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Hands down scariest movie you've ever seen?

Drain Bamage said:
For me probably Insidious or Paranormal Activity 3
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Paranormal Activity 3? fookin A man. nahhhh
But I am biased because I am not that into the paranormal movies


Get out and The Visit had me freaked for a few days. I thought The Visit was gonna suck and It didn't
 
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nick jacoby said:
Paranormal Activity 3? fookin A man. nahhhh
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Have you seen it?

You need to watch it in a house alone at night. It's much scarier than Get Out (though Get Out is a way better movie but for other reasons than the scare factor)
 
Horror movies do nothing for me. Psychological thrillers like shutter Island and hide and seek freak me out
 
The opening credits of insidious are creepier than the rest of the film
 
Honestly, for me it’s Signs. The atmosphere of the movie is just so well done. I was watching it alone in my living room at like 2am once and it just fucking freaked me out. I started hearing sounds in the house, seeing shadows moving, the whole nine yards.
 
Event Horizon

Have politely declined every blood orgy I've been invited to since
 
Jack Reacheround said:
Honestly, for me it’s Signs. The atmosphere of the movie is just so well done. I was watching it alone in my living room at like 2am once and it just fucking freaked me out. I started hearing sounds in the house, seeing shadows moving, the whole nine yards.
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The creation of suspense is as good as it gets in This movie.

You always feel it when the alien crosses the bushes and the little Spanish kids celebrating a bday go nuts. I love this movie. I think it’s highly underrated.
 
KONG-D'SNT-TAP said:
The creation of suspense is as good as it gets in This movie.

You always feel it when the alien crosses the bushes and the little Spanish kids celebrating a bday go nuts. I love this movie. I think it’s highly underrated.
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That moment still gives me goosebumps
 
Threads. Any late 30’s/early 40’s Brits will agree...
 
The two that get me most are Martyrs and The Shining
 
KONG-D'SNT-TAP said:
The creation of suspense is as good as it gets in This movie.

You always feel it when the alien crosses the bushes and the little Spanish kids celebrating a bday go nuts. I love this movie. I think it’s highly underrated.
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Whats great about that scene is that the moment the alien comes out, they back it up, freeze frame it, and its still effective.
 
The scariest movies are always the ones you watched as a kid when you shouldn't have.

For me, it's Evil Dead, which I watched age 9.

As an adult, I can't take horror seriously.
 
I watched Red Dawn at the theatre during the Cold War era when I was a young elementary schooler. That film, at the time, scared me more than Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street combined.
 
IT terrified me as a kid. Now it's pretty silly
 
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The Ring or that movie with Ethan Hawks about the thing that possesses kids to kill their families
 
kahiljabroni said:
Horror movies do nothing for me. Psychological thrillers like shutter Island and hide and seek freak me out
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The difference perhaps between "scary" and "creepy", I mean yes conventional scares can work on me but the latter certainly is more memorable I'd say, such as....

The Shinning
Lost Highway
Under The Skin
 
Zer said:
Event Horizon

Have politely declined every blood orgy I've been invited to since
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That movie was unsettling as hell; I remember having the heebie-jeebies the whole way home from the theater. The first Candyman is right up there too.
 
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When he said "cheep cheep cheep" I literally pooped my pants.
 
To be honest I find supernatural (together with monsters and all the other unreal shit) horror pathetic and ridiculous.
I've never laughed so much like when I watched the The Exorcist.
 
Upon first watching:

The Exorcist and The Shining...I was too young to have been watching them and they scared the shit out of me.

For modern movies, The Conjuring was scary.

But believe it or not, the movie that scared me the most upon first viewing was The Original Poltergeist.
 
I watched The Ring when I was 10. Fucked me up for a long time. No movie has scared me since.
 
IT watching it as a kid

Only movie ever scared me as far i remember, but it scared the shit out of me for good lol

But as movie it aged so bad lol
 
cant really point to a single movie but some that scared the shit outta me:

The Thing
Event Horizon
Rec (original one, not the shitty american version)
 
Zer said:
Event Horizon

Have politely declined every blood orgy I've been invited to since
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I generally don't give a shit about horror movies, but Event Horizon scared the shit out of me.
 
Hands Down oldest movie I've ever seen

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Hostel, and the remake Texas Chainsaw Mass..
 
