For me:
the entire HALLOWEEN series (Except for 3 and H20. Most agree that the first film is good, but that the rest suck. Actually, this entire series is extremely overrated, and is much better than people would have you think.)

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (The original)

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Scared the crap out of me)

PUMPKINHEAD (More so when I was younger, but the visuals are still pretty striking. Well, look who directed it, of course)

JAWS (I've seen it nearly a gazillion times, but I'm still on the edge of my seat throughout the entire movie, especially the final moments when Brody finally faces the shark. This is what movie-making is all about, folks!)

JURASSIC PARK (Okay, not the whole movie, but the opening sequence when the raptor almost gets lose. I was 14 when I first saw it, and the scene scared the crap out of me. Well, I'm not really "scared" by it anymore, but it's like JAWS - the scene still gets me on-edge everytime I see it)

And a couple others I can't think of right now.

Looking forward to hearing which movies still scare you.

Other than that, Alien STILL puts me into a state of hightened tension every time I watch it. Again, it was Goldsmith's music that added that extra bit that makes it overwhelming.

In terms of VERY RECENT...ummm...not much of anything has SCARED me...aside from the momentary JOLTS, nothing has left me with a feeling of fear or of having been deeply disturbed (Dead Ringers comes to mind, as does At Close Range in terms of being disturbed as opposed to scared). Jaws is one of the best directed films of all time IMHO...

A year ago I started to watch The Shining on TV, but had to turn it off after 30 minutes. And without the Blue Danube Waltz over 2001's end credits to calm me down, I doubt that I could watch that movie again. What a luck that the version I taped DOES include the end credits!

THE SHINING (TV - Steven Weber did MUCH better than Jack Nicholson, and the more-faithful story adaptation was a lot creepier.

The first "Halloween" always gets me when Laurie is walking around the house towards the end, and you know the Shape is still around...

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Originally posted by Swashbuckler:
"Alien," absolutely. I've seen this film more times than I can count and it still scares the hell out of me... although the shock of the image of the alien itself has been somewhat dampened by the sequels (in the first film you get glimpses really, you never see the whole thing in good light), the way that the film was handled keeps it scary.
Furthermore, one of the most frightening moments in the film remains so simply because of the style with which it was shot and acted, and that's the extreme close-up on Ash's face when he confronts Ripley, sweating white. Ian Holm gives Ash a haunted, chilling quality (his performance in the film is only rivaled by Sigourney Weaver's tough-as-nails delivery of Ripley and Yaphet Kotto's union man Parker).
Although this film is always criticized for it's thinly developed characters, I find the characters one of the film's greatest assets; all of the actors inhabit them so fully that even though little background is given on any of them, they FEEL real (I've always found those "capsule" descriptions of characters, usually delivered by two other characters, to be tiresome and unnatural). This gives the film an edge to it that the alien itself (with all of it's sexual connotations) contrasts.

The first "Halloween" always gets me when Laurie is walking around the house towards the end, and you know the Shape is still around...

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Wow! They're MY two favorite's. The rest of Halloween doesn't get me at all, & things like Nightmare on Elm Street & even The Exorcist didn't bother me that much. I remember seing Alien on the big screen with excellent sound for the first time last year, & the effect was absolutely awesome. It didn't get me too much when I used to watch it on video, but suddenly, on the big screen, even though I knew the film virtually off by heart, it still scared the whatsit out of me. In fact, I'm hoping to go see it again tomorrow night, as a local cinema is showing it at midnight. Here's hoping I don't get too scared walking home!
Another mention too to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, for it's sheer relentless intensity. I remember reeling out of the cinema first time I saw that.

NP - Matilda ("To the Library")

Films I saw years ago (as an adult, though), that scared me:

The Haunting (the original, of course. The remake was about as scary as Casper. In fact, I think Casper was IN it.)

Carrie (last scene).

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (the first one.) The Donald Sutherland version is great too, but nothing beats the scary close-up of Kevin McCarthy's face when he gets that cold kiss from a zombified Becky.

The Tenant. People glimpsed at windows, teeth found in holes in the bedroom wall etc. SCARY!

House On Haunted Hill (the remake!): I must have been feverish or something when I saw this, because nobody agrees with me when I say that it was exceedingly scary! Mad doctor from the past seen through video cameras, walking in jerky motion; Scary-shaped heads on monsters that appear subtly in the background shadows...

The Sentinel (Michael Winner film): Gross and bloody and sledgehammer-subtle, but scary. "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." "The entrance to Hell!" Yikes!

Actually there is one film that seems to upset me everytime I see it and that's Orson Welles' The Trial--not scary but so creepy that it's an instant case of paranoia.

AAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEERRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

If you get a chance, see the DVD version. It has deleted scenes, FX explanations and a compariaon between the old and the new. It also includes some interesting stuff about William Castle.

Stir of Echoes - Much creepier than Sixth Sense. (That said, I did enjoy Sixth Sense but I don't really thank of it as a horror flick)

As far as The Shining goes, the Kubrick version captured the essence of the novel much better than the mini series which confined itself to the events of the novel.

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