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Scariest movie you've ever watched.

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Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 07/03/2015 23:55

It would have to be the Conjuring for me, and I do not scare easily.
It doesn't help either that it's based on a true story.

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Cariad007 · 08/03/2015 21:00

Oh I'd forgotten about Skeleton Key. Yes that was creepy and the twist very disturbing.

dreamingofblueskies · 08/03/2015 21:05

Capn I might give that a go then, I loved the first 2 Dead Space games, hopefully it'll be like them. Smile

dustarr73 · 08/03/2015 21:05

Im surprised no one has mentioned Texas Chainsaw Massacre,that for me is the scariest film.Its all the screaming i think.It really bothers me.

I loved the Woman in Black 1 and 2.Mama was also good but the ending was a bit crap.But my favourite 2 are Exorcism of Emily Rose and Drag me To Hell.

MissMogwi · 08/03/2015 21:07

I'm a massive shit bag and they all scare me.

The Conjuring scared the bejesus out of me. The fucking clapping and the possessed mum. Arrgh!

Mama also too much for me. I barely slept as I kept one eye on the wardrobe door.

KERALA1 · 08/03/2015 21:10

The ring. Watched on my own when dh away was terrified in 7 days a fiend with bad hair was going to drag herself out of the tv...

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WanderingTrolley1 · 08/03/2015 21:13

Insidious 2.

SunnyL · 08/03/2015 21:21

No one seems to have mentioned IT and Pennywise the scariest clown ever. Must have been about 10 when I watched that.

Then it was The Birds I watched when I was 13. Scared of every ruddy bid in the sky after that.

Then it was Paranormal Activity which I wish someone had warned me not to get a video monitor for DD. Every time there's a little glitch in the video feed I jump.

Twang · 08/03/2015 21:28

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original, not the remade shite). Even thinking about it makes me nauseous.

Not a movie, but fucking videos like this we got shown at school have never left me

ZoomZoomToTheMoon · 08/03/2015 21:31

I'm such a lightweight I can't even watch proper horror at all. So mine are totally tame!

Sixth Sense - I saw it in the cinema and at one "shock" bit I literally leapt right out of my seat and whacked my leg on the seat of the person in front. That went down well. Not.

What Lies Beneath - I was scared to lie down in the bath for about the next 6 months Blush

DP persuaded me to watch The Others as an attempt to get me more into scary films. We were at home but I spent the entirety of the film frozen to the sofa in a state of gibbering panic (fearing another moment like the one in the Sixth Sense).

I read a review of the Babadook recently and I thought it sounded brilliant, I wish I could see it. But I can't afford to not sleep for months!

Pandora452 · 08/03/2015 21:35

I can't cope with scary movies so you will all laugh at me but
Jeepers Creepers - the song still gives me the creepys
The Breed .. low budget and actually crap but really played on my fear of dogs
The Village .. I jumped my way through it the first 2 times and even now although I can watch it I hate it

SandyMumsnet · 12/03/2015 16:46

Hello, with the OP’s kind permission we’re sweeping this thread into our Films topic.

BreakingDad77 · 13/03/2015 08:59

Another vote for Event Horizon

spanky2 · 13/03/2015 12:09

The Conjuring was so scary I had to watch it in three goes. Haunted China faced dolls terrify me.
The Grudge as the demon woman moved so strangely and the bit with the woman in the bed makes me shiver just thinking of it!
The Shining, 'come play with us Danny, for ever' and the bit where Jack is sitting staring with the type writer. But in the book it is the bit with the animal hedges and the woman in the bathroom.

thenightsky · 13/03/2015 19:21

Just been to see It Follows. Some seriously creep-out bits that pop into your head when you wake up at 3am Shock

Bit slow overall though.

zukiecat · 13/03/2015 21:21

Not a film but Stephen King's "Storm of The Century" really freaked me out, I made (X) H come to the loo with me, and wait outside the door in case the demon got me.

Scariest film (and I only watched it under duress) was Candy Man. Couldn't look in a mirror for weeks after!

Things like Woman In Black, Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch, etc don't scare me though.

Sforsprinkle · 17/03/2015 17:28

"The Others" I know embarrassing but I'm trying to convince myself to watch "The Woman in Black"

MrsKravitzFromAcrossTheStreet · 18/03/2015 12:17

This thread made me watch Event Horizon last night.

Sooo disappointing. It didn't scare me at all, and I thought I was easy to scare. It was just lots of faces with effects make up - no suspense or good storyline in my opinion. It seemed to be want to be Hellraiser, which is a much better and scarier film.

Cariad007 · 18/03/2015 12:24

Tim Curry as the clown in Stephen King's It was so terrifying that I could barely look at the telly whenever he was onscreen.

HeffalumpsnWoozles · 18/03/2015 12:29

The Entity, scared the bejeezus out of me but then the idea of poltergeists terrifies me.

I watched Mirrors and had to go to the loo in the middle of the night, don't turn on the light in the bathroom as it activates a noisy fan...we have a huge mirror in the bathroom I've never weed so fast!

MrsKravitzFromAcrossTheStreet · 18/03/2015 14:05

The scariest part of The Entity is that it is supposedly a true story. Many years ago I watched a game show with Bill Cosby where he asked one of the contestants what he did. The man said he was a researcher of some kind, and had worked on the real life case that the film is based on; he was involved in the mock-up of the house that was rebuilt in the laboratory. He recalled how something happened to the woman in the fake house, and the researchers dropped something - a sheet or net - from the ceiling and he watched as it fell over the shape of a massive invisible person Shock

ThatBloodyWoman · 18/03/2015 14:09

The Blair Witch Project.

Not so scary I expect if you live in town maybe,but pretty terrifying if you have woods around you...

lucylou222 · 18/03/2015 17:58

Definitely sinister, couldn't sleep for a week!

HeffalumpsnWoozles · 18/03/2015 18:17

MrsKravitz I saw a documentary made some years after the film & the entity had apparently followed the family after they moved house. I have it on DVD but in not brave enough to watch it again....

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar · 25/03/2015 23:19

Watched Event horizon last night. Sam neill should be renamed Ham Neill. I expected better of laurance Fishburne. :( :o. Anyone interested in watching the Entity can do so on Amazon Prime. It's free if you are a member if not its £2.49 to rent.

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