To ask of your favourite scary/unsettling films

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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.

The Orphanage. I was still thinking of it days later

The Babadook stuck with me for a long time.

It's woefully dated now but Ghostwatch really did a number on me as a kid. Bloody pipes!

I'm trying to make myself watch Threads as I have been reading about it and it sounds like something we could all do with seeing these days. But just reading about it has disturbed me so I'm not sure I'll ever actually see it.

The Shining is still one of my favourite unsettling films. Just beautifully underplayed but horrifying.

More recently I loved The VVitch. "Wouldst thou like the taste of butter? A pretty dress? Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

Under The Skin left a lasting impression also.

Stephen King's 'It' - watched it as a teenager and am still scared of clowns

The Shining is hardly underplayed. Stephen King hated it because Kubrick reduced Wendy to a "scream queen" and Jack to a gurning psycho. The book is far better and scarier.

The Orphanage haunted me for months, so cruel and sad.

Urgh, the book is shlocky shite! All the topiary coming to life etc is completely comical. the reason I prefer the film is that apart from Grady unlocking the freezer it could all be playing out in their heads.

I second "Rec" as creepy/ horrible. The Descent was pretty horrid, too. Most horror/ thriller films I find pretty dull tbh. I found The Babadook tedious!

... and Eden Lake is just nasty! I couldn't finish it!

Eden Lake is pretty good OP, definitely worth a watch if you've not seen it before.

I watch a LOT of horror, and am constantly looking for a film to actually scare me. The last one was Ringu, back when I was about 14.

Martyrs is one that's stayed with me; it's not scary but it is a little disturbing. Requiem for a Dream isn't horror but if you liked Mysterious Skin then you'd probably like it.
I always recommend Cube (the Vincenzo Natali one) to people as well, it's a drama/thriller rather than horror but it's one of my alltime favourite films, and anything by Dario Argento is worth a watch though they are all old.

The Road, brilliant film but I don't think I can watch it again.

Eden lake. Hard to watch.

Eden lake. The epitome of disturbing.
The conjuring 2.
Pet semetary
In the name of the father

I love The Shining. I have tried reading Stephen King but find him boring. I love that film.

Also love The Wicker Man

I totally agree that The Shining isn't a patch on the book. The book genuinely scared me.
Threads was quite scary and upsetting and the original Wicker Man.

But I enjoy both The Shining and The Wicker Man.

When I was a teenager I used to love being terrified and now I don't watch films like Wolf Creek and Hostel. I think family life generates enough adrenalin for me!

Dark Water is very scary. I had a phase of watching Japanese horror films and thought they were great.

Repulsion with Catherine Deneuve is very disturbing.

The Woman in White is proper old-school horror. I only went to see it because I harbour an inappropriate crush in Daniel Radcliffe but it was proper terrifying.

I found Interstellar very unsettling, the absolute silence of space and the water bit (but I am very scary of the sea/ocean).

AllTouchedOut I read everything I could about Threads before I saw it. It still gave me the only panic attack I have had in my life. I wasn't right for weeks afterwards and I made myself watch it many more times after to try and have it 'click' in my head as 'It's only a film, only a film'.
It is brilliant and really well done but fuck me swinging it is a film you can define your life as before and after viewing it.

Neon Demon is pretty disturbing...

That said I was coming on this thread just to suggest it. Favourite seems an odd word to describe it but basically it makes any other nuclear war film seem like a sing a long Disney feel good time. I have no idea if that helps or not..sorry!

Seconds

Really old black and white with Rock Hudson. Very freaky with some 60s orgy thrown in for good measure

Wolf Creek is freaky horrible. Anyone who liked Insidious might like Sinister.

When i was really young i watched the Dark Crystal and it totally freaked me out. Re watched it a couple of weeks ago and it still is sinister, More worrying is that it was made by jim Henson the same guy who made the Muppets. A twisted mind i tell you ..