I know I'm gonna get alot of hate for this,but I saw The Excorcist a couple months ago, cause I hear how people say its the scariest movie ever and such. But I gotta say I found alot of it slow, but like Sawyer said somethings find funny.
I loved the movie and all, in fact I'll say it's probably one of my favorite horror films, but there were some parts that were just too much. Like the girl stabbing her private parts with a crucifix and wiping the blood on her mom. I was like "Okay, okay, okay... I get the whole possession thing, but come on!" The climax was fantastic though.
Anyway, my favorites by decade...
1970s: The Exorcist, Carrie, The Omen, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween, The Amityville Horror.
1980s: The Shining, Evil Dead, Halloween II, Poltergeist (a personal favorite of mine), A Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead II, Halloween 4.
1990s: Tremors, Army of Darkness, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, From Dusk Til Dawn, Scream, Scream 2, The Faculty, Halloween H20, Sleepy Hollow, The Sixth Sense.
2000s: Final Destination (I liked the first one), Scream 3, 28 Days Later, Frailty, Freddy vs. Jason, Wrong Turn, Dawn of the Dead, Cursed (so bad, but I cant help but like it), Halloween, The Hitcher, The Last House on the Left, Friday the 13th.