[Film] Scariest Films

[sully]

Having seen the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I sat down to watch the remake and found I just couldn’t do it. Turned off after just a couple of minutes at the thought of what was coming.

I still have the DVD but have never watched it. Can anyone confirm if it’s scarier than the original or not?

 

[Half Time Pies]

I have watched a lot of horrors and in my opinion The Shining has to be the scariest film of all time.

 

[Mackenzie]

American Werewolf in London scared me when I was a kid, Event Horizon put me on edge too.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Having seen the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I sat down to watch the remake and found I just couldn’t do it. Turned off after just a couple of minutes at the thought of what was coming.

I still have the DVD but have never watched it. Can anyone confirm if it’s scarier than the original or not?

No. It's shit.

 

[brakespear]

The original version of 'The Haunting', never seen anything scarier.

 

[sully]

No. It's shit.

Thanks.

Anyone want to buy the DVD off me?

 

[Boys 9d]

Aren't there two types of scary films? First those that build up an atmosphere of dread and secondly those where sudden actions break the calm and scares the s**t out of you.
Incidentally praise should be given to the composers of the musical scores whose work is often not noticed but if not there would lessen the impact.

 

[father_and_son]

So I read this https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/07/peter-bradshaw-scariest-films-ever-hereditary last night and thought Yes, I'll watch a scary film Friday night. Most of the films on the list I've seen, and to be honest, as good as some of them are, I wouldn't say they're "scary". Now I've just been annoyed by #18 Audition (Japanese, & odd), it got me wondering as to the last time I saw a film that really was genuinely "scary", and naturally I'd would like to prod the hive-mind of NSC and see what flops out.

The 3 for me that immediately spring to mind, recent first, are:

The Descent
Funny Games (German version)
Wolf Creek

I honestly cannot think of any other films that scared me/disturbed me/made me switch off half-way and turn the lights on for a restorative coffee and walk around the flat.

What am I missing?

The only 2 films that really scared me... sleep with the lights on scared... were Alien and American Werewolf in London. I was about 10 when I them but both really freaked me out.

 

[KingKev]

Don’t Look Now

I am watching that tomorrow night, for the first time in probably 25 years! Mrs KK has never seen it, so I hope it’s as good as my memory tells me it is...

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Signs was a great film when that came out. Was expecting a standard UFO flick but turned out to be one that really made me think to myself afterwards. Few very well done scary moments.

The first Paranormal Activity was genius. Not everyone's cuppa tea but I loved it.

The Others with Nicole Kidman was done brilliantly. Tremendous twist.

I find it hard to find films that manage to scare me - but I always love it if they do. I can't stand it when they go overboard with the CGI or reveal the baddie too soon. Less is more for me. You don't need blood and guts and computer generated ghosts flying around the gaff. A decent score, good acting and an overall sense of dread is all that's required.

 

[el punal]

I am watching that tomorrow night, for the first time in probably 25 years! Mrs KK has never seen it, so I hope it’s as good as my memory tells me it is...

Don’t take her to Venice in the winter!

 

[el punal]

Signs was a great film when that came out. Was expecting a standard UFO flick but turned out to be one that really made me think to myself afterwards. Few very well done scary moments.

The first Paranormal Activity was genius. Not everyone's cuppa tea but I loved it.

The Others with Nicole Kidman was done brilliantly. Tremendous twist.

I find it hard to find films that manage to scare me - but I always love it if they do. I can't stand it when they go overboard with the CGI or reveal the baddie too soon. Less is more for me. You don't need blood and guts and computer generated ghosts flying around the gaff. A decent score, good acting and an overall sense of dread is all that's required.

Well said.

 

[Goldstone1976]

This is a brilliant thread for me: it’ll give me a list of films to never watch - I bloody hate scary films, and avoid them at every opportunity. That said, I loved Alien and Jaws. No, I have no clue either.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Don't Look Now is atmospheric, slightly quirky with some magnificent tension.
A great film already, it is further is enhanced by some nudey prod scenes featuring Julie Christie.

Similar to the previously mentioned Funny Games, another dark film ruined by the Hollywood remake was The Vanishing aka Spoorloos

 

[Surf's Up]

As a teenage boy embarking on the lifelong journey towards trying to understand women, Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" set me back a few years and scared the living shits out of me.

 

[maffew]

There's actually only a couple of films which made me pretty restless. Not hugely scary to most, but a bit freaky/watched them at the wrong age

The Shining
Arachnophobia (I swear that should have been a pg or 12 whatever it was). I dont mind spiders either, must be a horror for people that do

 

[Gabbafella]

No such thing as a scary film in my opinion.
I don't do the blood and gore type film, not entertaining to me or the Mrs. I prefer psychological films, but I've yet to find one that really got under my skin.

Nightmare on elm Street was amazing in its day but don't watch it now, it's so comical that it ruined my childhood memories of it.
I love silent hill, but I'm a fan of the games.
Ringu (Japanese version of the ring) and ringu 0 are excellent, as is Ju-on (Japanese version of the grudge)
Event horizon was good, not sure how it holds up now.
Someone said It follows. Hands down one of the worst films I've ever seen. It's the benchmark for shit movies in my house.

 

[BadFish]

I have been enjoying the Conjouring series. Especially the second one. Re-ingnited my love for the horror genre.

Watched Annabelle Creation the other day and enjoyed it.

Not sure i was scared as such but was enjoying the tension.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

^ Tend to agree with Gabafella, all of the films mentioned above have their fair share of poor Amazon reviews (always worth looking at if you want to find a reason not to watch something imho).

The Conjuring, based on a true American house haunting is probably as good as it's got in recent years imho. Woman in Black and Paranormal Activity, both mentioned above, have some great moments in them, as does Salem's Lot.

Edit - BadFish just posted about The Conjuring while I was typing!

 

[OzMike]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XwU8pwosQ

Low budget but still scary.
I love a good scary movie, not the blood and guts type, the thinking ones are much better.