Actually scary horror films?

[Nekobe140]

I'm generally scared by paranormal stuff, like ghosts, demons, vampires, things that can't really be explained. Friend and I have been trying to find films that actually scare us, and generally we just come across movies we end up turning off a little bit past halfway through.

[Deleted]

Threads. Post-apocalypse movie from 1984. Not paranormal but it's really really disturbing.

[Deleted]

I found Insidious pretty creepy and the first silent hill. Case 39 is pretty mild but good anyway.

[Direpenguin]

I liked The Fourth Kind and The Orphanage...

[Colmadero]

The Babadook was legitimately scary and didn't rely on scare jumps to set the actual mood.

[Mistame]

You won't find it in anything recent. Modern horror is weak.

[guggsen]

I liked The Fourth Kind and The Orphanage...

You beat me to it, I was gonna suggest The Orphanage as well. I've only seen it in Spanish (at school), but it was really good, and pretty scary.

[justandulas]

The Babadook. John Carpenter's "The Thing". The Descent. The original Nightmare On Elm Street. Alien. Let the Right one In. Poltergeist. V/H/S. REC. The first season or two uncensored of HBO's "Tales from the Crypt"

If you need more, PM me

[Shoulda]

I cannot watch any of the Saw like movies. Not because they scare me, but because they make me physically ill(torture porn basically).

And scary(paranormal) movies do not really scare me, beside the shock inducing sound effects, and sudden stuff on the screen, etc...

But of the few scary films I have seen lately, the "Insidious" series is pretty good. My friends/wife thought they were pretty scary.

I hate them I can't help but get emotionally influenced by the sound.

Stupid jumpscares.

Room 1408 was mean :>
IT is nasty too.

[Strangebrew]

Depends, do you want fucked up stuff, or just creepy generic horror stuff?

You want fucked up?
Go watch cannibal holocaust.

While not a horror movie, but a documentary.
Nothing have made me felt more uneasy than The act of killing did.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/

[2hot4you]

I am only saying this to encourage you NOT to watch it: The Poughkeepsie Tapes.
I don't know you, but I am serious when I say don't watch it.

[unbound]

A few suggestions:

Let The Right One In - 2008

Alien - 1979

The Shining - 1980

[Deleted]

I find psychological horror the most "scary"; things that aren't supposed to be possible being possible. This might include ghosts and stuff like that as well, because the paranormal isn't real. Humans acting in inhuman ways can also be very scary, because that's not how people are supposed to act. I tend to stay away from some of these, and can't even necessarily finish watching some of them, which is stupid, because once you watch a scary movie, it stops being scary.

Monster horror can be a good second, although it doesn't rise to the same level for me. I used to be intensely afraid of the xenomorphs from Alien, but now they're like the coolest thing ever.

The least scary, I suppose, is gore, such as Saw. It's just gore. Nothing scary about that. Disgusting, revolting, but not really scary. Of course, gore can be, and often is mixed in with monster horror and even psychological horror.

As for methods, tension building, leading to jump scares or revelations is just the best thing. Jump scares can be ruined easily, but that doesn't mean they're not amazing if done well.

[Sticky]

Audition. /10char

[Independent voter]

Did someone say the original Aliens yet?

[orca2425]

the orig poltetgiest and the orig exorcise..freak i will not even buy those movies im soo scared of them

[zealo]

Look into psychological horror films more so than slashers and monster flicks, its a subgenre of its own with absolutely fantastic ones such as the shining from 1980.

[nextormento]

I don't think I've been genuinely scared by movies in a long while. Creeped out, disgusted, nervous, shocked... perhaps, but not scared. In no particular order, I'd recommend REC, Mama, The orphan, Ōdishon. Or look into the classics.

[Kujako]

Jacob's Ladder?

[Deleted]

Did someone say the original Aliens yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsD6AL3HJtM

You say Aliens and link to a video of Alien. Tsk tsk.