Scariest TV shows or films you’ve ever seen

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Agree on Scottish Widows. She always looked a bit too smug, didn't she. It's that billowing black cloak and knowing half smile to camera at the end. You too can get a massive life insurance payout if your husband suddenly, tragically, inexplicably dies while walking on this very high up, isolated Scottish cliffside! Free red lipstick and dotty hat veil with every purchase. Hmmm.
Maybe she is like a female grim reaper with out the scythe.

The Glam reaper.
 
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A more recent one I’ve watched is Host on Shudder. It’s not very long but was genuinely the first film to really scare me in a long time. The Last Broadcast, and Session 9 terrified me too.
I watched Host recently and it is the first film for years that properly made me scream and jump at the end
 
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I've also watch a lot of horror. It's my favourite genre and as such I don't really find them scary but occasionally one does leave you feeling very uncomfortable. One of those films for me was 'Sinister'. Really unnerving and creepy. I started watching it one night and switched it off because I felt unnerved but was strangely drawn back to it the next day to finish it. I've never watched it again and never watched the sequels.

As a teenager 'Salem's Lot' was my scariest TV. I made sure all the windows were shut for months afterwards 😂
Me too! The friend floating at the window, tapping to let him in stuck with me for over 10 years. Nowadays I sleep under my window with the blinds open!
 
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Michael Jackson video for "Ghosts"

Fire Walk With Me

Pan's Labyrinth

Can't remember the name of the film, but it was set on a cruise ship and most people onboard got murdered at the beginning in a gruesome way. The survivors spent the rest of the film trying to defeat/escape the killers. Edit: just remember it was called Ghost Ship.

There was another film where people were held captive and were murdered by some demon-like creatures in gruesome ways.

Open Water - it's a true story, and made me never want to go scuba diving or swim in the sea
 
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Can't remember the name of the film, but it was set on a cruise ship and most people onboard got murdered at the beginning in a gruesome way. The survivors spent the rest of the film trying to defeat/escape the killers. Edit: just remember it was called Ghost Ship.
I forgot about that! I saw that at the cinema. Don’t know if it was the same film but was it the one where this sharp wire or something went through the ship and decapitated most of the guests?
 
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Arachnophobia - Huge fear of spiders and seeing the house covered at the end in spiders filled me with complete anxiety I was near sick.

The McPherson tapes - alien abduction. Scared the shite out of me!
 
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Michael Jackson video for "Ghosts"

Fire Walk With Me

Pan's Labyrinth

Can't remember the name of the film, but it was set on a cruise ship and most people onboard got murdered at the beginning in a gruesome way. The survivors spent the rest of the film trying to defeat/escape the killers. Edit: just remember it was called Ghost Ship.

There was another film where people were held captive and were murdered by some demon-like creatures in gruesome ways.

Open Water - it's a true story, and made me never want to go scuba diving or swim in the sea
omg open water was terrifying and it is something that apparently happens quite often :eek: There is another similar type of film I cannot remember the name of, where a group of friends hire a boat and go out to sea, it somehow ends up that by accident they all end up in the water and no one has pulled down the ladder so they cannot get back up to the boat, anyone else seen it?
The scariest film I have seen (didn't even get though it all) is Funny Games, it is the remake of an Austrian film which is apparently even scarier, it is just my absolute nightmare and why I don't understand why people like to be in remote places
 
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I forgot about that! I saw that at the cinema. Don’t know if it was the same film but was it the one where this sharp wire or something went through the ship and decapitated most of the guests?
Yes that's the one

omg open water was terrifying and it is something that apparently happens quite often :eek: There is another similar type of film I cannot remember the name of, where a group of friends hire a boat and go out to sea, it somehow ends up that by accident they all end up in the water and no one has pulled down the ladder so they cannot get back up to the boat, anyone else seen it?
The scariest film I have seen (didn't even get though it all) is Funny Games, it is the remake of an Austrian film which is apparently even scarier, it is just my absolute nightmare and why I don't understand why people like to be in remote places
Yes, I think that's called Adrift. They all jumped in the sea, and the baby was left on her own on the boat.

