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!

@MarshaBradyo

The Ring scared me for ages

I can’t watch stuff like Hostel - too much, I had to turn it off after first scenes

I’m kind of interested in Wolf Creek and Babadook but know it would stick with me visually

I found Eden Lake pretty harsh

Oh yes and I agree about Eden Lake - massively disturbing. One of the few films that gave me sleepless nights afterwards.

yes the thing that scares me most about hostel & human centipede is the fact people think up that stuff & others enjoy watching it.

The grudge!

@gibletjane

yes the thing that scares me most about hostel & human centipede is the fact people think up that stuff & others enjoy watching it.

Yes, exactly, I always wonder that too. What twisted minds think up these weird films.

The Ring!

I love horror and nothing usually fazes me but that shit me up.

It Follows. Great concept which stays with you. The Descent.

I see other posters have said “The Descent” - that is the most scary film I’ve watched as an adult.

When I was about 15, I went on a school exchange trip to Germany, and some of us were taken to the pictures, to see a zombie film, which terrified me for months afterwards. It was dubbed in German, so I didn’t follow the plot properly, but I still remember the scene where a zombie is pulling a woman through a broken wooden Louvre door, and he impales her eye with a shard of wood. And then, at the end, the final scene was hordes of zombies walking over a bridge into a big American city - maybe New York. I can’t even remember what the film was called.

Just the memory of this film kept me awake at nights for ages.

As above so below. Very weird film.

@westr

Wolf creek

Yes awful, still get flashbacks of it.

A film called Tony

Absolutely abysmal and utterly terrifying

@Birdkin

The Descent

Oh my god! Awful. Felt sick from adrenaline come down for about an hour after it finished at cinema!

lol I went to see The Descent at the cinema with a male friend who screamed at the bit in the car at the beginning 😂😂😂

The descent was very good, it felt so claustrophobic

Session 9. It's a bit dated now but its still very, very unsettling.

A daft film which is supposed to be a sort of horror black comedy, ‘Tusk’, about a man who goes to interview an older guy who is obsessed with walruses still haunts me. 😧I couldn’t watch it again.

@monarchoftheglen

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

Saw this at the cinema and properly screamed out loud.

Not films but the Tooms episodes of The X-Files and the episode with the limbless mother under the bed were terrifying too.

I'm a big horror fan and rarely fazed, but The Blair Witch Project gave me terrible nightmares for about two weeks after watching it in the cinema.
The Descent was terrifying and also the Japanese film Audition. Just so deeply disturbing.
Favourites in recent years are It Follows and The Babadook.

@KillingMeDeftly oh yes!!

Definitely Wolf Creek without a doubt. I just watched a trailer there and it brought it right back

Race With the Devil
Antrum
Dead of Night (old B&W film that is TERRIFYING)
Deliver us from Evil
Hellhouse series of films is good
Rosemary’s Baby

I find supernatural/ occult films more scary than gore.

IMO horror is supernatural/jump scare stuff, not torture porn where humans bust into people's houses and cut them up and stuff. Unless its silly gore like the first Saw, Friday 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street etc

Hereditary I stopped watching after the mum found the head. Woman screams grief of finding daughter's headless body in the car. Not my kind of vibe.

Exorcist really got to me.

I watched the Conjuring 3 the other day and enjoyed it, then later in bed started getting really freaked out by it.

Insidious, Conjuring 1 are very good.

Insidious was great and the Conjuring /Annabelle universe.

The other genre I hate is found footage.

An old fashioned horror like the Masque of the Red Death is the best

I’ve just googled it, and the zombie film that terrified me as a teen was Zombie, by director Lucio Fulci. I shan’t be watching it again!

The Hellraiser films are good