AIBU to ask for films so scary they nearly make you die from fear?

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Or any terrifying TV shows would also be good. Thanks in advance!

Sinister is terribly scary! Urgh but its very good !

Martyrs - french version. The most horrific film Ive ever seen ! Here is a spoiler.... someone skinned alive then put on front of a fire. I still have nightmares over it

Original Last House on the Left - feels like an old snuff movie

Now off to find the name of another scary film about camping in the woods ( in the UK ) and a vile youth gang get them

The Japanese versions of The Grudge and The Grudge 2 - they’re slow building with a non linear storyline that leaves with a seriously messed up psychological nightmare as well as the obvious creep factor of the Grudge ghost itself!

I watched it when I was 14 and it scared the hell out of me - nearly ended up punching my DSis in the face because she resembled the girl from the Japanese Ring trilogy and used to sleep walk with her eyes open as well 😂

Not really properly scared by many films these days, Insidious had some good moments, I do quite like the first Sinister too.

Other films that I think are good horrors are:

It follows
Dark Water (Japanese original)
House of 1000 Corpses
The Exorcist
The Babadook
28 Days Later
La Llorona
Candyman
Season 1&2 of American Horror Story

Eden lake - plain nasty !

The Last Exorcism. God, I love that film. The last scene gets me every time.

The original ring - the Japanese one. Nothing I’ve seen comes close to it and I’ve seen hundreds.

It might feel a bit dated now but there’s a film from the early 00s called My Little Eye I found really scary, and I’ve watched a lot of horror films!
Great thread

Yes the last exorcism is good

Tale of Two Sisters - Korean film. Very creepy. I also agree with the Masters of Horror series - some of those were really good. I think I remember "Cigarette Burns" in particular, and one with Meatloaf in, called "Pelts". The remake of "The Grudge" is very unsettling too.

Another saying Sinister - freaked me out so much! I’m really not scared easily..
The Witch is wonderful.
The Babadook also v scary.

I watched the news the other night and it really freaked me.

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Flat mate and I watched Event Horizon years ago. We were so scared we threw the DVD out of the window as we didn't want it in the house! 😂. So creepy!

German Angst.
I'll be back in a bit with some other recommendations.

Midsommar sounded so scary I couldn't bring myself to watch it

Hereditary got under my skin for days
The Exorcist
The Possession
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is also brilliant, although both that and The Exorcist are really tragedies

(I LOVE a properly scary supernatural film. The slasher ones, like Wolf Creek, are unbearable. Too close to something that might actually happen, I think!)

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@PammieDooveOrangeJoof Do you happen to know which Martyrs is scarier/better. The 2008 or 2015 version?

Another vote for the descent

It’d probably be shit if I watched it now but I had nightmares for weeks after the first Jeepers Creepers film.

I thought the Babadook and the Descent were shit.

A long time ago I watched Salems Lot, with David Soul. It frightened me so much I slept with a crucifix next to my bed for weeks! It might be considered tame these days though 🤷‍♀️

Same! I still cannot bear a window with no curtains when it's dark outside. It's still hands down the scariest thing I have ever seen and I was 12 when I watched it and in my forties now 😟

I'm good at horror films, my DP seems to be on a mission to scar me for life.

Sinister terrified me.

As did the majority of the Insidous saga. 3 was slightly stupid but the rest...

The strangers was spooky.

As Above, So Below (?) was terrifying.

The Nun, Annabelle, The Grudge, Eli, Veronica.

Unfriended was good, with a good twist.

It Comes at Night

Hush

The Perfection - made me feel physically sick.

@cupsofcoffee my husband pissed himself laughing when I screamed with terror throughout thirteen ghosts!! That ghost with the nappy absolutely terrified me 🤢

Sorry that should have said @4cupsofcoffee

Haven't read the thread so these might have been mentioned but I liked It Follows and The Babadook (although really bleak, I tried to rewatch it but couldn't hack it again).
Not terribly scary but I love old fashioned suspenseful horror like, Crimson Peak, The Woman in Black, The original Haunting of Hill House and Scary Stories to tell in the Dark was pretty good.
The film that scared me the most though was John Carpenter's The Ward. I saw it in the cinema years ago and I still get freaked out when I think about it. That is one I'll never watch again.