10 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time
Movies are a fun time watch. But some, curdle your blood, make you whimper or even make you think about watching your back. Nevertheless, they are a different kind of fun and a select few engulf your memories every time it gets dark or you’re alone. So, if you dare to relive the list of scariest horror movies of all time, go on.
The Conjuring
1. The Conjuring
The movie opens by giving credits to Ed and Lorraine Warren, two paranormal investigators and their several horrifying escapades with the demon. The Conjuring is reportedly claimed as one of their most terrifying cases that deal with the spirit of witch Bathsheba. A beautiful and innocent family of five beautiful daughters and loving parents settle down in a country home unaware of the evils inundating it. Silences, sounds, silhouettes and just about anything in the movie are enough to leave you thinking about them for many months to come.
The Exorcist
2. The Exorcist
It’s about four decades since the movie was released but is still celebrated or feared as one of the scariest horror movies of all time. The movie has been branded controversial for popularizing profanity but some scares are very modern even for today’s times. The Exorcist contributed to the release of several sequels and spoofs but none manages to shake you up as much as the 1973 version does. The 12 year old possessed by Satan creates much fear in you with her eerie laughs and 360 degree head turns.
The Shining
3. The Shining
This 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic tops pretty much all horror charts ever designed. Can you imagine being stuck in a haunted hotel with a psychotic, knife handling man? And if the man is none other than your father, then your fear multiplies. Fear knows no territories and wandering unchartered with the constant fear that evil can brew from just about any nook, corner or hole can itself strike death. You can but only succumb to Jack Nicholson’s tricks and smiles in this more-than-a-regular-horror flick.
It
4. It
Released in 1990, the movie managed to transform the figure of a harmless and loving clown to an image that stirs fear and terror. Based on Stephen King’s novel, the movie revolves around a supernatural predator that assumes the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The writer has done all that he could to make the plot creepy and blood-curdling. There were millions who stopped visiting the circus for a long time after this movie released.
Poltergeist
5. Poltergeist
Several sequels were made to this classic horror flick that made watching television a scary thing to even attempt. The movie hits you from every angle and makes you want to scurry to a corner and stick to it. Almost anything and everything turns to a death trap. The movie did away with monster houses and haunted mansions and took the devil straight to an urban home right in the middle of several others. Poltergeist yet, manages to scare the daylights off you.
The Haunting
6. The Haunting
If you think it is tough for a 1963 movie to be as fearful as the ones made more recently, think again. There isn’t bloodshed or even a gory figure. You do not even sight any actual demons but some scares do a better job than that. Four paranormal investigators set out to study evil movements in an abandoned and haunted hill house. Little do they know what lies in store for them. The visual effects and actors’ expressions made the movie so powerful that it paved way to the creation of similar horror flicks in recent times.
The Ring
7. The Ring
This box office hit is perhaps one of the top grossers in the genre. A video tape that takes the life of its viewers as it gets passed along is not something you could take lightly. Although some frights can be anticipated, they are still terrifying and want you to take a sneak peak through the gaps of your fingers. Crawling up from the well is even terrifying to hear and watching is only going to make it more painful.
The Grudge
8. The Grudge
The Grudge and its sequels are adaptations from the Japanese horror flick. Imagery is creepy, the crawls are terrifying and the walk makes it all the more petrifying. A lot of hair and two boring eyes may make the re-born figures but they are more than adequate to give you sleepless nights. You got to make sure that there isn’t such a pair peering in through the windows or standing next to you.
The Omen
9. The Omen
No amount of horror movies manages to knock off the terror that The Omen manages to create. An evil child and the kind of activities he churns out in calm composure are not actual gory things but are frightful and horror instilling. Damien Thorn is a child who knows nothing but as he grows older, he realizes that a power lives in him that isn’t really good. Although torn by grief, he succumbs to the power and becomes responsible for the killing of people who love him.
The Changeling
10. The Changeling
A very typical haunted house, creaky furniture version defines The Changeling. The scares are old school but delivered beautifully to create fear and terror like no other. If you are planning a stay in an old house that has creaky pipe fittings, make sure you do that before you watch this movie or better still do it after you’ve seen it if you like the idea of getting terrified. There can be no better use of the wheelchair than this movie has done. And if you want to know it better, you got to watch the movie.
If this list managed to help you relive those frightful moments and think thrice about venturing into a lonely area, then it has done justice.
