The Best Horror Movies Ever Made

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The Top Ten

1
The Exorcist
By far best of this genre ever. Even if you ignore the gruesome special effects, the movie was still superbly acted and directed. Everything else is distant second.
Its the movie considered by me as the scariest shooted in real style... Awesome one
I can't believe that any other movies have gotten votes, must be that either they have not watched this movie or they watched a stupid spinoff, this is the scariest movie ever.
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2The Shining
This movie is great! People are voting for other movies because there scarier but this is not about being scary, its about being good. And this movie tops the whole list! Other great horror movies are The Exorcist, Black Christmas, High Tension, Halloween, Alien, Evil Dead, A nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Poltergeist, Misery, The Cabin In The Woods, REC, Jaws, Dead Alive, Carrie, An American Werewolf in London and Psycho.
"All work no play makes Jack a dull boy. "
"Red rum"
"Come play with us forever and ever and ever. "
The lady in the bathtub.
The maze.
Do I need another reason? This movie is the type that after you watch it you're thinking it's bad but then all of a sudden you're too afraid to move! Watch it. Now.
I agree with the 2 others ( exorcist and saw) but honestly, Kubrick was a genius! Making one of the most terrifying horror movie WITHOUT making an horror movie at all!
This movie has thousands degrees and layers in it, it is about psychanalyse AND americ's critic AND political History ignorance AND genocide AND by the way S tephen king book
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3Halloween
Come on people Halloween is the best one out of all the others because Michael Myers is pure evil! You'll all see what I'm talking about after 08/31/07. Halloween indeed is the creator of all slasher films, if it wasn't 4 this movie... Nightmare on elm street, friday the 13, and all those so-called "Scariest movies" would not exist! So think again and vote for Halloween
The slasher genre wouldn't exist if not for this John Carpenter masterpiece. Watch the original before you judge.
By far the best, honestly I think it surpasses the horror list and goes straight to the list of greatest films of all time. Don't let the all the sequels and spin-offs tarnish this classic.
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4Saw
It's ah-may-zing! Who doesn't want to watch a lot of torture in one movie that has such a great plot if you take the time to watch it?!
Saw is, to me, the ultimate thriller movie of them all because eash movie in the series has a different plot and in every movie the story takes a new turn! It's hard to tell the outcome of the story and in the first movie you couldn't even imagine who the real culprit is until u see the very end of the movie!
ratulkhan2040@yahoo. Com
Saw is not necessarily the scariest movie, but it is a GREAT movie if you want to see some gore. The story is also very good for it being 7 movies long. The end was such a twist, I loved it. The reverse bear trap was the BEST, its too bad we don't see it actually work until the second time. This movie deserves to be on the top ten.
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5Alien
the great sci fi horror of all time, this movie when it came out, it established that maybe Aliens are not too friendly like E. T.
The best sci-fi horror movie ever made for sure.

nallimcamybloc

Hmm just looking above this, yea halloweens definitely up ther, but saw? , good movie and all but hardly n a league such as these, I've seen alien in the number 1 spot of a few lists, , and that's were itd be for me!
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6The Grudge
It seriously freaked me out... watching the movie at night alone was the stupidest decision of my life... couldn't sleep without the lights on for a couple of days... the background music itself freaks you out...
It has a weird deformed chick that is dead, might add and the sound she makes gets stuck in your head for weeks!
It is really very scary Japnese movie... If we want to enjoy gener of movie see movie at night alone with home theatre
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7Wrong Turn
this the best horror movie I have ever seen... second and third part are awesome...
Ugh cannibalism freaks me out BIG time! and how they look *shivers*

misskikii

Couldn't sleep for weeks...
it sends shivers down my spine every time.
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8The Ring
This movie is the best! Their making a 3rd 1! So cool O. O

BrokenSong

Its the best movie..
Wonderful film I have saw
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9Paranormal Activity
Very good movie, its pretty scary :=)
This was scary as hell doors slamming lights turning on footprints in the talcum powder and the guy thrown at the camera at the end it is scary as hell!
It's what you don't see that makes scared. Movies with million dollars budgets don't scare you as much as Paranormal Activity with a ten thousand dollar budget.
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10The Silence of the Lambs
THE SCARIEST THING IS THAT HE GETS IN THE MIND AND THAT IS SCARIER THAN CHASING AND CUTTING SOMEONE IT'S THE SUSPENSE NOT THE GORE
It won film of the year, no other horror has done that, therefore this is the best. Scary for all the right reasons and a story that has quality, who could ask for more.
this movie gave me chills and made me sleep with my lights on every night for a month...
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The Contenders

