Scariest Movie?

The Vanishing (the original, not the remake). Not traditionally scary, but deeply unsettling.
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Mar 8 2005, 05:41 PM
But what about:

"We made it, we made it mother. We...Mother?" "Mother...Mother where are you?" "Mother?" "Mother?" "Mother?" "Mother?" " Mother?"

Starts to cry - suddenly he stops, startled by what he sees.

"Huh...!"

He sees a large and powerful stag.

"Your mother can't be with you anymore, Bambi".

He closes his eyes and bows his head.
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Not scary, as they don't rip the animals apart, slight difference me thinks !!!!
 
I recentley re-watched 'the Whicker Man' and it has to be right up there in terms of being scary and also a little disturbing.

Perks
 
Duel has to be one of the scariest I've seen. I remember being terrified by it as a child and it still terrifies me now.
 
The Wicker Man is horrifying, but not, I would surmise, 'scary'. It doesn't exactly scatter the Hula Hoops all over the carpet, does it? It's cruel, repulsive, and lingers in the memory, but I don't think it scares the tom-tit out of you.

The only film that ever affected me was 'Psycho' and, although at the time we only had a bath, not a shower, for 18 months after seeing it I used to sit with my bottom painfully over the plughole, so I could watch the bathroom door. But I was fairly young at the time. :shy: 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane' was pretty scary, especially the nurse scene.
 
Was bored one day and watched 'The Hunger' (David Bowie, Catherine Denueve) expecting it to be crap. DB's rapid ageing and his subsequent placing in the attic beside all Deneuve's previous lovers captured the essence of death.

"Kill me" said the now decrepit Bowie. "I can't John" said Deneuve "It just goes on and on for ever and ever" (something along those lines) and then, as she places him in a coffin in the attic beside all the other coffins, "This is John my loves. Be particularly kind to him on this night" (slight movement heard in other coffins).

Those scenes put it up there with the likes of The Exorcist and the atmospheric Don't Look Now.

PS There was also the love scene (before Brian butts in :lol:)
 
Aliens scares the shit out of me. The last half hour or so nearly gives me a heart attack every time.
 
A lot of so-called scary movies I find pathetic. When I was young, King Kong and Psycho frightened the sh*t out of me, but I laugh at them now.

However, there is one film I've passed up a few opportunities to watch again out of sheer dread / disturbance....

















Freaks
 
I watched 'The Others' on DVD recently and come over all goosebumpy. And it wasn't Nicole wot dun it for once.
 
Not scary as such, but I recently saw "Witchfinder General" for the first time and it was pretty shocking, the subject etc. Innocent young women being tied to big pieces of wood and lowered onto bonfires accused of being witches? Horrific.
 
Tom, I can't think what you're talking about so have no idea what the exquisite Catherine and Susan Sarandon were up to (or down to) accompanied by the Flower Duet from Lakmé by Léo Delibes.

All I know is that the British Airways ads were never the same after seeing The Hunger....
 
I agree with PDJ. I got 'The Evil Dead' out on video years ago, thinknig it would be a good laugh, but it was actually very weird and scary. It was scary in an unhinged sort of way.

The Shining wasn't quite as unhinged but it was pretty scary the first time that I saw it.
 
The Evil Dead was on Channel 4 last night. I don't find it one bit funny. The sequels were stupid, though.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is on soon tonight on Channel 4.
 
You'll only have nightmares, young Phil, and have to sleep with the light on... :teeth:

Mo: 'Freaks' was screened on cable a couple of weeks back and I watched it for the first time. It stars real people who had a variety of disabilities, from dwarfism to hirsuitism (the Bearded Lady), to those with limb deformities which make them able contortionists, a couple of probably cretinous twins, to a tiny little guy who doesn't seem to have any body below waist, and canters about on his forearms. It was a very sympathetic film, in fact. There are two charming dwarf stars, a man and a woman, who when the film starts out, are in love. But, enter vampish and scheming circus star and mate, who think he's got pots of money to exploit. She encourages the little man to fall in love with her, and there's a wedding party where they get him very drunk and try to poison him.

It's really an allegory for human betrayal and exploitation, and inevitable revenge. I really liked it for the way that the so-called 'freaks' are conveyed as people with real emotions: compassion, love, loyalty - while the real freaks are their exploiters.
 
...but I was about 12 when I first saw it and it disturbed me so much that I can't watch it again.

I might if I have the place to myself...

I think I was disturbed because although I had seem various disabilities in the local community, I had never seen people with no arms and/or legs, etc., and it really did freak me out.
 
I've never found Horror movies scary but the movie that freaked me out more than any horror flick was David Lynch's Eraserhead . I dunno about anybody else but I watched it when I was about 18 and I don't want to try to again . It was just a really strange experience and I can't describe why it had such an impact on me .
 
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, shown over here as The Fiends. A brilliant (and very scary psychological thriller. Not to be confused with the remake directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and starring Sharon Stone, of which all copies should be hunted down and destroyed.
 
The Blair Witch Project was pretty scary in that it was clever - you got as scared as your imagination would let you.
 
I thought it was a bit soppy, really. Hadn't these bright young things heard of laying a trail, a bit of basic boy scouting - marking trees, stumps, aligning stones into arrows, etc? Ray Mears would've sorted them out from the start, and it would've been called the Blair Bushcraft Project.
 
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