Same as your list

add:. Marathon Man, to this day I think about dental torture scene

Sharknado I II III IV etc b/c it is terrifying that people can b stupid enough to make this movie(ies)

Silence of the Lambs

Seven (with Brad Pitt)

Jaws

The Shining

Alien

I've seen the above movies once, but will not watch them again. I never watch "Slasher" movies or most other scary movies of any kind. For some reason, though, I l loved "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". but most scary movies stress me out too much. I can't help but think of that violence happening to real people.

Have seen most of the movies above but have not and will not see Silence of the Lambs or Seven. Psycho, The Shining, & The Sixth Sense were one-time- only movies and don't bother me in retrospect.

I love Alien (have only seen the first one). If it plays on TV I will watch. I love Sigourney Weaver and enjoy watching her and the cat escape. DH refuses to watch!

The Exorcist is by far the most frightening for me. I deeply enjoyed it the first time, and watched it on TV a few more times. But oddly, that movie gets more terrifying every time I watch, so I no longer do. DS1, who is in his forties and a great movie maven, agrees.

I had known that the opening scenes of The Exorcist were filmed in the Middle East. Recently learned that these scenes were done in Mosul, Iraq, Mosul being the largest city that ISIS first conquered, torturing and murdering many inhabitants as they fought their way in. Mosul is the site of ancient Nineveh, from the story of Jonah, and houses/housed a lot of antiquities, many of which ISIS either destroyed or smuggled out of the country. That would now add to the creepiness of the movie for me.

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I forgot about Seven and Signs! Both are nail biters!

The Blair Witch Project

Even thinking about any of those is too scary for me...I haven't seen one on that list!

In Cold Blood

The Pit and The Pendulum (Campy now but I remember peeking through my fingers at it when it was on TV when I was kid. And the pendulum scene still makes me cringe.)

Alien - I saw it first run on the big screen in the theater and admit to a rough night's sleep afterwards.

Agree about The Shining and the The Exorcist. Poltergeist and Silence of the Lambs... I don't remember being particularly scared. I haven't seen some of the movies mentioned.

Oops forgot The Strangers. VERY scary!!

I don't like serial killer scary (silence of the lambs, seven, etc.) so I never go see those. I like ghost scary. In addition to those others have listed, one of my all time favorites is The Changeling, starring George C. Scott from the late 70's or early 80's maybe?

And Audrey Rose, also from the 70's. May have been a made for TV movie but I rented it as a DVD to share with my kids.

Also Rosemary's Baby.

There is another common element among these films--interiors to lust after. The house in the Changeling (and Trish Vandevere's hairstyles!), the NYC apartments in Audrey Rose and in Rosemary's Baby are eye candy!

Signs was the only movie that made me scream out loud. I've jumped at some movies (most famously was a teenage slasher movie where I nearly strangled my then-boyfriend). I am too creeped out by The Exorcist to watch it in it's entirety.

But most of the others mentioned have definitely raised my blood pressure.

The Exorcist has always scared the bejeepers out of me. I read it when I was way too young, about 10. Then snuck into the movie when it came out. I had to wait until my parents were asleep and then sneak in their room to sleep beside their bed, on the floor, for a whole year. To this day, if I have a bad dream there is an element of The Exorcist in it. Sometimes the apartment, sometimes flashes of her face superimposed onto other faces in an otherwise harmless dream. I really think it did some harm to my 10 year old psyche.

"Jaws" (I sat on the beach looking for dorsal fins after that)

"The Towering Inferno" (I saw people falling out of the Prudential Tower after that)

"Duel"

And while I thought "The Exorcist" was silly, "The Omen" was really scary to me.

Interestingly, "Jaws" and "Duel" are both Steven Spielberg movies, and they are two of the scariest movies, due to the suspense, I've seen.

Exorcist, Jaws, the Shining

If you're looking for a more recent movie, The Conjuring was scary and quite good.

"Duel" - oh yes! Spielberg's first movie, and made for TV. Will never forget the first time DH and I saw it, on its first showing. For years after, whenever we were driving somewhere, if something loomed in the rear window of the car we'd look at each other and cry out "The Truck!"

When we got our first VCR, back in the 80s, Duel was the first movie I rented.

Rosemary's Baby was one of the first scary movies I ever saw on TV...scared the carp out of me then, and I think I've seen it two more times with the same result.

Blair Witch is right up there, too.

