Let's see. Growing up it was all the b&w Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman The Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon. And then the "Creature Features" stuff (Universal Horror, RKO, Hammer, Roger Corman's b-movies, and Japanese monsters), and then the early sci-fi stuff, with the atomic monsters and invading aliens. Plenty of stuff to scare a kid in many of those.
As I got a little older the ones that made an impression have mostly been listed already: The Birds, Psycho, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the rest. The Shining 'cause I loved early Stephen King books and it was a passable version of the book and had Jack Nicholson. Early Clive Barker movies too (after King said Barker was the only one who scared him).
The Omen was scary (the original 1976 version). The scene with the Rottweiler 'graveyard dogs' was scary enough, but afterwards, when I walked my date back to my car there was a big dog in the darkness of the alley next to where I'd parked, which barked and snarled and ran towards us. I don't have any idea how we did it but I had the car unlocked, both of us inside and both door locked again by the time we realized the dog was on a chain and were able to laugh at how we'd reacted. (Note: very good sex that night too, both of us still riding that big adrenalin rush.)
The new horror stuff hasn't worked on me for a long time unfortunately, but I do like how the zombies have gotten faster. I never liked slow creatures when I thought they should be faster. I like fast zombies. (And I like how fast the vampires move in the new True Blood on HBO).
Okay, time to recommend one that hasn't been mentioned yet. This one is from back in 1972 (though there is a new version in post-production now it seems):
The Last House on the Left from Wes Craven. You definitely want to try to get the most unedited version you can find (
more info at Wikipedia).
"Outside, Estelle has duped Weasel into a sex game, which concludes with her biting off the criminal's genitals."
Now
that's HORROR!
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