what makes a horror movie a good movie?

i do like Horror movies when i was younger but today's H-movies really scare the wits-on-me, effects are so extremely advance nowadays that it really looks so real, but i do say that a great H-flick would need to have a good villain-monster to scare you - peace:0

I've like horror movies with mind games. Like puzzles that we have to solve

I love the gore and scare factor of it. It ofcourse has to have some suspense and a good plot to it. The more it scares me the better, lol.

"Winter always has been a bad time of year. That damned howling wind. This mansion is too big, too old, too dank. Even this feather bed wants to swallow me. It's enveloping me, suffocating me. Why did I ever agree to look after this place, esp-ecially during the colder months. The same thing night after night. That scratching. That damnable scratching coming from behind the walls . . . FOR GOD SAKE, WON'T YOU LEAVE ME IN PEACE!" Horror shouldn't have to rely on SPFX, blood, guts and gore. A good horror movie eats at your very soul. It makes you fear every shadow, every noise. It lingers like some dark, crawling thing. It's an odour, a glimpse of something in your peripheral vision. It should give you recurring nightmares. That is Horror. And, unfortuantely, there just isn't any around like that. The piece at the start isn't from any film or anything by the way, it's just a spontaneous, and, I might add, somewhat 'pitiful' attempt at visualisation - the howling wind; the scratching; the stone walls possibly cold, slimy and mossy; the victim's deteriorating state of mind. 'Gothicus Tenebrarum' or what, eh! LOL. Seriously though, good horror should be of the mind. Something that stays there for many, many years, and I for one certainly haven't found it yet - not in celluloid anyway.

Sometimes. the sound effects make the movies very scary, coz everytime there is a sound effect, there is also a shoking effect to the viewers...