This was the recent list polled by Lovefilm.com:

1) The Shining (1980)
2) Blair Witch Project (1999)
3) The Exorcist (1973)
4) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
5) Saw (2004)
6) Ringu (1998)
7) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
8) The Omen (1976)
9) The Wicker Man (1973)
10) Psycho (1960)

Watched Omen II the other night, like the first one (with the decapitation), it was more about gore than frightening type scenes where it's all quiet and then suddenly the music goes dead loud to scare the s%&* outta ya.

I was brought up on the old B&W classics with Lon Channey, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee etc before the special effects came on the scene.

I thought the Exorcist took a while getting going with all the digging in Iraq or wherever and then the shock was that young girl talking about explicit sex and thrwonig up that green yuk over the priest - the head spin was alright though.

I don't particularly like the Shining and if the 'Here's Johnny' scene was recently voted in the top few shocking moments, people must be very easily scared.

I particularly like the Changeling for its storyline but that's not listed there - A George C. Scott film.

Physcho only has its famous shower scene to make it in there I think though that Norman Bates fella was weird so like the Wicker man it was of its time, ahead of its time perhaps which makes it iconic.

Almost forgot, left the room less than halfway through the Blair Witch one, not through being scare either but bored.

Sorry, i'm not that easily pleased when it comes to scary films.

I agree totally with you Ged. I watched The Shining (again) last night and I don't think it should be #1. Blair Witch is overhyped - didn't do anything for me. I, like you, was brought up on the older horror films (and also The Hammer films). Suprised to see none there, especially considering how iconic they were. Yes, The Changeling. I liked that. Also thought The Others was quite good. I prefer Manhunter to Silence of the Lambs. Much prefer Brian Cox's menacing Lecktor (as he was known in Manhunter) to Hopkins OTT performance.

The Laurel & Hardy murder case is scarier than the lot of em' ha ha.

The Laurel & Hardy murder case is scarier than the lot of em' ha ha.

:handclap: Yeah - an' Oliver The Eighth!

I like the old dracula and frankinstein ones best, they work every time for me

This was the recent list polled by Lovefilm.com:

1) The Shining (1980)
2) Blair Witch Project (1999)
3) The Exorcist (1973)
4) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
5) Saw (2004)
6) Ringu (1998)
7) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
8) The Omen (1976)
9) The Wicker Man (1973)
10) Psycho (1960)

Seen 7 of them and Texas Chainsaw Massacre should be higher.:PDT10

I prefer Jason Voorhees from Friday the !3th out of Michal Myer's, Kruger and Leatherface though.

Well i saw Blair Witch at the pictures, the only thing it did too me was make me throw up, all over my sister-in-law :unibrow: It was because of how it was filmed, it gave me motion sickness. I wasn't alone as i came back from loo half way through, a woman was standing by the door saying she felt sick. It was the biggest load of rubbish i have had the misfortune to watch. I missed the end as i fell asleep.

My sister pee'd in class watching a film during a lesson. The teacher asked why she didn't just put her hand up, she had but it just came through.

The best Texas Chainsaw film was the 3rd one though. Had an army dude with an M-16 having a war with Leatherfae and his family.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

The army guy was the same black fella who was In the original Dawn of the Dead who also was Keenan's dad In Keenan and Kel on Nickelodeon.:eek:

I just love the Shining. I've watched it loads of times and havn't got fed up seeing it over again.

I'm not at all the slightest bit spooked by any horror film or book.
The films are so far fetched I think they are more like comedy and I usually laugh at them. Jack Nicholson in The Shining - it's brill .. we always have a laugh with it.

The funniest one was when we went to the cinema to see Exorcist 2 ( I think it was the second one - was there an Exorcist 3 ?) .. anyway, it was hysterical - the part when, I think it was a statue of Christ, ran out brandishing a dagger. Something like that anyway - it was like a comedy.

I must admit, i HATE the Exorcist, the head bit freaked me out when i was younger and i won't watch it now. It IS silly BUT i had a few sleepless nights with that. I think it was because it was a kid, i don't know.

Appointment with fear on a monday night or the Hammer House of horrors were the best, even some of those cheapo 'Tales of the unexpected'.

Appointment With Fear...God I remember that! As a kid I was scared hearing the name alone :shock:. I remember watching the old series of Thriller (Boris Karloff presented in the 1960's) and the episode was called The Grim Reaper (starring a very young William Shatner). In it was a painting of the Grim Reaper. At the dead of night the reaper came out of the picture, swinging his scythe. That was quite scary...

I just love the Shining. I've watched it loads of times and havn't got fed up seeing it over again.

I'm not at all the slightest bit spooked by any horror film or book.
The films are so far fetched I think they are more like comedy and I usually laugh at them. Jack Nicholson in The Shining - it's brill .. we always have a laugh with it.

It's a good film, I just laugh at the "Here's Johnny!!" bit. I think Kubrick used something like 80-100 doors in the process of that scene :shock: He was notorious for multiple 'takes.'
I like Kubrick's films.