Movies that are actually scary
 

Hey guys. I'm looking to be scared. Maybe I'm just jaded, but horror films in general have no effect on me. I watch a good two or three before going to bed many nights and I sleep like a baby. When I say scared I don't mean grossed out, because it's much easier to gross me out than scare me. I want to have trouble going to sleep or have nightmares.

Film's that are on many most scary lists that don't do much for me: The Exorcist (I find it mostly funny), Psycho (waaaay too old to be scary for me), The Blair Witch Project (yawn and then LOL), Saw (am I the only person who said "oh please" instead of "omg!" at the end of this?) , Evil Dead (an awesome movie, but it's a horror comedy people), The Shining (I can't believe that people find this creepy or even interesting) etc. I can confidently say that nothing created before 1970 is going to have me shaking in my boots.

I want to be creeped out. Movies that have come close to doing this is Session 9, The Innkeepers, The Ring, The Grudge, Insidious, The Orphanage, Event Horizon, The Descent and The Tenant (1976). These movies have come close, but there's always something missing. Either they show too much or too little. Some of them start off good and then midway it turns too guy-in-blue-makeup-over-the-top to be scary. Supernatural things scare me more than people, and I like seeing less instead of more. I also favor realistic reactions to people barely reacting when something strange happens.

Is it even possible to be actually frightened by a movie? Any suggestions?

Dude paranormal activity the first , maybe its not make you creep but its very nice //

if you want to frightened by another thing try to take video when you sleep and watch that later L :

I can sense what's coming:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvB1F2y6NgQ

I feel like I've answered this a few times... Try these threads:

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52651
http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34588
http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35098
http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26639

Haha, thanks for the suggestion. I've seen Paranormal Activity, but found it on the long winded side. There's actually a ripoff of it called Paranormal Entity that I thought was a superior movie.

Thanks for taking the time to point out these threads. I appreciate it... though I've actually seen all of the movies mentioned in these threads.

The House of the Devil

try grave encounters, i jumped several times through that movie, plus some scary moments.

human centepide 1 or 2 ???

how was that movie,sore it at the shop last night looked interesting

they band that movie i think,due to many cases of people shitting there pants with fright

Of course it is. However, it is easier to be frightened when you are young. If you are old enough to know better then maybe a few drinks and watching the movie in the dark at night will help.

Wasn't the people crapping their pants IN the movie? Because they were.... very old.

those old folk in there swim suits scared the shit out of me

Cocoon was not even scary LOL. I would say jacobs ladder or In the mouth of maddness. Snopp Dogg Bones is up there.

Sorry, are you still talking scary movies??

Heck yea Jacobs ladder was soo trippy, I remember watching that back in high school, stoned out of my mind. I had to watch it like 3 times to figure out the simplicity of it LOL.

I'm most surprised about "Bones" being scary.

LOL. Yeah, Cocoon, oh the memories.

No way dude, those movies were funny. Gross yes, scary, no.

Jacob's Ladder was good, and it did have a few creepy moments, but it definitely didn't scare me.

I think this might be my problem actually. Maybe I'm just too jaded by now to really be frightened by movies anymore.


I'm going to make a few suggestions on my own thread. Saw a Spanish horror movie last night called Shiver (2008), and I thought it was quite good at ratcheting up the tension. It sort of blew it in the last 30mins but worth checking out. Watched it under perfect conditions though. Alone in the dark with a lightning storm raging outside.

Also watched Home Movie (2008), and thought it was reasonably creepy, though not really nightmarishly so, it was still one of the better found footage type movies I've seen in a while.

Event Horizon was quite good back in the day, but the CGI is very dated now. Still one of my favorite space horrors though. REC offered a few good jump scares when it was released. Somebody else suggested Grave Encouters, but I really thought that movie was hilariously bad and was checking my watch throughout.

If you guys know of something off the beaten track that would be great.

Slow burner but when it gets going it doesn't let up. Very good atmosphere very good Wtf! moments.

try taking a shit load of mushrooms in bad company,and then watch some satanic horror movie..might help scare you a bit

Yeah I did that with Eraserhead and The Shining (we watched it once in dubbed french and portuguese subtitles that came with the dvd to add to the headfuck)-happy days!

A movie that scares me deeply, is Irréversible. The thought that something like that could happen to a loved one..

Agree with you on that - the thought both angered and frightened me.

Very recognizable.

I remember being scared by Pet Sematary when I was younger. I havent been really creeped out in a long time.

LMAO.
..That video.. You posted it to me when I joined :D

Oh yeah. I thought I used that before. Hope you guys find your new hat.:)

try watching a serbian film then, if that dont get to you something is def wrong.

Being disturbed by a film happens more to me a lot more than being actually scared. But yeah as harsh as some of that movie was it still didn't get to me as much as Mordum. It was slick stylistically and more detached from reality.

exactly what i find more scary as well, i found martyrs disturbing as well but a serbian movie stayed with me after, and i felt sick for watching it espeacially with the new born porn, like i mean what the fuck was that director thinking when he was making that movie!!!

its fuckin hard to scare someone these days.and its fuckin easy to disturb.and i think new horrors have bailed out on the idea of scaring because its so much easier to think up something disturbing if ya know what i mean.hence why i dont get into modern horror as much as old stuff.
any cunt can sit there thinking of ways to torture someone and then chuck it on film and make the person watching feel sick in disgust.i mean shit why dont they just bring back snuff films,

Sounds like you're in my boat, nothing is actually scary anymore. When I was a kid it was easy. I like the idea of the mushrooms though, I've done that before, it definitely helps but it can make you unreasonably scared too. Wish I could help but I just can't think of any really scary movies right now.

I still believe that it is possible to be scared. It's just easier when you are young. Freddy (the original movie) was scary when I was young. Jason was so terrifying that if I was even in the woods, I would hope the idea of him wouldn't enter my mind. Forget about fooling around in the woods. I vaguely remember The Exorcist and I think that was scary.

For adults, it seems like people believe torture is scary or just horrific. I would bet that Tarantino could make a good scary horror film. I thought Death Proof was awesome and then he threw a major twist before the girls get to the sleepover party. I didn't see The Descent in theaters and I believe that would have been even more frightful on the big screen. Especially for girls or grown women. The whole movie is a nightmare situation from the beginning car scene.

early argento scares me

He doesn't scare me at all but I love his films.

Martyrs
 

Sorry if someone already posted this one and I missed it,
it's a french horror movie, that stayed in my head and made me slightly ill,
and i'm super jaded, so no horror movie scares me, but this one at least got a reaction out of me.
'I spit on your grave' is one of the more intense well done ones i've seen in the last so many years, i'd suggest that too.

Look to the East maybe?
 

Let's face it, if you're a horror veteran nothing is going to scare you!; about all you can hope for is some psychological chills; have you seen these Asian titles,

A Tale of Two Sisters
Audition
The Red Shoes
Ab-normal Beauty (not really horror but gets in your head)
The Maid (not bad)

...or watch old episodes of HR Puff 'n' Stuff that scares the shit out of me!

A Tale of Two Sisters is on my list. I watched the remake a while back. I've seen Audition. As someone who has a thing for Asian girls that movie got to me.

:D