Drain Bamage said:
Have you seen it?

You need to watch it in a house alone at night. It's much scarier than Get Out (though Get Out is a way better movie but for other reasons than the scare factor)
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Was Get Out scary?
 
Fallen with Denzel

Most typical horror movies do nothing for me.
 
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In no way trying to sound a tough guy but nothing really scares me
Some games have had me legit scared
Outlast is a little indie game that will put hairs on your chest

The only movie as of late I can remember (and I watch a lot)
The conjuring was a little creepy
 
KONG-D'SNT-TAP said:
The creation of suspense is as good as it gets in This movie.

You always feel it when the alien crosses the bushes and the little Spanish kids celebrating a bday go nuts. I love this movie. I think it’s highly underrated.
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Yeah, that fucking scene is great. Holy shit.
 
Gore or ghosts don't really scare me, on the other hand, I find movies where people are targeted by evil people, much more haunting.

E.g
Funny games
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Eden lake
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/

The sense of despair, vulnerability and hopelessness are much more frightening to me. I saw the other day on Discovery ID an episode about a young couple that were moving to a new state, towards a bright future only to be pulled over by three violent criminals in the middle of nowhere. They tied the husband to a tree, from where he could hear them rape and drug his wife. After a night in the freezing cold, they used him for gun target practice. She remained in their custody for a week or so, then they shot- and dumped her.

To be tied to a tree in the middle of nowhere, where no one can hear you scream, while your wife is being violated and there is not a single thing you can do about it is true horror. So movies with a similar premise is what "scares me".
 
There's only one movie I saw as a kid which caused me to sleep with the lights on!

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generally, movies about monsters and ghosts don't scare me because they obviously aren't real. i find IT kinda scary b/c i personally hate fuckin clowns, and sinister (with ethan hawke) was pretty scary just b/c the movie is really well done. has great music and acting in it. also the first conjuring is pretty scary b/c again, a well done movie. but i've seen all those movies more than 5x each so they don't scare me that much.

what really terrifies me and i have a hard time watching repeatedly is silence of the lambs. i find stuff on serial killers pretty scary, and buffalo bill really scared the shit out of me.
 
Nothing is ever going to beat it.

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Nothing has ever come close.
 
KONG-D'SNT-TAP said:
The creation of suspense is as good as it gets in This movie.

You always feel it when the alien crosses the bushes and the little Spanish kids celebrating a bday go nuts. I love this movie. I think it’s highly underrated.
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No. It's fucking stupid and if you spend more than five seconds thinking about it the entire film falls apart.
 
“Perhaps they need a good talking to, if you don't mind my saying so, sir. Perhaps... a bit more.”


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Zer said:
Man that shit got me as a kid too. And I was too young to even understand what rape was, nevermind ghost rape. Just pure survival instincts told me not to fuck with ghosts and that's stuck with me all the way into adulthood
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Same! I always thought ghosts were not scary as they can't hurt you. Didn't know what a poltergeist was lol
 
the shining...
 
For some reason the remake Texas Chainsaw....and honorable mention for Hostel..
 
phoenixikki said:
To be honest I find supernatural (together with monsters and all the other unreal shit) horror pathetic and ridiculous.
I've never laughed so much like when I watched the The Exorcist.
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Just your natural defense mechanism, keeping you from being scared.
 
I'll have to think about it. A couple of friends of mine say either Event Horizon or Jacob's Ladder. I've only seen clips of each of them on Youtube though.
 
Signs is absolutely terrifying as a few already mentionned.

Don t know what is so scary about this movie.
 
No horror movie can freak me out after demons chased me on shrooms
 
Cantona7 said:
Threads. Any late 30’s/early 40’s Brits will agree...
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Holy flashbacks buddeh...haven't thought about that for 30 years, seriously.

I was terrified of "Chocky" and "Children of the Stones" and "The Triffids" which were all on the telly.

Films..er..Jaws as a lil kid scared the ever loving FUCK out of me. Why I have a legitimate fear of Great Whites and can't watch any shark films.

When the Exorcist was re-released in UK cinemas in the 90's...got stoned, went to watch and got the fear badly.

Blair Witch. Again, high at the cinema.

A Serbian Film... a few years ago...mix of fear and disgust. Watched through my fingers and I was about 36.
 
