My wife is a big fan of the genre so I see them a lot. I wouldn't recommend slashers like Scream, I know WHat you did last summer, even the "classics" like Halloween. They're just so cliched, completely not believable and often more funny than scary. I like the ones that might actually happen.
Cape Fear, probably not considered a "horror" movie but to me was scary as sh!t.
Try "The Changeling". Good haunted house flick. and it is not the one that was released this year... the one I am talking about is from 1980 and stars George C. Scott.
it is not a gory/ slasher/ blood splatter movie. it looks at a really pissed off spirit of a 10 year old boy that was murdered 75 years ago.
An interesting tidbit... I actually have the same make/model of the Reel to Reel recorder that was used for recording the Seance in this movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/
AJ
great movie, and you'll recognize a LOT of things in the movie that have been reused over and over again in horrors made since then.
The decent if you've never seen it, it'll scare the crap out of ya, big tv lights off.
good one, especially if you're at all nervous about the dark or confined spaces.
What about the "Saw" movies? Are they any good?
I think I have them all, just never watched them....
First one was great, after that I didn't care for them. They creep or gross you out during the movie but it's not really something you think about after the movie is over.
Go see Paranormal Activity at the movies damn good cheaply made movie worth the watch and scare!!
http://www.paranormalactivity-movie.com/
holy shit, I got about 3 hours of sleep the night I watched that, and I regretted seeing it. To someone with no religious or spiritual background it's not really scary at all, but if you have even a shred within you that believes in the existence and influence of demons you'll be creeped the F out that night.
Of course there's the exorcist, another one that will get you if you believe in demons. The things that come out of that little girls mouth...