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Honestly, almost anything PG-13. If it’s not R, it’s not going to scare me. The one exception I can think of is OG Insidious, because on first watch that movie scared the shit out of me. But it’s not necessarily a need for gore or swearing, but in my experience a movie doesn’t need those to be scary, or R. I’ve seen movies that are R because they’re so damn scary, like The conjuring. But even a lot of people’s favorite, Drag Me to Hell, was boring and predictable to me. More often than not I finish a PG13 flick asking why the creators even bothered.
Not so much "scary" as "disturbing", but Spoorloos (1988), aka The Vanishing, is billed as being suitable for 12-year-olds. Definitely worth watching (and definitely worth going in without any information). In fact, it was that film that made me de-discount anything aimed at 15-years-old or younger. I was thinking "if they can't even swear then how serious and atmospheric can it really get?" but I was dead wrong.