2. Saw
3. Wolf Creek
4. Hostel
5. The Shining (had its moments)
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
These are not my choices. They are the choices of the Boston.com Staff.
50: Arachnophobia
49: The Innocents
48: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
47: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
46: The Wicker Man (1973 version)
45: The Blob (1988 version)
44: Rosemary's Baby
43: The Brood
42: Event Horizon
41: Dawn of the Dead (2004 version)
40: Eraserhead
39: Amityville Horror (1978 version)
38: Pet Sematary
37: Open Water
36: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 version)
35: The Fly (1986 version)
34: Salem's Lot (1979 version)
33: Gates of Hell
32: Session 9
31: In the Mouth of Madness
30: Altered States
29: The Mothman Prophecies
28: The Mist
27: Videorome
26: Se7en
25: War of the Worlds (1953 version)
24: Saw
23: Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters)
22: The Silence of the Lambs
21: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 version)
20: Hellraiser
19: The Changeling (1980 film with George C. Scott)
18: 28 Days Later
17: Pan's Labyrinth
16: Jacob's Ladder
15: Jaws
14: The Exorcist
13: Quatermass and the Pit
12: Cloverfield
11: The Shining (1980 version)
10: Audition
9: Halloween (1978 version)
8: Evil Dead II
7: Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)
6: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version)
5: Alien
4: The Ring
3: [REC]
2: Ju-On
1: The Thing (1982 version)
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Number 1: “Barack Hussein Obama Gets Elected”
Ju-on! Totally twisted and very cool...
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Maybe the worst list of all-time
How old were these decision makers? Teenagers?
I agree with Willy Wonka. The scenery and feel of the movie feels like a soulless, Godless dystopia.
“Cloverfield” is one of my favorite moves, but ahead of “The Exorcist” and “Rosemary’s Baby?”
And “The Omen” isn’t even listed?
Back to the drawing board for this list.
Alien. A masterpiece. “Get out Dallas!”
I saw “Night of the Hunter” as a kid and it scared me awake for nights.
How in the hell could they not mention “The Blair Witch Project” or “Paranormal Activity”?
They thought the 2nd Blair Witch movie was scarier than the first? lol (stupid liberals)
The Mothman Prophecies made the list and it is more intresting than scary. Maybe because I live not all that far from Point Pleasant, West Va and have been through there a bunch of times.
One of the most dark and disturbing movies I ever saw was 8 MM with Nicholas Cage. That was scary.
Not a single Hitchcock film in the top 50?!?!?!
This list is worthless.
That is a snoozer of a list. I don’t think any of them scared me. The Thing? LOL! Great special effects, and chilling creepy alien body invasions, but scary? I don’t think so.
“Rawhead Rex” scared me and although I want to watch it again I can’t bring myself to do it. I know it was panned by scary movie enthusiasts but I guess we all react to different fear stimulus.
” 4: The Ring”
I did some theater productions with one of the actors in The Ring. I still have not seen the movie.
To me, the 1951 version of The Thing was the most disturbing. I was only 8 at the time and I had gone to a Sat. matinee with my older sister to see (supposedly) Demetrius and the Gladiators. But the theater had advertised the wrong a movie and it was The Thing instead. I had nightmares for months after that movie. The scene where the man puts an electric blanket over the chunk of ice (which contains the alien) is still vivid in my mind. I will never forget it. I have not seen the newer version of the movie.
Nothing by Vincent Price??
BTW, the 1956 “Body Snatchers” was scary enough.
Especially the part where the entire town population is told to report and pick up their seed pods that will turn them into soulless aliens.
Obamacare, anyone?
2. Saw
3. Wolf Creek
4. Hostel
5. The Shining (had its moments)
We watched “The Thing” a couple weeks ago. Excellent.
Arachnophobia makes me jump out of my chair when that little spider jumps onto the paper the guy is reading. Eek!