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For me it's probably ghosts, even if I lack a belief in their existence (because I often hear people answer serial killers, seeing they exist). For the reason that I wouldn't have a clue what to do if I actually saw a ghost, and I'm unsure how you'd defend yourself against one. Serial killers, vampires, zombies etc. can all be killed. Not so sure about ghosts.

I don't get scared by the obviously supernatural. In fact, I rarely get scared at all by any movie. Wish I could, some of my fondest memories are being absolutely terrified as a child. I would love to be able to get back to that place, but that's not in the cards.

I do like the unknown and the eerie. The best example I have seen recently was the movie "The Mothman Prophecies." The Richard Gere character finds himself in a strange web of synchronicity which can not be easily explained. He's offered the choice to drag himself into it, but holds off. But the voice on the phone accurately predicts the future. That was the best example I've seen of the supernatural intruding on real life. Fantastic stuff.

But do you know what really scares me? The fragility of human life. Gets me every time. I remember watching Saving Private Ryan in the theater. Storming the beach at Normandy was one of the greatest things I've ever seen put to film, but it didn't bother me. What did bother me was one scene at the end where one of the soldiers attempts to put a "sticky bomb" on a tank. He doesn't get the timing right, and when the bomb explodes he is liquified. That scene crawled up inside my soul and died. Fragility.

Yeah, same here. But if I am it's usually ghost-stuff. Although watching some internet videos with supposed ghost sightings probably has a lot to do with it.
( http://www.xenvideo.com/2006/11/25/hitchhiker-ghost-causes-car-accident/ )

It's kind of ironic with all the supernatural beasties and gigantic monsters about, but the thing that "scares" me the most would be plain old human beings and the cruelty they can inflict on each other.  The remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Jessica Biels was the only movie in many years that really stressed me out.  R. Lee Ermey far more than Leatherface.  The way he could just casually scare the livin' s*** out of the characters, they might die at any second because he just wouldn't have thought anything at all of doing them in.  And I guess it's closer to our real-life experiences as well, so it has a bigger effect on us.

Any thing hiding in the dark and hiding his / her face ~ there is a scene like this in The Crimson Rivers.  :buggedout:

ungodly amounts of blood make me feel somewhat nauseous

I hate jump scares. Always have, pathetic as it sounds. No matter how much I see them coming, they still work on me. I just hate being startled, even just a little. -groans-

The Japanese pale ghost kids get to me every time...seriously creep me out.

I actually find the Wendigo, which I consider a sort of werewolf/shapeshifter, terrifying as I believe I encountered one in my youth.

What scares me the most are the things "you can't see".  What's making the shadows on the wall or what is it "pounding" on the closed door?  Is it the wind howling or is it something else?  Did I see a shadowy figure at the end of the dark hallway? A sudden scent of roses filling a room? Something brushed my shoulder.
The hot coffee that is now suddenly ice cold. 

Gouged eyeballs have done it for me for many, many years.. much less so recently but if I dream about it I do wake up a bit sweaty.  Or ocular trauma of any kind I guess.
(http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/imagecache/feature_img/night-of-the-hunted-13.jpg)

Then I guess you wouldn't like Dead Alive?  :question:

what scares me is parasites and the feeling that someone suffering through it.

Seen The Ruins (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963794/)? Not the greatest movie, in my book, but it should push your queasy buttons.

Everyday things becoming terrifying.  (The friendly dog turning into a monster in The Thing.  The most frightening thing I've ever seen in a movie.)

Safe places becoming unsafe.  (That few minutes of The Strangers when the killers are trying to get in while Liv Tyler is home alone.)

Losing control of your body.  (The 1986 version of The Fly ... Bartok's fate in The Fly II even moreso.)

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, no way to fight back.  (The feeding frenzy in Piranha 3D.)

