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!

[chazza]

The end of Carrie really made me jump!

[lizw]

Me too!

I've challenged my husband to watch a scary film as he's a real coward - I'm looking for the best ones to torture him with. He is terrified of The Omen films after sneakily watching one in bed when he was 12 and his mum and dad had left him with the baby sitter! Serves him right!

[badboy4life]

the original version of the ring

[Trojanfarce]

The original Exorcist

The first Nightmare on Elm Street

6th Sense

[OBonio]

The Exorcist is the only film to have disturbed me in the past. That bit with the girl stabbing herself with a crucifix.... *shudder*. Depends how involved your husband gets with a film though. My mate found the Exorcist hysterical because the effects were so outdated. He couldn't see past the cover so to speak.

Other than that, Event Horizon was a good'n. And Straw Dogs.

[kick3m0n]

The end of Carrie was frightening, I remember my mum and I both jumping! The Omen films always got to me too, the music certainly didn't help. Also, I thought Seven was really chilling, and had my heart pounding.

[spaced]

no films that come to mind really scare me. exorcist i suppose was quite shocking. Things that do scare and keep me awake at night are like documentarys on haunted houses and locations like "most haunted" and "haunted homes"

[lizw]

Thanks for all your answers - I have to say that I think the original of The Ring could finish him off completely! I am good with scary films but that absolutely petrified me.

[andy-hughes]

The TV version of 'Salem's Lot' with David Soul scared me seriously, as did 'Dead Of Night' - the fourth vignette with Michael Redgrave and his dummy Hugo Fitch. The part where Hugo said "Wouldn't I ....wouldn't I ...?" and he realised that the dummy was out of control, now that is seriously frightening!

[Kenzie]

Frightening in a different kind of way - A Clockwork Orange

[lizw]

Salem's Lot! I'd forgotten that - I remember his little brother floating outside his bedroom windown after he'd died! God! I got shivers then remembering it!

[sp1814]

I love horror films. Really love them, but my partner is a complete wuss, so I normally see them with a female friend of mine.

She thinks that The Blair Witch Project is the scariest film ever...to the extent that she wouldn't even let her ex-boyfriend keep the DVD in the house (he had to keep it in the car I believe).

For me - scariest ever - The Ring.

But also up there are The Omen and Alien.

I would also like to say that the scariest scene ever is in last year's Amityville Horror remake. The bathroom scene. Anyone who's see it knows exactly what I'm talking about.

[sp1814]

By the way, all of you who found the end of Carrie scary - you're lucky that you saw it before someone (ie an older relative) told you the ending.

[lepers]

i dunno why but i found neither the remake or the original ring or the grudge particularly scary, both originals had some quite freaky moments tho, the eye is a bit weird also.

as ever it depends what u find scary, things that make u jump or the things ure left pondering about when ure trying to go to sleep. like that eugene tombs fella coming down ure chimney from the x-files :o/

saw is quite good tho, but i'm a fan of crappy horror films of the teen variety like wrong turn, films that aren't particularly scary but are good to watch for an hour or two.

[Emma-J]

I have to agree with your female friend 'sp1814', 'Blair Witch' totally creeps me out as well, last time it was on telly I had a bath for an hour and then sat in a different part of the house until it finished, it's the ending that does it.

Also Dead End gives me the heebeegeebees as well

[Loosehead]

I think for a frightening unexpected ending: "The Wicker Man"- It doesn't initially seem scary but it makes you think terrifying thoughts, and also for good measure Brit Ekland get's her Kit off!

Also Alien, was a terrifying the first time I saw it, such suspense mixed with horrific killings. Brilliant

[mudbug162]

The Exorcism of Emily Rose is one of the most modern scariest ones around, frightened the crap out of me, more freaky then scary but there are a good few jumpy bits

[Ewar Woowar]

The Shining scared the life out of me when I was younger. The scene with the little boy on his tricycle peddling through the corridors of the empty big old hotel.... ooh I can just see it again now....arghhh!

[Kenzie]

Oh yes, The Wicker Man - what a fantastic film (and even from the female perspective I can see the added bonus of BE for you!). Good choices Loosehead, Alien films are brill too.

[kitty1950]

I read the book "Salems Lot" when it first came out in the 70s I think and I was scared as hell. It's amazing what your imagination can do