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Horror doesn't work on me. Take that as a challenge if you like.
That said, I give the nod to The Ring (the American remake of Ringu). Overall I thought the movie was kinda dull, but I liked how the jump scares worked and looked. I didn't feel cheated by them, and the practical effects of making the girl look scared to death + seven days' water logged was downright freaky. I have a behind-the-scenes shot from the intro, when the camera zooms in on her and her face morphs. You can go frame by frame on the Blu-ray and that image isn't there, so I imagine makeup took the picture or someone else on set. You get more detail. Anyway, that image haunted me for years. I had it saved on my computer. (Still do in fact.) Now I look at it in awe, like "that's the image that got to me."
The scariest movie I watched was about child abuse, but that answer feels like a cop out for a horror community. Doesn't really matter which one. People being shitty to each other is what really gets under my skin.
... can we see it?
I assume you mean the behind-the-scenes image? I didn't know how to share images here, but I see the upload image button. (Sorry, I'm still a bit new to Lemmy.)
Much smaller than I remember. But this is the original file I got. Not sure where I found it. You could get a better shot by going to the 4K Blu-ray, going to about 8 minutes in (that's from memory, it's the very end of the cold open when the girl goes upstairs, it's gonna change scenes to inside the room, then the camera is going to rush the door as the girl opens it, and there is like a third of a second of transition (so like what, 8 frames?) before it cuts to the title. The scene everyone remembers is when the mother says "I saw her face" and it shows you the girl in the closet and that shot lasts a few seconds, but this one was way scarier, IMO. Like freezing the frame and just looking at it, like holy shit they did not need to go so hard on a shot most people would miss.
I came in here just to mention The Ring. I haven't seen it in almost 20 years, but was talking about it with my coworker earlier today! That scene where (spoiler) the main character is talking to her son and says "it's over, I helped her" And he says "you weren't supposed to help her" sticks with me to this day.
Chills.
It was Ringu that fucked me for months when I was younger.
Any shadow that was five or six feet high just made me think of Sadako, such was the mastery of the film. It was particularly challenging at night when shadows from the trees outside my window cast very tall and slim shadows.
It never really rattled me at the time either - the scene that royally stunned me was the reflection in the TV towards the end of the film.
Brilliant film fair play.