For me I don't know if I can narrow it down...
The Exorcist, The Shining even Jaws.

I don't get scared by movies any more. I get startled occasionally when directors have absolutely no idea what they're doing and end up resorting to tricks like people/animals jumping into the frame from off-screen or something, but that isn't fear inducing so much as cheap and annoying.

Back in the day when I was much younger and movies could still scare me I was probably most scared of movies like:
The original Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the whole idea that even if you got away every fucking person you'd meet would be part of the family and drag you back)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 1

The first two Hellraiser movies.
Jaws
High Tension
Audition (Japanese)
Signs (I have my reasons. But the first reason being that I'm terrified of aliens)
The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen

watched that as a kid. fucking hell shit my ballz.

i were scared.

E.T. scared the shit out of me when I was 3 or 4. Fuck that bastard and his Reese's Pieces.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/

The atmosphere in this is very unsettling, slashers and such never scared me. Like someone said, shit jumping in shot yelling doesnt really count as being scared.

not big into scary movies, but this scene from Fire in the Sky really fucked with my head back when I was like 9.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzSxzYNfkGA&NR=1

Yea. Fire In The Sky pretty much fucked my shit up too! The only reason I didn't include it in my list is because it doesn't get really scary until the last 15 minutes or so. But Jesus Christ! If I we're in that guys position, I'd be freaking the fuck out too!

I don't know why, and I probably never will, but I have a legitimate phobia of aliens.
Maybe I was probed...... By Reznier.
Happy Halloween everybody! Even you Reznier! Be safe and have fun!
I'm also drunk as fuck.... Can you tell?
I love you guys.

If you guys haven't seen High Tension yet you don't know what scary is. I think it's French... I don't know, I watched a dubbed version.

the first installments of the nightmare on elm street, candyman, jaws and halloween series. sequels do not scare me. also the shining, the original night of the living dead and dawn of the dead movies still creep the shit out of me. even the original nosferatu gives me the shivers.

Great post Dixie.

As an adult , Blair Witch Project.
Yeah, I know....

My boss was a Goth and well into Horror movies , told me 'its shit, dont bother'
then told me the whole thing (in her words) from back to front, so trusting her, I wasn't intrigued at all.
Come sunday and my flatmate said we're watching it
AND FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK IT GOT TO ME .
this movies a 50/50 with folks,
I reckon probably better if you saw it at home rather than that movie theatre, think about the medium used, BUT if you are in that 50% of people that that this movie gets to, then you know . It really does. And still does to this day.

When I was a kid the movie that Killed me was Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978)

The Shining is amazing but I hate it now, 'cause anyone with an abusive parent can tell you , thats the same thing. Brilliant tho.

your sig's pretty scary to me tho.

High Tension isn't scary in the slightest, it's your typical slasher film (which i've always thought of as being more thriller than horror) with a bit of a twist to the story. I'll agree with you on Signs though, i saw that in the cinema and absolutely shat myself.

[REC] is pretty terrifying too, i watched that on my tiny little laptop screen, in a fully lit room, in the middle of the day, and by the end i still had my hand over my mouth and straining to stop my pants from filling with brown.

I'm also gonna toss a curveball out there too, i thought The Village was pretty fuckin creepy up until (what i considered) the smart twist.

Damn Dillinger that's uncanny. I was going to list

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Shining
Blair Witch Project

but you beat me to it.

IotBS... Donald Sutherland for his final sqawking creeped me the fuck out as a kid. That and the dog with the human face, WHOA! GTFO!!

The Shining still wigs me out...the old lady in the tub, the twins, the hallways. I still get a little edgy when walking down uniform hallways like in hotels and certain apartments.

And I thought the Blair Witch was a good translation of folk tales in to modern times. No hollywood overproduced shit, just the imagination doing all the dirty work.

I don't remember the name of the movie, as I saw it when I was probably 5 or 6 years old, but the general setup was that there was this family doing regular everyday shit, but this guy was just standing in the shadow of a tree across the street looking at them. I don't have any idea what it was, but I STILL have nightmares based around that scene. Something about it was just so menacing and horrible....guh.

Pretty glad I thought of it right as I'm heading to bed.


Awesome.

Stephen King's IT
sheesh, that movie made me Clown-a-phobic for a really long time

I second Birds. I hate birds.

This bit from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory used to scare me no end when I was a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zail7Gdqro

Biggest nonce in the world?

I've wanted to see that REC for a while , didnt even realise I was watching its US remake in the form of Quarantine recently, they come out so fast.
I saw The Orphanage and the seance bit in that got to me, creeepy. Reminded me of The Others, which was a another creepy film.

Trilogy Of Terror was the first horror movie I remember seeing as a 4 year old kid, and it made a HUGE impression on me. It's a creepy 70's made for TV movie, three stories starring Karen Black. The third one, with the Zuni fetish doll, freaked me the fuck out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU572Zqef80

That was one of my first horror movies, it scared the shit out of me when I was little. For years I wouldn't put my feet on the ground while I was sitting, because I was afraid something would crawl out from under the couch and stab me in the foot.
Also, Hellraiser is one of my favorites, it really messed with my head a lot when I first saw it.
Halloween scared the shit out of me, I still don't trust anyone in a Michael Myers costume.
Oh, and The Grudge, my god that freaked me out. Unfortunately I haven't seen the original.

Ah BigJon, that shit wigged me out as a kid.

