There were some good ones mentioned earlier like The Shining (not really scary anymore), Nightmare on Elm Street (badass movie), and Alien. The Exorcist is fairly scary too. The first Saw is alright, I actually like Saw II better. Original Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead are amazing.
The scariest movies I have seen:
The Strangers (hands down the movie that scared the shit out of me the most)
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Halloween (the original and the Rob Zombie remake. Remake is scarier and is a pretty good)
House of 1000 Corpses (good modern "old school" horror movie)
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
