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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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GrandTheftWalrus · 27/04/2023 23:21

Ohheyitsme1 · 27/04/2023 22:05

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.

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I don't know if been said but that happened to a guy in real life, they sealed up the caves and he's still in there.

dontlookgottalook · 27/04/2023 23:22

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.

I absolutely loved 30 Days of Night - but then I do like vampire films.
Host is terrifying - set during covid so very contemporary. And genuinely scary. I watched it on iPlayer.

IWantRebeccasConfidence · 27/04/2023 23:23

IWantRebeccasConfidence · 27/04/2023 23:20

The decent
event horizon

The Descent even. The decent sounds like a romcom!

Ohheyitsme1 · 27/04/2023 23:24

GrandTheftWalrus · 27/04/2023 23:21

I don't know if been said but that happened to a guy in real life, they sealed up the caves and he's still in there.

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Yeah I read about that. John Jones, his name was. There’s a film about it too, actually.

Horrible. If you Google his name and Nutty Putty cave, the images section has drawings of what sort of position he was in. It’s grim.

eldersis · 27/04/2023 23:24

They really were ! Im still trying to work out the time line but I think its got to be the early 80s . I bet they became dam fine men !

IWantRebeccasConfidence · 27/04/2023 23:24

GrandTheftWalrus · 27/04/2023 23:21

I don't know if been said but that happened to a guy in real life, they sealed up the caves and he's still in there.

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I read about that and really bothered me at the time, such a horrible way to go. I think he lasted like 24hours or something before he finally died? Called the birth canal or something?

thenightsky · 27/04/2023 23:25

Nutty Putty cave in Utah. I saw a documentary recently, but I can't remember which channel.

GrandTheftWalrus · 27/04/2023 23:26

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).

Centrelia (sp?) In America.

GrandTheftWalrus · 27/04/2023 23:30

Yeah the nutty putty caves. I was reading a buzzfeed or similar article and it mentioned it.

Yeah he thought he was going down the birth canal tunnel and it was a different one if I remember correctly?

They said he eventually died of cardiac arrest as the pulleys they'd put in for him didn't work.

GrandTheftWalrus · 27/04/2023 23:31

Birth canal sorry.

goingback · 27/04/2023 23:32

Rec
The Conjuring
The Platform
The Witch
Midsommar
Eden Lake
Shivers
Alien
last house on the left
The Beyond
Inferno

many many more but these come to mind

Huria · 27/04/2023 23:34

@user1464279374 omg Come And See . man, that is horrific. All the more so because it isn't actually horror. I mean, that stuff happened.

I've only watched it once (rare for me) because I absolutely categorically couldn't watch it again. I completely applaud the people who made it though. We need to know this stuff.

Nonbio46 · 27/04/2023 23:34

Oh, I love horror movies. A quiet place and a quiet place 2 are fab. Definitely going to watch Eden lake this weekend after seeing all the recommendations. 😊

ifIwerenotanandroid · 27/04/2023 23:35

The Vigil - creepy & yet in the end, very moving.

La Cabina - only 35 minutes long, but it gets the job done & you'll never let the door shut again. :-) It's on YouTube with subtitles.

CC4712 · 27/04/2023 23:39

The Thing!!!

Aged only 6ish, staying at my nans. She had single beds in her room, and she fell asleep with the remote in her bed! OMG- it was terrifying at that age and I think of it often- 40yrs on!

SpudsandGravy · 27/04/2023 23:44

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.

Thanks! Just ordered this on EBay :)

HostessTrolley · 27/04/2023 23:49

Salems Lot terrified me as a kid

spiderlight · 27/04/2023 23:50

'Men' on Amazon Prime really, really got to me.

LaunchingTeabag · 28/04/2023 00:10

I'm a horror lover but 'Men' knocked me sick!!!

I would never watch that again and I've never said that about a film before.

Joystir59 · 28/04/2023 00:14

LatteOneShotplease · 27/04/2023 23:16

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

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He enjoyed it! It was physically gruelling though

LatteOneShotplease · 28/04/2023 00:19

Joystir59 · 28/04/2023 00:14

He enjoyed it! It was physically gruelling though

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There was probably a feeling of all being in it together maybe?
Better than actually seeing the film, I would bet.

(I was an extra in a very unknown film, and did find the camaraderie lovely, even for the lowly extras, so there is something to be said for it.... despite the finished result.
Lulu was also in it, and Stephen Fry, and David Thewlis - my role was PA to the latter, but I never even met the others.)

HatThatWearsYou · 28/04/2023 00:19

I came to post about Men! Scary and very well done, I thought about it for ages afterwards.

I quite liked Relic even though it's a bit like The Babadook in the same kind of allegorical/metaphorical (don't know what the word is!) horror for something else type thing if that makes sense? Not my usual type of thing but it was good.

I like the films made by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, still not seen Spring or Synchronic yet but the others I've seen were the weird sort of good.

Twilight7777 · 28/04/2023 00:36

i prefer thriller type horrors like Us, the last house on the left and insidious. The only film to truly scare me was one that basically had a clown coming through the tv I was like nope and switched it off, it was on Netflix don’t remember the name.

HatThatWearsYou · 28/04/2023 00:50

Oh another one that creeped me out long after it was finished was Honeymoon with Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway.

LatteOneShotplease · 28/04/2023 00:52

HatThatWearsYou · 28/04/2023 00:50

Oh another one that creeped me out long after it was finished was Honeymoon with Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway.

Yes - another one with no real explanation, and a very bleak feeling right through.