To ask your most scary horror film?

[ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay]

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

I was more disgusted & confused watching the Human Centipede than I was scared. It just seemed very bizarre to me. I didn’t particularly enjoy it but watched it after the hype. It’s not a film I’d like to watch again.

The Ring is utterly horrible. I still have visions of that girls horrible crawly movements. Terrifies me.

Wolf creek was gory and grim. The same as Hostel and Green Inferno. Disturbing but not what I'd call horror. Recently watched a film with two divers exploring an underwater house. That was creepy as fuck.

For me horror is about the things that make you frightened to get up and go for a wee in the middle of the night. I can handle mindless gore but creepiness and true scariness is another story.

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And I had nightmares for weeks after

Hostel is pretty horrific

I'd like to watch the original

'I spit on your grave'

The original Straw Dogs and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are also pretty

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Yes! Agree with you about being disgusted and confused. I don't get the point of that film.

Sinister

Yes, I agree that Horror when it is largely about the gore or torment and torture becomes almost nonsensical. Unsettling films are less blatant and the shock value is less in your face.

That doesn't mean that the horrific aspects don't linger in the mind though - Silent Hill is an example. The air of the film (for someone who didn't know the video game) is very disturbing but a couple of the scenes really do stay in the mind - and I have never watched it again, but could still picture them - even if I prefer not to.. Same with the most upsetting scene - or whole episode even -from Them.

So crazy that things like this stay in the mind when we would prefer them not to, and yet nicer memories are harder to keep a hold of.

Another vote for Japanese originals over American remakes.

Also The Descent and Don't Look Now

I think Don't Look Now just builds with a scary undertone until the final "showdown". I didn't find it too scary until then.

This isn't a film but its a 3 part BBC series starring Michael Palin, I think its still available on Amazon. It was on TV around 8 years ago and it scared the fucking living shit out of me. It was called Remember Me.

Even my Mum who is the most fearless person I know wouldn't even watch part 2 because part 1 really scared her and my Dad wouldn't watch it with her, there's no way you could watch this alone.

Other than that The Ring and Blair witch still get me. Eden Lake, just because it's so realistic, hard to watch that one.

Great suggestions here! I think Eden Lake and The Descent are two of the best.

If you like more arthouse but still terrifying, I'd recommend Goodnight Mommy. That really stuck with me.

Ready or Not is a really fun comedy horror.

Not sure it counts as horror but it's horrific and I thought of it after someone posted about war movies: Come and See is defs the most unsettling thing I've ever watched. I also always rate Kill List as one of my all time faves even though it's maybe not technically horror (many would argue it is!).

Some other good ones: Lake Mungo, You're Next, The Orphanage, The Mist, Host.

And more recently I LOVED Barbarian. I rarely get shocked by horror films and this one did it haha.

@ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay I could not have watched Them in a cinema! No wonder you were freaked out by the voices in surround sound!

The Fog, the John Carpenter original film scared me as a teenager.

It really scared me. But I watched it as a teenager before it came out in the cinema. Someone basically gave me a tape and told me to watch it. It gave me nightmares for ages! I wasn't even sure if it was real.

My friend acted in Centipede 2, he was one of the segments

Absolutely the EXORCIST ! I looked WAY over age at the time (i was 14) and school mates asked me to help them get in as "accompanied adult" They were fine I was terrified AND traumatised, On the bus home two boys in the same year as me got off the bus with me and walked me along the road home,I insisted on walking down the middle of the lane away from the hedges on either side, These guys voluntarily missed their last bus home, Dad was furious with me but drove the boys home AND explained praised and thanked them and their parents, I refused to sleep in my room alone for MANY weeks, gradually moved back into my own room with LIGHTS ON, then months later, landing lights on! I can only think that I DO believe in the Devil and evil to this day. It was her FLOATING that scares me. Stephen king "they all float" and Flowers in the attic "ghosts floating downstairs" OH gosh werent those boys brilliant to help me !

I hope his career took an upward turn after that....What a horrible job.

Megan is missing.

I love horror films but the last 5 mins of that film fucked me up.

Another vote for Paranormal Activity.

And don't ever watch the original (non-Hollywood) version of The Vanishing. Just don't ever watch it.

@eldersis Oh they were wonderful!

I had the book, and had read it - but removed it from my bookshelf, as I couldn't sleep with even the book in the same room.

The floating, the voice, the absolute sense of her being possessed, and how cold and uncomfortable that room was.... I think having read the book before seeing the film made it seem so much more intense.

@ThingsthatgoBumpintheDay - had no idea there was a sequel to 30 days of night although it sounds like I'm not missing much there!
Can't believe I forgot 'The Omen' - it's shite now but in the late 1970's my dad got a 'pirate video' of it and put the cassette in the garage overnight it scared him that much! I watched it at the cinema in the early 1990's ( a 'special showing') and it terrified me. Me and DS watched it about three years ago and laughed our asses off - it has not dated well. DS is 21 by the way not a toddler!

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