what is the greatest horror movie of all time?

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  4. Can’t chose just one.

    If you want psychological horror with (fairly) little blood and gore: The Babadook

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2321549/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

    If you want something with lots of blood and gore: High Tension

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0338095/

    Try to get an uncut version of it. I’ve bought it on DVD before only to find that they had cut almost entire scenes 🙄

    If you want a good horror comedy I can recommend Dead Snow

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

  7. Hereditary. Maybe not greatest of all time, but definitely my favorite. The slow burn is unreal.

  12. If you mean scariest, it’s a toss-up between The Exorcist and Steel Magnolias. That second one is on the list because there really are women like that in the world, and there are lots of them.

    And when I say The Exorcist, I mean the original 1973 film. Not the sequels (they sucked), not the TV reboot, not even the novel, only that one film. Once you get past the clunky dialogue, the low-budget soundtrack and the cheesy 1970s everything (haircuts, clothing, furniture, etc.), it remains one of the most frightening movies ever made. This is the kind of film you watch with a room full of friends, with every light in the house on at 3 in the afternoon, and it will probably still scare the living snot out of you. The Exorcist is the reason your mom is still deathly afraid of Ouija boards.

  14. Blair witch if you watched it when it came out. Other than that we have Noroi. That movie fucked me up!

  22. Here in the Philippines, there’s this movie called “Shake Rattle And Roll 8”. Ever since, i’ve watched it when i was a kid, i was afraid going out at night, thinking there’d be the same spine eyeless monster shit from the movie whose gonna eat me alive.

  25. The Shining was disturbing to me due to how realistic it felt.

    I love “The Thing” as well… the movie is timeless.

    I remember when I was young, “The Ring” scared me. Though, I am not sure if it aged well.

    This is completely out of left field and not a horror movie, but “Bicentennial man”, more than any other movie, had made me contemplate and fear death. Was just really bizarre seeing a robot choosing become human and then die.

    Honorable mention: Night of the Living Dummy by goosebumps had no buisness being that terrifying catered to kids lol.

  29. The Exorcist, The Shining, and The Thing (’82) dwell on a level that is a legit quantum leap above the rest. I would place the first Alien film up there, too… but not everyone agrees that it belongs in the Horror genre (vs. Sci-fi).

  31. Have you ever seen a close up video of your friends wife giving birth? That’ll do it. Fucking scarred for life 🤮

  34. My favourite horror films are as follows: *The Thing*, *Dead End*, all of the *Alien* films, *The Void*, *Grave Encounters I/II*, *Prince of Darkness*, *Nightmare on Elm Street*, *Sleepy Hollow*, *Candyman* (the original), and…finally…hmm. *Halloween*. That one was really good.

  35. An American werewolf in London…. That film even now, still gives me the chills… not seeing there werewolf for a proportion of the film, only the terror in the eyes of its victims… gets the imagination running wild, what you can’t see scares you, a brilliant tactic used in the film (sadly not used anymore I don’t think) and when you do see it, brief glimpses…. One of the best horror films…

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