Like the movies that make us laugh and the films that disturb us, fear is a subjective feeling. What scares one person might make the next one yawn because our fears are personal. Horror films complicate things further with the truth that they're not even always designed with scares in mind. Sometimes, they just want to deliver thrills, monster mayhem, and dark laughs instead.

The ones that do want to frighten viewers have a hefty toolbox at their disposal (one that includes jump scares, editing, atmosphere, and tone), and the 15 films below use all of them to leave audiences shaking, squirming, and squeezing their arm rests. We're not ranking them because, as mentioned, fear is personal, but it's also because every one of these movies delivers their own chills in their own ways. They're

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