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¿Question #994?
TomVasel: Are any horror movies truly scary?

ocdspectrum: The grudge.
imyourskribe: Anything with creepy face people. I hate creepy faces :(
spacerx: Jaws was effective at scaring people away from beaches.
Neolarthytep: Sure
the manatee: Yes.
jaimeb: Yes. Exorcist and Alien come to mind immediately.
Felimid: Ever seen "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff? Late at night, with the lights turned off?
pwilz: The last Horror movie that I remember scaring me was, "The Exorcist." back when I was about 19. I don't think it would be as scary now, but I still like watching horror movies.
Woelf: Not anymore. Gorefests and the occasional "jump scene" are all you find these days. Very few are even worth the time it takes to watch them on basic cable.
DeePee: That's a hard one! I've seen quite a few myself so maybe I've just become "immune" to them. They are usually more disturbing than scary.
tankexmortis: Only ones that are scary because of their inexplicable popularity.
falloutfan: I think that there's an important distinction between scary and gross. I found "The Ring" to be scary.
kathleenryan: Yes. I saw the original "Night of the Living Dead" when I was eleven years old and that scared me. When I got older, John Carptenter's "Halloween" and "The Thing." Also "An American Werewolf in London," "The Howling," and "Dracula"-(With Gary Oldman was pretty creepy)
Shaun L: Some are startling, others creepy ... most funny.
Mondior: Rarely
NJames: No. But if you want to scare yourself certain movies may help.
Admiral Fisher: I hate the genre. BUT, the original Wicker Man was very chilling.
PsyJam: Sure, but the 'scary' factor only comes through empathizing with the victims.. If you can't empathize with them, then you aren't going to feel 'scared' for them
TheKeck: Possibly.
ikajaste: No, not really. Parts, sometime.
waza: No
shteev: Yeah, but they have to be good, and you have to let them scare you. The Blair Witch Project and The Ring both scared the crap out of me. Watching on my own at night in a big empty house helped a lot.
Rockhead: I was traumatized by "Porky's III"!
DHEK: Some are. Some are not. But I guess whether they are really scary or not also depends a lot on the individual.
Royalflush: Nowadays? No. There are some good classics though.
Butterbane: Yes ... lot og them
Chris Page: Certainly. Someone greenlights them.
StormKnight: Well, yes...but usually its along the lines of. "People actually went to see that? That's scary!"
Jocab: Well... the first time I saw The Exorcist. I was about 14.
Benzebub: Not unless you allow yourself to get emotionally invested in the characters in the movie.
petepat: not for me, usually its some psychological triller
szilaj: Some of them.
everlong205: The Vanishing (the german one - not the remake with Kiefer Sutherland) is genuinely creepy
dragonewtking: only if you pay full price at the theatre to see one...
jasta6: Yes............. Hell Raiser IV was...................
vampywife: none that i've found
dictator555: Yes.
FrozenHoHos: Most of them are really bad, so yeah, but in a different way.
Dorque: Nope. But dramas frequently are.
TaliaIsabelle: All of 'em
Helenoftroy: Urban Legends but I'm a wuss.
skrutsch: to me, yes.
orodreth: Never
mrspank: Not anymore. I'm 39 for godsakes.
Nem Menuu: To me,every,movie is scary if it tries or I try.
bigbadsteve: strangeland comes close, although maybe creepy is a better description
Quest22: Yes
SenorOcho: I tried watching one, but I fell asleep.
helyanamanso: yes
steef: On Golden Pond
shawn_low: Is the sky blue?
Famous Mortimer: As long as "dumb" and "scary" are mutually exclusive, then yes.
Loquutus: Was Battlefield Earth a horror movie? It WAS pretty scary.
taraba: No. Mostly they just try to make you jump and show a lot of gore.
POvidiusNaso: Sure.
Yollege: Blair Witch project scared the hell out of me.
brainrob: No - they're just movies
bjonenplota: Yes, especially japanese ones
schlappy: Blair Witch always gives me the creeps -- tho Session Nine is pretty good, too..
