Dawn Olsen gives us the lowdown on her personal scariest movies
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Dawn Olsen gives us the lowdown on her personal scariest movies
Let's move this party to the family room and list the SCARIEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Miki Jokinen
THE RING WAS WAS ACTUALLY QUIET FRIGHTENING MAINLY BECAUSE THE USE OFDARK AND DISTURBING IMAGES AND SOUNDS FLASHING THROUGH YOUR HEAD AND THE PART WHEIR THE LADY BAGS THE LITTLE GIRLS HEAD AND THROWS HERE IN THE WELL
27 - TDavid
People who go around the web using ALL CAPS are frightening. Maybe that should make the top 10. Ok, maybe it would be funny if comedians like the late, great Chris Farley typed in all caps.
28 - Michelle20s
I agree with alot of the posts... Nightmere on elm st part 1 when they didnt show freddy so much and you had to use your imagination! After a while the NMOES just got silly. Exorcist definitly top 5. Ametyville Horror's are just brilliant! But I saw a movie last night that I must say disturbed me and scared the hell out of me... Dont laff ... Fear.com! I am an old school horror movie freak, and so called scary movie's of today dont have what they use to... but this movie was really sick! I also saw Jeepers Creepers part 2, I was very impressed! JC 1 was good also. Dreamcatcher by steven king was also pretty good. Ive been checking out the new "scary movies" lately and fear.com takes the cake. Cant wait till texas chainsaw comes out next week in theaters!!!
29 - kim
the most scariest movie i ever watched and read was pet cemetary that even gave my dad nightmares and he dont even get them never. the ring wasnt scary at all freaky but not scary halloween wasnt scary friday the thirtenth part 1 was scary just a little but only the part about the arrow the only time i ever watched the exorcist was when i was by my self but it was on tv and it took out all the good parts if you think night of the living dead was scary then you are just plain chicken it was more funny than scary the shining aanf the texas chainsaw masacre are great both fun and scary awsome movies i also liked the stand i wathced it by myself wasnt really sccary just made me think alot and made me jump in certain places.i love stephenking scary movies nothing beats them
30 - voodoochile
I think any movie depicting children possesed or controlled by evil forces is scary. Eg:- The Exorcist, The Others,The Ring, etc.....
31 - steve
well, ive seen some of the movies on your list and alot that other people have mentioned. i believe god has put me on a quest to find the scariest damn movie out there and so far non of the ones ive seen have qualified. somebody e mail me with a movie that will scare me. i want to jump and shake and close my eyes through out the hole movie. at the end i want to be curled up in a ball in the corner of my seat. for the record i thought 13 ghosts was a teet spooky, just my opinion. peace easy.
32 - andy
Ok I finally saw The Ring 2 days ago...and the judgement is...
NOT SCARY! NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Come on. The only remotely creepy thing was w/ the girl coming through the TV set. That was amazingly erie, but it looked cool as balls.
NOT SCARY.
33 - ~*jessica*~
ok well whoever says that the ring isnt scary is CRAZY!! i think it was one of the best scary movies ive seen in a while.. it was scary but didnt have too bad of a lasting effect. im always on the look out for a good scary movie thats not rated R cause my parents are gay and wont let me see them.. let me know if u know of any good ones that i could see!
34 - Tim Hall
A friend of mine claims the scariest movie he knows is "This is Bob Roberts", because it's too believable.
35 - Rodney Welch
What about Carrie, Rosemary's Baby and Village of the Damned? To me those are more truly scary than most if not all of what has already been mentioned.
36 - Bethany
The Vanishing, the original and the re-make,and One False Move are two very disturbing films..........
37 - jadester
Arachnophobia should be there - i don't have arachnophobia (in fact i quite like spiders) but the film still scared me
Jaws is also pretty scary - although i still manage to pluck up courage and swim out of my depth in the sea (especially after those reports of people getting attacked who then stab the shark in the eye and it lets go)
The remake of The Ring wasn't scary. maybe a little shocking, not to mention tense (will she survive or not?...)
Alien should DEFINITELY be there though. Maybe not the sequels, as you knew what was coming and they tended to play on the gore too much
38 - oblocal
No one has mentioned The Thing? Great pyschological thriller. Carpenter's remake is good, but the original B&W....
39 - Taloran
My wife and 12 and 7 year old kids love scary movies, but I have trouble suspending my disbelief. I loved the first Halloween when it first came out, thought it was quite tame the next time I saw it, and have not since seen anything that made me lose sleep.
