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

As an adult?

Errmm! No nothing.

I thought the ending of The Blair With Project was really well done.

The Shining & Halloween did it for me too.

.Rec had me properly on the edge of my seat for the last half hour or so.

I thought the ending of The Blair With Project was really well done.

Pity it had to start, what an awful film.

I thought the ending of The Blair With Project was really well done.

I thought it was great when it finally ended.

Signs scared the shit out of me, still does..

Mamma Mia

The Descent. Not so much scared as horrifically uncomfortable and quite keen to leave the cinema...

I hate to say it but The Grudge made me jump out of my skin on a number of occasions. My excuse is my missus was crapping herself and it made the atmosphere ten times more spoooOOOoooky

Also, the scene in The Ring (the original jap version) where the girl jerkily crawls out of the well, along and out of the telly made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up somewhat...

The orphanage (stupid sack faced kid!)

The Blair With Project scared the bejesus out of me. Especially when my lights died in Llandegla forest one night, and i stood there in total darkness, listening to the rustling in the trees around me. Its all I could think about 😯

+1 for the last 30 mins of .rec

Spare pair of pants and extra large sofa needed before I'll watch that again.

Ooh, Audition as well. Not exactly scared, just... Uncomfortable, I guess.

rogg - Member
+1 for the last 30 mins of .rec

Spare pair of pants and extra large sofa needed before I'll watch that again.

Pretty good for a sequence where the screen is mostly black innit!

Paranormal Activity 3 😆
Rec was awesome, the whole thing scared me a lot but the ending was just horrible. Still haven't made myself watch the bit where they poke the camera up into the attic!

Don't Look Now.
oldie but nasty, especially for parents

The Ring,, I still get nightmares

Rec

Poltergeist (I cannot look at a TV with just static on it, and I'm 44 so should know much better)

Carrie, not so much scary but one scene does make you jump!

Borderland.

Apparantly based on a true story, still churns my stomach thinking about it. Never made it to the end.

+1 for the Descent

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

On a non-horror (at least not conventional horror, lots of it is pretty damn horrifying) note, 1980s nuclear apocalypse mockumentary Threads.

Scared the beejesus out of me watching it a couple of years back. I think if I'd seen it in the 80s, with a still real threat of nuclear war, I would have headed for the Highlands and lived out life in a cave.

I was a bit freaked by that Nicole Kidman one (well most of her films scare me) but the one in particular I mean is the one where they were all ghosts.

And one bit in that 'I see dead people' film where he is under the sheets with the little (dead) girl.

The Others?

The original Japanese film Dark Water really spooked me too.

The Descent

How can a film that had people caving with ice axes be scary? I thought it laughable. The 'monsters' weren't even that scary either - just stay still and bash them with your unnecessary ice axe when they come trotting past.

anything with Tom Cruise in... that's actually a real guy inside that costume.. 😯

The Others?

paper house.

I went to a midnight showing of Event Horizon when i was 18, not a good idea.

Paranormal Activity
Grave Encounters
Exorcism of Emily Rose
Hellraiser 2
The Ring (the bit in the well!!)
Grudge 2 (Jap Version) The bit at the beginning where the thing is in the footwell of the car!!) *shudders*.

Dog Soldiers – not at the time – but every time I go out riding at night in the woods on my own.

+1 for Audition, especially as I wasn't really expecting the film to take that direction.

Also, a wee Irish short called The Ten Steps. Still makes my hair stand on end thinking about it. Not sure it'll have the same impact on youtube at Friday lunchtime as in a darkened cinema, but here it is...

Not terrifying but in terms of making me jump it would have to be Paranormal Activity. Not a great film but thought it was pretty clever showing lots of the CCTV footage where nothing happens so you start to really focus on it looking for any slight movement etc. then when something does finally happened you're so drawn into it it takes you by surprise (at least it did me). Most horror films you kinda know when the music changes something's about to happen which is a bit lame.

+1 for Dog Soldiers. Nearly erased that from memory. Many brown trouser moments visiting a mates when she lives in a game-keeper cottage with the kennels out back, also happens to be white with a couple a defenders out front AND in the middle of the forest

The Descent.

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

Ah it's almost Halloween- time for me to force my brother to try and watch Ghos****ch again, and for him to run away halfway through.

I found R-Point to be quite scary, more from a psychological perspective than out and out terror

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.

"Ghos****ch" - I forgot about that!

Scared me half to death and fell for it til the very end where newsreader sand "round and round the garden" like he was possessed!

😯

IT, scared me as a child and still hate it now

How can a film that had people caving with ice axes be scary?

Really? Really? You must be a barrel of laughs.

+ 1 for the Descent: The bit at the beginning where they get stuck in the crawl space really had me sweating; mainly because it's a complete nightmare scenario for me. Oh, and the ending has haunted me ever since.

Pretty much anything by the Japanese, even the remakes. The Ring and The Grudge have given me nightmares.

Event Horizon

The road

I accidently found my Mum and Dads's home movie. That was pretty shocking and scarred me for life 😯

Yeah ... The Road or I am Legend (the mob rule, rather than the vamps)

It's the break down of society for me, not monsters or ghost etc... as it seems much more possible 😯

Edit "much more"??... maybe I should have said slighly more

my wedding video does it for me

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.