What are the most frightening Horror movies?

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Hey, I'm currently researching for a media product at school and I need to find some scary horror movies that are considered the best.
I would like responses of incredibly creepy films that scare the hell out of people!
Any suggestions? What are the most frightening Horror Films? :)
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  • dixiewhiskeydixiewhiskey Posts: 608
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    Some of my suggestions are genuinely creepy, others are more unsettling:

    The Grudge (Jap)
    Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Wolf Creek
    Creep
    Insidious (the first half is excellent, second half is throw away)
    The Omen
    The Omen 2
    28 Days Later
    Alien
    Videodrome

    Off the top of my head. Hope this helps.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 3
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    Thank You!
    I've seen Creep and 28 Days Later and I love them! But I'll add the rest to my list :)
    Any more suggestions ?
  • EVILSPEAKEVILSPEAK Posts: 980
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    Obvious choice but Exorcist 3 is pretty spooky ass frightening. It's actually better than the original.
  • soransoran Posts: 1,644
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    The original Halloween
    Friday 13th
    Candyman
    Evil Dead
    The Thing- Kurt Russell version
  • julie2009julie2009 Posts: 4,711
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    Have to be the original Omen. I hated the scene with the black crow and still do to this day.

    I remember years ago watching a film about cats taking over a house and then a suburb and they always followed their leader and scratched and bit anyone who came near them.
    Everytime I saw a cat I used to freak because of that film
  • shelleyj89shelleyj89 Posts: 16,292
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    The Strangers is very creepy. I saw it at the cinema the first time, and fullu grown men were screaming in fear.
  • Julie_EvansJulie_Evans Posts: 2,868
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    The Exorcist is the only movie that truly scared me, and still does to this day. The Omen (original) is very scary too, particularly the music :eek:, and Billie Whitelaw was terrifying!!!
  • TakaeTakae Posts: 13,555
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    Eraserhead (1977)
    The Eye (2002)
    The Changeling (1976)
    Vampyr (1932)
    Eyes Without a Face (1960)
    Jacob's Ladder (1990)
    Frailty (2001)
    Alien (1979)
    Noroi: the Curse (2005)
    Creep (2005)
    Carnival of Souls (1962)
    Kairo (2001) - badly-done storyline, but offers creepy moments
    Lovesickness of the Dead (2000) - ditto

    And the popular horror films that didn't work on me:

    The Exorcist (1973)
    The Shining (1980)
    Halloween (1978)
    Salem's Lot (1979)
    Don't Look Now (1973)
    Psycho (1960)
    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
    A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
    Saw, Hostel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and other torture porn / slasher films.
  • woot_whoowoot_whoo Posts: 18,030
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    EVILSPEAK wrote: »
    Obvious choice but Exorcist 3 is pretty spooky ass frightening. It's actually better than the original.

    It's great, but has an unfair reputation due to being marketed as a sequel - it actually has nothing to do with the execrable 'Exorcist II'. It was actually based on the (superior) book 'Legion' by William Peter Blatty. I wouldn't agree that it's better than 'The Exorcist', though - purely because it has that disappointing, studio-tacked-on ending (which Blatty apparently hated). His screenplay and dialogue outside of the climax sparkle, though.
  • Will_BennettsWill_Bennetts Posts: 3,054
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    The original wicker man
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    The children
    Children of the corn
  • woot_whoowoot_whoo Posts: 18,030
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    A recent one that I found fantastic (though a bit overdone in the final acts) was 'Sinister'. It maintained a very tense and haunting atmosphere throughout, though.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,606
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    Wolf Creek, stayed with me for days afterwards :(
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 4,679
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    For me it is and will always be Alien, that film scares the crap outa me even today!
  • Ancient IDTVAncient IDTV Posts: 10,120
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    Eden Lake, even though it doesn't have any supernatural elements.
  • CreamteaCreamtea Posts: 14,682
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    julie2009 wrote: »
    Have to be the original Omen. I hated the scene with the black crow and still do to this day.

