The Exorcist

Head-spinning and projectile vomiting are just the beginning in a movie that features some of the most disturbing religious perversions on film.

The Shining

Is anything scarier than Jack Nicholson going out of his gourd? Oh yeah, creepy twin girls and a hallway of blood.

Night of the Living Dead

Released in 1968 this was a true low budget horror masterpiece that most probably paved the way for all scary movies of its time.

The Changeling

Remember those red, blue and white striped rubber balls? They'll freak you out after seeing this movie!

The Others

A prime example of the fact that you don't need blood and guts to make a movie scary as hell.

"You're mad, i am your daughter!" (sorry, couldn't resist!)

The Evil Dead

Low-budget screams: Cult hero Bruce Campbell hacks up his buddies with an ax and Sam Raimi scores first blood as director. "Dead by Dawn!"

Rosemary's Baby

Sex with Satan? Mia Farrow unwittingly beds the beast in this chilling fable. And yes, he's scarier than Woody Allen.

The St. Francisville Experiment

Four people - a psychic, a ghost-hunter, a filmmaker and a historian - all trained in the paranormal and equipped with cameras, fly to Louisiana to investigate a haunted house, plagued by the spirits of slaves who endured the most grisly and unspeakable tortures known to man.

Pet Sematary

Sometimes dead is better. Another utterly creepy tale from horror-meister Stephen King.

Haunted

When a man investigates an alleged haunting at a secluded mansion in the country, he is horrified by strange occurences, shocked by the mansion's dreadful history and entranced by the young woman who resides in the menacing house.

The Sixth Sense

Frightening supernatural thriller involves psychologist encountering child visited by the dead. The haunting visuals, twisting plot, brooding tone will chill mainstream horror seekers, while ample nail-biting tension satisfies suspense addicts. I see dead people!

Halloween

Masked psycho Michael Myers gives Jamie Lee Curtis one scary night of baby-sitting in a groundbreaking flick that buries its unworthy sequels.

Salem's Lot

From horror-meister Stephen King: The pint-sized bloodsuckers summon the biggest scares in this vampire flick that doesn't bite.

Carnival of Souls

The '60s "Sixth Sense"? Church organist sees dead people, in a cult classic that proves black and white is still scary.

Dawn of the Dead

A crowd-free shopping mall sounds like a dream, but brain-munching zombies turn it into a gruesome nightmare.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

It's common sense to avoid guys named Leatherface who own chainsaws, a lesson this flick teaches with gory gusto.

Suspiria

It's a bad time to be in ballet when fellow students are getting stabbed, hanged and tortured. Watch this with the lights out.

Nightmare on Elm Street

If Nancy doesn’t wake up screaming she won’t wake up at all.

Friday the 13th

Twenty years earlier, Camp Crystal Lake was shut down after the mysterious death of a young boy and a couple of counselors. Now, one by one, camp counselors seem to drop dead as they engage in acts of pre-martial sex, smoking dope, and drinking.

Psycho

Another reason to be scared of motel bathrooms.

Carrie

This terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel, primarily the climax in the school gym will linger forever in your memory.

The Blair Witch Project

See if you ever feel like going into the woods alone again after seeing this movie!

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

This "fictional reenactment of real events" has tourists flocking to Burkittsville, Maryland to see evidence of the original film and its underlying mythology.

The People Under the Stairs

A bookish and poverty-stricken young boy becomes involved in a scheme in order to pay for his mother's operation but is met with unsuspecting horrors.

The Omen

Lurid chiller about ambassador who unwittingly adopts the son of Satan.

Stigmata

When a woman begins exhibiting the characteristics of Stigmata (spontaneously bleeding from the wrists and forehead, speaking in Aramaic), a Vatican envoy is deployed to investigate whether the afflictions are demonic or divine.

