New Poll Part Deux. Scariest Movie of All Time!!!

[DaHaq]

I would have voted for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre had it been up there, but in its stead I picked Alien. I love the feel of those movies, minimal use of lame musical scoring, both seem very gritty and real, and reality is what makes a movie scary to me. That damned Tubular Bells theme ruined the Exorcist for me, I've never been able to understand why people enjoy that song! Modern stuff like the Ring can scare me moderately, but seem a bit too stylized, just aping what past horror has done before while adding fancy digital post-processing to make the image looked washed out/dark greenish/whatever.

[L.J.]

I love the feel of those movies, minimal use of lame musical scoring, both seem very gritty and real, and reality is what makes a movie scary to me.

That's what I'm talking about. You gotta go old skool and throw in the this can really happen factor. Psycho and texas chain...... can really happen making them that much more scary. There's no special effects or emphasis on using technology to the extreme,it's just people in real situations. You can easily put yourself there and that's what makes it scary. I havent seen any newer films, on the scary side that I even care to watch. I usually go to blockbuster and pick up one of those old skool classics.