Let’s Make a List: The Scariest Movies/Best Horror Movies of All Time
With this being Halloween season, scary movies are a hot commodity. Personally, I love horror movies. Yeah I’m a scaredy cat, but I still can’t resist a good suspense thriller. So…I want to know…what do you guys consider the scariest/best horror movies of all time?
My list:
1) The Saw Movies- I’ve seen all 4 of these movies and I gotta say that nothing is more terrifying than the thought of a psycho serial killer kidnapping you, strapping you into a death device, and trying to save your life while the clock is ticking. Every last one of those movies was sick, but for horror movies, this is definitely as good as it gets.
2) Event Horizon- Perhaps this movie was so scary to me because I was a young buck and everything was scary to me…but I think this is really one of the most chilling movies I’ve ever seen. There was a subtle horror to it that you don’t find in a lot of the slasher flicks.
3) Nightmare on Elm Street Movies- This franchise was terrifying on every single level. Freddy Crougar terrorized people in their dreams and not too much is scarier than a killer nightmare!
4)Halloween/Friday The 13th Movies- Both of these franchises consisted of huge ogre killers who walked so slowly yet managed to always catch up to their fleeing victims. I think these movies are the equivalent of “the boogyman” for teenagers…it’s like “don’t have sex in the woods, lake, or backseat of a car or Jason will come and kill you”.
5) Dawn of the Dead- I never saw the original but the remake with Ving Rhames was pretty dog on scary. 28 Days gets an honorable mention for being along the same lines.
6) Scream- Oh come on…you may be laughing at me for including this, but Drew Barrymore being strung up in that first scene was truly horrifying!
7) The Relic- This was a sleeper hit, but with alien bugs invading a museum I was jumping out of my seat!
8 ) The Exorcist- All the bodily fluids coming out of that girl is enough to rate this one of the most gross movies ever at the very least.
9) The Blair Witch Project- You got to be one stupid mutha f(*ker to go out in the woods and get lost to the point of getting killed by who knows what…but this is still one of the most simple yet scary movies made.
10) The Shining- Jack Nicholson played the hell out of this role…I don’t even think anyone was killed in this movie, but that doesn’t make it any less scarier!
So what movies should be added to this list? What genre of horror movies scare you the most- the ones with a serial killer, aliens, ghosts, etc?
Posted by Reecie
Man as a kid growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, Chucky scared the mess out of me. He even killed me in a dream! I used to turn the commercials when the movie previews would come on.
I always consider the first alien movie to be scaring. Some people consider it sci-fi while other consider it horror. I guess it is a sci-fi horror but you have to admit those alien are pretty scary looking.
Michael Myers started the whole slasher film movement. If it wasn’t for him there would be no Jason,freddy and etc.
Oh, come on Reecie, how can you forget about the magical negro being killed in the Shining?
As far as contemporary Horror is concerned, watch Takashi Miike’s “Audition”. The last scene will throroughly fuck you up
THE RING
1. Norbit
2. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
3. Dr. Dolittle (w/ Eddie Murphy)
4. Yeah, The Ring was pretty scary
5. Norbit
What was that movie w/ Shaq and he was a Genie? or that one w/ him wearing that metal suit. Whatever, just fill up the rest of that list w/ Shaq movies
Kazam!
^^^ Shazzam (how sad is it that I knew that automatically?)
Did anyone say Carrie, I saw that when I was 8 and had nightmares that the Jesus figurine would come to life as the houses was burniing down.lol I have yet to see a movie that has scared me as much as that one. Movies these days are either suspence or all gore, not actually scary. But that doesn’t stop me from watching them.
*correction Shazzam=Kazaam (brain fart)
The only movie to scare me was Broke Back Mountain.. For obvious reasons.. I still haven’t and will not watch it
Saw 1, 2, and 3 haven’t seen 4 yet. But its gorry (sp) and psychological that makes the scariest movies great not just adding the gorriness but also playing with your mind.
Has anyone seen “Tales from The Hood”? That movie was craaaazy! It was scary when I was younger, but it’s like a ghetto version of Tales from the Crypt (which used to be the bomb!).
When I was 7, I got terrified watching Star Wars. I thought Darth Vader was scary.
I’ll have Zombie - The Flesh Eaters on my list.
I remember the first horror movies I saw, it was at the drive-in with my 4 older brothers, it was a ThanksGiving special.. 4 movies one after the other.. I was 11. We watched the Frankenstein, Dracula, and the one that really scared me was Island of Terror. I have seen it again since 71′, and it is almost laughable, but boy did it scare me. Of the modern films, I have to say Alien is my all time favourite. The saw movies scared me, but I know I will never watch those films again. Alien I love to see every couple of years.
My Top Five:
1) Phantasm (1979)
2) When A Stranger Calls (1979)
3) The Fog (1980)
4) Pet Semetary (1989)
5) The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
There is a new Alien vs. Predator movie coming out…that looks like it’s going to be crazy as hell!
To add a few I left off: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Amytiville Horror (I don’t know why that movie scared me so much!)
Phantasm!!!!
I don’t remember which Phantasm it was, but whichever one it was, there was a scene at the end, when the guy walked out of the house where all the silver balls were, and he turned around, and his eyes we hella big and distorted. To be a child and watch that definitely mess me up for a few days. I literally didn’t sleep that night.
I don’t scared at movies anymore, but movies that make me cringe now:
- Saw 1 thru 3 (4 was weak)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- These Hills Have Eyes (Part 1)
- The Ring
- The Sixth Sense (very very creepy)
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I would say that Jaws is one of the most scary films of its era and had a massive effect on anyone of that generation. I was 11 when I saw it at the cinema and it scared the hell out of me. It affected any swimming in the sea for years afterwards. That tune would echo in my head. The initial scene with the skinny dipping girl is still pretty disturbing.
As I’m a bit older generation I grew up watching the double bills of B/W classic horror followed by a colour Hammer Horror, I still have a lot of affection for these old movies. So the slasher stuff I thought was mostly horror running out of ideas and clutching at straws, doesn’t do it for me. I did get in to see Friday the 13th #1 when it was at the cinemas (had to lie about my age) The chair jumper bit at the end was very effective and I think copied from Carrie which had a similar shock at the end. Actually Carrie was pretty good too now I think of it.
For some personal favourites I would include the following in no particular order:
Abominable Dr Phibes - Someone watched this and got some ideas for saw I’m sure.
Village of the damned - The original based on John Wyndhams excellent Midwich cuckoos.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1978 with Donald Sutherland
The Mummy’s Shroud - Because it was the first horror I saw when I was about 9
Rosemary’s baby - with Mia Farrow, the book by Ira Levin is well worth a read
Whatever happened Baby Jane? With Betty Davies, Jane Crawford Awesome movie
The Wicker Man - The original with Christopher Lee
Alien(s)
The Exorcist
Dawn of the Dead
The Shining
When a stranger calls - 1979 version only
28 days later
The Evil Dead
Event Horizon I liked too
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