Top 50 Scariest Movies Of All Time (40-31)

40. ‘Eraserhead’ (1977)

Synopsis: Considered the greatest cult movie of all time, “Eraserhead” is not your average horror movie. The film employs bizarre imagery to create a deeply unsettling tone. We dare you to not reach for the remote in the scene of Eraserhead trying to feed his misshapen “son.” It might go down in history as the single most disturbing movie scene ever. Even by art-house standards, this flick is a tough pill to swallow.

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39. ‘Amityville Horror’ (1978)

Synopsis: A family moves into a perfectly nice house in Amityville, N.Y. Then things begin to happen: black goo comes out of the toilet, flies appear (does this have anything to do with the toilet?), a voice tells a priest to “get out,” and something with glowing red eyes peers through the windows at night. Sure it was an “Exorcist” rip-off, but it was “based on a true story!” That’s got to count for something. Read more …

The Amityville Horror (1979)

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Writing credits Jay Anson (book) Sandor Stern (screenplay).

A curse or is it a ghost, something is determined to make sure know one lives in this house in Amityville NY. A red room is the passage to HELL.

Something is present always there lerking you can feel it and the worst is the unknown. What is making all these thing happen floating furniture, thousand of flies, blood and ooze from the walls and stairs. Is that someone spying through the windows or am i starting to lose my mind too. Mr Lutz has taken a liking to an axe and Missy has made an evil invisable friend. The new owners have realized that they my have bought more than a house in the county. This house has a mind of it own.

A shocking gruesome murder in the small town of Amityville NY, leave a house in the country abandoned and for sale dirt cheap. Some people say you get what you pay for, in this case it definatly true the paid for a nightmare. The previous owners was a family that was murdered in there home with a shotgun with no reason what so ever, to make it even worse there own son killed everyone. The story of this night and the horror to follow was said to be a true story. Later it was proven that this story never happend and it was which at the time was said to be a true story along with the horror that followed in the years to come. This in part is what makes the movie so scary, the thought that this is real that people actually lived this nightmare. Read more …