Your top 5 scariest movies as an Adult

[Zemo]

I'm curious, cause nothing really scares me, or throws me into the "Suspense mode". Granted, I'm not up on all these types of movies, so I'm hoping someone lists something really good that I've missed.

[megoapesnut]

The ending of Carpenter's Prince of Darkness still literally gives me chills down my spine. I guess not so much scary as creepy. Other than that, I'm with you, I can't think of any movies that truly scare me. The closest thing I can think of is The Walking Dead series.

[drquest]

Exorcist('nuff said)
Salem's Lot(creeped me out as a kid and still does, mostly the boy's friend floating at the window)
Alien(classic stuff)
Event Horizon(cool visuals, decent story)
Paranormal Activity(hard to count it since it doesn't continue to make me jump, LOL)

The original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein should be on the list too.

[dr_cyclops]

Way back in 1982, I was 18 and having grown up on Horror films, believe myself to have gotten to the point in my life where a movie could not scare me anymore. I don't mean 'startle', directors can create that. I mean that disturbing creepy feeling the lasts long after the credits and into the days and nights that follow. Strange as it is, religious horror does not scare me, as much as sci-fi. Carpenter's The Thing, scared me, the way no other movie has since. There are no other four.

[Mikey]

Hmmm,
Nothing much scares me today.

The I Spit on your Grave rape scenes are still disturbing for me to watch.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I don't really have a top 5, but the horror film that chilled me the most was oddly enough "The Sixth Sense". After you see it the first time, it loses quite a bit of impact, but that first time in the theater, when the Osment boy turned around in the tent to see the little girl vomiting...sheesh! Everyone in the theater jumped and screamed, and Cindy took the hide off my leg.

Shamalyan never could outdo his twist ending here. Again, it loses a bit in repeat viewings, but it is a really well done, smart movie. And for someone who grew up in a house where a lot of unexplained things happened, it resonated with me quite a bit.

Chris

[boss]

Anything with Catherine Heigl.

[kingdom warrior]

The Exorcist
Suspiria
Let the right one in-Swedish movie
American Werewolf in London
Hostel- unedited version

[exoduschj]

Horror movies that I would recommend, most available on Netflix:

OLD SCHOOL
The original Halloween
John Carpenter's The Thing
Evil Dead
Demons
The Fog
Re-Animator
Night of the Living Dead
The Wicker Man

Try'em on for size...
V.H.S.
The Shrine
Jenifer
The Descent
Absentia
Insidious
Malevolent
Bereavement
The Caller
REC and REC2
Quarantine 1 & 2
Grave Encounters
Altered
Blood Creek
The Hole
Mutants
The Maid
It Waits
The Mist
Cigarette Burns
The Innkeepers
Lake Mungo

[Hector]

Kinda funny subject...as a kid, The Exorcist terrified me, so did the wooden doll segment of Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black...and as a really small kid...nothing was scarier to me than The Creature From The Black Lagoon.

But today, nothing really scares me...but there are a few films were perhaps the hairs in the back of my neck rise up, lol.

Believe it or not...something like a mock documentary like The Fourth Kind with Milla Jovovich...I don't know, but I found that film rather creepy, lol.

Paranormal Activity (the first one), also comes to mind.

The Blair Witch Project sort of did the same thing early one, and during the middle, but towards the end, it just started getting really annoying and obnoxious, I just wanted the witch to kill them all already, lol.

The Mist was also really creepy...and while it didn't really make me jump outta my chair...it had this feeling of hopelessness and pure dread...found it very depressing, and that's as effective as any scary movie out there.

Romero's original Night of the Living Dead is similar to that.

The Shining was also sort of creepy.

Stuff like that...lol.

Monster movies are not scary to me...they are fun, lol.

[Nostalgiabuff]

30 days of night was a truly frightening movie.....the first time you watch it. after that, as with any scary movie, it loses it's fright factor

[Hflagman1]

I HATED the 80's version of The Thing...OMG when the guys chest opened up and bites the other dudes hands off, and the body's head pop's off and grows legs.... I to this day can't watch that dang movie lol.

