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So, following on from the below about Paranormal Activity, what horror films actually scared you?
For me, the only one that properly scared me was The Exorcist and I sat through pretty much every *scary* film at the time (I Spit on Your Grave, Evil Dead, Zombie Flesh Eaters series, Living Dead series My Bloody Valentine etc etc etc - we would watch two and three a day every day when I first left school after CSE exams.
Watched blair witch on some seriously strong hash cakes years ago. Shat myself.
I think The Exorcist was the only one that made me feel a little uneasy, mainly for the face that keeps appearing on screen for a second and then starts appearing around the house.
I tend not to be overly bothered by horror films.
I must add that I was only 15 at the time. I don't 'get' any of the modern ones such as Saw.
The Others did creep me out though and I must have been around 30 then. (And it was only a 12 rating)!
American Werewolf in London.
I think I was 12 or 13 at the time.
I know it's really a comedy, but to this day I still cant sit through it without diving behind the sofa.
Alien.
but to this day I still cant sit through it without diving behind the sofa.
I normally have to dive somewhere else. Damn Jenny Agutter 😉
mmmmmm. Jenny Agutter in Walkabout.
First viewing of The Shining sh*t me up good and proper.... Halloween also did quite a good job, think it was because Michael Myers always only walked.
Japanese versions of
- The Ring
- Dark Water
- The Grudge
And the Shining is good ^^^
Halloween...didn't sleep for a week!
Don't really get frightened as such by horror. But anything involving catching glimpses of creatures in mirrors unsettles me. Remember watching The Mothman Prophesies with well known hamster fan Richard Gere in it. You only ever saw fleeting glimpses of said mothman. One bit in particular where you see him in a closing bathroom cabinet mirror boiled my swede for a bit.
I have to say American Werewolf , that bit on the Moor's....shiverrrr
Also The Fog (original) , that really made me pap, i had a paper round in the early mornings and had to go through a park that always seemed to have a mist/fog across it. I carried a hammer in my bag after seeing that film...god knows why!!
Oh and an awesome film of its time....The Thing. Which i understand they are re-making?
Mstly though its Werewolf films that make me uneasy...no idea why and i'm 38 lol.
when i was a kid got up late one night and went downstairs. put telly on and 'the fog' was on. dont remember what happened in the film but i remember screaming and was ****ed up for about a week according to my mam.
other than that i remember trying to climb into my cousins bed when i was meant to be sleeping on the floor, after watching 'jaws' ha. in my head his bed was a boat and the floor was the water, once again i was young.
the fog- when I was about 8.
The house on haunted hill- same sort of age EEEEEEK!!
the thing remake is a prequel set in the norwegian arctic station
event horizon made me jump
werewolves are fine, you see lots on cannock chase.
Zombies are another matter, i still to this day look where I am living and think "hmmmm how zombie proof is it?" I think i need either therapy or to live in a castle.
Not sure about scared but I certainly jumped when watching the 1st Nightmare on Elm St film when Freddie 1st appears in the real world.
the Omen.
that kid was scary.
watched the re-make of Texas Chainsaw in the cinema and ended up throwing my popcorn all over the place and nearly jumping onto my mates lap.
had a thing where i wouldn't even go into the deep end of a pool after watching jaws (i was young)
i don't do scary films for my own good.
Poltergiest scared me (I was 15) when I first watched it.
Found the Omen unsettling ... and Event Horizon
Salem's Lot when i was a kid. the boy knocking on the window proper freaked me out.
The Jap original of The Ring
Event Horizon
Nightmare on Elm Street (When I was 13, laughably bad now)
"The Revenge of the Fat Controller" (TweakTheTail Productions, 2009).
the Ring and Blair Witch gave me the creeps from more recent films.
Halloween is the one from my youth that make me jumpy.
Worst of all was "Jaws" still scared of deep water after that. Yet I have a diving license and have swam with sharks and was fine about it, but still hate treading water out at sea. Shudder....
When I went to see Blair Witch, we'd also indulged in some rather interesting herbs before hand, not only did we spend shed loads buying food, but ate most of it before the film came on ... really cold shiver down my spine at the end 😉
Exorcist 3, for me far more scary than the first, and also Salems Lot, with the guy in the rocking chair!
+1 for 'Ringu', or the Japanese ring - mostly quite dull but the final 'coming to visit' scene had every hair on my body trying to escape! Something to do with her movement; primeval fear.
Nightmare on Elm street,
Halloween, finally Carrie', the bit at the end where she's buried and her hand comes out of the grave, my friends and I all screamed the place down.
Salem's Lot for me too.......scarred the willies out of me when i was about 16.
