It's old hat now but the movie that scared me the most is Ring - the Japanese one. The atmosphere is constantly threatening, the visuals are scary but not in an easily comprehensible way, like something primal but unknowably wrong. I feel like very few movies can do what it did.
Oh actually, I watched Hereditary recently and I think maybe it's scarier, but it's hard to judge because I'm like 15 years older than when I saw Ring.
I think if I'd first seen it at the same time as Ring, I would have been more scared by Hereditary.
It's old hat now but the movie that scared me the most is Ring - the Japanese one. The atmosphere is constantly threatening, the visuals are scary but not in an easily comprehensible way, like something primal but unknowably wrong. I feel like very few movies can do what it did.
Oh actually, I watched Hereditary recently and I think maybe it's scarier, but it's hard to judge because I'm like 15 years older than when I saw Ring.
I think if I'd first seen it at the same time as Ring, I would have been more scared by Hereditary.