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1) “Poltergeist” (1982) — I know a lot of scenes aren’t even trying to be scary (more sci-fi/fantasy/drama about family strength with comic touches) but when it wants to be a horror movie, my God does it does it become horrifying! Demonic forces trying violently to kill children in their bedroom, the mother pinned to the ceiling, a possessed clown doll strangling a boy, a tree trying to eat a boy (then when he’s wandering around the dark house as he’s drenched in blood looking completely dazed and traumatized as the TV lights flicker through the halls), innocent Carol Anne with her hands on the “snow” TV screen in a trance answering the whispering voices coming through, the giant spectral demon-dog roaring at the mom and blocking the kids’ bedroom door. So dark, so disturbing, so scary. Shockingly so. Incredible horror movie.
2) “Vertigo” (1958) — I know, this is a bizarre choice because no one considers it a “horror” movie and I never hear anyone describe it as scary, but it really gets under my skin, it’s uber-creepy; probably since I find this old-fashioned terror that’s psychological and about atmosphere MUCH scarier than most modern horror of jump-scares — the whole dead-ancestor-possessing-Kim-Novak subplot, like when staring at the museum portrait — very creepy, and the very freaky psychedelic nightmare Cary Grant has, and the obsession that gets so intense it plainly hints at necrophilia (the department store scene). Not to mention the creepy nun (ghost?) tolling a death bell. Extremely dark and creepy movie. Very well-done though of course.
Back when The Exorcist came out, we had to drive from Fort Worth to Dallas to see it (this long before multi-screen theaters). Yes, I found it very disturbing and scary. I doubt any subsequent movie I attended at the same immediate impact on me.
It was a rather quiet drive back to Fort Worth. Seems all of us in the car were mulling over what we saw.
Scariest of all to me are people who reply to posts that are 11 years old.
Isn't that, like, talking to the dead?
Nah, whoever revived this top must be a mind reader because I was about to create a thread titled "Movies that scare the sh*t out of you," but this is more appropriate.
Come on, more movies! Now!
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Eventually, that movie will become a documentary. 
