What are the most frightening horror films you ever watched?

I don't have a ranked list but the scariest I can think of are the Spanish ā€¢REC and even more so the 1st sequel ā€¢REC 2.

These are in Spanish and not dubbed in English so you must read subtitles, but that only adds to the shaky-cam (much better than in, for example, Blair Witch). Dubbed would probably lose a lot, taking away from the surrealism.

ā€¢REC did have an English language remake. That was decent but not up to the scariness of the original. There were also more sequels but quality really dropped off.
 
Well, I do not remember many of them from my child/teen years. Never was a true movie buff but. In my adult life, no movie ever scared me. There have been a few that discussed me, those involving chainsaws & such. Most of those came along after cable/satellite TV. It is hard to believe the amount of gore, and even harder to believe that it 'entertains' so many.
 
The Castle? Which I believe was a European film from the 60's which terrified me for years after, I can't take gore and horror so I avoid it.
 
At the end of "Signs," in the credits, there was a sign from my cat who had died the day before. It was shocking, especially since I had an urge to read the credits carefully, something I almost never ever do.
 
I had never heard of the movie "Eyes Without a Face" until Billy Idol's song came out. I was finally able to find and watch it a few years later and it creeped me out and still does. It's a very slow burn though and not frightening in a "jump scare" way.

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Have a look at the scene of "Eyes Without a Face" (Les yeux sans visage, France 1960) in which a surgeon is cutting off the face of a woman to restore his daughter's destroyed face. Mark Gatiss tells of this movie in his documentary "Horror Europa" from 38:54.

 
MarkinPhx said:
I had never heard of the movie "Eyes Without a Face" until Billy Idol's song came out. I was finally able to find and watch it a few years later and it creeped me out and still does. It's a very slow burn though and not frightening in a "jump scare" way.

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We've had the same thought at the same moment. How interesting. But I was 3 minutes too late.
 
Psychological horror but I found it terrifying how many women are trapped in this position:


(And yes, it stars Michael Gough who played the kindly butler Alfred Pennyworth in the 90s Batman & Robin movie; he's horrible and terrifying in this.)
 
None for me, but my wife got shook up over watching ā€œCandy Man.ā€ Yeah, really.
 

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