The Pit and the Pendulum Like most Hammer films, its production values were second only to Edward Wood's in cheese and wooden acting. But the scene in the basement where they exhume Vincent Price's wife scared the crap out of 10 year old me. The music, the characters, and the setting all combined for a fantasia of delightful fright.
The House on Green Apple Road This one was also a turkey, but was remarkable only because it scared me in spite of my being unable to watch it at all.
When I was a kid, the movie ran on a local TV station after hours, with stern warnings about its gore and scariness. My parents were going out to a party and left me in the care of my older brother, who flatly refused to let me watch it with him. With a little help from a vivid imagination and what I could hear of the dialog from the top of the staircase, I had nightmares for 3 days about this movie that I never even saw. (I did see it years later, and it bored me to tears).
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) wasn't even the scariest part of Tobe Hooper's original masterpiece. The old grandfather attempting to bash the female ingenue's skull with a sledgehammer always sends me to Creep Factor 10.
The Zapruder Film Some real horror. And it really happened.
Alien If you didn't jump through the movie theater ceiling when the chestburster came out of the egg and attached itself to Kane's faceplate, you're made out of sterner stuff than I am.
Trainspotting Yes, its only a movie. But the wasted lives and intellect portrayed made me want to slash my wrists after watching it.
Ghost Ship Made about 7 bucks at the box office. Plenty of cheese, plenty of bad acting, worst soundtrack I've ever heard. But the introduction of cultured European cruise liner passengers to a certain piece of wire cable in the first 5 minutes made me cringe and laugh at the same time. Marvelous stuff, but it goes downhill rapidly after that.
Frankenstein? The Wolf Man? Dracula? Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Jason and Co? Naah - didn't scare me a bit.
I cringe at that part too, then start laughing as people are falling down dead, cut in half, and that little girl is standing there where she was dancing with the captain, looks up at him, and the op of his head falls off. I thought that was COOL.