Favourite and scariest horror movies?

[griffin]

With halloween this week, becoming a bigger thing each year in Australia from the major retailers trying to create another spending event... plus seeing some TV commercials promoting some horror shows/movies this week, I had the idea to ask what others have as their favourite horror movies, and/or the most scariest movies you've ever seen (or failed to watch to the end because it was too scary).

[Gutsman Heavy]

Alien is probably the only movie that I'd consider scary (not counting jump scares, which are a shock rather than actual fright). I do find some movies like Spice to be rather unsettling.

I'd also reccomend Attack the Block, whilst more Sci-fi with some comedy dressing, I think it makes good a Halloween flick.

[Demonac]

The movies that worked on me are:
The Haunting (1963 version), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Exorcist, Blair Witch Project.

[GoktimusPrime]

In terms of skin-crawlingly creepy, I can't go past that awful "Romeo & Juliet" scene in Transformers: Age of Extinction. (-_-)

[Handsprime]

Monsters inc is the scariest movie out there just think there could be a monster in your closet

[Ralph Wiggum]

The scariest movie I've seen is The Ring (Japanese version).

The most horrifying would be Transformers Age of Extinction.

[5FDP]

+ 1 for The Ring... although I've only ever seen the US version. We actually named our daughter Samara based on the character of the same name

[Paulbot]

...I had the idea to ask what others have as their favourite horror movies, and/or the most scariest movies you've ever seen (or failed to watch to the end because it was too scary).

Showgirls. Absolutely frightening

Which is of course a quote from Scream 2 which was the first horror slasher film I ever saw (and starting with someone watching a horror movie in the cinema getting killed really freaked out this person watching a horror movie In a cinema). Hasn't held up on subsequent viewing though I have a soft spot for it

Wolf Creek was pretty damn scary as it seemed like something that could plausibly happen. Saw was pretty scary, never saw any of the sequels.

A +1 for Wolf Creek. That was one I almost walked out of. The second one wasn't bad either

I love Aliens but that's more action than horror. The Dawn of the Dead remake is my favourite zombie movie, despite the fast zombies. Dog Soldiers is an underrated werewolf film that I really enjoyed (good pick Gutsman). The Others was a great gothic horror film. I saw It Follows recently and that was very successful creepy thriller.

But if I picked one horror film that scared the **** out of me it would be The Descent. Was on edge and restless the whole time and definitely jumped out of my seat at one moment.

[Trent]

For movies that scared the crap out of me, not including ones I saw as a kid, only two come to mind. The first is Event Horizon. I was 16, at a friends house with about 8 other friends. It was 2am and we were all fairly intoxicated. We shat ourselves at Sam Neil's decent into madness

The other was The Ring (US version). Watched it with my wife on DVD. After it finished we dared each other to watch the clip from the movie, couldn't do it

[twincobra]

Event horizon scared the s*#t out of me when I originally saw it in High school, and The Human Centipede shocked me the most, I wouldn't watch it again.

Also the VHS box art for the Ghoulies & Nightmare on Elm Street used to freak me out as a kid.