I've heard of Funny Games but I never watched it , don't like it when dogs are killed! I never watched Eden Lake for the same reason.
 
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Yes that's the one



Yes, I think that's called Adrift. They all jumped in the sea, and the baby was left on her own on the boat.

I've heard of Funny Games but I never watched it , don't like it when dogs are killed! I never watched Eden Lake for the same reason.
yes when the baby started crying it was just heartbreaking :(
 
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Return to Oz I remember watching it with my sister at my grandparents, even now thinking of The Wheelers makes me shudder and it’s been 20+ years.
 
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Return to Oz I remember watching it with my sister at my grandparents, even now thinking of The Wheelers makes me shudder and it’s been 20+ years.
I love Return to Oz! One of my favourite childhood films, but it is creepy with those wheelers and the witch with all the different heads. Certainly wasn’t anything like Wizard of Oz 😄
 
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I love Return to Oz! One of my favourite childhood films, but it is creepy with those wheelers and the witch with all the different heads. Certainly wasn’t anything like Wizard of Oz 😄
I know I think my grandma thought it would be a nice little family film to pass a couple of hours 😳😂.
 
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Can't remember the name of the film, but it was set on a cruise ship and most people onboard got murdered at the beginning in a gruesome way. The survivors spent the rest of the film trying to defeat/escape the killers. Edit: just remember it was called Ghost Ship.
I enjoyed Ghost Ship.

I saw on Amazon there is a film called Death Ship from 1980. The posters for both films are very similar. I may give Death ship a watch at some stage.
 
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The Others always sticks with me. Super creepy and atmospheric, genuinely think it’s one of the best supernatural horrors I’ve ever seen.

I would highly recommend the tv show of The Exorcist. Unfortunately it got cancelled after two series but it was genuinely creepy and really good. Still gutted that it didn’t get a third series.

The woman in black -I think is a 12 but it scared the tit out of me 😂 I’d seen the play which is also terrifying.
there was a show a few years ago (I think Whitechapel but it might not have been) where a couple are lying in bed and the killer comes through the ceiling?! That was awful too
woman in black in the west end stayed with me for the years. For some reason the empty rocking chair just freaks me out 😂
 
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The Others always sticks with me. Super creepy and atmospheric, genuinely think it’s one of the best supernatural horrors I’ve ever seen.

I would highly recommend the tv show of The Exorcist. Unfortunately it got cancelled after two series but it was genuinely creepy and really good. Still gutted that it didn’t get a third series.



woman in black in the west end stayed with me for the years. For some reason the empty rocking chair just freaks me out 😂
Oh my god yes I get flashbacks of the rocking chair manically rocking honestly was awful!

ghost stories too (not sure what the film is like)
 
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The Ring is on BBC1 tonight after Eurovision at 1205am.

I always prefer ghost stories like The Others or The Woman In Black to an all out gore fest. I've never watched the Saw films for that reason. They don't appeal. Films that let your imagination do the work are the best.

I've just remembered The Changeling with George C Scott was brilliant at that.
 
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The Ring is on BBC1 tonight after Eurovision at 1205am.

I always prefer ghost stories like The Others or The Woman In Black to an all out gore fest. I've never watched the Saw films for that reason. They don't appeal. Films that let your imagination do the work are the best.

I've just remembered The Changeling with George C Scott was brilliant at that.
I went to see that when it came out and I was so scared I stretched my favourite jumper putting it over my head..not sure why I didn't just shut my eyes tbh.

I remember watching Ghostwatch with my wee sister in my room and being terrified! Just rewatched Twin Peaks, Bob is so scary and some of The Return terrified me too.
 
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The Ring is on BBC1 tonight after Eurovision at 1205am.

I always prefer ghost stories like The Others or The Woman In Black to an all out gore fest. I've never watched the Saw films for that reason. They don't appeal. Films that let your imagination do the work are the best.

I've just remembered The Changeling with George C Scott was brilliant at that.
im exactly the same. Torture porn movies don’t interest me in the slightest. I love a good supernatural horror.
Anyone else looking forward to the new Conjuring film?? I can’t wait
 
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