Five Scariest Films

Philip French has listed the 5 Scariest Films:

Frankenstein (1931)
Psycho
The Blair Witch Project
Pan's Labyrinth
La Zona

Of these, I've never seen The Blair Witch Project and never heard of La Zona. I've seen that Frankenstein numerous times, Psycho 3 or 4 times and Pan's Labyrinth once.

Our lists are much different, of course. The individual lists below are in no particular order.

The Husband's list of 4:

Alien
Psycho
The Exorcist
The Invisible Man with Claude Rains (the first time he saw it)

The Elder Son's list of 6:

The Blair Witch Project
High Tension
The Descent
Dead Silence
Phantasm
American Psycho

The Younger Son's list of movies that scared him most when he first saw them:

The Birds
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Jeremy Brett, probably)
Night of the Living Dead
Toy Story
Godzilla vs. Megalon

My list of movies that scared me most when I first saw them:

Alien
The Wizard of Oz
The Birds
Psycho
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