Horror

Cujo. The premise is so real and absolutely terrifying. It was legit the only movie I had to pause and take a break before I could finish it.

I don't know about scariest, but Ari Astor's movies are their own category of emotional horror. Worth a watch, but I will never rewatch one lol. Heritage and Mid Sommar.

The Day After (1986).

It legitimately broke me.

I feel like almost everyone has this one movie they watched (probably too young) that haunted them for days or weeks after.

For me it was IT (1990) when I was 13. I only watched the first movie and it scared the shit out of me. More than a year later, I forced myself to watch the second movie to finally get closure, and it actually helped a lot! But mainly because the second movie is pretty bad, and the ending is the worst (but I was thankful for that, haha).

Since this movie I knew, it is not the type of movies with jump scares, gore and graphic violence that scares me, but the ones that tickle my lively imagination (Blairwitch Project, Paranormal Activities and the like)

In my list of scariest movies of all times, I also have REC and Event Horizon.

Smile.

I Care A Lot

It left me furious, mostly because it's something actually happening to people.

Bring Her Back was fucked.

I'm not a huge fan of horror (I came across this thread in my all feed), but when I was in my teens I saw some random movie on TV that scared me freaked me out for quite a long time afterward. Unfortunately I don't even remember the name, but maybe someone here will know what it is. From what I recall, it took place in a carnival, and the "monster" was some horribly deformed guy that had eyes that were far apart on his head. He would lurk around inside carnival rides and kill women visitors.

Event Horizon.

I think it's just because I watched it when I was a kid and it freaked me out so bad, but Event Horizon still scares the shit out of me to this day.

Not a fan of terror, but saw The Ring with friends and it had some memorable jump scares.

Now what really scared the shit out of me and probably created some trauma was the witch from the Wizard of Oz. Also that wolf in Neverending Story. Probably because I was 8 years old.

The descent, a >! Monster movie!< Inside of an already tense horror situation

Not strictly horror but Srpski Film. It’s… yeah… nothing needs to be said about it.

Fire in the sky

Watching Alien when I was a kid gave me nightmares that lasted decades, long past the time when horror movies actively scared me. I was fully aware of all of the aspects of movie making, I was in school for film, knew everything it took to make the original film and STILL would have nightmares. It dug into my hind-brain and didn't let up.

That one scene from The Thing makes me jump every single time, it's a masterclass in tension and making you instantly poo a little bit

I saw The Exorcist in my early teens, I don't know how well it's aged but at the time that shit was scary.

As an adult I don't find movies scary, but Annihilation has probably come the closest.

Fire In The Sky (1993). My goofball dad took me to see this in the theater when I was under 10 and I have recently downloaded it because I want to see if it was really all that scary. I still cannot bring myself to watch it.

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.

Not actually a horror movie, for me it is "Coherence".

It creates this strange feeling something is off and something wil happen any moment now, aaany moment. Not going to spoil what is happening though.

Martyrs is up there

The one that hit me hardest was Poltergeist. Saw that in the theater the night before 5th grade started and it wrecked me for two weeks. Watching it again last year, it's still pretty freaky.

Can't say it was the scariest, but I think Alien is all-time best. We're all used to the memes and jokes, but have a sit down in a dark room and really let yourself get into it.

My tops have been mentioned, so I'll mention movie scenes that stayed with me...

Signs - the birthday party scene makes my skin crawl

Poltergeist 2 - I didn't want braces FOR YEARS from the one scene

Hereditary - the girls death in the car is so unexpected

Hostel - the cut Achilles gets me everytime

Audition - needles in the eye

The Blair Witch Project, but 1) I really hadn't seen much horror at that point (not too long after it came out), and 2) it made me really motion sick, so I'm not sure how much that affected things. I stayed clear of the woods for a week or two afterwards, though.

Many moons ago, I half-watched 'Alien,' part one. I still have a sore stomach thinking about it today.

I could not finish ”Talk To Me” — a horror movie about an embalmed hand that temporarily possesses those who hold it. It was just too freaky for me. Hats off to the actors who scared the bejeezus out of me.