Re: Top 10 Scariest Movies of all Time

The Shining
Night of the Hunter
Jaws
The Seventh Continent
Evil Dead
Seconds
Don't Look Now
The Exorcist
Jesus Camp
Sick

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I hope you aren't serious about #2.

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Hmmm.....I think you guys are missing the scariest movie of all time....

...Nuf said.

A young high school student, Jill Johnson (Kane) is babysitting one night for a physician and his wife. During the evening, a mysterious phone caller begins taunting her. Sometimes he simply says nothing, other times he asks, 'Have you checked the children?'. Jill eventually becomes frightened for her safety and calls the police. The police successfully trace his next call and discover something horrifying - the calls are being made from INSIDE THE HOUSE! Police are immediately dispatched and Jill narrowly escapes into the arms of Lt. Clifford (Durning). Officers soon discover that the children had been savagely murdered hours ago by the caller, who had been using a phone the parents never had disconnected. 7 years later, the murderer (Tony Beckley) escapes from a mental hospital and resumes his demented mission - this time going after Jill's husband, Steven - and their children. And Clifford - now a P.I. hired by the father of the murdered children - is also hunting the murderer...



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When a Stranger Calls boasts the scariest opening in film history. Wes Craven completely ripped this intro off in Scream. It's that good. Too bad the rest of the film isn't. It goes completely downhill after the beginning. It's so scary and has such a tense start that you can hardly watch it without holding your breathe. My girlfriend couldn't watch it period. She had to turn her head and keep asking me when it was over. It's very subtle, slow, and deliberate, and very frightening. The rest of the film can't live up to the energy generated by the beginning. But still, I recommend this because the beginning alone is better than most fright flicks in their entirety.

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Not much really scares me anymore and that sucks. But here are a few that still tickle something.
I spit on your grave.
Last House on the Left.
Faces of Death.
The Wizard of Oz.
Open Water 1 and 2--(Almost drowned a few years ago)
Old Porn.
A couple of new ones that got it right and will be considered "classics" someday.
Wolf Creek
The Descent
High Tension
The Ring/Ringu
The Grudge/Juon

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[Post edited by bladerunner1 on Apr 3, 2008]

Does anyone remember "Don't Look Now" with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie? Creeped me out way back in 1973 and still has haunting images for me.

Or, of course, "The Haunting" from 1963 or "The Legend of Hell House" for good ghost stories. I also find "The Others" pretty tense and suspenseful, but what puts some people on edge sometimes simply bores other people.

"Alien"?
"The Ring"? Both kept me in suspense.

"The Exorcist" and "The Shining" are films I love, esp. "The Shining," but I don't find either of them particularly scary.

When I was a kid, the scariest movie I can remember was "The House of Wax" with Vincent Price.

John