[Closed] Films that scared the **** out of you as an adult...

The Road was pretty creepy.

Its a while since i've seen Event Horizon. I remember it had a really nice creeping sense of terror rather than out and out scares. Its out on Blu Ray I might try and get it on the way home and watch it tonight...

...on my own in the dark

Hills have eyes! - the bit where he goes down in to their village is the stuff of film-legend.

The sequel was garbage.

Don't be afraid of the dark got me.

Also the orphanage (+1 for the child with the freaky sack over his head) - until the end, then i realised it wasn't scary!

the rape scene in the Girl with the Dragon.......made me sweat and was just on the brink of walking out when i resettled 😯

+1 Threads

Hotel Rwanda and Survivor both had a real sense of menace and tension throughout.

Some months after watching the ring I went for a pee in the middle of the night. I never put the lights on to do this.

As I wandered back to bed somewhat sleepy eyed I rounded a corner to see the chick with hair over her face slowly stumbling toward me.

My ex wife will never know how close she came to dying that night, she'd been planning it for weeks apparently, I saw the funny side of it after we divorced 🙂

Plum

+2 for dog soldiers and i would add the hills have eyes it was on last week so i didnt watch it. scared me enough first time round

richmtb - Member

+1 for the Descent

at one point while watching it I didn't just jump, I jumped and made a noise!

😆

An American Werewolf in London, as a 10 yr old. Just laugh at it now.

I bought dog soliders to try and cure myself of the fear of big scary monsters in the woods. It really didn't work.

This thread has given me a nice list of movies to go through.
I nominate 13 Ghosts

I watched American Werewolf in London at about the same age

The moor scene has aged well I think, it's still excellent

The Ring.

I was a kid when Ghos****ch was on TV. Properly cacked it.

I must've been a similar age when watching American Werewolf in London too. Shortly after I went on holiday to the North Yorks Moors with my Grandparents. They towed their caravan there and I was supposed to be sleeping in the awning - I think I lasted about 5 mins each night before knocking on the door asking to sleep in the caravan!

Threads

One of the bleakest films ever.

shocked, but never scared witless by any film......SO FAR

Any bloody musical. The mere thought strikes terror into me.

Threads and The Road. Quite plausible futures. The rest mentioned are films of the imagination and Hitchcock did that better than anyone 50 years agao.

Quite plausible futures

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And possibly the best [i]Radio Times[/i] cover of all time...

My housemates and I watched The Descent when we were at uni. Once the film was done one of them went down into the basement (where we kept the bikes) for some reason, so obviously we turned the lights off and did our best impression of that noise the creepy underground creatures made. He came flying up the stairs and out of the door like a rocket.

Blair Witch Project - was away for work so went on my own, to kill an evening. Big mistake.

The Ring scared the hell out of me. I saw a documentary about how they filmed the famous scene when Sadako crawls up the well and when she crawls out of the TV. They were filmed backwards, e.g. she was crawling down the well, then rolled the other way, which is what makes it look so jerky and unnatural. Tres creepy.

plumber - Member
Some months after watching the ring I went for a pee in the middle of the night. I never put the lights on to do this.

As I wandered back to bed somewhat sleepy eyed I rounded a corner to see the chick with hair over her face slowly stumbling toward me.

My ex wife will never know how close she came to dying that night, she'd been planning it for weeks apparently, I saw the funny side of it after we divorced

Plum

Brilliant 🙂

Harry_the_Spider - Member
The Descent.

The fact that the girl at the end is lost underground scared me more than the monsters.

For me it was a relief when the monsters came and they stopped going through very small gaps which is the scariest thing I can imagine

There was a play on TV in the eighties about pilots at a US airbase in the UK getting off their heads on heroin and one of them dropping the bomb.
IIRC it was pretty much entirely set in a room on the base but it really freaked me out for ages afterwards- really felt like 'Threads' could happen any day.

Alien, scared me man and boy!

Aliens, not scary as such but the last hour is just gut wringing tension unlike any other film ever made.

I generally don't watch horror, due to always having been a wimp. On the plus side, I can count the no. of nightmares I've had in 30 years of adult life, on one hand. At 46, I still haven't watched Alien all the way thru, nor Omen, nor any other horror for that matter. Making a cup of tea at key points is much more important or going to bed early half way thru. 😳 😉 I can however happily read any horror

actually, I don't think I've ever managed a hospital programme all the way thru.

The Sixth Sense! Scared the shite out me!

If I say the first Alien film I'm going to get laughed at, but this was before the internet, and the reviews didn't give much away, and it was in a cinema.

yodagoat - Member

The Sixth Sense! Scared the shite out me!

Ditto that! I would come home late at night from meetings in my little Canadian town, and blow right through stop signs for fear of looking out my car window at a dead cyclist.

[Believe me, there was no danger in blowing through the stop sign...]

The shining still scares Me as much today as 25 years ago, would also say the exorsist but I think that's more shocking than scary

The Silence of the Lambs scared the bejesus out of me, 1/2 through my friend clamped her hand around my arm and said "i don't like this film", I nearly shot out of the chair.....
Anthony Hopkins was amazing, I think that's one of his best films.

The Signalman

All that cgi stuff just makes me laugh, this was a proper old ghost story that makes me poo when I go near railway tunnels

Jaws

+1 for Paperhouse
The Mothman Prophesies
The Ring

globalti - Member
No Country for Old Men where Anton Chigurh challenges the old man in the gas station to flip a coin for his life. That scene has stayed with me ever since I saw the film, Javier Bardem is so chilling.

+1.

Don't really watch horror movies. There was some tense moments in Drive and Apocalypse Now which had me on the edge of the sofa.

Holy shit. Threads was a bit brutal eh?

I actually think i'm a bit traumatised by it. it was life whatching When the Wind Blows in real life.
Grim as. 🙁

Insideous is quite messed up

Event Horizon for me but to this day I still don't know why. There's just something about the whole film that I found (and still find) *really* disturbing.

Dog Soldiers must be one of the best films ever - loved every second of it. Has anyone seen The Descent 2? Utterly utterly awful

+1 for The Road

The Shining

This thread has cheered me up because I thought I was a wuss with this sort of stuff, but I've watched all of the above without issue.

Now, The Entity though - different matter. I'm getting nervous just thinking about it..... 😐

i still feel uncomfortable occasionally when watching dario argento demons 1 & 2 films (i first saw them when i was 12,scared the crap out of me).but to be honest,no film has really scared the s*"t out of me (i must be hard as nails 😉

Wolf Creek, no way I'm going to Oz. Didn't scare me but We Need To Talk About Kevin made me feel very uncomfortable.

Dog Soldiers is a great film, but surely there's nothing scary in it? It's a comedy.

For some reason I seem to remember being a bit bothered by bits of The Serpent and the Rainbow, but not really been properly scared by any film as an adult. Being a Media teacher possibly helps/hinders, as I have a horrible habit of deconstructing films as I watch them.