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From ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ 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.
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."
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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." (1973)
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Leatherface is the villain in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974)
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Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" (1975)
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Harvey Stephens is Damien, the Antichrist as a child, in 1976's "The Omen."
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Sissy Spacek in "Carrie" (1976)
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United Artists
John Carpenter directed the 1978 thriller "Halloween"
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Compass International Pictures
"Alien," the 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott.
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20th Century Fox
James Brolin and Margot Kidder in 1979's "The Amityville Horror."
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American International Pictures
"Friday the 13th" (1980)
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Jack Nicholson stars in 1980's "The Shining."
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Warner Bros.
Stephen Lack in "Scanners" (1981).
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David Naughton in "An American Werewolf in London" (1981).
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Heather O'Rourke in "Poltergeist" (1982).
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Kurt Russell is MacReady in John Carpenter's 1982 film "The Thing."
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"Children of the Corn" (1984)
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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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Jodi Foster plays a determined FBI agent who is assigned to seek help from imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, to help find another serial killer in the Academy Award winning thriller "Silence of the Lambs" (1991).
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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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Universal Studios
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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Kathryn Newton in a scene from the successful horror movie franchise "Paranormal Activity 4" (2012).
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Juliet Rylance, left, Ethan Hawke, right, and Michael Hall D'Addario in a scene from "Sinister" (2012).
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