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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31 Best Scary Movies

Last year, I put out my list, but this year I spent a lot more time analyzing my picks and set a standard for myself on how to judge them.   This list is not just simply the scariest movies, its the best scary movies I have seen.

First of all, that means there’s a list of movies you might think are better that I haven’t seen because I can really only convince myself to see one really scary movie a year… and this year it was “Paranormal Activity”. 
Second, to seperate the really good from the just okay, the movies on this list are quality, well made movies and the movie (or a certain part of it) is the kind of frightening, creepy, or scary that stays with you and impacts you: the stuff of adult nightmares. 

So here it is (as of 2009), the 31 Best Scary Movies (that I’ve seen):
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. “The Ring” (2002)
2. “The Shining” (1980)
3. “The Exorcist” (1973)
4. “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)
5. “Halloween” (1978)
6. “Psycho” (1960)
7. “Paranormal Activity” (2009)
8. “Saw” (2004)
9. “The Grudge” (2004)
10. “The Sixth Sense” (1999)

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Laff’s Lists:

 

 

 

 

Just like John Cusack in “High Fidelity” (2000), I like to put my opinions in some sort of order… in lists of favorites, here now, is a work-in-progress blog of My Favorite Movie-Related things…

 

 

 

31 Best Scary Movies (updated 10/26/09):

(this list based on quality standards and movies I’ve seen)
 

 

 

 

1. “The Ring” (2002)
2. “The Shining” (1980)
3. “The Exorcist” (1973)
4. “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)
5. “Halloween” (1978)
6. “Psycho” (1960)
7. “Paranormal Activity” (2009)
8. “Saw” (2004)
9. “The Grudge” (2004)
10. “The Sixth Sense” (1999)
11. “The Others” (2001)
12. “Jaws” (1975)
13. “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968)
14. “Amityville Horror” (1978)
15. “Identity” (2003)
16. “The Mothman Prophecies” (2002)
17. “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
18. “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)
19. “The Omen” (1976)
20. “Alien” (1979)
21. “Carrie” (1976)
22. “Poltergeist” (1982)
23. “The Blair Witch Project” (1999)
24. “The Birds” (1963)
25. “Arachnophobia” (1990)
26. “Dark Water” (2005)
27. “House on Haunted Hill” (1999)
28. “House of Wax” (2005)
29. “Misery” (1990)
30. “Vacancy” (2007)
31. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978)

 My Top Patrick Swayze movies

 

 

 

 

 1. “Dirty Dancing” (1987) as the dancer “Johnny Castle”

2. “Point Break” (1991) as surfer criminal “Bodhi”

3. “Road House” (1989) as “Dalton”, the bouncer at a rough bar

4. “The Outsiders” (1983) as “Darrel ‘Darry’ Curtis”, the oldest brother

5. “Red Dawn” (1984) as “Jed”, the unofficial leader of the “Wolverines”

6. “Ghost” (1990) as the stuck-in-limbo “Sam Wheat”  (more…)