11Jaws
So sharks don't really kill a lot of people but you probably thought twice about jumping in the water
Dude, I love this movie!
It's one of my favorite movies of all time!
I still remember not being scared of the shark or the water after watching the movie
I also just love the whole thing of "It's what we don't see really scares the crap outta us"
I watched this when I was little and it put me off swimming in the ocean for AGES!

misskikii

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12Nightmare on Elm Street

"The ultimate fear... the fear of going to sleep.

aman28

because of freddy I can't sleep the day I watched "Nightmare on Elm Street" he was very scary

No one can say that they weren't afraid of Freddy.

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13The Hills Have Eyes

I am a HUGE horror fan and I thought that movie was awesome! The rape scene was one of the best acting scenes in the whole movie, unbelievable.

These film is based on true story and it is one of the scariest movie which I had been never seen in my life.

This movie is great and gory as hell! This definitely should be in the Top Ten. This scared me for ages, couldn't sleep.

marlonacott

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14The Thing
The greatest film of all time! The special effects are great! I personally think that there isn't a horror film like it. No one is safe because they don't trust each other! Definitely watch this!
one of the originals, people think that this is the scariest movie of all time,
This is one the greatest and most original movies ever. Another classic from John Carpenter

Razor79

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15It
I'm going to be perfectly honest, I really didn't like this film. It's very melo-dramatic, the characters seem like they're going insane rather than all of this actually happening, and Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the most overrated horror movie villain of all time! All he does is stand around, look threatening, and does nothing. If it's killed half the other people in town, how come it can't just kill these kids off? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Why I vote for this? Dude, its a clown with razorsharp teeth, if that is not scary...
Seriously this is the only movie listed here that scared me. I it and the poltergeist. I hate clowns.

aman28

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16Final Destination 2

I hate any Final Destination movie in the sense that it scares me really bad.

The third one has already made me swear off tanning beds, by the way, and I've never even been in one.

frostwiire

This movie is not that scary but I hate the feeling when you are waiting for the death of the characters and it is hard to expect the unexpected.. Err

The unexpected is what freaks me out and I have to scream when the killing happen. It is really not scary is the building up to the point is so


17Psycho
Antony Perkins is just a legend but the shining is the best
What the hell such an awesome movie down on 21 it has to be among top 5!
AFI's top horror movie of all time, and it doesn't even crack the top ten? That's a problem.
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18Scream
Amazing movie, much suspense. Way better than friday the thirteenth.
How in the world did this not make it here when movies such as Saw and I Am Legend are here!? On halloween what do the majority of people wear a scream mask. This is a signature name in the horror genre.

DalglishIsBack

THIS IS THE BEST SLASHER ever
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19Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Best horror movie... I was so scared to go out after watching and I was afraid of big guys... Afterwards
i thought for some months that it was real...
good storyline and stuff...

Reminded me a lot of scooby doo, the characters looked like people from scooby doo and there was a bad guy and a chase!


20Tamara

I Watched this Movie and I COULD NOT SLEEP FOR At least 5 days

This movie was so good! It was kinda sad what they did to her, I think the kids got what was comin for them. I just she did not die! Well fall of a building, best movie yet!


21Friday the 13th
Howcome Friday the 13th is not higher on this list. The movie main killer is Jason Vorhees is the most portrayed horror movie killer in they world, though peaple when portyaing him make him have a chainsaw, Jason never had a chainsaw, he always had a machete. Come on people get Jason's weapon right!
look, for those of you out there that were a disapointed of what this film was rated, I'll admit that this movie is historical, but its not totally scary nowadays
I grow up watching scary movies and Friday the 13th is by far the best scary movies I seen I never wanted to go to summer camp after watching these movies.
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22A Nightmare on Elm Street

I think this film is really good. Freddy is one of the best killers of horror movies I think. Watch this film, it's really great.

