What is the scariest suspenseful film you ever saw?

[SummerSnow]

When a stranger calls..no blood or gore just suspense.Dont watch it alone at night.

[valerief]

1. Psycho. For years I wouldn't take a shower unless someone else was in the house. nt

[SummerSnow]

4. Oh yea very scary ...i only use clear shower curtains myself.

[valerief]

8. Ha! I still do, too!!! nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. The Birds - saw it when I was quite young....terrifying - bad dreams for weeks!

[SummerSnow]

6. i love that movie

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Wait Until Dark.

VERY suspenseful. It has been 40 years since i saw it, and I STILL remember it.

[SummerSnow]

5. eek the refridgerator scene..

I was like close it close it!!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Or the leaping scene!

How did they know we KNEW he was dead???

Omigod.

[mockmonkey]

11. I have never seen that movie.

I am writing it down so I remember to look for it. It's not often that Alan Arkin plays a bad guy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. It is PHENOMENAL. Not to be missed!

Alan Arkin was amazing.

[Lil Missy]

9. "Have you checked the children?"

[SummerSnow]

13. scariest movie line imo...then cue the scary psychotic.music

[mockmonkey]

10. The Changeling...

staring George C. Scott. There is a scene with a child's wheelchair that always makes me shiver. The way sound is used is very reminiscent of the way sound was used in the movie "The Haunting" which is also an excellent movie.

[cyberswede]

14. "The Terror" creeped me out a lot when I saw it as a kid.

Now it's just campy fun!

IMDb: The Terror (1963)
A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.
http://www.imdb.com/rg/em_share/title_web/title/tt0057569?ref=ext_shr_eml_tt

Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson.

[Graybeard]

15. Dead Of Night

Dead Of Night is a 1945 British film that scared the crap out of me as a youngster and it still does. The ending is haunting in the way that recurring nightmares always are.

[ailsagirl]

22. Yes, I've seen it... spooky

Also, "Les Diaboliques" (1955)

[longship]

16. "The Haunting" (1963)

Saw it with a friend when I was in 9th grade. Could not sleep in the dark for a week.

Then, I read the book, ("The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson) and it's even scarier.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Shirley Jackson "The Haunting of Hill House" first paragraph.

On edit: This is the original version, directed by Robert Wise, not the garbage remake released a few years ago.

[Little_Wing]

18. Hair-raisingly frightening

I watched this alone one night in high school? Possible. Local Detroit TV seemed to have an amazing library of old movies in the '60s, I feel so blessed to have grown up there.

The scene with the two women in the bedroom still freaks me out, even knowing the resolution...

Perfect choice.

[longship]

19. Yup! Remember Bill Kennedy?

He was a Detroit institution.

He was often tipsy during his afternoon movie program on CKLW-TV, channel 9, out of Windsor, ONT CA. In later years he was relegated to Saturday afternoons, but earlier it was weekday afternoons.

He had one of the largest Hollywood photo collections and would always show pics during commercial breaks.

Loved him, especially when he was obviously gassed.

[Little_Wing]

20. Remember the man, not the inebriation..

Maybe I was too unworldly to notice? But yeah, he was pretty entertaining, not to mention knowledgable. CKLW! Haven't thought of those call letters in years. They had quite a radio station too, as I recall. Good times in the Motor City. It's so sad to watch what's happening to it now.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. Cape Fear

I prefer the original but both versions were excellent, heart pounding thrillers. Two great thrillers from director Henri-Georges Clouzot were Les Diaboliques and Wages Of Fear. A more modern classic would be Silence Of The Lambs (the last scenes with Jodie Foster groping in the dark with a serial killer inches away was scary).

[ailsagirl]

21. "The Haunting"

With the wonderful Julie Harris.

Although, this is a spooky film-- very eerie

I don't know if that's the same thing as scary, though

From the novel by the great Shirley Jackson

As far as suspense, I go with Hitchcock-- "The Master of Suspense"