What's Your Scariest Movie?

When a Stranger Calls, the original with Carol Kane, freaked me out. The middle section drags, but the beginning and the end of the movie are the most intense of any movie I've seen. There's a scene at the end that still gives me chills everytime I think about it.
 
Lot of people rag on the Blair Witch Project..but it did a really good job of ratcheting up the intensity.. and it does pay off in the end. Lot of people felt down that you never saw to "the Witch", but that build up and brief chaotic glimpse of the character facing the corner..

chills.
 
The scene in I am Legend with all the vamps huddled around each other in the dark creeped my **** out. Otherwise, the movie relied way too much on computer animated graphics.
 
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The Shining.

The Blair Witch Project.

The Descent.

The opening of "Scream" with Drew Barrymore almost gave me a heart attack.
 
I, too, was freaked out as a child by Phantasm.
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It's stupid and laughable now, but "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (starring Sean Connnery in one of his first roles-1959) freaked me out. It is an Irish story at one point, someone sees a banshee flying across the sky and then there is a knock on the door, he opens it, and there is the banshee at the door. For an untold number of years whenever I opened the door at night, that dang scene flashed into my head. A dang Disney movie freaked me out!

Also, "The Legend of Boggy Creek" in which a bigfoot-like monster attacks people in a trailer in Arkansas, also scared me. In one scene, a person is sitting on the couch next to a window when the bigfoot attacks through the window. Also someone is using the restroom when a bigfoot tries to break through the window next to the toilet as it is being used. The story was supposed to be true and whenever I visited relatives in the boonies, those scenes always flashed into my mind.

My family has always teased me because seeing "That Darn Cat" (damn that Disney!) also scared the crap out of me when I was 3 or so. But, in my defense, it was at a drive-in and what 3 year-old wouldn't be scared by a menacing 40 foot tall cat?

Halloween, Elm St., Texas Chainaw? Nothing. Those three? Very traumatic.
 
Speaking of seemingly benign childhood traumas..

The "Dr. Jekyle and Mr. Hyde" Bugs Bunny cartoon used to scare the bejesus out of me. Especially when he transformed into Mr. Hyde.

And don't get me started on the Abominable Snowman in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Or the Witch in Wizard of Oz.
 
Frida the 13th part 4 was the 1st scary movie I ever saw...I have never been as scared since. At the time I thought it could happen to anyone( I was 9 or 10).
 
Salem's Lot - late 70s television miniseries with David Soul.

It doesn't scare me now but at the time (~10 years old), it scared me to death.
 
there's a movie called communion about a real life alien abduction that freaked the **** out of me a while back. I havent seen it in awhile but there was one scene where this alien was peeking around a door that really messed me up.







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1. Carpenter's The Thing
2. Climbing Jacob's Ladder
3. snippets of Event Horizon, the non stupid parts. Go google/youtube the last entry of the captain's log and slo mo it. creepy depraved stuff there. Go now. But don't do it at night with no one in your house. **** will mess your head up.
 
1) The Mummy, I saw it by accident when I was about 5-6...terrified me! For nights I couldn't sleep without one of my parents being in my room. The first night I was settled down enough to be alone, my big bother covered himself in toilet tissue head to toe and came into my room, walking like Frankenstein with his arms straight out in front of him...chanting "Wilted mummy...wilted mummy..." I about died from pure terror, my brother from the whupping he got from my dad. Gotta love the big bro who tortures their baby sister. Even now, he is 53 and I am 49, one of us will just say "wilted mummy" and we'll both crack up!
2) The scene in Salem's Lot where the boy is scratching on the window while floating just a few feet off the ground, well that still creeps me out big time to even think about it.
 
mine have already been mentioned - although i wasn't really scared by the exorcist. the one scene in tx chainsaw with the thump to the head and the door slamming shut is maybe my scariest and favorite scene, just such a WTF moment that it really lets you know that you have no idea what could happen next.

as a kid, i saw a movie on tv called "dark night of the scarecrow" that scared the bejezzus out of me and still does when i think about it.
 
The Amityville Horror scared the crap out of me when I was younger. I don't get concerned with human villans (you can blow them away with a shotgun
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), it's creepy ghost/satanic stuff that makes my skin crawl.....another one would be The Omen.
 
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