I love the movie beyond almost anything, but I must say... Did you check the list when you added this? Nonetheless, it is my favorite movie of all time.


23Suspiria

24Last House On the Left (1972)

25Scream 4

26Poltergeist

This film absorbes you and you cannot get out till its over
be careful I also heard it has a curse on it, one cast member was actualy murdered.


27Orphan

28Event Horizon

I will never ever ever forget this movie

Tbog009

This was a scary one all right, with the added atmosphere of heavy, inescapable evil

AHHHHHHH!!!!!! This movie scares the Begeezus out of me!!!!!


29Shocker

The scariest part to me was when he went into the little girl you wouldn't want to mess with her


30The Rite

31The Blair Witch Project
Ppl didn't get this movie that's why they hated it, The reason why they filmed scenes like them in the Shops or them havin' conversations is to make it seem real, e. g. anybody would film this stuff they filmed. And they didn't show the witch, because using your imagination is the scariest monster there is

roblist

soooo scary!!!!!!!I actually thought it was a real video!!!

This is the scariest movie ever! It's also my favorite. The ending is a little hard to understand but if you go back and look at the conversations at the beginning of the movie, you should understand it.
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32Silent Hill

best horror picture I ever watched.. it should be at least top 5 rank. each end every moment of the picture I really enjoyed. the ending part was very good..


33The Birds

Way better than crap like "The Hills Have Eyes"

TheGreatest

Alferd Hitchcock is a genius to make such a horrific movie.

Baltimore1993


34Halloween II

35The Exorcism of Emily Rose

This movie made me think demons comes out at 3. Am in the morning

Just watching this movie makes me shiver to my spine... The storyline was creepy and the acting of everyone was amazing. Still remember I was alone and there were 20 to 30 people in the theatre and after watching the movie when I was walking I kept on looking back to check if anyone was following me...


36Carrie

The only movie to make me cry. It is so disturbing and emotional. That jump scene at the end is one hell of a jump scene!

Solid psychological chillers brought to you via~Stephen King~
Solid psychological chillers brought to you via~Stephen King~


37Insidious
Such a meaning full and intelligent movie with so many spooky ghosts made me piss on my pants. Oh lord! Such a scary movie it was daam good man I don't get it how the saw is so up on the list... Saw sucks ew
Scariest movie ever. The Violin song make me sh/t my pants
I have seen almost every movie on this list, I don't scare easy but this movie almost made me piss myself like 12 different times. Left me lying in bed staring at the door making sure nothing was coming in.
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38Dawn of the Dead

39High Tension

Sooo suspenseful, especially when the killer is first looking for victims in the house


40Paranormal Activity 2

Found this really creepy and unnerving. Watched this before I watched the 1st one.

misskikii


41Final Destination

42The Descent

As if no one had put this on the list its a great horror movie

Holy hell! I haven't really, truly screamed in a movie other than this for as long as I can remember....

heather


43The Sixth Sense

i see dead people...all the time

Good movie with a twist some people can communicate with the dead whether they want to or not God decides

This creeped me out big time when I was younger as I believed in ghosts. It still creeps me out now.

misskikii


44Thirteen Ghosts

I ran out of the movie theatre the first time I tried to watch this movie.

the jackal is the scariest of them all...no doubt once so ever

shikatoku

Scariest haunted house movie ever made ftr amytiville horror!


45Martyrs

46[Rec]
Amazing movie with a very realistic plot,. IT doesn't show ghosts or anyting but it has a very realistic plot that can happen anywhrer
shaky camera work at its best and really screaming movie

pankaj1993

This is the scariest movie I've watched. I was so entranced by the movie and so shook up that it made a lasting impression on me. This is the inspiration for The Grudge many other modern horror classics, and it draws inspiration from movies like The Blair Witch Project with the shaky camera.

47The Amityville Horror (1979)

its a superb movie... I loved it... it was als so much scary... but I loved it...

Mad Me Scared To Sleep In A House That Looked Like That!!


48Last House On the Left (2009)

Based on some reviews, this movie still stands as one of the most disgusting movie ever made.

