THE SHIVERS

40 candidates for the 'scariest film ever':

1 Candyman
2 The Shining
3 Vertigo
4 The Silence of the Lambs
5 Hellraiser
6 Signs
7 Nightmare on Elm Street
8 Spoorloos (The Vanishing)
9 Eraserhead
10 The Entity
11 The Sixth Sense
12 Child’s Play
13 Seven
14 Wait Until Dark
15 The Exorcist
16 Event Horizon
17 Ringu
18 Play Misty For Me
19 The Omen
20 Species
21 The Eye
22 La Cabina
23 Audition
24 Dawn of the Dead
25 The Thing
26 Repulsion
27 Alien
28 Dead of Night
29 Sisters
30 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
31 Braindead
32 Suspiria
33 Jaws
34 Jacob’s Ladder
35 In Cold Blood
36 Halloween
37 The Blair Witch Project
38 Psycho
39 Woman in Black
40 The Evil Dead

Source: various