What is the scariest movie you have ever seen?

[Guttersnipe]

Eraserhead, hands down. I saw clips and would never be able to watch it whole. The imagery disturbs me on so many levels.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Grudge and The Grudge II By far one the nastiest horror concepts ever seen .

 

[Droflet]

Hell House. A great book that made for a very tense movie. Shrugs. I wasn't scared. Much.

 

[CupofJoe]

The 1932 film Freaks is the only film that has made me want to stop watching but stopped me from stopping because I was so involved.

 

[Timebender]

Tbh I haven't seen very many horror movies. But the scariest films I've seen are:
A Quiet Place
Psycho
Coraline
The Dark Knight
Nosferatu
When I was a child I also found James and the Giant Peach quite freaky. And Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory should probably be here PURELY because of That One Scene. You know the one.

 

[Lawrence Twiddy]

Hereditary which was written and directed by Ari Aster.

Enjoy horrors normally for a good story (which is not often) or because I find them comical because how silly they can be. But Hereditary got me good, provoked some unnerving emotions and feelings in me. Really was scared and felt uncomfortable in the cinema, I LOVED IT!

Haven’t got round to watching Ari Aster’s latest horror offering in Midsommar yet but when I have fully got over Hereditary I will commit a ominously dark windy evening.

 

[BAYLOR]

X From the Unknown 1956
Mantago aka Attack of the Mushroom People 1963
Kwaidon 1964
Quatermass and the Pit 1967

 

[dask]

Robert Wise’s The Haunting.

 

[AlexH]

The scariest film I've seen might be The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Films like Incendies, Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs are also rather chilling.

I must find what humans are capable of en-masse far scarier than anything else.

 

[CupofJoe]

The scariest film I've seen might be The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Films like Incendies, Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs are also rather chilling.
I must find what humans are capable of en-masse far scarier than anything else.

I know what you mean about TBITSP and I still think the film makers pulled their punches...

 

[Dan Jones]

Hereditary which was written and directed by Ari Aster.

Enjoy horrors normally for a good story (which is not often) or because I find them comical because how silly they can be. But Hereditary got me good, provoked some unnerving emotions and feelings in me. Really was scared and felt uncomfortable in the cinema, I LOVED IT!

Haven’t got round to watching Ari Aster’s latest horror offering in Midsommar yet but when I have fully got over Hereditary I will commit a ominously dark windy evening.

Midsommar is fantastic; it's more of a slow, creeping dread than Hereditary, which was the first film in many, many years to give this gnarly old horror veteran the creeps.

Midsommar is also entirely set in the daylight, unusual for a horror film. He's definitely a very promising filmmaker.

 

[Lawrence Twiddy]

Midsommar is fantastic; it's more of a slow, creeping dread than Hereditary, which was the first film in many, many years to give this gnarly old horror veteran the creeps.

Midsommar is also entirely set in the daylight, unusual for a horror film. He's definitely a very promising filmmaker.

Okay nice, I'm intrigued further and will watch Midsommar soon for sure.
I like the fact you say it's entirely in daylight, seems a very niche approach to horror and can be (in my imagination) probably just as harrowing cinematically.

 

[Randy M.]

One that chilled me recently was The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Something about the slow intrusion of odd things in a isolated location, plus good acting from Brian Cox and Emile Hirsh, with an assist from Ophelia Lovibond.

As with the novel it's based on, I found The Haunting (dir. Robert Wise) extremely effective. Another quietly effective movie was The Blair Witch Project, which I think has become de rigor to shrug off, but I went in not knowing much about it, the ending was a surprise and it left you to your imagination to figure out what happened after it went dark.

I don't usually get scared. How I know a horror movie was effective was that it leaves me unsettled and looking over my shoulder.

 

[AlexH]

I don't usually get scared. How I know a horror movie was effective was that it leaves me unsettled and looking over my shoulder.

What's that behind you?

 

[Randy M.]

What's that behind you?

Exactly! In my late teens I read The Haunting of Hill House. Late one night, everyone else gone to bed, by myself in the living room, only the light beside me on, I finished a chapter near the end of the novel, put the book down and looked behind me.

I knew the chair was against a wall, but that didn't stop me.

 

[BAYLOR]

From Beyond 1989 based on the H P Lovecraft short story . The movie took the story to whole darker nastier level.