    I remember years ago watching a film about cats taking over a house and then a suburb and they always followed their leader and scratched and bit anyone who came near them.
    Everytime I saw a cat I used to freak because of that film

    Isn't that Omen 2?
    Do you mean when the crow pecks out the woman's eyes on the road and she gets killed by the on coming truck?
  • CreamteaCreamtea Posts: 14,682
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    Halloween. Still scares me now, haha.
    And The Amityville Horror.
    Most recently Sinister with the home movies was really unsettling (especially the opening).
    And the first half of The Conjuring is pretty scary.
  • LathamiteLathamite Posts: 638
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    Creamtea wrote: »
    Isn't that Omen 2?

    Yes, it's Damien : Omen II. And it's a raven, to be pedantic. I speak from experience as that film scared the bejeesus out of me when I was 10 and watched it round a friend's house. We got no further than that bit and I asked if we could switch it off. It's been responsible for more nightmares than anything else in my life. :D

    I watched it about ten years later and found it creepy but a bit too silly to take seriously. I do tend to end up watching it if it's on TV. I'm a bit desensitised to horror these days, so it's nice to be reminded of how much this shook me up. The first film is slightly better.
  • CreamteaCreamtea Posts: 14,682
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    Lathamite wrote: »
    Yes, it's Damien : Omen II. And it's a raven, to be pedantic. I speak from experience as that film scared the bejeesus out of me when I was 10 and watched it round a friend's house. We got no further than that bit and I asked if we could switch it off. It's been responsible for more nightmares than anything else in my life. :D

    I watched it about ten years later and found it creepy but a bit too silly to take seriously. I do tend to end up watching it if it's on TV. I'm a bit desensitised to horror these days, so it's nice to be reminded of how much this shook me up. The first film is slightly better.

    I think I actually prefer 2 to the original. I prefer William Holden and Lee Grant and the actor who plays Damian is really good. Plus it has some great deaths (such as the one including the Raven!).
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 24
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    Martyrs

    The best horror of the last 10 years
  • Johnny ClayJohnny Clay Posts: 5,315
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    shelleyj89 wrote: »
    The Strangers is very creepy. I saw it at the cinema the first time, and fullu grown men were screaming in fear.
    The shriek from a woman nearby when Baghead appeared behind Liv Tyler filled the theatre when I saw it. Never heard that happen before, or since.

    Good film, and a touch more eerie than others of its ilk.

    Others:

    The Woman in Black (Tv version - 1990?)
    Ringu
    The Shining
    Psycho
    Halloween
    Night of the Demon
    Nosferatu

    Also some of the short films made for the BBC under the Ghost Stories for Christmas banner, many from the pen of M.R. James:

    Whistle and I'll Come to You (the Jonathan Miller version, btw, not the John Hurt one from a few years ago - that was awful tosh)
    The Ash Tree
    The Signalman & others.

    All good creepy stuff.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 646
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    Eden lake...great film

    Sinister as you can imagine it happening

    the fact it's believable makes it more disturbing
  • Grabid RanniesGrabid Rannies Posts: 4,588
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    Nothing moved me very much as a gore-hungry teen back in the 90s, although quite unusually for me I did find my nerves jangled quite a bit during The Burning (and that was the cut to pieces Vipco version!).

    I would say that the most frightening film I've seen to date was Threads. Not that it's frightening the 'boo!' jumpy sense, but its cumulative barrage of on-screen horrors with no hope left me feeling quite pale, sickly and confused by exactly what it was I felt by the time of its conclusion. I'd love to watch it again to see if it has the same effect a second time round, yet at the same time am loathe to, kind of thing.
  • MobolocoMoboloco Posts: 889
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    I agree about Eden Lake, its maybe not a bonafide scarey movie but one that shocks and stays with you longer than most movies.

    Having watched hundreds of horror movies none really scare me anymore but theres a few that made me jump a fair bit.... such as Grave encounters & the new Evil dead.
  • goldberry1goldberry1 Posts: 2,699
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    Night of the Demon

    The Haunting (original b&w)

    The Paranormal ones whenI first saw them

    The Shining -but I've seen in too many times now

    Alien and Aliens

    The Abominable Snowman (I saw as a child)

    Signs

    American Werewolf In London was pretty scary

    The Devil Rides Out - very dated now - but the bit where they confront the horseman and the demon is still scary

    (But the scariest ever was Whistle and I'll Come To You ( not the one with John Hurt: the original) - just on TV - has taken years to get over it and just typing the name has given me the shivers :eek:

    This original is hardly ever shown on TV - ditto Night of The Demon)
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