Least scary horror movies

[Scarim Coral]

While I don't think the film Sunshine count as a horror movie but that part of the film was just silly-

Spoiler

Seriously? The main threat to the crew was just a super sunburnt guy??? I read that the orginal threat was something else but due to budget retrait we got that instead.

 

[Dfskelleton]

The Blair Witch Project, and likewise, Paranormal Activity.

I'll use someone else's words from page 1:
"It's the most realistic ghost movie ever, because nothing happens for 90 minutes."

 

[Haagrum]

Alien. Yep, I went there. There is "aged poorly" and "outclassed by basically any half-decent horror film made in the last ten years", and Alien fit squarely into the latter for me. The atmosphere was extremely spotty and the scares weren't anything special. The only thing it did well was dodging some of the worse horror movie cliches. I chalk it up as one of those "you had to watch it when it came out" movies, as it's pretty bad by today's standards.

Okay, I'll bite.

Spoiler: Is there anyone here that does not know the premise of the Alien movies? Anyone at all? I'm guessing not, but to be on the safe side...

Maybe it wasn't your cup of tea and didn't make you jump. If that's the case, fine. However, Alien built the house that a lot of the genre lives in. It's pretty much the standard bearer of sci-fi horror for the "Seinfeld isn't funny" phenomenon (link).

Sure, it's not as gornish as a lot of modern horror. IMHO, a lot of modern "horror" is a terrible excuse for torture porn. There's some good stuff (The Descent was brilliant), but the tendency is to equate bizarre, spectacular and horrible killings with "good" horror. Alien, though, relies on suspense rather than effects and splatter shots because it's over 30 years old. The killer is barely seen until the end of the film. Its capabilities are unknown. It can't be negotiated with or understood, and it sure as hell can't be faced down without weapons. Worse, it's smart.The most exposition about it that the audience gets is from Ash. What's scarier - the monster you know, the one you don't, or the one you thought you did? Especially after you learn that Ash, and therefore the Company, knew all about the damn thing, probably before the crew even set off on their mission.

I'm not sure what qualifies as scary for you. However, I would bet that if you'd walked into that movie theatre in 1979 not knowing what was coming, you'd have gotten a few good scares out of Alien.

 

[Dags90]

hmmm... gonna have to go with "Chernobyl Diaries" least scary legitimate horror movie ever.

It had potential, too. It could've at least been like The Hills Have Eyes, but nope. The characters weren't awful, but the kills just weren't scary.

I'd go with The Craft. I was like, 5 or 6 when I saw it and I still didn't find it scary.

 

[cojo965]

I am amazed noone has mentioned Dark Floors yet. That movie is so unscary that there is no reason to watch it. Well there is one, a big one. Look at this trailer and see if you can spot it.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

I think the opposite is much rarer. So few horror films are actually scary in any way. Jumpy and gory =/= scary. Jumpy just means it surprises you a lot, like a jack-in-the-box or some shit and most gorntastic films are so over the top that they're no longer disturbing.

To be fair, I don't think most are aiming for "scary" per se, but you get a lot that are, like Paranormal Activity or whatever and even they usually fail. I dunno what gives.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Well that smiley movie is going to be a contender for a while but for now id say the saw movies. Its an original complaint but I'm just not one of those people scared by gore and get turned off by it