Most Popular Scary Movies Of All Time

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Most popular scary movies of all time. The Cabin in the Woods might just be one of the most important horror films to come out in recent memory. A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the East Coast of the United States. Halloweentown 1998 TV Movie 5.

Portrait of a Serial Killer horror. Theres a certain griminess to certain 80s horror films that is best exemplified by films such as Henry. The Exorcist 1973 R 122 min Horror.

101 rows Drag Me to Hell 2009 269. The Exorcist 1973 Photo by Warner Bros. Choosing only one undead Romero offering for a list of the best horror movies of all time is a bit like taking on the shuffling horde with a letter opener.

14 of 45. Hocus Pocus 1993 PG 96 min Comedy Family Fantasy. 1 Nosferatu 1922 2 Dracula 1931 3 The Invisible Man 1933 4 Gaslight 1944 5 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 6 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 7 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 8 Psycho 1960 9 The House Of Usher 1960 10 The Haunting 1963 11 The Birds 1963 12.

In the case of Peter Medaks bravura Changeling George C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 5. Trick r Treat 2007.

The oldest examples of the genre however are actually some of the most mesmerizing particularly this 1920 German expressionist gem about a murderous hypnotist which essentially invented the serial-killer movie. Courtesy Everett Collection You may not agree that The Exorcist is the scariest movie ever but it probably also isnt much of. New horror movies are always trying to push the line of acceptability often to off-putting results.