Do You Agree? Big Horror Poll Yields Interesting Results

Best film of the decade and more…



The folks at Movies.com polled – according to them – nearly 5,000 people and grilled them on various questions pertaining to the horror genre. Here are the results. What do you think?

What horror movie theme scares you the most?

o Exorcisms/Satan: 23.9%



o Ghosts/Hauntings: 20.8%



o Serial Killers 17%



o Darkness/Isolation: 14.2%



o Zombies: 8.6%



o Creepy Kids: 7.1%



o Monsters/Aliens: 4.1%



o Vampires: 3.6%



o Deadly Animals: 0.8%

What was the silliest idea for a horror movie?

o Jason goes to outer space in “Jason X”: 24.4%



o The deadly wind through the trees in “The Happening”: 19.4%



o Killer blenders and soda machines in “Maximum Overdrive”: 17.6%



o Chucky, the killer doll from the “Child’s Play” movies: 17.4%



o The fear of losing weight in “Stephen King’s Thinner”: 11.4%



o “The Blob”: 9.8%

Which of these horror movie icons would you least like to meet?

o Freddy Krueger: 24.7%



o Hannibal Lecter: 21.6%



o Leatherface: 16.9%



o Jigsaw: 13.8%



o Jason: 11.5%



o Michael Myers: 11.5%

The all-time best horror movie scream queen is:

o Jamie Lee Curtis in “Halloween”: 40%



o Jessica Biel, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”: 14.1%



o Neve Campbell in “Scream”: 10%



o Heather Langenkamp, “ A Nightmare on Elm Street”: 9.5%



o Sarah Michelle Gellar, “Scream 2,” “I Know What you Did Last Summer,” “The Grudge”: 9.0%



o Heather Donohue, “The Blair Witch Project”: 6.2%



o Naomi Watts in “The Ring”: 5.9%



o Liv Tyler in “The Strangers”: 5.4%

What’s the scariest movie of the past decade?

o Paranormal Activity: 21.6%



o The Ring: 14.4%



o Saw: 9.8%



o The Strangers: 7%



o 28 Days Later: 6.7%



o Hannibal: 6.4%



o Hostel: 5.9%



o Drag Me to Hell: 4.1%



o Dawn of the Dead: 3.6%



o The Others: 3.3%



o Shutter Island: 3.1%



o The Descent: 2.6%



o The Devil’s Rejects: 2.6%



o Final Destination: 2.6%



o Human Centipede: 0.8%



o Splice: 0.5%



o Other: 5%

Settle the debate. Zombies should move:

o Slowly: 66.2%



o Quickly: 33.8%

Source: Shock Till You Drop

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