Film Frights...

[Brendan]

Can't be as bad as the emotional trauma rendered onto our generation by Watership Down

[ClareC]

OMG how can a cartoon be so scary and sad! I had forgotten about Watership Down!

[giggirl]

And what about when Bambi's mother got shot by the hunter? I've been emotionally scarred since I saw that.

[Annasfield]

Agreed Mockney - LOTR would have petrified me as a child.

[Keef]

Around the same time as Fellowship of the ring, the first Harry Potter film came out, and a couple of scenes in that also scared lots of kids, particularly when the teacher takes of his turban to reveal head number 2 round the back!

[spirifer]

Oh my goodness - that film scared the Bejesus out of me as a young teenager.

More recently, An American Haunting had me really creeped out - it was so scary without being particularly explicit.

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[SeanMacGabhann]

The Descent is showing on Film4 at the mo - I thought that was a pretty good frightner for a recent film

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Don't distract D_C, Sean, he'll be agog at the showjumping at the moment.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I meant "at the mo" as in the current month it's on rotation - not, y'know... right now. My mistake - soz!

As you were DC!

[bon3yard]

There are terrifying moments in all Lynch Films(Apart from The Straight Story of course), but theres a scene in Wild at Heart where Nick Cage(Sailor) and Laura Dern pull over to inspect a car crash site in the middle of the night, only to find all dead but one woman who appears to have reverted to childhood and is wandering around aimlessly sticking her finger into the huge hole in the side of her head. Its truly heartbreaking and poignant....oh, and that bit Where Willem Dafoes sleazy character inadvertently blows his brain about 20 feet in the air.

[Jimbob]

for the utimate film fright/nightmare watch the final scene of the original dutch version of the vanishing.

[jumpinjackflash]

Love horror films! That 'thing' from Salem's Lot gave me the shivers as did the scene in The Ring when the girl crawls out of the TV. Like Keef, the old man in Poltergeist 2 terrified me. The devil's face that flashed up briefly in The Exorcist and in Hostel when the guy gets his Achilles heels cut - that's not scary though, just disgusting.