Top 50 Scariest Movies Of All Time (50-41)

50. ‘Arachnophobia’ (1990)

Synopsis: Spiders. John Goodman with a blowtorch. Who’s scarier? I’m sure we could ask Roseanne, but that’s the subject of a much more frightening movie. Anyway, as anyone who has er, squashed a spider can attest, things with eight legs are creepy. Gross. Big ones that fly through the air when provoked? Even worse.

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49. ‘The Innocents’ (1961)

Synopsis: There are few films that deal with insanity as deftly as this one, based on Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw.” Are the ghosts in this film real, or just imagined by the nanny and the creepy children she’s sworn to protect? While there are a few jump-out-of-your-seat moments, most of the scares come from the gothic atmosphere. Read more …

Paranormal Activity 2 gets ready with Saw VI director!

By Ace Fernandez and Borys Kit / Paramount has hired screenwriter Michael R. Perry and director Kevin Greutert to create the sequel to 2009’s biggest surprise hit, “Paranormal Activity,” which scared up $151 million in worldwide grosses in the fall on a shoestring $15,000 budget and a shrewd, opt-in Web marketing campaign.

Significantly, Paramount will unleash it in theaters on the pre-Halloween weekend of October 22, which sets it against that date’s reigning champion in previous years, the next installment in Lionsgate’s “Saw” series (this year would be “VII”). In a symbolic twist, Greutert made his directorial debut on the sixth “Saw” film, which grossed just $64.8 million worldwide, with observers thinking that the franchise may be bleeding dry. Read more …