Scary movies that actually scare!

The Changeling (1980) with George C Scott (do not confuse with the Angelina Jolie movie of the same name) is an excellent, complex story with proper tension build up and scares but without any gore.

Saw the vvitch in the cinema a few months back and that gave me the chills. The music and the the dialog are fantastic. Couldn't get the film out of my head for a few days afterwards which is always a good sign.

I watched Michael Winners The Sentinel a couple of months back which was the first proper horror movie to actually scare me in years. It also boast a pretty well known cast for what seems to be a low budget horror movie, 3 Oscar winners and a couple more unknown at the time who went onto become stars Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum Richard Dreyfuss and more.

I'm a big fan of The Grudge, both Japanese and US remakes.
I went to see without any knowledge and expectations.

I watch it every halloween still, it's obviously got the jump scares but there's an unsettling element through the whole thing, the kid, the woman, the bloody gurgling noise!

I'm more into the sort of psychological type/ghosty type scare films, but three films that come to mind

- The Woman In Black - The ITV version, not the film, that was shown in around 1989ish on Christmas Eve, why it was shown at that seasonal time of the year beggars belief. Had a pretty crap christmas to be honest after watching that. I believe the play is even scarier

- Jacobs Ladder - Tim Robbins gives his best performance as a tortured Vietnam vet who experiences ghostly visions and disturbing flashbacks of his tour of duty as a marine. Some very good jump out of the seat moments, the film also contains one of the greatest twist endings in cinema history, a real WTF???

- Session 9 - Starring Peter Mullan and David Caruso. A real hidden gem of a psychological type horror film. Has gone onto acquire a cult status. But without giving too much away, its based on a group of health&safety workers removing asbestos from an abandoned mental health institution. But again, some very scary moments in it but with an incredibly disturbing ending that will live long in the mind. The acting is brilliant and the location of the mental hospital (which actually did exist, but was later demolished) gives a very creepy, disturbing feel to the film overall.

pet cemetery very freaky and a few films from dario argento in particular "the church" very hard to find but that period of horror film makers got it right freak the **** out of you and leave a lasting fear in you