CharlieWonka: No
Great Dane: probably
Gamegrunt: Psycho scared the begeebers out me when I was a little kid.
ssmooth: Sure... some are even unsettling.
leece: I don't know because I'm too much of a coward to see them.
The Unbeliever: 42
Igmatto: no
Lord_Prussian: Startling at times, but rarely scary.
mrbeankc: Only a few
Cavedog_pdx: The Silence of the Lambs, Rosemary's Baby, Se7en, and Alien all scared me good the first time I saw them.
ikeafetishist: nope. but i was desensitized at an early age.
DangerMouse: Oh sure! You've just gotta immerse yourself in the good ones.
Bearcat89: The only movie that ever creeped me was Salem's Lot.
mandj2001: Don't watch them, so I don't know.
snoozefest: no, mostly they startle
Karlsen: Yes
Nomadik: No. But they still rule
jmagnini: nah, they just startle you
heli: n
AWildEep: no, but some comedies are.
xlorp: Zany old monsters biting into everyone's skulls
bbenston: Mostly, no. However, The Shining scared the bejeezus out of me when I first saw it.
2amp: not now.
darquil: The Shining continues to scare me. The tension was too great in The Others for me to finish it in one viewing.
berserkley: yes
Wintergoblin: sometimes
batman: In how much money they make.
m_r_tyler: Yes.
Jatoha: I think most horror movies now are just gross.
stephensj23: Yes, two.
DenverWolf: Not anymore.
isolated: Yes. But very VERY rarely. A good horror movie can give you the illusion of being scary. By building tension early on and not letting go. But the audience has to let themselve truly get into the movie before they'll be scared by more than just cheap tricks.
Windopaene: The Thing (John Carpenter Version)
AlorielLelyn: Signs was probably the scariest film I've seen. Mostly because it didn't use musical cues.
sumo: Some of them scare me so much I won't watch them! Anything with satanic rituals and hooded figures is a no go area. I left the cinema as a wreck after Aliens.
tragicpoet: Not a darn one
Grimwold: Depends what you mean by scary... some movies can 'make me jump' and occasionally a movie can 'freak me out' enough to make me leave the cinema (not because I'm afraid, but because I have over-imaginative-squemishness).. the only film where that happened though was "Saw".
onky: Yes, Evil Dead.
shippert: Yes, but not very many
Gregarius: If you will yourself into the moment, yes
Ryno8: Yes
Blackwind: no
echoota: These days it is very rare to find a good scary one.
Mordachai: If by scary you mean, really really bad... then yes.
lexen: not really
yossarians: yes. The shining
viogression: The ideas behind them may be, but not the movies themselves.
fellonmyhead: Yes, but only if you really think about them and the implications of the plot.
chaddyboy_2000: Not really.
puffinge: yes
gnomehome: 'The Shining' and 'The Blair Witch Project' qualify.
djlg: Probably, but I'm too scared to find out.
dakarp: Yes, but I'm easily scared.
UhhhClem: ROSEMARY'S BABY sure as hell was.
raolsson: Alien
BobDodgerBlue: A Few, In the Mouths of Madness for me
P.O.G.G.: Some are scary to me at least.
fsumarc: yes
dietevil: Gory, yes, scary - not sure
haraggan: I thought Alien was, if you count that as a horror movie
LudesFactor: scary that there are a lot of people who pay good money to see them
CortexBomb: Not really, but I still love watching them anyway
netfilterz: Yes, especially the more plausible and psychological ones...
Ludocrazy: yes
skelebone: No, because I don't suspend disbelief.
louiseh: 28 days later made me jump a lot.
Shakar: I don't like this kind of movies.
Flyspeck23: Yes (The Ring, for instance), but most aren't.
CDRodeffer: Yes
mnvalente: No
ValJor: Boy, yes!
Claytonius Maximus: sorry, no
jttm: My friends like to divide horror movies into psychological (scary) and shock tactics (which they hate - not scary)
ynnen: Yes, usually the ones that rely on psychological horror than sheer violence. Cube and Silence of the Lambs freaked me out.