Stir of Echoes

Cronos

A bizarre take on vampirism, this Mexican horror-fantasy tells of an alchemist who creates a scarab-like device that will give its user eternal youth and even restore life to the dead...but at a chilling price. Centuries later, an aging antique store owner finds the device and falls under its spell, but a dying millionaire wants it for himself.

Dragonfly

A man believes that his deceased wife is trying to communicate with him through the near-death experiences of her patients.

Ghost

Alright, so this one really isn't scary, but it is about a ghost and who can resist watching Patrick Swaze and Demi Moore molding clay to "Unchained Melody?"

The Mothman Prophecies

A movie based on the true events that happened in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

The Amityville Horror

The brutal murder of six people just one year previous causes the new tenants some restless nights, to say the least!

Child's Play

I couldn't look at my talking "Cricket" doll the same way ever again after seeing this movie.

Poltergeist

"They're here"

Lady in White

A young boy, after seeing the ghost of a little murdered girl, attempts to find the killer, only to find that he is being stalked by the murderer.

The Birds

As with most of Hichcocks films the tension is expertly built up throughout the film. And to think, i'm still a bird watcher after compiling this list! :)

Jeepers Creepers

This film gives a new and chilling meaning to the old song "Jeepers Creepers".

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A musical sci-fi satire about an alien transvestite named Frank-n-Furter who is building the perfect man while playing sexual games with his virginal visitors.

Children of the Corn

Horror film about a naive couple encountering a Nebraskan town filled with demonic kids.

House on Haunted Hill

Decades after an insane asylum was closed down, five strangers are invited to spend a night there. Their reward is a million dollars each. All they have to do is stay alive.

The Legend of Hell House

Exceptionally tense tale of parapsychologists spending a week in haunted mansion.

Dead of the Night

Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology from 1946 that effectively plays on those timeless fears. A man has been summoned to a house with a group of strangers and begins to predict certain events will happen as they do in his dreams including tales of a possessed mirror, a sinister ventriloquist's dummy, and an eerie premonition of death.

End of Days

A chilling, horrific thriller set at the cusp of the millennium. End of Days tells the story of a man who finds himself pulled into a web of supernatural intrigue when he discovers that the fate of mankind rests with the safety of a woman who is pursued by the ultimate evil.

The Haunting

This original movie from 1963 is arguably the best ghost movie of its time, achieving great, chilling results with minimal high-tech tricks. It definitely scared me!

The Entity

Based upon a drama that really happened in Los Angeles, this is a story of a young woman who is regularly attacked by an invisible 'entity'.

The Innocents

Originally promoted as the first truly "adult" chiller of the big screen.

The Uninvited

Spooky ghost story from 1944 about young couple investigating their haunted house.

Signs

Signs is the story of a ordinary farmer who is blown into the limelight when strange crop circles begin appearing on his land. Definitely a scary movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting to find out what will happen next!

Lost Souls

A modern thriller in which faith battles reason, a young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected New York crime journalist, who is devoid of faith, that he is in fact the target of the conspiracy.

Ginger Snaps

This movie is incredibly creepy - and filmed locally too! In this modern werewolf tale, sisters Ginger and Brigitte are ostracized by their town because of their morbid inclinations. Soon after being attacked by a wolf, Ginger begins to exhibit strange nocturnal behavior. Now Brigitte must decide whether to save herself or join Ginger in otherworldly doings.

The Ring

It sounded like just another urban legend -- a videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, a woman tracks down the video and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the “Ring.”

From Hell

Based upon the legendary serial killer "Jack The Ripper", inspector Frederick Abberline (Johnny Depp) investigates the mysterious murders of prostitutes within the Whitechapel district of London.

13 Ghosts

A family inherits a spectacular old house from an eccentric uncle but there's just one problem, the house seems to have a dangerous agenda all its own. Trapped in their new home by strangely shifting walls, the family encounters powerful and vengeful entities that threaten to annihilate anyone in their path.

