This has two answers.
First, which film scared me the most when I watched it: To my shame it's Gamera. (I was a young child.)
Second, which film I consider the scariest now: Probably John Carpenter's The Thing.
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The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe is absolutely terrifying. not jump scarey, just intense dread and horror as some of the scenes linger on.
the sequel was alright but couldn't quite match the intensity
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Personally "Cannibal Holocaust" but apparently "A serbian film" is worse in almost every aspect. I haven't seen that one thought. But I believe that anything worse than these two would be actual snuff movies.
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The Babadook had me hiding behind my hands too scared to look at the screen. I was so uncomfortable with what was happening on screen
The hills have eyes remake is insane and hardly anyone talks about it
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Dead Silence has been the worst one in my case
It's pretty difficult for a movie to feel truly scary to me, and it's been ages since I saw it, but Darkness Falls sticks out in my mind. I think the whole hanging from the ceiling/clinging to the shadows thing is a big part of it. Unfortunately, like with most movies, the fear of the unknown fades the more we get to see "the monster", but the buildup in the first half was good as I remember it.