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The Greatest Horror Films Ever Made

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Horror movies, ranked by adrenaline junkies worldwide. Anyone can vote on this CrowdRanked list, and can even add your own favorite chiller to these rankings. Ghosts, zombies, monsters or maybe just the quiet guy down the street who straps on a hockey mask for kicks; these are the movies that scare the pants off you. What are the greatest horror films ever made? Start with all of the ones on this list, and of course, feel free to add any that might be missing.

Great horror films have a long and storied history in cinema. From the earliest horror movies like 1922's 'Nosferatu,' to modern classics like the 'Saw' series, scary movies have always had a special place in the collective, twisted hearts of movie goers. Each year, new horror movies come out that are designed to terrify, with evil characters bent on death and destruction. Will they all wind up on a list of the scariest horror movies ever made? Probably not, but not for a lack of trying.

Many of the best horror films are haunted house movies, relying on the setting as a huge, spooky selling factor. Other excellent horror films rely on nausea-inducing tactics, making us recoil in terror, totally disturbed by whatever we're watching on screen.

Enjoy this list of great horror films, and remember: You can rerank this list in any order you like. Boo!
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    1. Loralee Bex
      The Greatest Horror Films Ever Made at 1/20/2013 2:30 PM
      greatest horror films . okay.
    2. Fidel Deangelus
      The Greatest Horror Films Ever Made at 7/01/2012 12:30 AM
      Charming Greatest Horror Films Ever Madething here.
    3. Tom P
      The Exorcist at 5/29/2012 2:07 PM
      Peter Blatty has always strenuously and clearly maintained The Exorcist is not a horror movie but a "morality play" (my expression) of the struggle against evil and the triumph of Good.
    4. markandsam
      The Greatest Horror Films Ever Made at 1/06/2012 6:26 AM
      the possesed 1977 little known tv film realy scary with harrison ford in it .
    5. Lynsey Curtis
      The Greatest Horror Films Ever Made at 10/20/2011 9:16 PM
      check out Insidious and John Carpenters The Ward!!!
    6. analise.dubner
      Alien at 5/11/2011 1:23 PM
      Those people are nuts. There's no film that ever scared me more than this one did when I saw it the first time.
    7. logblobo
      Alien at 4/17/2011 12:46 PM
      Most people deny this film the right of a horror film. I can't say that I agree with them. Glad it's on here, truly.
    8. Coachbubba
      The Greatest Horror Films Ever Made at 4/13/2011 3:36 AM
      One of my all-time favorites is the original "The Haunting". We used to watch it at Halloween back in the 70's. Scared the 'b-jesus' outa us everytime! Long before CG and special effects became the norm.
    9. jenna
      The Greatest Horror Films Ever Made at 3/24/2011 8:13 PM
      what about the movie dead silence???? or hatchett???

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