Scariest horror movies of all time
"Psycho"
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Actress Janet Leigh as Marion Crane in the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller, "Psycho."
"Nightmare on Elm Street"
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Freddy Krueger from Wes Craven's 1984 slasher film "Nightmare on Elm Street."
"A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master"
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Robert Englund returns as Freddy Krueger in "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" (1988).
"The Shining"
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"Heeeeere's Johnny!" Jack Nicholson is terrifying as Jack Torrance in 1980's "The Shining," directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on Stephen King's 1977 horror novel.
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
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A deformed, chainsaw-wielding killer stalks and hunts a group of young friends in the 2003 "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake, directed by Marcus Nispel.
"The Exorcist"
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Max Von Sydow and Linda Blair in Warner Bros.Pictures' 1973 classic, "The Exorcist," based on the 1971 novel.
"The Omen 666"
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"The Omen 666," a 2006 remake of the 1976 horror classic, takes the tale of the coming of the Antichrist personified as a young boy named Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) to an even more thrilling and visceral level.
"Rosemary's Baby"
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Mia Farrow, right, Ruth Gordon, center, and Patsy Kelly in the 1968 movie "Rosemary's Baby." Gordon played the kindly-but-meddling-witch-next-door, and Farrow was the pregnant Rosemary in the movie.
"Silence of the Lambs"
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Anthony Hopkins, right, as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in 1991's "Silence of the Lambs," directed by Jonathan Demme.
"The Blair Witch Project"
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Heather Donahue turns the camera on herself during her confession scene from the 1999 low-budget horror film, "The Blair Witch Project."
"Jaws"
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A scene from the classic "Jaws" (1975) directed by Steven Spielberg.
"Alien"
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A shaken Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) reacts to the horrors unfolding around her in the 1979 movie "Alien."
"Seven"
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Brad Pitt, left, and Morgan Freeman star as detectives tracking down a serial killer obsessed with the seven deadly sins in "Seven."
"The Thing"
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Kate (Mary Elizabeth WInstead) knows it's kill or be killed in the 2011's "The Thing," a remake of the 1982 sci-fi horror. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
"Eraserhead"
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Jack Nance in David Lynch's surrealist horror, "Eraserhead" (1977).
"Halloween"
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Jamie Lee Curtis in a scene from the 1978 horror film classic, "Halloween," directed by John Carpenter.
"Night of the Living Dead"
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"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) directed by George A. Romero.
"Diabolique"
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The wife (Isabelle Adjani, left) and mistress (Sharon Stone) of a cruel school headmaster plot his murder in "Diabolique" (1996), directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and based on the 1955 French film "Les Diaboliques."
