The idea of the film being made up by the people in it was not entirely a new idea, Cannibal Holocaust was pretty much the same thing and that was a real f**ked up film.
My favourites have mostly already been mentioned: -
The Shining (Read the book, its the mutts nuts)
The Evil Dead
It
Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dreamwarriors
What - the - hell - ?
Two things wrong with today's scary movies:
1. Why are they making under dressed 14 year olds sex icons?
2. Refer to #1.
Jeepers Creepers sucked. If you're over the age of 20, you have to agree that turning it into a teen movie lowered the scare factor by 90%. If you were over 20 in the film, you were automatically stupid.
generally, all new horror movies SUCK, just look at Scream(number 1. was ok, I know what i did last summer and so on....they all are in the same category, its a man with a knife, he butches about 5 people, and the last meating with the hero, he hunts him or her all over, then she punshes him in the head and he pretends that he is dead, then he wake up, to "everybodys" surprise, and then comes the second hero and pumps his body full of led!
blair witch has been the only real horror movie made in the past 13 years. say what you will about it, but the simple fact of the matter is it is the only horror movie that actually set out to scare and creep out the viewer instead of just using silly little surprising scenes just to make the viewer jump.