The 5 Most Terrifying Films Ever… [Fright-A-Thon] – That Hashtag Show

Were back from Labor Day, which is usually a more sane persons time to start the real Halloween season. Here at THS, we started a while ago on September 1st. But today, to celebrate the occasion, well be going over the five most frightening films ever made. Now, before you go off and say BUT NONE OF THESE MOVIES ARE SCARY, that might be what you think, but this is my list, and that means, these are the movies that scare me. If they scare me, a seasoned veteran of the horror genre, they might just scare you too. Also, remember back to before you were jaded by horror movies. Before youd seen anything and everything, usually thats when youre a kid or a teenager. The genre is new to you, so what do you watch?

It might be The Exorcist, it could be A Nightmare On Elm Street, or maybe its just Night of the Living Dead. Either way, theres never a more scary time watching movies than that. So take yourself back to that place if you can. Imagine the first time you watched some of these movies, and if you havent seen them yet, even better for you. Because to truly get into the mind of a horror-head, you need to go back to the beginning.

Without further ado, here are the 5 Most Terrifying Movies Ever.

When youre talking about terrifying movies, its hard not to mention A Quiet Place. The entire premise of the movie is built for tension and something even more than just scares. Imagine a world where you cant make any noise at all. Thats what were working with here. Take the concept of a killer in the house and you have to creep around up to eleven. Its a true testament to the directing and writing of John Krasinski and his collaborators Bryan Woods and Scott Beck.

The film only has about 25 lines of dialogue in the entire film, with a good portion of it being ASL. That only adds to the terror because the already claustrophobic film is made even tenser without any sort of vocalization from the cast. Its just the monsters, the cast, and the audience. A Quiet Place Part 2 was good, but nothing can top watching this film for the first time. Some of the movies on our list get a little less frightening after multiple views, A Quiet Place only gets more terrifying.

It could be the grimy nature of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or just the realism of the low-budget filmmaking on display; either way, Tobe Hoopers seminal classic of the slasher horror genre is still just as unsettling and terrifying to this day. You dont see horror movies like this one today, because to try to emulate what Tobe Hooper did with this film would be futile. It has everything, tension, moments of levity, confusion, scares, and most importantly, an iconic movie monster in Leatherface. Watching this one earlier in the year before the sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), came out, was an exercise in fright.

I dont think a movie captures the fight or flight response from humanity more than this one does. Sally Hardesty is all of us in the situation. Its easy to think that wed all be badasses and not crumble under the pressure and tension. She makes it through the whole mess but crumbles under the weight of what shes been through, giving us one of the most iconic final shots in horror movie history.

If you havent checked this one out in a while, because you might think oh, its from 1974 and Ive seen it a million times watch it again.

Heres the big one. This movie has been terrifying people as their first horror movie experience since 1973. There are far too many people who can sit back and go I just laugh at The Exorcist, how can you find that scary? Well, this movie is truly terrifying and combines that with one of the most haunting pieces of music ever. The theme of this list might be go back and remember a time before you were jaded because thats what you have to do with The Exorcist. Ask most young people who are just getting into horror movies what the scariest movie ever is, and theyre likely to say The Exorcist.

Anything that comes after this regarding demonic possession, demons, the devil, ghouls, or ghosts owes this movie. It might not have invented the found footage or documentary style horror film, but this sure feels like a precursor to it. From the way its shot to the effects to the emotion on display, The Exorcist belongs on anyones most frightening horror movie list.

Now this one is probably one you havent seen at all. I watched this on a recommendation from a friend on Twitter. There is nothing scarier on planet Earth than what we all can do to each other. At the end of the day, humanity is the scariest thing we can think of. All our most famous movie monsters and villains come from our own heads and our own actions. Godzilla comes from the fallout of the nuclear bomb, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and other slashers come from real-life serial killers like Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy. Threads is the most realistic depiction of what a nuclear war and the fallout from that would look like.

Dont dismiss this one because its a TV movie, it has the impact and weight of any big-budget horror movie out there. There is no happy ending, itll horrify you.

I have watched this movie once. I will never watch this movie ever again, I do not recommend showing this movie to anyone who is easily scared. In my life, Ive had nightmares because of a movie twice. Once was after I was forced to watch The Exorcist when I was 10 years old, the other was after watching Fire In The Sky. Now, I know I just went on a whole schpeel about how horror movies are scariest when theyre about the horrors of humanity. Well, Fire In The Sky is one of the better exceptions to that rule. Just go watch the whole abduction and testing scene from the movie for yourself. Its nightmare fuel of the highest order.

Anyone saying that theyre not scared of this movie is lying to themselves. I will never watch this one again because of how much it scared me.

So, what are your most frightening movies ever? Did any of them make our list?

For more on horror, check out the two-month-long horror content marathon, THS Fright-A-Thon!

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