Being October and all, I've been on a horror movie binge. Between AMC's FearFest and... other means, I've been watching a bunch of horror movies from the 70s and 80s.
I watched A Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time, it actually holds up decently. The acting isn't so great, but by the second half of the movie Heather Langenkamp and Johnny Depp seemed to settle into the roles a bit more and do a better job. It's a creepy movie and got me good once, so I'm happy.
The Evil Dead was pretty solid too, the gore was really cringe-worthy and gross and it got me to jump once as well. I want to check out the reboot since it's supposed to be pretty good as well.
The Exorcist had some creepy moments but was pretty "meh" overall I thought.
Out of all the old horror flicks I've watched of late, Carrie was definitely the scariest. It builds up for so long and when everything hits, it's just like "HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT". And the one time it made me jump, I'm pretty sure my heart skipped a bit. My friend took great pleasure in seeing me freaked the fuck out.