I believe it would, vivalostwages, if only because it scared the piss out of you when you saw it the first time. It’s possible that the reason I’m such a big fan is that it made quite an impression on me when I was young. When I watch it today, it takes me back to the terrified kid hunkered down in my seat. I’ve watched many, many horror movies since then and there are few things that hit me like that final scene. Oy.
I’m not sure if the OP would balk at it because it is fairly bloody (bloodier than I expected, anyway) but the new movie Silent Hil is pretty scary, even by my standards. There are rumors that it ends how it does to set up for sequels, and I’d watch them despite the gore.
I have to 100% second the recommendation for The Thing . It’s a great movie all around, and some of the scenes still creep me out.
I tend to not get scared by a lot of the modern horror movies, including the new influx of J-Horror in the US, but on my first viewing of The Thing a couple years ago I was astonished that such an old movie could give me the creeps.
There’s just such a sense of isolation, it’s great.
I’m not a big fan of the horror genre, but one I remember from my youth is “Terror Train.” Maybe that’s because it featured the magician David Copperfield, who I had a big crush on at the time. 
Another one the scared the cr@p out of me was the original 'Candyman."
It’s not exactly gory, but that one does contain a notably unpleasant torture scene!
I was unaware of these facts and perhaps it should be invalid, truly. But experientially your stereotypes and assumptions are a bit unfounded. Obviously you haven’t seen it. It was primeval. Very frightening but not hackish. It really was freakish.
I just want to point that I’m mining this thread like a mofo. My movie queue is quite busy right now, thank you very much.
It seems that my favorite horror movies are the ones that either nobody’s heard of or everyone thinks are utter crap.
So, without further ado…
Fallen. If you’ve ever watched Groundhog Day, “I’ve Got You Babe” is stuck in your head as a song to make you take a hammer to the nearest radio. For Fallen, “Time Is On My Side” makes me get edgy.
The Devil’s Advocate. Because I have a real love of demon movies, apparently. And a soft spot for Al Pacino. Keanu is actually fairly believable as a smarmy, slightly sleazy, not too smart Southern defense lawyer.
Se7en. There is gore, but for the most part it’s implied, and the creepiest parts of the movie aren’t really gory at all. My Shakespeare professor called it “a modern Passion Play.”
Ghost Ship. From a purely eye-candy stance it has Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Marguiles, and Karl Urban. Also some actress I really don’t know playing Francesca, the extra-hot Italian lounge singer lady. If you dislike gore, however, do NOT watch the first… 5 minutes or so. Ninety percent of the gore is in that bit, and I was fetal in my chair cringing away from it. But I LOVE haunted ship movies. That said…
Event Horizon. Freaked me out so badly when I first watched it that I wanted to leave the theater. The only reason I stayed was that my best friend at the time was mocking me for being disturbed. I don’t remember its gore level; something on the level of Aliens, IIRC.
I loved In the Mouth of Madness and House on Haunted Hill, too.
My favorite monster movie was… oh, I can’t recall the name. Something like War Dogs. It’s Scottish or Welsh, I can’t remember which of those either, about genetically engineered werewolves wreaking havoc.
Sorry for the hijack, but are the older or less known movies available for rental, and if so where? I just got back from Blockbuster (who I looooooathe) and of the 11 movies I had listed from this thread, the only one they had is “The Conversation”. Even then I didn’t end up renting it, because if you’d like me to pay $3.99 to rent a 30 year old movie, I’d like you to screw yourself(ya know BB, not any of you).
So, do most of you own these goodies, are you simply remembering them from when they were new, or is there a secret source in the back of some wardrobe somewhere?
( I didn’t expect to find Seconds and The Attic, but those are the ones I’d like to see most).
Why not pay $3.99 to rent a 30 year old movie if it’s a great movie? You pay the same price whether it was made one year ago or eighty years ago. The relevant factor should be the quality of the movie. Yes, you can see an old movie on TV, but you can also see a new movie on TV.
Netflix has just about all of the movies mentioned in this thread. They have unlimited rental plans that start at $9.99/month, with no late fees.
Not at Hollywood Video, or the independent stores that unfortunately don’t seem to exist any more. I suppose *logically * what you say makes sense, but somehow charging the same for that as the latest releases feels like a cheat. Does that make sense to anyone else?
In the “more creepy than scary” vein:
The Collector
Don’t Look Now
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Bunny Lake is Missing
All available via Netflix I think. Nobody does “creepy” better than the Brits!
TCM is screening** Eye of the Devil** at 1:15 am CST on Friday- seven hours from now. Sharon Tate has a minor role.
I classify this film as horror: One of the most frightening movies I’ve ever seen. It does have some gore, though.
That’s the one I came here to recommend.
I have to second Sublight’s recommendation of Funny Games. Still, “the most disturbing piece of work I’ve ever seen”
Uh…Event Horizon was super duper gory. Realistic type gore that was very well done if you like that stuff. Dismembered corpses. Limbs all over the place. One scene involving a discompessed airlock which was uber-gory and about 200 gallons of blood.
There apparently was a deleted scene involving an orgy in Hell, involving uh…instruments of torture.
I picked up a copy of this movie on this thread’s recommendation and just finished it roughly 5 minutes ago. Very, very good movie. Good call.
Was a little jarring seeing Baltar playing a sheriff, though.
I second “Strange Days” for very high on the creepy fascination meter. It was a strangely engrossing film - much better than its underexposure would lead you to believe. “Event Horizon” was pretty creepy, too - I do recall lots of blood and gore, though.
My husband recommends “Se7en,” too.