30 Scariest Movies Ever Made

[babybash]

This is very scary!!! The list of stuff magazine's 30 scariest movies ever made, I'm glad OMEN is included to the list.
Will you agree to the #1 pick of Stuff magazine scariest movies ever?

View all the list here: http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=1499&src=gtf123

[spejic]

The movie that most freaked me out as a kid was Raiders of the Lost Ark. Nothing else ever gave me nightmares like that thing did.

I don't know about The Exorcist. I guess you have to be of a certain age. I personally find the end-of-civilization idea way more scary than supernatural stuff. The British mini-series "Day of the Triffids" and "The Survivors" gave me indigestion and sleepless nights for weeks.

[Belgian guy]

I remember the melting faces at the end of Raiders scaring me as well as a kid. Off course, I must have been 6-7 at the time.

[Toon³]

Planet of the Apes at No.9? I don't get it.

I like The Shining but it just doesn't scare me at all.

Ghostbusters was a scary film...and Ghost Dad

[Matrim55]

Jaws, Silence of the Lams and The Exorcist all hold up to repeat viewings on the scare-factor, which makes them the three scariest for me.

The Blair Witch Project freaked me right the hell out the first time I saw it, which embarrasses me now. The second time I saw it I laughed out loud at most of the same stuff that had me almost pissing myself in the theatre.

The whole list of 80s gore-fests never really scared me at all, but Planet of the Apes terrified me when I was a kid.

The fact that anything M. Night Shamalamadingdong has made scares anyone boggles my mind.

EDIT: I didn't feel particularly scared while watching 28 Days Later, but that movie has stayed with me for two or three years now and I find myself thinking about it at random times. It's one of the better movies on the list, and possibly the best-made (Jaws excepted, of course).

And I never saw Day of the Triffids, but I read the book, which is spectacular. Same guy who wrote Village of the Damned.

[NoodlesMacintosh]

Meh. I'm totally scare-able, but most movies can't really keep it going over the duration of their running time.

The scariest thing I've seen in a movie is from Unbreakable when you get the overhead view of Bruce Willis being swallowed by the tarp over the pool. That's something I don't like thinking about.

The original Cape Fear can get pretty creepy, too. Evil Robert Mitchum alone with that kid...brr.

[ForeverRed]

Gremlins? That was the most hillarious thing I've ever seen!

[SirManchester]

What a bogus list.

Fear in films nowadays is so subjective anyway that even films like the Inconvenient Truth can be a scary film to some.

However, I can understand how these films were effective when seen as young kids, Personally, IT scared the shit out of me when I was young and remains the scariest film I've seen to this day.

I would include The Descent on that list.

[JeremyEritrea]

Not a single Dario Argento movie? No Candyman? What a crap list.

[babybash]

For me my top 3 of the scariest movie will be #1 Exorcist, #2 Jaws and #3 OMEN the first film.

Actually all the movies that are listed there are all of my favorite horror film, the article is nice!

[Soccernova78]

Some of these movies I don't get at all in terms of scariness. Planet Of The Apes was cool and the ending was jarring but I really didn't find it scary. Now Beneath The Planet Of The Apes with the Doomsday Machine at the end kept me up for many a night afterwards.

The Omen absolutely scared the hell out of me when I saw it. All of that Anti-Christ fulfillment of Scriptures really messed with my head. The Shining also freaked me out when I saw it on cable when I was little. My cousins and I snuck downstairs to watch it late one night and the image of those two little girls in the hallway was stuck in my mind for days.

I agree that end-of-the-world, apocalyptic movies can be very scary also. The Day After was an extremely disturbing movie when I first saw it.

[nancyb]

The movies that scare me are of the Jaws variety where things suddenly jump out and startle you. The whole supernatural, end of the world things don't bother me. That list mostly stupid. Children of the Corn? What a joke.

[Uppa 90]

"It" scared the Bejesus out of me...

one that really scared me as a kid was "the Gate"... freaked me out... basements were never the same after that... "People under the Stairs" freaked me out as well...

"Children of the Corn" was a joke as well, course, i saw it last year for the first time...

not to be cheesy, but that sequence in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" where the truck driver's face changes gave me nightmares for weeks when i was little... and so did "The Ring"... actually...

[Chicago1871]

The Exorcist scared the hell out of me when I first saw it and it still bugs me today. Jaws was scary the first time, but not since then (although the film still does a good job of building tension). The Shinning was scary for a while, but not as much anymore, though still a bit nerve wracking. The Omen I saw too far into my teens, and by that time the special effects were so bad the film became funny. Alien was the first monster movie I saw as a kid, it scared the crap out of me, but now it's just a good sci-fi film to me. The Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street slasher flicks were scary the first time to me as a kid, but were B movie enough that they haven't been since.

[Dolemite]

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[DoctorD]

I always found the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (with Donald Sutherland and Lenoard Nimoy) to be terrifying. Unlike the original, in which the normal humans ended up living in secret alongside the pod people, the remake offers no such consolation: all the normal humans are hunted down. There is no escape.

[riverplate]

The oldest movie they could come up with is from 1959?

Nothing from Universal's glory years. Nothing from Hammer. Nothing from AIP.

What a joke.

[JFPIV]

The Blair Witch Project freaked me right the hell out the first time I saw it, which embarrasses me now. The second time I saw it I laughed out loud at most of the same stuff that had me almost pissing myself in the theatre.



That movie didn't do anything for me til the very last scene where the dude is standing in the corner of the basement.

[Soccernova78]

It wasn't a Hollywood movie but one of the absolutely scariest shows I've ever seen was the TV mini-series Salem's Lot (the original). When I was little they put the uncut version on cable on the station Showtime. It wasn't gory or bloody or anything but it was one of the scariest things I'd ever watched.

There's this scene in the hospital morgue where David Soul is waiting after dark for this woman (who recently died) to wake up and turn into a vampire. He was making a cross and was praying as she was slowly rising from her bed and calling out her dead son's name. It was the freakiest thing I had ever seen. The scene seemed so realistic and stark that when I was little I became convinced that there was such a thing as vampires LOL.

I agree with Matrim55 on The Blair Witch Project. when I first saw it I was frightened as hell. Especially when they get chased out of the tent one night and are running through the woods screaming like maniacs with the camera shaking every which way. The ending is also chilling in the basement with the guy in the corner and the girl screeching. But for some reason when I saw it a few times afterwards it just didn't have the same impact.

[Auriaprottu]

Coma.