Did anyone here ever see an English film, directed by Jacques Torneur, titled Night of the Demon? That film has some truly flesh-crawling moments.

My two favorites would be:

1) When Holden is in the hallway at the hotel and he starts hearing the weird music, accompanied by this very faint chiming or jingling noise... along with heavy footsteps, slowly growing louder and louder and LOUDER until...

2) After Holden visits Karswell's mansion at night (and gets scratched bloody by a black cat that turns into a leopard). He decides to leave through the surrounding woods even after Karswell warns him against it. He hears the music again and sees a ball of fiery smoke floating after him -- accompanied by giant smoking hoofprints stamping into the dirt.

And then there's William Castle's Thirteen Ghosts. Saw it when I was a kid, it scared me white!

Another movie that I found was creepy when I was a kid was Children of the Corn.

"MAL-A-CHIIIII!... He has told me, Malachi. He wants you as well."

It should've been corny, but for some reason it worked.

Another good film was The Car. Heck, you don't need demons; some maniac driving around in an armored sedan, deliberately driving over people for the laughs, is scary enough! And ye gods, that last bit with the demonic face and the return of the Car... flying down a city street at a bunch of schoolchildren!

Okay, now ya got me going.

Day of the Animals and Prophecy:The Monster Movie both seriously creeped me out. Especially the latter film; remember the turned-inside-out mutant bear with its brains running down over its face. Ga-ross!

The 70's made-for-TV movie Gargoyles was splendidly creepy.

I once saw a 3-D B&W movie called The Mask that was insanely creepy and strange.

The Skull's last few moments creeped me out, when the floating skull of the Marquis De Sade slowly, so slowly, approaches Peter Cushing's throat.

I agree with the following, because they also fall into the category of "Scary, because it could happen".

I found The Descent to be pretty darned scary. The tensions between the characters, the dark, the claustrophobia... I was halfway shaking before the monsters even showed up.

Audition... I don't know if it was scary, so much as it was repulsive, but that deformed creature was eeky.

I haven't seen it but I've heard Clownhouse is terrifying. Two young boys in an empty house being stalked by three murderous clowns.

The scariest movie I ever saw was My Little Pony. I watched this with my little niece and caught myself singing one of the stupid songs. The horror... The horror...

Paranormal Activity is genuinely scary.

Hitchcock's "The Birds" was a great scary movie. I saw it at a classic film festival and when we came out there were all these seagulls and stuff sitting on the phone lines across the street watching us. Of course it was because there was a storm moving in, but after the movie we had just watched, it was pretty freaky.

My personal favorite is actually The Exorcist III. Everyone touts the original, but I like the third one. George C. Scott deserved an Academy Award every time he tied his shoes, not to mention when he actually appeared in a film. The Exorcist III is no different--his performance, while not the best of his career, is still spot-on.

Didn't do well at the box office (probably because of that absolute piece of crap that was The Exorcist II,) but The Exorcist III is my favorite horror movie evaaaaar.

The scariest movie I ever saw was My Little Pony. I watched this with my little niece and caught myself singing one of the stupid songs. The horror... The horror...

Yeah, I was terrified by Pretty Woman. Not by the film itself, just by the possibility that someday somebody would try to make me watch it again.

Repairman Jack wrote:

The scariest movie I ever saw was My Little Pony. I watched this with my little niece and caught myself singing one of the stupid songs. The horror... The horror...

Yeah, I was terrified by Pretty Woman. Not by the film itself, just by the possibility that someday somebody would try to make me watch it again.

Fear thy name is "The Proposal."

Just saw Fanboys. Scariest movie -- EVAR!

Paranormal Activity is genuinely scary.

Yeah, if you find sleep and boredom to be scary.

That movie was over an hour waiting for something interesting to happen, followed by an hour of nothing interesting happening.

I would want my money back if I had paid any.

Andrew Turner wrote:

Paranormal Activity is genuinely scary.

Yeah, if you find sleep and boredom to be scary.

That movie was over an hour waiting for something interesting to happen, followed by an hour of nothing interesting happening.

I would want my money back if I had paid any.

We must be talking about diametrically different movies.

Blair Witch had me leaving the theatre, bored and grumbling.

To date, Blair Witch remains the most irritating, most not scary, least creative and most complete waste of time of my life. I am more scared of global warming than I was of that "movie".

Before "the Ring", I think I billed "Event Horizon" as the most effective scary movie. My daughter and I watched it over Halloween this year and it was not remotely scary. I feel the same way about "the Ring" - really had me uncomfortable the whole time in the theater. And the sequel was not scary at all. Still a good film, though.

"I'm not your [freaking] mommy."

As a very young kid, "the Car" and the original "Salem's Lot" were pretty scary. I just kept staring out my window, waiting for the Master to come for me..

It... I hate clowns and that movie scares the crap out of me even today.

Beyond that I still love The Thing.

The Jade wrote:

Blair Witch had me leaving the theatre, bored and grumbling.

To date, Blair Witch remains the most irritating, most not scary, least creative and most complete waste of time of my life. I am more scared of global warming than I was of that "movie"...

I was spooked by BWP the first time I saw it--Korea, an Army theatre, and I was one of five people in the place, all of us older, and none of us even aware of the movie before walking into the theatre.

I went three days later to see it again, but this time, I knew exactly what to expect, and the theatre was filled-to-bursting with young, rowdy infantrymen who laughed and catcalled and farted at all the wrong moments. Since that second viewing I have fairly despised the film.

Alien, hands down.

For some unknown, unknowable reason, my parents took me to see that movie when I was 8 (or maybe just turned 9) - that mofo freaked me out for TWO YEARS!!!

Alien, hands down.

For some unknown, unknowable reason, my parents took me to see that movie when I was 8 (or maybe just turned 9) - that mofo freaked me out for TWO YEARS!!!

For movies I paid to watch in a theater, I agree.

Ahhhhhhhh The Horror!!!!!!!!!!!!

not really mainstream, but: "the tenant" and "santa sangre" are pretty creepy.

This might be a weird choice, but I have never felt so
disturbed and creeped out until I watched Tideland...
I don't even think its supposed to be scary, but I really
think it did some psychological damage to me.

I just saw the trailer for the re-make of Nightmare on Elm Street. I saw the original in the theater with my dad when I was 14. It scared me a lot, and was good. I also noticed it made the "Scariest Movies" list (below).

I will see the re-make out of nostalgia, but I have very low expectations... they just don't make 'em like they used to.

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Scariest Movies:

COUNT, TITLE

______________

13 , The Shining

11 , The Exorcist

10 , Jaws

10 , The Ring

9 , Event Horizon

8 , Alien

8 , Blair Witch Project

. . .

3 , Nightmare on Elm Street

3 , Omen

3 , Phantasm

3 , Prince of Darkness

3 , Se7en

. . .

I have always liked the Hellraiser series. The actor playing Pinhead, Doug Bradley, delivers his lines so perfectly (he is a Shakespearean actor) that it gives me the shivers. Lines like,"Even in Hell your pain will be legendary." are chilling.

My favorites include:
Cube
Fulci's The Beyond
Alien\Aliens
Jaws
Session 9
>>My ex-girlfriend was a movie theatre projectionist, so I used to get to preview the movies to make sure that they were put together right. I saw the Ring all alone in the theatre at 2 am. Gave me the willies.
No Country for Old Men (seriously, Javier Bardem comes from hell)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer