There is a difference between a great horror movie and a great scary movie. Many, among them The Blair Witch Project and The Wicker Man, intersect. Others, like Get Out or Scream, are more suspenseful than particularly terrifying.
As Russell Crowe’s latest frightful flick, The Exorcism, pulls in reviews that range from tepid to terrible, we’ve ranked the horror movies that are actually worth your time – films that grip you, leave you shaken, and refuse to let go of your subconscious long after the credits have rolled.
