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Event Horizon scared the shit out of me. I can't really articulate why - perhaps it was just the idea of hell being all there is.

I don't think I've ever been scared by a film (other than to be made to jump - but then I jump even when I know something is about to make me jump). I also have never had a nightmare (I've had scary dreams, but loved them)

Malc

Ju-On scared the shit out of me.

Dark Water (Japanese version) was scary, too.

The Shining has been known to scare me in places.

Jeepers Creepers was scary right up until the reveal of the monster.

That's all I can think of right now.

I watched final destination 2 the other night. While I could happily watch all the gory deaths, I had to look away when the kid was at the dentist getting his teeth drilled (nothing gory happened then, just normal teeth drilling)

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The Shining has been known to scare me in places.

Jeepers Creepers was scary right up until the reveal of the monster.
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The shining was more 'odd' for me than scary-it was like having foil on a filling, not nice

Jeepers Creepers-what an ace film! It creeped me a little bit but other than that I thought it was pretty safe
J.C2 was an epic disaster but I still bought it because it made me laugh

1: Threads (don't watch it, Shin!)
2: Invasion of the Bodysnatchers - Sutherland 70's version
3: Don't Look Now
4: Night of the Living Dead (no longer that scary for me but I consider it to be the first horror movie I ever saw)
5: I'll put 'The Shining' for now, but I'm sure there's a scarier one.

I can no longer be afeared of Darth Vader since me and my housemate Rhys started a running joke about him being played by Louis Armstrong.

"Luke! Ah ahm yur favorrrrr - skiddle-a-bee-doo-bop! - ohhh yurrrrrr."

The Omen
An American Werewolf In London
Event Horizon
Blair Witch
The Shining
That "Ghost Hunt" thing that was on BBC1

I found Silent Hill a bit disturbing.

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Oh, and this.

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1 - The Ring (American) - This movie scared the crap out of me. The tv scene, the closet scene...the tape contents. The film gave me a sense of dread that no other could

2- Dark Water (japanese) - The same sort of atmosphere and scares as The Ring. The last scene is also quite disturbing

3- REC - This movie is so awesome. I love zombie movies, and this one tops them all. There are also some shock scares

4- Tale of two sisters - Very weird stuff which oozes atmosphere

5- The Shining - I saw this when i was very little and i was deeply traumatized by it. I couldn't watch another horror movie until i was 18 which when i saw this again when i wondered what was the fuss about. Good movie, but not that scary. Gets an honorable mention though.

this movie was highly recommended by someone (some random drunken guy in a pub) and it was one of the worse movies i've ever seen. No kidding

The Shining is more disturbing than anything. Those two girls. As soon as you see them, you know they're just... wrong. The book had me in several places.

The first time a film really shocked me as a child was when I saw Robocop. Specifically, when they shoot fuck out of Murphy in the warehouse.

Not really a horror film by any means, but most certainly disturbing to an 8 year old!

So the whole "runny-acid-man sloshing" was okay? Cripes.

I know what you mean though, I was surprised at the extended violence of that scene on the DVD

I saw An American Werewolf In London when I was about eight, hence its inclusion on my list.

I saw it when I was about ten and was checking behind doors for werewolves for days.

'Ghostwatch' with Sarah Greene, Parkey and Craig Charles? Showed that to some housemates who were too young to see it when it was first on, I savoured the moment they all went "Bloody hell!" and started shrieking with the fast-camera-whip-round-Scary-Ghost-Pipes-in-the-bedroom bit.

The Firm, the brutally convincing Gary Oldman made-for-TV movie, not the Tom Cruise film.

You see, we're never going to be attacked by Frankenstein or Dracula, acid-blooded aliens are unlikely to use us as propagators for their young and villains like Freddie Kruger can only ever exist in movies. But all it would take to find yourself in the situations covered in The Firm is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I first watched it in the students' union bar. I ran all the way home...

I think my first horror film if you could call it that was lost boys when I was 8 or 9.

Cant believe anybody hasnt said the japanese ring yet though.

Also the japanese version of the eye has the scariest scene in any film ever.

also suprised by the amount of people saying dark water, bit creepy but I thought it was turgid myself never seen the remake though because its bound to be worse.

That's the one. I saw it again a couple of years ago, and, while impressed, the rubbish acting of the two girls made it totally non-scary.

I was shown it last year in media studies, Im sure there was alot of laughing.

Mm, the acting of the mum was diabolical too. Funny really, the cheesy kids TV presenters get into the swing on the naturalistic faux-documentary stylee and yet the BBC completely messes up getting decent thesps for the family. Still, wonderfully creepy when I watched it as a kid.

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Then Gods yes. Everyone harped on and on about the elevator scene, but the spoilered one there caught me completely blindsided. That could possibly be the best jump-scare I've seen.

Oh, and my list. In no particular order. And missing loads that I've rubbishly forgotten about.

The Eye (original) - Yes, it meanders all over the place towards the end, but still has some great scares.
The Thing (remake) - I'm not sure how you could better this, to be honest.
Tourist Trap - A little known one, this. Typical horror teens end up off the beaten track, hounded by a psychotic and his animated mannequin 'friends'. One to add to your Cinemageddon list.
Imprint - aka Takeshi Miike's contribution to the 'Masters of Horror' series. Patchy, but some images could stay with you for a long time after.

