The Scariest Film Ever? Looking For Rarer Suggestions

[deejaybenj]

Any suggestions for rarer scary films. I am not thinking the obvious choices like 'The Shining', 'The Exorcist' or newer ones like 'The Conjuring'.

Any very obscure, forgotten gems?

[tonyav]

Got to agree with ' The Haunting'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeAzGxWlEcg

[Caribeing]

Psycho, one of my favourite films still scary, and every time you watch it you see something different!

[Retrochic]

'Its Alive 1974 really scary then, probably laughable now, but after seeing that I wouldn't go to the loo in the middle of the night for over a month lol!

[cupid04]

The Stepford wives

[Tilly2]

The Ring was very scary. That girl, coming out of the tele!

[xstitcher]

When I was a child visiting relatives in the USA I was taken to a drive in movie to see a 3D film called The Creature from the Black Lagoon. It scared the bejeebers out of me and I have never watched a scary film since.......give me Mary Poppins pls lol.
Needless to say it was entirely inappropriate for my age at the time.

[janbee]

The Sound of Music !. All those creepy kids - scares the bejeesus out of me.

[janbee]

The Premature Burial with Ray Milland. It was in the early 60s. I saw it in the cinema at the same time that the Cuban missile crisis was going on. A VERY scary time for all of us living through that at the time. Seems silly now I know , but back then?... OMG!!!

[Dizmo]

Come on people - go back, way way back, way back, way way way, way way back to 1971. The very uncouth - Let's Scare Jessica To Death.

[Dizmo]

Jan if thy wants it I can send it you - Let's scare Jessica to death

[Hypognosis]

@janbee

All through my youth, the Beeb would run old classic 1930s horror flicks and Hammer films, during the summer holidays, for some reason. I remember that one in particular.

Another which claustrophobes will hate is "Johnny Got His Gun" but that was more of an anti-war film, at the time.

Needless to say, the trapped Chilean miners story gave me the heebie-jeebies for 6 months…

[1ozzy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1958_film)

Well I thought it was scary as a kid.

[Hypognosis]

Many horror films cop out with an "it's all going to be alright" ending. The Fly was a noteable exception. Unsettling to the little uns, I'd imagine.

Another with a bleak ending (a sense of more unknown dread to come) is The Incredible Shrinking Man. A bit tame, by today's standards, though.

[Canary42]

The original Nosferatu (1922).

[Peaspeculiars]

Lol @ Jan - 'The Sound of Music' for best answer ;o)

[netibiza]

Oooh The devil rides out absolutley terrified me , still does.

[whirlyhurly]

Salem's Lot, also Jeepers Creepers

[jno]

if you want claustrophobia, and no happy ending, go for The Vanishing ( the original, not the US remake)

[viv38]

The film that scared me the most was The Woman in Black, but not the big screen version (which I thought was rubbish), but the TV version which first appeared a few years ago. I keep hoping it will be shown again, very scary.