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?
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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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.
I've seen Creep and 28 Days Later and I love them! But I'll add the rest to my list
Any more suggestions ?
Friday 13th
Candyman
Evil Dead
The Thing- Kurt Russell version
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
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.
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.
Children of the corn
Isn't that Omen 2?
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.
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.
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!).
The best horror of the last 10 years
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.
Sinister as you can imagine it happening
the fact it's believable makes it more disturbing
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.
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.
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)