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I love horror but apparently I don't vibe with a lot of recommendations I find online.

I'd seen so much hype about Event Horizon and I absolutely hated it and didn't find it scary. I just watched Late Night With the Devil and whole it was definitely enjoyable, it wasn't the least but frightening. I also just watched Let the Right One In and really didn't like it. It also was not a horror movie in my opinion.

I will say one of my favorites is Sinister or the first Conjuring. Sinister for the stomach twisting dread and suspence throughout and Conjuring for the same.

So, what movies do you find to be the scariest?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Not a horror film per se, but definitely leaning that way:

The original 'ALIEN'.

The building of tension throughout the entire movie is brilliant.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Alien is definitely a horror film. In fact it was originally marketed as such

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I know it scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it.

I was 15 and my family rented it. So I didn't get to see it in its full theater screen glory. Just a 25" console TV from a well worn VHS cassette where the top 25% of the screen was wavy.

And yes, I'm old.

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