What is the most haunting *film* you have ever watched?

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Blatantly stealing the idea from the haunting book thread!

Mine has got to be 'Dreams of a Life', the film about Joyce Vincent, the lady who died in her flat and wasn't discovered for years. It just breaks my heart that she lay there for so long. And the thing that haunts me the most is the fact that her TV was still on.

Another one is 'As Above, So Below' a mediocre 'found footage' film set in the Paris catacombs, although it isn't a brilliant film, it really unnerved me.

The original Amytiville and Exorcist are probably the only films which really scared me.

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I watched Megan is missing the other week and it was horrific.

I would also say 'dreams of a life'...I remember crying through most of it and it can still bring me to tears now when I think about it. Just awful and she was so young with family and friends. The fact her TV was still on was so sad and that she had wrapped Christmas presents for other people next to her. Why did no one wonder where she was?!

Beyond Borders - very poorly publicised when it came out, despite starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen. It's corny in parts but it has such a poignancy about the desperation people suffer in awful situations - it focuses on three real humanitarian disasters in Africa, Cambodia and another I forget.

anything about the Holacaust really gets to me - Schindlers List especially, and the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Railway Man is another that I found really chilling - it was on Netflix.

Has anyone seen Pan's Labyrinth? It's another Guillemero Del Toro one and it's quite haunting, it's always stayed with me.

There's a scene in American History X that still makes me feel sick and teary 15 years after seeing it. I can't describe it, it bothers me too much and i have to work to block it out when it pops into my mind every so often. Hated that film though.

Make sure you don't watch The girl next door IHaveBrilloHair its 10x more horrific than Megan is missing, truly horrible.

"Trust" it's basically a story about a paedophile grooming a young girl. The most haunting thing was that some of the details were SO exact to what happened to me, that I almost think they've made a film about me and what happened.

A film with Liam Neeson, I think it was called "Lamb". Terribly sad story about a boy in a priest run care home in Ireland.

As a pp said, La Cabina is very haunting....I remember watching it as a kid when BBC2 used to do the horror double bill back in the early eighties on Saturday night.i think you can catch it on YouTube or Google video.

Agree with Shades. American History X has stayed with me.

The Orphan. I watched the entire film thinking "WTF is wrong with this child?!". It still creeps me out. I tried to watch it again a couple of weeks ago but even though I know the ending I still had to turn it off.

MustBeLoopy390 I was just about to mention Pan's Labyrinth.

Schindlers list
the pianist

Both films that will never leave me

Flatliners. Went to the cinema to see it in my teens and it took me weeks to sleep properly...not scary exactly just very unsettling

And Alice in Wonderland, that's some scary shit! Oh, and where the wild things are?! That's awful

Totally placemarking, I'd love a film which scares me so much I can't sleep - will check out some of these recommendations!

Open Water. Two divers that surface and realise the boat has left them behind to the mercy of the sharks. Horrible.

'Alive' preyed on my mind for a long time.

Amazed it's 22 years old!

*The Vanishing.

The original version, not the Hollywood hogwash remake.*

Is this a fench? Film where he 'looses' his wife in a petrol/service station? Always wondered what it was called very scary and sinister

The original Vanishing is Dutch and it's called Sporloos Griphook. You can find it on YouTube but without English subtitles which is a bit of a bugger unless you've seen it before. It's not that hard to follow though because there's not much dialogue.

I am so glad that so many people on this thread have heard of it. I've never met anyone else.

Service stations will never be the same once you've seen The Vanishing.

I couldn't sleep for days after watching A time to kill. And not because Matthew mcwotsit is so hot in it (though he is) :(

Not haunting though, just very upsetting.

I watched it before everywhere was bristling with CCTV so I could easily believe someone going missing at a service station.

These days service stations and motorways must be bristling with cameras.

I still scuttle back from the loos and only talk to people where there are plenty of witnesses though

My mother in law used to love horror films and made me watch loads. For some reason totally trashy House of Wax comes back to me occasionally.

Totally different but American History X is unforgettable too. I think I can guess the scene mentioned by a PP.

I can't cope with anything too sad or horrible now I have DD and am pregnant. I just get too upset and dwell on it for ages.