Any film with scary little girls in. Little girls are the most terrifying things ever. The Dawn of the Dead remake springs to mind.

Crimewatch.

The guy melted by the toxic waste had a profound impact on me as a nipper. Wasn't necessarily scared by it, but the image has stayed with me ever since.

HLLLLLLP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Specifically the ending, which creeped my out completely. The rest of the film was just some crap actors shouting at each other.

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Although I suspect if I saw it again I'd laugh my arse off.

No, the toxic waste scene was most certainly not ok either!

Still looks pretty horrific today -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ

I suspect it's the crudeness of the special effects of Robocop make the trauma worse, it wouldn't be nearly so bad if it were made today with CG effects.

How did I forget Audition? I think that's one of the only films that's made me think of looking away from the screen.
Also, Hostel was shit.

I really don't do scary films at all well. I tend to get my thrills out of psychological horror and films with a 'sense of evil'. The bit that most impressed me in Exorcist (which left me slightly cold otherwise, sorry Mark Kermode) was when the statue of the devil appears shrouded in yellow mist in the bedroom. I thought that was superb.

'Dead of Night' is a film I love, it's an Ealing film with five spooky stories framed within one big story. Most of the stories are pretty simple and two are duffers, but there's one with Michael Redgrave as a ventriloquist. His dummy Max hates him and mocks him in front of others, but he won't be parted with it. The entire thing turns into a weird, twisted, crime of passion. Very sinister. The framing device with Mervyn Johns is the best though, and builds up to a wonderful, evil, disturbing and murderous crescendo. Flawed, but compelling.

I have a possibly false memory of being terrified of a film when I was a child. A man and a woman dressed for dinner are arguing on the landing. The terrified woman doesn't want the man to go into the room. He pushes her away and does so. In the room is a painting of a hideous skull like figure on a throne, painted with power and menace. The man throws a knife at the painting and it embeds in the creature's heart. The man falls down dead, and the creature in the painting turns into the man, and the body of the man turns into the dead form of the creature.

It all seems Dorian Gray like, but quite different. I can't decide if it is a false memory born of a dream or something actual. Brrr.

I'm absolutely terrified of the film 'The Entity'. I saw it when I was a kid and it wasn't that scary but ended with some text about it being based on a true story and the attacks still continuing. I did sleep properly for weeks after that.

So I told my ex about it and she's like 'we should totally watch that' and so we did and I had to turn it off.

Were you 28 years old at the time. ah...

Malc

Shit, I didn't get the edit in in time. And you obviously didn't get the joke.

Malc

Nice use of the Stuart Lee approved 'ah' there. Not even an 'aaahh.' You show that we, the audience, are on the ball.

Shin! If you really want scary try... (horror contained within spoiler brackets)



You probably won't ever talk to me again afterwards though.

The Omen scared the bejesus out of me... the psycho nanny character especially. The other Omen films were also moderately scary, but the first one just freaked the cocking life out of me.

I also genuinely found the Nightmare on Elm Street films scary too; they were a bit OTT, especially later ones, and Freddy is a bit camp at times, but the whole concept of a bad guy who only attacked you in your sleep was genius and terrifying in equal measures.

Ok, enough on topic nonsense from me... gogogogogog!!!

And then I got off the bus, aahhhh.

(just thought I'd complete the set)

Things that get me are:

1) People carrying around something volatile that may explode with a loud noise, killing people, at any second (or anything of that ilk, such as the room in Cube where any noise sets off the needles of death).

2) A character changing sides, or revealing something horrible. Such as in 'the Ring', where: MAJOR SPOILER!



For the most part I'm okay though.

Most. Overrated. Film. Ever.

I went on about this in one of the bits and bobs threads... I shall hunt out my thoughts. Ah-ha! Insightful film critiquery ahoy:


As has been noted before, 50s throwback Kockface Kermode has no taste, and is a cunt. I can only assume that all of that pomade has seeped through the pores in his scalp and damaged his brain and caused some sort of oily tumour on his tastelobe.

Basically, I thought the Exorcist was the least frightening film ever. I want fisticuffs* with Kermode, as I watched it solely due to him banging on about how it's the greatest film ever.

In retrospect, I should have known how wrong he is about everything when he dissed Pirates of the Caribbean 2.

I'm a lapsed catholic, so I was at least open to the religious aspects of the Exorcist, which should, by rights, have made it dead scary. It was just silly though. Especially that daft "spider-walking" nonsense.

Honestly - even if a kid is actually posessed, you don't have to go in the room that the kid's tied up in. Ergo, it can't do anything to hurt you. Ergo, nothing to be scared of. Just send the fucking priest in there and go and have a sandwich.

*By which I mean a strongly worded exchange of correspondence, preferably on the letters pages of the Times.

Go rent The Firm. Watch it at night...

Seriously, has no one else ever seen this? Were you scared?

You mean the Tom Cruise John Grisham adaptation?