REALLY scary films

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Anyone got any recommendation of good scary films? I haven't seen one that's actually scared me for a long time.

The Shining

And I was really scared watching We need to talk about Kevin

When I was little I watched Whatever happened to Baby Jane - really scared me.

Really old one - The Innocents , from 1961, starring Deborah Kerr.

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness - low-budget, high-concept, but incredibly creepy and unsettling. Amazing soundtrack and editing. SPOILER: Jesus was an alien.

The Beyond - '80s Italian gore fest; gross, nonsensical but with a thick nightmare-like atmosphere and wildly inventive death sequences.

Suspiria - Monstrous wall of sound and colour and technicolour fairytale horror. "Witches!"

Cannibal Holocaust - surprisingly conservative (the film goes to ludicrous lengths to make the people who eventually get chomped, 'bad guys') but effective, if only due to the repeated and extended scenes of real animal dismemberment. Mmm!

Cruntie I cannot believe you posted The Prince Of Darkness! That's one of my favourite films, it was way ahead of its time re cinematography.

Orphan is very good. Never seen The Exorcist but dh said it was the scariest film he has ever seen! The woman in black is a real jump fest. I thought Daniel radcliffe was very good.
Watched Mama and wasnt keen. Didnt scare me and i am easily scared.

Agree, Black Christmas was creepy, saw it on tv few years back.

I also liked the Orphanage and Nosfetatu- the original version.

My faves are Halloween (the original with Jamie Lee Curtis)......The Omen and probably a Hitchcock classic like Psycho or The Birds x

I like paranormal horrors!

Last week I got two from asda they were only £3 each:

The atticus institute - I didn't think it was my type of film at first but it has a really good story line to it!

Paranormal asylum: the revenge of Typhoid Mary - this one had me crying, like literally sobbing With fear

Hope these help 😊

The ring, original version. Now, whar was that Spanish one called? About a journalist who goes for a TV report to a block of flats and gets locked in because people start doing horribly. Possibly aliens or demons.

Isn't that rec

The Exorcist, not so much the actual film but the idea of it. Demonic possession is quite a scary topic.
The Grudge, that bit where it follows the woman home and gets her in bed, spooked me right out.
I don't think I could watch The Conjouring, think that's got demons and dolls in it.

VHS 2

The middle 'story' is a short film called Safe Haven.

You can watch most of it on YouTube. It's totally off the hook.

The Orphanage destroyed me - so frightening and completely heartbreaking.
Event Horizon gave me nightmares.
The Blair Witch Project also have me nightmares.
The Woman in Black nearly gave me a heart attack.

I have decided not to watch any more horror movies as I cannot take the stress!

Wolf Creek is horrible.
The Japanese version of The Ring. White Noise.
Blair witch.
I don't like horror films, but I have seen the odd famous one.

I agree Event Horizon was one of the scariest of all time. Wolf Creek I found really disturbing and wished I hadn't watched it. Also Paranormal Activity freaked me out for a few days.

The BBC used to broadcast 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' every year in the 70s and they are quite disturbing. The best one is probably 'The Signalman' adapted from a Charles Dickens' short story by Andrew Davies (later of Pride & Prejudice and War & Peace fame). It is only about 40 mins but very chilling.

It is available to view on YouTube.

..... if you dare

hahahahahaha.

Depends what scares you. I don't get scared with ghosts, demons or paranormal shit, but I do with more realistic life ones like Saw, My Bloody Valentine and such. I don't watch the Saw ones, not very keen on gore. I remember watching wrong turn when I was about 12 at a sleepover and it scared the shit out of me haha. House of a Thousand Corpses too. Paranormal ones make me laugh.

The Bair Witch Project really freaked me out. Still makes me shudder. Is Event Horizon gory horror or more just freaky? Don't like the gory ones.

Compos, i will look that up, thanks

You've reminded me, the BBC showed "crooked house" a few years in a row at Xmas. The first one in particular really scared me. Brilliantly done.

recorded "splice" last night but concerned it will be too gory for me.

The Descent.....

How marvellous! I had been thinking of starting this very thread myself!

I would love to be terrified by a film, but never have been. I quite liked Rec, The Descent, Black Christmas.

Also, there is a series called "Darknet" on Netflix which is pretty menacing and gruesome. I really liked that!

A good one is "The Entity" it is apparently based on a true story, it was made in the 70s, but then alot of the good ones are! To this day along with "The Exorcist" I refuse to watch them alone...

Correction, it was released in the early 80s, not that it makes a difference.

Ooh, I loooove a scary film!

If you're OK with subtitles ILS (THEM) is a terrifying home-invasion-type film, which are always the ones which resonate with me when I'm home alone...

I totally agree with THREADS which is genuinely the most awful film I've ever seen.

Other recent scariness I'd recommend is THE CANAL, THE TAKING (also known as the THE TAKING OF DEBORAH LOGAN) and ABSENTIA and OCCULUS. They were/are all on Netflix at some point.

There are TONS of fantastic short horror films on youtube too. Watch at your peril...

www.scoopwhoop.com/inothernews/short-horror-films/

(Mama, Peekers and There are Monsters spooked me!).