Scariest film you’ve seen

[Downunderduchess]

What has been the scariest movie you’ve ever seen, one that freaks you out, even years later?

I still remember seeing the original When a Stranger Calls & Sleeping With The Enemy. Psychological thrillers scare me more than horror or gore. The building of suspense.

I loved Orphan . I'm watching this thread for inspiration, I love a good horror. For some reason I find horrors with kids in more freaky.

@Ledkr I loved hill house and pleased to hear there is a second one even if it wasnt the scariest.
I also thought wolf creek was so scary and it didnt help that at the time when I watched it I thought it was based on a true story which I found out was a lie as it wasn't actual events.

Race With The Devil, mid 70s film starring Peter Fonda. It is about two couples on holiday in a big motor home, they see some devil worshippers killing someone in a satanic ritual. They go on the run with the devil worshippers chasing them. I think it is the chase going on and on and every time they think they get away they suddenly realise the baddies are back. I think my heart rate was astronomical by the end of it.

Original Texas chainsaw massacre film and I once walked in on my parents when I was little watching Chucky just as he throws the babysitter out the window and that freaked me out I was of any life sized doll for many years after that

PPS have mentioned the ones I found really scary - the original Blair Witch*, Japanese original versions of Ring and The Grudge, Audition, Spanish original Rec, Eden Lake...but not mentioned yet are Ils (Them) a French horror and Banshee Chapter^ - both of these got right under my skin for some reason.

Also a British film called A Dark Song, it's a two hander and not really a horror as such but I found it gripping and it stayed with me for days...

Megan is missing and The girl next door.
Both films left me disturbed for weeks.

I agree with others the 28 days and 28 weeks later films really got to me. That scene in 28 weeks later where he's reunited with his wife scarred me. Can't watch that scene again.

I'm not usually bothered by scary films but I watched The Prodigy on Netflix the other week and it scared the shit out of me.
The only other film to ever do that was Candyman

Event Horizon. It took 4 attempts to watch it all.

And there's a 70s film about a group of guys who go camping where there is this weird inbred family - just googled : Deliverance.

I’m a hardcore horror film fanatic and I loved quite a few of the suggestions above.

I watched a film on Netflix called ‘Within’ which I thought was quite good, also ‘Hush’ was different. Loved ‘The Haunting of Hill House’, it was so well done!

@Willow I love 13 ghosts. You should try watching it until the end - it's a good ending.

Another two which are good -

Last house on the left
I spit on your grave.

wolf creek is based on the serial killer Ivan Milet so I think it makes it even more scarier as it actually happened

Nightmare on Elm Street

Also in my defence I didn't actually read what A Serbian film was about and just put it on. It's sick and like I said before really do not recommend watching or even reading what happens as it's truly vile - lowest of low

Just remembered something. Faces of Death. Actual footage of people being executed, criminals having hands cut off, cctv of people being hit by trains or cars, people falling off buildings and the landing, murders, stoned to death, staked to death, elevator crushing, explosions and on and on.
When I watched these(a series FoD 1, 2, 3 etc) it was with a sense of amazement at the number of ways people die, rather than gawking at how people die in a bloody and gory way. Anyhoo, I ended up having nightmares and stopped watching. This was all years ago.

@JollyAndBright oh wow. I've never dared Google it as an adult, such were the depths of my childhood trauma 😂

Gosh, that's brilliant. I actually felt a wave of relief as I read your post!

@MrsCastielI I completely understand how something like that can affect you.
I’m glad some of my random trivia could help you. 😂

Cannibal holocaust is meant to be to disturbing to watch and has real scenes of animal cruelty which is why I would never watch it.
Freaks is scary about a real life freak show it's an old film and was banned for a long time.
Hellraiser- Old classic but only the first 2 films are any good.

the plot of a Serbian film is absolutely vile only the mist disturbed mind could even fathom such depravity - Jesus Christ the new born baby .... wish I hadn't googled it now

Midsommer
The Orphanage
IT remake
Eden Lake
Hereditary
The Others
Wolf Creek
The Witch
Get Out

The Road truly does stay with you. Ooof, just so believable.

SAW (1-5)
Silent Hill
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
An American Haunting
The Strangers, Hush and the likes all freak me out
Martyrs (Very disturbing. Felt unsettled for days after watching it)
The Descent
The Ring
The Autopsy of Jane Doe

FYI I'm a HUGE horror movie fan

I agree that 28 weeks later is much scarier than the first one.
Also The descent - had nightmares about that for days afterwards and I still years later sometimes think about the way in which the main characters husband and daughter die for some reason - I never drive behind trucks with scaffolding/logs on them!
The most recent film I watched was Babadook and I did find it very disturbing - I also wonder where on earth they found the child actor in it - he’s absolutely amazing! My take on it was that the Babadook was a kind of metaphor for the mother’s mental illness?

Has anyone ever seen Creep about the weirdo who stalks the London Underground? THAT scared me!

On the whole I avoid horror films. I don't scare easily just find them boring as a genre.
Two that did make an impact on me were The Haunting (1963); especially the scene where Julie Harris' character is in bed and is awoken by loud banging on her bedroom door and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version with Donald Sutherland) - oh the ending!

I have ShesGotBetteDavisEyes. I was a stupid teenager and found the Creep funny seeing its lurking and fast running.