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What are your top five scariest movies that you have ever watched?


Mine are (in no particular order):

The Exorcist
The Shining
Amityville Horror II the Possession
Village of the Damned
The Poltergeist (the original one from 1980).

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Alien
Audition
Poltergeist
Jaws
Saw

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The Thing (1982)
The Woman in Black (1989)
Jaws (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Salem’s Lot (1979)

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Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Witch (2015)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Black Swan (2010)
Trainspotting (1996)

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The dumpster hobo scene gave me a heart attack and left me legit shaking lol.

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Me too. It looks funny in hindsight, but I was so not expecting a jumpscare from this movie. Nightmarish scene! For days I was afraid to approach corners in the streets in broad daylight.

The whole movie is unsettling of course, but that's just good old Lynch for you.

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The Omen
Wolf Creek
Hereditary
Rosemary’s Baby
The Silence of the Lambs

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Rosemary's Baby was such a good movie!!

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Absolutely. A masterpiece, even.

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Sadly they don't have much effect on me anymore. But when I saw Freddy Kruger as a 10 year old I was petrified.

I'd had demonic dreams as a child so it rang home. I know what it's like to feel like you're being stalked by evil. I remember as a six year old I dreamt that I went 100 levels below the ground to escape the evil, and it was all machinery down there, and still the evil that I couldn't see was following me. So weird to have had these dreams. I'd never been shown scary movies or anything.

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Sadly they don't have much effect on me anymore. But when I saw Freddy Kruger as a 10 year old I was petrified.

I'd had demonic dreams as a child so it rang home. I know what it's like to feel like you're being stalked by evil. I remember as a six year old I dreamt that I went 100 levels below the ground to escape the evil, and it was all machinery down there, and still the evil that I couldn't see was following me. So weird to have had these dreams. I'd never been shown scary movies or anything.

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the changeling 1980
the exorcist 1973
burnt offerings 1976
the omen 1976
dracula 1931

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When a stranger calls (both the original and remake)
Jurassic park
The Reef
The Halloween's
Witchboard

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Jurassic Park? How old were you, 1?

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The first one was scary. When I watched it in the theater, more than a few people jumped and screamed. I didn't, but at least once was a tad startled.

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