Scariest Movies - Readers' Choices

Synopsis: A haunted house makes no secret of the fact it's not pleased with its new tenants in this independent tale of supernatural horror.

Reader comments:

"Watched it in the dark by myself and didn't sleep for nights. Only when the sun was up did I sleep." – Thomas

"It hit something very deep in me. The reality of it just gave me some very sleepless nights for quite a few weeks after I saw it." - Charlie

"I've heard movie critics even say that you'll be scared for a few days afterward and that's pretty rare to hear." – Scott

Synopsis: After the death of his wife, a music teacher moves to Seattle in hopes of starting a new life in a grand old mansion. Unfortunately, his new home turns out to be haunted by the troublesome ghost of a murdered child bent on revenge.

Reader comments:

"Even 30 years later it still terrifies me. I had nightmares about the tub as a child." – Tiffany

"The wheelchair scene always scares me, no matter how many times I've watched the movie." – Brenda

Synopsis: A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

Reader comments:

"Gave my whole family cold chills." – Katherine D.

"The red-faced thing was super creepy! Definitely creeped us out, too, and not much does anymore." - Patricia

I, too, thought it was a pretty effective ghost movie. It borrowed a bit from Poltergeist, has good acting, but it always seems rather a cheat when the ending is left open-ended."

Synopsis: In remote Alaska, citizens have been mysteriously vanishing since the 1960s. Despite multiple FBI investigations, the truth behind the phenomena had never been discovered - until now.

Reader comments:

"Creepy things happened to me on several occasions after watching that movie. It got to the point where I wouldn't even allow the movie to be brought into my home." – Wendy

"Creeped out several days after I saw it." – Patricia

"Really gave me the creeps... especially because in the middle of this film (I was watching it by myself in my bedroom, late at night), my bedroom door opened all by itself." - Alice

Synopsis: A family moves into a Long Island house that has a disturbing past. Soon after they move in, they too believe the stories of the house being haunted. Based on a true story.

Reader comments:

"Gave me nightmares for months. That was an evil, evil movie!" – Visara

"Always scares me, especially the music... it makes my hair stand on end." – Susan

"My coworker mentioned that he could never buy a house that looks anything like that house and I couldn't either." - Scott

Synopsis: Soon after moving into a house purchased at a suspiciously low price, a music critic and his sister experience unusual occurrences. A beautiful young girl frequently visits the house and secrets of the past are revealed in a most terrifying manner.

Reader comments:

"A straightforward ghost story/ mystery. The black and white background as well as the music adds to it. Great movie.” – Joe V.

"Very creepy and realistic." – Herman K.

Synopsis: One of the great science fiction classics made in the 50s. A group of US scientists and servicemen, stationed on the North Pole, encounter an odd magnetic phenomenon that confuses all of their instruments. When the crew goes out to investigate, they find a block of ice containing an odd life form.

Reader comments:

"I remember having nightmares about this movie for years after!" – Chuck C.

"Of all the horror movies I've seen this one gives me the creeps. It's not because of how the monster looks like, it's because you can't trust anyone that you know when bad things start to happen." - Javier

Synopsis: Life in the Freeling family's tract home is comfortably bland, but frisky poltergeists soon put a little excitement into their daily routine -- moving furniture and communicating with their youngest daughter, Carol Anne, through the television set.

Reader comments:

"The night I saw it I was probably more scared than any other movie I've seen in my lifetime." – Scott

"I remember the clown doll scene got me the worst: when the clown's face changed into that grimacing, evil smile." – Visara

Synopsis: Despite repeated warnings to stay away, a group of fun-loving but none-too-bright teenagers set out to reopen the eerie Camp Crystal Lake, which closed 20 years earlier after a series of bizarre and unexplained deaths.

Synopsis: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Reader comments:

"That one scene where the Big-Wheel riding toddler sees those two girls in the hallway still freaks me out!" – Michael