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Along the same lines, my mum and brother recently watched Rosemary's Baby, which I watched years ago. My mum had often said that her mother said that Rosemary's Baby was the scariest film she'd ever seen. Now, I love Rosemary's Baby, but I imagine it must hit a lot harder if you're a mother, a devout Catholic (as my grandmother was), or both.
Both these movies are scary because they understand the true nature of horror, what really scares us: powerlessness. Not monsters, danger, pain, violence, death. These are all present in definitely not scary action movies. The extent to which these are scary in horror movies, is the extent to which the characters the viewers identify as are powerless against them. The Exorcist, like Rosemary's Baby, goes straight for the root, not incidentally. The former forces us to confront the horror of a parent being unable to help their child with an ailment. Rosemary's Baby forces us to confront a woman losing all of her social power and agency as she's railroaded into a parental role.
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