For me, it's JFK. I have no fucking idea why. I'm half way through watching it for the billionth time and i had to get off my sofa to go to the shop and get some bread and milk before it closes and i was actually trembling! Shitting myself getting out of the house, strode really fast to the car and slammed the door once i got in.

Why the fuck?! It's not like i think the US government is after me. The deep paranoia must resonate within me somehow. It was just after the Donald Sutherland monologue bit which is really powerful. There's loads of great moments though




Jack Lemmon: You are so naive

John Candy: You as crazy as yo momma! Just goes to show it's in the genes...

Joe Pesci: I'm a fucking dead man! Do you know what you've done to me?! I can't go home.. I CAN'T GO HOME!



A lot of it is fantasy but it still shits me up, the whole thing.

"It's not like i think the US government is after me"

No but MI6 are.





For me it's The Ring. Just creepy.

What are MI6 ?

I can't watch any horror movie, even a trailer scares the shit out of me!

JFK is a powerful film though, I`ve read several books on the Kennedy assassination and it was a crazy time in the U.S.A.
Knowledge was/is power. But it could also be a death sentence. Many people mysteriously died/vanished who may or may not have had some knowledge of what happened 22.11.63

Ladley N.

The Invasion Of the Bodysnatchers (original version) scared the hell out of me the first time i saw it.

Ladley N.

The 70s remake with Donald Sutherland is great. The bit where he points and screams at her at the end is chilling


Maybe i'm just scared of Donald Sutherland?

"Many people mysteriously died/vanished who may or may not have had some knowledge of what happened 22.11.63"


Yeah, it's fucked up stuff. All the random car accidents on empty roads, suicides with unsigned notes, drug overdoses... and that's just about the individuals in very specific situations! And then there's the big picture - the overall plan put in place to get rid of Kennedy.. I'm not even sure if i BELIEVE most of the stuff Oliver Stone puts forward, but he does it so well that it's terrifying. The editing / sound effects really contribute to this.

Regardless of how seriously you take JFK, the U.S. was concerned enough by it, the film itself was (i believe) the reason that the HSCA was set up, but i could be wrong. Oliver Stone himself said that he felt that he`d "crossed the rubicon" after the film was released.


Ladley N.

MI6 are British intelligence.

Yeah i was wrong on the HSCA, but i think it did cause them to release a shed-load of (until then) released documents relating to the assassination.

Ladley N.

TThe ring used to scare me especially as when I got sleep paralysis it would be that girl I saw creeping up the bed towards me in that horrible manner. Urgh. Also, the Grudge because my bedroom door used to make that noise.

I watched Paranormal activity on my own the other day which was a bit of a mistake as I still keep freaking out a bit when I hear noises, especially as a glass just shattered on the spot in our living room the other day.

The shining gives me the creeps, Martyrs was pretty horrible too.

Yeah, The Shining really gets under my skin. It's great that it's so unexplained - leaves it all up to you.


I mean, WTF?!





It's explained in the book but Kubrick just throws it in without any explanation which makes it more odd / disturbing. Love that film

i love the shining. the 90s miniseries-type version of it was good and went into a lot more detail regarding jack's character, but i still find kubrick's version creepier

the ring doesnt do all that much for me (although that hallucination you described sounds horrific lisa. i get sleep paralysis from time to time but have never seen anything like that thank fuck), although i do find japanese horrors very unnerving. the eye is probably one of the creepiest

the sixth sense scared the shit out of me when i first saw it, too. the bit with the woman in the kitchen still fucks me up to this day

It was horrific, thankfully now I don't get that anymore though occasionally get sleep paralysis still.

The eye was quite creepy. Oh and the saw flms I just find incredibly disturbing because thqat is one sick mind that comes up with all that. I felt ill after I saw one of those at the cinema.

The dream sequence in American Werewolf...

Gave me nightmares for years

I can't believe i'm admitting this the toy's from sid's room in toy story

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I'm not sure, I don't watch much horror films.

