Woohoo! Gonna check this out on Sunday, cant wait.

Lets hope an American remake isnt in the pipeline.

For me the movie that left me shaking was The Blair Witch Project. Still think that movie was the scariest Ive ever seen, next to the original Rec of course.

2 films: Signs - yea it has a crap ending/premise but enough good scares (dude caught on video, dude on roof, hand under door, dude in corn) to have me mildly concerned that night... and I'll never go near a cornfield at night.

Also Descent (in particular the video camera scene) was pretty damn freaky... especially when it flashed back into my head the next time I was in a cave.

And on a completely different subject - has anyone seen the cool new Minuit video fo Aotearoa? A friend has told me her pic in in that montage of Kiwi snaps, but I must have blinked and missed it. Here it is - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wKhrEFzLfM - and is that Ant Timpson beind the camera?

The American remake of "The Ring" - I have issues with wells since childhood and that kid climbing out of that hole in the ground freaked me right out.

And of course my life long refusal to sit through The Wizard Of Oz has been documented on blog comments before.

Margaret - if you need someone to step up and watch [REC]2 on your behalf I would be happy to oblige (just send me a ticket to a Christchurch session).

Margaret. I think EVENT HORIZON is a totally underrated horror film. Lots of geeks hate on it because its from Paul Anderson and its fun to bag his films but that flick is a really efficient haunted house in space. It has some hysterically bad scenes explaining time travel but when it ratchets up the scares it really achieves a creepy sense of dread.

The one I was most shaken after was IRREVERSIBLE. I needed to go and drink heavily after seeing that without knowing anything about it at the Toronto Film Festival. I just knew I had to get it down to NZ after that experience.

I know I mentioned it in another thread, and it never actually got a cinema release as it was made for TV, but the 1984 BBC docu drama 'Threads' is the most 'can't shake it out of my head' scary film I have ever seen. For those who have never heard of it it dramatises a nuclear war and its effects on the UK city of Sheffield, and is epically unflinching and bleak in typical BBC style, almost to the point of being actually traumatising to watch.

Martyrs.

Its French. Its extreme. Its amazing. It also left me speechless, and more than a little disturbed. Seriously if you can find it (I imported mine from the UK) watch it. More than Irresversable, more than Requiem for a Dream, more than any film before or since. This film shook me to my core.

Avoid 2012. Worst film of the year (and that includes Tardformers 2)

If you have to go to this - leave the movie when Woody Harrelson's character does. You will feel much better for it.

[REC]2 was a big pile of average. Could not scare the tamest of us.

I for one am sick and tired of these average horror films gracing (well not really 'gracing') our screens. Enough with the gore and torture porn, bring back the old Lovecraft films. I'm not going to hold my breath for Paranormal Activity either, that would be too good to be true.

Looking forward to Legion tho!

Samm #6 - I agree with you about Threads. I remember it came out around the same time as The Day After, and there was a lot of fuss about high school kids (as I was then) seeing TDA, but not much about Threads - as you say, not a cinema release. But Threads has stayed with me a lot longer, seemed more real perhaps - certainly much scarier.