Horror films haven’t tended to scare me other than the odd jump scare. I did find though that after watching episodes of The Haunting of Hill House, I was sh** scared of walking through the house turning the lights off, until I was eventually in the dark. We also have a coat stand in our entrance hall with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. In the dark with the outside lights shining through the front windows, it looks like the silhouette of some old fashioned guy standing there, which scares the s*** out of me. 😂
Don't find them scary at all. Spooky and jumpy sure, but not scary. As a kid, the only film that frightened me was Darkness Falls. Favourite would be Jeepers Creepers
Jaws has had the longest lasting effect on me.
In recent years, Hereditary was pretty unsettling. The Mom 'knocking' on the loft hatch was a good scare.
Threads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
Not your typical 'scariest film' choice as it doesn't involve ghosts, monsters etc., but seeing the effects of nuclear war is very scary. Apparently it was shown to Reagan when it aired and it made an impact on policy.
comment by Clive Bissel (U22987)
posted 18 minutes ago
Jaws has had the longest lasting effect on me.
In recent years, Hereditary was pretty unsettling. The Mom 'knocking' on the loft hatch was a good scare.
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Hereditary, I just don’t get why people find that scary - people were laughing in the cinema when we watched it.
Also the first half of that movie is dull as faaaack
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comment by Clive Bissel (U22987)
posted 18 minutes ago
Jaws has had the longest lasting effect on me.
In recent years, Hereditary was pretty unsettling. The Mom 'knocking' on the loft hatch was a good scare.
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Hereditary, I just don’t get why people find that scary - people were laughing in the cinema when we watched it.
Also the first half of that movie is dull as faaaack
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I wouldn't say scary. Unsettling though.
Not sure about scariest horror movies, but some good-to-great films that are in the horror genre:
The Shining
The Witch
Sugar Snaps
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 34 minutes ago
Not sure about scariest horror movies, but some good-to-great films that are in the horror genre:
The Shining
The Witch
Sugar Snaps
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I think you mean Ginger snaps
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comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
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comment by Clive Bissel (U22987)
posted 18 minutes ago
Jaws has had the longest lasting effect on me.
In recent years, Hereditary was pretty unsettling. The Mom 'knocking' on the loft hatch was a good scare.
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Hereditary, I just don’t get why people find that scary - people were laughing in the cinema when we watched it.
Also the first half of that movie is dull as faaaack
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I wouldn't say scary. Unsettling though.
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Yeah, I certainly don’t stick my head out the car window that’s for sure.
As above so below, is pretty scary
The descent, is decent too
I've seen all the conjuring, insidious, paranormal activities, hell raisers, RECs, exorcists etc
I'm.a sucker for a possession horror. My favourite genre.
Silence of the lambs - the night vision bit at the end in the basement where he touches her hair and the bit where she is searching the lock up and finds the pickled head - that faaacking scares me still. Absolute master class of a movie that, Man hunter is great also.
comment by T-BAG (U11806)
posted 9 hours, 42 minutes ago
Scariest films for me are woke nonsense like Barbie, Schindlers List & Lego Batman
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oh look out....severe tangent alert
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 34 minutes ago
Not sure about scariest horror movies, but some good-to-great films that are in the horror genre:
The Shining
The Witch
Sugar Snaps
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I think you mean Ginger snaps
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Guilty as charged! Reminder to self: don't post until fully waken up.
It...that clown needs sorting
not my wheelhouse of entertainment though
Exorcist (original version)
Hereditary
I'm a big fan of the horror genre and the one that seems to divide it is the blair witch project... To me, at the time, it was the scariest film I ever saw and stayed with me for months.
All of my favourite horror films are ones that don't show much.. "The Haunting" is a perfect example of this. The first half of Insidious did similar, until dancing darth maul showed up.
I think the single scene that creeped me out the most was the clap scene in the conjuring. It's both a jump scare and creepy, as you don't get to see the next part.
Another great scene is the closest scene in Sixth Sense.
Exorcist
The Omen
Evil Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street 1
But none scarier than . . .
Mary Poppins
The made-for-TV film of The Woman in Black. It ruined Christmas one year for me.
My wife was also born March 1990. She hates horrors as she doesn't see the point of willingly crapping yourself. Personally I don't get them, I mostly watch them as comedies, or did before I got married.
Alien used to scare the life out of me as a kid.
comment by C (U17162)
posted 10 hours, 22 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 35 seconds ago
When Jaws first came out that was one of them. It was a lot more scary than Pulp fiction and Saving Private Ryan FFS
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Being born March 1990, I'd already watched the likes of The Exorcist, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Saving Private Ryan etc by the time I was 10, but the only film that actually gave me nightmares for a good while was 28 Days Later, which i first watched when I was 13. For me 28 days later is the scariest film ever, probably due the fact that if the zombie/infected apocalypse happens, that is how it'd look in the UK.
