what's the scariest movie you've ever watched?

[phantom13]

Has anyone actually seen ASF?

Please... review here..

FWIW- it's still just a dramatized movie, so all good imo.

I watched it, and by watched it mean lasted through about 40 odd minutes then turned it off. Personally I thought this and Martyrs were sadism and disgust for the sake of it.

 

[Shell]

Soft

 

[2006_Eagles]

I got nothing from Blair Witch, it must have got to some, but maybe I missed the point or misunderstood iot I don't know , The Descent was a creepy sort of thing, Alien and Aliens, as all of them are , were fantastic, and the first time it is really horrible because that critter was bloody terrifying. And still is , but now you sort of know what your getting.

When did you see Blair Witch?

It was released at a time where no one really did found footage films and it felt very real

 

[Extortion Threat]

Lol at the softies here, A Serbian Film wasn't that bad. It's more a (seriously) black comedy that anything. Martyrs is a great extreme horror movie. I thought Human Centipede 2 was more messed up than those two films. If you want to watch something real extreme try watching some Marian Dora!

 

[JoondalupJ]

When did you see Blair Witch?

It was released at a time where no one really did found footage films and it felt very real

Yes that's right , and I think lots of people were thinking it was real, and it frightened the daylights out of them.
Look I think I knew that it wasn't real by the time I watched it.
But you've reminded me of some stories in media about people who were really disturbed and frightened by it.
I guess the producers were very smart cookies.

 

[Schraderbrau]

The Ring and it's not close.

Honourable mentions to Sinister and the Babadook. There are probably others that I can't remember. The other one that screwed with my head a bit was Wolf Creek but I don't know if it was scary so much as it was disgusting tbh

edit: when i was a kid i stayed up and watched nightmare on elm st. Didn't sleep for a month after that for obvious reasons. Same thing happened with Pet Cemetery as well.

 

[brutus76]

As a boy:
The Shining
Hellraiser
The Thing (John Carpenter)
The Amityville Horror
Rosemary's Baby
Alien & Aliens
The Exorcist

As an adult:
The Cabin in the Woods
Paranormal Activity
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Ring

 

[emuboy]

Some of the scariest things I remember seeing from childhood were not movies or TV shows, but safety videos shown to us at school to educate us about personal safety, stranger danger, fire danger and the like.

In one, a girl is woken by strange noises at night, and rather than alert her parents foolishly investigates herself, coming face to face with a burglar wearing a balaclava and a striped jumper. In a stranger danger video, two young boys sneak away to an abandoned building to smoke cigarettes and it becomes very clear that they are not alone. Fortunately it is one of the boy's fathers who had found out about the plan, but it still made for eerie and scary viewing. And as for a fire safety movie we saw once, I blame this for having to check the iron 20 times before leaving for work.

This of course all took place back in the 1980s - I doubt that schools could show such confronting videos to kids nowadays.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

As an adult:
The Cabin in the Woods

Why? It's a fantastic film, but the scares are overridden by satire.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

It was the sound effects in The Exocist which freaked me out as a kid and probably still would. I haven't watched it in about 20 years.

I saw the original Alien at the cinema and it scared the shit out of me, so too did An American Werewolf in London, particular when it first attacks David and Jack on the moors.

Sinister with Ethan Hawke was creepy.

As someone who isn't a big fan of spiders, Arachnophobia scared the shit out of me, I watched it on VHS and remember sitting there jumping and sweating with my feet up on the couch.

 

[Tuco]

It's not the scariest film, it's pretty silly tbh, but I'm an arachnophobe and the cellar scene at the end of Arachniphobia was hard to watch.

I think Alien is the scariest.

Some creditable mentions:

The Descent (most claustrophobic movie ever)
The Silence of the Lambs (another full on cellar scene)

I find creepy worse than scary these days though. More sustain. So films like the original Ring and original "The Vanishing" beat the jump scares most movies go for these days.

 

[Sketi]

I know emotional responses like fear are pretty subjective so no disrespect, but lol @ listing Cabin in the Woods in this thread. It's a comedy.

 

[estibador]

I find creepy worse than scary these days though. More sustain. So films like the original Ring and original "The Vanishing" beat the jump scares most movies go for these days.

You should watch Get Out then. Just a slow build of creepiness through the whole move. I loved it.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

You should watch Get Out then. Just a slow build of creepiness through the whole move. I loved it.

Not very scary but an excellent film, loved it.

 

[squashface]

2015 AFL Grand Final

Nah but seriously I remember watching Deep Blue Sea as a 10ish year old and having my head under the blanket half the time lol

 

[Tuco]

You should watch Get Out then. Just a slow build of creepiness through the whole move. I loved it.

Actually haven't caught that one. On it!

Speaking of creepy I seriously rate The Innocents (1961). Something about ghost stories set in dark houses at night filmed in black and white.

 

[Shell]

I've only seen it once, but I remember Deliverance being pretty bloody creepy and brutal.

 

[Shell]

It was the sound effects in The Exocist which freaked me out as a kid and probably still would. I haven't watched it in about 20 years.

I saw the original Alien at the cinema and it scared the shit out of me, so too did An American Werewolf in London, particular when it first attacks David and Jack on the moors.

Sinister with Ethan Hawke was creepy.

As someone who isn't a big fan of spiders, Arachnophobia scared the shit out of me, I watched it on VHS and remember sitting there jumping and sweating with my feet up on the couch.

Good point re. sound effects and/or music. Is so important in a film.

Psycho is a good example too of that, and the violins.


Arachnophobia also as a kid scary af. Seeing it as an adult tho, not so much.

 

[footyfan1978]

We actually do not seem to have many scary movies made any more.
Seemed like there were so many around when I was a little kid but I guess I was also seeing ones from 10 to 20 years earlier on tv at the time so it probably seemed more.
Exorcist, Omen, The Shining, Rosemary's Baby etc. Guess they were all done in 1970's.
Nightmare on Elm Street was still pretty good for 1983 or when I saw it at cinema. Certainly dated now as done to death with or the sequels and tv series spin off but it was the first of the type I seen back then of messing with viewers sense of dream world and real world. That been done hundreds of times over now which makes it dated but for it's time was scary as ****. I wish there were more scary movies actually. Always good fun to have yourself scared to bits at a movie. Still not seen remake of IT, hopefully when I do it hits the mark.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

We actually do not seem to have many scary movies made any more.

I think it's more that audiences become desensitised.

Kids see things they shouldn't at an earlier age due to technology. Very little shocks or scares them any more. And it's a bloody tragedy!

 

[StillAtLarge]

Requiem for a dream scared the bejeesus out of me as a teen. I keep a close eye on my fridge to this day...