what is the most horrific film you have ever seen?

[Honza]

What spider/stair scene from the Exorcist? I have not heard of that.

[Honza]

The Thing - by John Carpenter is a very creepy film.

[Honza]

I've heard about the Saw films but never seen one.

What about the Human Centipede anybody? I have not seen it.

[Arcturus]

"the audition"
avoid! really...i wish i hadn't

[Sarian]

Hostel. I've seen a few of the Saw films (why I have no idea)...I like good suspenseful scary movies, but these gore films are disturbing. Hostel made me sick. I was more alarmed because I know stuff like this does go on. People watch these films and get scared and appalled, but think it's only in the movies, but there is so much horror out there that goes under the radar. Anyway, Hostel was about kidnapping people to use for sport. Say you have a fantasy of torturing and dismembering someone...if you've got the cash, that place had the victim. Extremely disturbing.

[Internal Queries]

i guess "Hostel" and "Devil's Rejects" were the most irredeemable movies i've ever attempted to watch.

For me...

Dreamcatcher was pretty gross. I really don't like Horror movies but I have enjoyed some like the Alien movies with Sigourney Weaver.

Originally Posted by Honza

I've heard about the Saw films but never seen one.

What about the Human Centipede anybody? I have not seen it.

The Saw films are gratuitous violence about how to kill people in the most imaginative ways possible.

The Human Centipede tells the story of a mad scientist who stitches people together.I haven't actually seen it and I'm pretty sure I don't want to.

The Thing by John Carpenter is a film I regard as a classic,even though the special effects can look a little clunky when compared with modern CGI.I really want to see the 2011 prequel

o, i forgot about Freddy Kruger, Nightmare on Elm Street. talk about nightmares after that. geez did i ever have em.

Originally Posted by Honza

What spider/stair scene from the Exorcist? I have not heard of that.

The girl quickly comes down the stairs on all fours, but her body is facing the ceiling...quite creepy.

Regarding Sarian's comments about Hostel.
I find scanrios that could be true to be more disturbing than fictional horror and gore.
Hostel disturbed me far more than Starship Troopers.
In fact, i cannot recall being disturbed by any of the images in ST as it was pure fantasy, where as Hostel could actually happen.
It triggered different parts of the brain, being closer to reality.

But if you are freaked out by bugs, giant bugs being more powerful than humans, ST would be freaky.
ST was too comical in atmosphere to creep me out.
It all depends on what's inside a person that determines what freaks oneself out.

Apart from cringing at how painful it must be of a few scenes from Dreamcatcher, i enjoyed the story and visuals.

Devil's Rejects - another one of my son's picks. Only because Rob Zombie wrote and directed it.
Was not disturbed by it due to lack of atmosphere.

Oh, because i have only watched it once, that's why i did not recall it before.
And have no immediate intentions to watch it again.

Wolf Creek.
An aussie serial killer movie.
Now that creeped me out, most likely because it was all the more realistic because it was in Oz.
And the guy playing the killer....so creepy in an aussie style.
I rate his performance in the top ten of serial killer categories.
And of course, the atmosphere was well done.