What Scares You? Readers Give their Choice of the Scariest Movies

Everyone enjoys a good scare, or most do anyway. Earlier this month I asked you to share what movies scared you the most.

We had some great submissions. We present to you the results.

Enjoy and have a safe Halloween.

Gina Tenorio

“I’ll start with my choices. ‘Psycho.’ I have watched it a dozen times and it always holds up. I’ve had friends, who don’t want to be alone after watching the film. My other, I guess you could say favorite, is ‘Jaws.’ I saw it in theaters when I was 6 or 7. I held my own through most of the film until the scene where the shark kills Robert Shaw. Twenty-five years later, I wrote a story about a movie night held by Chino Hills Rec. department because they are holding a movie night in which everyone is in the pool on inner tubes. The featured film? Jaws. Of course.”

Louie Ramirez

“I enjoyed ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’ The best, the original of course, was written and directed by Tobe Hooper in 1974. I have it on VHS and still watch it about once a month and it’s never a let down, LOL.”

Brian Roath

“My utmost favorites are the Hannibal Lecter movies: Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal.”

Some of my other favorites: Ju-On: The Grudge, Dead Snow, Orphan, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Shaun of the Dead, Shutter, Splinter, and The Thing.”

“Another really good one that's not as graphic most others: House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price.

Mirna Alfonso

“'Angel Heart.’ I see something new every time I watch it.”

Kristin Hamilton

“'The Birds,’ I still think of Suzanne Pleshette's eyes getting plucked out when I see a large group of black birds.”

Teresa Reeves

“Well, hate to say this but it all depends on the person and their tolerance for things that scare them. To this day, ‘The Shining’ with Jack Nicholson gives me the chills. Only because I watched it as a child and wasn’t supposed too. But that may also be why I love scary movies and they don’t scare me!”

Debbie Council

“When I was growing up it was House on 'Haunted Hill.'”

Melanie Johnson

“‘Coma,’ with a young Michael Douglas. That’s some scary stuff that could really happen.”

Bill Norris

“’Silence of the Lambs.’ It was my first real thriller so it stuck with me. It was just very intense and dark. It wasn’t blood and guts. It was about something real.”

Michael T.

"'The Crazies' was pretty scary."

John Tenorio

"'The Exorcist' always scared me so I'm gonna go with that ... Or Fox News."

Stephanie Gamboa

"For me a 'Nightmare on Elm Street' was always so scary. But a lot of people have told me 'The Exorcist' was really scary."

Booker Gamboa

"'The Exorcist' and more semi-recent movie that creeped me out was 'The Grudge.'"

Teresa R.

"Can't go wrong with 'The Shining.'"

Garilyn Garcia-Orta

"Exorcist!!"

Jeff Medeiros

"The Twilight Zone '_Talking Tina_' episode even more than any movie.'"

Shawndee Kay Medeiros

"'The Exorcist" for sure!"

Lynda Hicks

"'It' and 'The Thing.'"

Karen Hansen

"Wow there are so many!!! Im not sure I could name just one. 'Hostel,' 'Halloween,' 'Rest Stop,' 'High Tension,' 'Penny Dreadful'..."