whats your fav scary movie

Has to be The Shining. Jack Nickolson's performance was terrifying enough for me.

Halloween, The BirRAB, Psycho and The Sixth Sense also get my vote.
 
My favourite scary movies are the Scream Trilogy. I thought the first one was great and the other two were ok. The remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre scared me to death. The Shining is one of my favourites too.
 
I can watch 'Halloween', 'The Thing, 'The Others' and 'The Shining' over and over again and never get bored. I'll stick Poltergeist on my list also.
 
Theres a big difference between gory slasher type films and actually "scary" films. The films that have scared me witless usually dont show any blood at all, for example :-

Dark Water (original)

The Eye (original)

The Woman In Black (not well known but please see it)
 
I guess it wasn't so much being scared as grossed out but
Alien tops the list for me. I watched it at the cinema when it was first released (OK I'm old....) and of course I, like the rest of the audience, did not know what was coming with the chest-burster - so ended up watching it in all it's glory.
Watched the film many many times over the years (love it and all sequels to some extent) and managed to never watch that scene - or usually any chest-bursting - ever again - until...
....then watched documentary about Ridley Scott and because there was no warning, I must have seen a chest-burster about 5 times in 40 minutes!!

Still can't and won't watch it though - just hate that one minute poor JH is munching his spaghetti and next he's been ripped apart from the inside out...(also doesn't help to have read the book and the description of "his organs having been pushed to one side for the embryo to incubate" makes me feel queasy)

Sorry - have I strayed from the original point?
 
Most "scary" films are scary in an entertaining way e.g. Saw, Alien, Hostel, The Thing etc, the scarier ones have a more psychological theme such as the original of 'The Haunting' where you never see anything, it's implied, so it's as scary as your imagination can make it. So my choices are:
The Haunting (1963)
&
The Ring (2002)
(This one for the implications of what Samara is capable of - i.e. planting such horrific images in a person's mind that they'd commit suicide)
 
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