I don’t want to call it a Horror movie list or even Scary movie list because maybe now Omega Man or Laurel and Hardy in The March Of The Wooden Soldiers don’t scare me, but when I saw them as a kid they creeped me out.
I'm sure I’m missing about twenty more movies that would of qualified, had I remembered them.
What’s missing that would make your lists (and don’t say Saw 2)?
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene 1920)
Freaks (Browing 1932)
King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack 1933)
March Of The Wooden Soldiers (Meins 1934)
Cat People (Tourneur 1942)
Curse Of The Cat People (Wise 1944)
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Barton 1948)
The Thing from Another World (Nyby 1951)
Diaboliques (Clouzot 1955)
Night Of The Hunter (Laughton 1955)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel 1956)
Night of the Hunter (Laughton 1957)
House on Haunted Hill (Castle 1959)
Psycho (Hitchcock 1960)
Village of the Damned (Rilla 1960)
The Innocents (Clayton 1961)
Carnival of Souls (Harvey 1962)
The Day Of The Triffids (Sekely 1962)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Aldrich 1962)
The Birds (Hitchcock 1963)
Knife In The Water (Polanski 1963)
Kaidan (Kobayashi 1964)
Onibaba (Shindo 1964)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Forbes 1964)
Repulsion (Polanski 1965)
Viy (Kropachyov 1967)
Wait Until Dark (Young 1967)
The Boston Strangler (Fleischer 1968)
Night Of The Living Dead (Romero 1968)
Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski 1968)
Blood on Satan’s Claw (Haggard 1971)
Deliverance (Boreman 1971)
The Omega Man (Sagal 1971)
See No Evil (Fleischer 1971)
Frenzy (Hitchcock 1972)
Horror Express (Martin 1972)
Last House on the Left (Craven 1972)
The Exorcist (Friedkin 1973)
The Legend of Hell House (Hough 1973)
The Wicker Man (Hardy 1973)
Black Christmas (Clark 1974)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper 1974)
Deep Red (Argento 1975)
Jaws (Spielberg 1975)
Race With The Devil (Starrett 1975)
Burnt Offerings (Curtis 1976)
The Omen (Donner 1976)
Who Could Kill A Child (Serrador 1976)
The Hills Have Eyes (Craven 1977)
Suspiria (Argento 1977)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero 1978)
Halloween (Carpenter 1978)
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (Kaufman 1978)
Alien (Scott 1979)
The Brood (Cronenberg 1979)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Herzog 1979)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Weir 1979)
Salam’s Lot (TV) (Hooper 1979)
The Changeling (Medak 1980)
Dressed To Kill (De Palma 1980)
The Shining (Kubrick 1980)
An American Werewolf in London (Landis 1981)
The Howling (Dante 1981)
Venom (Haggard 1981)
The Evil Dead (Raimi 1982)
Poltergeist (Hooper 1982)
Tenebre (Argenta 1982)
The Thing (Carpenter 1982)
Razorback (Mulcahy 1984)
Demons (Demoni) (Bava 1985)
Fright Night (Holland 1985)
Lifeforce (Hooper 1985)
Aliens (Cameron 1986)
Dead-End Drive In (Trenchard-Smith 1986)
Near Dark (1987; Kathryn Bigelow)
Blue Velvet (Lynch 1986)
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (Sluizer 1988)
Henry - Portrait of a Serial Killer (McNaughton 1990)
Jacob's Ladder (Lynne 1990)
The Silence Of The Lambs (Demme 1991)
Ghost Watch (TV) (Manning 1992)
Heavenly Creatures (Jackson 1994)
The Kingdom (TV "Riget") (Von Trier 1994)
Mute Witness (Waller 1994)
Se7en (Fincher 1995)
Ringu (The Ring) (Nakata 1998)
Audition (Miike 1999)
The Blair Witch Project (Myrick, Sánchez 1999)
The Devil’s Backbone (del Toro 2001)
The Others (Amenebar 2001)
The Mothman Prophecies (Pellington 2002)
Wendigo (Fassenden 2001)
28 Days Later (Boyle 2002)
Haute Tension (Aja 2003)
Ju-on: The Grudge (Shimizu 2003)
A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003 Kim)
Calvaire (Welz 2004)
Shaun of the Dead (Wright 2004)
Dawn Of The Dead (Snyder 2005)
The Descent (Marshall 2005)
13 Tzameti (Babluani 2005)
Them (Ils) (Moreau, Palud 2006)
RANDOM ALSO:
The Crazies, Zombie, Peeping Tom, The 6th Sense, 10 Rillington Place, Wolf Creek, Jeepers Creepers, Carrie, Wrong Turn, Night Of The Creeps, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Trilogy Of Terror (TV), Rabid, And Soon The Darkness, Island Of Doctor Moreau (1996), Audrey Rose, It's Alive, Raw meat (Death Line), Piranha, Fear In The Night, Cannibal Apocalypse, [REC], Damian: Omen Two, Habit
UPDATE:
I keep recalling more flicks that creeped me out at one time or another.
MORE RANDOM: Evil Dead 2, Terror On The Beach (TV), The Orphanage, Prophacy (1979), Tales from The Crypt (segment: All Through The House), Dead Calm, Eyes Without A Face, It's Alive, Dark Water (2002), Witchfinder General, Sisters (1973), When a Stranger Calls (1979)/When A Stranger Calls Back, Irreversible, I Saw What You Did, Monkey Shines, Scream Of Fear, Young Frankenstein (as a child it spooked me out), Nadja
