Films / TV that have scared you

[nightowl]

Growing up Salem's Lot was one of those event-type TV moments when everyone came into school the next day saying 'shit, that was scary'.
There were a couple of BBC drama series in the early 80s that scared everyone too. There was 'The Nightmare Man' about some monstrous figure running amok on a Scottish island and 'The Mad Death' about a rabies outbreak in the UK.

 

[oryx]

The Others.

The Others (2001) ⭐ 7.6 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

1h 41m | 12A

www.imdb.com

This is the only one I can remember scaring me, as it's genuinely creepy.

I wanted to see it at the cinema when it came out but my OH said he didn't want to as he found things like that disturbing. Laughed at him for being a wuss. When it came on TV, we watched it. He found it OK (probably agreed to watch it as he likes Nicole Kidman) and I found it very disturbing. The pictures of dead people are creepy as fuck.

Karma!

 

[ska invita]

MasterChef
Also anything with Gordon Ramsey in it

 

[kittyP]

The original bbc version of The Woman In Black

 

[kittyP]

The Signalman, based on the Charles Dickens short story, starring Denholm Elliott

 

[kittyP]

I was obsessed with both of those from a far too young age.

 

[krtek a houby]

I'm a total wuss, I really feel whatever I see in a film on my own skin, so horror films are...horrifying. I can't watch them. If there's a jump scare, I jump and scream. And scary scenes remain with me for the rest of my life, scaring me over and over again at opportune times.




Same. When I watched Blair Witch, the VHS got stuck in the video player, which was in the library - a rather grim room with a fireplace and wooden shelves lining the walls. Above was the attic, which was creaking at night. I had to walk through the library to go to the bathroom and I was prepared that at any moment, the TV would magically switch on and start playing the tape. And then I would just die of fear.

Funnily enough, recently I read somewhere that old-style TV remotes can operate by themselves. I don't remember what triggers it, maybe infrasound?

Blair Witch is so good. Quite groundbreaking at the time.

As for the remotes, our old stereo had a remote and I reckons one of the neighbours had one on similar frequency, because the volume would regularly switch up. Which was more annoying than spooky.

 

[Weller]

The Entity in my late teens as I recall it was based on a true story a woman who claimed 3 poltergeists were repeatedly sexually abusing her amongst other things there was a scene in it where psychologists watched over her wired up in a hospital and the invisible ghosts assulted her there too may have remembered it wrong but all seemed so real with barely any effects just the moving skin I think was very different back then had a few nightmares about it and have never watched it again

Nothing much scared me really like that since or before until Blair Witch freaked me out and Ive watched most paranormal type stuff

The original evil dead scared me as we went to have beers and stopped over at an older mates grans old house he was looking after next to some woods and watched it at midnight on pirate vhs none of us slept a wink after every creak in the attic or outside until light we were too scared to get on our mopeds and ride home but i guess it was the setting

The ‘True’ Story behind The Entity: Untangling Hollywood Horror | Skeptical Inquirer

 

[imposs1904]

I watched Audition accidentally without knowing anything about it, it was on TV late at night and i was kind of half watching thinking it was an eccentric japanese comedy film, a bit boring but ok for a lazy watch.... that was quite a journey

Kind of sounds like my experience of Audition . . . in fact, isn't it most people's experience of that film?

I think the next time my kids piss me off, I'll suggest a Family Movie Night.

 

[krtek a houby]

Episode 6 of Say Nothing. Absolutely horrific.

There's an interview here with Lola Petticrew (who plays Dolours Price) on filming the episode. Spoiler alert! Don't read if you haven't seen the episode yet!

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/say-nothing-lola-petticrew-hunger-strike-interview