or you can check the time...

I'm with you on this one, maybe that's why I prefer psychological terror and instigating thrillers. These may not make you scream, but they fuck up your mind and blow your mind sometimes. Have you ever tried Suspiria and Rosemary's baby? I'd recomend both, but keep in mind that they're both older movies and won't make you "scared" in the traditional way scare-jumps try to. :P

True, but I at least want to be somewhat scared of the movies that "claim" to be scary.

I got a lot of great recommendations, everyone, keep em coming! It's October, I wanna be scared dagnabbit!

I am the same which is a pity because I want a good fright. The best recommendation I can think of is John Carpenter's remake of The Thing. It's mostly a suspenseful psychological horror but the creature itself is extremely... unsettling.

I liked the movie but I was really disappointed by the way they disrespected their own lore so easily as Tarantino explained. Also the ending (the pool scene) made no sense lol. But the style of the movie and the concept as well as the soundtrack were great.

Yes, it has some serious flaws, but it feels pretty unique and the experience is strong. And is one of those films that understand what the fear of the unkown is about.

Did you see Babadook? that feels pretty unique too

Although to be honest most of my favourite terror movies of the last years are not specially scary, movies like The Cabin In Woods, VHS 2, The Conjuring, You are next, etc are pretty good (imo) without being very scary or even nothing at all. 

Yeah, don't watch gore movies. Those are mor disgusting than scary. Watch something like Insidious or The Conjuring.

Getting scared by "scary" movies is 100% psychological. If the movie deals with CONCEPTS that scare you, or you allow yourself to be bothered by, and don't saturate yourself in the mindset of "it's ONLY a movie, those are ONLY movie effects, this is a dumb MOVIE plot", then you're not going to get very affected. Part of the magic of film, is that you have to suspend disbelief. You don't watch Harry Potter or Star Wars and go "YEAH RIGHT MAN, THAT'S NOT REAL", because if you're doing that, there's literally no point in your watching the movie. Part of the enjoyment, is to just sit back and go along for the ride, which I will admit I find that many people in this modern era seem to have trouble doing. Why? Because of the internet. Because it's a hyper-critical age, where people get all sorts of background info and behind the scenes data and all this other shit, at their finger-tips, online.

It also doesn't help that more and more "scary" movies these days, go for two things to "get"you:

1. Stupid jump scares, "GOTCHA" moments that are just meant to give a sudden jolt, which is the illusion of being scared, not really feeling "fear" or real tension.

2. Gore. They just up the gore, they go for shock value, trying to be vulgar, and disgusting, and as disturbing as possible. Feeling disgusted or grossed out or disturbed is not the same as feeling "scared". At all. So those movies aren't even "scary" movies, they're disgusting movies. Sure, the gross/disturbing content, were it real life, would still be scary. But it's so over the top and beyond dumb in most of these movies, that you're not scared....just disturbed.

And to me, both of those things suck. That is not the classic approach to horror films, wherein you try to build an atmosphere of genuine creepiness, you try to actually creep the viewer out, to make them tense, to make them feel some sense of fear, at the concepts you're putting for and the story you're telling.

One of the few decent examples from MODERN horror I could give you, would be the first Jeepers Creepers. It did it right, for the most part, not overshowing the monster, not relying on too many "jump" moments, or extraneous gore and shit. It was more psychological, it got to you with concepts that are actually scary. At least that was my take on it.

Don't know if it was said before, but try watching Alien or Aliens if you haven't already.  The original Alien is the only truly scary monster movie I can think of.  It's slow but that's kind of the idea as it builds.  aliens isn't as scary per say, but the monster designs in some of the scenes is pretty chilling to look at.  

If Alien or Alien Edit: AlienS (damn plurality) doesn't put a chill in you, then monster movies will never scare you...or imo horror movies in general.

I'm looking forward to seeing Babadook! And yeah The Cabin in the Woods was so good. A recent one I also really liked was Mama.