I know the likes of Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas ain't horrors, I just mean to say while I was looked after, &
fairly sheltered as a 90s kid, my parents let me watch any type of film or video game as a youngster, I got to watch & play the lot
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WIth a world full of prawn out there, no padlock on the gate and a teenage cauk needing taken care of multiple times a day you chose to watch horror films?
comment by English Super Cup Winners 2023 (U22980)
posted 8 minutes ago
Mary Poppins
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Wid
comment by Sheriff John Brown - Arteta IN!!! (U7482)
posted 10 hours, 41 minutes ago
Repeatability tends to define how "scary" I find a horror film. There are many horror films I've watched several times and find entertaining. But some have such an effect on me that I can't re-watch them, even if it's a critically acclaimed film that I find well made. Like recently, I watched "Hereditary" and just deleted it immediately after due to how creeped out I was.
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Great film that, as is Midsommar
Spoorloos, such an uncomfortable watch. The US made a remake (The Vanishing) which is appalling and manages to completely misunderstand what made the original so good. Speak No Evil which came out a couple years ago reminded me a lot of Spoorloos and which I highly recommend.
Angst is a very disturbing movie I recommend that I watched recently, also The Entity. These are all more psychological horror which I find more 'scary'.
There are loads of great horror movies that I would class as being entertaining rather than scary. I think horror is actually something you should watch young as you are genuinly more scared then and will enjoy them more for what they are.
Also watched The Exorcist 3 recently and it was actually really good. Not in the same league as Friedkin's original but a very enjoyable sequel. George C. Scott is brilliant at playing a man in pain while Brad Dourif is also excellent in it. Never watch The Exorcist 2 however, terrible movie.
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posted on 19/10/23
Horror films haven’t tended to scare me other than the odd jump scare. I did find though that after watching episodes of The Haunting of Hill House, I was sh** scared of walking through the house turning the lights off, until I was eventually in the dark. We also have a coat stand in our entrance hall with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. In the dark with the outside lights shining through the front windows, it looks like the silhouette of some old fashioned guy standing there, which scares the s*** out of me. 😂
posted on 19/10/23
Don't find them scary at all. Spooky and jumpy sure, but not scary. As a kid, the only film that frightened me was Darkness Falls. Favourite would be Jeepers Creepers
posted on 19/10/23
Jaws has had the longest lasting effect on me.
In recent years, Hereditary was pretty unsettling. The Mom 'knocking' on the loft hatch was a good scare.
posted on 19/10/23
Threads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
Not your typical 'scariest film' choice as it doesn't involve ghosts, monsters etc., but seeing the effects of nuclear war is very scary. Apparently it was shown to Reagan when it aired and it made an impact on policy.
posted on 19/10/23
comment by Clive Bissel (U22987)
posted 18 minutes ago
Jaws has had the longest lasting effect on me.
In recent years, Hereditary was pretty unsettling. The Mom 'knocking' on the loft hatch was a good scare.
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Hereditary, I just don’t get why people find that scary - people were laughing in the cinema when we watched it.
Also the first half of that movie is dull as faaaack
posted on 19/10/23
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Clive Bissel (U22987)
posted 18 minutes ago
Jaws has had the longest lasting effect on me.
In recent years, Hereditary was pretty unsettling. The Mom 'knocking' on the loft hatch was a good scare.
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Hereditary, I just don’t get why people find that scary - people were laughing in the cinema when we watched it.
Also the first half of that movie is dull as faaaack
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I wouldn't say scary. Unsettling though.
posted on 19/10/23
Not sure about scariest horror movies, but some good-to-great films that are in the horror genre:
The Shining
The Witch
Sugar Snaps
posted on 19/10/23
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 34 minutes ago
Not sure about scariest horror movies, but some good-to-great films that are in the horror genre:
The Shining
The Witch
Sugar Snaps
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I think you mean Ginger snaps
posted on 19/10/23
comment by Clive Bissel (U22987)
posted 47 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Clive Bissel (U22987)
posted 18 minutes ago
Jaws has had the longest lasting effect on me.
In recent years, Hereditary was pretty unsettling. The Mom 'knocking' on the loft hatch was a good scare.
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Hereditary, I just don’t get why people find that scary - people were laughing in the cinema when we watched it.
Also the first half of that movie is dull as faaaack
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I wouldn't say scary. Unsettling though.