The Shining certainly didn't scare me though, I thought it was more comical.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKKNUF-CE6g&feature=related

Salem's Lot used to scare me.

Btw, it's only a matter of time until Tinkerbell comes on to tell us that Kubrick's version of The Shining sucks and Stephen King's book / miniseries / bowel movement is better.

Well she's FUCKING WRONG :p

As a kid, any UFO/Alien movie/programme scared me witless. Hangar 18, Cocoon, Communion, Fire In the Sky, Contact, X Files. So much so I had an OCD-like obsessional distress about anything UFO related.

Nowadays films never scare me, only make me squeamish.

i was gonna mention blair witch but thought someone was bound to take the piss

^ That's from a really cool old fi;m called Carnival Of Souls. Looks like Mark Gatiss or Luke Haines!

There's a film called The Return of Count Yorga, which kept me awake for years - not actually scary I don't suppose, just saw it at the wrong age. There's a horrific scene where a small kid chases a football in to a woods, he bends to pick it up, arms break up through the ground and drag him under. That was therapeutic.

Actually the birds scared me, not whilst watching it though.

I think the fact I'm scared of a lot of animals doesn't really help, for example if I walk through where a pigeon is eating and they don't get deterred by humans I become worried it will flap up in my face.

Another film that traumatised me was The Poseiden Adventure. It's so tense and they're all so doomed.. watched it when i was 5 or 6 and i still vividly remember crying and going to bed before the end because it was too much to take

did any cunt actually click on that link up there ^ ?

well i thought it was funny anyway

back tot he subject, i know everyone thinks it's shit but i still think 1408 is one of the best recent horrors ive seen since 28 weeks later

1408 was good! It was a great short story too.

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That had some quite horrific alien probe stuff didn't it? I can remember feeling a bit uneasy watching that








JAWS.

Until you see it.

But i remember being in a swimming pool as a kid and there were these bars in the wall underwater where the wave machine thing came from. Me and my mate used to dare each other to go underwater and stick our legs through the bars and even though i KNEW there wasn't a shark there, it was still scary

I'd forgotten about Dead Of Night. All turns a bit serious when we get to the dummy.

last one

The Shining is bloody terrifying

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David Cameron is a silk stocking full of shit

"I'd forgotten about Dead Of Night. All turns a bit serious when we get to the dummy."

the mirror bit scared me too

"JAWS.

Until you see it.

But i remember being in a swimming pool as a kid and there were these bars in the wall underwater where the wave machine thing came from. Me and my mate used to dare each other to go underwater and stick our legs through the bars and even though i KNEW there wasn't a shark there, it was still scary "

Ha , so true we used to do that, although I'm not sure what it had to with Sharks, as we weren't really the jaws generation.

I did shit it when on Holiday in florida waist deep in the ocean though.

I have completely freaked out before in the sea when seeing a dark shardow underneath me, completely panicking before realising it was actually my shadow.

You know how I feel about Kubrick, Tom. And Blair Witch was shit.

The first time I read the book of The Shining I slept with the hallway light on. Those wrapped up fire hoses in buildings still make me nervous.

Other than that, Nightmare on Elm Street was really scary when I first saw it. When I was a kid I watched a film called Burnt Offerings which for some reason terrified me - I've watched it since and it's not that scary. Although there is a guy who drives a hearse who kills Betty Davis with a coffin and that part's still creepy. The Ring where the girl climbs out of the TV freaked me right out.

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"When I was a kid I watched a film called Burnt Offerings which for some reason terrified me - I've watched it since and it's not that scary."

ha! a few months ago i ordered leprechaun off play or amazon or somewhere and for some reason they screwed up and sent me another dvd aswell called burnt offerings! not scary in the slightest but quite entertaining after a few ciders

you're wrong about the shining btw

Th'Exorcist as a kid...fucking hell!those eyes and that cold,dark,terrifying room!the subway sequence with that project terror face that fw posted€€€>

i was gonna say the 'don't look now' dwarf, that shat me up when i was a kid. there's a scene in 'spaced' where they're in a park looking for a lost dog or something and in the back of shot you see a child/dwarf in a red anorak run out from behind a tree, completely unrelated to the rest of the story. blink and you miss it.

similar to the best bit in jaws where just after the three of them are chatting away in the boat and quint gives his 'indianapolis' speech and then the shark attacks them for the first time. it cuts to a scene with brody loading his pistol and you see a shooting star go past in the background which is apparently real and just incredibly lucky.

