Your favourite really good, properly creepy horror film please!

[TheImprobableGirl]

I think tonight calls for a really good creepy horror film. Dp hasn't watched many bar saw, but it does need to be realistic-y (ie no zombies/ zombeavers) can be old or new. Ideally on sky rental thing, which most tend to be.

I was thinking maybe the grudge/ring. Preferably nothing too old-fashioned, we tried the birds, Carrie and wicker man but were none too taken.

Please

Fall of the house of usher

Eden Lake or Dont be afraid of the dark which is on film 4 tonight at 11:15

Oooh a horror film at 11:15?! God am not that brave

The Orphanage.

Ooh the Ring properly terrified me! Have you seen The Orphanage? It's a Spanish one, really creepy.

dd (age 14) is currently watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Who is more properly creepy than the Childcatcher?

'Mama' freaked me out. Not bloody and guts scary but very creepy scary.

Nah its not blood and guts I'm after. More of a mental one? Something like the ring could work so the orphanage sounds a goer !

The Skeleton Key

The Conjuring, The Haunting of Conneticut 2, The Woman In Black, The Orphanage, The Possession, Dark Skies, Alien Abduction, Jessabelle, The Babadook, As Above So Below and The Atticus Institute.

The Shining, dear Lord just the thought of it makes my knees tremble

Another vote for The Orphanage. That film is creepy as sin and I still sometimes think about it if I wake up in the middle of the night!

My all time scariest film is still the Blair Witch, though. That traumatises me for days on end every time I watch it.

Agree with all Gem's list except the babadook! That kid was so screechy and annoying I was rooting for the thing that was trying to get it!

And I would also recommend Wer, slightly gory in places but it has a really good story and revived the werewolf genre for me!

The Grudge definitely!

Oh god agent, the Orphanage got me really deeply too, I had waking nightmares, convinced in the night there was a little boy in the doorway!

the grudge, dark water, shutter,

NOT The Babadook. It's more of a metaphorical film than a proper horror. There's nothing scary in it and half the people who watched it don't get it. It is pretty good for what it really is though, but no it won't scare you or shouldn't.

The Orphanage
Devil's Backbone (same director)
Les Diaboliques (old but brilliant)
I am looking forward to seeing It Follows - new on DVD and meant to be very good...
28 Days Later
Under The Skin
I quite liked Dog Soldiers and Deathwatch, though they are both a bit naff...
The Descent

The original Japanese films are pretty much always better than the remakes if you fancy The Ring, The Grudge or Dark Water.

The Thing (1982 version) is probably my favourite horror film ever, it's absolute genius and has aged really, really well. Might be a bit on the gory side.

The Fog (1980 version) is also fabulous and less gory but also a bit more "of its time".

1408 and The Mist are both excellent Stephen King adaptations.

Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2 are great non-gory fun horrors.

The Awakening is brilliant and very creepy.

The Devil's Backbone and Cronos (both written and directed by Guillermo del Toro) are fantastic as well.

The orphanage for sure.

REC is also terrifying.

The Babadook confused me - WTF happened at the end? Worms? The cellar? I even went to Wikipedia to try and work it out, but I still didn't get it....

I liked:

1. Sinister
2. Insiduous 1&2
3. Paranormal Activity
4. The Conjuring
5. The Ring
6. The Grudge

About 50% of my large DVD collection is Horror... I've got some right awful films in there!

the others

Oh God, The Mist. I read the novelette and the film was even better - rare to say for Stephen King.

It haunted me, that film, HAUNTED ME.

Paranormal Activity scared me (big wuss that I am)