40 - Eric Olsen
Dawn is going to redo/update the list for Halloween, although anything she hasn't already seen is out of the running as candidates for "scariest movie of all time" are out as a viewing option at 7 months pregnant.
41 - bob
I have seen alot of horror movies and none have scared me I would really like to be scared watching a horror movie Instaed of being bored.
42 - Nslhn
Suspiria is the scariest movie i've ever seen
43 - Jessi
I agree with your list mostly.
The movie you were describing is Rosemary's Baby, I think. I haven't seen it though.
A few movies that were on someone else's list were Seven, The Attic Expeditions, Final Destination (1 or 2), and Cabin Fever.
Final Destination and Cabin Fever are more gorey than anything, but they're still something that just makes you cringe, or look away. And then the images that you do see stick with you for a long time. (Cabin Fever is a bad movie, so I don't suggest you watch it. Just believe me when I say there are haunting images)
Take Care!
44 - Dragon
Re: the movie where the woman was attacked by the spirit... yes the entity was one but another wich really gave me the creeps and was along the same lines was called incubus. also, check out lets scare jessica to death...the town that dreaded sundown...night of the scarecrow.. for some good scares. btw good list! :)
45 - Taloran
My son says about "Nightmare..."
Oh My God, that scared them? That's so sad....
He's 12.
46 - Kelly
What about children of the corn?
47 - Andrew Ian Dodge
The Shining is the best horror movie of all time, bar none. Why? Because it didn't rely on schlock or gore to be suspenseful, that is why the first Psycho was so good as well. Why hasn't anyone mentioned Nosferatu?
Love the comment about anything with Keenu Reeves (expect Bill & Ted).
Another good thing about the Shining and Psycho is that you are actually prone to route for the good guys instead of wishing moronic teenagers, played by wooden actors, dead.
48 - BRICKLAYER
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Okay, this may not technically fall into the horror category, but it was so disturbing that I feared Mrs. Bricklayer may file paperwork on me for making her watch it with me. (fear not, Bricklayer made everything A-okay with the missus-fellas, you know what I'm talkin' about)
49 - Andy
Nosferatu is amazing. Genuinly creepy. No one makes great horror like that anymore. That movie had a mood the whole way through it....that mood was....CREEP.
50 - John
My vote for one of the scariest flicks of all time is a little known early Brian de Palma film called Sisters. Margot Kidder starred in a dual role of two separated siamese twins--one good/one evil. With a super creepy Bernard Hermann score and some shocking murders, it still has the power to scare today. See it!
51 - Amber
I love Children Of The Corn... Mostly beacuse it's so stupid, it's funny. But it's still a great movie, with a great plot, at least to me : )
52 - Jack
Hey, The ring was shitty, I'm 15 and I watched it the whole time I was laughing at my sister who would chringe.
The movie was just too dumb, no offence to fans but it was truly not scary. I think that anyone who thinks it is scary needs to grow a pair. I think that a truly scary movies were the original texas chainsaw massacere, the jason movies, hallowween, and a few stephen king movies, also psycho
53 - randall ferraro
Salems Lot scarier than the Excorsist? What have you been huffing--glue? Watch them both again and get back to us.
54 - Flip
Top 20 Movies (Horror/Scary):
The Exorcist
Halloween
The Omen
Nosferatu
The Shining
Psycho
Alien
Night of the Living Dead
Evil Dead
Jaws
The Howling
Jacobs Ladder
The Thing (1982)
The Sixth Sense
The Others
The Haunting (60’s version)
Phantasm
Pet Cemetery
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Phantom of the Opera
55 - stacy
Well everyone has a point based upon the older movies, But I am a fan of the Rob Zobbie movie the house of 1000 corps.
I found this movie to really get my attention and keep it from start to end, I have see this movie countless of times, the other movie that I found to be a good one to watch is "Wrong Turn". Both of the movies made me think man what would I do if that happened to me.
56 - ZachariahT
I've seen every movie listed by everyone. They are all scarey. Now some may laugh but I'm only 16 and for the past 3 years every weekend I sit and watch scary movie after scary movie. I've yet to find one that has knocked my socks off. The Exorsist, was scary but didn't seem real enough to freak me out. Texas Chainsaw Massicure was real enough but didn't scare me that much. I've been keeping journals of things that freak me out the most, as well as my friends, I've recently started writing the script... Soon my movie could be finding it's way into your houses. I've let some of my friends read some of my notes and they get kind of scared reading the ideas and looking at the pictures. Hopefully I do this right.
