Film Frights...

[bon3yard]

What films have really got under your skin and genuinely unsettled you?(discounting Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit...or Gwyneth Paltrow in anything)I only ask because I've just finished watching Mulholland Drive again and I remember being pretty freaked out by it the first time around. I also recall the scene in Casino where the battered but conscious character played by Joe Pesci(fishy?)gets buried alive with his dead brother...that truly affected me. Or the moment in The Amityville Horror when you get a fleeting glimpse of the houses malevolence in beast form as it scuttles past the upstairs window. Freaky, trust me. Most mainstream horror is only fit for the under 5s these days. What films have stayed with you and still make your terror glands twitch?

[giggirl]

Blood Simple - Cohen Brothers. The guy being buried who turns out not to be dead. I've seen this film at the cinema and you see a lot of popcorn fly.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T58uyzlOcT0&feature=related

Also, Jaws, the first time I saw it.

[indiepanda]

I am quite easily scared and don't have much of a stomach for gore so I tend to avoid most horror movies.

The time I jumped the most at the cinema was watching Seven, where they find what looks like a decaying corpse on a bed, and then it sits up.

Silence of the Lambs gave me nightmares for months after, Antony Hopkins was just chilling.

[bigbadwolf]

I was unfortuanate enough to watch the original Elephant man as an infant which terrified me.

The Japanese version of the 'The Grudge' called Ju On which freaked me out about a year ago.

Battle Royale (1st one) was revolting but frightening as well which I saw about two years ago.

The original Wicker Man with Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward, 'Oh God, Oh Jesus Christ'(we all know the scene)they should have incorperated that into Castaway 2000 if you ask me. When I was young (10) and when I was very stoned about 8 months ago.

All of the Saw trilogy, 'I want to play a game'. Very violent and psychological.

Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'. Saw that when I was about 9 or 10.

Predator 1 when I was about 8 on boxing day after my parents fell asleep from too much Brandy. Scary but I loved it. Incidentally, in my opinion if they wanted to make 'I'm a celeberaty, get me out of here' more appealling they should have had Predator on board as a celeberaty. I'd give a love spud to hear Ant n Dec's chirpy Geordie accent through Predators Infra-red vision accompanied by his demonic laugh followed by them being blasted with his Plasma cannon followed by the rest being skinned alive.

I'll add more later.

[bon3yard]

Thats quite a lot of film based psychosis bigbadwolf, your therapist must be raking it in! ;-)

[bigbadwolf]

The therapist went down well with some Fava beans and a nice Chianti and I've cloned his card so should get my money back as well as the rights to a book he was writing about someone.

[HonaloochieB]

The Thing. The severed head sprouting legs and scuttling away. The chest opening up with teeth and biting off the hands of the doctor.

Even the memory spooks me.

[Keef]

Wolf Creek! Freaked me and Mrs Keef out, was done in such a way that it just seemed too real, especially when you thought that it was based heavily on the backpacker murders in Australia over the last 15 years or so. Candy Man used to get me too. Helleeeennn!

[mockney piers]

Nightmare on Elm St when I was a wee nipper gave me nightmares, though watched it recently and was a mazed at how cheap, and basically rubbish it was. Another shout for Wolf Creek, jeepers.

Pan's Labyrinth, that torture description scene..eek.

Not sure about Battle Royale, I thought it was a comedy!!

[Keef]

Pan's Labyrinth, that torture description scene..eek.

Good call!

[ratty]

When I first watched "Carrie" the last scene made me shat meself!

What's the film with the "Head in the Vice" scene when the eyeball pops - that makes me squeamish too.

[HonaloochieB]

ratty Wrote:

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> When I first watched "Carrie" the last scene made

> me shat meself!

>

> What's the film with the "Head in the Vice" scene

> when the eyeball pops - that makes me squeamish

> too.

That's Casino as mentioned above, Ratty.

[TillieTrotter]

My mum jumped so much whilst watching Carrie that she tipped the armchair over backwards. My new boyfriend had come round for his first visit:-$

It's still got to be The Exorcist for me, I was 13 when I saw it at Leicester Square and I crapped myself all the way home on the bus.

[Pickle]

Stephen King's "Pet Sematary" for me... first saw it as a young teenager at a friend's birthday party. And even though it's not really all that scary to most people, "Arachnophobia" is another one that terrified me!

[Jah Lush]

Never really been a fan of horror films. I've had a morbid fear of Ravens, Crows and Seagulls since watching Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a child. I'm pretty sure I had a nightmare or two after watching that. Also, the sequel to the Exorcist. There's a scene in there where someone's heart is getting squeezed and I remember nearly fainting in the cinema at the sight of that. Also, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre gave me the chills.

[mockney piers]

Exorcist III was really scary if I recall.

[citizenED]

Like you, Jah, never been a fan of horror/chiller type film. Pretty much refuse to watch them much to the annoyance of Mrs CitED who is a fan. Just think that my imagination is rather too suggestable that even the poorest of B-movie horrors give me the willies.

Oh, torture scene from "Pans." is look away time, but that horrible ghoul guarding the feast from the same film is creepy in the extreme.

[Brendan]

I don?t like horror films either. For starters, they?re scary.

[capt_birdseye]

The Shining.

The Exorcist.

The Blair Witch Project.

I find the suggestion of horror rather than pure gore to be my undoing.

[*Bob*]

I do like a good fun horror film but haven't found any of them 'scary' since I was 14. I thought 'Wolf Creek was something different at the time but it's all over now with Saw XIIVVVVV etc

The only stuff I genuinely find hard to watch is ultra-realism. The 'knife fight' scene in Saving Private Ryan springs to mind as a good example. That scene really touched a nerve.

[Geo]

Pretty sad but I would have to say signs really freaked me out. The mothman prophecies left me questioning my mental health and wolf creek would have to be the worst.

[citizenED]

*Bob* Wrote:

The 'knife fight' scene in Saving

> Private Ryan springs to mind as a good example.

> That scene really touched a nerve.

agree - each time i've seen it, I keep hoping that the guy survives. An amazing scene.

[seamusmac]

Haute Tension- I caught this once on late night TV and some scenes terrified me. Well worth catching if you ever have a chance.

For sheer violence the opening 15mins or so of Irreversible, not for the faint hearted.

[mockney piers]

Yeah, haven't been genuinely scared by a horror film for ages, but I did overdose completely on them between about 14 and 16.

I was something of a buff back then, and I'm pretty sure most horror is really comedy, Texas Chainsaw Massacre being a classic example thereof.

More recently Severance was very much in the final line between horror and comedy vein.

Wolf Creek was horrible rather than scary as such.

The only thing that makes me hide behind cushions is the horrible discomfort that stuff like the Office or Aalan Partridge can provide.

[*Bob*]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Wolf Creek was horrible rather than scary as

> such.

That's what I liked about it. It was 'a real horror film'. And as such I found it quite.. er.. refreshing.