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A few years ago I set out to track down the scariest films of all time. This was around the time the internet was really coming into its own for research of this kind. I managed to compile a list of films which people claimed were the most shit inducing ever. None of them were.
OK, so my skin crawled a couple of times, hell I even felt disgusted or shocked by a couple of scenes, never once was I 'scared'. Here's a few of the most memorable from the list:- Exorcist
- Cannibal Holocaust
- Jacob's Ladder
- Tetsuo Iron Man
- Alien
- Audition
- Quatermass and the Pit
- Nosferatu
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Videodrome
So now I ask you:- What psychological switches would a movie need to throw to make you fill your pants?
- What movies would you recommend?
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CommentAuthorDr. Orphusi
- CommentTimeMay 10th 2006
Watch "Wolf Creek" - it's an Australian film, and really scary/disturbing without ever being overly gory. It's all in the realism and the implied violence. It managed to affect me where most movies haven't done a thing.
I also heard The Ring was scary as hell but I haven't seen it myself. None of those movies you listed are particularly frightening for me, at least not out of the ones I've seen. -
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None of the movies listed frightened me, but they all had a skin crawling effect in some way or other. I am still on the hunt for a truly scary film. I watched 'The Decent' a wee while back now. A British horror movie about caving. I wasn't scared, but a friend I watched it with who has claustrophobia found it hard to watch in places. I suppose one needs to find fears in the real world before they can manifest themselves on the cinema screen.
I will check out Wolf Creek, that's the second time I've been recommended it. -
28 Days later is a horror film with more levels that you care to think about, not only does it have the whole "Infected" deaths (alongside some others) but it's also got the ability to mke you think "what if this is happening right now?" I mean how many of us know what those animal testers are up to?
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Watched 'Wolf Creek' last night.
They should have called it 'Australian Outback Massacre' and had done with it. Not terror inducing, or even surprising. Kicked the ass out of most recent Hollywood horror, but we all know that isn't difficult.
I forgot entirely to mention perhaps my favourite all time horror movie (and one of my favourite movies all together).
Eraserhead
The only movie I can watch continually which leaves me feeling uneasy about my entire existence by the end. No words are available to describe the way this movie burrows into your psyche. David Lynch at his best is amongst the auteurs of every creative medium. Pulsatingly good.
Anyone know of any other movies with a similar rhythmic intensity as this? I think Pi, I think Tetsuo Iron Man again - both built to be absorbed frame by frame into your self perspective. Any others?
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