For me it has to be The Entity. It freaks me out every time i see it. Something about the music. The Exorcist is a close second. It just gets under your skin.
The Nightmares, Fridays are okay, and i found The Orphanage quite scary in places. Also The Strangers is pretty freaky, but it still is The Entity for me.
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The one that really gave me the willies was Jacob's Ladder.
I don't know why exactly; I think because it is more psychological that just buckets of blood being thrown around.
Got to be Stephen King's It for me, pennywise freaks me out to this day. I guess some people would call that a mini drama though so filmwise Kurt Russel classic The Thing.
ps - They all float
insidious - first hour is scary as hell.last 30min arent as scary and gets a bit daft. but you would be traumatised from the first bit.
insidious
Also Alien - wasn't supposed to watch it when it first came on tv but smuggled the portable tv into my bedroom and had to sit close with low volume - found it hard to get to sleep after!!
Also Hellraiser.....
Paranormal Activity
Hands down the scariest movie I have ever seen.
So scary I actively tell people to avoid it.
Even thinking about it makes me feel a bit nauseous.
When I was a child it was the Omen. The first time it was shown on TV i watched it. My mum didnt know she had snoozed off on the sofa and I remember turning round and seeing her asleep and being too scared to wake her up but too scared to turn off the TV and go to bed.
When a new print of the Exorcist was released a few years ago it was the sound production that was the effective part. Screaming one minute then silence like a knife.
Really dont watch Paranormal Activity
Really dont....
Seven freaked me out a bit, but I was 15 and saw it in the cinema.
Otherwise I don't get that scared by films, possibly because I don't beleive in things like ghosts so I don't find the paranormal plays with my mind. I didn't find paranormal activity that scary really.
I found Seven scary and The Shinning. Jack Nicholson going slowly mad in a remote, cut off location. Proper scary stuff. I thought Blair Witch was scary too.
I didn't see what's scary about the Exorcist. I didn't see it video either; it was at the cinema. I chuckled at a fair few bits, but not being Catholic I suppose the possession thing has no significance for me so it was just a bit silly and over acted.
Paranormal Activity wasn't bad at all.
Personally I think the original Japanese version of The Ring... and my personal favourive "Event Horizon"!!
Another vote here for The Omen. So many of the scenes are in daylight, which makes it worse. Never got why folks found the Exorcist so scary.
Now for something proper scary - 'Threads' about a nuclear attack on Sheffield, started by a disute over Iran. It was shown on tv in the mid 80's. Now that IS horribly scary. Got it on DVD.
American Werewolf in London? three words...JENNY..... AGUTTER......NURSE
i used to get scared at scooby do when i was younger.............and also i cry at everything from the waltons to disney stories and any drama and well anything almost...my kids and OH will always turn around during a film to have a check and a laugh at me
I think this is why I didn't find the Exorcist very scary - I don't believe it could possibly happen, but I guess if you did then it would play on your mind more. That and the fact that ever since childhood my mum told me she'd walked out the cinema because it was so scary built it up in my mind. What I didn't realise at the time is my mum just doesn't like any scary films!
(Probably why I HATE Dr Who now!!)
Ohh interesting.
More recent films don't scare me as much as I just think that they are a bit silly. Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch are good for making me jump but they don't scare me.
The Entity, yes, and The Omen films genuinely frighten me. When I first watched The Omen I watched it on my own and I had to get a friend to come round because I was too afraid to be in the house on my own.
The Exorcist scares me a bit, as does Poltergeist but those films frighten me more for the back stories about what happened on set/during the makings of than anything else. (Sort of along the lines of don't meddle with things or they will come back and get you.)
The first Saw film is very disturbing and upsetting but not scary as such.
Interesting that Nam mentions The Ring, I think she's the only one to mention it and I have to agree, proper poop your pants stuff.
Generally speaking remakes are scary for a different reason, scarily sh*t!!!
I dunno I watched the US version of the ring first and kinda liked how it explained how it all started, while the Japanese version it just seemed really random and unexplained.
Then again maybe I only liked it because I hadn't seen the Japanese one and didn't know any better... I think I need to watch them both again. this thread is making me want to watch a few scary movies anyway!