This week the remake of Sam Raimi's classic horror flick "Evil Dead" hits theaters everywhere. You might have seen the poster, which reads, "The Most Terrifying Film You Will Ever Experience." That's a pretty bold statement. While the movie is really freakin' scary -- not to mention exceedingly bloody -- it's not the most terrifying one we've ever seen. Below you'll find flicks that truly horrified, unsettled, and unnerved the editors at Yahoo! Movies.

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"The Vanishing" (1988)

I was going to write about the movie that truly scared me, "Inside Job" (2010), a film about the clowns who destroyed the global economy back in '08 and are poised to do it once again. But then someone pointed out that it was actually a documentary and for that reason couldn't be on the list. OK, fine. So instead, I'm going to talk about George Sluizer's "The Vanishing." (The Dutch original, not the strangely leaden U.S. remake.) This movie isn't bloody and features little in the way of supernatural activity, but holy crap, will this flick freak you out. At the beginning of the movie, a woman on a romantic holiday with her boyfriend vanishes at a crowded gas station. Three years later, the boyfriend, who is understandably distraught, tracks down the guy who may or may not be responsible for his girlfriend's disappearance. Sluizer is brilliant at throwing the film into unexpected directions while expertly ratcheting up the tension until it's almost unbearable. And when that final twist hits, it's like a donkey kick to the gut, leaving you shaken, uneasy, and really, really unnerved. -- Jonathan Crow (@jonccrow)

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"Candyman" (1992)

Usually a haunted house story takes place in an old mansion, cut off from the world and filled with creepy Victorian artifacts. "Candyman" completely throws that out the window, placing the action of this supernatural slasher flick in a setting just as intimidating and imposing as its villain. Based on a story by Clive Barker, it's about a grad student (Virginia Madsen) researching an urban legend about a hook-handed entity who appears when you say his name in the mirror five times. Her search takes her to the infamous Cabrini-Green housing project on the North side of Chicago, which is shot by director Bernard Rose with a real sense of foreboding and dread. Add in a menacing but surprisingly sympathetic turn by Tony Todd as the titular killer, a whole lot of bees, and one of the great final scares, and "Candyman" truly delivers terror for a surprisingly effective horror movie. -- Matt McDaniel (@themattmcd)

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"My Bloody Valentine" (1993)

In addition to hairless cats, seafood buffets, and John Boehner, my biggest fears are serial killers, gas masks, and the threat of being trapped underground. Yet, for reasons I can't explain, I still chose to screen 1981's "My Bloody Valentine" -- which features a gas mask-sporting serial killer murdering teens in a mine shaft -- during a sleepover for my 13th birthday party. Needless to say, I didn't get any rest that night (nor did any of my guests), thanks to recurring visions of impaled bodies, the unnerving sound of distorted breathing ringing in my ears, and an overall feeling of claustrophobia (perhaps the suffocation factor had something to do with my sleeping bag, hmmm…). To this day, the Canadian slasher still scares the hell out of me (the 2009 remake, not so much), but I'm actually considering screening it once again, this time for my 33rd birthday party in a few weeks. Twenty years may have passed, but Harry Warden and his trusty pickax is still guaranteed to give me nightmares. -- Matt Whitfield (@lifeontheMlist)