Cornholio

I need people to reccomend me realy good horror movies. i wanna see some horror thats actully scary.

Mountain Biker

If you haven't seen, I'd recommend:

Jaws
The Fog
The Shining
Black Christmas
Stir of Echoes
The Changeling
Carnival of Souls
The Haunting (original)

Amel

What "scares" you? Most horror movies don't scare me at all. I mean, I'll jump back a little some times, but for the most part many horror movies don't really scare me.

The ones that do scare me are the ones that deal with possession, ghosts, or demons of some sort. Poltergeist, The Others, The Ring, Nightmare on Elm Street (although that movie didn't age well for me, I find rather boring and silly now), The Blair Witch Project (I wouldn't go in my basement for a week), Jaws (I still look around every time i'm in the ocean), and the greatest horror movie ever "The Exorcist".

Cornholio

the ring was the only horror movie i ever saw that actulley scared me but after seeing it again i knew what was gonna happen so i wasnt scared at all.

Giles

Stuart Gordon's "Dolls"

joltaddict

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Night Of The Living Dead
Evil Dead

Not really horror but Eraserhead is a true nightmare. If you can watch Eraserhead without being freaked out you may not be human.

Alien Redrum

This is a pretty good thread.

ArchibaldTuttle

Frailty

I thought it was really creepy

caiman

Something about Session 9 left me totally creeped out.

LivingINClip

Session 9

The Shining (Kubrick)

Night of the Living Dead

Dawn of the Dead

Day of the Dead

Suspiria

The Omen

The Changeling

Texas Chainsaw

Halloween

Nightmare on Elm Street

Friday the 13th & Friday the 13th : Part 3

Opera

The Beyond

Night of the Living Dead (remake)

Re-Animator

Ringu

Last House on the Left

The Hill have Eyes

Wes Craven's "New Nightmare"

Bad Taste

Dead Alive

Cannibal Ferox

Castle Freak

I Spit on your Grave

Ghostface180

Black Christmas
Session 9
Dawn of the Dead
The Beyond
Deep Red
Tenebre

caiman

Actually, if you are looking for something scary, stay away from these movies (all of which have been listed in this thread):

The Beyond
Re-Animator
Bad Taste
Dead Alive
Dawn of the Dead

I don't think anyone would consider any of these films scary. Most of them aren't even intended to be.

GmoneyOwnsYou

If you're looking for a scare, any zombie movie. At least for me that is. Zombie movies are the scariest to me. And Amel, The Exorcist isnt scary.

Team Rancid

Ever see something as a kid and then again as an adult and have a totally different reaction?
I recently saw "I Spit on your grave" again after about 15 years. When I first saw it at 14, I thought it was scary and grusome.

After I saw it again last year, I laughed my ass off. Its a poor man's softcore porn with miserable attempts at horror. The acting is really the funniest part. Isn't the woman in that Buster Keatons granddaughter?

PalmerJoss

I think nowadays people confuse "scary" with being "startled". Something jumping out of the dark in a movie is startling, not scary. Scary to me is something that disturbs you, gets under your skin, and makes you shiver at the thought of it. To me some excellent examples of this are:

Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
Kubrick's The Shining
The first Nightmare On Elm Street

All of these movies really creeped me out and left me truly scared for days after watching them.

Giles

I agree with you, I have had numerous nightmares revolving around zombies. Even though a splatter movie by nature, the cinematography for Fulci's "Zombie" has a great very chilling shot of zombies emerging through the tropical trees in the night that is downright creepy.