57 - ckla525
i was disappointed when I didnt see Even Horizon making the list
58 - Kayla
In my opinion one of the creepst movies i've seen in a while is The Ring. I saw this in the theater when it first came out and it really scared me. I was jumping out of my seat. the affects are awesome and i would sugguest renting it on halloween if you havent seen it and again if you have.
59 - Roberts
the ring - creepy, weird, fucked up - not scary. others on the list, i'd have to say that the Exorcist was pretty damn sick. the whole comin down the stairs with the backwards head pukin green shit...that takes the cake. other than that, the clown movie mentioned above was pretty weird. The whole Demons series was twisted as hell - check that one out if you want to piss yourself. Otherwise, its a matter of opinion and probably has something to do with what your twisted parents made you watch as a little kid. if you grew up watching the damned care bears, then yea, any of these movies will prolly scare you shitless...if you had a dad that made you watch some sick shit as a kid, then you'll be fine through most of these. !! got one for you!! the part in The Cell when the dude is pullin the other dude's intestines out...thats some scary ass shit. ultimatly, there isn't a scarriest movie of all time... so get over it.
60 - The Theory
*The Theory... grew up on Care Bears and found that both The Ring and The Cell were quite scary*
Hell, last night I watched Access Hollywood's top ten scary movies episode and got scared by the clips they showed of certain movies. i am pathetic.
61 - Puppy
Im 12 and the ring didn't scare me.
Sleepy Hollow wasn't scary at all either, but VERY good.
62 - kat
I thought the ring was pretty scary. My favorite scary movie was The texas chainsaw massacre. I watched iton opening night. It scared me so much i didn't watch half of it cuz i had my head buried in my arms. It actually shows more gore then most other movies.
I think u guys who thoguht psycho was scary are babies. The psycho wasn't anything but hilarious. I think a great movie is "IT" THAT ONES THE SHIT
63 - Ron Mwangaguhunga
5) Suspiria-- Argento's eerie rendering of repressed sexuality in a girls school in a remote part of Switzerland and the horror of ancient sorcery. Turn the sound up loud, turn out the lights and prepared for a visual and sonic assault.
4) The Monster Club-- Three gothic tales in the tradition of Edgar Allen Poe, each more sinister and eerie than the last. Is it cold in here or is it just the terror?
3)The Omen--Traips around the world -- to ancient cairns in remote Italiam graveyards, for example, to visit a priest named Abughadein with one eye blind and exposed in acrid blue. This is terror.
2) Demons -- Try on an ancient pagan mask, get cut, get infected with an ancient virus and turn into a demon. One of the scariest movies ever. No redeeming qualities.
1) Salem's Lot -- Lets go to a cold New England town in the 1970s where the undead cling to the chilly air of a land that displaced Native Americans and replaced them with ... vampires.
Honorable Mention) Jaws -- Okay, the ocean is our collective unconscious -- that having been said, once you swim in the ocean you enter the food chain. there is no greater instinctive fear that man has than becoming another animals food source. Nourishing them with our death.
4) Halloween -- The sheer sonic assault is second only to Suspiria; now, add the suburban normality of the late 70s, that creeping suspicion that ... something ... isn't ... RIGHT! Now, Michael Myers, in a leather mask -- unkillable -- stalks the rainy Halloween suburbs. the night is already tinged in chaos. Kids roam wild. Sugar is on everyones mind. Frantic. Chaos. Now add an unkillable killer with a sound man out of control.
64 - Craig
Obviously no one here has seen Let's scare Jessica to Death! I'm 39 years old and still remember the day I cried and my older brother had to take me home because I was so damn scared of this movie I couldn't even finish it. He was absolutely pissed at me because the theater wouldn't let him back in. That was 1971 folks, no special effects or gore, just pure, scare the living shit out of you to where you won't sleep for awhile or better yet, visit any country houses for awhile. This is 2003, it still gives me the creeps to think about it. Watch it, you'll never leave town!!!!!!!
