What's your favourite scary movie?

I do love Hocus Pocus but i dont see that as 'scary; as such.

I thougth Saw 1 (none of the other s) was pretty scary in a graphic mind f*ck kind of way!!

Darkness Falls. It creeps the hell of me because of the noises.

I can't watch Event Horizon anymore either. First time didn't bother me but got scarier each time I watched it.

I used to LOVE scary movies before I had children but now I can barely watch them.

Oh, definitely not 'scary' just a nostalgia thing. The People Under the Stairs is another one, it's funny to watch now but when I was younger it was the scariest film ever!

Favourite kids one has to be Hocus Pocus. I do love the Craft though.

H makes me watch scary films all the time but I wouldn't say I ever really enjoy them!

The Grudge gave me insomnia for three nights after seeing in in the cinema it scared me so much. Not helped by H doing 'the grudge noise' in my ear when I eventually got to sleep.

I like the Shining. Misery is also ace.

I love all of the Nightmare on elm street films, along with all of the Saw films too.

I also like the childs play films, apart from Seed of chucky. That was just sh!t.

My Dad used to let me watch nightmare on elm street when I was a kid.

Misery is one of my favourite thriller/fright films. Anything by The King is fantastic, Carrie especially. Ths Shining was on last night and I am saving it for another rainy day. Lost Boys...I couldn't actually choose a favourite, there's a few ?

When i was younger me and my friends used to watch 'what lies beneath' everytime we went to each others houses. We pooed our pants everytime. I watched it recently and it is the least scary film ever.

I don't really have a favourite anymore, none of them are scary any more :-(

I love the Saw films, although never got brave enough to watch the final one. I used to watch scary movies all of the time when I was younger but I seem to get softer in my old age. Having said that, I love Stephen King books.

Quite a lot of his books I have found to be pants but the film adaptations seem so much better.

I watched the original Halloween when I was 12 and it scared the crap out of me. Silent hill freaked me out as an adult but looking forward to the sequel coming out this week

In my youngers days I love Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic.

In my late teens loved the Poltergeist films.

I went to the cinema actually on Halloween to see The Grudge, people were properly screaming in terror and even H had his hands to his face!

I prefer the paranormal exorcism stuff rather than gory scary films, loved the Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Devil Inside her. Stuff like that is more my up of tea.

Oooo forgot this one!

I love Hocus Pocus.

I also like watching "The Others" which H hates.

I love The Others. It's one I don't own actually, I must get it, I have to own it.

Films that scare me tend to be "creepy" rather than visually "gory".

Creepy things that make shiver and/or have kept me awake:

Samara climbing out of the TV in The Ring (or up the well in the second one - not sure why I have her as my avatar!), the noise that Kayako makes in The Grudge, those things dangling from the trees in the Blair Witch Project, the young boy's laughter ringing around the house in Pet Semetary, the sound of schoolgirls singing the rhyme "1, 2, Freddie's after you" in one of the Nightmare... films, the snuffling of the Ringwraiths in LOTR. You get the idea.

Unpopular opinion: I simply don't understand why The Shining is routinely named as the best horror film of all time. Don't get me wrong, it's a great film, but I don't see it as a horror film. Same for Carrie and Misery.

I wouldn't class them as horror films. I do think they're scary though.

I would imagine that Darkness Falls would work for you then because you ahve described the exact things that creep me out, all in the sound and the imagiantion.

There is an Asia Extreme movie which was in the same vein as the The Ring etc but can not remember for the life of me the name of it. It featured a single mum and daughter living in a block of flats. It had no music soudn track to speak of and tbh hardly any soudn at all.

The saw fims, human centipede 1&2 and the sickest of all A Serbian film.

I haven't seen Human Centipede yet, I have been told it's pretty 'bad'

It's completely sh1t.

Very graphic but rubbish film. IMO!

Nope but yes The Ring was based on an original film which is better I personally think, but there are bloomin loads of them, as they are so good a lot of them get copied and changed into 'Americanised' versions (more gore and more noise) I'm goign to ahev to google now as it is going to bug me otherwise...

Found it! 'Dark Water' 2002 version not the American one!

Seen it (or, at least, a version of it). The one I saw had Jennifer Connelly in it - is that a remake?

That's the remake. The original is much better I think. Have you seen Darkness Falls?

I was a bit let down by the first one but the second is certainly more graphic, I just find the whole concept pretty sick.

Not scary but Hocus Pocus too! I thought be the only one. I hate scary films full stop. I've seen a few creepy ones but I didn't enjoy them. I like final Destination and I find the whole fate thing creepier than just a scary film. Hocus Pocus is my Halloween film though, I shall be watching tonight!

I saw Jeepers Creepers at the cinema and watched it with my eyes closed so the noises made it worse. I watched it again years later and it's not that bad. In fact quite funny! Human centipede is THE creepiest film. The whole concept is just sick, although I saw a image of someone having it as their Halloween costume!

Howver, for me scariest film is The Hostel. I watched-well was made to watch it by OH and at the end just thought well that's 90 minutes of my life I can never get back!

Deffo the shining, also like the exorcism of emilly rose. we went to watch sinister in the cinema last week I had my eyes closed for most of it. Theres a human centipied 3 coming out next year I think

I can't stand gory horror films, other than the original Saw which I thought was very clever. Like Footlong, I much prefer creepy films to gory films, I'm extremely squeamish and things like the Human Centipede are just sick.

The ending of the original Ring where she crawls out of the TV is one of the freakiest things I've ever seen.

Oh I remember jumping lots whilst watching Shrooms at the cinema.