Entertainment Weekly's "20 Scariest Movies of All Time"

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Looking for some quick chills? Entertainment Weekly picks the films with the most fright per frame. These movies are listed in alphabetical order, as the EW list listed them in a random order.

source: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20310838_20303609,00.html

  1. 1.
    28 Days Later (Widescreen Special Edition)
    by Danny Boyle

  2. 2.
    A Nightmare on Elm Street
    by Wes Craven

  3. 3.
    An American Werewolf in London
    by John Landis

  4. 4.
    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

  5. 5.
    Halloween
    by John Carpenter

  6. 6.
    Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
    by John McNaughton

  7. 7.
    Jaws (Widescreen Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  8. 8.
    Night of the Living Dead
    by George A. Romero

  9. 9.
    Poltergeist
    by Tobe Hooper

  10. 10.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  11. 11.
    Rosemary's Baby
    by Roman Polanski

  12. 12.
    Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
    by David Fincher

  13. 13.
    The Evil Dead
    by Sam Raimi

  14. 14.
    The Exorcist (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
    by William Friedkin

  15. 15.
    The Omen
    by J.M. Kenny

  16. 16.
    The Ring
    by Gore Verbinski

  17. 17.
    The Shining
    by Stanley Kubrick

  18. 18.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Criterion Collection Spine #13)
    by Jonathan Demme

  19. 19.
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    by Tobe Hooper

  20. 20.
    The Thing - Collector's Edition

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Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

THEHITCHER? Neither version is even remotely scary! Wth.


almost done — 5 years ago

only 4 move movies then i’m done.this list didn’t include alot of movies that it should have.


Say what??? — 5 years ago

Jaws, the thing? NOT. Hellraiser beats this list, what about 13 ghosts tell me there are better! This list like all the others on the net are bogus.


It's a laugh — 5 years ago

Jaws isn’t scary at all. Neither is Lost Highway. I mean they both a barely horror movies. Se7en is not that scary and Poltergeist is a children’s movie. The Exor cist, The Scilence of the Lambs, Carries and Henry are Scary though. Interesting List


Seven?! — 6 years ago

Seriously how can Seven possibly be one of the scariest movies? It is barely even a thriller! Just about any other film from the Horror genre is guarenteed more scares than Seven.


I hope to god thats not in order — 6 years ago

Please say thats not in any particular order. If it was you guys are way off. There are way scarier movies than half of what you have up there. Your first three picks should be in the comedy section. Where is Ju-on or Stir of echos. How about Suspiria or Carnival of souls. All I’m saying is if your gonna put together a list of scariest movies of all times, do your homework and scare the crap out of yourself for a couple days and rent some real ones.


Untitled — 6 years ago

wow, i have seen literally not one of these as of today. i knew i wasn’t huge on horror, but this is ridiculous.


Not so scary — 7 years ago

I’ve seen a good number of these and don’t think that any of them are as scary as The Grudge or The Ring. I’m finding horror wih roots in Japanese culture to be much scarier than American horror.




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