Most terrifying film ever!!!

[househuntinginthesouth]

Please tell me which horror film/s made you genuinely scared (preferably a jumpy one)?

I've always loved horrors (except for a few years after I had my DCs and for some reason just could not watch them) but now I can't seem to find a single one that I find actually scary at all...Interesting and entertaining, yes, but not scary. Help!

@VienneseWhirligig not even THAT scene in the car?

Perfect Sense - with Ewan Macgreor
described as a romance - pah!

Scary

Global pandemic (film dates to 2011), where gradually people lose all their senses.

Starts relatively light hearted, ramps up and last few minutes are chilling. Not sure I'd want to watch it again after what we've gone through in the last 18 months

Suspiria
It’s horrible and I think I’m traumatised (I’m not being dramatic)
I don’t watch horror films since and I can absolutely pinpoint it to watching It in the cinema
It’s just so nasty - I don’t recommend

The Silent House - very jumpy

@VienneseWhirligig

Creep. It made me wary of the tube at night for ages after.

(I was brought up on horror films by my grandmother, I lived with her from 6 and we used to watch them on her black and white TV in bed at night so even the Haunting of Hill House didn't scare me)

Creep?? As in the weird thing with whispy hair and the German lady?? If we mean the same film, it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen 😂

The exorcist. Watched it through the button hole of my coat. Still have nightmare about it. Early 70s

Oh and Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Nothing to do with the Halloween franchise but gave me nightmares

Wolf creek

[quote pickingdaisies]@FireandBrimstone yes, thank you! It was absolutely terrifying ( until a bit near the end which made me snigger) but I saw it at the cinema and held on tight to DH all the way home.[/quote]
I think I know the bit that made you giggle.

The same director made Midsommar, which is also totally horrific.

Sixth sense traumatised me as a child.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creep_(2004_film)

This one I think @lynntheyresexpeople

I've watched it and it was properly creepy!

Another vote for insidious!

The changeling with George c scott is a good horror it's on prime.

This is from the IMDb trivia re. Suspiria

‘Director Dario Argento's original idea was that the ballet school would accommodate young girls no older than twelve years. However, the studio and producer Salvatore Argento (his father) denied his request because a film this violent involving children would almost certainly be banned. Dario raised the age limit of the girls to twenty years but did not rewrite the script, hence the naiveté of the characters and the occasionally childlike dialogue. He also put all the doorknobs at about the same height as the actress' heads so they would have to raise their arms in order to open the doors, just like children’

Horrible …knew it had a very sinister undercurrent.

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@QuestionableMouse

Event Horizon. Will never watch it again. The Descent. I'm claustrophobic so had an extra layer of scary! 13 Ghosts - no idea why but it really got to me!

I was stupid and watched 13 ghosts when I was younger. Somehow persuaded my dad to let me rent the video from Blockbuster... Watched the first 20 minutes and made him take it back. Couldn't bear to have it in the house 😂

@lynntheyresexpeople yes that's the one. I think it was because the scenario of being locked in a tube station is plausible, and I've often got a late (and relatively empty) tube alone when in London for work.

For contrast, I laughed when I watched IT, it wasn't in the slightest creepy or scary. I know I'm weird

@BeaucoupFish

Suspiria It’s horrible and I think I’m traumatised (I’m not being dramatic) I don’t watch horror films since and I can absolutely pinpoint it to watching It in the cinema It’s just so nasty - I don’t recommend

There’s a scene from Suspiria that’s the most traumatising thing I’ve ever seen. Really disturbing.

Wolf Creek
Absolutely terrifying

@Nitgel

The changeling with George c scott is a good horror it's on prime.

Yes! The scenes with the wheelchair or the ball... so creepy and ominous.

Sinister scared the crap out of DH.

The Wicker Man truly disturbed me

@FrownedUpon
Is it the razor wire scene ? Or the guide dog ? It’s such a horrid film. You are right ‘disturbing’ sums it up….

What Lies Beneath has some v. jumpy bits ...

I have the same problem, I don't find any of them scary. I have only been terrified with 2 films: The shining and It follows.

@pickingdaisies

Forgot the babadook! Also the Invisible Man had me jumping out of my seat the other day

I've never seen the Invisible Man!

Gremlins...

Martyrs. Horrible film.