Alex, I think I love you.
Now, right on to my scariest moments in film:
1.
The Sixth Sense -- pretty much most of the film had me wanting to look away while wanting to look while being terrified and extremely curious at the same time. I think I jumped out of my seat the most (and still do) when that boy ghost turns around and he's missing half his head.
2.
Alien -- I was terrified of watching this film for so long -- I ended up watching it about three years ago, so I would have been 24. I didn't really even know anything about it, I'd just heard it was scary, and built it way up in my head. This is now one of my favourite films ever.
3.
Robocop -- this borders on the gruesome edge of scariness, but the scene where Alex Murphy is killed by the gang just about did me in. It absolutely terrifies me to comprehend that people could be that evil, and when it comes down to it, I know that they can. That's what scared me the most -- not necessarily that scene, but what I was forced to confront in my own mind. I wanted to stop watching the film right then. They went so far with that scene that I didn't think they could redeem themselves, but I stuck with it and watched the rest, and it's now up in my favourite film list too. If they hadn't gone so far with that scene, the rest of the film wouldn't have had the effect that it did. (Also, this was another film I didn't see until recently -- I think I watched it at the start of the year.)
4.
The Boys -- an Australian film starring David Wenham and Toni Collette, scary for the same human psyche/confrontational reasons as
Robocop, except this isn't a futuristic fiction about a robot, but based on a true story of a violent psychopath who's just been released from prison.