The Shining - I just did not feel the "fear"?

Now I know movie lovers and critics will be upset over this but I have always been freaked out by horror movies. I cannot watch a horror movie alone nor sleep alone after watching one. That said, I saw the Shining with Jack Nicholson tonight... a second attempt to look at it and it just did not raise one pore. I was unmoved though it is voted the scariest horror movie ever made. I saw the Exorcist which is just as old a movie and that would have been the millionth time I saw it.... and to date, I still find myself sitting far away from the tv because the movie is so frightening. The Omen would be the other movie that shakes me up to the point I need to call my sister to spend the night because I am too afraid to sleep alone. What is it about the Shining that makes it such an epic horror? I understand the movie and though it was good but slow, I still got to stay up at 3am, in the dark, without the slightest fear and watched the whole thing. Then I typed this and now I am off to bed to sleep without it bothering me. I am not insulting the movie people so don't go off on a tantrum. I wanted to be scared out of my scull and I heard the Shining is the scariest.....but I just did not think so at all. All I want to know is why do "you" think it is so scary? Maybe I missed something. btw, my husband disagrees with me.... he thinks it is the scariest horror ever.