Mine are (in no particular order):
The Exorcist
The Shining
Amityville Horror II the Possession
Village of the Damned
The Poltergeist (the original one from 1980).
Agreed on Amityville II, There's just something about that even to this day that gives me the shits. Everything about it is just doom and gloom. Still a great film though.
Threads (1984) Certainly of its time and of its place, Growing up near many primary targets hear in the U.K no film has come close to the terrors this has given me over the years.
Yes, Amityville II terrifies me!!!
shareYeah Amityville II is pure evil. One of few movies I can think of that palpably emanates what feel like genuine pure evil energy.
shareI still have night terrors about Threads!
shareYup, Exorcist, Shining...
The Ring
The Blair Witch Project - the hype around it was disturbing when it came out.
Hands down the scariest thing I ever watched, that haunted me for years, was an episode of Night Gallery called “The Doll”.
What was The Doll about?
Saw the Exorcist many years after it'd been released so I was past the hype and it didn't scare me. Similar with The Shining, which I've still never seen all the way through because I get bored.
Haven't see The Ring, but have to admit The Blair Witch Project was effectively scary. The original The Haunting scared the pants off of me and The Silence of the Lambs, YIKES.
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alien
the exorcist
eyes of my mother
zodiac
The Shining 1980
The Exorcist 1973
The Descent 2005
Audition 1999
Silence of the Lambs 1991
Session 9 2001
Sinister 2012
i can go along with most of that list. i didn't find it follows scary, though. it's tense, well made, but it never quite edged over into disturbing/scary territory for me. i've been thinking of giving it a re-watch. maybe tonight.
the old film scenes in sinister were genuinely disturbing, i thought.
Descent was so claustrophobic for me. I went through a cave experience in New Mexico once and I was pretty scared, and not funny scared, really scared. Something about It Follows really bugged me. I've been hesitant to watch it again, it was unnerving.
shareSession 9 is fantastic. Gets better with more viewings. Difficult to find though.
shareAlien
The Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Thing (1982)
Jaws
I'm probably partial to movies from the 70s and 80s, but I was a kid then. Those movies that scare you as a kid really have a way of staying with you.
The horror movies from the 70s and 80s were the best; they can't be beat!!!
shareTrue. It was a great time to grow up as a horror fan. And other ways, as well.
shareThe horror movies nowadays just don't measure up. The closest ones are the Conjuring franchise....
shareYeah, Blumhouse is probably the best thing going in horror right now. They've consistently made good movies, but not sure any that I'd call great. Nothing on the level of The Thing or Alien.
shareTexas Chainsaw Massacre terrified me!
shareI can't say that a movie has ever scared me, but movies have creeped me out.
The Exorcist
Blair With Project (not because of the witch, it was the unknown that make it creepy. I find it just as creepy thinking that it was just people messing with them)
Funny Games
The Descent
The Vanishing (original)
Creep