Scariest movie I've ever seen isn't technically a horror movie. David Lynch's Fire Walk With Me (the Twin Peaks movie) scares the hell out of me. Actually, most of David Lynch's movies are terrifying. Lost Highway, when Bill Pullman turns to his wife, expecting to see the lovely Patricia Arquette, and instead for just a moment he see Robert Blake's creepy face? Yeah, I screamed.

In terms of "traditional" horror films, I gotta say the bit in The Exorcist where she comes down the stairs backwards. The rest of it doesn't bother me, but that's so unnatural and unsettling. *shiver*

I think the demon thing is freaky, so I say Exorcist. Also, the poltereist is kinda creepy too!

a movie from the 70s (I think) called When a Stranger Calls. It freaked me out!

The Descent. I was shaking in the theater. Also, now that I watch the newer House on Haunted Hill I think its stupid, but in theaters, that doctor guy that moved really weird got to me.

I'm kind of a huge wuss, so I haven't seen too many scary movies, but 28 Days Later scared me (I love it though, I could watch it 3 times in one day) as did the sequel... The Spanish movie [REC] would have to be the scariest thing I've ever seen though. I couldn't even watch the last ten or twenty minutes of the movie. I had to turn away from the screen and have my sister tell me what was happening because the suspense was too much, haha.

28 Days Later, for sure. That movie scared the hell out of me. And Candyman, which I saw in 8th grade and has freaked me out ever since. It's ridiculous, but I still reach around the corner and flick the bathroom lights on before I walk in.

I have a weird scare-meter or something. I *love* The Shining and Poltergeist and Alien but hatehatehate The Little Mermaid and ET. They terrify me! I can't watch The Little Mermaid for more than 15 minutes at a time. It takes FOREVER to get through!

I Know What You Did That Thanksgiving...

no, it's 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'...
that's it...D'oh!

i would have to say the movie "don't look now". it's not the scariest on a whole, but there is a scene in it that will seriously give me nightmares for weeks. EEEK! i'm actually getting freaked out right now just thinking about it. oh my god. uhhhg!

{on a side note, i ♥ david lynch}

I might be in the minority, but The Blair Witch Project terrifed me. I live near the woods so it was even more frightening to me. Being lost in the woods is one of my worst fears.

The Blair Witch project, because the scare is all in your head. The movie only gives you JUST ENOUGH information, then you have to draw your own conclusions, and it freaked me out!

I haven't seen enough of the type of movie because I shouldn't in the first place but recently seeing Suspiria I have to say the window/stained glass roof scene freaked me out. I have to admit I spent years avoiding The Exorcist I was kind of left feeling like "That's it?" when I saw it, but I saw the censored TV version so maybe I would see it differently if I saw it without the censorship. When I was a kid I always found the 3rd Poltergeist the scariest one. I avoid the movie It with that creepy clown in it. And it's not supposed to necessarily be scary, but Shawn of The Dead freaked me out. And I think I know which scene Otaku is referring to from the movie Don't Look Now. I kind of wanted to see that movie but a certain part that I saw on a scary movie countdown freaked me out.

Hellraiser III. I was in junior high and it pretty much scared the crap out of me at my best friend's house and I had to go home, lol. I won't watch the exorcist though because just the IDEA of that movie scares me!

We watched the Exorcist last weekend... it just doesn't scare me. Too much overacting! I think it was remade it could be really scary.

Frogs and Blacula

There is a movie called "ghosthouse" 1988.

Its about a house (duh) that lures people in via a demonic sounding message that is looped over the airways, it sounds like something sung backwards, Anyway there is a child and her possessed clown doll and i have a huge fear of clowns, the thing is just horrible! I watched it recently and i was still scared by it!

The other films that have scared me were Blair Witch (watched it alone in my house in the woods mind you) The Mist (seriously frightened me) and The Watcher in the Woods.

The first time I saw Scream I was with my mom and we the entire audience was just screaming and jumping in unison. You could just feel the fear. I had never been to a scary movie in a theater before. Well like that atleast.

Blair Witch absolutely freaked me out. It was so weird and then at the end with the guy or girl standing facing the corner. It was messed up.

take out the "we" in my first sentence please.

No Brian, do it yourself!

And yeah, Blair witch FREAKED me out! The psychological stuff gets to me WAY more than the in your face stuff. Sixth Sense about did me in!

B!! get that 'crotch rocket' out of my eye! LOL

'Blair Witch' ... I got walking pneumonia the same weekend I watched that movie! And the same day I watched 'The Wizard of Oz' after hearing that one of the munchkins hung himself in the background and you could see it...I watched it to see if I saw it... I... (
go watch it, I'm not telling you!) Now I know why I hate Halloween. This is good therapy.

Ju-On. I couldn't sleep for like two nights after seeing that.

I've seen a lot of scary movies and I love watching them even though I get scared for years! The girl from The Ring still scares me and I laughed at that movie! Every horror movie is almost always scary to me, but I'm going to have to say the Twin Peaks movie was pretty darn scary and I can never watch it again.

