thread of great recommendations.


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I would love to see all of you horror/thriller fans lists. No knocking, it’s interesting to see what kinds of movies give us the creeps.

Realize there is ton on mine, so if you don’t feel like putting as much time in. Be nice to see your top 10-20 at least.


Scariest movies I’ve ever seen in tiers.

Tier 1

1-exorcist
2-conjuring
3-conjuring 2
4-Texas chainsaw massacre

Tier 2 (interchangeable) not necessarily in order.

The strangers
Insidious
Sinister
Insidious 2
The ring
The shining

Tier 3 not necessarily in order

Midsommer
Rosemarys baby
The omen
Suspiria
Ammmityville the Horror
Woman in black


Tier 4

Nightmare on elm st
Friday the 13th
Halloween
Poltergeist
Psycho
Carrie
The others
Tale of two sisters
The babadook

Tier 5

The descent
House of a 1000 corpses
1408
Annabelle
In the mouth of madness
Hereditary
Don’t look now
Last house on the left
When a stranger calls
Wicker man
The Changling
Freaks
Session 9
IT
IT remake
The witch
The orphanage
Paranormal activity

Tier 6 in no specific order

Wrong turn
Candy man
An American werewolf in London
Black Christmas
Blair with project
Video drone
Re animator
Campfire tales
31
Hills have eyes
The Craft
Creep
Creep 2
Cube
Funhouse (from the 70s)
The ritual


Tier 7 in no particular order

Pumpkin head
The grudge
The visit
Us
Sometimes they come back
Get out
I know what you did last summer
Scream
Child’s play
Hell raiser
Stir of echoes
Child’s play
Sleepaway camp
The invitation
Coherence

Movies that most think are really scary and I don’t

Cabin in the woods
The thing
Alien/aliens
The fly
Dawn of the dead
Jaws
28 days/weeks
Invasion of the body snatchers

Movies I have not seen yet. But I have heard and a lot of lists have them ranked really high & I own some of them.

What happened to baby Jane
Peeping Tom
Cannibal Holocaust
Repulsion
The innocents
Henry portrait of a serial killer
Eraserhead
Carnival of souls
Eyes without a face
Rec 1 & 2
It comes at night
Martyrs
VHS

Very good films/ not necessary really scary.

But just a really well made film

Let the right one in
Silence of the lambs
What lies beneath
Saw
Sixth sense
Evil dead 1 & 2
The thing
Seven
The vanishing
Deliverence
Wait until dark
Misery

Fun entertaining films from the horror genre, but not necessarily scary.

Silver bullet
Lost boys
Fright night
Dusk til dawn
Evil dead 1,2, army of darkness
Drag me to hell
It (remake)
Scream
Frightners