I've seen a lot of horror movies over the years and i don't find them scary but I'm a fan of the genre.
The only one that has ever scared me is The Entity (1982),the funny thing about it is you don't even see anything,the music gave me the chills and it's the only movie i don't like watching alone.
What's yours?
The scariest movie I've ever seen was probably Mulholland Drive /2001/, but it's not a horror (maybe this is why it surprised me...)
I like gory, "monster" (aliens, zombies etc.) movies, and they don't scare me (even the ones like Martyrs /2008/), but I'm afraid of supernatural stories. Even though I know ghosts don't exist, but I get paranoid after I watch them, and start to see things in the dark. :D
So I tend to avoid those, but I think the worst I've seen was The VVitch: A New-England Folktale /2015/.
The Sixth Sense (1999) also scared me, but I was like 14 when I watched it.
The only one that has ever really given me the creeps is The Ring.
shareI love horror movies and watch as many as I can. I even love low budget found footage movies. The only thing that I can think of that has ever scared me was the video for Thriller. I think I was about 5 when it came out and there was a light that hung in our basement that looked like a creepy zombie eye when you turned it off. It used to really give me the creeps. For years I always ran up the stairs.
Maybe I was just afraid of the basement and not the video.
Alien (1979) - Saw it in theaters when I was a teen and it gave me nightmares for days.
Audition (1999) A movie that Rob Zombie says is the most unsettling and creepy thing he's ever seen.
Saw (2004) Very uncomfortable to watch and the ending blew me away.
There are many others of course but these are my top three.
The last scene in "The Thing".
Who is the alien? Who is real? I want your input.
"Where were you, Childs?"
https://youtu.be/GA4Ozqt7338
"Beaches" (1988).
Horrifying.
You'll always be the wind beneath my winds buckswope
shareLMAO I tried to watch it for the first time the other night and could not get through it. Barbara Hershey cannot act. She is as dull as a paper bag.
shareYeah? I don’t remember her being so bad but since there is zero chance of me revisiting this schmaltz-fest I’ll have to take your word for it!
She was wonderful in Lantana, though that was a far better film than Beaches.
alien was a film i remember absolutely terrifying me as a kid. my first watch was pretty much the perfect setting: i would have been about 12, and i was watching a midnight showing on a friday with everyone in the house asleep. when that thing burst out of john hurts' chest, i absolutely freaked the hell out.
(rec) is the only film i think genuinely gave me a jolt as an adult. it's ending was genuinely frightening.
I know most people would balk at this answer but the original The Woman in Black (1989) really gives me the shivers. When Mr Kidd is in the graveyard he feels the hair on the back of his neck stand up and he spins around and she’s starring at him with a hating glare. That’s the kind of thing that spooks the hell out of me. The atmosphere in this movie just keeps me uncomfortable the entire time.
There are others but this is the first film that comes to mind.