In honor of Halloween, here are the five scariest movies I've actually watched:
1. The Exorcist
I'll confess that this hasn't aged well, but when I first watched it, man, for a young Catholic kid it didn't get much more frightening. If you watch this, really listen to the audio...in retrospect, that's one of the most frightening parts of the movie.
2. Alien (the Original)
I first watched this at the Comerford theater in downtown Scranton, and the atmospherics were incredible...very dark, very gritty, definitely not Star Trek. This is what you get when you combine a great script with a top-notch director (Ridley Scott).
3. Event Horizon
Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neil and some very frightening scenes. While I don't find gore to be particularly frightening (as a result there are no zombie movies on the list), in this movie it really adds to the experience.
4. The Prince of Darkness
Not a well-known film (at least relative to John Carpenter's career), but I found this incredibly frightening, especially the dream sequence towards the end.
5. The Omen
Another one from when I was younger. There is something particularly sinister about portraying evil in the form of a young child.
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