Best Scary Movies?

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It may seem warped, but I've always been a fan of John Waters.











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I can't beleive that nobody has mentioned the ultimate horror movie of all time......"Frogs".

Followed by a close second of "Cry of the Banshee"

Concentrate folks. Concentrate.
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I have 2 that are more creepy/scary than bloody scary.
The first is called "The Gift" w/Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Giavaonni Ribisio and Katie Holmes.( The bonus here for you boys is there is a topless scene of Miss Holmes, pre-psychoCruise, and even as a straight woman I must say they are spectacular! and 100% genuine if that matters)
) It is also a good movie about a woman who reads people's cards and ends up solving a murder. The real surprise is Keanu, he plays a great creepy mean guy. This one does have a few (just a few) jump out of seat scenes, and a really eerie ending. Spooky.

The second is called The Minus Man, one of the first of Owen Wilson's movies. He plays a serial killer and it is from his perspective. Again, not jump out of your seat scary, but a creepy peak into the mind of a serial killer.

Lastly, hornoholic, completely agree about Frallty. I almost stopped watching after the first 20 mins, but boy was I glad I stuck with it. Great cast with Bill Paxton and Matthew McCaugneghy--I have completely blanked on how to spelll his last name, sorry!

Anyway, these never got much publicity but I enjoyed them all much more than the average Killer run Amok type of movie.
 
Many here I agree with although some I'd call "Suspense" rather than "Horror" movies. Alien, Halloween, Jaws, Plan 9, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure ...

One not mentioned yet is Cube

And Wizard of Oz was rather scary to a 6 y.o. - I mean, flying monkeys!
 
I watched "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" once; I don't think I want to re-experience that again (other films with a lack of replay value: Funny Games and Audition).

I think that is the ultimate complement of film that is intended to be scary/creepy/disturbing.
 
U.B. -- I gotta agree on the Wizard of Oz. I remember the sick feeling in my stomach when the witch's face appeared in the crystal ball. The flying monkeys also scared the tar out of me.
 
Alien.

Scared the **** out of me and everybody I was with. A true original classic. Ridley Scott is a visual master.

Think about it, you dont really ever see the whole monster until the end. Its shadows and very quick stuff. Even the spaceship was scary.

30 years later and I really cant even watch it on re-runs really.

I see he has signed on for an Aliens pre-quel in 2011-2012. I get knots in my stomach thinking about it.
 
I can't even stand to LOOK at a spider, much less be in the same room as one, so "Aracnophobia" did it for me. A guy at work bet me $25 I couldn't sit through it with him in the room, but I did. Not sure how though.
 
You could also add the original "Nightmare On Elm Street"

I remember "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" being scary, but I haven't seen it in a long time, so I don't know if I'm just remembering something that's not there or if it really was all that scary.

Also, and I can't remember the name, but there was a movie about a blind girl stuck in a house with a crazy guy. Late 60's, early 70's maybe?
 
Ghost Story:
The Others
The Lady in Black

Killers:
Night of the Hunter
M (not so much scary as great)

Para-Normal:
Angel Heart
Jacob's Ladder

Classic Monster:

Vampyr (practically a silent, very atmospheric with a couple of scenes that are straight through unsettling, including one ripped off by, of all movies, Witness)

Weird/Creepy:
Freaks (prolly the only time you will see actual pinheads in a film -- short and FUBAR)
 
The Exorcist. The Omen.

If you think The Shining was a scary movie, you need to read the book. Really.
 
Stat, I think we agree on the concept, just not the wording. The example you gave of Alien as being tense, not scary, is exactly what I was alluding to. Jaws is another I'd put here.

I'd also have to agree on the splatter/gore movies not really being horror. that's one genre I've never been able to develop an interest in
 
I mentioned this movie on another thread a while ago, but the scariest thing I have seen was from a damn Disney movie, " Darby O'Gill and the Little People". It was one of Sean Connery's first movies but had a scene that I think about today.

It is set in Ireland and at one point a kid looks out into the night sky and sees a banshee flying across the sky. A couple of minutes later there is a knock on the door. When the door is answered, right there is the glowing banshee in the person's face. My whole life, even to this day, when I answer the door at night that damn scene flashes in my mind. I mean 30+ years later I still think of it. It was not the scariest movie, but for me, it was the scariest scene. Pathetic I know.
 
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