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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).
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Absolutely agree. “The Exorcist.” Incredible film.
Ditto that it’s number 1 for me for all horror categories!(and it has worn well, even after 40 years)
The Birds is number 3 on my list!
Strange movie. Maybe more scary if you believe in exorcism.
yeah Omen... I agree
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The original Omen is number 4 on my personal list...after Alien,Phantasm,the Birds.
The Omen made me afraid of Rottweilers for many years.
The devil dog.
The horror genre is my guilty pleasure. My Netflix queue is almost all filled with horror films. I owned a haunted house and could tell you stories... I have no doubt in a realm beyond death, none. Exorcists is the standard by which good horror is judged. I could list my 10 but take too long. A really good one in my top 10, Heredity. The script is tight, visuals chilling, the creeping horror that crescendos. It’s a great movie by a journeyman director. I also like the James Wan\Scarehouse stuff like The Conjuring series and Insidious.
That was a funny line...!
Being cheap at the time, I was reading the paperback of “Alien” instead of seeing the movie. It was thoroughly creeping me out. But when I got to the part where Ripley killed the android, I put the book down, went to the piggy bank for funding and left for the theater to see the movie right away.
A GREAT plot, which few people understood after seeing the movie. It is one of the best monster movies ever.
Oh wait, you did not say whore, you said horror.
............There goes my Jane Fonda mention.
The black guy, the only survivor, gets shot to death in the end. Just a genius ending to a dark scary movie.
The original Night of the Living Dead hands down.
Yes I agree that it’s number 1. Still scares the pants off me.
I read The Exorcist before I saw it. Reading was scarier than watching. That’s why I thought The Omen movie was better. Oh, those creepy sights and sounds of the Middle East in the beginning of the movie... that’s what got to me. Either one is worth watching again.
I thought Carrie’s mom was the scariest character after Hannibal Lecter.
The Exorcist- I saw it as a teen and really did not make an impact until i was older.
The fact that the “demon” took over a kid in the Georgetown area of DC.....totally makes sense NOW.
Yes Aliens 2 fleshed out the plot from Alien a little better for me though I got what the plot was when I saw “Mother’s” orders..”crew expendable” which brought it home to me and I felt the betrayal of the characters by a cynical money driven “company” as well as the purpose of the discussion regarding the last minute change of science officers having occurred earlier in the movie.
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