your Scariest movie EVER!!!

I was 11, at the movie theater unaccompanied, and Michael Landon kept turning into a werewolf.

As a 15 year old it was THE EXORCIST! We smoked countless joints and drank countless Heineken and I was brought up Catholic! The Crucifix scene alone----hebe jeebies. My sister was 18 at the time and thought it was hilarious. Maybe cause I was so high!
Honestly rent "Tras en cristal" You will be glad you did, it is truely scarey and adult sick at the same time!

I've never been scared by a movie.

The Blair Witch Project

Yes, I saw BWP in a nearly-empty, dark theatre near the end of its run. It had me jump out of my seat a few times.

Se7en was probably the "creepiest scary" movie I've seen.

Age check please?

I was a little kid and saw this movie on the Saturday afternoon scary movie show. I don't know the name of it but maybe one of you will recognize it
it was about a little wooden indian who would come alive if it's necklace came off. well, it came off and chased a woman around with a knife.
fucking scary wooden indian!
i was probably about 5 so i don't know what my mother was thinking letting me watch that movie!

That'd probably get my vote too although these also stick out in my mind for effective scares:

The Shining
The Birds
Silence of the Lambs
Jaws
Cape Fear (the one with Nick Nolte)
Several dramatic sections in "Saving Private Ryan"

American Beauty.

Had nightmares for days. Couldn't tell if they were dreams or real.

My sister was in 8th grade; I was in 3rd grade. My mom suggested that we go to the Saturday Matinee. A few of the other kids on our street joined us and we walked into town. We stopped to buy penny candy and then went to the movie theater and saw "PSYCHO" by Alfred Hitchcock. My sister and I were both afraid to sleep alone for a month. Maybe it was so intense because I was so young.

Ooh, that does sound creepy!

Night of the Living Dead also scared me the first time I ever saw it when I was little. I remember I was awake all by myself late at night and it came out on the ABC station that used to show late-night movies on the weekend. The fact that it was black and white and the fact that I was the only one awake just scared me even more.

Probably the scariest movie I ever saw though was Salem's Lot. I was also little when I first saw it and it also was shown late at night, but I think this time it was on the CBS station. Luckily, I had my older sister up watching it with me, but the movie was just a little bit more scary to me than Night of the Living Dead was. Especially the part when the dead boy knocks on his friend's window. I kept my eyes closed as soon as I saw him emerge from that fog. I remember asking my sister to tell me when it was over.

Alien

I'd also have to say that knee-jerk shocks and bloody dismemberments (for the sake of gore) are, with VERY few exceptions....NOT scary.

What IS scary to me are the things that get under your skin and send a chill through your spine, make you question your place in the world, or just leave you with a vague sense of unease and being disturbed.

David Lynch's movie, not technically horror..... though his best, most surreal ones succeed in doing JUST that. Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Eraserhead..... all feature moments of sublime creepiness.

I also love the overwhelming sense of utter dread in the first ALIEN,
the nonstop unrelenting action of ALIENS, and the sense of isolation and futility in ALIEN 3. Hated ALIEN RESURRECTION.

Also, I thought there were several scenes in SIGNS that were unbearably scary and suspenseful....

I love the Romero Zombie movies, but more for their allegorical and apocalyptic view.

Now, John Carpenter...at his peak, his movies were the shit!

Halloween, in spite of its imitators, I think is the "perfect" horror movie, and will NEVER be equalled. All suspense, beautiful camera work, Carpenter's music score, likeable characters, and pretty much a complete lack of actual gore. WHen I first saw this, I slept with the lights on and a kitchen knife under my bed!

His remake of The Thing was great science fiction horror, and even in some of his lesser movies, he had a great command of mood and eerieness, even if they didn't add up. Prince of Darkness had many great creepout moments, for example.

Jaws... Iwas like 11, still afraid of the ocean....

I think the film Jennuine is referring to is Trilogy of Terror, one of those anthology films and the part of the trilogy is the one with the Zuni Fetish doll which starred Karen Black. I'm not easily scared, I could sit through The Evil Dead, The Exorcist or even Peewee Hermann films alone in the dark, and I don't know why this little individual tale in this film should be so scary but it is.

As I remember Karen Black is sent a Zuni Fetish doll, around it's waist is a little metal belt and I think there's a note warning her not to let the belt fall off, that the doll contains the soul of a dead Zuni warrior. Off to bed she goes and the belt falls off and the doll runs amok. It's a long time since I've seen it but at the end the soul has somehow gone into the body of Karen Black and she's in her hall squatting whilst stabbing a knife into the floor, waiting just waiting.........

This film has been mentioned in another thread about scary films so it must be one that sticks in peoples minds.