From ‘Paranormal Activity 3’ to ‘Nosferatu,’ a look at the scariest movies of all time

Just in time for Halloween, here are our picks for the scariest movies of all time.

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F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror classic "Nosferatu," starring Max Schreck as Count Orlock.

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Lon Chaney in the 1925 film "The Phantom of the Opera."

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Janet Leigh in the famous shower scene from the movie "Psycho."

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Tippi Hedren is attacked in a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 movie "The Birds."

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Mia Farrow plays Rosemary, who is pregnant with the spawn of Satan in 1968's "Rosemary's Baby."

Zombies in the 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead."

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Linda Blair portrays a possessed Regan MacNeil in a scene from "The Exorcist."

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"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974)

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Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" (1975)

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Harvey Stephens stars in 1976's "The Omen."

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"Carrie" (1976)

/ United Artists

John Carpenter's "Halloween."

/ Compass International Pictures

"Alien," the 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott.

/ 20th Century Fox

James Brolin and Margot Kidder in 1979's "The Amityville Horror."

/ American International Pictures

"Friday the 13th" (1980)

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Jack Nicholson stars in 1980's "The Shining."

/ Warner Bros.

Stephen Lack in "Scanners" (1981).

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"An American Werewolf in London" (1981)

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Heather O'Rourke in "Poltergeist" (1982)

/ MGM

Kurt Russell is MacReady in John Carpenter's 1982 film "The Thing."

/ Universal City Studios

"Children of the Corn" (1984)

/ New World Pictures

Heather Langenkamp (Nancy Thompson, left) and Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger, right) in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984).

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Jeff Goldblum plays a scientist whose atoms are scrambled with those of a common housefly during an experiment in matter transmission in "The Fly," directed by David Cronenberg.

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Bruce Campbell in "Evil Dead II" (1987).

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"Scream" (1996)

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Heather Donahue turns the camera on herself during her confession scene from the horror film "The Blair Witch Project" (1999).

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Cillian Murphy in "28 Days Later" (2002).

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A pursuing zombie goes from undead to dead in "Dawn of the Dead" (2004).

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Cary Elwes in "Saw" (2004).

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Laurie Holden, Thomas Jane and Nathan Gamble star in Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's "The Mist" (2007).

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Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat are a couple haunted by ghostly forces in “Paranormal Activity” (2009).

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Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne in "Insidious" (2010).

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A scene from "Paranormal Activity 3" (2011).

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