Scariest Movies?

[Corporate CockSnogger]

What do you think are some of the scariest films you've seen? What are some of your favourites?

I guess as well as just getting you all to post your own personal favourites, I'm using this thread to try and find something that scares me. This thought came to me after I recently watched "Mama" after a bunch of people told me it was terrifying, but I don't think it affected me in the slightest.

I generally don't find anything in films scary anymore to the extent that even the cheap scares don't even get a little jump out of me because I expect it most of the time. Granted I don't watch horror films a whole lot these days, but I think that's kind of come about because of how little I find them scary now. When I was growing up I used to watch horror films non-stop and be shit scared all the time. Is it just due to age, or are there still films out there that can be scary?

I genuinely think the red room scenes in Twin Peaks are scarier than any films I've seen in a long time. Maybe I lean more towards "creepy" stuff than cheap scares? I dunno, help me out, scare me.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The original Japanese version of The Ring is the only film that has ever messed with me, and still gives me goosebumps whenever I think about it.

[Savio]

What do you think are some of the scariest films you've seen? What are some of your favourites?

I guess as well as just getting you all to post your own personal favourites, I'm using this thread to try and find something that scares me. This thought came to me after I recently watched "Mama" after a bunch of people told me it was terrifying, but I don't think it affected me in the slightest.

I generally don't find anything in films scary anymore to the extent that even the cheap scares don't even get a little jump out of me because I expect it most of the time. Granted I don't watch horror films a whole lot these days, but I think that's kind of come about because of how little I find them scary now. When I was growing up I used to watch horror films non-stop and be shit scared all the time. Is it just due to age, or are there still films out there that can be scary?

I genuinely think the red room scenes in Twin Peaks are scarier than any films I've seen in a long time. Maybe I lean more towards "creepy" stuff than cheap scares? I dunno, help me out, scare me.I was scared of "Childs Play" when I was a kid but now I can't find any movies that scare end they end up being boring.

[VSG]

Waiting for about 30-40 Raven Reaper recommendations now in this thread.

[ron the dial]

there are no movies that scare me anymore. perhaps a certain concept might creep me out a bit if i were to think about it happening in real life, but nothing that outright terrifies me as a watch it. i guess it's been a long time since i've watched anything horror related, but that's only because of the torture porn trend that took over. no need to watch excessive gore just for shock value. does nothing for me.

[Corporate CockSnogger]

Waiting for about 30-40 Raven Reaper recommendations now in this thread.

Why do you think I made the thread?

[Savio]

Birdemic as pretty scary

[The Jayman]

There is a bunch of good horror movies that give the occasional "cheap scare". I don't think you will find one that will actually terrify you because you are a functioning adult. Movies stop being scary after your 9 years old.

[The Jayman]

I take that back, George Clooney's performance as Batman scared the ever loving hell out of me

[ron the dial]

There is a bunch of good horror movies that give the occasional "cheap scare". I don't think you will find one that will actually terrify you because you are a functioning adult. Movies stop being scary after your 9 years old.
tell that to 11 year old me when scream came out. i didn't want to answer the phone for a while. still have an irrational fear of big windows/glass doors on the ground level of a house.

[ron the dial]

no, dammit, it's not irrational at all.

[The Jayman]

Hey ron, do you like scary movies?

[DaveBrawl]

There is a bunch of good horror movies that give the occasional "cheap scare". I don't think you will find one that will actually terrify you because you are a functioning adult. Movies stop being scary after your 9 years old.
True, although I still won't watch the Hand That Rocks the Cradle. I'm still scarred of Rebecca De Mornay.

I take that back, George Clooney's performance as Batman scared the ever loving hell out of me
You're right this is De Mornay scary.

[JimmyMess]

I gotta say that "The Woman in Black" had some legit freak-out moments.

[Tom Guycott]

My mom was a huge horror/b-movie fan, so I grew up watching a lot of that stuff and it didn't bother me much. The only thing that bothered me when I was little was Friday the 13th Part III (the one in"3-D) and it wasn't even the movie itself- it was the theme. The music scared me and I couldn't go to sleep after hearing it or i'd have nightmares. Same thing with that show Tales Form The Darkside.

That doesn't bother me anymore. But I will say the scariest, creepiest character in any movie is Scott from Higher Learning. Mostly because there are real people like that. And I don't mean the Neo Nazi thing nearly as much as the fact that he had cult-like control over the others and didn't have to do a goddamn thing to get his own hands dirty, and seemed to revel in the fact that he was the catalyst that not only got Remy killed, but just inciting mass chaos simply from suggestion. Persuasive, amoral sociopath.

[cardsharkrob]

I really enjoy the psychological horror Fraility.

[Heisenberg]

The Human Centipede movies really made me question humanity. I think it served it's purpose, the second one was the worst.

[Requiem]

Lot of people talk shit on it but Paranormal Activity was pretty scary to me. Something about invisible forces harassing people and doing horrible things to them like possessing them just freaked me the fuck out. Watched it in a room of people with the lights off and volume cranked, and we were all THOROUGHLY engulfed in it. It's really just the atmosphere of the whole thing too that got me.

Second movie, not so much. Was more predictable. Never bothered with the third.

I actually LIKE the 'found footage' style of movies.

[My Final Heaven]

The 2 movies I'd name to people as being "scary" when asked while I was working at a movie store-

A B&W thriller from the 50's called Night of the Hunter. Robert Mitchum plays a psychotic preacher who stalks a couple of orphans because their dad had hidden stolen money. The whole movie carried this thick layer of dread over it, Mitchum ends up marrying the kid's mother and murders her in a lake in a really memorable scene

"Wait Until Dark", Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman who has her apartment invaded by 3 criminals because she unknowingly had drugs inside. Stephen King named this as a movie that legit scared him after he saw it, the last 15 minutes are pitch black on the screen because Audrey smashes all of her lightbulbs so she'll have the advantage over the villian ~ so anybody who watches it, it has to be at night with all of the lights turned out :D

[Stickman]

The original Japanese version of The Ring is the only film that has ever messed with me, and still gives me goosebumps whenever I think about it.

Have not seen this movie and never will because The Ring still creeps me the fuck out even after seeing it three times.

[MoFo]

REC is the only dece horror I saw the last few yrs.

(the Spanish version)

[MoFo]

Channel 4 used to show fucked up short films early hours of morning when I was still in school, there was this one where some scarred up clown man went round someones house and snook into a boys room and ate his rabbit alive, weird

[Rammsteinmad]

I actually LIKE the 'found footage' style of movies.

Have you seen, and what did you think of V/H/S? I quite like that movie.