Always found the Japanese films like 'The Ring' scary. Earliest memory I have of a horror movie is 'Horror Express' that I saw when I was 7. Pedestrian now but scared the living daylights out of me for years.
Quite like this shortie on Youtube.
I believe Hereditary is terrifying but I havent seen it???
It's a good film, and creepy throughout, but never really pap your pants scary.
'Us' is a pretty good film, saw that at the weekend, but is starts scary and becomes increasingly less so as it carries on.
Original IT when I was too young.
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer and Cape Fear. Both seen shortly after we had been burgled. Again way to young for both of those.
I’m useless with horror films and tend to avoid them. Don’t mind a good home invasion film though. Event Horizon freaked me out mainly because I thought it was just a sci-fi film. Rented it out and watched it one night whilst alone and high. Stayed up all night with the lights on. I wasn’t expecting that.
It’s tied with American Werewolf in London. My auntie let me and my brother watch it when I was seven and he was about eleven. She was looking after us as my brother was ill. He had a fever that night and properly freaked out. I shared a room with him and all I can remember is me crying and him screaming. It’s a great film, but still makes me feel uneasy to this day.
I had to stop playing “Silent Hill” at one point as it just got too scary and weird
Silent Hill had its moments for sure. The memorable one for me was early on in the 'normal' reality there's a filing cabinet rattling away to itself, you tentatively open it and... a cat jumps out. Then later on you find the same cabinet in the hell dimension... Mind**** much?
Psycho terrified me when I watched it . I wasn't much older than 10 at the time though .
My daughters were so scared by The Legend of Sleepy Hollow that they wouldn;t go to bed on their own for a long time afterwards . They were also very young when they watched it .
Midnight Express disturbed me in adult life for some time after I watched it .
Hellraiser for me - still can’t watch it again.
Anything with Zombies..... I hate Zombies
Even a poor Zombie shoot'em up game on a phone will get my heart pounding and adrenaline pumping.
Bloody Zombies, not quite sure what it is about them.... their relentlessness maybe or maybe just the metaphor of the masses uncontrolled that scares the life outta me.
The only film that’s given me nightmares is Irréversible. It’s not a horror film, but it is horrific – I do not recommend it.
Totally agree with @retro83. Irreversible really stuck with me for a long time after watching it.
Not for the faint-hearted.
+1 for The Road. It's one of my favourite films, yet in not sure I'll watch it more than once. The human meat cellar scene still churns in my mind.
The one film I can't bring myself to watch is the Human Centipede. Just no. The idea horrifies me.
Has 'dont look now' come up? Always regarded as one of the best British films ever
It has the best air of creepiness and sense of foreboding of any film I've ever seen
SPOILER ALERT: It's not the final scene that gives me the chills, it's the gondola ride when he foresees his own funeral that has just given me shivers thinking about it
It’s tied with American Werewolf in London. My auntie let me and my brother watch it when I was seven and he was about eleven. She was looking after us as my brother was ill. He had a fever that night and properly freaked out. I shared a room with him and all I can remember is me crying and him screaming. It’s a great film, but still makes me feel uneasy to this day.
The horror is balanced out by seeing Jenny agutter half naked though. Same with Monica Bellucci in Irreversible
I'm still creeped out by the first in the v/h/s series of movies.
If you're a bloke, you won't fail to cross your legs towards the end of the movie 'antichrist', starring Willem dafoe.
Event Horizon freaked me out mainly because I thought it was just a sci-fi film
Yep, a bunch of us went to the cinema to watch it, persuading our then girlfriends to come (who wants to see a lame sci-fi!?!) I'm pretty sure the fact that it was a horror wasn't part of the ad campaign before hand, certainly we didn't have a clue...
Agree with the comments about games though, some of my biggest jump scares were from those rather than films.
Earlier I said that The Ring was the scariest film I've seen, which I stand by.
However, I played a video game called Thief a decade or so ago. There was a chapter where you have to sneak around an abandoned orphanage - I think it was called The Cradle - which was scarier than any film I've watched.
I seem to remember that I paused the game and waited for my flatmate to come home before I continued.
Dead Man's Shoes had a big impact on me the first time I watched it. Sort of frightening but more just really dark. Great film though.
Candyman scared the bejesus out of me as a kid but I don't know if it would now.
Blair Witch was dreadful and not at all scary, IMO.
