Most scared you've ever been watching a film.

[dannyboy]

I always thought poltergeist was pretty scary

 

[Peteinblack]

I always thought poltergeist was pretty scary

"They're here."

Yes, another really scary film, especially when the tree branch smashes through the bedroom window and wraps itself aroud the terrified boy. His toy clown is bloody sinister too.

Also, towards the end of the film, when the mother is frantically looking for her missing daughter in the pouring rain, slips into the flooded pit in the garden where a swimming pool is being bulilt, and skeletons and rotting corpses start bobbing up in the water, their skulls 'grinning' at her (their house having been built on a cemetary whose buried bodies hadn't been moved first).

 

[Storer 68]

I was six. This scared the hell out of me then..................................................... and still does

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

That was a scene for knocking one out when I was a kid

Young and sexy or mouldy and old?

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

The Blair Witch Project - Crock of shit or intense psychological horror? I'm not sure.

 

[maltaseagull]

For me it was Physco -the shower scene. I used to always check the bathroom door was locked before getting in the shower.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Star Wars, Episode 2, Attack of the Clones, even typing it now or saying it in my mind sends shivers down my spine. ; )

 

[Meade's Ball]

God, that brings back memories, I was just a youngster when I first saw Salems Lot, scared the living shit out of me. I had nightmares about "The Master" for ages.

Yeah it was on at about 11.40 on ITV on week night. I had the tv in front of my bed, my little brother and sister in the bunkbed the other side of the room, so i was dead in front of it, staring at the reawakening atop the half-buried coffin, and the eternal fears of a floating boy tapping on my window. I imagine i went to school the next day a bit sleeplessly, but whenever a film was on on ITV, i was there watching. Including things like The Prince of Darkness and the Hammer Horror ones they put on on Friday nights. That was the good old days. Probably in having the energy not to have to plan when to sleep so much like lively youngsters get. Now, of course, i have to work out whether i am going to see it through before getting the chance to be horrifically lost in it.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Jaws as a kid - those night-time swim scenes

When the face appeared in the bottom of the boat...I had to describe it to my girlfriend in the cinema, she had shut her eyes!

 

[Easy 10]

Another one scarred by Salems Lot. I couldn't sleep for WEEKS after seeing this thing.
I can remember a scene when its in someones kitchen, bold as brass. It just seemed so shockingly real and jarring to see that horrific thing in such a normal "domestic" place as a well-lit kitchen, rather than a crypt or graveyard or something. Freaked me right out that did.

 

[Knightsworld]

Yeah it was on at about 11.40 on ITV on week night. I had the tv in front of my bed, my little brother and sister in the bunkbed the other side of the room, so i was dead in front of it, staring at the reawakening atop the half-buried coffin, and the eternal fears of a floating boy tapping on my window. I imagine i went to school the next day a bit sleeplessly, but whenever a film was on on ITV, i was there watching. Including things like The Prince of Darkness and the Hammer Horror ones they put on on Friday nights. That was the good old days. Probably in having the energy not to have to plan when to sleep so much like lively youngsters get. Now, of course, i have to work out whether i am going to see it through before getting the chance to be horrifically lost in it.

Ha, you've brought more memories back, the Friday night double-feature of horror. My Dad used to work nights, so I used to watch these every week with my Mum, used to be great staying up late to the early hours then NOT being able to sleep.

 

[Knightsworld]

Another one scarred by Salems Lot. I couldn't sleep for WEEKS after seeing this thing.
I can remember a scene when its in someones kitchen, bold as brass. It just seemed so shockingly real and jarring to see that horrific thing in such a normal "domestic" place as a well-lit kitchen, rather than a crypt or graveyard or something. Freaked me right out that did.

THIS BLOKE was just as scary in it as well

 

[Easy 10]

THIS BLOKE was just as scary in it as well

Not to me he wasn't.
That snaggle-toothed freak shat me right up.

 

[Knightsworld]

Not to me he wasn't.
That snaggle-toothed freak shat me right up.

Was his voice I think, to me he sounded like the DEVIL.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Ringu (f*** the shit remake). I actually got a chill up my spine - I thought it was just a saying.

what? that little penguin? anyhoo, for me it was the last scene of 'The Vanishing' (French/Dutch version)

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

oh, and Armchair Thriller - Quiet as a Nun

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

I'm with Easy on this one. Blood and gore aren't scary but the thought of evil and terror visiting your own home is. In Salem's Lot the window tapping sequence late at night is just terrifiying and unforgettable. That's what you call a nightmare. And as a 14 year old I was also scared shitless by "The Shining" - the idea of psychological terror and horror. Still haven't watched it again all these years later.

 

[Knightsworld]

Forgot this little beauty, I think it got banned soon after, I can remember some kids on a boat on a lake, and they paddled over to what looked like another empty boat, cue the madman standing up, hearing the snap of the shears and seeing loads of cut off fingers flying through the air.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Porn of the dead.

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

Takeshi Miike's Audition freaked me out

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