Your most remembered horror film/book...

[pa_broon74]

As I sit here contemplating the TV and what to watch via its medium... Ummm... The Fog is about to start, (the original Jamie Lee Curtis one...)

Now I live on my own, in a flat about 30 yards from the sea with two harbours within walking distance, the question is, should I be watching it...

Its a film I remember because when ever it had been on the telly, you'd have loads of kids moving around the village doing the door knocking thing, and god help you if it was actually foggy!!

Other films are The Devil's Rain which my gran let me watch when I was about 8. Fucking hell man! They were sponging me off the bedroom ceiling all night... Before that a film called The Cat and the Canary, I don't remember much other than it was set in an old house with bookcases that moved to reveal secret passages...

Most scary recentish film? Event Horizon. I hate that film, really scary stuff... Scariest book I read was Phantoms, oh and also Fear nothing... That was a weird one with evil monkeys... It seemed to press my buttons... (Both by Dean Koontz.) And finally (honestly) IT from Stephen King... The book is as scary as the film, I hate clowns...

Go on, what gets you pissing your pants?


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[Tonka]

James Herbert's Rats was the first book I remember reading and being very, very scared. I was about 11 and managed to hide it from my parents, as it would have been confiscated if they'd seen it(my best friend had older brothers and it was theirs!)
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[warped one]

Not when watching it, but as of since recent. House on the haunted hill.

just the way everything happens like the shutters coming down on the windows and such like. now my fear of this film comes from multiple retner burns and not been able to see who or what is treating me for this apart from breathing and a voice. now this does not help when doing urbex as my friends found out last week when we went to Nocton hall RAF hospital. Absolutely shit myself seeing the wierd doctor bloke everywhere.

Another is Steven Kings IT. I saw that bloody clown down every dark alley I walked for months after.

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[pa_broon74]

I've just finished Lair and Domain by James Herbert, pretty creepy. I have to say though, James Herbert's The Fog is a scary book, its got some totally weird passages in it not limited to an insane orgy at a boys private school to a vicar pissing on his flock. (You have to read it... )

I'm not going to watch The Fog as Idiocracy is on Film4 at 11pm, well worth a watch. Its a film that isn't all together that far fetched...


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[yen_powell]

Salem's Lot on the telly years ago with David Soul.

That poxy kid with white eyeballs, floating slowly up and down outside the bedroom window and scratching at the glass, scared me shitless!


Edit, just looked for it on U-tube, it's as bad as I remeber, I'm off to hide under the bed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y&feature=related
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[Mr Nice Guy]

Another vote for The Fog, all time classic and I am watching it.
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[The Artist]

Dead birds freaked me out. 2004.

No other horrors really.

[Amanda]

Unfortunatly i was forced to watch a snuff movie when i was about 13, it was sickening but at the time i didn't actually know that a snuff movie was real. i just thought it was an xx rated horror

The wierdest one was 'Spit on your grave' when a woman was raped by a tree

[Steve H]

Crikey, this thread has brought back a memory that I thought I'd buried good 'n proper!

I had a similar 'Nan' moment as the broonster, she let me watch 'The Ghost Train' when I was about 6 or 7. I can't remember anything about the plot other than it was in black or white, Arthur Askey was the 'star' (and, according to the poster that I've just found Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch starred alongside him ) and in one of the scenes a woman insisted on seeing the mythical train, let out an ear piercing scream and fell to the floor. Sat in my dressing gown in my Nan's small, dimly lit lounge with the coal fire dancing shadows on the opposite wall I then proceeded to repeat her actions

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[GhostRider]

Just thought of another, can't believe I forgot about this bad boy.

There was a scene in Poltergeist 2, kids brushing his teeth, his moms calls him, her turns around, then some fucking thing appears in the mirror behind him. I musta been like 10 and my brother had flicked the film on - I didn't even know what it was, let alone that it was a horror so it completely took me by surprise and has scarred me for life - I'm serious I refuse to have a mirror in the bedroom Can;t find a youtube vid, nor do I necessarily want to.

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[mooserx]

i remember this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_Fright_(1987_film)

can't really remember much as i was 11 but i remember it scared me shitless.
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[The Artist]

That reminds me of this I went to see a couple of years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_Black

Performed by about 2 or 3 actors if I remember correctly in a theatre that is very old and hold about 400 people.

It was genuinely the scariest thing I had seen at that time. Because I was there and saw stuff happening.
I recommend it though.

EDIT: Found a trailer for it here

https://www.thewomaninblack.com/trailer/

[Tarmacsurfer]

Never been "scared" by a film as such but the scene in Pet Cemetery where the hamstrings are slashed left me feeling somewhat edgy. A personal fear manifested on screen does that to a man

The book? Well, that would have to be "Slugs" by Shaun Hutson. Again, I don't tend to get affected but after being forced to walk nearly a mile in my wellies to the school bus with my mum refusing to listen to my 5 year old tantrum and let me take said wellies off to remove the three or four slugs that were in there I've always been a little lary of the slimy filth (OK, I lie. Phobic is probably a better word, complete with frothing, rolling eyes and rapid exit).

For the record Mr.Hutson is actually a bloody good laugh, we used to drink in some of the same pubs on occasion. Nice bloke.
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[tribal_tiger]

I've just got Poltergeist though on Blu-Ray. There's something not right about that whole series of films. Not sure what it is, but there is something just wrong. It may be something to do with all the bad stuff that happend to a lot of the cast and crew.

IT is a classic. I prefer the book to the TV mini series thing. My wife's fear of clowns is all down to her babysitter letting her watch it when she was about 5!

Have you seen they are remaking it into a proper film! I've got the TV version on DVD, but I can't wait to see what they do to it this time, as I seem to remember the Tim Curry one did stray from the book a fair bit.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Apart from enjoying most of the classics (Rats, Lair, Fog, Carrie) I was a big fan of the Pan Book of Horror Stories series :-

https://www.panbookofhorrorstories.co.uk/
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[Luke_Retrofly]

I watched IT when I was very young, bad idea, and I've Arachnophobia

Could only watch the first 10 minutes of that film too.

[tribal_tiger]

The other film that really makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and leave me shaking in a cold sweat.

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[karoshi]

The Black Hole

saw this at the age of 8, the zombies behind the mirror masks were bad but i had nightmares for years about Maximillian.. the red hovering robot.. in particular the bit where he used the massive rotating blades on his arms to cut through the book into the guy's stomach
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[pa_broon74]

That Excorcist III link? Horrible.

The Salem's Lot clip was also scary but was quite hammy too.

Just revisited The Devil's Rain and it looks very hammy now too. That said, if you show it to an 8 year old, the results are still going to be messy. Melting moaning monks and Ernest Borgnine looking a lot less friendly than he did in Air Wolf...

I'm still trying to find the bit where they're trying to escape the town in the car and a mad eyeless monk appears in the rear view mirror...


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