Oh god yes the exorcist, it has a very eerie air about it! I once fell asleep on my friends bed with that playing over and over in the background, that was a horrible nights sleep with that on in the background.

Exorcist and Blair Witch both freaked me out too.

halloween has quite creepy music. and suspiria

yes the captain howdy subliminal msg, father karras subway dream sequence was fucking quite scary>father karras feeling bereft and deep with regret,guilt about having left his mother in hospital to die alone and have her soul taken to hell by the demon pazuzu...quite a lot of intricate stuff here> and thats only the beginning...€€€>

Also well worth seeing:

Event Horizon
The Legend of Hell House
Jacob's Ladder
The Thing (Kurt Russell version)
The Descent
Evil Dead

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i thought the descent was fucking awful

oh god so did i , I actually wanted them all to die.

Tom, have you ever read American Tabloid by James Ellroy? I think you would love it.

i don't get scared by movies, but some of david lynch's come the closest, more in terms of being psychologically eerie and disturbing. mulholland drive freaked me out once i understood [my take] on what it was about. still gets me when i think about it.

"profondo rosso", "the omen" (the original).


and "it." I don't even know if I ever finished it when I was a kid. I prefer not watching it again, as I'm afraid it won't be nearly as scary now.

backdraft

It's not a film but last night I was watching Horizon about black holes and that freaked me out a little bit.

Never really been affected by horror fims. I remember watching Silence of the Lambs when it first came out and having Anthony Hopkins turning up in my dreams for weeks after.

I used to be scared of a few when i was younger, now i don't really enjoy many horror films because they usually stick to the same formula, although there is a charm in the b-movie, badly acted type.

I think with the classics i just watch them because they are good films, not scary, like The Shining, The Exorist, Rosemary's Baby.

I used to be scared of stuff like the childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Madamme Mimm in Sword In The Stone. Labrynth was particularly scary too if i remember, along with Masters Of The Universe.

I was always terrified by jaws when i was younger and I remember swimming in the sea a few years after I'd seen it and we swam out a bit, not too far but far enough. We were snorkelling so I had the mask thing on but we were just swimming and not actually looking underwater at that moment. Anyway all of a sudden I just felt the temperature of the water drop massively. It was freezing cold so i looked down underwater and there was like a drop off and it went so deep that I couldnt see the bottom and the coral just like blurred out at the end of my vision and I just got this weird sensation in my legs where i just started kicking fast because I thought i was gonna be sucked down and I imagined sharks coming up to get me. It was the most terrifying thing ever to happen to me. Really scary.

I liked blair witch, i liked all the viral stuff they did with it aswell. The shining is brilliant. Didnt really get scared by the ring or the grudge. 1408 i thought was absolute garbage. I went to see the strangers last year and I thought that was more scary. The film wasnt very good but there were some good moments in it. The scares didnt last very long though.



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I think im more scared at the thought of a killer than the thought of ghosts or other weird stuff

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Tomorrow I am going to see The Fourth Kind, which is sort of horror (alien abduction), so I'll let you know how it is.

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When I was very young the bloke on the train in Ghost and the bit at the end of Beetlejuice when they're dying scared me to tears.

Event Horizon is brilliant! Especially now it's on DVD as you can pause the recorded messages to see what's going on!

A film called Paranormal Activities (2007 version not the latest release) has been recommended to me as being pretty scary. Never heard of it or watched it before.

I like what they do in the Grudge (Asian version of course) where you're not even safe in your own bed!!

willow, - too many midgets

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dark water by walter salles disturbed me, i couldn't stop thinking about it for days after seeing it.