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?

After reading this thread dp and I decided to watch Serbian.

Please tell me there isn’t anyone on here that watched it all.

Dp and I love a spooky or horror film, seen most mentioned on here.

athis film is totally fucked up. Sick. We turned it off at the start of the baby scene. We are sat in silence.

Which sick bastard could bare to watch this film?

Sunday night and off to bed feeling very weird and horrified.

Definitely Hereditary. It’s so bleak and tragic and really a painful experience. I think about it all the time. It’s awesome.

the most scared I’ve ever been was watching Ju On, the Japanese original, just seen all of them have dropped on shudder this week so might be ready for a rewatch!

Agree Event Horizon is v disturbing, not a sci fi fan really but don’t mind a bit of cosmic/Lovecraftian horror.

Folk horror is probably my fave subgenre overall. I found The VVitch properly scary.

Yep, if there's a horror with Justin Long in it, it's definitely going to be a comedy horror... Drag me to Hell and Barbarian being prime examples. 😅

I've seen ASF twice @Bringonthesunforthewashing, but then I'm not that perturbed by blink-and-you'll-miss-it glimpses of dodgy plasticine babies.

I'd forgotten all about the Wicker Man until a PP mentioned it - that was the first film to ever really scare me and I really had no idea it was going to end like it did. I might watch it in the week

You have to be joking.

It is incredibly messed up and disturbing. Are you telling me you are okay with watching a woman give birth, a man delivering the baby and immediately having sex with it??

And you watched it more than once. Wft.

We turned it off the second when we realised what he was doing. Why would you and how could you watch the idea of that?

God that's a horrific storyline!

The road. It’s not really a horror but sometimes I freak myself out thinking about the scene where they go into the basement and see all the limbless people.

I’m not really a horror fan. I like stuff like the omen but I remember roommates in uni watching The hills have eyes wondering what f**ked up people think up this stuff.

Yes, I totally agree.
I used to love watching the late great Dieter Laser - he was in two series of Lexx, too.

I still think the Shining was one of the best horror films ever and I also really rate Sinister, although I wasn't too keen on the unnecessary jump cut at the end.
I find the slasher films like Hostel, very intense but less enjoyable, although much of the horrible imagery stays with me, so I suppose that's a measure of success.

For those that enjoyed (not sure if that's the correct phase) Hostel and Hostel II, the guy that played Sascha who ran the whole set up was actually the Minister of Foreign affairs for Slovakia.

I wonder if he thought it would boost tourism to the area... 😅

It’s a good film. I’ve watched it a couple of times. It’s not real. It’s is pretty extreme but it’s also not the most extreme thing I’ve seen.

August Underground and Flowers are truly nasty. Just for the sake of it.

Things like A Serbian Film are really not to my taste. After a lot of mentions here I googled it and couldn't even finish the plot summary on Wikipedia, abhorrent for the sake of it. Those things are designed to purely shock and repulse.

Give me a good old fashioned ghost story like MR James who's had had some excellent adaptations to the screen over Jason or Mike Myers - although I do have a "soft spot" for Freddy Kruger, I'm a child of the eighties after all 🙃. The things that you don't see scare me a lot more than the things you actually see.

That Spanish film The Orphanage is very good, anything involving kids is bound to get me interested like The Others and The Innocents.

One film that I don't think it aged very well is Poltergeist, but at the time it was massive, I remember being a little kid pestering my mum to let me see it and she denying flat out. I hate clowns to this day, probably because of it. Speaking of It, I read the book and watched the old series but still haven't seen the recent one.

It’s a horror film thread please let’s not shame each other about what we do/don’t watch. I’m

Ive not seen ASF but I know that it’s a political allegorical film designed to illustrate the plight of the Serbian people during the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia.

it’s not designed to shock and repulse for the sake of it but was made with the intent to say something about the treatment of the Serbian people by their government.

“The infamous “newborn porn” scene is meant as an allegory that Serbians are screwed the moment they are born. Vukmir even says this in his explanation of why they are doing it. So, the idea that the Serbian man or woman is screwed from the day of their birth until they die, and even beyond death.”

by all means don’t watch it, I most likely won’t but don’t make out like it’s just gratuitous nastiness without a point to make; it’s political art and not meant to be ‘enjoyed’ as a pp said.

That's your opinion and you are entitled to it, just do not police my own opinion.

It may as well be a political allegory but if you're going to include the rape of a baby, of course you know it will shock, repulse and disgust and that's exactly the intention behind it.

Of course it’s meant to shock, but I think the point is that babies are harmed all the time in war zones but that doesn’t seem to provoke the same outrage as when you show a fake baby being harmed in a movie. Which is pretty fucked up if you think about it.

Same here. Gore isn't frightening to me, it's just revolting.

Horror has just become a competition to see who can make the bloodiest, most depraved, revolting film.

Repulsed isn't the same thing as scared. Paranormal films scare me, disemboweling, eye popping, limb chopping films with psychopath killers don't.

I like a lot of Korean and Japanese paranormal horror films.

The thread didn't give you a clue? Out of all the films that have been mentioned, why pick that one?

You would have been better off reading up on it and why it was made and then maybe watch it or not. It's not a film to sit and enjoy. As has been said.

Nobody who's watched the final destinations drives behind a log truck. A whole generation scarred for life

Firstly, while the above was part of the story it wasn't shown in any graphic detail and what I was watching was paid actors performing their roles on a film set - you're posting as if this was a documentary 🤣.

Secondly the entire film was intended as an allegory about the former Yugoslavia albeit a very heavy handed one, and the director made this clear. It's certainly not for everyone, but did you not check what it was about before you decided to watch it?

I went to the cinema with my sister and a friend to see I think it was the last one. It was 3d.
I watched the bloody film without my glasses. My actual glasses, not just the 3d ones because gore is revolting.

Why the fuck I went and spent I think it was about 7 quid or something to sit and watch a big blur of nothing in the dark while eating my weight in rip off price popcorn I will never know.

I went to see one of the Final Destinations having had around three hours sleep after a big night out in Soho, and with one of those creeping hangovers where everything is terrifying. It was possibly one of the stupidest decisions I have ever made and I almost walked out when the opening credits rolled (I was still a mess on the train home 🤣)

I do love them and always watch them again if they're on TV, but that was hellish.

I don't really watch slasher type horror, people hurting each other isn't really horror, not in my opinion anyway, with the exception of say Freddy or Chucky as they have some kind of fantastical element. I prefer supernatural/religious stuff, so The Blair Witch Project for example, The Exorcist that sort of thing, I like a slow burn, no or very well executed jumpscares (the nurses station in The Exorcist 3 is the best jumpscare I have ever seen) a good horror film for me is one that stays with you after after the credits roll. There is only one that has really bothered me, I've watched it once and I don't need or want to watch it again and that's The Babadook. I don't even like thinking about it that much to be honest.

That one with a clown who (I think, I turned off at the tart of the scene, but haven't forgotten it) cuts a woman in half, vertically....
There was a sequel came out recently I believe. I'm not going anywhere near it. Even the little bit I saw has stuck with me.

If it was with a hacksaw that sounds like Terrifier with Art the Clown - it was a fairly short (I think) low budget slasher film which was popular enough that a sequel was made with a much bigger budget and did really well.

The third (Christmas) one is out in time for Halloween this year and it's been a real success story, which is always nice to hear about although I can't say it's a favourite of mine

This happens at the start of one of the Wrong Turn films, but I don’t think it’s a clown who does the chopping. So must be a couple of films starting with a woman cut in half vertically! Lovely

It Follows. Never been so paranoid about what's going on in the background of a film.