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Poll results: Top 50 Scary Movies of All Time

November 3rd, 2009 at 1:38 am by Laff at the Movies under Entertainment

Poll results: Top 50 Scary Movies of All Time
This was an unscientific poll, but pretty telling once all the votes were in, very few surprises… but what is it about the late 1960s and 1970s? 9 of your top 15 scariest movies of all time were made between 1965 and 1979.

#1 “Exorcist” (1973)
#2 “Halloween” (1978)
#3 “The Shining” (1980)
#4 “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)
#5 “Friday the 13th” (1980)
#6 “28 Days Later” (2002)
#7 “Jaws” (1975)
#8-tie “The Ring” (2002)
#8-tie “House of Wax” (2005)
#10 “The Omen” (1976)
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#11-tie “Amityville Horror” (1979)
#11-tie “Alien” (1979)
#11-tie “The Haunting” (1963)
#11-tie “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968)
#15 “Night of the Living Dead” (1968)
#16 “Psycho” (1960)
#17 “Saw” (2004)
#18 “Carrie” (1976)
#19 “Arachnophobia” (1990)
#20 “The Evil Dead” (1981)
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#21 “The Grudge” (2004)
#22 “Poltergeist” (1982)
#23-tie “The Birds” (1963)
#23-tie ”Misery” (1990)
#23-tie “The Ring Two” (2005)
#26 “The Vanishing” (1993)
#27-tie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978)
#27-tie “Hellraiser” (1987)
#27-tie “House on Haunted Hill” (1999)
#30 “The Fly” (1986)
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#31-tie “The Blair Witch Project” (1999)
#31-tie “Joy Ride” (2001)
#33 “Pet Sematary” (1989)
#34-tie “The Changeling” (1980)
#34-tie “A NIghtmare on Elm Street” (1984)
#36-tie “Fright Night” (1985)
#36-tie “Seven” (1995)
#36-tie “Dark Water” (2005)
#39 “Final Destination” (2000)
#40 “The Mothman Prophecies” (2002)
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#41 “The Sixth Sense” (1999)
#42 “Final Destination 2″ (2003)
#43-tie “The Slience of the Lambs” (1991)
#43-tie “The Others” (2001)
#45 “The Vacancy” (2007)
#46-tie “The Thing” (1982)
#46-tie “Stir of Echoes” (1999)
#46-tie “Identity” (2003)
#46-tie “The Number 23″ (2007)
#46-tie “The Mist” (2007)