Name one scary movie, please!

[Black Canyon]

The Ring. That was ..... yikes. I haven't seen the second one, so I can't comment on it.

[sanchez]

Dr. Strangelove. ...Something about Fluoride? Nuclear Weapons?
*shudders*

[Phalynx]

Event Horizon, yup watched that alone late at night - not a good plan

28 Days Later, and Creep, for the same reasons, Film are usually set in totally unfamiliar locations but both of these films are set in familiar locations which seems to make their impact more significant to me.

Simillarly a BBC docudrama called Threads, made in the early eighties I watched it some time after but it recalled the absolute fear and terror about nuclear war that I had at the time combined with familliar nostalgic things from my childhood..

For pant-filling fear, try War of the Worlds, for some reason seeing all those people disintegrated on the big screen, a bit like the first ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan, really traumatised me...

Proper 'Horror' films usually engender one of two responses in me:
a) Laughter,
b) The Director/Writer needs to be locked up somewhere safe in a padded cell...

(Hey I could write your essay )

[Kev Milsom]

I remember watching ‘Threads’ when it first aired on the BBC in 1984 and it was genuinely terrifying…partly because it was so well done and also because at that time the nuclear threat was a frightening possibility.
There was also an animated film on the same subject, made a couple of years later, called ‘When The Wind Blows’ which had the same effect, particularly as it started out as a really cutesy cartoon and gradually degenerated into an horrific nightmare.

For me personally, for something to be genuinely scary it has to have a strong edge of reality to it and both of the above had the effect of leaving me with lasting and harrowing mental images.
Like Phalynx, I found the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan to be truly frightening, again because of the reality of the situation.

I don’t tend to find most ‘horror’ films frightening – usually I giggle most of the way through them – but the two that have succeeded in shaking me up are ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Thing’; particularly the former.
I would also count ‘The Ring’ and ‘The Others’ as being genuinely scary to watch.

[Joshuamonkey]

No one said the sixth sense? Well, I say...the Sixth Sense! I first watched it when I was really young though its still pretty scary and we own the movie. I haven't seen all that much horror movies, though I've seen plenty of scifi ones where...eww, scream, and ouch.
Sixth sense is a pretty good movie though. That's where the whole "I see dead people" came from.

oh yeah. Someone said War of the Worlds. That was pretty good too. Since the reason why they let humans populate was for their blood.

[HoH]

No one said the sixth sense? Well, I say...the Sixth Sense!

Sixth Sense didn't scare me much.

That's where the whole "I see dead people" came from.

Most people already knew that...


And thanks for ruining War of the Worlds for me. I was just about to read that book... [/quote]

[Nixit]

That didn't really ruin it at all.

[Stan]

The several I remember from being a kid and being scared to death:

Salem's Lot - Vampire movie set in contemporary America. It was horrifying.

The Exorcist - The original. That was probably the scariest.

Amityville Horror - The original. Again, very scary.

In the last few years it was Signs. I hadn't realized the plot of the show before I saw it. It freaked me out pretty good. I'm over it though.

[deadboy]

Signs was such a bad film. Anyone who says that was even faintly scary is crazy. It was just bad

[Sunni Daez]

IT... to this day, walking over drain holes...I watch for clowns... not scarey I suppose just.. unsettling

[Phalynx]

Freaky, Amitiville Horror is on terrestial telly here right now, it doesn't look that scary!

[formerly known as hf]

"28 days later", the English SF. Not the zombies were scary for me, but the scene where the main character, after waking up from a coma, walks through an empty London slowly understanding the horror of what happened. (The music was great too, at that point).

Agreed. That's what I was about to post when I saw this.

I live in London. Westminster Bridge is NEVER that empty, even at the 5am they supposedly filmed it. The other scenes, after that, walking through bits of London I recognised (I worked in a building he walks past at one point), really sent shivers down my spine. To see locations I know really well, was really surreal, discomforting, and frankly scary.

[Joshuamonkey]

It...is that the one with the evil blob where no one can be different in the fourth dimension or something like that? Or are you talking about something else? I know that movie would count for unsettling.

By the way, we got The Giver at school yesterday. I finished it today.

[El_Skwidd]

I just wanted to point out that I LOVED 28 Days Later.

And Resident Evil.

I'm a born zombie hunter.

[KiNG KiLL]

Thank you all! Really good suggestions, this will be useful for me. I'm not satisfied yet though...

I am a bit surprised that no-one has mentioned Hostel or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Those kind of movies gets to me. When the violence feels realistic and the mood is so extremely akward that you can't be still. It's made in such ways that it eludes the slasher-genre, becuse even if there's blood all over, it's not the amount of it that matters.