Mesayme, the "hanging Munchkin" is actually a bird, an emu spreading its wings.
there is a video and explanation of it here:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/ozsuicide.asp

I love horror movies, but "The Shining" is too much for me because of all the scary noises in that movie. Often it's the things I hear that freak me out more than what I see, so I have a hard time handling that one.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose scared the crap out of me. it still scares me in fact! Also the first time I watched The Ring was with my roomie then as if someone knew what we were watching it, when it ended the dorm phone rang. Talk about a heart attack!

The Silence of the Lambs. That part where she's in the basement, and he can see her with his night vision goggles but she can't see him. *shudder*

ooh, stephan king's it was freaky too!

The scariest movies I have seen in a long time are Them(Ils) and The Orphanage (El Orfanato).

Mes, you know you like it.

Mykie will kill me if I change my avi!

Oh Otaku!

It FOR SURE! I still cant watch that whole thing...

Oh yeah, "It" definitely makes the list! Left me with a lifelong hatred of clowns. Especially the kind that live in sewers.

Japanese horror movie called "The Audition." Completely terrifying (and disgusting).

The Blaire Witch Project also creeped me out. Oh, and "It." I think I watched it when I was too young. I really love "The Shining," though.

Non-scary movies that give me the heeby-jeebies: "Willie Wonka..." (the original. Gene Wilder is so freakin' creepy.) and "The Wizard of Oz."

Blair Witch - I'm way more terrified of what I can't see chasing me through the woods than Freddy or Jason or Michael Myers.

I love the book IT, and though the movie was terrible - not scary at all, because it was so badly cast/acted!

Yes I WILL! Brian, you touch that Avi and I'm huntin' you down man! LMAO

So easy. It by Stephen King. I get the willies just thinking about it.

Tim Curry is amazing.

Definitely The Strangers this summer. Scared the crap out of me.

The Ring. Mainly because the next day I was walking home at dusk after it rained, and I had to walk past a well. It was light-coloured, so it really stood out in the dark, and there were dripping sounds coming from it. I picked up my pace a little! I can still see the girl kind of falling/crawling out of the TV.

i hate the ring. that little girl scares me!!
the same day i watched the movie the lights went out.
ever since then i dont watch many horror movies.

Okay STOP IT TASSIE! I had forgotten about The Ring, but all ya'll talking about it reminds me how creeped out I was! STOP IT! LMAO

The Shining bc Jack Nicholson is just..hes creepy looking. No me gusta. And maybe Silence of the Lambs..but everything else named..yea not so scary. Come on guys.

I think movies like the Ring are scarier because it's something that "could" happen anywhere. That is - if you still own a VHS! But really, all the movies about houses, etc. scare me but there isn't that resonating 'could it happen to me' feel to it.

The Shining was awesome! We vacation in Estes Park, CO (where Stephen King was inspired and wrote the book) and every time we're there during winter and see the Stanley Hotel I just see that image of Jack Nicholson.

Danny, I still cant bring myself to watch The Strangers. I keep trying to man up and get the courage but I think I would never wanna answer the door again.

I didnt think the Ring was scary, only because I read the book way before and it was one of those books where you CANNOT read at night! the movie wasnt anything like the book and i was just dissapointed. PLUS i cannot get into those movies that are japanese remakes or inspired by, with the jerky movements and the black hair white skin.(although Ju-On was pretty freaking scary)

I get scared by different things. Mainly the "things" you cannot see, unexplained, Like being in the dark woods at night and you *hear* something moving...is it an animal? person? your imagination runs wild. Movies that have serious "moods" to them that draw me in, play on those "what is that!" statements, those scare me. Crap like the Saw movies, or The Ring, or all the freddy, jason movies are just amusing. Freddy was always like some flaming serial killer who couldnt dress and needed lotion.

"Freddy was always like some flaming serial killer who couldnt dress and needed lotion."

Those "slasher" type movies and Texas Chainsaw Massacre might startle or gross me out sometimes, but I don't consider them "scary" because they don't cause me to lie awake at night in fear. Honestly, what are the chances of me driving through Texas some summer day with a carful of douches, getting lost/sabotaged and then ending up hacked to bits by a cannibalistic hillbilly family with too many power tools?

The Exorcist and Poltergeist movies scared me so much when I was a kid. When I go back to watch them now, they just seem silly.

The Shining still gives me the creeps a bit though. I would love to stay in that hotel someday!

IT by Stephen King scared the crap out of me as a kid I could not sleep for weeks. As did the Blair Witch Project, I avoided my basement for 5 days LOL. As well The Ring was scary as hell for me that chick in the tv is just wrong in so many ways. But I love to be scared so I keep going back for more.

Psycho still terrifies me all these many years later.

hands down, the shining. the bathroom scene weirds me out. and it is still creepy. also, any movie with children tend to freak me out (e.g.: pet semetary, poltergeist, exorcist, etc.)

and IT. i am deathly terrified of clowns. i will never watch texas chainsaw massacre again - not because it's "scary" but because it's plain disturbing, though it is a great horror flick (the original, not the remake nor the beginning).

when i was younger, i was terrified of nightmare on elm street because of freddy, but it's so silly to me now.

as far as foreign films go, audition hands down. when you first watch the movie, you don't think it will be scary but the last 15 minutes are intensely disturbing. ju-on scared me too.