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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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UnctuousUnicorns · 27/04/2023 22:43

"Human Centipede"

I read about this. No, just no.

Rebuildingconfidence · 27/04/2023 22:43

The Platform is very scary too, it's on Netflix but it is extremely gory and horribly bleak. You will be depressed after watching it.

Hawkins003 · 27/04/2023 22:44

UnctuousUnicorns · 27/04/2023 22:43

"Human Centipede"

I read about this. No, just no.

That's just wrong full stop, that should be banned

mrsfollowill · 27/04/2023 22:44

28 Days later/28 weeks later- so on edge for the whole time.
30 days of night- horrendous but another 'hold your breath' film.
Same with Creep.

Hostel was just plain nasty
The Shining is classic and I still watch it if it's on TV.
The Ring gave me nightmares.
I don't really do 'supernatural' stuff- it really scares me! I do like zombies & gore though. Liked all the 'Final Destination' films they are ridiculous. Grin

Endlesssummer2022 · 27/04/2023 22:46

Event Horizon, The Others, Shutter Island (technically not a horror but it messed with my head for ages after and I will never watch it again), IT (80s version), Drag Me To Hell.

GraysPapaya · 27/04/2023 22:47

The Amityville horror and The Shining but psychological horrors definitely get to me more!

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 27/04/2023 22:48

An old one - but it still creeps me out - Don’t Look Now.

Ohheyitsme1 · 27/04/2023 22:48

Hawkins003 · 27/04/2023 22:44

That's just wrong full stop, that should be banned

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I haven’t seen it, but having read the synopsis, it sounds deranged. What sort of mind comes up with an idea like that?!

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:48

NooNooHead1981 · 27/04/2023 22:38

I used to be a real horror film fan and watched loads when I was younger. My dvd collection has some pretty scary ones, though I don't want to watch them much these days.

Think the worst ones were Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hostel. Both very gory and the Texas one I always have to switch off at a certain point and can't seem to watch it beyond that part as it's so bloody awful!

Here's a photo of some of my dvd horror film collection 😄😱

Fantastic collection. Ghost Ship omg I forgot about that one, I enjoyed that I’ll have to watch that again soon. Some
of the dvds I haven’t watched sound good though. Thank you!

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BellaTheDarkOverlord · 27/04/2023 22:48

The Mimic. A South Korean film. Not sure if it's on netflix as I watched it few years back. Worth a watch.

GraysPapaya · 27/04/2023 22:48

@Endlesssummer2022 I nearly mentioned shutter island it has stayed with me too that film!

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:49

Endlesssummer2022 · 27/04/2023 22:46

Event Horizon, The Others, Shutter Island (technically not a horror but it messed with my head for ages after and I will never watch it again), IT (80s version), Drag Me To Hell.

Drag me to hell was disturbing but had some funny parts that’s one to remember

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UnctuousUnicorns · 27/04/2023 22:49

"Not traditional horror as such, but I came out of the cinema feeling traumatised after watching Pan’s Labyrinth"

I have that on DVD, not watched it yet! I thought that subs would make it less disturbing, but maybe not? 🤔

Marchintospring · 27/04/2023 22:50

I really liked Silent Hill. Never played the video game but the film was creepy ( based on a real place too, yuck).

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:51

mrsfollowill · 27/04/2023 22:44

28 Days later/28 weeks later- so on edge for the whole time.
30 days of night- horrendous but another 'hold your breath' film.
Same with Creep.

Hostel was just plain nasty
The Shining is classic and I still watch it if it's on TV.
The Ring gave me nightmares.
I don't really do 'supernatural' stuff- it really scares me! I do like zombies & gore though. Liked all the 'Final Destination' films they are ridiculous. Grin

30 days of night has a number 2 to the film. I loved the first one but the second one wasn’t as good. Flying zombie/vampires are even worse than the 28 Days Later ones haha

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Sodie · 27/04/2023 21:58

Creep, British film set in the underground. I'm a huge horror fan but I was sure the guy/thing from the film was up my attic. My stepdad came over to have a look, he said what do you think is up there. I said you know that film we all watched at Halloween, I'm pretty sure the thing from that is up there. He went up with a hammer!

That was so sweet of him!