JabToucher said:
There's only one movie I saw as a kid which caused me to sleep with the lights on!

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Man that shit got me as a kid too. And I was too young to even understand what rape was, nevermind ghost rape. Just pure survival instincts told me not to fuck with ghosts and that's stuck with me all the way into adulthood
 
Jack Reacheround said:
Honestly, for me it’s Signs. The atmosphere of the movie is just so well done. I was watching it alone in my living room at like 2am once and it just fucking freaked me out. I started hearing sounds in the house, seeing shadows moving, the whole nine yards.
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Signs scared the living shit outta me when I saw it in theaters. Had to play it off because there were girls with me
 
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Didn't even expect it to be scary, burn it fucking was.

Also, Event Horizon is a great call.
 
DeepCover said:
I watched Red Dawn at the theatre during the Cold War era when I was a young elementary schooler. That film, at the time, scared me more than Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street combined.
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I’m not sure the following generations appreciate quite how deeply ingrained the threat/fear of nuclear war was to those of us who grew up in the late 70s/early 80s. I do don’t sleep properly for days after I first heard Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood...
 
Zer said:
Event Horizon

Have politely declined every blood orgy I've been invited to since
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Came in to post Event Horizon. That movie (unexpectedly) scared the crap out of me back in the day. Exorcist 3 is damn good too.
 
I'm a lifelong fan of horror films so I've seen a ridiculous amount of scary movies in my time. Which means I'm very jaded with a thick skin when it comes to being affected by them. Basically, not much bothers me outside of shit like CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, IRREVERSIBLE & A SERBIAN FILM. Those types of films I stay away from & I don't even attempt to watch.
THE EXORCIST used to be on my list as being the scariest film ever but its power to frighten has been diminished greatly by my losing all my religious beliefs about a decade ago though it's still an excellent & powerful film. It just doesn't creep me out like it once did.
The original 1974 Bob Clark BLACK CHRISTMAS still works for me though. It's definitely at the top of my list.
John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS is an underrated chiller. It's an excellent mix of interdimensional sci-fi & creepy horror with an unsettling tone & an unforgiving pace once things kick into gear.
Another more recent film that provides a good amount of scares & shocks is Paco Plaza's REC. In fact, there are four films in the REC series & they're all excellent.
Of the more recent films that I've seen that provide some chills & intensity, HEREDITARY tops the list for English language films with MANDY a bit behind it.
My favorite recent non-English thrillers are the Argentinian TERRIFIED & the German COLD HELL which are both exclusives on the Shudder app.
 
Recently I would Hereditary was a good scary movie.

Of all time... Poltergeist ruined me for weeks when I was a kid.
 
sweetviolenturg said:
I'm a lifelong fan of horror films so I've seen a ridiculous amount of scary movies in my time. Which means I'm very jaded with a thick skin when it comes to being affected by them. Basically, not much bothers me outside of shit like CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, IRREVERSIBLE & A SERBIAN FILM. Those types of films I stay away from & I don't even attempt to watch.
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try-hard horror
sweetviolenturg said:
John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS is an underrated chiller. It's an excellent mix of interdimensional sci-fi & creepy horror with an unsettling tone & an unforgiving pace once things kick into gear.
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mrsenor said:
try-hard horror

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Oh, I don't mind "hard horror" per se but when it comes to torture, rape & blood & guts mayhem just for the sake of shocking the audience I'll pass. I mean, it's not that I'm squeamish about the red stuff ( I SAW THE DEVIL is one of my favorite films ) but if gore is the only point of a movie then I'll pass.

As for THE THING, I love it. In fact, I just bought the latest special edition Blu-ray of it but I've got a soft spot for PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Actually, I love pretty much all of Carpenter's films.
 
Nowadays nothing but seeing the Exorcist in the late 80's when I was a child scared me big time. I didn't want to go to bed for fear that Satan would take over my body lol
 
When I was a kid it was Poltergeist with the old man in it (I think it was the 2nd film). No films as as adult really scare me, maybe except shark films.
 
Lately, I've really gotten into Asian & particularly, Indonesian horror films. I've watched a lot of them over the past month or two & some of the best are:

MACABRE
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MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU
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I SAW THE DEVIL
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SABRINA
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