Scary Films

[eve1974]

Which movie ... in distant past or more recent... has scared you. Like really given u the heeby jeebies?

[Unsureme]

Love Story.

[marval]

I have never been really scared watching a film, but Picnic at Hanging Rock made me shiver a bit.

[OldBather]

As Buenchico says,it's what is implied in a film,not what is shown.

[jno]

I think both are valid ways of being scary, that's why I nominated one of each.

[andy-hughes]

Oldbather - that depends on what you want from a film.

I am someone more scared by an atmosphere than anything else.

But plenty of people like visceral gore scenes one after the other.

Obviously films are made for both sets of fans, and all the varieties in-between, but I don't think it's accurate to say that implication is scarier than visualisation - that depends on the person watching.

[andy-hughes]

I crossed with jno there - who obviously takes my point.

[jno]

Les Diaboliques does both sorts of scary very well.

[modeste]

I remember watching "The Night of the Demon" as a child, it still gives me the willies!

[B00]

Nightmare on Elm Street- as I found the premise that things in your dreams/nightmares could kill you utterly terrifying at the time.

[david small]

Plague of the Zombies. While a lot younger than now.

[murraymints]

Silence of The Lambs ..at the time disturbing

[naomi24]

The scariest film I ever saw is an old one, made in the late 1970s I think, entitled “When a Stranger Calls”. No blood, no violence, but the very thought of it still makes my skin crawl. There has been a remake - but it's not a patch on the original.

[anthro-nerd]

Signs.... the one with the aliens. Apparently it's not that scary, but I still don't like thinking about it!

[hereIam]

Jeepers Creepers and Jeepers Creepers 2, both scary films and very atmospheric.

[bobbie22]

House of Wax starring Vincent Price. I was about 13 years old, and had nightmares for years

[bhg481]

The first horror film I saw was "House of Wax". They were just about to dip the body into the molten wax when some wag shouted "Frying Tonight". It completely wrecked the atmosphere.

[chessington]

salems lot