Eighteen Film Buffs Talk About The Scariest Movies They’ve Ever Seen
Even film critics watch these movies with the lights on.
The Blair Witch Project
Glenn Dunks, Junkee
People seem to have come back around to The Blair Witch Project. Where once admitting that the infamous is-it-real-or-isn’t-it found footage flick was the scariest movie I’d ever seen would almost always elicit stifled laughs or outright derision, nowadays even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the organisation behind the Oscars, has admitted its power.
All I know is that I’ve never been as frightened watching a film as during the climactic scene with the bloody child handprints, the distant screams of a frenzied woman and a man standing chillingly, solemnly alone in the basement corner of a dilapidated shack in the woods. Real or not, the paralysing terror that goes up my spine is undeniable every single time.