Scariest films you've seen?

The Morningstar · 03-19-2012, 12:48 PM

We all love to be scared right?

One that springs to mind for me is Lynch's Inland Empire. I don't really know why either. Nothing that scary actually happens in the film. But there is just something really, really unnerving and creepy about it. If you've seen it you must know what I mean.

So, what films genuinely scare you or put you ill at ease?

darkseid26 · 03-19-2012, 12:50 PM

Eyes Wide Shut

That one scene in Mulholland Drive with the man behind Winkies....

Rowsdower! · 03-19-2012, 12:59 PM

Movies that horrified me:

Martyrs
Inside
I Saw the Devil
The Human Centipede
The Devil's Rejects

Movies that creeped me out/seriously bothered me:

Sleeping Beauty (Emily Browning)
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Eyes Wide Shut
Oldboy
The Hills Have Eyes

The Morningstar · 03-19-2012, 01:01 PM

Yea that thing behind Winkies was terrifying. And i've never seen Eyes Wide Shut, better get on that.

Rowsdower! · 03-19-2012, 01:04 PM

Yeah, definitely check that one out. It's not so much scary as it is just extremely unsettling.

Hotwire · 03-19-2012, 01:14 PM

The Ring
A Nightmare on Elm Street (I was 8 when it came out, and Robert Englund was terrifying!)
Insidious

Donnie Darko · 03-19-2012, 01:15 PM

Carrie scares the bejesus out of me.

kit1982 · 03-19-2012, 01:17 PM

Zodiac - the scene at Lake Berryessa, it's not graphic, it's not really dramatized it just feels like you're watching a real life attack on screen and that creeps me out the most.

Insidious - mainly because that house looks exactly the same as my childhood home. It was like a realisation of my child hood fears!

Liam_H · 03-19-2012, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kit1982

Zodiac - the scene at Lake Berryessa, it's not graphic, it's not really dramatized it just feels like you're watching a real life attack on screen and that creeps me out the most.

This. Just the way it was filmed with her completely aware and the knife repeatedly going in and out. So scary and creepy how raw it was.

Slushy · 03-20-2012, 04:05 AM

The Grudge is the most terrifying movie I've ever seen. I actually had nightmares about it!

xmangambit · 03-24-2012, 05:10 PM

Pans Labyrinth when the guy has his Nose smashed inwards with the bottom bit of a Glass bottle and he goes into shock before being shot in the head! Actually think it traumatized me because I wasn't expecting it!

hopefuldreamer · 03-25-2012, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by xmangambit

Pans Labyrinth when the guy has his Nose smashed inwards with the bottom bit of a Glass bottle and he goes into shock before being shot in the head! Actually think it traumatized me because I wasn't expecting it!

Seconded. I had to turn away

Rowsdower! · 04-11-2012, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by xmangambit

Pans Labyrinth when the guy has his Nose smashed inwards with the bottom bit of a Glass bottle and he goes into shock before being shot in the head! Actually think it traumatized me because I wasn't expecting it!

That was pretty rough but if there was one scene in that movie that disturbed me, it was the Pale Man sequence. I love, looooove Pan's Labyrinth but I kinda wish that sequence had been stretched out into the entire movie. He was one scary dude.

Sentinel X · 04-12-2012, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Rowsdower!

That was pretty rough but if there was one scene in that movie that disturbed me, it was the Pale Man sequence. I love, looooove Pan's Labyrinth but I kinda wish that sequence had been stretched out into the entire movie. He was one scary dude.

Pale man would make a horrifying horror film antagonist. I get the shivers when I see the enormous pile of children shoes left behind from little children he ate. I remember being genuinely disturbed just by looking at him, that was a great job done by the make up team.

Warhammer · 03-25-2012, 07:50 PM

The greatest part about the chestburster scene in Alien is that the reactions from Ripley and company are genuine. Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver, and everyone else's reactions are legitimate. Ridley Scott, pure genius.

Schlosser85 · 03-25-2012, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Warhammer

The greatest part about the chestburster scene in Alien is that the reactions from Ripley and company are genuine. Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver, and everyone else's reactions are legitimate. Ridley Scott, pure genius.

