Horror Flims?

[magicbeatle]

What is the scariest horror film ever made? Im not talking about special effects here, I mean 'Hiding behind the sofa' scary. And what makes a good scary horror film in your opinion?

[theotherdave]

An unanswerable question indeed. If you like slashers and gorefests try some of the 80s video nasties..like driller killer and texas chainsaw massacre. If you prefer suspense and psychological horrors i'd definately say the wickerman or strawdogs. If you want a bit of fun Evil Dead 2....
In my opinion a good horror film has to be unpredictable..i hate linear and formulaic horror films.

[Biggsy]

1 of the scariest films I have ever seen has to be a Nightmare On Elm Street. Any thing with Freddy in scared the cr*p out of me and still does. I recently watched SAW wasn't that scary but very good horror film. Blood and guts don't bother me I prefer something that will make me jump and make me think about whats round the corner.

[Suzannew]

I am probably showing my age here, but the Hammer Production T.V. films of the 1970's and the Dracula Films with Christopher Lee scared me to death.  Couldn't go to bed without wearing a crucifix!

[luckyboy]

Psycho... forget all the gory special effects rubbish this film still remains the best chiller of them all...

Halloween was pretty good too. 

[mycatis]

Nightmare on Elm Street is well scary but I've always thiought that The Shining is one of the scariest films cause sometimes people do go mental and kill their families as for those 2 wee girls argh!

[theotherdave]

Cant believe i missed NOSFERATU..its an old silent movie fromt he year the titanic sank. Im not being pretentious about this. The film is German and based on Dracula. It was called Nosferatu because of copyright infringements. The make up work is brilliant and im yet to see a scarier looking vampire.

[mycatis]

ooh yeah NOSFERATU is really scary too!

[eupraxia]

Nosferatu is scary The bit in the Jap version of Ring where she coming out of the TV is freaky. When I first saw the film Asylum with Herbert Lom I was scared witless. Evil Dead also class

But when House on Haunted hill with Jeffrey Rush came out on video there were about 12 of us watched it in my front room late one night. 12 grown people all jumped back about 3 feet when the girl with the camera turned round and saw the weirdest horror I ever saw come shaking towards her.

My daughter however said Death Becomes Her gave her nightmares for days afterward. Just the three nuns gliding down the corridor. They freaked her out.

Different things that scare differnt people

[KebabMeister]

I rather liked the sci-fi film 'The Thing'.  Quite a few of John Carpenter's films were pretty good, such as 'The Fog'.

I remember one particular film I saw when I was very young called 'The Burning'.  It was eventually banned but re-released in the 90s minus several seconds.

[boobesque]

i'm probably going to sound silly but films like Scream s**t me up, purely because its real people not some made up 'thing' that scares me!

Although i will never live my dream of having a huskey dog because of The Thing and as a child Freddie Kruger scared me senseless!!!

[andy hughes]

Mine is 'Dead Of Night' a black and white portmanteau (four stories within the main film) film made in about 1947/8. It's Michael Redgrave's finest houir, and when I saw it, when I was about nine or ten, it gave me a fear of puppets and dummies that I have to this day!

[Impret-Sir]

Simply because there was so little special effects and more was left to your imagination, I think The Blair Witch Project gets my vote, that still makes me feel uncomfortable thinking about some scenes even now.

[SC00BY]

Perhaps the 'Scream' series or 'i know what you did last summer'

[scubadiver]

Totally agree about the burning. It scared me witless.

[twiglet4frog]

dawn of the dead, both the original and the remake

[Brugel]

The Italian film Suspiria is the scariest. It may not be in the same class as Psycho or Bride of Frankenstein for direction, plot and dialogue but it is terrifying to watch. It also sounds terrifying.

[georgit79]

The scariest film I have ever seen is without doubt Misery, starring Kathy Bates. I was hiding behind a cushion for most of it. Not a good choice of film when you're a group of 12 year old girls on a sleepover!

Have watched it at least 3 times since then and it still scares the bejeezus out of me.

[Johnmof]

I went to the cinema to see the original Amityville Horror. There's a scene where James Brolin goes downstairs in the middle of the night and sits at a window with all the lights out. Next thing a cat jumps up on the window sill. The entire audience jumped three feet in the air.

[dk_psy]

I'm with Impret-Sir on this one. If you're one of those who allows yourself to be completely immersed in a film, Blair Witch is frickin scary. Definately gave me the heebies!

Also the script in Titanic is one of the scariest things I think I've heard!

[mycatis]

I collect old zombie films by old favourite (of mine) directors - George A. Romero, Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento love them all