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’m so happy someone mentioned Tusk! I love Horror films, I really do however I can’t stand Tusk! It’s not scary at all but it’s so uncomfortable to watch. I can literally see the man’s face in my head as I type this🤣 I’ve watched it once and never again!

I’m a horror connoisseur (!) and the only film I’ve had to actually switch off is the French original Martyrs. Something about it was so viscerally disturbing I just couldn’t finish it. It really affected me.

Also quite uncomfortable watching Hostel as I’m sure this kind of thing probably happens. I know it’s true of a lot of horror but that one really seemed to fit the ‘torture porn’ descriptor and I felt quite uneasy watching it, even though I obviously knew it was fiction.

Obscure Australian horror called the Loved Ones is quite messed up too

In general I love horror films, however the I Spit on Your Grave remake made me cry hysterically. The rape scenes were horrific

I was going to mention The Loved Ones, well worth a watch. Also another Antipodean horror - Storm Warning. That stayed with me a while. And Boar.

5 more foreign language ones - Frontiers, L’interior (aka Inside), The Horde (all French), Train to Busan, I saw the Devil (both South Korean). I saw the Devil is the only film I can think of in the last 15 years or so that made me hide behind a cushion.

I think Australian horror touches more nerves than most places. It breaks the taboo and involves small kids so your anxiety levels over these bairns goes up on top in a purely psychological way.

Broken still killing ground are pretty vivid memories.

@AllThePotatoesAreSinging I really liked Frontiers but I don't think I'll watch it again.

Not a horror film. Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch.

The intense eyes of Denis Hopper breathing in that creepy mask still give me bad dreams.

Funny Games is another that stayed with me. I watched the US remake of this followed by a British home invasion film called Cherry Tree Lane.

Front door has been locked at all times ever since!

I think about the last scene far more than I should.It pops up every now and again.So so wrong
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Tusk is hilarious. I didn't find it scary at all just utterly weird. And the cast...Jonny Depp and his daughter plus the grown up kid from sixth sense. I loved it but dh thought it was the worst film he'd ever seen 😂

Another for 'Eden Lake'. Watched once. Never again.

I saw it at a horror film festival and it was without doubt one of the weirdest films ever even at that. I felt like I needed a bath after it finished 🤣

Different things affect people differently (obvs); I'll watch any slasher or zombie or ghostie film or monster, but I can't watch anything with deep water or things underwater as it makes me panicky. I can sit through Jaws, but only because it's so great.

I hate horror films so avoid them. I did watch the Descent without realising it was a horror film and that was terrifying enough when I thought they were just cavers stuck in a cave....when the horror stuff happened it tipped me over the edge. Not sure I can ever go in a cave again.

I was reading to see if anyone mentioned Eden Lake. Really stayed with me for ages because it was so like ‘yep that could happen’.

I've only watched it the once when it came out (probs nearly 18 years ago) the witch person made me jump and scream lol like full on arghhhhh lol!
Il have to watch it again to see the cheese

I’ve deliberately avoided Eden Lake. Prefer atmospheric horror to home invasion/gore/slasher type films.

Yes wish I’d thought of that before I watched it. Utterly utterly horrific.

It doesn’t start off too badly either, so it lulls you into a false sense of security. Then is horrible and then just continues getting worse and worse.

Castle freak

I just found Eden Lake to be Daily Mail editorial come alive, tbh.

Look at the awful peasants and their hoodies terrorising the nice middle class couple - beware the council estates, decent citizens!

I’m still traumatised from the orphanage.

I hate cherry tree lane, it's horrible. It bothered me for some reason

Just double checking my door.

I'm probably in the minority here but I'm not really a fan of the slasher/gore kind of horror. They repulse and disgust me rather than scare me. Like a PP said, I prefer the atmospheric ones where you don't know exactly know what's going on. Some films are firmly in one camp or the other, but some films can also kind of mix two or more sub genres and become very interesting in the process.

I love the classic 70s and 80s ones when horror was at its peak. The Exorcist is incredible, even more so if you believe that that kind of thing happens (I know I do). The Wicker Man is another brilliant one. I'm surprised that not a single poster mentioned The Omen, to me is one of the scariest films ever, the idea that so much evil can come from a little child (well, considering who his daddy is...)

Speaking of kids, there's a Franco/Romanian film from 2006 called "Them" (I think the original title is "Ils") and...go and look for it, I'm not giving anything away, come back here and let me know 😏

Salem's Lot - have never got beyond the floating child scratching at the window.
Pet Cemetery- I had to leave the cinema.
I've not watched any horror films since.

Final Destination and Mirrors. The films themselves didn't scare me as such, they're brill films, but they've made me irrationally (and permanently) paranoid