Scary movies are the best.

There’s something about going to the theater with your friends to spend two hours watching a movie through your fingers as you cover your eyes and scream profanities a little too loudly in a dark, crowded room of strangers. It’s fun to be scared.

I remember when I saw my first scary movie. I was in seventh grade and spending the night at my best friend’s house. We threw on our pajamas, popped a bag of popcorn, turned off all the lights and put in the DVD — “The Ring.”

It wasn’t long until I was renting movies like “The Grudge,” “The Sixth Sense” and “The Blair Witch Project” at my local Family Video store and spending my weekends a hermit, alone and binge-watching in my basement. I discovered Stephen King and would devour his novels and movies: “Pet Sematary,” “It,” “Christine,” “The Shining,” etc.

Why am I telling you this? Well, I have a bit of a confession to make: I am a terrible columnist and didn’t see a movie this weekend. (I’ve been busy, OK?)

So, in honor of the newest horror flick “Oculus,” hitting theaters this past weekend, I’ve compiled a list of scary movies that are sure to satisfy.

1. “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968)

This is without a doubt my favorite scary movie. A young couple, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes), moves to a new apartment in New York, where they meet their elderly and seemingly-nice-at-first neighbors Minnie and Roman. Rosemary is wary of her strange neighbors, and when she becomes pregnant with her first child, she’s convinced Minnie and Roman are plotting against her and her unborn baby.

Truthfully, almost everyone I’ve shown “Rosemary’s Baby” doesn’t like it and thinks the movie is bizarre and weird and uncomfortable. But they’re wrong. It’s the best. Watch it. It’s on Netflix, so you don’t have an excuse not to.

2. “Rear Window” (1954)

Jeff (James Stewart) is a photographer who, after breaking his leg at a shoot, is wheelchair-bound and confined to his apartment. He passes time by watching the neighbors and begins to notice the suspicious actions of one, a man named Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr).

Jeff becomes obsessed. He’s constantly watching Thorwald’s every move from his window and tries to convince his girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) of his neighbor’s malice. The whole movie filled with suspense and mystery. The question: Is Jeff imagining things or is Thorwald actually up to no good?

3. “Jennifer’s Body” (2009)

OK, total guilty pleasure here. Every few months I get together with a friend of mine and we spend 1 1/2 hours watching Megan Fox kill people with her seductive temptress ways and demon tongue of death.

Basically, Jennifer (Fox) is a high school cheerleader who becomes possessed and begins offing her male classmates, and it’s up to her nerdy BFF Needy (Amanda Seyfried) and Needy’s boyfriend, Chip (Johnny Simmons), to stop her murder rampage. It’s not particularly frightening, but there’s no denying its ability to entertain.

For a movie that’s about a cheerleader who devours men (literally), it’s much better than expected.

4. “Evil Dead” (2013)

On the surface, “Evil Dead” might seem like the stereotypical movie where college friends go to a cabin in the woods and bad, scary things happen to them and most of them are brutally murdered. But it’s so much more.

Based off of the original 1980s “The Evil Dead” series, the movie is packed with borderline-disturbing violence you can’t look away from: gallons upon gallons of blood raining from the sky, a Book of the Dead written in blood and bound with human skin, a tree rape scene, amputations, people who saw their own faces off with shards of glass, … and it was all made without the assistance of digital effects.

Violence aside, “Evil Dead” has a strong story, great acting and consistency throughout the 90-minute bloodfest.

Just don’t watch if you have a weak stomach, and don’t blame me for any nightmares you might have afterward.