What movies scare the pants off you?

[spursmum]

Carrying on from Bubble's Ring 2 thread, what films scare the living bejeezus out of you?
The only 2 films to terrify me are Carrie(when her hand comes out the ground!) and Ring(japanese version when she comes out the TV!!)
Come on admit what frightens you stupid!!!!

The Others.

Haven't come across Saw yet. I like supernatural horrors, don't like bloodthirsty horrors or true life horrors as I think that it really could happen and it sickens me more than scares me, which is different.

Also, if you think about the murders that happen after someone has watched one of these films, it's really quite terrifying. I wonder if the film makers are not just giving people ideas. Ghosts I can deal with, but real people I find hard to take.

The bogeyman and Saw. But i have to say my worst one was stephen kings it! still can't look at clowns!

Yes I prefer ghostly films too
The others was good, as was the 6th sense

Bedazzled. Liz Hurley's acting gave me nightmares.

I loved the 6th sense!! I watched it twice just to see all the clues that I has missed!!
LOl MTPW how can she be classified as an actress?

Am I the only person worried about Stephen KIng and his mental state that he can come up with so many films and books that scare so many people?

Slightly off topic, but my dh threw away my VAST collection of horror fiction about 2yrs after we married. He said it was screwing up my mind and he lobbed the lot in the bin!! I had sooooo much!!!!!

Irvin Welch worries me more, writing about rape, violence, drugs, torture, some of the scenes in his books are sickening! I think he should be locked up for his own good, not profiting from creating like-minded sick individuals!

OOOh, yeah, I used to have foresic pyschology books, forensic pathology and that kind of thing, it fascinated me! Dh persuaded me to sell them, they freaked him out! Funny that I could read them all with complete detachment, but now I have kids, I avoid anything like that, I can't stomach it!

Brett Easton Ellis is another one. He wrote AMerican Psycho but must admit that I loved that film. Especially the cat in the cash machine bit, got me thinking about whether he was doing the killings or whether he was insane.

The Shining and Pacific Heights.

I love reading Forensic stuff, true crime and things like that. It's the psychology for me, why people do things and are they born "bad" type of thing.

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Perhaps because when I was really young (5,6,7) I used to stay with my aunty quite often, and slept in my cousins room (she'd left home) and there was a TV in there. My Aunty used to religiously unplug the TV and put it out of the way.......and I'd carefully plug it back in and watch those 'horror' movies that used to be on TV back in the 80's (you know the ones before the screen went 'blank'.

Then at boarding school we were allowed to get videos out - but only 15's (HAHAHA) supposedly, and the video shop 'knew' this. However, they always used to the let the 18yr olds take out 18's anyhow, and then we'd all (aged between 12 and 18) pile into watch them in the dark

I watshed The American Warewolf In London when I was very young, andit scared the living daylights out of me.

I thought that particular horror in the eighties was prisoner cell block H wasnt it?

How could I forget 'The Others'? Saw it for the first time in cinema and it scared the beegeesuz outta me.

Similar thing Waterfalls. I saw Aliens when I was 10(another thanx mother!) and could not watch it for a good 5 years!!
I find now that most films claiming to be horrors have me yawning half way through and searching for something better to watch in my own collection.

LOL Vickytiredmum. I used to stay up to laugh at just how bad it was!