Frightening Films

[lizw]

Which film, in your opinion, is the most frightening ever?? Pounding heart and shallow breath while watching and hiding behind the cushion of course!

[souldriver]

I remember watching 'the entity' as a young child, that scared me.

[bernardo]

"White Noise" made me jump a few times when I watched it. But that might have been because it was in the cinema and not on TV.

[COFFINJOE]

If you want to watch something really scary try the 1963 version of The Haunting.

[Bluemukka]

Defintely "The Shining" I still sh!t myself when the twin girls appear in the corridor.

Also an episode of "The Twilight Zone" has been scorched on my brain forever - can't remember what the episode is called but it is set on a plane. The bloke looks out the window, does something and then looks out again and there is this human like creature staring at him through the window. Naturally bloke does one but when he looks again it has gone. Goes on like this for ages with the monster reappearing. Utterly terrifying.

[mydogsandme]

for me- the Ring and The Shining definately- very atmospheric which always makes the best horror...I remember Salem's Lot scaring me and my dad, being the kind of dad he is, going outside and tapping on the window like the little boy! Oh, and a film that no-one remembers (I've asked on here) about a woman murdering someone and putting her behind the fireplace and bricking it up used to give me nightmares, it's an oldie but that's all I remember.

[Loosehead]

Bluemukka, that is a classic episode, even parodied on the Simpsons with Bart looking out of the school bus window. I think the original version actually starred William Shatner.

[joko]

13 ghosts is quite 'jumpy'

creep, ghost ship and house on haunted hill would be good to 'break him in'

loosehead - sorry to be the bearer of bad news but that wasn't britt - it was a body double - saw a doc about the making

[Loosehead]

I know joko, some of it was Brit, the body double was the shot from behind when she's gyrating at the door. I've got the Documentary on my DVD special edition.

[lizw]

I'm so glad I asked this question! Thanks to everyone who replied. Might start him off gently on Hammer House of Horror!

(Anybody remember Zoltan Hound of Dracula??? That TERRIFIED me when I was little!

[OBonio]

From my childhood :

The Moomins
Chocky
Chocky's Children
Grinny

Might be good introductions to the world of scary ;o)

[mandarin]

Though not the scariest film I've ever seen, My Little Eye is really good for jumps and general nastyness

It's about a bunch of kids who volunteer for a Big Brother stylee show where they have to live together for a month in an old house in the middle of a snowy wilderness, the goal being to win a million dollars if no-one leaves before the end of the month. Their antics are broadcast over the internet instead of on tv, only things aren't quite as they seem...

[zippyngeorge]

For me the it has to be Halloween, I can't even hear the music without getting shivers.

The other one that serious freaks me out is from Creepshow, the story with Ted Danson and Leslie Nielson. Neilson buries Danson and a female in the sand upto their necks and then watches them drown when the tide comes in, but they come back and get him.

I had an Uncle who was a little bit older, that made us watch these films with him when we were kids when he babysat cause he was to scared to watch them on his own.

[patc7641]

I will end this now, its The Exorcist. Nothing else comes close, pure psychological terror transferred to the big screen, good v evil incarnate. Please do NOT compare the Shining, it doesnt stand any scrutiny, only the Omen deserves a mention. No film in the last 20 years can be considered, they are all geared for shock value ala SAW, TCM, Scream etc. Please look again at The Exoricist and imagine watching it for the first time in 1973 when the scariest thing on screen was Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Also JAWS deserves a shout, however it is in the other category as the greatest movie ever made.