What's your scariest film?

thumpingrug

The original Jaws film is the only one to scare the crap out of me.  I was 8, though and my dad made me go with him to see it.  Bastard.  

Kalimna

+1 for Threads.
The Orphanage - there's something about ghostly children not doing much that freaks me out royally. Also one of the best happy/sad endings to a film ever.

Adam

chillidoggy

Alien. My mate and I were the only ones in the cinema at the time, which made it worse.

And a special mention to 'The Changling' from about 1980.

Bidley

Yep, I saw Paranormal Activity at the cinema. Didn't sleep that night. The slow footsteps coming up the stairs did me.

Dopesick

Another one for Threads. First time I saw it I kept glancing at the sky afterwards looking for mushroom clouds. Plus the last scene is fucking grim. Well, come to think of it, the entire second half is like the visual equivalent of hacking at your wrists with a rusty razorblade for about an hour.

The Shining will always stick out as the first movie to genuinely scare me. The long shots down the corridors, the pulsating ambient droning music (movie wouldn't be half as effective without this), the facial expressions of Jack Nicholson, and of course that fucking bathtub scene. Don't care if people always go 'oh jah darling but the book is better'; this is still a legit classic.

BigBearKris

Men Behind The Sun from 1998.
Japanese take Chinese and Russian prisoners of war to a place called Squadron 731 to test bio weapons and perform all kinds of nasty tortures on them.

Brings back the horror of war. Scary stuff.

rawk100

When I was a kid I watch a film called Killdozer about a bulldozer that came to life and chased some construction workers around an island. Scared me at the time but saw a clip of it recently and it looked a bit crumby. 

Duel by Spielberg also scared me as a kid..

tone1

Evil Dead

Lewy

axisus said:

Everything vaguely scary. I hate scary films. I keep seeing little bits when channel surfing at night, and they bother me for weeks. Like that scene with the girl crawling out of the tv. Hate that stuff!!!

Same here. Can't go near the stuff. I once happened upon one of those 100 Most.... tv  compilation programmes on channel 4 and it was the 100 scariest films. I made myself watch it for as long as I could just to check whether, in fact, I'd made horror films out to be worse than they are in my head. Nope. Even the 2 minute snippets without all the context and suspense were fucking terrifying.

Nope. Nope nope nope. 

Dominic

Stigmata
Great film ,scary because it wasn't so off-the -wall with obvious film set demons etc
good story too

Bidley

ET scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. The scene with him laying in a stream, all grey and shit. I used to have endless nightmares over that.

Fretwired

Mary Poppins ... ;-)

equalsql

My most frightening actual cinema moment was with the wife when she dragged me to see 'Mama Mia'
There was no escape for me for those hours. I've never squirmed more in my life.
Man! This shit is the true stuff of nightmares..

RandallFlagg

The public information film "Dark & Lonely Water" scared me as a kid, I guess it worked as it kept me fearful of water!

BigBearKris

Netflix documentary "Making a murderer" is quite scary.

Scary in a sense that justice system which is designed to protect the innocent and punish the guilty can take a very wrong turn.
You can plan not to commit any crime and be certain of it for 100% but once wrongly accused... 
That whole story is a nightmare.

HAL9000

Not horror films as such but...

Marathon Man - the dentist scene is genuinely frightening.

The War Game - a 1965 BBC production done in a documentary style depicting the aftermath of a nuclear strike on SE England. Deemed scary enough that the Beeb didn't show it until 1985.

holnrew

Most recent one was Green Room. I prefer ones that are claustrophobic and not supernatural. Like you could see yourself in that situation and hate it. Get Out is in a similar vein

Ravenous

Agreeing with the people who mentioned The Shining. Seen it a few times on late night telly, and it still gives me that creeped-out feeling in several places...

One bit is the scene of the boy riding his trike alone in the corridors... even though nothing physically bad actually happens at that point, you know it's a very bad place...

bbill335

ICBM said:

The Last King Of Scotland. Not a horror film, but because it's based - at least loosely - on real events and characters.

This is why the most scared/unsettled I've been from a film was after watching Green Room. 

djspecialist

The Ring.  At the time I watched it, my bedroom was on the ground floor - so to get to the bathroom I walked past the door to the lounge.  One night, going for a nocturnal wee, I noticed from the corner of my eye the dormant screen of the TV, and was suddenly convinced it was going to switch on and display *that* film.  I decided the call of nature wasn't so urgent after all and scampered back to my room!

Rosemary's Baby freaked me out a bit too.  The gradually creeping sense that everyone else but the main character is "in on it" is very well portrayed.