Genuinely scary films?

[Tilly Teckel]

I love a good horror but there are so few of them these days, or maybe I'm just getting harder to scare! However I did happen upon one the other day, 'The Fourth Kind'. Won't say too much for fear of spoiling it for others but it was really creepy and suspenseful - my poor little dog who was sat on my lap at the time found herself gripped a bit too firmly at times!!

Which films genuinely scare you and why?

[tori]

The Rite With Anthony Hopkins A Must See 10/10

[ffg]

Insidious.

[brandy]

IT, sad but watched it young and still have shivers!

[teddybear1873]

IT, sad but watched it young and still have shivers!

Have to agree with you there Brandy. Even though the film wasn't really scary, but I hate clowns and to top it off, he had razor sharp teeth.

[Gordon Bonnet]

It's not a horror film as such but I am enjoying Shutter Island at the moment. In installments at bed-time...very atmospheric and rather unsettling.
The movie, that is...bed-time is really rather normal.

[golach]

Went to see Carrie in the early 80's with my wife, scared witless by the screams of the audience at the end. As a result I tend to avoid "Horror" movies, prefer to be amused and made to laugh than to be made scared.

[annemarie482]

its really hard nowadays to get a good thriller, they seem to be more interested in pushing the gore factor,
which quite frankly spoils it as far as i'm concerned.
a good film in my mind, is one that makes the human mind conjour up far more frightful things from suggestion and imagination than could ever be shown on a screen! lol

[Dreamweaver]

Yes, I agree. I love suspense/horror movies that have a psychological twist. What I REALLY hate are those teen slasher movies with loads of blood and scantily clad screaming bimbos

[bettedaviseyes]

Insidious is really good.

[Gordon Bonnet]

Went to see Carrie in the early 80's with my wife, scared witless by the screams of the audience at the end. As a result I tend to avoid "Horror" movies, prefer to be amused and made to laugh than to be made scared.

Yes, I agree. 'Carrie' and the audience reaction to the scene where the hand shoots out of the grave is particularly frightening...though it was more the gasps and shrieks (from the audience) with me moreso than what was happening onscreen. Recently, only a 'Haunting in Connecticut' has made me close my eyes - more in repulsion than fear....I don't like seeing eyelids cut off, you see.