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re: Best Horror Movie of All-Time Tournament: ELITE EIGHT! (Voting Closed)

Posted on 5/5/26 at 6:47 am to
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
157684 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 6:47 am to
1. The Exorcist


1. The Shining


2. Alien


1. Jaws
Posted by blade brown
Kenna, Bra
Member since Aug 2006
223 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 6:50 am to

3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining

2. Alien

1. Jaws
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
484541 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 6:50 am to
1. The Exorcist
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1. Halloween
2. Alien

1. Jaws
2. The Thing
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
484541 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 6:56 am to
quote:

Frankly, we could have skipped all of this and just had a poll between The Exorcist and The Shining. And frankly, I can’t decide which of the two is better. But I know they’re without a doubt, hands down the two best horror films ever made. And it’s not even really close


If you ignore the Texas Chainsaw Massacre....and some others.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
77062 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 7:43 am to
1. The Exorcist
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1. Halloween
2. Alien

1. Jaws
2. The Thing
Posted by sportsaddit68
Hammond
Member since Sep 2008
6659 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 7:53 am to

1. The Exorcist

3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1. Halloween
2. Alien

1. Jaws
2. The Thing
Posted by delta_zulu
Middle TN
Member since Jul 2021
774 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 9:18 am to
1. The Exorcist

3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2. Alien

2. The Thing
Posted by FluffyBunnyFeet
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2014
4127 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 10:00 am to
quote:

1. The Exorcist
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1. Halloween
2. Alien

1. Jaws
2. The Thing
Posted by Dav
Dhan
Member since Feb 2010
8165 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 10:05 am to
NOES
TCM
Halloween
The Thing
Posted by ghoast
Member since Jul 2020
2138 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 10:19 am to
COPY AND PASTE VERSION *NO POLLS THE REST OF THE TOURNAMENT*


3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining

1. Halloween

1. Jaws
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
44020 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 10:59 am to
quote:

(Frankly, we could have skipped all of this and just had a poll between The Exorcist and The Shining. And frankly, I can’t decide which of the two is better. But I know they’re without a doubt, hands down the two best horror films ever made. And it’s not even really close.)


Respectfully, you would be wrong.
Posted by kballa6
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
4226 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:01 am to
1. The Exorcist
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1. Halloween
2. Alien

1. Jaws
2. The Thing
Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq
Member since Aug 2018
19438 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:11 am to
quote:

Texas Chainsaw is as widely regarded, if not more so nowadays, as Exorcist & Shining. Shudder listed it #1 in their top 100 horror movie list.

And Jaws was listed at #1 in Bravos top 100 scariest movie list


Both Shudder and Bravo ranked the scariest horror movies (or moments), not necessarily the best.

This tournament is about best. If we're ranking scariest, I think that changes things.

For example, I think the best horror movie of all time is either The Thing or Black Christmas, but I don't necessarily think they're the scariest.
This post was edited on 5/5/26 at 11:21 am
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
44020 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:37 am to
quote:

Obviously The Shining can definitely be argued as one of the best of all time. But let me make my case for Texas Chainsaw. What makes it so freaking scary is that it is just people. No monsters, or devils, or evil spirits. Just regular people, meaning it is something that could actually happen to you. As scary as a monster is, you still know that monsters don’t really exist and so what you are watching is just a fiction. To me that was always what made TCM so scary.


Yep, it'd be my #1 if I were just straight ranking them. Just something extra creepy about a real possibility of stumbling up a backwoods murdering nut job family. Add to the fact it was just a really well made movie. People floating and heads spinning just doesn't do it for me.
Posted by BallHawg10
On the Flagship - Fayetteville
Member since Mar 2011
4873 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:38 am to
1. The Exorcist
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1. Halloween
2. Alien

1. Jaws
2. The Thing
Posted by bcoop199
Kansas City, MISSOURI
Member since Nov 2013
9476 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:41 am to
A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Shining

Alien

The Thing
Posted by The Godfather
Surrounded by Assholes
Member since Mar 2005
42698 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 11:44 am to
1. The Exorcist
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

1. The Shining
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1. Halloween
2. Alien

1. Jaws
2. The Thing


Wish i could have voted for both Halloween and Alien and not had to vote for the The Shining or TCM.

Broken hearted over losing Scream, but we move onward.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
44020 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 12:10 pm to


COME ON PEOPLE GET IT TOGETHER, enough of this Shining crap!

quote:

Broken hearted over losing Scream, but we move onward.


Yep, sometimes I think about tweaking the seeding to give a favorite of mine an easier path, seeing as 4 of my top 5 will probably be out after this round, but my dad said I'm a man of integrity. Or maybe not my dad, but someone said that to me at some point. Might have dreamed it actually.
Posted by Godzilla jr
Member since Sep 2025
457 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 12:12 pm to
I appreciate the Black Christmas love. Greatest slasher movie ever.
Posted by MrFreakinMiyagi
Reseda
Member since Feb 2007
20301 posts
Posted on 5/5/26 at 12:16 pm to
The Exorcist
TCM
Alien
Jaws
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