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Yeah, I certainly don’t stick my head out the car window that’s for sure.
posted on 19/10/23
As above so below, is pretty scary
The descent, is decent too
I've seen all the conjuring, insidious, paranormal activities, hell raisers, RECs, exorcists etc
I'm.a sucker for a possession horror. My favourite genre.
posted on 19/10/23
Silence of the lambs - the night vision bit at the end in the basement where he touches her hair and the bit where she is searching the lock up and finds the pickled head - that faaacking scares me still. Absolute master class of a movie that, Man hunter is great also.
posted on 19/10/23
comment by T-BAG (U11806)
posted 9 hours, 42 minutes ago
Scariest films for me are woke nonsense like Barbie, Schindlers List & Lego Batman
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oh look out....severe tangent alert
posted on 19/10/23
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club over there (U18109)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 34 minutes ago
Not sure about scariest horror movies, but some good-to-great films that are in the horror genre:
The Shining
The Witch
Sugar Snaps
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I think you mean Ginger snaps
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Guilty as charged! Reminder to self: don't post until fully waken up.
posted on 19/10/23
It...that clown needs sorting
not my wheelhouse of entertainment though
posted on 19/10/23
Exorcist (original version)
Hereditary
posted on 19/10/23
I'm a big fan of the horror genre and the one that seems to divide it is the blair witch project... To me, at the time, it was the scariest film I ever saw and stayed with me for months.
All of my favourite horror films are ones that don't show much.. "The Haunting" is a perfect example of this. The first half of Insidious did similar, until dancing darth maul showed up.
I think the single scene that creeped me out the most was the clap scene in the conjuring. It's both a jump scare and creepy, as you don't get to see the next part.
Another great scene is the closest scene in Sixth Sense.
posted on 19/10/23
Closet*
posted on 19/10/23
Exorcist
The Omen
Evil Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street 1
But none scarier than . . .
Mary Poppins
posted on 19/10/23
The made-for-TV film of The Woman in Black. It ruined Christmas one year for me.
posted on 19/10/23
My wife was also born March 1990. She hates horrors as she doesn't see the point of willingly crapping yourself. Personally I don't get them, I mostly watch them as comedies, or did before I got married.
Alien used to scare the life out of me as a kid.
posted on 19/10/23
comment by C (U17162)
posted 10 hours, 22 minutes ago
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 35 seconds ago
When Jaws first came out that was one of them. It was a lot more scary than Pulp fiction and Saving Private Ryan FFS
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Being born March 1990, I'd already watched the likes of The Exorcist, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Saving Private Ryan etc by the time I was 10, but the only film that actually gave me nightmares for a good while was 28 Days Later, which i first watched when I was 13. For me 28 days later is the scariest film ever, probably due the fact that if the zombie/infected apocalypse happens, that is how it'd look in the UK.
I know the likes of Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas ain't horrors, I just mean to say while I was looked after, &
fairly sheltered as a 90s kid, my parents let me watch any type of film or video game as a youngster, I got to watch & play the lot
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WIth a world full of prawn out there, no padlock on the gate and a teenage cauk needing taken care of multiple times a day you chose to watch horror films?
posted on 19/10/23
comment by English Super Cup Winners 2023 (U22980)
posted 8 minutes ago
Mary Poppins
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Wid
posted on 19/10/23
comment by Sheriff John Brown - Arteta IN!!! (U7482)
posted 10 hours, 41 minutes ago
Repeatability tends to define how "scary" I find a horror film. There are many horror films I've watched several times and find entertaining. But some have such an effect on me that I can't re-watch them, even if it's a critically acclaimed film that I find well made. Like recently, I watched "Hereditary" and just deleted it immediately after due to how creeped out I was.
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Great film that, as is Midsommar
posted on 19/10/23
Spoorloos, such an uncomfortable watch. The US made a remake (The Vanishing) which is appalling and manages to completely misunderstand what made the original so good. Speak No Evil which came out a couple years ago reminded me a lot of Spoorloos and which I highly recommend.
Angst is a very disturbing movie I recommend that I watched recently, also The Entity. These are all more psychological horror which I find more 'scary'.
There are loads of great horror movies that I would class as being entertaining rather than scary. I think horror is actually something you should watch young as you are genuinly more scared then and will enjoy them more for what they are.
posted on 19/10/23
Also watched The Exorcist 3 recently and it was actually really good. Not in the same league as Friedkin's original but a very enjoyable sequel. George C. Scott is brilliant at playing a man in pain while Brad Dourif is also excellent in it. Never watch The Exorcist 2 however, terrible movie.
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