Scariest Movies Ever made!

[Richard ridealgh]

 

What is in your opinion the scariest movie ever made? Over the years we have seen some great horror movies make it to our screens. Some people who I've talked to believe the older movies like "the shining" or "the exorcist" are the scariest, because the movies rely on acting more than special effects. Others say that movies like "alien" and "silence of the lambs", even "blair witch project" are the scariest!

You tell me!

JASON!!! FREDDIE!!!

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• Horror films are designed to frighten and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films feature a wide range of styles, from the earliest silent Nosferatu classic, to today's CGI monsters and deranged humans. They are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens. The fantasy and supernatural film genres are not usually synonymous with the horror genre. There are many sub-genres of horror: slasher, teen terror, serial killers, satanic, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc. See this site's Scariest Film Moments and Scenes collection - illustrated.

 

• Saw II (2005) took top box-office honors among the recent 'torture-porn' films of the decade (at $87 million)
• The Ring (2002) - the most successful horror remake in terms of domestic box-office (at $129 million)
• The Sixth Sense (1999) - the most successful supernatural horror film in terms of domestic box-office (at $293.5 million)
• Wes Craven's Scream (1996) - the top-grossing 'slasher' horror film (at $103 million)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - the # 1 suspense/thriller film in ABC-TV's "The Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time" in 2011; the only 'horror-thriller' to win Best Picture; also only one of three films to win the top five Oscar Awards; ranked # 1 in AFI's 'Greatest Villains' (Dr. Hannibal Lecter); ranked # 5 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills polling in 2001; selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the "20 Scariest Movies of All Time" in 2004
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - the # 5 horror film in ABC-TV's "The Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time" in 2011
• Poltergeist (1982) - the # 3 horror film in ABC-TV's "The Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time" in 2011
• Halloween (1978) - the # 2 horror film in ABC-TV's "The Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time" in 2011; this low-budget horror film was the highest grossing independent film for awhile; voted Best Horror Film of All Time by readers of SFX Magazine in 2004; selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the "20 Scariest Movies of All Time" in 2004; the # 24 ranked horror film in IMDb's top rankings of horror genre films, voted upon by site visitors in 2010
• Carrie (1976) - the # 4 horror film in ABC-TV's "The Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time" in 2011
• Jaws (1975) - the # 2 suspense/thriller film in ABC-TV's "The Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time" in 2011; ranked # 2 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills polling in 2001; ranked # 12 in Film Four's compilation of the "100 Greatest Films of All Time"; ranked # 48 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies polling in 1998, a list of the 100 greatest English-language movies; ranked # 52 in Entertainment Weekly's "100 Greatest Movies of All Time" book published in 1999; selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the "20 Scariest Movies of All Time" in 2004
• The Exorcist (1973) - the # 1 horror film in ABC-TV's "The Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time" in 2011; selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the "20 Scariest Movies of All Time" in 2004; the # 10 ranked horror film in IMDb's top rankings of horror genre films, voted upon by site visitors in 2010; also the highest-grossing (domestic) R-rated horror film (# 5) of all time at $233 million
• Psycho (1960) - the # 3 suspense/thriller film in ABC-TV's "The Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time" in 2011; ranked # 14 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary edition) polling in 2007, a list of the 100 greatest English-language movies; ranked # 1 as the "Greatest American Thriller" in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills polling in 2001; the # 1 ranked horror film in IMDb's top rankings of horror genre films, voted upon by site visitors in 2010; ranked # 11 in Film Four's compilation of the "100 Greatest Films of All Time"; ranked # 11 in Entertainment Weekly's "100 Greatest Movies of All Time" book published in 1999; ranked # 18 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies polling in 1998, a list of the 100 greatest English-language movies; ranked # 20 in the Village Voice's listing of the '100 Best Films of 20th Century'; selected by Entertainment Weekly as one of the "20 Scariest Movies of All Time" in 2004
• Vertigo (1958) - ranked # 9 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary edition) polling in 2007, a list of the 100 greatest English-language movies; ranked the # 7 mystery film in AFI's 10 Top 10 polling in 2008; three appearances in the top 10 of Sight & Sound's polling in the last 20 years; also the highest ranked suspense thriller (# 3) in the Village Voice's listing of the '100 Best Films of 20th Century'; ranked # 18 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills polling in 2001; ranked # 18 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions ranking in 2002; ranked # 19 in Entertainment Weekly's "100 Greatest Movies of All Time" book published in 1999; ranked # 61 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies polling in 1998, a list of the 100 greatest English-language movies
• The Third Man (1949) - ranked the # 5 mystery film in AFI's 10 Top 10 polling in 2008; ranked # 1 in BFI's "Favorite British Film of the 20th Century" polling taken in 1999; ranked # 30 in the Village Voice's listing of the '100 Best Films of 20th Century'; ranked # 57 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies polling in 1998, a list of the 100 greatest English-language movies; ranked # 65 in Entertainment Weekly's "100 Greatest Movies of All Time" book published in 1999; ranked # 75 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills polling in 2001

[Chris Knight]

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The Original B&W film, not the remade colour one.

[Richard Roman]

Night of the Demon is great!

[Richard ridealgh]

I think I have a list of horror movies now to be shown in the coming months!

[Michael Eden]

The Exorcist was the only movie that I couldn't sleep alone by myself after watching.  Both my sister and I watched it together, she was 17 and I was 15, and we slept on Mom and Dad's carpet just until things felt a bit safer....

[Michael King]

A fairly recent movie called "Insidious" deals with Astral Projection and the ghosts and demons in the veil hanging around to steal our bodies. Also Silent Hill is pretty good, as well as Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Walking Dead) and Steven King's "The Mist".

[David Emmerson Nicholson]

Koreans arent too bad either, a Tale of Two Sisters id recommend.

Richard ridealgh said:

The japanese have got it then! Weird!

[David Emmerson Nicholson]

Koreans arent too bad either. Tale of two sisters for example.

Richard ridealgh said:

The japanese have got it then! Weird!

[Przemyslaw (Murin) Murzyn]

more than Ring I prefer The Grudge also Japanese version

[Chris Knight]

Amityville Horror

Poltergeist

It

The Shining

Cujo

Alien

Psycho

Halloween

The Exorcist

[David Emmerson Nicholson]

Is it true i heard they are doing a sequel to The Shining? Madness.

[Chris Knight]

They're calling it "The Glistening". (jk)