65 - Xavier
This list was fine, however, I think the Exorcist part three should have been up there. Many people don't really understand it and how it connects into the first part. Part three, "The Legion", was great. It sorta made up for the disappointing production of part two, "The Heretic". It was actually as I read somewhere supposed to be part two but I don't remember what happened for them to change that. To get the full effect of any horror movie, I recommend watching it alone and in the dark. It makes a difference. The Ring to me was terrifying. I had never seen the previews, nor heard what it was about. A friend way back when the movie was in theatres recommended it to me since we are both horror movie fanatics, and I trusted his judgment. I think the people who did not like it nor find it scary had it built up too much to them and that basically ruined it. It's like telling someone the ending in the Sixth Sense; why bother and watch the movie after that. I own the first two parts of Ringu, the Japanese versions of the Ring. I didn't find them as scary although they are the originals, but that's perhaps I already have seen the English version of it. Ringu explains more than the Ring, however, the Ring had better special effects (the faces, and Samara)wow was she ever freaky. I honestly had images of her popping out of my t.v and computer monitor at night. Watching it in the theatres had a much bigger effect on me since I have seen it again on t.v and on my computer. I am excited about when the second part comes out, it will be terrific, but it will require a lot of work since the viewers already know the terror the first part exhibited thus becoming more immune to it. "It" turned me off clowns forever. I would beat any clown to death if they ever were to creep up to me, no joke. I was a kid when I watched it and never liked clowns since then. "The Omen" as well deserves some credit, it was fairly well done. I thought "The Omen" movies should have ended at three, a fourth part just didn't fit well.
66 - kiara
the ring was soooooooooooo scary.
67 - manuel
please lets not compare the ring to exorcist, the ring was not scary at all.
68 - TDavid
Yes, it was cheesy, but did anybody here ever see Captain Kirk in Kingdom of the Spiders? That movie bothered me when I was younger. Creepy crawlies taking over the world movie can be very unsettling because there are more creepy crawlies than humans on this earth.
Amityville Horror was an unsettling book but didn't transfer as well to screen.
69 - Tim
First of all, I don't think any comments should be posted with grammar like this:
the most scariest movie i ever watched and read was pet cemetary that even gave my dad nightmares and he dont even get them never -- Kim (retard!)
You are just bad at living!
But one of the scariest movies I've seen and that no one has mentioned yet would have to be "The Devil's Advocate" with Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino. Two of my favorite actors in a ruthlessly fucked up movie! It's not really that bloody or gory, but it just plays with your head & makes you about want to piss your pants. (side effects: NAUSEA!)
70 - TS
OK..you want a really creepy, scary flick?
The Other
Not "The Others" with Nicole Kidman- I am talking about the fild from 1972. VERY underrated scary movie...
71 - Sherry
I have to agree with the person who named the original The Haunting with Julie Christy - the whole atmosphere was scary - unlike the horror movies of today - there was no monster, you had to use your imagination - and that is what makes a great horror flick, when you scare out of your wits by something unknown.....really creepy. Check it out and you'll see.
72 - BRICKLAYER
Yo, did anyone give props to "Carrie" or "Rosemary's Baby" or "Silent Scream"? If so, my bad. And I gotta give big ups to "Exorcist 3"-seriously, that movie rocks.
73 - BRICKLAYER
Oh yeah, and "My bloody Valentine" and "The Stepfather".
And "The English Patient" left me quite traumatized also. I had to watch "Sixteen Candles" 6 times in row to get the bad taste out of my mouth!
74 - Amber (bee)
I have never seen any movie thats scared me not even the ring nor the exorcist. they bore me. There was one movie by Troy Taylor the guy who does the haunted decatur books and stories, which I would like to mention I do live in decatur, anyways the movie he made was called the st.fransiceville expirement. It starts out like blair witch then turns into the haunting, the only thing really scary about this is that THIS IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY! My dad is friends with Troy so thats even cooler. but in this movie there is some scary stuff. So scary it even scard me and it takes alot to scare me.
The movie starts out slow but towards the end its the best and the scariest, actually the begining is kinda gay but good.
Check it out!
75 - MQ
What about "Child's Play"? When I was a kid, I just couldn't sleep anywhere near the side of the bed because of that movie, but it's true that it would probably be more funny than scary now.
And yeah, "Stephen King's It" is really great although the ending is kinda weird.
They really aren't classics as the ones from the list, but they're still good IMO.
I recently saw "The Exorcist" again and fell asleep halfway through the movie :) Don't take it the wrong way, I still think it's great, it just stretches a bit too much in the middle.