Are Horror Films Actually Scary?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Pete

The original version of THE EYE is pretty scary.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. That scene in the elevator is incredibly creepy and it's one that has you gripping onto something nearby!

[nekromantik]

No horror movie apart from Exorcist scared me tbh
So in that sense I dont watch to be scared
Movies tend to creep me out but never scared.

Insidious and Paranormal Activity are the only recent movies to creep me out.

[mr 420]

This really scared me when I was young.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by mr 420

This really scared me when I was young.

**** me!! thats eerie...dont recognise that, era??

[mr 420]

Originally Posted by thehamish

**** me!! thats eerie...dont recognise that, era??

It's from Look and Read, an 1970s educational childrens show from the BBC. It was probably the scariest thing I saw for a good few years when I was a nipper. They don't make kids tv like that anymore, that's for sure!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by mr 420

It's from Look and Read, an 1970s educational childrens show from the BBC. It was probably the scariest thing I saw for a good few years when I was a nipper. They don't make kids tv like that anymore, that's for sure!

A Halloween edition of the kids learning show Words and Pictures once terrified me, i was only about 7 though.
Things like that never leave you , and i'm glad its no longer on tv.

[mr 420]

Originally Posted by Demdike

A Halloween edition of the kids learning show Words and Pictures once terrified me, i was only about 7 though.
Things like that never leave you , and i'm glad its no longer on tv.

But it's on here!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Thank God its not the actual episode.

[Beyond72]

Originally Posted by mr 420

It's from Look and Read, an 1970s educational childrens show from the BBC. It was probably the scariest thing I saw for a good few years when I was a nipper. They don't make kids tv like that anymore, that's for sure!

Damn flash back time! (Thanks)

There used to be a BBC programme where kids/teens would send in their own short films, and to this day I've never forgotten this one film/image, I think it was about kids getting adducted and there was one shot of two kids next to gravestones with ice lollies. (At the time, kids use to be warned to not get into strangers cars even if they offered you sweets!)
The fact it's stuck with me so long, I hope the kid went on to have a career in TV or Film.

[Beyond72]

Those in the UK of a certain age surely must remember Armchair Thriller...

YouTube - ‪Armchair Thriller, Quiet as a Nun‬‏