"Mark! Open the window! Open the window, Mark!"
The Eye (Hong Kong version)
The Devils Backbone - Spanish movie
I find Western horrors too much gore for me - rather than scary.
The Omen
Exorcist 3 when that hooded figure with the big choppers crosses the screen. Candyman seemed scary when I first saw it. Unsettled for a few days by hellraiser. 2 scenes from omen 2 stayed with me - the kid stuck under the ice and the woman getting her eyes pecked by crows.
Not scary, but one I could potentially see happening is Eden Lake.
Poltergeist? The Fog? The Thing?
but then again I was 4 at the time...and now not afected by blood as
an adult.
Salem's Lot when i was a kid. the boy knocking on the window proper freaked me out.
and i thought i was the only one!!! messed me up for months that did!!
Hitchcock's,The Birds. Never watched anything scary again. But then I still find Dr Who and Harry Potter alarming. Are we desensitising our kids?
I hate horror movies, think I over did the Vamp/Wolf B&W movies as a kid.
Anyway it does not take much to scare me, as a kid, most of the Doctor Who's had me hiding behind the sofa, with my parents pissing themselves.
But I guess the big one that I remember was American Weirwolf in London.
I let you know when I find one.
Well, there was a series on ITV back in 1976, called " Beasts". One of the programs was called "During Barty's Party". It has stayed with me since!! 👿
Google it!
Exorcist 3 when that hooded figure with the big choppers crosses the screen
I saw this at the cinema. When this bit happened, I almost did a little wee.
blair witch project and amityville spring to mind
the thinkers do me
exorcist
pans labrynth freaked me a bit.
and 12 monkeys
one on tele when i was a kid about a woman who's son drowned or something and she does a ouiji board to get him back
bobby didnt want to come back so he sent me!
Like a few others here, Blair Witch shit me right up when I first watched it with a spliff in me.
Nowadays I tend not to get scared as much as [b]disturbed[/b] by certain films. In that respect 'Creep' and 'Funny Games' stand out.
your right there its not being scared but disturbed by them
While I think on - wolf creek, that was pretty scary!
Saw Blair Witch in the US just after getting out of the airport and to the hotel. Had seen none of the marketing and was proper spooked at the end. Some of the dumbasses in the cinema had obviously bought into the hype as the were crying like mad thinking they'd seen real footage (judging by the conversations I overheard)
all my mates thought It was shit having seen it after it was out over here and been exposed to the marketing hype etc
Alien made me jump.
When i was 10 Jaws kept me awake for weeks! I didn't watch another scary film for years..
In recent times 'The Descent'at the cinema nearly had me under the seat and 'Wolf Creek' made me feel queesy..
Having watched Saw 1 and 2 (clever), gave up on Saw 3 after 5mins and Hostel made me question the whole idea of scary films.
So i've decided scary is good but SICK is bad, so no Eden Lake/Hostel type stuff for me!!
Mrs Underhill wanted me to watch Mamma Mia with her. That was enough to make me run out of the house.
Like a few others here, Blair Witch shit me right up when I first watched it with a spliff in me.
Same here, then a couple of hours later my housemate went to get some food and when he came back the rest of us all stood in the corners of the rooms facing the walls (like the final scene in the movie).
Shit him up good and proper 😀
The Orphanage with surround sound in a darkened room is pretty scary - similar to Pan's Labyrinth but much darker.
The Ring - Japanese version.
Gore doesn't do it for me i.e Saw etc.
But remember watching The Changling when I was a yoof. Not the one with Angelina Jolie, the one with George C Scott.
The bit when the wheelchair moves on its own at the bottom of the stairs still makes my legs go cold.
Anything else with religious undertones like the Exorcist or Omen films anyways get my vote too.
Is it just me or did we all go to watch Blair witch on something?
didn't scare me but didn't make me throw up after making me motion sick with their shite camera hand
Don't go for horror films that much, but Event Horizon was creepy, as was Blair Witch. The Others I found really unsettling, but Pan's Labyrinth really did for me, the sheer brutality of the humans, along with the strangeness of Pan's world has left an indelible mark that stops me from ever wanting to see it again. Fantastic piece of work, though.
most of them are just too predictable/funny to be scary. there's a nasty couple of moments in the remake of 'The Hills Have Eyes' though...
anyone remember xtro from the eighties?
+1 for American Werewolf.
Watched it for the first time aged 12 or so - really shat me up, especially the nazi werewolves breaking into the house.
I still think of various scenes when I visit similar places, e.g. any moorland, small pubs where everyone appears to examine you as you walk in, the underground, etc.
The first 10 minutes of Dawn Of The Dead (2004 version)