It’s the story of a girl (played by Linda Blair) who gets possessed by a demon, and a local priest (played by Jason Miller) and an exorcist (Played by Max von Sydow) who try to pull it back out of her. You know what The Exorcist is ( Even though Jason Blum thinks you don’t).

So, that’s why it sits at the bottom of this list. My favorite part (besides, “Put the lotion in the basket,” which I say to my kids all the time at the supermarket) is when Clarice is in the basement and Buffalo Bill is stalking her with his night vision goggles. It is tense, though, which is why most people likely view it more as a thriller than as a horror movie. That said, it’s really not all that scary. It’s quite possibly the best movie of the ‘90s.

If you were to ask me the best horror movie on this list, I would undoubtedly say The Silence of the Lambs. They consider it “a thriller.' I don’t know if that’s to discredit horror as a genre or what, but The Silence of the Lambs, which is about a young FBI trainee ( played by Jodie Foster) who interviews a brilliant cannibal (played by Anthony Hopkins) in order to track down a serial killer (played by Ted Levine) is most certainly a horror movie. The only horror movie to ever win Best Picture, do you know how unscary The Silence of the Lambs is? So unscary, that many people don’t even consider it a horror movie at all.

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