Every time I watch that scene, I try to imagine how shocking it must have been to audiences in 1979 who had no idea what they were in for.

Didn't see that coming, did ya?

Spider-Gnome · 03-26-2012, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Schlosser85

Every time I watch that scene, I try to imagine how shocking it must have been to audiences in 1979 who had no idea what they were in for.

That was me, opening weekend, 14 years old and my first R-rated film! You could almost hear the collective jaw drop of the audience as it just hung in the air after the chestburster left the room.

I was on edge the entire film!

The Morningstar · 03-26-2012, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Warhammer

The greatest part about the chestburster scene in Alien is that the reactions from Ripley and company are genuine. Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver, and everyone else's reactions are legitimate. Ridley Scott, pure genius.

haha yea i watched the making of Alien on youtube a few days ago. The way Scott got all the cast antsy and strung out was great. He'd basically ignore them, try to wind them up. The start rolling so they were all genuinely uptight and tense. He basically wound them all up, then let them ad lib and "survive" on their own.

Boom · 03-19-2012, 01:46 PM

The Changeling (not to be mistaken for the Clint Eastwood / Angelina Jolie film)

Assassin32 · 03-19-2012, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Boom

The Changeling (not to be mistaken for the Clint Eastwood / Angelina Jolie film)

I always hear great things about that one, but, when I saw it, it kind of bored me.

obin_gam · 03-19-2012, 01:50 PM

Creepiest: The Exorcist
Most horrifying: A Serbian Film (saw the uncut festival cut, and sat and stared at the black screen for 15 minutes straight after finishing it)

Marvolo · 03-19-2012, 01:57 PM

I've become numb to horror films, but one that definitely unnerved me was Insidious. Just made me very uneasy.

hopefuldreamer · 03-19-2012, 02:14 PM

Insidious, The Descent, The Last Exorcism are the three that spring to mind as 'scariest' as in I jumped, hid my face at points was on the edge of my seat the whole way through.

Eden Lake is probably the most unsettling for me though... there is just something about that film. I don't know if it's because the female protagonist is the opposite of the usual stupid, useless, screaming and falling over scared little girl. I don't know if it's because of the way the film goes slowly from a bit bad, to bad, to awful, to seriously awful, to seriously ******* awful (

). Or if it's just that ending.

But it's just very very unsettling.

Farren · 03-19-2012, 02:25 PM

The Exorcist
The Ring
Silence of the Lambs

Jackasscoley15 · 03-19-2012, 02:50 PM

The Thing
Lost Highway
Salem's Lot
Nosferatu
The Fog
Prince of Darkness
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)
The Exorcist
Jacob's Ladder
What Happens in Vegas

03-19-2012, 12:48 PM	#1
The Morningstar Banned User Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: The place in between... Posts: 10,153	Scariest films you've seen? We all love to be scared right? One that springs to mind for me is Lynch's Inland Empire. I don't really know why either. Nothing that scary actually happens in the film. But there is just something really, really unnerving and creepy about it. If you've seen it you must know what I mean. So, what films genuinely scare you or put you ill at ease?

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The Morningstar Banned User Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: The place in between... Posts: 10,153	Re: Scariest films you've seen? Yea that thing behind Winkies was terrifying. And i've never seen Eyes Wide Shut, better get on that.

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Rowsdower! Snyderite Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: A theater near you Posts: 8,508	Re: Scariest films you've seen? Yeah, definitely check that one out. It's not so much scary as it is just extremely unsettling. __________________ "What if a child dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended? What if a child aspired to something greater?" - Jor-El Dexter for the Lexter!

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kit1982 Side-Kick Join Date: May 2004 Location: UK Posts: 2,672	Re: Scariest films you've seen? Zodiac - the scene at Lake Berryessa, it's not graphic, it's not really dramatized it just feels like you're watching a real life attack on screen and that creeps me out the most. Insidious - mainly because that house looks exactly the same as my childhood home. It was like a realisation of my child hood fears!

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