The Film That Scared You The Most?

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What film would you say scared you the most? & why? (i'm in the mood to watch some scary films) so please don't mention any spoilers if people want to watch the film you talk about. But try to describe why it shat you up.

For me Stephen Kings "IT" had me shitting bricks when i was young, it doesn't anymore but then again no films really do (in a way thats quite sad).

Tim Currys performance as Pennywise the clown or "IT" was trully terrfiying & down right creepy. But he also had an element of dry / sick humour in his delivery which was outstanding.

One of the aspects which got to me the most was how "IT" was your worst nightmare & could break all elements of reality (coming through the drainpipes in a shower).

Now the it's quite dated but i still feel that Currys performance as Pennywise is timeless & still quite chilling today.
 
Nightmare on Elm Street when i was about 5years old. Couldn't sleep on my back for years after it (because of the bit where johnny depp gets pulled through the bed). Scared the shit outta me
 
Pennywise is still quite scary even though i've seen the film dozens of times.

For me The Shining still makes me jump and thats a film i've watched more times than i care to count.

Newer films scare me less for some reason, a good one to watch would be The Thing, great film and brilliant animatronics.
 
The first thirty minutes of "When a stranger calls" old version made me shit in my pants five or six times

then it turns into a police movie, but the "have you checked the children" voice in that phone gave me nightmares for years
 
pillory said:
Seriously?

Tale of Two Sisters for me.
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Agreed.

Id also add the Blair Witch Project. I do remember being on a trip when I watched it, maybe that made it a bit more scarry.

Don't Look Now was also a tough one.
 
IT definately. Scared the crap out of me. Alien & Halloween are close contenders.
 
PJ said:
I had to leave the film! To be fair I was 5!
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There was some film i watched when i was under 10 that had some evil kid who always wore a yellow coat that killed people, maybe "milo" or something.
I watched it before Christmas one year and couldn't sleep for fecking weeks, and not just because santa was coming
 
Threads.

I saw this on the beeb when it was first released and it has stayed with me ever since. Yeah, all those movies like Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th are scary when you are a kid, but once you grow up a bit they are more like comic books, almost a pastiche of themselves and cease to have any frightening impact.

Threads though is still really powerful and scary, even though it's very dated and the fashion sense is rather 80's - the underlying message is still just as worrying as it was when it first screened. I guess now the shadow of nuclear holocaust is not as severe as it was a few decades ago so it may have lost some of it's original impact but I've found this the hands down winner for scariest movie ever.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488

ps. Blair Witch was poo...
 
Another one I hated as a kid was Tremors. I'd watch it at my mates then absolutely leg it home as fast as I could.
 
Nightmare on Elm Street (just the first one, the rest not so much)
Also Evil Dead (again just the first one). I still can't watch Elm Street on my own at night, scares the crap out of me, especially the bit where he's walking down the alley with his Inspector Gadget type long arms :eek:
 
Probably cloverfield, but that wasn't that scary, it's just that I tend to avoid horror films.
 
chucky I still hate that mofo even today.

exorcist in with a shout
 
Alien when I was young. That final scene is amazing.
 
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