Martin Scorsese Shares His Favorite Scary Movies

Film Legend Picks Top 11 Horrors

Martin Scorsese picks his favorite horror films

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has referenced his encyclopedic knowledge of film to come up with his top 11 scariest movies of all time for "The Daily Beast" website. Perhaps the closest Scorsese has come to horror is his 2010 film "Shutter Island", nonetheless when this master of cinema talks we should all take note.

It seems that Scorsese finds films depicting haunted houses particularly terrifying as 6 of the 11 films focus strongly on solitary buildings. There was room on his list for cult classics "Psycho", "The Shining" and "The Exorcist" but some other picks might be unknown to most.

The list is featured below, so why not take Scorsese's advice and watch some of these horrifying tales this Halloween. You could mix and match some of your own favorites with Scorsese's to make a terrifying Halloween weekend. Tell us some of your favorites and see if others agree.

In no particular order, Martin Scorsese's favorite horror films are,

"Psycho" (1960)

"The Shining" (1980)

"The Exorcist" (1973)

"The Innocents" (1961)

"Night of the Demon" (1957)

"The Entity" (1982)

"Dead of Night" (1945)

"The Changeling" (1980)

"The Haunting" (1963)

"Isle of the Dead" (1945)

"The Uninvited" (1944)