Scariest Movies Of All Time?

[The Burgomaster]

THE EXORCIST, ROSEMARY'S BABY, and THE OMEN belong here. 

[JaseSF]

So does THE SHINING (1980) IMO. Some really freaky edge of your seat moments in that one.

[VogNhymn]

The Changeling with George C Scott, Session 9, Audition, the original Texas Chainsaw, House By The Cemetery. A couple of the Blind Dead films creep me out. Those costumes just sorta weird me out.

[Psycho Circus]

The Haunting (original)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Clownhouse
Salem's Lot
Jaws
The Omen
The Mummy (original)
Halloween (original)
Ring (original)
Nightmares In A Damaged Brain

Damn it, don't you just hate having to stress when films are "remakes" or "not the remake" all the time!  It'll just get worse as the years go on 

[peter johnson]

Yeah, I'd go with The Innocents -- also the silent Nosferatu AND the Werner Herzog sound remake -- that's one damn weird movie --
As a child, the worst thing I ever saw was Kiss of Evil (Hammer) & when I watch it today, echoes of that childhood fear returns . . . brrr.
peter johnson/denny crane

[Terf]

I find supernatural movies scarier than most other movies of the horror genre. Anyway, I just wanted to comment:

JEEPERS CREEPERS - Saw it edited on the CW. I kinda liked it, although I don't think I was scared. The ending was disturbing, though, and made the movie seem rather pointless, until you see 2.

Night of the Living Dead - Since it isn't copyrighted, I got it off the Net. Anyways, I never really got involved in it. (Too much dialogue for my tastes...probably a generational thing there.)

Jaws - A little scary and disturbing. (Did it avoid an R and get an O(riginal)-PG because of the lack of strong swearwords?)

[Doggett]

Carnival of Souls (original)
The Ring (original)
The Orphanage.

[ghouck]

Children of the Corn is one that scared me while watching it, then creeped me out afterward. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned already, or perhaps I was a bit young for it when I watched.

[Brother Ragnarok]

Jaws
John Carpenter's The Thing
Prophecy (shut up, that mutant bear fetus wigs me out)
Isolation (if you haven't yet, go see this right now!)

[Dave M]

Spoorloos (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/) freaked me out after I was done watching it. I started thinking, "That could really happen. It probably DID happen, then the guy who did it wrote this screenplay in order to taunt society, so confident is he that he'll never be caught".

[Magnus]

Night of the Living Dead had the longest impact on me.  At times I still have nightmares of reanimated family, friends and random people attempting to rip the flesh from my bones and eat me alive.  Though I still think that conceptually and psychologically it was scary and creepy, I think that this has a lot to do with the age I saw it and what happened after I saw it.  

I don't remember how old I was when I first saw it, but I think it was between 4th and 6th grade.  I remember that it was on late and my parents said I could not see it.  Being a disobedient child I watched it anyway while my parents were asleep.   When it was over I was freaking out and looked out the window to see some drunken teenagers shambling out of the forest preserve across from my house.  This pushed my young brain into full panic mode and I woke up my parents who of course punished me.

Children of the Corn is one that scared me while watching it, then creeped me out afterward. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned already, or perhaps I was a bit young for it when I watched.

It has been a while but I remember this one as being scary too.  

[RCMerchant]

I'm with a lot of others here with The HAUNTING,TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE,and the B+W NIGHT of the LIVING DEAD.

Some others that scared me on first veiwing...
.JAWS-When I first saw it in the moviehouse in the seventies...I was a nervous wreck!
.the EXORCIST-I know many people (girls,mostly) who refuse to watch this.
.Mario Bava's KILL,BABY,KILL-One of the creepiest Euro horror ghost stories ever. If you haven't seen it...-HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
.NOSFERATU (1922) A dam creepy film. Max Shreck is the stuff of nightmares.
.Bava's BLACK SUNDAY-the masked vampire rising from the grave is still a shocker!

A clip from Bava's KILL,BABY,KILL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu3jzMigjbw

[Eyesore]

I agree with RC on 'Nosferatu'. To some, silent films are an acquired taste, and I can understand that. A lot of the make up (particularly the rouge and lipstick on male actors) is distracting, and the incredible speed at which punches or objects are thrown or dropped often appears clumsy. But in Nosferatu, you are surrounded by desperation, depression, and a fear that is almost palpable. Look at the faces of the townspeople and other extras, and you can't help but notice the similarities to the faces in paintings by Bosch and Bruegel the Elder. Death and darkness follow Orlok, as evidenced by the rats (Black Plague), and the subtle, continuous loss of light.

It's a powerful movie, and requires an attentive viewing to get the whole horrifying story. Murnau was A MASTER!

[darthchicken]

That guy in the bear suit from The Shining scares the crap out of me, seriously.. That guy is the scariest thing ever.

[Paquita]

My vote is EVENT HORIZON!!!  That movie ruined me!  I used to watch scary movies like nuthin' and I was all like "Man! Scary movies ain't scary!!", but not anymore thanks to this one.  I can't even look at Sam Neil anymore without getting scared.