There's another scary one that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet -- I think it's called Paranormal Activity? I like the kind of scary movies that make me jump, more so than the blood-and-guts type.

catttyles, while the Exorcist movie was slightly gross but not all that scary IMHO (I liked it for the use of Guildford cathedral as a location, but that was all), my college roommate was reading it when the book first came out, and she insisted on putting the book out in the hall every night when she went to bed. She was too scared to leave it in the room.

See No Evil with Mia Farrow - something about that move haunts me. Probably the part about being in a house with dead people and not knowing it because you can't see.

I haven't seen any recent scary movies, and mostly only watched old ones if I'd read the books first. Somehow the movies aren't as scary if you kind of know what's coming. I remember watching a cheesy TV movie ca 1977, The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, right after I moved into my first apartment, all alone. I had to call my mother to talk for awhile after the movie ended.

I had to stop reading The Shining one night when my husband was called in to work, leaving me home alone--we lived in a house up against a wooded area--but that is one movie that is scarier than the book, probably because of Jack Nicholson. Another Stephen King movie that gets me every time is The Green Mile but not because of the scary parts--when John Coffey starts down the mile I cry every time.

Have never seen, and absolutely will never watch, any Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday The 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that genre.

My parents wouldn't let me see The Exorcist when it came out, and by the time I could have looked it up on my own, I was no longer interested in the movie or the book. writersblock and cattyles, when my aunt read the book, she kept it in the car at night!

Wait Until Dark...... with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin, who was creepy good.

I had nightmares for two weeks after Silence of the Lambs.....won't ever watch it again.

Oh yeah, Duel is absolutely incredible. I've always thought The Haunting, the original, was frightening. As was Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum.

We recently re-watched Duel. Such a good and scary movie. I was thinking of Wait Until Dark, too. Jaws basically ruined the ocean for me.

When I was a teenager, the original When a Stranger Calls scared me to death. I saw it with a friend, and I had to babysit the next night and she called me saying someone was in the house.

I saw "On the Beach" as a child, when my mother took me and my younger brothers to a drive-in expecting that we would fall asleep. I had nightmares for 3 months afterwards. This was at the time of cold war tensions, when as elementary school students we were cautioned about catching snow on our tongues because of Stronium 90, and given little illustrated pamphlets about nuclear bombs. I recall thinking how stupid it was to tell us to hide under our little desks if the sirens rang, when the pamphlets made it clear that we would all either evaporate immediately, burn or suffer radiation sickness depending on where the bomb fell. Since then I have not been a fan of scary movies, or worse yet, scary books. Stephen King books give me nightmares too;) Imagination is a very powerful thing.

Graywings, you're right-- I had totally forgotten how scary Cape Fear was.

And that reminded me of another super-scary one (to me). Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm. I'm too scared to sail out of sight of land, after watching that one. Just so, so, suspenseful and uncomfortable. And it was before all of Nicole's plastic surgery so it's a good "before" compared to her current "after", and her husband in the film was Sam Neill who was also in The Omen 3!

When I was quite young, my father very much enjoyed watching war movies on TV during our cold, snowy Michigan Winter Sunday afternoons. We kids would often watch them with him. As a result, I developed a very strong aversion to violence and war movies. I've also been plagued with war nightmares ever since. This really reared it's ugly head during our son's two tours in Afghanistan. These days, I accept it and try to always avoid movies, books, etc. that will start up the nightmares again. Tonight, after heading off to the movies to see the latest Star Trek and then dinner out, DH and DD decided to watch "Mad Max Fury Road" on Netflix. I lasted about 15 minutes before all the violence got to me. I'm now happily going to spend the rest of my evening tucked into bed reading instead.

I don't tend to find movies as scary, but books of the same movie is another story. Although I can think of two movies that I did feel a bit scared watching. Cape Fear - already mentioned and The hand that rocks the cradle.

I'm with Lynn. The last scary movie I watched was The Birds. Ok, maybe Jaws, unless you count Gravity, but that was scarily unwatchable for a different reason...

haven't seen a scary movie in years. I now have a list to work on! Thanks!

Sueb20, Paranormal Activity is another more recent film that is very well done and scary.

DH likes to watch this genre, and I am often reluctant and just go along to be supportive, but both Paranormal Activity (the original, the sequels not as good) and The Conjuring were really good. But there are lot of really bad more recent ones that are nearly unwatchable, even he admits that.

Another movie along the lines of Cape Fear is Night of the Hunter, also with Robert Mitchum....another chilling role for him that he does so well.