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:51

Marchintospring · 27/04/2023 22:50

I really liked Silent Hill. Never played the video game but the film was creepy ( based on a real place too, yuck).

That is one film I’ve never watched & I will definitely be googling that. Thanks!

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UnctuousUnicorns · 27/04/2023 22:52

"Don’t Look Now."

Fuck, yeah! Bloody terrifying.

Huria · 27/04/2023 22:52

@UnctuousUnicorns I love Ringu! there are other similar Japanese/S Korean films from around that era that do the "unspeakable dread" thing very nicely - eg Dark Water, Two Sisters, The Ghost etc. Also, Pulse, which is truly scary and weirdly seems to become more current every time I watch it, but in different ways. (It's about the internet, but made in the early days of the internet.) And, going further back, the most scary film about dread ever is to my mind Onibaba. Absolutely fucking terrifying but you literally don't see a single gory thing.

LatteOneShotplease · 27/04/2023 22:53

Again, not a film but The Twilight Zone reboot series are pretty good in general - also the recent Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities.
Speaking of - Pan's Labyrinth is very creepy, with one or two shocking (and gory...) scenes.
The Exorcist is of course, legendary - I have never wanted to watch it again,. The scene where the demon passes from Reagan into the Priest is horrifying.
The film "Us" is unnerving I agree with PP - with the feeling that they will never stop. And the voice/s added to the creepiness.

(I watched the Saw and Hostel, Wolf Creek etc back when I could stand to see the gore - but now I just find such things uncomfortable and sometimes gratuitous. Never seen The Human Centipede, but once saw part of the second on when channel surfing the Horror - now Legend (ha ha) - channel. Couldn't believe what I was seeing.)

Anything that is set in the woods or a forest gives me the heebie-jeebies. There is a low-budget one called The Shrine 9on again last night I think) - which is predictable in itself, but there is a looming statue through he mists in the forest, and that really scares me for some reason.

Speaking of forests, not a horror so much, and based on a true story is one called Back Country - again a couple against nature - man's hubris bites him on the arse - or the midriff as it happens.

LindyLou2020 · 27/04/2023 22:54

Probably showing my age here, but........it depends what we mean by "horror".
For me, there's "horror", and "disturbing".
Horror - The Others, The Omen, The Sixth Sense, Carrie, The Exorcist.
Disturbing - The Deerhunter, Duel, Platoon, and many, many others referencing the experience of war.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 27/04/2023 22:54

Kairo (The Cure) Japanese film with one of the scariest scenes I’ve ever seen. 😨

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ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay · 27/04/2023 22:56

LatteOneShotplease · 27/04/2023 22:53

Again, not a film but The Twilight Zone reboot series are pretty good in general - also the recent Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities.
Speaking of - Pan's Labyrinth is very creepy, with one or two shocking (and gory...) scenes.
The Exorcist is of course, legendary - I have never wanted to watch it again,. The scene where the demon passes from Reagan into the Priest is horrifying.
The film "Us" is unnerving I agree with PP - with the feeling that they will never stop. And the voice/s added to the creepiness.

(I watched the Saw and Hostel, Wolf Creek etc back when I could stand to see the gore - but now I just find such things uncomfortable and sometimes gratuitous. Never seen The Human Centipede, but once saw part of the second on when channel surfing the Horror - now Legend (ha ha) - channel. Couldn't believe what I was seeing.)

Anything that is set in the woods or a forest gives me the heebie-jeebies. There is a low-budget one called The Shrine 9on again last night I think) - which is predictable in itself, but there is a looming statue through he mists in the forest, and that really scares me for some reason.

Speaking of forests, not a horror so much, and based on a true story is one called Back Country - again a couple against nature - man's hubris bites him on the arse - or the midriff as it happens.

I’m glad you mentioned US & the voices as that terrified me in the pictures when I went to watch it. Genuinely scared me. Really freaky.

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Huria · 27/04/2023 22:56

Hawkins003 · 27/04/2023 22:44

That's just wrong full stop, that should be banned

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Agree it should be banned. Mostly because it's rubbish. Never before or since seen such a load of old toot. Absolutely ridiculous. I'm all for suspending disbelief in fact I love to do so hence my fondness for horror but this was just nonsense.