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!

Midsommar! Awful, scary, vomity… but brilliant

Wouldn't watch a horror film called the hole, I'm starting to hyperventilate at the title!! Also, although I love a scary film, I don't like plain nasty, violent ones.
Great thread, it's going to keep me behind the sofa for a while.

I was really disappointed with The Wicker Man. Maybe because I'd heard so much about it before I actually watched it that it didn't live up to my expectation. It didn't engage me at all.

Agree with a lot already mentioned but I'd add V/H/S which I thought had some nice inventive bits and the way it used the structure fucked with my head very well. Also liked It Follows which kind of works on an allegorical level (although very very subtly) in addition to introducing a clever and disturbing idea. Another I loved is The Autopsy Of Jane Doe, which is quite traditional but very engaging thanks to some good directing that paces it well and similar to It Follows is fairly thoughtful.

I recently watched an old one called Pulse, from around 20 years ago, which centres on the internet and is a little bit too relevant all this time later, but very good.

@Bogeyes

Not horror as such but I really hated 'I am Legend' - I just really couldn't cope with intelligent zombies

Also 'The Road' just because of the relentless dystopian gloom

I can't watch real proper horror movies, the feeling that they never really leave you is just the worst.

The ring
The Descent/Descent
Event horizon

@FrownedUpon

Suspiria

Sorry didn’t read full thread but posted same after, don’t know what it is about that film, it is just awful isn’t it ?

Apocalypto gave me nightmares. Several. For ages.

@ShaneTheThird

Martyrs. Horrible film.

I still think about that film a lot. Absolutely brutal. Would not recommend to anyone it absolutely fucked me up and not in a fun way.

The Exorcist, saw it at the cinema in the 90’s when they rereleased it, thought it would be cheesy 70’s horror, it freaked me out from the beginning, was relentless and terrifying.

I agree with The Exorcist

^ I can't watch the Exorcist again, the spidery crawling was terrifying.

I love the spidery crawling!

Suspiria is one of my very favourite films ever! The most hideous film I've ever heard of is called A Serbian Film. I'll never watch it, the synopsis was disturbing enough. Needless to say, it requires a trigger warning.

[quote VienneseWhirligig]@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 [/quote]
I loved the first IT but agree it wasn’t really scary - I always see the book as a story about growing up and not a horror. Except a couple of horrible passages but still not horror in that sense. The second move was so extremely bad but very amusing in its awfulness.

I think the movie that scared me the most was the exorcism of Emily Rose. I don’t know why because I’ve seen plenty of horror films but I found that one really creepy.

A L I E N

Scared so much 1980 or so

Daughter watched it recently and wasn't bothered !

30 days of night

There was a lot of hype about alien wasn't there, stories of grown men vomiting in cinema aisles etc. I think a lot of people found it scary.

Wolf Creek had me hyperventilating at the cinema and I had to hide my face REC I don't actually know what happened in the last 10 minutes because I could bring myself to watch it either.
The Babadook left me creeped out for a long time.

Blair witch. I was in usa working at summer camp and on a day off a group of us wandered into the cinema and that was playing. None of us had heard anything about it - it must have been in the first week or something.

The grudge (watched that one in Japan, not the new one)
The conjuring 1,2 and 3
The ring - anything Japanese horror really
Triangle is a mind f*ck
Ghost ship
Orphan
Hide and seek
The unborn I think it's called
Annabelle

The Entity had to get my dad to come and walk me home from a friend's house aged 15!

Insidious
The ring

Anything like that freaks me out but there's a back story...
I went to watch the ring at the cinema with a friend when we were at agricultural college. Terrified afterwards, legged it to my car giggling but really freaked. Drove back to college and walking to our halls jumping at everything as it was late. Heard a bang and all the lights on campus went out. Ran back to halls, my friend chucks the TV out her room into the hallway and we slept top to tail that night

The Exorcist, couldn't ever watch it again.

Wolf Creek for me too. I had nightmares for weeks after and I didn't even watch all of the second half. I didn't watch another horror for years afterwards.

Halloween always makes me jump.