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To ask your most scary horror film?

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 20:15

Just as the subject says, I’ve watched nearly all of them on Netflix. Really could do with some more suggestions. Thank you 😊

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AllOfThemWitches · 27/04/2023 22:03

Nothing actually scares me in terms of films but I love horror. My favourites are:

The Witch
Rosemary's Baby
The Wicker Man - my all time favourite, it actually has a calming effect for me though
Suspiria
The Omen

Also really love Get Out, The Conjuring and The Autopsy of Jane Doe. There are probably tons more.

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 27/04/2023 22:03

28 days later.

So many of the set pieces haunted me.
Living in London and it was so easy to imagine.

QueefQueen80s · 27/04/2023 22:04

Whatsthisthing · 27/04/2023 20:21

The Strangers. Absolutely petrified me

This was terrifying.

AllOfThemWitches · 27/04/2023 22:04

Ooh i forgot Hereditary!

Emmamoo89 · 27/04/2023 22:05

Bapbap · 27/04/2023 20:51

Blair Witch Project

That's not scary 🤣

Ohheyitsme1 · 27/04/2023 22:05

SquashPenguin · 27/04/2023 21:00

The Descent scared the shit out of me, especially as I was spending so much time underground on my mining engineering degree 🤣😱

Remember the scene in that film where the main character is crawling through a tiny crevice and gets stuck? Jeeeeeezo! Why people go caving for fun will never make sense to me.

Emmamoo89 · 27/04/2023 22:05

BloodBornPapyrus · 27/04/2023 20:49

Hereditary

Love hereditary

catscatscurrantscurrants · 27/04/2023 22:06

30 days of night.

Bapbap · 27/04/2023 22:06

Emmamoo89 · 27/04/2023 22:05

That's not scary 🤣

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It scared me. I know a good few didn't find it scary at all.

PragmaticWench · 27/04/2023 22:06

The Human Centipede. I kept crying randomly for a week.

Creep.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 27/04/2023 22:07

Agree with Descent..creepy and claustrophobic. Glad we got the ending we got for that one too..the other version bit meh

HeartshapedFox · 27/04/2023 22:08

Exaspa · 27/04/2023 21:06

Old black and white (not remakes) Haunting (sometimes called the Haunting of Hill House) and the Innocents with Deborah Kerr

God they're both creepy!

Just coming on to suggest the old black and white Haunting! Watched it with the lights off and it was seriously creepy… in the dark… in the night…

Movingonupi · 27/04/2023 22:09

@Lorrymum i came on to say Dead of Night as well, still haven’t found a scarier film. My personal favourite is the one with the mirror shudder. Also agree with the ring, insidious, babadook

PatientZorro · 27/04/2023 22:11

The old black and white film “whistle and I’ll come to you” is also very creepy and worth looking up…..although I do feel that anyone who blows an ancient whistle they find resting on a grave kinda deserves what they inevitably get!

Philosophical1 · 27/04/2023 22:12

Another one saying Sinister. That scared the shit out of me, I remember the night we watched that I woke up all night scared shitless 🤣

I also think 30 days of night was pretty horrific; a bit out there but it was quite scary. Oh and strangers like others have said.

MooseBreath · 27/04/2023 22:13

I prefer psychological horror and thrillers. These are my favourites:

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Orphan
The Good Son
The Number 23

hadtoomuchsleep · 27/04/2023 22:13

Cherry321 · 27/04/2023 21:10

wolf creek - the only film I’ve ever switched off and have no desire to know what happened!!

I saw it at the cinema and it was the longest I've been PETRIFIED for still, nearly 20 years later.

Bananalanacake · 27/04/2023 22:15

Gremlins 1

skippy67 · 27/04/2023 22:18

Se7en. I rewatched it recently, and it got me again!

Hellohah · 27/04/2023 22:20

catscatscurrantscurrants · 27/04/2023 22:06

30 days of night.

Was coming on to say this.
I don't think it was scary, scary but the kind of film that just has you on edge the entire way through. I felt like I didn't breathe for 2 hours

Huria · 27/04/2023 22:20

Lorrymum · 27/04/2023 21:43

Dead Of Night, 1945 classic British horror film. Not gory but genuinely scary. The final ventriloquist story gives me the creeps just thinking about it.

I LOVE that film.

Also Magic, a long British horror about a ventriloquist dummy. Proper proper scary.

But I have to say that my favourite horror of all time is Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Honestly give it a go OP. It is genius. You don't actually see hardly anything, your brain supplies the horror. As is the case for all the best horror films. I honestly love it.

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:21

PatientZorro · 27/04/2023 21:58

Sinister. Really scared me and that takes some doing.

Great thread! I love a bit of horror and there are some corkers listed above. The only one I haven’t seen is Eden Lake. Exciting, I’m off to search that one out right now!

If you haven’t tried Korean horror give it a go OP….train to Busan, the Wailing and more, great scary films.

Oh I absolutely loved the train to busan.

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:23

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 27/04/2023 22:03

28 days later.

So many of the set pieces haunted me.
Living in London and it was so easy to imagine.

That & 28 Days Later are some of the scariest, intense films I’ve watched haha.

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CarrotCake01 · 27/04/2023 22:23

Do you have a favourite sub-genre OP?!

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:24

ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:23

That & 28 Days Later are some of the scariest, intense films I’ve watched haha.

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Sorry I meant to say 28 Weeks Later

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