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!

Oh and Thirteen Ghosts!!

Exorcist
The ring
ANY GIRLS WITH FREAKY LONG HAIR. Urgh even thinking about the rings hair is giving me the creeps.

Wolf Creek definitely. The fact that there is such a long build up to anything happening is what does it for me.

Wolf Creek 2 on the other hand is a pointless, sadistic gore fest with literally nothing to redeem it. Best avoided!!

As previous poster said Sinister. I love horror films and have watched loads but this is one that sticks in my mind as being creepy and still gives me nightmares at night. There is something different about it. Can't quite put my finger on it! Also paranormal witness which is a supposedly real life stories. Obviously not sure if they are true but they do scare me!

Also the poster who said the autopsy of Jane Doe (sorry to keep copying!), completely agree. It terrified me so much I am not sure if I could watch it again!

In a similar vein to Martyrs, a French splatter film called A L'Interior (inside) was horrific. Not one to watch if pregnant!

I love horror but have to admit I hate Strangers. It's too close to something that could plausibly happen I think.

I watched The Ring when I was 14 or so at a sleepover and it terrified me for years. Even though it's a bit naff by today's standards it still brings back that teenage fear and I love / hate it for that reason.

I also found Wolf Creek scary and Sinister but agree with PP about them showing too much of the sinister chap. Kind of ruined it.

Am going to watch Wolf Creek tonight as DH hasn't seen it and Salem's Lot as neither of us have

The first, original Halloween.

I was absolutely terrified for years.

Eden lake def as you could see it happening! The rest, meh.

The first Insidious film and 28 weeks later.

Agree with Event Horizon. That movie shit me up way more than any "proper" horror movie.

Great thread. The Ring terrified me and put me off my love of horror films. I once stayed in an apartment on holiday that had a well in the grounds. One night we came back and there was an inexplicable puddle of water in the middle of the hallway. Didn't get much sleep that holiday!!
Great thread.

Funny games with Naomi Watts, found that flim disturbing.

A lot of films mentioned here I didn't find overly scary.

The best ones that stick out are
The Conjuring/Annabelle films (but not Annabelle comes home - the second half was more like an action in my mind)
Insidious
Paranormal Activity (agree with the PP about the kitchen fan)
The first Resident Evil film (DH is a gamer and watches all horror films, but refuses to play the game as its just too scary)

Not particularly scary, but one horror film that has stayed with me is Shuttle. Its not a very well known one.

Films I didn't rate were
Hereditary
Babadook
Blair Witch
Exorcist (but the book was terrifying)
Event Horizon (I saw it at the cinema, but it wasn't until years later that DH told me it was a horror)

I also enjoyed the Woman in Black.

When I was younger the films that scared me, but dont so much anymore were
The Omen films (the original with Gregory Peck),
Childs Play (1&2 - Didn't see 3 until much later as it was banned before I got to it, so was an adult),
Poltergeist
The Shining.

Eastern Asian are the best. A tale of two sisters (Korean), the eye (Chinese), the grudge (Japanese), the ring (J), The audition (J), dark water (J)

Also recent western horrors: Hereditary was very good, as was Mama! and Midsommer.

One of the spookiest films I ever saw was an old black and white silent film with a German title (can't remember was it was called) it was about an old man who lived alone in a cabin in the forest quite contently until one day he stumbles upon the corpse of a man who had hung himself. Then he starts to slowly go mad.. if anyone's seen this film I'd love to know what the title of it was. Thanks!

Irreversible. Psychologically disturbing but not supernatural.

Room 1408

The Descent

As above so below. And the tunnel

I'm a horror fan and don't scare easily

Check out Haunting of Winchester House its kn amazon. I'm watching it now and so far its seems pretty good. Also can recommend Ju-on the grudge and Dark water both Japanese.

Maybe not what you're asking for but Wolf Creek and Eden Lake are intensely, intensely grim films, WC especially so. Not sure how to write this without spoilers but I find the part in Eden Lake with the young Asian lad who wants to be in the gang towards the end unfathomably depressing.

I'm incredibly late to The Babadook train having only watched it last night (I know, soooo 2015 of me) but I really enjoyed it. Thought it may be a bit overhyped but it was great.

Midsommar I just did not get at all and I'm not normally averse to arthouse cinema. It Follows is good though.

I saw The Descent when it first came out and really liked it. That's another one which feels really hopeless and grim. There's a similar ish film from around the same time called Creep which is about a woman who gets locked in the London Underground one night and stalked by a horrible mutant thing, has anybody seen that? I caught it on Film4 a few years back but no one I've ever spoken to has seen it. Completely preposterous (no chance they'd just let someone fall asleep on the last train!) but quite eerie.

This short story is one of three "The Drop of Water" (main film is an Italian film called "Black Sabbath"). Creepy as hell! Watch the whole thing if you can find it!

Also, the original Suspiria is very creepy. (The new one is good too).

Medusa touch, my little eye and IT

I remember Creep! Wasn’t there something truly fucking horrible and implausible going on down there? It got me interested in all the real life ‘ghost stations’ on the underground

The Descent

Seen most of these, the only genuinely scary ones for me are Sinister (has to pause that one half way through to go outside to smoke to calm down!)
The Evil Dead reboot, holy fuck. That one NEVER lets up. It's jumpy, terrifying and gory. Very well made!
And good old classic The Exorcist. I'm a sucker for yellow eyes and demonic voices. They give me the heebie jeebies.

Special mentions for Eden Lake and Martyrs for being mega disturbing and giving me a nasty feeling inside for a good long time after watching them.