Hellraiser

In the upper room of his ancestral house just outside London, Frank Cotton is raising Hell...literally! In his possession is a mysterious puzzle box. Legend has it that if opened, spirits will come forth from the box and give the ultimate insensual ecstacy. Frank opens the box and quickly learns that the spirits bring not pleasure, but insufferable pain.

Beetlejuice

How do a couple of nice young homebody ghosts get rid of a pack of pretentious, trend-setting human beings who have taken over their house and threaten to make it unlivable -- even for the dead? And what does the couple do when the wraith they call on for assistance turns out to be demonic?

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Despite having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning. Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides to make the Yuletide his own.

Dracula (1931)

A Transylvanian vampire (Bela Lugosi) enslaves his real estate agent and moves to London. There, he meets his match in a Jewish scientist.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Based on the Victorian horror novel written by Bram Stoker in 1897, about the vampire Dracula, who is on a quest to be eternally reunited with the one woman he ever loved. Dracula travels from Transylvania to London to find the young woman who is the double image of the love he lost centuries earlier.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Tells a riveting horror story while tackling substantial issues of religious and spiritual belief. It's based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a German student who believed she was possessed by demons, and whose death during an attempted exorcism in 1976 led to the conviction of two priests on charges of negligent manslaughter.

The Village

The population of a small, isolated countryside village believe that their alliance with the mythical creatures that inhabit the forest around them, is coming to an end. As with other M. Night Shyamalan movies, you can expect a great twist at the end!

The Eye

One of our favourite scary movies! We've seen it several times and still get creeped out! FYI: You'll never want to be in an evevator alone after this!

The Grudge

By far one of the scariest movies... especially the stairs scene! And that breathy, clicking throat sound will live long in horror history!

Ju-On

The original Japanese version of The Grudge. What makes this possibly even scarier than the remake is that no special effects were used. Ghostly techniques were all with make-up!

Ju-Rei (The Uncanny)

Another creepy Japanese flick that kind of moves in "backwards mode". Pretty creepy but the shots after something scary happens is way too long. I mean, do we need to see a woman scared in her hospital bed for like 5 minutes straight before it moves to a different angle?

Wrong Turn

I loved this movie! Saw it several times. It was filmed locally at the Webster's Falls and Spencer's Gorge area too! Plus, i'm a huge Eliza Dushku fan (from the good ole' Buffy days!)

Joyride

With a group of adolescent teens running the show, i was iffy on the possible scariness. Boy was i in for a treat. Not only was it scary (candycane...!!), but Steve Zahn had me in stitches several times too!

Saw

With a dead body laying between them, two men (Whannell and Elwes) wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card. Refreshing to see such a unique thriller/horror movie. And, boy, what an ending. A sequel is about to be released now too!

Open Water

Who would have thought a movie shot almost entirely in the water could be this scary! My heard was racing through the entire thing! It felt like it was very "real" due to the simple camera techniques.

Session 9

The first time i watched this, i thought it was too slow. The second time, i thoroughly enjoyed it! (and understood it a bit better!)

The Jacket

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves. I loved this movie! I'm a huge fan of Keira Knightley, although, Adrien Brody madet his movie if you ask me!

28 Days Later

Such an excellent zombie movie! At the time of release, barely anybody knew about newcomer Cillian Murphy, but now you can see him as the bad guy in Batman Begins and Red Eye!

Shaun of the Dead

A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living. Excellent movie! Loved it to pieces!

The Ninth Gate

Rare book sleuth Dean Corso has been hired to find the two other existing copies of the 17th century Book of the Nine Doors, reputed to hold the key to conjuring Satan. Johnny Depp in another scary movie! I love this one though. Any kind of movie where very creepy research is involved always gets my cranks turning!

The Amityville Horror (remake)

Couldn't wait to see this in theatres. Being a huge fan of Ryan Reynolds, i was biting my lip wanting to burst out laughing just at his facial expressions. Still some creepy moments (if you have your speakers turned up really loud!)

