Horror films that scared you as a grown adult?

[Speed Badger]

I want to be scared! Like really, properly scared like we used to be when we were younger. What are the horror films, past or present that scared you as an adult?

For me, Sinister did the job, but very few others. Some make you jump, but I'm after that uncanny, unsettling freaky feeling of unease.

[Inspire]

Three off the top of my head:

-Event Horizon
-The Babadook
-Hellraiser

Thanks

Rob

[Super Sonic]

Mirrors.
Ex cop (Kieffer Sutherland) gets job as night security guard in a derelict burned out department store. It's foll of mirrors.
He sees a hand print on one of the mirrors and rubs it off.
Next night he sees the words 'help me' in mirror image.
Very creepy and suspenseful. Scary. Doesn't rely on gore or jump scares.

[Simpo Two]

Alien made me jump a few times when I first saw it at Odeon 1 Nottingham...

[Fast and Spurious]

Simpo Two said:

Alien made me jump a few times when I first saw it at Odeon 1 Nottingham...

+1 watching that for the first time aged 18, first proper horror, scared the b'jesus out of me, still gives me the willies now. So well done.

[croyde]

Croydon Odeon, full house to watch Alien.

Film starts with the camera drifting through the quiet space ship.

A book page rustles and the whole audience as one, drew in a sharp breath.

Unfortunately these days people have become more desensitized so it's much harder to properly scare people.

[Doofus]

Horror films invariably scare me witless. F'rinstance: The Woman In Black.

But not Get Out, because that was just ste

[SlimJim16v]

Don't be Afraid of the Dark - 1973 version

[rossub]

Speed Badger said:

I want to be scared! Like really, properly scared like we used to be when we were younger. What are the horror films, past or present that scared you as an adult?

For me, Sinister did the job, but very few others. Some make you jump, but I'm after that uncanny, unsettling freaky feeling of unease.

Soon as I saw the title - Sinister was the one instantly, totally agree.

[blingybongy]

Simpo Two said:

Alien made me jump a few times when I first saw it at Odeon 1 Nottingham...

That's where I saw it.

[David87]

Not a horror film as such, but the scene in Signs where they’re watching the home video of the birthday party is probably the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. Scared the fk out of me as a kid and still does now. I saw it at a cinema in the US and remember the whole audience gasping.

[Lo-Fi]

Doofus said:

Horror films invariably scare me witless. F'rinstance: The Woman In Black.

But not Get Out, because that was just ste

Indeed, Get Out wasn't scary, but the follow up was creepy enough; Us.

Also, The Strangers. That one stayed under my skin for a while.

[renmure]

The Innocents. A 1961 B&W psychological horror film.

Remember seeing it many years ago for the first time and actually being chilled by it. Same effect every time since. I think it’s the fact that there are scary kids in it.

[Actual]

Fall (2022)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15325794/

2 women climb a radio tower to do a social media selfie hanging off the top

Not horror but I just couldn't watch and would have hid behind the sofa.

I thought I watched on Netflix but it is on iPlayer now

[s m]

SlimJim16v said:

Don't be Afraid of the Dark - 1973 version

Yep, the bathroom bit

[Mars]

I don't like slasher/horror films in general because they're usually predictable but some psychologically-horror films are fun. I absolutely LOVE The Mothman Prophecies for the undercurrent of threatening menace. Made me uncomfortable looking at my house windows at night.

[Wheel Turned Out]

I really enjoy Rec (2007). I remember going into it thinking it would be empty garbage, but found it to be genuinely excellent.

The Taking of Deborah Logan is also very good.

[Google [bot]]

The Fourth Kind.

[cuprabob]

The Exorcist (1973)

[Mark_S1000RR_2010]

Jacob’s Ladder.
Used the ‘did I just see that?’ method seen in The Exorcist to properly unsettle you.