YOUGOV POLL OF HORROR MOVIES: The Omen and The Exorcist are the all-time scariest movies

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[dfwgator]

[Ken H]

The Blob (1958)
War of the Worlds (1953)
The Mummy (1932)

[montag813]

Poltergeist scared the crap out of us. But it does NOT hold up. Not sure why. The dwarf perhaps. My kids were bored, but loved the Sixth Sense.

[montag813]

THIS moment from Jaws scared the living bejeezuses out of my kids a few year back. and they STILL talk about it.

[MotorCityBuck]

“Salem’s Lot” with James Mason, and David Soul.

[TonyM]

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[Billthedrill]

Not enough people saw House Of A Thousand Corpses to make the list, alas. Zombie Tidal Wave was pretty good, too. Kids these days...

[ocrp1982]

I am not a horror movie fan but, I have seen many of these movies and I agree with the consensus that The Omen is the best of the bunch listed here.

The Exorcist is almost comical in its poor production quality. It was so poorly produced and directed as to make it a farce. Too bad. Because the premise of the movie, based loosely on an actual exorcism, so we are told, deserved so much better.

[bagster]

I don't see the two scurriest movies of all times on that stupit list. Movies on that list couldn't skur my peg-leg granny.

And...

[bagster]

Oh, wait. The Ring is on the list.

My bad.

[hanamizu]

My vote would be for “The Haunting”.

Although not a horror movie per se, The Thing from Another World (1951) really scared me when my parents thoughtfully took me to see it when I was five. Years later, it still gives me the chills.

[75thOVI]

“Triumph of the Will” is the downright scariest movie I’ve ever seen.

[dfwgator]

“Triumph of the Will” is the downright scariest movie I’ve ever seen.

Along those lines, the "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" scene in Cabaret is one of the most chilling scenes ever made.

[Viking2002]

I don’t see how Jaws and Alien are so far down the list against some of that other dreck, and movies like The Thing (either the ‘51 Hawks or ‘82 Carpenter versions) get excluded entirely? This is why I can’t stand polls like these. Too misleading and subjective.

[Crucial]

1984 is the scariest book I’ve ever read. Anyone else have a favorite?

[mowowie]

Hey where is Black Christmas?
That movie really creeped me out when i was a young kid.

[MotorCityBuck]

“Carnival of Souls”.
That creepy dude tripped me out. The chick was pretty Hot!

[dfwgator]

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[Inyo-Mono]

I too saw “The Thing from Another World” as a child in the 1950s and it scared the c#@p out of me. The Kurt Russell version, “The Thing,” years later was even scarier.