Page 1 of Top 5 most frightening films of all time.

From Melon Farmers.

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Terrifying films can leave viewers with life-long fears, says an academic.

Professor Joanne Cantor questioned hundreds of adults and found that women who have seen Psycho are often frightened to go into the shower, while the threat-laden soundtrack of Jaws can make men tremble.

It, the 1986 film based on a Stephen King novel, shows a clown attacking children in the bathroom, after coming in through the toilet or shower drain.

Professor Cantor, of Wisconsin University in the U.S., told BBC Focus magazine: It produced extended nightmares, and many children avoided the bathroom after that. For many of these children, fear of clowns extended into adulthood.

The professor found the five most frightening films, not ranked in order, were:

•Jaws
•Psycho
•It
•A Nightmare on Elm Street
•Poltergeist.

In Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock injected terror into the most benign of places - the shower. The professor, a world expert on the psychology of films, said: Hitchcock took a normal activity that most people do daily and infused it with terror, by showing a totally unanticipated attack in blood horror accompanied by intense music. Many women in my studies who saw that movie are uncomfortable in the shower to this day.

The 1984 slasher movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street, resulted in many sleepless nights, said professor Cantor. This film provided the quintessential recipe for insomnia because the bloodthirsty villain, Freddy Krueger, could only attack you in your dreams, she said. So your only defence against him was to stay awake - and that`s what many reported doing.

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If someone saw 5 films *ever*, and was of a very nervous disposition, or a little kid, then maybe I suppose. The scariest film I saw as a kid was Child`s Play, probably not a good idea to show that to kids who are young enough to still play with dolls.... (my sister was 7, well done, Dad)

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Jaws doesn`t scare me as a film, but it did make me scared to go swimming in the sea for many years. Being eaten alive is not a way I want to go. None of the others scare me at all. 

Zodiac has given me nightmares the past 2 times I have watched it. The second time I woke up from the dream convinced for several moments that he was in my flat , standing in the bedroom doorway.

From what I remember The Others used to make me jump quite a bit.  The surround sound was great on this movie.  I probably watched this about 8 times during uni with various girls as it was a great way to get close on the sofa with all the jumps!!! :)  I miss the uni days, now I have to converse with women and everything, tough times! :)

I remember the surround sound on The Others - specifically the bit when you hear footsteps running across the room upstairs. Sounded completely real.

The film I remember most terrifying me as a kid was Blood On Satan`s Claw. Laughable now.

STOP!

It`s in the Daily Mail.

Move along now, move along.


I still hark back for that experience of being creeped out, the time it takes between films capable of doing that to me seems to grow ever longer, but every now and again along comes something like The Sixth Sense, The Ring (Japanese ver), that reminds me I can still get that tingle!


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Call me a wuss, but I don`t like watching scary movies.

However, I do love Jaws, although Chrissie`s death at the start of the picture I still find hard to watch.  As a thriller I`d peg it as pitch perfect.  I went to see it in the theatre opening week (aged 12), and as an experience it could not be bettered.  The scene with Ben whatsisname`s head rolling out of the boat - the sound of 2500 people going "waah!!" and jumping a whole row of seats backwards still sticks with me.

If I had to pick a favourite moment from the movie, it`s not a scare, it`s the change in atmosphere when the boys are out on the sea after attaching the first barrel to the shark.  They sing songs, compare scars and then Hooper spots the scar on Quint`s forearm and we get the story of the USS Indianapolis.  Just thinking of it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up...

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blue velvet is a hella scary movie

The one that made me (and the whole of the rest of the cinema) jump most was Alien when John Hurt got a facefull.
Can`t say I`ve ever been scared by a movie but probably one of the most unsettling was One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest. Really got under my skin.

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

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Ben Gardner`s boat, that`s Ben Gardner`s boat!


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