For you personally, what do you think is your scary movie. This can be a referance to an exact movie, a feeling, a certain scene. Do you think a scary movie has to be truely horrifying to be good?

Give me your thoughts! (or i shall take them myself )

I am so picky now about horror films that very few stand out as being scary. I suppose when I was younger and first saw The Exorcist is the best example, absolutely shit myself.

Was also perturbed by The Nightmare On Elm Street films.

I recently saw a spanish horror film called "REC" and although the plot wasnt particularly anything new the "Blair Witch" style shooting of it made it scarier for me. (That having been said I recently watch Rodregiuz's "Diary Of The Dead" shot in much the same style and that was utter pants.) I think "REC" hits home because of the isolation of the character's involved and how the authorities treat them. Help is unusually at hand for the vast majority of the film for the victims but it's all the more scary because for some reason it never actually comes.

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Me and Scorpio watched a movie called Cherry Falls.. it wasn't scary, or gory.. it was more funny than anything

The only movie that scared me was scream.. cause it was the first one i'd ever seen..
Anything else I've just found a bit funny

Yes, ridiculously awful, funny in some parts that i dont think they intended to be, and a rather obvious story line. Cos i said to Ash before it came on that it was bound to involve virgins.. and guess what, the killer was after virgins

Well the first horror movie I remember seeing when i was a lad was "Night of the Demon" an old black and white 1957 film It was good for its time. seen it again a few years back and its not as scary as I remember it



Plot summary for
Night of the Demon (1957) More at IMDb
Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay at Karswell's estate, along with Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden's confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Karswell secretly slips a parchment into Holden's papers that might possibly be a death curse. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to pass the parchment back to Karswell to break the demonic curse.

For me personally, there are only a few movies that still make me a bit spooked now and again, but I don't think they are necessarily the best ones. I think the best horror movie, is one that you watch on your own in the dark at 1 in the morning. You finish watching it and it’s not the scariest movie you've ever seen, but when you stand up in the dark room to turn the tele off before you go to bed, you feel uneasy because the movie may have finished, but it’s still playing right at the back of your mind. You keep looking over your shoulder expecting something to be there and you can feel something that sends a shiver down your spine.

You walk (at a faster than usual pace) to your bedroom, climb in bed and your lying there with your eyes wide open staring around the room. You’re still lying there an hour later; eyes wide open with the movie playing at the back of your mind, unable to sleep, constantly seeing the shadows on the walls as something more than they actually are. You don't sleep at all that night.

That is what a scary movie should be.