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Updated April 20, 2022 4.4k votes 1.1k voters 39.3k views
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Vote up the scariest horror movie sounds that have scarred your ears.
Whether it's a loud jumpscare or the strings of a creepy soundtrack, sounds are an incredibly important part of many horror films and can stick with the audience long after the credits roll. At least that's the case for these fans, who are sharing the haunting horror movie sounds that scared them most. Does replaying them in your head give you the shivers, too?
Vote up the creepiest ones, and for even more memorable horror moments, be sure to also check out Graveyard Shift readers describing their most gut-wrenching horror movie scenes.
From Redditor u/ChromiusDomiclese:
Yes! And there's something about the way they cut the scream into the audio and the fact that Bennings just kind of opens his mouth and lets it out that makes it super eerie.
From Redditor u/Roziesoft:
The creepy a** music in the barbecue scene from Sinister. It's so unsettling.
From Redditoru/SupaKoopa714:
The music in the Family BBQ reel makes for what I think is the creepiest scene I've ever seen in a horror movie. That sudden switch from warm piano to creepy, weird chanting never fails to make the hair on the back of my neck stand up on end.
From Redditor u/goodnightspoon:
The screams in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
From Redditor u/EasyThereOldTimer:
My dad showed me the Donald Sutherland version when I was a young kid, and that face with the screech absolutely petrified me.
From Redditor u/FlatulentSon: Sleepaway Camp, Angela's scream from the end, no doubt.
From Redditor u/Masterofunlocking1:
This whole scene freaked me the f*ck out the night I watched it. I can handle a lot of scary stuff, but that was so sudden and just eerie as all hell.