Cabin Fever

I couldn't shave my legs for days after seeing this movie (lucky Dan!) Watch the movie and you know what i mean! Oh, and good luck trying to get a not-so-happy-camper to go into the woods with you after seeing this! Excellent movie all-around (just gross!) Remeniscent of Evil Dead.

Dawn of the Dead 2004

This movie was pretty cool (i like the mall setting). Be sure to watch the "hidden" video footage of the boat trying to leave! Creepy indeed. Oh, and i love Sarah Polley (my Road to Avonlea days!)

Donnie Darko

Remind me never to buy any more stuffed bunnies. Cool movie that has become a cult classic! And Jake Gyllenhaal is excellent!

Ringu

The original Japanese movie to the now popular "The Ring".

Resident Evil

If you're into the whole video game to movie trend, and gooey, gorey stuff, (or Mila Jovanovich) you'll like this.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Remake of the original. Too freakish for my liking.

They

A movie where your nightmares become reality! Pretty neat movie with an even creepier "hand gluing together" scene. Yuck!

Cursed

Not just another werewolf movie! This one was actually kinda cool... not really scary though... just... cool! Christina Ricci is really good in it.

American Gothic

A bunch of teens get lost in the woods and find a freakish family in the middle of nowhere. Very Deliverance-like!

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

A creepy spin on the classic tale of this fairy tale! I saw it ages ago and just loved it! Sigourney Weaver is just fantastic as the devilish stepmother.

Secret Window

Meh. This movie was boring if you ask me. The only thing that made up for it was Johnny Depp being in the cast. Oh, and John Turturro.. he's good too!

House of Wax (2005)

Haven't seen this remake yet, but you know it's going to be super scary with Paris Hilton in it! Do you "loves it?"

Exorcist: The Beginning

I suppose i'm one of the rare few that actually liked this movie?

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Baby Jane was a child star. When she grows up she is forgotten by the public. Instead her sister Blanche gets famous as a Hollywood actress. Blanche gets physically handicapped after a mysterious car accident. She lives in a room and Jane has to take care of Blanche. But Jane hates Blanche! Such a creepy old movie with Bette Davis!

Scream Trilogy

Had to put this in here! All of these movies have become a cult classic, and i admit, i got freaked out a bit while watching them!

The Skeleton Key

Set largely in the dark backwoods just outside of New Orleans, this movie stars Kate Hudson as Caroline, a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's ailing husband in their home. I liked the voodoo spin on this unique 'ghost' movie and the ending was just so cool!

White Noise

Here i was excited to see a movie come out that completely explores EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon). Such a disappointment (could the end be any more cheesier?) I even saw an interview of Michael Keaton practically making fun of the entire premise!

Darkness

Seven children, faceless people, a circle that must be completed. This movie was semi-creepy. Very slow, but the scary parts were good.

Hide and Seek

This movie leads you on, only to disappoint you in the end.

Boogeyman

And you thought your closet was just for clothes!! We didn't like this movie... it could have been done so much better as the story is really cool.

When a Stranger Calls

High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, "Have you checked the children lately?" After notifying the police, Jill is told that the calls are coming from inside the house. Thank heavens i saw this AFTER i finished my babysitting years!

Identity

Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rainstorm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one. This one totally freaked me out! Quite scary!

Sleepy Hollow

I can't believe i missed this one! I thought i had already put this on the list years ago! Awesome movie based on the legend of Constable Icabod Crane and the headless horseman!

The Ring Two

The sequel to the blockbuster hit The Ring. I didn't find this movie scary one bit. I've seen enough of Samara in part one, and the "Scary Movie" version!

American Psycho

Not so much a horror movie as it is a dramatic thriller. Not for kids though! Too much sex, drugs and violence all rolled up into one movie. Christian Bale is great at Patrick Bateman. And i've caught myself in a "business card" moment several times before seeing this movie, so now i feel like a total geek!