and Rollerboogie (wasn't that Linda also??)

Why couldn't she do a nice Jane Austin flick? LOL

Jaws.

Re: The Exorcist - I was on a high school class trip to Mexico when I saw that movie. Our group was laughing hysterically at the translations used for the spanish subtitles. Nobody else in the theater was amused. I've never been able to think of Exorcist without laughing (of course I can't remember what the translations were that were so funny).

I'd vote for the original "Alien".

Psycho (the original) is pretty scary as well.

"The Prince of Darkness"
"Blair Witch Project"

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How do you think mediocre movies keep breaking opening weekend box office records. You can't compare today's records with records of the past. Maybe the records should come with an asterisk--like a longstanding, pre-steriods baseball record once had.

To date, I think the scariest movie is "The Ring", however "Night of the living Dead" really creeped me out and the new version "28 Days Later" is opening soon, and looks really scary.
But I would choose "The Exorcist" as my second scariest, I still cannot watch the whole thing.

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A friend of mine borrowed another friend's houseboat and showed Jaws to our dates while anchored. It was at night and the rule was that you had to keep your feet dangling over the edge in the water during the movie. It was rough going...and we were on a lake.

I don't enjoy scary movies.......avoid them like the plague, so I can only comment on old scary movies.....seen in my youth.

The Birds
Psycho
(Alfred Hitchcock sure made some good ones!!)
The Exorcist?....not scary......gross would be my word for it.

Jaws.

Although the fact that "From Justin to Kelly" was allowed to be filmed is pretty scary too.

Jaws for me too. My daughter (20) says The Ring is the scariest movie she's ever seen, but I've not seen it.

I don't even remember what it was about, but Salem's Lot scared me horribly at the time.

This one wasn't scary so much as it just wouldn't end--Cujo. I still hate that freaky, drooling dog!

"The Changling" with George C. Scott. The scene right after he throws the ball in the water gave me the creeps.

Wanna see something really scary: Abandoned Hospital

Okay, it looks silly now - but The Blob scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a kid. I couldn't look at silly putty, or that other wiggly jelly play stuff that you made by adding water to some powder but heck if I can remember the name now..... ***shiver***

War of the Worlds - the old one from the 50s or 60s. When I was a kid it was on TV, and my parents didn't realize I was still up. They caught me just when it looked hopeless for the Earthlings and sent me to bed. I had nightmares all night. The next day my Dad, the chemistry professor, explained to me that the Martians were all killed by a virus, which meant absolutely nothing to my little-kid mind. I finally saw the whole thing through years later and it's awfully corny, but I don't think I've ever been so scared by a movie since.

The Birds
The Blob (only you old-timers will remember it)
The Exorcist
Ghost Story

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Scary book, but the movie was not scary. Unfortunately, the last movie for Fred Astaire.


By today's standards these movies may not seem that scary, but, they scared us by catching us off guard--audiences had never seen anything like them:

Psycho--kill off the lead actress within the first 30 minutes was unheard of and unnerving.

Alien--We'd never seen such gore and special effects (they seemed special at the time).

Halloween--Who would have expected this movie in 1978. (Nightmare on Elm Street also scared us, but by that time it was not groundbreaking.)

Night of the Living Dead--For the 50s, walking, flesh eating corpses were pretty frightening (even if you could've outrun them on your sister's tricycle). I saw the original for the first time in the mid-80s and it creeped me out. (Never saw the remake.)

The Thing--stranded in all that ice with nowhere to run from another slow moving monster (the original, not the gross Kurt Russell remake).

The Omen.

Mothman Prophecy - not only did the movie completely freak me out, but I got online after seeing it to investigate this prophecy in history and the stories were incredibly freakish!

The Donald Sutherland version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was on a date, at the drive-in , with my boyfriend. He went to get popcorn and then he slithered around to my side of the car, jumped up and scared the Bejeezuz out of me! No, I didn't marry that nut! I married a different one...

Ammityville Horrers scared my TO DEATH!!! And now I live in a house that looks identical to the one in the movie and I sometimes have dead flys around my window sill!!! My heart races just thinking about those movies, that was a long time ago though!! They may not be as scarey if I watched them today