screen. Still unsettles me now.

RitaMills · 04/07/2017 08:55

Hostel

Scary because it could actually happen just as sex trafficking happens, and it would be fucking terrifying to find yourself in that position.

Giggorata · 04/07/2017 08:56

Johnny Gets his Gun freaked me the hell out when it was on TV in the early hours years ago..

Laiste · 04/07/2017 08:57

It Follows

We watched this for a bit of light humor. We like a laugh at a shitty horror film sometimes and chose ones we think will be crap sometimes.

I ended up genuinely wide eyed and curled up with the sofa throw pulled up ready to hide my face through this Grin

Kintan · 04/07/2017 08:59

Wolf Creek. I'm glad I'd already finished travelling around Australia when I watched it.

Becles · 04/07/2017 08:59

The Company of Wolves

Zampa · 04/07/2017 09:01

Event Horizon. Last watched it 20 years ago and too scared to watch it again. Amazing film.

Laiste · 04/07/2017 09:07

The Tunnel was good.

Set under Sydney Australia i think. A very creepy found footage film. Something about getting to a big bell underground and ringing it to see what it would bring.

Scary!

Laiste · 04/07/2017 09:09

zampa me too!

I did watch in again recently though It is a little bit dated now and not quite as gut wrenchingly terrifying as it was back then. For me anyway. (Was quite a bloody relief tbh Grin)

indigo13 · 04/07/2017 09:14

Hostel because it could be happening right now and wolf creek which I had to switch off because it was just too scary for me!

Laiste · 04/07/2017 09:15

AND - last post and i'll bugger off -

The Conjuring 1 (not 2nd).
The Autopsy of Jame Doe.

I was peeping at the corner of the screen at times in both of these.

iklboo · 04/07/2017 09:18

The Thing (John Carpenter version). Watched it again last night. Still creepy.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 04/07/2017 09:26

Insidious.
Actually I preferred the sequel! Proper creepy horror.
I've read Never Let Me Go. Is the film just as sad?

CigarsofthePharoahs · 04/07/2017 09:27

Case 39. That creeped me out for ages!

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MissionItsPossible · 04/07/2017 09:30

Ooh thank you some good suggestions here! Will check some of them out!

Re: Hostel. Watched it in the cinema as a teenager with mates laughing and joking at the characters plights. Watched it a decade later and felt sick and wanted to throw up!

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daisychainagain · 04/07/2017 09:33

Hostel made me sick.
The human centipede freaked me out so badly the first time I watched it. But now I can watch it and laugh.
What goes on in some people's minds to even write these weird sick films!!

INeedANameChange · 04/07/2017 09:37

Eden Lake.

It's genuinely disturbing.

Ditto the human centipede.

QueenRefusenik · 04/07/2017 09:39

Another vote for Event Horizon here! Also The Babadook (on terrestrial TV this week, I think!). I know some people don't rate it, but it scared the crap out of me!

PNGirl · 04/07/2017 09:39

Also It Follows and Rec.

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MissionItsPossible · 04/07/2017 09:40

Eden Lake. It's genuinely disturbing

I have that on my 'to watch' list and was going to watch it tonight! (or today If i feel I'm not feeling brave enough in the dark lol)

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Roomba · 04/07/2017 09:44

I've watched loads and loads of horror films and normally they don't bother me at all. But I found The Babadook really disturbed me - not the scary monster stuff but all the psychological stuff about parenting and bereavement that it contained. Contrarily, I really liked it too, brilliant film.

Loved Never Let Me Go as well, though it's not a horror film really.

I rewatched Event Horizon recently and it was terrifying! Very disturbing. It didn't bother me that much when I watched it many years ago.

Aliens is a magnificent film - Sigourney Weaver is amazing.