re: What’s the scariest movie of all time?

The Conjuring was a well made scary flick.

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The Exorcist.

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I watched it as a youngster and it really had me shaken for a while after. I still won't watch it till this day because of the scars

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I have a similar story, wayyyy too you when I watched. Exorcism movies and stories in general freak me out as a result.

I also find The Ring and The Grudge pretty terrifying

Idiocracy It was a prophecy.

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It was also one of the first movies to use a widespread viral campaign on the internet. That played into it a lot because it was difficult to discern until after the fact if it was “real”. So it’s hard to capture that in rewatching it or growing up before/after that period IMO. But at the time, it was scary as hell.

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Nailed it. They did an awesome job marketing that movie. They created a "documentary" explaining the backstory of the Blair Witch that the Sci-Fi channel kept playing in the weeks leading up to the movie release. They also used the internet perfectly to market it, and it was at a time when you couldn't easily google the story to have it debunked. I shouldn't have needed anything to debunk a ghost witch story, but there I was at a very gullible age...

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The Shining

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The “redrum” scene was very disturbing to me. It’s one of those scenes that, if I’m alone at night laying in bed and think about it, unsettles me.

Never found the Exorcist scary, just gross.

Ghosts and scary kids and Aliens...paranormal stuff can be quite creepy.

The Orphanage I thought was very scary.

Shite, I thought The Fourth Kind was scary...Aliens coming into your room to probe you?

Blair Witch was mostly scary just because they were totally lost in the woods. That's a real fear of death right there.

Descent has been mentiond, that's a good call...apart from the monsters, just the claustrophobia and being stuck crawling through a little tunnel and the darkness and can't find your way out. That's scary.

As Above So Below is again creepy as frick with people being lost underground and paranormal activity happening.

Those movies to me are more scary than any slasher or green vomit spouting little girl. Texas Chainsaw doesn't do it for me and Exorcist doesn't either. Shining is more scary than those two. It just has this creep vibe of someone going insane.

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The Exorcist.

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I saw the movie when it came out and then decided to read the book.

I bought it and would read it at night, usually pretty late after a day at work.

I was single at the time and lived alone in a century old shotgun house and that damn thing would creak and groan at night. When it did, and I was reading the book, the hairs would stand up on the back of my neck and arms.