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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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Freaked!!
I imagine the television edit had to be trimmed just a wee bit.
IIRC, I read the book before seeing the movie.
Original Halloween. Hands down.
Patton.
#2 - The Shining.
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.
I saw in 1974 the movie, ‘Deranged’, still haunts me.
The original Phantom of The Opera with Lon Chaney... the unmasking scene.
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
Bill
I’m southern primitive baptist
Scares me
We believe Satan is an evil entity who roams the earth
Another good psychological horror film was “The Village”...
yep. movies with the unseen monsters...scary
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#2 is Rosemary’s Baby
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.
The intestines eating and protagonists dying and the girl killing mommy
I was 10
Scared me
The original Night of the Living Dead!!! 1968!
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