Your top 10 scariest movies of alltime

[Big Empty]

Some good ones already named. A few more:

The Hills Have Eyes (original)
Rosemary’s Baby
Fire Walk With Me
The Descent
The VVitch

I’m all about dread and terror, not just gore. These five plus the classics like The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, The Thing, all fit that bill.

Edit: Several already mentioned Rosemary’s Baby and The Descent.

Surprised nobody has mentioned The VVitch. I found it pretty unsettling in that way you get the creeps from a movie. Great cast. Strong visuals. The religious paranoia and fallout amongst the children was almost disturbing. Based on folklore of colonial times.

Im gonna check out vvitch ive never seen it

[pgardn]

These are all really good choices above by the board.

I would add:

Suspiria (The Italian version 1977)

I had no idea what this was and it caught me off guard. Felt like I got injected with some sort of panic fluid. So Fckn weird. And the music.

Phantasm (1979)

Like the above, I got caught without being prepared. Remember some weird darting ball drilling into a guys forehead in a mortuary.

Its the before my time sneaky weird flicks that get me.

Silence of The Lambs was fantastic. A good movie and scary.

[RD2191]

I don't have a top 10 but that movie the strangers always freaks me out.

[hater]

Babadook
Lost Highway
Audition
Inside
Exorcist
Goodnite Mommy
Conjuring 2
Wickerman (original)
Suspiria
The Tenant

[JMarkJohns]

Im gonna check out vvitch ive never seen it

Highly recommend. Entire film is naturally lit, so every seen has a darker than usual ambiance to it. Spine-grating score that pairs perfectly with visuals. Just beautiful and weird enough to keep you engrossed when all breaks loose.



Minimalist. Just them and the that goes bad.

[Trill Clinton]

salute to all of the conjuring and insidious love. insidious wasn't really scary to me. the music was what really made it scary.

i think exorcism of emily rose was the scariest movie of all time to me. it had a young thug shook. i only like supernatural scary movies or scary movies based off true stories.

[JMarkJohns]

Babadook
Lost Highway

Love Lost Highway. Doesn’t scare me, but it’s a weirdly disturbing film. Inland Empire takes it even further.

[lebomb]

Eraserhead is the most disturbing of all disturbing movies bar none.

[JMarkJohns]

Eraserhead is the most disturbing of all disturbing movies bar none.

I wouldn’t necessarily disagree.

But for many, myself included, Disturbing doesn’t equal scary.

I find Fire Walk With Me far more “scary” with actual fright and dread than Eraserhead, or even Inland Empire. FWWM is sadistically voyeristic in the terrifying last days of Laura Palmer, climaxing in a brutal murder. Has some ed up imagery too.

[hater]

Inland empire was just boring. Couldnt finish it

And I loved Eraserhead and watched it like 30 times. It is disturbing but agree not super scary

[JMarkJohns]

Inland Empire is what happens when horror meets art meets a horrifically artistic director who was given free reign on an idea and it needed people to tell him “no”.

And I say that as a Lynch devotee.

It has its moments. Some truly crazy, disturbing imagery and ideas. But it’s his weakest feature by far, including the epically awfully goodly awful Dune.

[hater]

Man I love Dune for some reason.

Wish I could see Lynchs 4 hour version which never made it

But I do wish Jodorowsky had gotten a shot at Dune

[JMarkJohns]

I, too, enjoy Dune. I openly admit its flaws. But it’s so much fun.


Anyways, rating Lynch films based on “scare” factor:

1. Fire Walk With Me
2. Inland Empire
3. Erasurehead
4. Lost Highway
5. Blue Velvet
6. Mulholland Drive

Last 4 aren’t really scary so much as disturbing in scenes.

[hater]

Just watched the new twin peaks. What did u think?

I thought it was great 8/10 imo

[JMarkJohns]

It was a beautiful nightmare. I’m happy, though I would love more.

Mother is a creature that definitely inspires terror.

[timtonymanu]

Love Lost Highway. Doesn’t scare me, but it’s a weirdly disturbing film. Inland Empire takes it even further.

Both are great. That one scene in Inland Empire though. That alone almost put this in my top 10.

[DMC]

That one scene in Bone Tomahawk ed me up.

[chunticakes]

Im gonna check out vvitch ive never seen it

Be sure to watch it with sub les on. Some of the dialogue is hard to make out...with it being in old school English and all. Super slow moving film that comes across as a time piece more than anything but I enjoyed it. I had to watch it a second time around once I learned about legit witch folklore. Definitely enjoyed it more the second time around.

Someone mentioned the movie mother!

Also a good movie. I got a anxious/claustrophobic vibe from it, tbh...

[AaronY]

Highly recommend. Entire film is naturally lit, so every seen has a darker than usual ambiance to it. Spine-grating score that pairs perfectly with visuals. Just beautiful and weird enough to keep you engrossed when all breaks loose.



Minimalist. Just them and the that goes bad.

That Witch movie was great. A lot of religious people were offended by it on message boards for some reason from what I saw

[JMarkJohns]

I mean, I get why. The religious fervor led to paranoia led to almost villainous atrocity.

That said, same religious folks should brush up on Salem Witch Trials. If they aren’t scared less.

The church literally mirrored the parents in the film with their descent to madness in name of religion and righteousness.

[DJR210]

No order..

Exorcist - Easy

Insidious - As mentioned, this one should be played at loud volumes over a sound system as the music and jump scares are top notch. The way they intertwined the first and second one from real world perspective and the perspective from the further when the front door kept opening and setting off the alarm was genius IMO. Part 2 and 3, meh.

Paranormal Activity - The first one was creepy af I thought.. details like hoof prints in the powder and Katie standing over him for hours were pretty twisted.

Fire in the Sky - Not technically a horror movie, but the experiment scenes and scared the out of me as a kid.

IT (1990) - The first half of the movie specifically.. I was really young at the time so that played a role in how scary I thought the movie was.

The Intruders - Made for CBS mini-series about alien abduction.. pretty good for low budget

Storm of the Century - "Give me what I want and I'll go away"

Blair Witch - the first time I saw this I just remember the feeling of dread it gave me.. I can't say it aged well, but I still think it earns a spot for creating the genre.

The Omen - Not sure which one I think is better, but I thought releasing the latest on 6/6/6 was a nice touch.

[SpursforSix]

I also want to add Prince of Darkness. The dream sequences were scary as .

[SnakeBoy]

Anything starring Melissa McCarthy is pretty terrifying tbh