What's your favorite horror movie and what's the scariest movie scene you ever saw ?

I'm not one for picking all-time favorites, but in recent years I loved The Descent, Rec and Quarantine, Wolf Creek, Paranormal Activity, and both 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later.

The clown scene in Poltergeist always scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

The Shining. The scariest part, the very beginning.... there are no violent scenes, however, that music creeps me the hell out!!

Movies high on the creep factor:
The Others
The Orphanage
Don't Look Now
Jacob's Ladder
Suspiria
The Changeling (1980)
Inland Empire
The Descent
Paperhouse (region 2 DVD)
The Vanishing (Dutch version, 1988)
The Innocents
The Shining
The Exorcist
Scream of Fear
Paranoiac
The Girl Next Door (2007)
Session 9

:eek2: there are too many horror movies I love, but I think my favorites are:

House of 1000 corpses
Starshiptroopers
Nightmare on Elmstreet
The Exorcist

and the scariest scenes are from The Exorcist, I just don't know which I can tell, there are too many scenes that are scary or disgusting. And there are also really heavy scenes in "Antichrist". I can tell you... some scenes will make you cry if you are a male... And I thaught I have to :barf:. In the first, I think half hour you think that there is nothing happen and that there can't come more. But then you... I can't explain that :dunno:

The Exorcist is my favourite horror film to date. I get full on goosebumps just thinking about that scene in Regan's bedroom where she levitates and the priests reiterate "the power of christ compels you" so many times I stop breathing and almost die! Scariest ever moment for me is in The Haunting (the original version with Claire Bloom and co.) when the knocking begins. The camera angles hurt and the sound is painful. Love it.

"Jaws" is still the greatest horror movie ever, even though it's not categorized as horror. Mainly action, I guess, but c'mon. It had the perfect, cannot be duplicated Suspense Factor. Not so much when the scary monster jumps out at you, but waiting for the scary monster to jump out of you. Now that's scary.

The Exorcist is still my number one scariest movie. I don't find gore scary and i find most movies too predictable. If they had made the Exorcist today, they would have ruined it with too many special effects. i think the story, as it was made back then, is the focal point through out the movie. And honestly, I haven't seen anything creepier, uglier than the Reagan's face when she was at her worst. I still have a hard time looking at it.

The Exorcist seems to be a clear winner in this cate-GORY!

The original "Nightmare on Elm Street" series...and in the same "vein" if you will-The Dream Child from that series got me...

the shining, exorcist, 28 days later, 30 days of night, alien, - i think what they have in common is great direction?