I'm not sure how you'd classify it but the original Terminator scares the hell out of me.  Partially, it's because he's implacable and unrelenting, but I think it's mostly because he's really good at what he does.  Sent into an unfamiliar time and place, with no resources and nothing to go on but a name, the terminator tracks down his target within a few hours.  The best the hero can come up with is to keep running and hiding for a few hours at a time before the terminator finds them again.  Even when reduced to nothing but an arm and a torso, the terminator still keeps coming and almost succeeds.  He was a truly unstoppable threat who completely outmatched the heroes.  (Contrast this to the mostly ineffective T1000 and the completely worthless TX from the later movies.)

I saw Dead Alive once. I lost my appatite watching it and was a bit hungry before starting it. Never seen The Ruins.

Well said,dear!
Tis may sound goofy,but the cheezy classic the BRAIN THAT WOULDNT DIE scared the hell outta me! The thing in the closet...and the build up to it busting down the door...me and my brothers were watching it on Shock Theater...when the monster finally broke out-my step brother Jimmy screamed and hid behind the couch! Now THATS entertainment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddjSIP6bhCI&feature=related

 A classic example is the pool scene in the CAT PEOPLE...
dammit! Click on the "Watch on You Tube"...it wont let me embed it...morons!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbGJrAVWUo

I don't like gruesome medical scenes, anything with eyeballs, throats and bugs.

I agree. Them surgery TV shows are too much.
I also dont like seeing kids killed. The scene in PET SEMATARY when Gage gets hit by the truck...dam. That freaked me out.

^ Agree with you guys.  Watching real-life surgery on TV creeps me out 100 times more than the most gruesome thing in any horror movie.  I just plain cannot watch that stuff.

 The most wincing scene in the EXORCIST was when she was in the hospital...they did a tap and scan. Dam. I been there. Scary.

What I can't see or see well.  The remake of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark did this well for me, at least until they showed the monsters up close.  I'm more terrified by what I can't see because the images my brain makes are far more scarier than what I see.  For a nonmovie and odd example (It's from an online show), Atop the Fourth Wall's The Entity.  You never see the monster/creature/it or anything of the like.  It's prescene is known by its static laugh, the camera breaking down, or characters getting attacked by it/being erased from existance.

Other favorite horror is more of a psychological horror, where you see characters breaking down and start to lose their minds as their world around them falls apart.  Perfect Blue did this well for me by also making the viewers start doubting what they are seeing since we begin to start seeing things through the main character's view.  Also, Higurashi's Curse Killing Arc was another good example, especially when you are not sure actually who was killed or even if someone was killed.

After waking up next to my wife for the last 18 years i find that i am immune to any horrors placed on the celluloid screen, although when i was young the spiral staircase did scare the s**t out of me.

Isolation, as in the first bit of 28 Days Later, not the like every slasher movie out in the woods. There needs to be the possibility that you/the character are the last person alive. I guess to me that comes loaded with the fear of helplessness. You break a leg or get seriously ill in a scenario where there are other people, there's at least a chance that someone can help. Have that happen when you're essentially the last person on Earth? Enjoy your slow, agonizing, lonely death.

Distortions of the everyday. We know what to expect from the world immediately around us, so when something's off about something we're familiar with, it can be terrifying if done right. It's why anything ever falls into the Uncanny Valley.

And of course, loss of self. Zombies themselves aren't generally scary. The thought of becoming a zombie, of slowly losing your identity or of having something else snatch your body away from you, is pretty chilling.

The bleak hopelessness of some film noir movies and some urban crime films. Computer control and nuclear war has been terrifying in its fashion in Colossus, Threads, The Terminator, The Day After...but then that's non-horror films or are they?

In horror films, whenever it feels like you (through the eyes of the lead character) are losing control and the world turns to bizarre chaos making you question reality, your sanity, etc. - Jacob's Ladder, In the Mouth of Madness, Quatermass and the Pit, Lifeforce all did this pretty well.

Honestly regular people doing horrible things is what scares me the most in movies.

I do not care for movies where people get possessed. The idea of something invading your body and your mind, no thanks. Watching people break down psychologically is also pretty scary.

For me, I guess it's paranoia and isolation.  INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is a perfect example.  You don't know who you can trust and you can't seem to get away to a safe place.  NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is another good example.