[Splitty]

This is terrible, I think I'm jaded.
Plenty of stuff scared me as a kid, but as an adult I can't think of one movie as a whole.
There's plenty of stuff I find disturbing, suspenseful on the edge of your seat, and uncomfortable, but not scary per se'.
I just get an absolute delighted kick out of monster and mutatious movies, so no scare there.

(note: movies that freaked me the frick out before adult years were Jaws, The Shining, The Thing, Psycho, The Fog, Halloween, I don't think Night of the Living Dead scared me, but I LOVED it)
(scenes from childhood were whatever Peter Cushing house movie where the walls wept blood - I kept expecting that to happen in my house, Rats where rats started gorily munching on theater goers - I kept my feet up when in a theater after that, and the Spiral Staircase where the lady is changing into her nightgown with her hands above her head and her face obscured by her dress, and somebody runs in and stabs her repeatedly and she can do nothing because her arms are caught! Let me tell you, I changed QUICKLY for bed after that, and checked my closets to make sure nobody was there with a knife waiting for me to change. It could happen.)

As an adult, I remember getting creeped out during 'The Strangers' as in running past dark doorways and windows for a night (although it's since faded from memory), and just the scene in the Blair Witch project when the last remaining kid goes down the stairs (everytime I descend into a basement like place I expect to see that creepy dude in the corner).

Shocking for the first time was Hellraiser, Evil Dead 2 (I hadn't seen the first one), and Suspiria. High suspense ones I'd call [Rec] / Quarantine, Black Water (that damn diabolical alligator!!), Creep (Franka Potente), I know alot of people diss Dog Soldiers but I was very suspensefully entertained, errr.. can't think of anymore.

But even though the movie wasn't that scary, the girl ghost from The Ring did what a horror movie is supposed to do. It tripped my real-life imagination and carried the scare outside the movie. For like a WEEK afterwards I skittered quickly past shadowed corners in dim lit rooms, as I was SURE I'd see that lanky pale droopy thing in the corner.
For me I can't really be scared unless I could see it happening in real life (which is why I find people more fundamentally scary than monsters), and errr, I did watch the movie and viewed that doomed tape. Just sayin'.....

[dr_cyclops]

I was 16 when I saw 'The Shining' HBO. Perhaps that's why I don't have a bigger list. Too many good ones, I saw before I was 18. I was 17 when I saw 'American Werewolf in London'. OMG, I was 13 when I saw 'Jaws' on HBO? This must have been about the time my grandma found to buy my X-mas presents at Halloween close out prices. I got rubber bats and plastic masks. Everything and more of what I wanted 2 months ago. My grandma is still around. She lives in town. We talk/visit all the time. She loves my custom megos. She knows I love 'arts and crafts'. She is a perfect grandma. She let me go to rated R horror movies from 16-17, gave permission at the box office. She knew most of those movie I would grow far beyond. Oh, did I. Today there are many of those rated-R horror movies I don't desire to see again. Nevertheless, The gems shine greatly.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I HATED the 80's version of The Thing...OMG when the guys chest opened up and bites the other dudes hands off, and the body's head pop's off and grows legs.... I to this day can't watch that dang movie lol.

Funny so many people mention The Thing. That was my first true modern horror movie. I was a very faint-hearted kid. I flipped out upon seeing Lon Chaney change into the Wolfman in A&C Meet Frankenstein around age 3 or so. I'd hide my eyes every time a horror movie commercial came on TV. I got creeped out by paperback novel covers at the drugstore.

So when I'm about 8 or 9, my friends rent The Thing from a video store downtown that had absolutely no problems renting R-rated movies to kids. Talk about a baptism of fire!!! Needless to say after that gore-fest, nothing could really phase me as far as outlandish, disgusting nastiness.

Chris