Wes Craven's first movie has all the good stuff that horror should be made of: Two teenager girls and villains that just escaped from prison. The meeting between the two young girls and the escaped convicted will prove a disaster. But to whom?

Johnnyrp666


49A Serbian Film
Sickest movie ever...

50The Omen

Great movie! I love it. It is good picture and quality for a older movie. I even like the idea. Time to find Damien: Omen II!

thrillerlover

This is a vote for the 1976 "The Omen." Not that two bit hack job that opened on 6/6/06. This movie freakin traumatized me the first time I saw it. It sent Christians into counselling.

gaki


51I Know What You Did Last Summer

52Scream 2

5328 Days Later
This movie was good, because Chris Eccleston was in it :) He is the cutest person in the entire world. I was scared to death by his beauty!

54My Bloody Valentine

Made me pee my pants and has a very good plot and good actors.

Shawn13


55Peeping Tom

56White: The Melody of the Curse

57The Devil Inside

58Sleepaway Camp

59Night of the Living Dead
Best horror movie I ever saw
Not that scary but the part where the zombie girl kills and eats her own mother will freak you out

60Nosferatu

61Final Destination 5

Its the best movie cux it shows every scene of death completly like the what gurls eye c ame out baby its so horror


62The Possession

63Cube

64Grave Encounters

Scared the hell out of me, still can't look at the ceiling without thinking a dead zombie phsyco without a tongue and with blood dripping everywhere will jump on me

14,892,040 view on You tube most ever by a scary movie.
Grave Encounters is a low budget film produced for under half a million dollars.
Box office $2,408,334
New York Press granted it "The Scariest Movie Since The Ring"
95 minutes scary movie
I believe it will go to number 1 in no time.

AourangZaib


65Scream 3

66Trick 'r Treat

67The Human Centipede

68Killer Klowns from Outer Space

69Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

Its just unbeaten...
Bruce campbell shows his real talent...
He is just unbelievable...! 11


70Child's Play 2

71Paranormal Activity 3

72Cemetery Man

"If you want to get rid of the dead, why don't you just kill the living"

DEJAVU


73House at the End of the End of the Street

74Cabin Fever

75The Serpent and the Rainbow

Voo Doo, zombies and a guys balls getting nailed to a chair. Now thats scary, not to mention this is a true story.

lapana


761408

suspenseful, haunting, thriller, and well acted movie deserves a spot.

pankaj1993

I thought about it: What would happen if my locker number was 140-? I don't even want to type the number. I can already see the little thing in my vent in my room. Holy...
But one thing... Why did he chose 140-? Why not 666? It's more original. Well, spontaneous I guess...


77Copycat

78An American Werewolf in London

This film had me jumping with fright! Not to mention rick baker's amazing transformation.


79Friday the 13th Part 2

Thats right part 2. 1 is good but part 2 is the introdution of Jason. I always thought the sack over his head was better than the hockey mask anyway.

lapana


80Saw VI

Probably the best of the franchise.

lukestheman4


81Jeepers Creepers
Jeepres creepers is the best film it is amwzing and really cool and we all love gina philips

82What Lies Beneath

83Night of the Demons

This is not a very popular movie but popularity really don't matter here. I promise this film is going to scare the crap out of you.

lapana


84The Collector

85Sinister
This has the most brutal and realistic looking mureders in a movie ever

86Death Bell

Asian horrors are the best. Try the ORIGINAL "Grudge" (Ju-on) and "Ring" (Ringu).

Soovey


87American Psycho

88The Blob

Not the black and white but the 1988 version. This is a twisted story about a US bio-weapon that gets out of control. Very scary movie but the ending takes the cake. Must see.

lapana


89The Bride of Frankenstein

90Black Death

91Halloween: Resurrection

92I Am Legend

You have to watch this in the cinemas to get the real experince because when the mutants jump out at you they scare the ________ out of you.


93Rosemary's Baby

94Megan Is Missing

95The Haunting

96See No Evil

97The Haunting in Connecticut

98The Fourth Kind

I'm afraid to visit Alaska now


99Hellraiser 2

Better than the 1st.

Clive Barker is a horror genius. Doug Bradley as Pinhead is the best villain in a horror picture ever.


100Wolf Creek

Suspenseful in an almost-too realistic way...


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