Recommend some genuinely terrifying horror films?

[DiegoSapiens]

Lynch films are scary specially lost road
also:




i never get really scared but i like terror films, yesterday i saw Videodrome, M by fritz lang and the boston strangler all of them pretty good

[Genevieve]

I always wondered why people actively went looking for such terrifying horror movies, like why would you seek out such a negative emotion as the intense fear that a really scary movie gives you? OP said he wanted to be kept up at night, haha. why??

Don't you ski? Why would you want to hurl yourself down a potentially deadly mountain with planks of wood attached to your feet with no purpose of actual meaningful travel?

he does uphill skiing

yeah I do nordic haha. much more meaningful travel, but much less hurling myself down a potentially dangerous mountain, although there are some steep hills and the skis are a lot skinnier.

I always wondered why people actively went looking for such terrifying horror movies, like why would you seek out such a negative emotion as the intense fear that a really scary movie gives you? OP said he wanted to be kept up at night, haha. why??

Same reason you did drugs. To feel stimulated

but that's not really a fair comparison, because drugs dont scare the shit out of you. I mean obviously they can but that's not why people would seek them out I think

Extreme emotions m8. A thrill. You can be thrilled through being scared or by traveling the astral plane namsayin

[Jizz]

Die Hard Dracula

[Sonika]

I always wondered why people actively went looking for such terrifying horror movies, like why would you seek out such a negative emotion as the intense fear that a really scary movie gives you? OP said he wanted to be kept up at night, haha. why??

Don't you ski? Why would you want to hurl yourself down a potentially deadly mountain with planks of wood attached to your feet with no purpose of actual meaningful travel?

he does uphill skiing

yeah I do nordic haha. much more meaningful travel, but much less hurling myself down a potentially dangerous mountain, although there are some steep hills and the skis are a lot skinnier.

I always wondered why people actively went looking for such terrifying horror movies, like why would you seek out such a negative emotion as the intense fear that a really scary movie gives you? OP said he wanted to be kept up at night, haha. why??

Same reason you did drugs. To feel stimulated

but that's not really a fair comparison, because drugs dont scare the shit out of you. I mean obviously they can but that's not why people would seek them out I think

Extreme emotions m8. A thrill. You can be thrilled through being scared or by traveling the astral plane namsayin

iknowwhatyasayin

astral plane seems better than fear tho

juss sayen

[Friendly Editing]

Guess I'm with Wolf89 on that topic. What might be genuinely terrifiyng horror for some may be just silly to others. Insidous et al are just too obvious for my taste in their intention to "scare" the audience with loud noises and children with white faces walking backwards or something.

I didn't like "Kill List" but I liked the "Wicker Man" appreciation in the end (even though it all didn't make any sense). "Martyrs" definitely is genuinely terrifying horror with a transcendental and philophocal twist to all the violence.

Last two films that really left me speechless according to its terrifying horror and atmosphere were "Snowtown" (actually more of a real crime drama) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1680114/ and "Leben und Tod einer Pornobande" (not sure if there's an english release for that one though) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1388427/plo ... _=tt_ov_pl - before anyone mentions it: don't watch "A Serbian Film", take the Pornobande instead!

[jaydot]

Blair Witch Project.

[bigfootspartan]

[rec]

^^^

++ I loved how it all took place in such a small place, really added to the atmosphere.

I know you're asking for horror films, but if you ever want to foray into video gaming I would say Amnesia: The Dark Descent was more terrifying than any film I'd ever watched. Since it's mostly just a "walk around and explore shit" type game it always made me feel like it was basically just an interactive type movie.

[wolf89]

Yeah Amnesia is a dope video game. Cheers for reminding me that I need to finish it.

[Harkat]

Kill List is a good shout. Unreal tension

Just watched it upon recommendation from this thread. The two leads were well played, but fuck was that about. Didn't have much of a story innit. Just big vague scary Resident Evil 4 cult.

[overture]

Id say check out some David Lynch films.

I saw Inland Empire for the first time recently, ppl either love it or hate it.

I liked it.

I'll check it out, I hear 'Eraserhead' is pretty intense, have you seen that one?

[TopManLurka]

always thought the original 'halloween' films were scary to an extent.

[overture]

[rec]

^^^

++ I loved how it all took place in such a small place, really added to the atmosphere.

I know you're asking for horror films, but if you ever want to foray into video gaming I would say Amnesia: The Dark Descent was more terrifying than any film I'd ever watched. Since it's mostly just a "walk around and explore shit" type game it always made me feel like it was basically just an interactive type movie.

+1 on Amnesia, it's awesome and very unsettling! Frictional Games really shine when it comes to atmosphere in games, Penumbra: Black Plague is one of their earlier games (very similar to Amnesia but a lot more sci-fi based) and the tension in that one is amazing! One of the things that makes it so much more terrifying is the fact that you don't get any weapons and have to rely on hiding or legging it from monsters!

[+torment+]

what about some of the classics?

its seems to be via random general consensus that most people who watched the original 1979 version of Salem's Lot as a kid pretty much are still scarred by it.

myself included.

as a kid.. this shit traumatized me for a while after, for real. lol. bridging the whole real life fear & aversion of death, GOING TO FUNERALS, grave sites, and.. freaky shit all around. not so cool. but as a classic horror movie, 1979's Salem's Lot did the trick. it seriously delivered. i was seriously scarred from watchin this as a kid. totally. ha.

phew.

[Lye_Form]

this is shit but it scared me cus its filmed in a place that is really freaky IRL. And the documentary stuff is actually all real (history and interviews etc) mashed with the "horror"



Not "scary" as such, but very disterbing and fucking genius

[wolf89]

I don't think Ichi the Killer is even thaaaaaaaaat disturbing. I mean it is a little, but it's also really funny, entertaining and even a little sad

[Laszlo]

You two should watch the anime version. Much more disturbing.

[wolf89]

You two should watch the anime version. Much more disturbing.

Been meaning to for so long and still havnen't. This has reminded me but I fucking hate streaming stuff online and I'm holding back on buying dvds at the moment so i'll probably still take ages to getting round to it. haha

[Laszlo]

You know what they're like though, ay. They'll only show so much in a film but if it's drawn, well hey, go for the gusto.

[wolf89]

You know what they're like though, ay. They'll only show so much in a film but if it's drawn, well hey, go for the gusto.

Trust me I've seen far too many things that the Japanese think is fine in animation.

[Laszlo]

Hentai fan ay? You make me sick!