Not exactly Christmas, but what's the scariest horror movie of all time....

Exorcist...watched it in 1973 when it first came out...still haunts me to this day.

Yeah, never fancied that - think I'll give it a miss

twizzle - Nail on the Head !

Incidentally , McCoy , why ask the question if you haven't seen the very benchmark of that specific genre ?

Yeah The Exorcist for me to,i had to sleep with the light on for at least a week after watching that Movie....And I am not kidding.

I'm getting the impression that the question should have read :-
What is the scariest horror movie of all time , after The Exorcist ?

The Exorcist ,NAP....... directors cut version, still spooks me 45years on

Maybe the question should have read :-
What is the second scariest horror movie of all time , after The Exorcist ?

Seen most of the Saw series, not sure if they're scary or just gruesome in the way people are killed.

JAWS million times better film than The Exorcist, the re-release at cinemas I saw, the crowd was in hysterics at the mother sucks etc, I was expecting to be blown away with terror and was just a meh!

Hellraisers were good, yea exorcist probably no 1, all had their moments, exorcist had stuff happen during and after filming which made it more creepy whether that was true is another story.

mega88 - Urban myth or factual events ?

A good litmus test for myself to gauge how scary a film is,i watch it on my own and late at night.
The film's that I can remember being most afraid when I watched them were The
Exorcist, Exorcist 3, The Shining and Blair Witch Project.
Also,the British film The Legend of Hell House was really scary when I watched
it as a boy.
The last really scary film I saw was a romanian film called Them,a film that was as scary
as any I've ever seen.

Thiers a really scary one on tomorrow night ..... Mrs Browns Boys....to watch that $hite on Christmas Day makes you a zombie ........ and that is scary

I think age is a big factor when judging the 'scare factor' of a film . I'm sure that The Evil Dead would seem pretty tame if I sat down and watched it now as opposed to when I first saw it in my early teens

Nosferatu - 1922

I would class Alien as being more in the science fiction genre rather than horror, but either way it is a fantastic movie. Event Horizon, another film crossing over into both styles, might be considered scarier perhaps?

The Others

Dec 24, 2018 -- 3:18PM, Reynard wrote:

mega88 - Urban myth or factual events ?

It happened, few deaths I believe, maybe coincidence, that film is just wrong,

Makybe_Diva,

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Hope you have a really
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Makybe_Diva,

Happy Christmas,lovely.
Hope you have a really
lovely day.

All hail to the Diva!

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The Fog, original version with Jamie Lee Curtis. Best watched in company.

Why put yourself through it? I suppose it's like eating a hot chilli? Like someone said gory and horror. And someone else said Alien and Event Horizon - don't fancy the latter

I forgot about The Fog,Bonnie.It's nearly always on the telly around this time.
I t s a fun film.I like the great John Housemans story around the campfire at start of the film
I also can't believe that I or anyone else hasn't mentioned
Psycho...Watching that as a child
was a scary unforgettable experience.

A nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween

An odd one but on Netflix there is a film called 'would you rather'....Had to close my eyes a few times..

How could I forget Halloween?

I've just remembered a film called Dead of Night.The scene in the prison cell with Michael Redgrave and his dummy was very scary,indeed
.

Wolf Creek had its moments but agree The Exorcist was the benchmark. For sheer realistic blood and guts but not really a horror movie Kajaki takes some beating - soldiers getting blown up in a landmined valley in Aftganistan.

Sinister is quite scary, as is The Conjuring. Jeepers Creepers I enjoyed as well, but the scariest has to be The Exorcist I wouldn't watch it for years due to it's reputation alone.

I made the mistake of watching The Birds when I was young, that scared me for days or weeks afterwards.

I'm not one for those gory type of horror films though, like blood everywhere and that, that's not so much scary as sickening.

The Fog gets a mention above and rightly so. Another scary John Carpenter film was The Thing.

Another vote for The Exorcist, Regan spider walking down the stairs still brings out the goosebumps.

Ringu the original Japanese version also deserves a mention.

Rosemary's Baby and The Haunting just for sheer tension.

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No scary films.  They're all pretend.  You get some films where, say, the scene is quiet and then the attacker or whoever jumps out, but that's a cheap shot and not scary.  Creep up to someone and shout boo! and they'll jump.  Doesn't make you a genius at horror.

Funny Games -either the original or the remake must be up there.

Make my hay,jack Nicolson was at times a terrible ham in The Shining but despite that, The Shining remains the scariest film I've ever seen.