What is the scariest movie of all time...

[Mattchew]

So there are all types of Horror movies..

*Slashers
*Zombies
*Monster Flicks
*Psychological Thrillers
*Aliens in powder-blue leisure suits ('Bad Taste')

My simple, yet oh so difficult to answer, question is: 'What is the scariest horror movie of all time?'

Thoughts?

 

[chaseter]

Psychological movies get me the most...mind games are creepy. Ghost movies are usually scary too so add those in and I get goosebumps.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

So there are all types of Horror movies..

*Slashers
*Zombies
*Monster Flicks
*Psychological Thrillers
*Aliens in powder-blue leisure suits ('Bad Taste')

My simple, yet oh so difficult to answer, question is: 'What is the scariest horror movie of all time?'

Thoughts?

Technically it would be the movie that has scared the most people.

For that, you have to take into account not just the film, but attitudes at the time, what audiences were afraid of (cold war, demonic possesion, terrorism) then.

I know some people will post suggestions, and others will say, "That didn't scare me (therefore it's not scary)!"

 

[L0ngsh0t]

without question it is the masterpeice, Halloween

 

[ShaneHelms]

For me it's The Exorcist.

 

[superkong 500]

I would say that to categorize a film the scariest of all time you would have to think of a film that has a universal theme and that affects at a psychological but at a spiritual level also. A film that no matter how much times passes still holds up simply because its so well crafted and because it gets inside of our minds and affects us in more than one way. But most importantly because its main theme will always be relevant and will not be affected by the political climate of the time(unlike TCM) or any other aspect of society simply because it deals with a universal theme that has always been and will always be there no matter what changes in the world for better or worse.
So considering all those points to me the scariest movie of all time is The exorcist.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Halloween.

I prefer slashers. Especially ones where the killer is a human being, something about the evilness in a human allowing them to kill another human just creeps me right out.

 

[co2]

The Shining just makes my skin crawl. It's Kubrick's claustrophobic cinematography that makes you continually feel like you are being closed in on.

 

[shapeshifter]

old school

 

[TwilightPro101]

The Excorcist.

 

[WorthyStevens]

 

[Jennifer Walters]

That is easily the best chase scene in horror movie history.

 

[Dangerous]

The Beyond.

 

[WorthyStevens]

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That is easily the best chase scene in horror movie history.

Agreed.

 

[Rezzo]

The Exorcist, I´m still afraid to watch it till this day. Anything that has to do with being possessed and dealing with the Devil scares the **** out of me

 

[chamber-music]

The Exorcist. Its just the mood and atmosphere the film creates.

Least scary are slasher movies because they are perdictable

 

[superkong 500]

For me it's The Exorcist.

Damn to this day I wonder who was that guy in the white make-up hes one creepy demonic looking guy.

 

[chaseter]

Things that pop out and demon/ghosts are creepy. Movies that are not scary involve anything with zombies, walking killers...yea I am talking to you Jason and Michael, and way out there monsters. Realism is far scarier than fanatacism.

 

[Golgo-13]

The Descent

Hellraiser 1

...so i say Monster flicks.

 

[Immortalfire]

Mindless slasher films are no. Frankly, because I don't think gore is all that scary. You have mess with the mind, to scare me.

 

[Kritish]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for one, Alien might be up there as well. I found the Exorcist to be kind of funny.

 

[deathshead2]

I've seen alot of horror movies and haven't been scared by one yet. Your looking at a guy who laughs at The Exorcist. I will say though I was scared by a kids movie when I was a kid. Small soldiers scared the crap out of me, cus I had like every single toy for that movie at my house. I thought they were going to get me.

 

[killingfields]

ill jump in the bandwagon and agree with the exorcist. why? it touches a subject which i believe is or can be real: the possession of an evil.

another honorable mentions are:
Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the same reason, realism.
and the Hills Have Eyes- remake. it holds a sense of realism if you change mutants for a gang of bikers, and the victims were the typical family, ma, pa, brother, sister, baby, and the son in law.

Hellraiser is great horror, but the idea of a box which opens the gates to hell, is something that too fictitious

 

[Wolfwood]

Zombie movies kind of scare me because of the feeling of isolation and the horror you find in familiar places.

The Exorcist didn't really scare me, but it shocked me and I still find the last few minutes to be so disturbing.

 

[Majik1387]

I honestly didn't find The Exorcist scary in any way.
For the longest time I found it overrated as a horror movie. I don't anymore, but it's just not scary or creepy or anything to me.