the Greatest Horror Movie Ever Is...?

[Jared]

John Carpenter's The Thing. It's the only horror movie I've seen where the scare scenes can truly work on multiple viewings, as long as some time passes between them.
It's especially great to watch when it's dark and snowy outside.

[Vegeta]

It depends when you first saw a movie. It takes a lot to scare me now--GET OUT and A QUIET PLACE made me nervous but they didn't give me nightmares. It's the movies that I saw as a kid that gave me night terrors--and not all of them were outright horror movies--THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T, THE HAUNTING and WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?--plus some episodes of THE OUTER LIMITS.

Ooooh, those are all good choices as well! ( "Return to Oz" also, the head room and Wheelers are straight up childhood nightmare fuel.) And i so loved hiding under the covers watching TNT Monstervision "Outer Limits" marathons.

John Carpenter's The Thing. It's the only horror movie I've seen where the scare scenes can truly work on multiple viewings, as long as some time passes between them.
It's especially great to watch when it's dark and snowy outside.

Another great film I totally forgot to mention!

[Cyke]

John Carpenter's The Thing. It's the only horror movie I've seen where the scare scenes can truly work on multiple viewings, as long as some time passes between them.
It's especially great to watch when it's dark and snowy outside.

My favorite fun tidbit is that there's a team in the Antarctic that watches the movie annually on the first full day of winter.

https://www.techly.com.au/2015/09/04...-every-winter/

[Clark_Kent]

That's a tough one. I might have to go with The Descent. That movie is pants-sh!ttingly unnerving even before the monsters show up, at least for anyone scared of being stuck in small spaces.

[AgentClank]

I would say either The Thing or Alien.

[Kirby101]

The Sixth Sense comes to mind.

[choptop]

Troll 2 of course.

[choptop]

1978's Halloween. That's me talking myself out of it being John Carpenter's other classic The Thing.

The vibe of Halloween is creepy from front to back despite the grisly **** Meyers does... Shoutout to Grizzly from the 70's as well. Not the greatest by any stretch and still lol. The only thing I've ever tripped on in Halloween is how Meyers learned to drive a car after being in an asylum all those years but c'mon, everything else is 10/10 so that detail is just for the jokes.

The man in Black/The Cult of Thorn showed him how to drive. Lol

[DrNewGod]

It was TV, but I don't think any film ever frightened me as much as the adaptation of Salem's Lot. Of course, the book had the same impact on me.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It was TV, but I don't think any film ever frightened me as much as the adaptation of Salem's Lot. Of course, the book had the same impact on me.

A worthy choice as it delivered big time chills, definitely NOT something to watch with the lights off. Another made for TV vampire thriller that hit all the right (as in scary) notes was The Night Stalker.

[Batman Begins 2005]

The Texts Chain Saw Massacre.

[DrNewGod]

A worthy choice as it delivered big time chills, definitely NOT something to watch with the lights off. Another made for TV vampire thriller that hit all the right (as in scary) notes was The Night Stalker.

Yeah, that Vegas hooker vampire story was the most frightening episode I think the series ever put out. Although I have to say the Richard Kiel shapechanger story, and The Black Knight were both pretty intense too.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Yeah, that Vegas hooker vampire story was the most frightening episode I think the series ever put out. Although I have to say the Richard Kiel shapechanger story, and The Black Knight were both pretty intense too.

I meant the original telefilm that came before the series. But yeah, it was good too.

[CellarDweller]

The original Halloween and Night of The Living Dead.

[Darkseid Is]

I'll go with The Exorcist as well as some other people have. It still scares me to this day.

My personal favorite is A Nightmare on Elm Street.