SCAIREST HORROR MOVIE EVER!!!

[JediMooCow]

The "Ju-On: The Grudge" series (not the American remakes).

If you want to be really freaked out, and don't mind watching a TV show, check out the Doctor Who episode "Blink" (series 3, David Tennant). Watch it at night for the most profound effect. I couldn't sleep for a week.

Also, the episodes "Forest of the Dead" and "Silence of the Library" will make you never want to set foot in the dark again.

Those Doctor Who episodes, along with the previously mentioned 'The Empty Child', while unquestionably awesome, aren't really competitive on scares. Yes, they're unnerving, and very well done, but at the end of the day, they just wern't about the horror, and the fact that they all have a resolution is enough to nullify their effect, somewhat.

That said, they're certainly not tame, and all have some credibly unnerving moments.

 

[Dorschbert]

the evening news, they realy freak me out sometimes

 

[vorlors]

the only scary movies anymore are B movies horror now a days mean slasher/gore fest not scary at all.

 

[Asymptote Angel]

I don't see a lot of horror movies, but The Exorcist and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre freaked me out pretty well.

Paranormal Activity has creepy elements, but I think it's kind of overrated.

 

[D0WNT0WN]

The Audition. Japaneese Horror at its finest

 

[JediMooCow]

Not scary, but kind of disturbing beyond belief:
Salo (or The 120 Days of Sodom)
Requiem for a Dream

And, if you're stuck: http://www.filmspotting.net/top100.htm

That's some guy's opinion.

 

[Resistance205]

Most Asian horrors are good, try the original Ring or The Grudge.
Wolf Creek was pretty cool, it's set in the Australian Outback and is based on a true story.
I just loved The Haunting in Conetticut
The Blair With Project when your ten and on your own at midnight is pretty damn scary to.

Not to sure what else there is, I don't get scared easily so it's hard to think of some to choose from.

Ring (Japanese version, NOT the crapy American remake)
Only film to have scared me in my adult life (helped by the fact that some of the stuff that's supposed to happen after you get cursed happened to me just after watching the film)

You got attacked by a dead girls hair?

 

[Vkmies]

exorsist is a masterpiece.. and so is poltergeist. Im not sure if you find them scary but hey are very well made movies and unforgottable.

 

[kemosabi4]

If you're looking for something besides jump-out scares and crazed serial killers, watch 1408. It's about a paranormal writer (John Cusack) who is so black-and-white about life that he doesn't even believe the things he writes. After setting out to "investigate" a haunted hotel room, he becomes trapped inside, learning that the hotel room itself is evil, a malevolent entity bent on tormenting whoever steps into Room 1408. It's really a fresh concept, the horror is more psychological than most horror movies these days. Most of the movie's scariness is accomplished with putting actual fear in the viewer, rather than just startling them.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

The August Underground films.

Picture a home video made by serial killers, where you follow them in their day to day lives. As they torture a woman to death while force feeding her her own excrement and severed bits of flesh, cutting apart her boyfriend in the bathtub in the next room. Before they take a tour of a model train exhibit. Then a slaughter house. Then hiring a couple of hookers, who they beat and chase down. Or the time they broke into a family's house on Christmas Day and raped and killed everyone, children included. Or the dead baby with the maggots. All presented in wonderfully subdued, POV footage treated like it's business as usual.

I...



What the fuck?

 

[QmunkE]

If this film doesn't scare you, I don't know what will:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105643/

Nothing can prepare you for the abominations which lurk within. And yes, I've actually watched it. My mind is forever stained with the sheer horror of it.

EDIT: This one's pretty frightening too:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231138/

 

[CompanionCube]

A couple Japanese movies freaked me the hell out. I'd have to say that American movies could only scare me when I was young and now past the "jump out of a corner" there pretty harmless.

 

[carpathic]

the Changeling (from the '70's or '80's)

That ball bouncing down the stairs...jeepers still gives me the screaming mimi's!

 

[Assassin Xaero]

and the Shining was NOT a horror movie!!!!

Umm... yeah it was... just because it didn't scare you doesn't mean it wasn't a horror movie... Horror movies don't have to be scary to be horror... Look at Shaun of the Dead, that is a horror comedy and it wasn't scary at all... and the last Dawn of the Dead movie... that one was classified as a horror movie, but I thought it was more funny then scary...

People are saying The Hills Have Eyes was scary... that movie almost made me fall asleep... then there is Misery... sure, it wasn't scary, but it was creepy because of how realistic it was...

 

[snugglesgold]

It's all a matter of imagination and a certain personality type i think... I have friends who can sit through movies i find very unsettling without batting an eye and, indeed, i know several people who have never found a movie scary, they just lack a certain something needed to make that leap....
Personally i have found the following movies errie, creepy or terrifying...

Alien...(every time Dallas crawls down that vent shaft a friend and I scream "The other way Dallas, the other way!!" he never listens.)

Event horizon (crazy Sam Neil, Blood everywhere, ohh and the creepy transmission, I'd have turned the spacecraft round when i heard that!)

The Thing (the spider head!! shudder).

The original ring ("please stay in the tv creepy girl i'll pay my licence fee"!)

The Descent (All girls, all underground, all action)

I know you didn't find Alien scary but it's so great a film i couldn't not mention it

 

[DuplicateValue]

The Descent is probably the scariest I've seen.
I tend not to get scared at horror movies that easily.

Also, avoid any and all 'classics' such as the original Scream, Halloween, or Friday 13th.
They're massively overrated and not scary at all.

Foreign movies are generally scarier too. 'Ils' is one of my favourites. Also [REC] is quite scary towards the end.

 

[Xazetuf]

You could chose to watch all these obscure, extreme horrors floating around or stick with classics from back when horror was goooooooooooooooooood:
The thing, brilliant atmosphere.
Aliens, classic genre bender.
Cloverfield, Pace perfect big budgeter.

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

The movie "Nightmare on elm street" had a few good moments.

Arachnophobia. Now THAT is fucking disturbing.

That movie was a comedy.... Well... Tried to be a comedy.

they haven't made a decent horror movie for ages

I'm sad to say Archer147 is completely right.
The last good horror movie was Shaun of the Dead and that was a romantic comedy with zombies.

 

[Yuzzi]

Dead Silence has a pretty good atmosphere. Something about those dolls is just damn creepy.