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Do You Agree? ‘Exorcist’ Ranked Greatest Horror Movie Of All-Time
Study Finds ^ | 10/31/18 | Ben Renner

Posted on 10/31/2018 12:07:39 PM PDT by Simon Green

Happy Halloween! With Michael Myers returning to the big screen just in time for his favorite holiday this year, it’s as good a time as ever to poll Americans on their most beloved horror movies of all-time. A new survey finds that despite the many heart-pounding fright flicks that have spooked moviegoers in recent years, you’ll have to turn back the clock for the scariest films ever.

The survey of 2,000 American adults, commissioned by video streaming service Vudu, had few surprises. Americans agreed that the most horrifying film ever created was The Exorcist, followed by the first iterations of Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Rounding out the top five, perhaps unexpectedly for some, was the 2013 haunted house nightmare The Conjuring — the only horror film made in the past 30 years to make the top five.

Meanwhile, when it came to the most popular horror villain, it was no surprise either that the man who sets out to haunt nightmares, Freddy Krueger, of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, took the top spot. Michael Myers from Halloween came in second, followed by Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th), Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs) and Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

(Excerpt) Read more at studyfinds.org ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; moviereview
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To: Simon Green

Freaked!!


61 posted on 10/31/2018 12:32:36 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: TBall

I imagine the television edit had to be trimmed just a wee bit.


62 posted on 10/31/2018 12:32:38 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
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To: Luircin

IIRC, I read the book before seeing the movie.


63 posted on 10/31/2018 12:32:50 PM PDT by windowdude
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To: Simon Green

Original Halloween. Hands down.


64 posted on 10/31/2018 12:33:15 PM PDT by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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To: Simon Green

Patton.


65 posted on 10/31/2018 12:33:26 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Simon Green

#2 - The Shining.


66 posted on 10/31/2018 12:33:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Simon Green

The HAUNTING (1963)

HAUNTED(1995)

BURNT OFFERINGS (1976)

CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957)

BURN WITCH BURN (1962)

BLACK SUNDAY(1960)

KILL BABY, KILL (1966)

All are better than the Exorcist.


67 posted on 10/31/2018 12:33:35 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Simon Green

I saw in 1974 the movie, ‘Deranged’, still haunts me.


68 posted on 10/31/2018 12:34:04 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: Simon Green

The original Phantom of The Opera with Lon Chaney... the unmasking scene.


69 posted on 10/31/2018 12:34:12 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Luircin

I also had read the book and knew what to expect before I saw it in the theater. Not that scary for me.

What made a lot of viewers uncomfortable and scared was that the original 73 release used subliminal images interspersed through the scenes. Death mask, other disturbing images flashed so quickly that the eyes did not register the images but the brain did.

See the following: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=subliminal+images+in+the+exorcist&qpvt=subliminal+images+in+the+exorcist&FORM=IGRE


70 posted on 10/31/2018 12:34:15 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: GSWarrior

Bill

I’m southern primitive baptist

Scares me

We believe Satan is an evil entity who roams the earth


71 posted on 10/31/2018 12:34:30 PM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it wonÂ’t matter what you were)
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To: All

Another good psychological horror film was “The Village”...


72 posted on 10/31/2018 12:34:35 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

yep. movies with the unseen monsters...scary


73 posted on 10/31/2018 12:34:49 PM PDT by windowdude
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; Simon Green
'For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

"You mean like Democrats?"


74 posted on 10/31/2018 12:35:21 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Simon Green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ec


75 posted on 10/31/2018 12:36:24 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: Simon Green

#2 is Rosemary’s Baby


76 posted on 10/31/2018 12:36:38 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Simon Green

I’ve never seen it. For some reason I just don’t want to be scared just for the sake of being scared. But I understand the draw.


77 posted on 10/31/2018 12:37:42 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: akalinin

The intestines eating and protagonists dying and the girl killing mommy

I was 10

Scared me


78 posted on 10/31/2018 12:38:15 PM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it wonÂ’t matter what you were)
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To: Simon Green
Not so bad without the makeup. Couldn't find younger pic. Eileen Dietz, playing Pazuzu.


79 posted on 10/31/2018 12:38:32 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: DFG

The original Night of the Living Dead!!! 1968!


80 posted on 10/31/2018 12:39:31 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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