Scary Movie Survey

[progressive85]

The main movie is listed but you can include all the sequels too.

I put Insidious/Conjuring/Annabelle together because its all the James Wan universe.

If there is a movie that you thought was scarier than any of these films, please say which one and what you thought was scary about it.

[progressive85]

already realized I forgot some very good ones, like "The Descent"...

[dead0man]

I've seen all of these except Babadook (?) and the Ruins.  Some scared me when I first saw them as a preteen or whatever a hundred years ago (Friday the 13th, the Exorcist, the Omen) and some of them have never scared me (Halloween, Elm Street, Blair Witch, the Hitchcock ones).  Carrie and the Exorcist are the only ones that still give me the willies...I went with Carrie.  Some creepy sh**t in that movie.  The mother "hiding" in plain sight, the hand at the end, "there all going to laugh at you!"..ok that ones just funny.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I refuse to accept any scariest movie poll which includes The Ruins, Annabelle, The Conjuring, Insidious, Paranormal Activity, and The Birds, but leaves out films like The Shining, The Thing (1982 version), The Evil Dead, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version), and Scream.  Also IT was a mini-series, the movie hasn't come out quite yet.  

Anyway, of the choices in this poll, The Exorcist is the scariest with The Babadook in a very distant second.

[RINO Tom]

Different strokes for different folks, obviously.  I tend to think a movie is "scariest" when the idea frightens me.  Even as someone who doesn't believe in a literal devil, devil movies are always pretty scary because they're one of the few types of plots that involve true evil.  A human ghost, for example, was once human just like every other normal person, and it's not inconvievable that the ghost has a shred of humanity left/an understandable motive.  The Devil, as classically understood, is the pure emobidment of evil, at least in movies.  So, I'll go with The Exorcist and The Omen in a tie.  Here are my thoughts on them, though, as I'm super bored:

Psycho - Need to watch again
The Birds - Need to watch again
The Exorcist - Legit scary
The Ring - Never did it for me...
The Blair Witch Project - Deserves props for originality, but I was never a fan
Halloween - More "a classic" than legit scary, but it doesn't deserve any hate
Friday the 13th - See above
A Nightmare on Elm Street - I guess it gets some "classic" status, but I never liked it
Insidious/The Conjuring/Annabelle - Which one?  LOL
Child's Play - Never seen this one
Rosemary's Baby - Legit scary
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Accomplishes the main goal of horror: makes you feel tense the whole time
The Ruins - Fun to watch with girls when you're a sophomore in high school but pretty bad
The Babadook - I must be missing something, because I'm astounded anyone liked this movie
Jaws - I'm kind of alone in never seeing this as a true horror movie, but I love the flick
The Omen - Legit scary
Carrie - Meh, I've always thought it was overrated, but it's not bad
Poltergeist - See Carrie
It - Disturbing, if not that scary
Paranormal Activity - Scared the SH|T out of me in theatres, gets less scary each time ... I'd still classify it as "legit scary," especially for the effect it had on everyone my age back then

[mvd10]

The Hostel movies were really terrible to watch (though the last one was terrible in a more negative sense). I literally only watched the first movie because the main antagonist was a Dutch businessman. I was extremely disappointed that he wasn't played by a Dutch actor. Oh, something else: WE DON'T SPEAK F**ING GERMAN IN THE NETHERLANDS, WE'RE NOT F**ING AUSTRIA.

[Crumpets]

The only movie that has ever legitimately kept me up at night was The Ring. I think I was only 8 or so when I first watched it, but even now it's just so unnerving and creepy all around. Newer horror movies are barely even scary, and rely so much on jump scares and random CGI nonsense that by the end of the movie, you're basically just bored.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The Blair Witch Project freaked me out bigly.

[Mr. Reactionary]

The only movie that has ever legitimately kept me up at night was The Ring. I think I was only 8 or so when I first watched it, but even now it's just so unnerving and creepy all around. Newer horror movies are barely even scary, and rely so much on jump scares and random CGI nonsense that by the end of the movie, you're basically just bored.

I went with the ring as well. Of the listed movies ive seen, the ring was the only one that freaked me out a little.

[KingSweden]

I've got an obscure non-classic that freaked me out - The Astronaut's Wife w/ young Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron. Seriously terrifying movie

[vanguard96]

Why include Ring but not Ju-On (The Grudge) or Dark Water?

I think the need for a rooting interest hurt Ju-on's reception in the US.

I've not seen Paranormal Activity or Annabelle

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k

[Santander]

Rutter?

[Beet]

The Ring is the only scary movie here. The Aliens series is also underrated as scary.

[HAnnA MArin County]

No Amityville Horror? "GETTTTTTT OUTTTTTTT!"

[The Dowager Mod]

The spider walk scene in the Exorcist creeped me out.