Scariest films you've seen?

[The Morningstar]

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]

Eyes Wide Shut

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

 

[Rowsdower!]

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]

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

 

[Rowsdower!]

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

 

[Hotwire]

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

 

[Donnie Darko]

Carrie scares the bejesus out of me.

 

[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.

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

 

[Boom]

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

 

[obin_gam]

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]

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

 

[Assassin32]

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.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

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 hehe. Or if it's just that ending.

But it's just very very unsettling.

 

[Farren]

The Exorcist
The Ring
Silence of the Lambs

 

[Jackasscoley15]

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

 

[Jackasscoley15]

Goddam double post.

 

[The Morningstar]

Another one for me is Funny Games. Both versions. Not really scary, but unsettling. And when the guy breaks the fourth wall you just know things are gonna go from bad to worse.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Good one. Funny Games is awesome. I love seeing people's reactions to scenes in that movie.

 

[The Morningstar]

Yea, that part i'm talking about either makes people utterly despise it, or utterly love it. I love it. Especially the first time i saw it I was like "No ****ing way! That isn't right! It's unfair!" haha

 

[Hotwire]

Goddam double post.

Haven't heard of this one. Will have to look it up.

 

[Hotwire]

Another one for me is Funny Games. Both versions. Not really scary, but unsettling. And when the guy breaks the fourth wall you just know things are gonna go from bad to worse.

Those boys are dementedly sick!

 

[y2jversion1]

Juon & Juon 2 (The Grudge - Jap version)
Ringu (The Ring - Jap version)
Blair Witch Project (psychological creepy)

Haven't watched the Paranormal Activities yet, but heard they're really scary!

I don't like the gore'n'guts / slasher stuff - I prefer the psychological / "unknown" type stuff

 

[jacobed]

The Strangers

 

[Secret Fawful]

Let's start with the RGB of horror:

Perfect Blue
Deep Red
Soylent Green

I must've missed something about Insidious....it didn't bother me at all. Soylent more unnerved me than it scared me, but I don't know of a really scary movie with Green in the title.

And the rest.... here in the scariest film threeeeaaaad:

Gyo
Uzumaki
Videodrome
Hellraiser
Phantasm
Psycho
Phenomena
Suspiria
Inferno
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Prince of Darkness
Nosferatu
Blue Velvet
The Devil's Rejects
Begotten
The Blair Witch Project
The Thing
The Church
Brazil
End of Evangelion
Spanish Dracula

So far...

 

[Liam_H]

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.