The worst horror film you've seen that has stuck with you.

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I've seen loads of posts today about Sinister being the scariest film ever.

Pffft. I watched Meghan is Missing this week, now traumatised.

And I can't ever erase The Green Inferno from my brain.

What are your worst?

I love horror films of all types from slashers to ghost stories. I have a strong stomach, seen a lot in real life through work and don’t shock easily but Bone Tomahawk is one film I’m not sure I could watch again, I can’t even really explain why.

Bone Tomahawk is one I thought of, but I didn't even really watch it. I watched the beginning, missed a lot, and then half-watched the cave scene....
Read the plot summary on imdb, and was so glad I didn't watch the whole thing. Shame on Kurt Russell (who I normally love; he is also in another one about a psychopath, that I have only seen a few minutes of; - maybe I only really like him as (The Thing) McReady).
I think, as with most things about death, there is the feeling that someone is alive one minute, and gone the next; but in BT, it is very long-drawn out. Also, the women, and their circumstances sound awful.

Ugh! Really? How grisly.

Terrifier, that's it!
"Success story" - well, in one sense, yes.

Oh god yeah, those poor pregnant women at the end. Honestly it would have been a kindness to put them out of their misery.

Love love love The Thing!

If ever I see it on the schedule, I will watch it.
Ditto Alien, which I know off by heart.
I of course have the DVDs for both (and all other Alien films).

There is a scene in both that I have never watched again after the first time - obviously the arms and mutant head in The Thing, - and the chest-burster in Alien, Although I have watched a "making of", and even struggled to watch the scene set-up.

Having avoided seeing that scene for most of my life, I tuned into a documentary about Ridley Scott - who of course, started his career in advertising (the Hovis ad was one of his first). I should have been forewarned by the title screen being of a loaf of bread with a baby alien emerging from it. Honestly, I forget how many times that scene was shown, creeping up me every time!

That's Scream 2! Assume you mean the knife in the ear?

I'll be honest, I don't buy the whole 'allegory' excuse people (men) churn out when making films like Sola, ASF, etc.
I think they use it as an excuse to justify depravity.
Watching films like that once is one thing, repeatedly is disturbing.

I rarely turn my eyes away from the screen, but the Midnight Meat Train… omg. It lives up/down to the title.
It actually raised my heart rate in some scenes.

Is that the one with Vinnie Jones @Giggorata ?

I vaguely remember it coming out but I think I just assumed if he was in it it must be crap, which is possibly a bit unfair 😂

@SocksAndTheCity I was pleasantly surprised. I don’t mind Vinnie Jones. He plays a particular type well. It also Has Bradley Cooper in it. I might watch it tomorrow while baby naps on me 😂

@Mookie81 it's (nearly) always men and depravity, isn't it? But maybe that's one for the Feminist board.

If you want to see some horror made by women there are the Soska twins (American Mary is a good one but also Dead Hooker In A Trunk) plus Julia Ducourneau (Raw and Titane) and others.

Goodnight Mommy, The Invitation and The Babadook (mentioned already although I didn't rate it as much as some, mostly because the child was so annoying I was dying for the monster to just crack on and eat him ) are all directed by women as was American Psycho, although it's not a patch on the book.

One I would recommend/not recommend is Tigers Are Not Afraid by Issa López, but that really is a tough watch.

I will give it a whirl! 😀

Just seen this, @SocksAndTheCity .

Yes, it is the one with Vinnie Jones in it.
And Bradley Cooper.

I think it's not a bad film, shockingly gory.
I can't help thinking how much fun Vinnie Jones must have in his various roles, glowering at the weak, doing massive violence and spreading mayhem.

I have just thought, when they come to make a (hopefully good and well cast) film out of Jodie Turner's St Mary's Chronicles, wouldn't Vinnie make a wonderful Pennyroyal?

@SocksAndTheCity I absolutely love the 2015 movie The Invitation, directed by Karyn Kusama, and of course Jennifer's Body.

But are you referring to the 2022 movie The Invitation directed by Jessica M Thompson? Haven't seen that one yet.

For horror made by British women would definitely recommend Censor, Saint Maud and She Will.

I don't know that one @Giggorata , but I'm not terribly well read (in my defence, I spend a lot of time at work poring over text in microscopic detail, so I don't do it much in free time unfortunately). If there's a film made though, I'll watch out for it 😀

And definitely the Karyn Kusama film, @Whatineed ; I loved it and I think it's one of the few with a really good creepy ending. I think it might actually be on Netflix atm?

Speak No Evil is amazing, i love it and have seen it several times. My adult ds is my horror film bud and he utterly loathes it.

The Woman in Black & It Follows 😬 -- the ends still makes my skin crawl

I just read thread and was about to reference this film as nobody had...

It has stayed with me ever since, and the car scene has been replayed over and over in my head more times than I care to remember.

Irl, I don't know anyone else who has seen it. I stumbled across it one evening not having the first clue what I was about to watch.

I found it utterly terrifying!

@SocksAndTheCity not real" you're wrong though. It doesn't matter they are acting. If they were pretending to be in love, that's what you are enjoying watching. You are enjoying watching people hurting others. Anything involving humans has been done for real. Every grotesque detail. That's why it's not horror ...it's horrific.

A good horror film to me is about the unreal. Ghosts, witches, weird demons, other dimensions.

I watched a French one called irreversible. I don't know how well known it is but it's absolutely horrific I'd not recommend it.
Also hounds of love is very disturbing.

Read about ‘A Serbian film’ after it was mentioned on this thread and I want to throw up. How are these films legal? Absolutely disgusting

They've remade it with James Mcavoy. Due out in September.

Yeah it’s weird they’ve remade it already, not sure that was needed really. Also a big part of it is to do with European cultural differences so not sure how that will work if it’s US based.