I was always uneasy about movies like ET and other such kids movies where adults are unrealistically understanding and kind when I was a kid. Always rang the pedo-bell in my head.

REC is fucking hilarious. I love how they blame the Chinese, when it was the Portuguese Fritzl child.

The adults in ET are mostly cunts who want to kill ET though surely. Oh and I found this pic of Magnum, explains a lot about his phobia I think.

Yeah in ET, but I'm talking about every parent or nice adult in any show or film I ever watched as a kid. The nicer the adult the more I felt he/she was a pedo. I mean we're talking Lassie and little house on the prairie here.

Signs scared the living hades out of me, man. And for pretty much all my pre-adolescence I had some level of a phobia of aliens. My dad had this crappy documentary about how aliens are actually demons disguised as aliens intending to copulate with women in order to have nephilim out of them. That shit used to terrify my soul to glacial levels.

Signs is possibly one of the worst films I have ever seen.

You are possibly one of the worst films I have ever seen.

I bet you haven't even made it to the surprise twist ending. i know I haven't.

The Signs twist ending?
Or your twist ending?
If it's the latter of the two, you've told me too much...

I can't honestly think of a movie that scared me as a child, or even now. None of them. Any time watching them I always had the thought in my head that it's just special effects and shit, and that ruined it for me. The shit that really scared me were the T.V shows where they would play videos people had taken of UFO's, or of ghosts. That type of stuff.

How could I forget?!?!
The first two Childs Play movies scared the shit out of me!
And my fuckin' mom knew it! She used to tell me that Chucky was going to get me!
I even recall her buying me a "My Buddy" doll....
Fuck, my childhood was messed up.

I'm with you on this. Movies at a young age didn't scare me either. I was/is more entertained by gore factor. I just always knew it was just a movie.

I am however always in search of film where evil wins at the end. Watching a movie your always sure that somehow, someway the "good guy" will always come out on top in the end regardless of which genre. I remember this old movie called Spellbinder had the "devil worshipers" hold the heart of the protagonist at the end.

One thing that does manage to kind of shock me is child death in movie. The new Rambo actually had a couple of scenes that shocked me some. And say a movie like The Hills Have Eyes, you know the baby will survive somehow. It would have scared me if the mutants threw it in a sack and slammed it up against the wall. Now that would be fucked up.

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Ha! Thank you for this!

amusing website and the only blog(?) on the webZ worth reading, but it's also a good movie, so i am at a crossroads

so i'll contribute:

i saw event horizon, in the cinemas at age 7 - it did severely scare me, i had vivid nightmares that night, but other than that i can't remember too much about the experience

i saw the descent a while ago, the first half of that movie made me very uneasy, particularly in the great cinematography that elicited the claustrophobia and darkness. but once the monsters were revealed, bar the first encounter, it wasn't heeby jeeby anymore

reactions towards paranormal activity seem mixed. i am seeing it soon, with a female, in my room, on a projector with 5.1 surround sound. hopefully i can touch a mammary (no spoilers please, either about the movie or my chances at seduction)

Oh fuck. That movie is epic. Sam Neill is great in that. It was quite scary as a kid, but maybe I'm desensitised to it now.

i love that movie.

I only just realised Pierce Brosnan wasn't in event horizon. They even sound the same though.
Awesome movie.

Me and my friends watched the decent (must have been like 13?) we all just found the monsters hilarious. Fucking awful movie.

stuff like Saving Private Ryan used to keep me awake, never really been scared by horror movies.

I dug The Descent thought it cranked up the tension well before going into full on schlock territory, also liked the ending. Yeah the monsters were like Golums grumpy cousins but that didn't really bother me.

agree with a .
Kid I beed and seen such a bad ending.
Tink it was , Devil ride out.?
Bad ending.
Family , including kids gets burnt to death, hammer horror style by satanists.
Up to that point .
me had seen Old movies but after dat me saw
THE OMEN 2.

A lot of good one mentioned already... Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining and Invasion of The Body Snatchers particularly. The Astronauts Wife scared the shit out of me when I first saw it.

The night me and my friends watched the Descent in theater we drove out into the boonies to an old mine shaft and got lost underground. No shit, it was an adventure. So that movie has some sentimental attachment to me.

Open Water was fun just because it was so goddamn bleak. Slow boiled doom.

All time scariest movie ?

movies I didn't watch because I was so fuckin' scared of its trailers

David Cronenberg ,,The Fly"
John Carpenter ,, The Thing"
Ted Browning ,, Freaks"

How did you see the trailer to Freaks, are you a 1000 years old?

Ok in this case I only read a review

amen brother. that movies is the balls.

I love that movie.
Just saw a movie called Sunshine which was doing okay as a kinda Solaris rip-off until it became an Event Horizon rip off and then it turned clown shoes.

Wrote by Alex Garland , plagiarist supreme, he of The Beach (Lord of the Flies) and 28 days Later (Rabies, Day of the Triffids etc) fame.

The Shining in one of the few movies that scare me. Mainly because of the theme music at the start. If you watch Clerks II they use that music in the back ground whilst Elias is telling Randall about Pillowpants. Also Buio Omega scared me a tad, even though the ending made me lolwut and laugh at the same time.

Watership Down. Scared me as a kid and for some reason I won't ever watch it again. I know it sounds daft but for some reason its one that has always stuck with me.